Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Utah Statesman The

Campus Campus Voice Voice since 1902 since 1902

Utah Utah State State University University •• Logan, Logan, Utah Utah •• www.aggietownsquare.com www.aggietownsquare.com

USU’s barn to host museum, welcome center in 2012

By JESSICA SWEAT staff writer

Any students who have ever taken a walk eastward on campus have passed a barn that holds a lot of history for USU. As of 2012, the barn will be transformed to host USU’s Museum of Anthropology and campus Welcome Center.

The building, known as “the barn,” is one of USU’s oldest structures, built in 1919, and has been known as the “Horse Barn” and the “Art Barn” until the Fine Arts complex was built in the 1970s. Since then, the barn has served as extra space for faculty and students but is fairly vacant due to being rendered dangerous because of fire code conditions. In order to preserve this USU antique, the barn is about to receive a makeover. Not only will the barn receive an up-to-par renovation, but a new face as well.

According to information provided by anthropology professor Bonnie Pitblado, the Welcome Center will be a first on campus and will serve as a starting location for visitors. Visitors will be able to meet with a tour guide, receive information about the school, purchase tickets to campus events and browse through the connecting anthropology museum. With anthropology being the study of all people everywhere throughout time, the museum will give people a place to meet and explore. The mission of the museum will continue to be to educate two constituencies about the field of anthropology (and, secondarily museum studies).

A museum brochure states that

AN ARTIST’S RENDERING of planned renovations show what the barn could look like by 2012. The barn will hold the Museum of Anthropology as well as USU’s first Welcome Center. The old barn will be renovated and have additions, such as the silo pictured above. illustration courtesy of Bonnie Pitblado

the new 12,000-square-foot building will be an upgrade for the Museum of Anthropology, which currently occupies a 2,000 square feet room in Old Main. Museum staffers teach more than 8,000 people a year, from college students to school kids, during its regular hours and Saturdays at the

Museum events.

Anthropology student Holly Andrew works with the museum curator and said, “To have a nice space where we can ramp up education would be a great opportunity.”

Museum worker Ashley Smith said, “It will give us a chance to do

more for the community.”

While the space will mean more opportunities for students and better access for the community, funding is a different issue. The new building, designed by AJC Architects, is estimated to cost $4 million. AJC Architects have included the original

1919 blueprints and a modern silo that will don a large “A” for all to see.

Museum director Pitblado said she is applying for grants to help fund the project. Donors have also started to get the ball rolling with

- See BARN, page 3

Artist highlights reality of the common man Students invited

By CATHERINE MEIDELL assistant news editor

Portrait artist John Sonsini creates oil paintings of Latino men who are more of the quiet type looking for work and captures them in the most real way he can, said Deb Banerjee, curator for the Norah Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. She said many paintings are of people who are deemed as important, but Sonsini’s portraits bring the common man to the forefront of the viewer’s attention.

A collection of Sonsini’s paintings will be displayed in the art museum through May 29. The collection is titled “Portraits from Los Angeles,” and he agreed to visit USU’s campus as part of the “Crossing Boundaries” project organized by USU’s art department. Sonsini spoke to students, faculty and staff in the Eccles Conference Center and discussed his painting techniques, as well as his experiences creating PORTRAIT ARTIST JOHN SONSINI stands in front of some of his paintings in the portraits of Latino men.

Norah Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Sonsini creates portraits of Latino men using oil paint.

Banerjee said Sonsini would go to a He said he can finish a painting in five to seven hours. MAKAELA HERRAN photo labor center in Los Angeles for his painting “Hollywood Daylabor Project,” draw names to in order to find the men for his portraits.

Sonsini said when he paints he likes his out of a box to choose the man he would He needs to be close to the man he is creatportrait to look like the sitter and his paint paint and then compensate all the men for ing the painting of. to look like paint. All of his portraits are their time.

Though Sonsini may be quick with done with oil paint on canvas.

Sonsini said he is a fast painter comhis paintbrush, there are more steps to Sonsini said he likes to highlight the pared to many. He can create a portrait in painting a portrait than making the brush reality of the common man through his five to seven hours and once did it in 30 strokes. Sonsini said he spends five hours minutes. Sometimes he will complete a por- pantings. He said he likes to see how the sit- doing a portrait with every new sitter so ter may look like everyone else. trait and it won’t look like he wanted it to, they can get used to what it feels like and so “My portraits are like a fingerprint on so he will scrape it clean and start over, he that Sonsini can get a feel for what it’s like a water glass,” Sonsini said.

“They are a said. vague reminder of a very specific presence.” to work with the new sitter.

“Certainly, while painting from life, my Some men who want to be painted Sonsini said he works in a 600-squareeye is engaged, but that’s not why I do it,” realize it’s more work than they initially foot studio because he doesn’t need anySonsini said. “ When I paint, my hand is thought it would be when the portrait is thing larger. Puerta Vallarta, Mexico; Los engaged. My paintings are mostly about Angeles, Calif., and Brooklyn, N.Y. are only trying to do something with paint.”

- See PAINT, page 4 a few of the locations Sonsini has traveled

Inside This Issue

3/24/10 Students are attracted to certain stereotypes based on looks and how they categorize others.

Page 5

Senior football players performed for NFL scouts.

Page 8

to Access Center public meeting

By CHELSEY GENSEL news senior writer

ASUSU President Tyler Tolson named Lacey Nagao as next year’s public relations director and Keenan Nuehring as administrative assistant at Tuesday’s Executive Council meeting. Nagao and Nuehring will replace current Administrative Assistant Nate Robinson and PR director Allie Anderson when the 2010-’11 officers-elect take office.

A town hall-style meeting will be held Thursday, March 31, at 6 p.m. for students interested in voicing concerns or asking questions about the new Access Center, which will be the name of the reorganized student services division over under-represented student groups. Diversity Vice President Krista Bustamante said the meeting will be for students only. Vice President of Student Services James Morales and other administrators will not attend.

Bustamante said that after the first series of meetings about the Access Center, some students, as well as faculty, felt the faculty and administration voice outweighed the student voice, so this is an opportunity to correct that and give students who haven’t given input the chance to do so. It will be held in the senate chambers on the third floor of the Taggart Student Center.

The Executive Council voted during its meeting to enact a bill removing land-line telephones from ASUSU offices to save money. The change will take effect at the beginning of the next fiscal year, though phones will remain in the President’s Office, Senate Office, Programming Office and Service Center. The savings – $15.50 per month, per phone – will be reverted to a general expense fund and will later be allocated to specific initiatives.

- See ASUSU, page 3

www.aggietownsquare.com Seen a good movie lately?

Chime in with your review.

Post it in our movie review area at www.aggietownsquare.com Official Student Newspaper of Utah State University • “It’s All The News You Need!”

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 Page 2

World&Nation Utah State University • Logan, Utah • www.aggietownsquare.com

ClarifyCorrect The policy of The Utah Statesman is to correct any error made as soon as possible. If you find something you would like clarified or find unfair, please contact the editor at statesmaneditor@aggiemail.usu.edu

Celebs&People NEW YORK (AP) – Rosie O’Donnell plans an “uplifting” new television talk show for launch next year that aims squarely at the audience Oprah Winfrey is leaving behind when her show ends.

O’Donnell O’DONNELL won six Daytime Emmys in six years as host of an entertainment-oriented talk show that ended in 2002, but is planning something different this time – a single-topic aspirational show that sounds much like what Winfrey is doing right now.

NewsBriefs

Gun used in Alabama shooting decades old

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) – The gun used to kill three people during a faculty meeting at an Alabama school was bought for the suspect’s husband two decades ago when he said he was having problems with a neighbor, an investigator testified Tuesday.

The investigator told a judge that an acquaintance bought the gun in New Hampshire for Amy Bishop’s husband to skirt a waiting period where the couple lived in Massachusetts.

Huntsville police investigator Charlie Gray also testified that Bishop denied to officers that she had anything to do with the rampage at a biology department faculty meeting Feb. 12, which also wounded three others.

LateNiteHumor Monday, March 15, 2010 Top 10 Signs You Spend Too Much Time On Twitter 10. You miss son’s soccer game waiting for Lady Gaga to post what she had for lunch.

9. You answer the phone: “Twello?”

8. You’ve spent millions developing iPhone waterproofing technology so you can tweet in the shower.

7. You haven’t touched your CB radio in months.

6. You ask yourself, “What would Jesus tweet?”

5. You sleep-tweet.

4. No number 4 – writer on Twitter.

3. You stopped paying attention to this list after the first 140 characters.

2. Even Ashton Kutcher thinks you tweet too much.

1. Walked in on the landscaper “retweeting” your wife.

Utah among states suing federal govt.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – Attorneys general from 13 states sued the federal government Tuesday, claiming the landmark health care overhaul is unconstitutional just seven minutes after President Barack Obama signed it into law.

The lawsuit was filed in Pensacola after the Democratic president signed the bill the House passed Sunday night.

“The Constitution nowhere authorizes the United States to mandate, either directly or under threat of penalty, that all citizens and legal residents have qualifying health care coverage,” the lawsuit says.

Legal experts say it has little chance of succeeding because, under the Constitution, federal laws trump state laws.

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum is taking the lead and is joined by attorneys general from South Carolina, Nebraska, Texas, Michigan, Utah, Pennsylvania, Alabama, South Dakota, Idaho, Washington, Colorado and Louisiana. All are Republicans except James “Buddy” Caldwell of Louisiana, who is a Democrat.

Some states are considering separate lawsuits – Virginia filed its own Tuesday – and still others may join the multistate suit. In Michigan, the Thomas More Law Center of Ann Arbor, a Christian legal advocacy group, sued on behalf of itself and four people it says don’t have private health insurance and object to being told they have to purchase it.

McCollum, who is running for gover-

nor, has pushed the 13-state lawsuit for several weeks, asking other GOP attorneys general to join him. He says the federal government cannot constitutionally require people to get health coverage and argues the bill will cause “substantial harm and financial burden” to the states.

The lawsuit claims the bill violates the 10th Amendment, which says the federal government has no authority beyond the powers granted to it under the Constitution, by forcing the states to carry out its provisions but not reimbursing them for the costs.

It also says the states can’t afford the new law. Using Florida as an example, the lawsuit says the overhaul will add almost 1.3 million people to the state’s Medicaid rolls and cost the state an additional $150 million in 2014, growing to $1 billion a year by 2019.

South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster, who is also running for governor in his state, said Tuesday the lawsuit was necessary to protect his state’s sovereignty.

“A legal challenge by the states appears to be the only hope of protecting the American people from this unprecedented attack on our system of government,” he said.

But Lawrence Friedman, a professor who teaches constitutional law at the New England School of Law in Boston, said before the suit was filed that it has little chance of success. He said he can’t imagine a scenario where a judge would stop imple-

IDAHO ATTORNEY GENERAL Lawrence Wasden, center, gives a news conference in Boise, Idaho on Tuesday, March 23 on the state’s decision to sue the federal government over health care reform legislation. AP photo/The Idaho Statesman, Joe Jaszewski

mentation of the health care bill.

Some states are also looking at other ways to avoid participating in the overhaul.

Virginia and Idaho have passed legislation aimed at blocking the bill’s insurance requirement from taking effect, and the Republican-led Legislature in Florida is trying to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot to ask voters to exempt the state from the federal law’s requirements.

At least 60 percent of voters would have to approve.

Under the bill, starting in six months,

health insurance companies would be required to keep young adults as beneficiaries on their parents’ plans until they turn 26, and companies would no longer be allowed to deny coverage to sick children.

Other changes would not kick in until 2014.

That’s when most Americans will for the first time be required to carry health insurance – either through an employer or government program or by buying it themselves. Those who refuse will face tax penalties.

Atom smasher to try record collisions GENEVA (AP) – Operators of the world’s largest atom smasher said Tuesday they will try in a week to collide proton beams at record high energy in a new bid to discover secrets of the universe.

The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, says beams have been circulating in the Large Hadron Collider at 3.5 trillion electron volts since Friday, 3 1/2 times higher than the previous record set late last year. The operators have kept the beams apart but they will attempt to collide them on March 30.

The higher energy is meant to increase the likelihood that scientists will be able to examine the smallest particles and forces within the atom that could reveal more about the make-up of matter and the universe.

“We’ve still got a lot of work to do before collisions,” said Steve Myers, CERN’s director for accelerators and technology. “Just lining the beams up is a challenge in itself. It’s a bit like firing needles across the Atlantic and getting them to collide half way.”

The collider – housed in a 27-kilometer (17-mile) tunnel under the Swiss-French border at Geneva – has been operating well since November when it was restarted following extensive repairs.

It soon eclipsed the next largest accelerator – the Tevatron at Fermilab near Chicago – pushing its energy to 1.18 trillion electron volts, or TeV. Tevatron operates

at 0.98 TeV. The $10 billion LHC was launched with great fanfare on Sept. 10, 2008, but it was sidetracked nine days later when a badly soldered electrical splice overheated and set off a chain of damage to the massive superconducting magnets and other parts of the collider some 300 feet (100 meters) below the ground.

CERN had to undertake a $40 million program of repairs and improvements before it was ready to retry the machine at the end of November. Then the collider performed almost flawlessly, giving scientists valuable data in the four-week run before Christmas.

CERN specialists have checked out and improved electrical connections and other parts throughout the machine.

The extra energy in Geneva is expected to reveal even more about the unanswered questions of particle physics, such as the existence of antimatter and the search for the Higgs boson, a hypothetical particle that scientist theorize gives mass to other particles and thus to other objects and creatures in the universe.

Scientists hope also to approach on a tiny scale what happened in the first split seconds after the Big Bang, which they theorize was the creation of the universe some 14 billion years ago.

When the collisions start at the new, higher energy,

CERN plans to run the collider continuously for 18-24 months, much longer than previously.

This is because the machine operates at near absolute zero degrees, colder than outer space and shutting it off can require months to bring the equipment up to room temperature for any checks, repairs or improvements, CERN said.

The head of CERN, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, said it is likely to take months before any scientific discoveries are made, partly because it takes so long for computers to sort through the massive amount of data produced by the collisions.

Heuer said scientists hope by the end of this year to make discoveries into the mysterious dark matter that scientists believe comprises a quarter of the whole universe; the better understood visible universe makes up only 5 percent of the universe.

Dark matter has been theorized by scientists to account for missing mass and bent light in faraway galaxies. Scientists believe it makes galaxies spin faster.

A separate entity called “dark energy” makes up the remaining 70 percent of the universe, and this is understood to be associated with the vacuum that is evenly distributed in space and time. It is believed to accelerate the expansion of the universe.

Top business executives to take 15% pay cut WASHINGTON (AP) – The top earners at five big companies still living on federal bailout money will take a 15 percent pay cut this year, the Obama administration’s pay czar says – yet many will still make millions.

Kenneth Feinberg also said cash salaries would be capped at $500,000 this year for the vast majority of the top executives at the five companies. Any further compensation has to be in stock.

Still, he said, 69 of the 119 executives covered by the restrictions will take home pay packages worth more than $1 million.

The announcements Tuesday were the administration’s latest effort to deal with outrage over lucrative

pay provided to executives of bailed-out companies while the public struggles with stagnant wages and high unemployment.

Taxpayers can still expect to lose tens of billions on the rescues of the five companies: American International Group, GMAC Financial Services, Chrysler Financial, Chrysler and General Motors.

Feinberg said his review refuted companies’ complaints that pay restrictions would drive away top talent. Inside the five companies, 84 percent of the top executives covered by last year’s pay limits have stayed put, he said.

“These statistics undercut the argument that if you don’t pay more, people will leave,” Feinberg said.

EDINBURGH & HIGHLANDER

“They are not leaving.”

Feinberg set pay rules in October for the seven companies that received the most money from the government’s $700 billion bailout fund. Since then, Citigroup and Bank of America have paid back the money and are no longer covered by the pay guidelines.

It’s far from clear that the five remaining companies will repay their taxpayer billions.

AIG, the world’s largest insurer before it nearly collapsed in the financial crisis, has been selling assets to repay some of its $182 billion bailout package. This month, it sold American Life Insurance Co. for $15.5 billion.

EDINBURGH

Best of the Best t 4JOHMF 4UVEFOU "QBSUNFOUT

t -JWJOH 3PPN

t 1SJWBUF #FESPPN BOE #BUISPPN

t /P 1BSLJOH )BTTMFT

t %FTL #FE #PPLDBTF JO FBDI #FESPPN

t "JS $POEJUJPOJOH

t 'VMMZ 'VSOJTIFE

t )JHI 4QFFE 8JSFMFTT *OUFSOFU

t -BVOESZ JO FBDI "QBSUNFOU

4FSWJDF JO FBDI #FESPPN

t .PEFSO ,JUDIFO 'BDJMJUJFT

t 57 7$3 %7%

710 North 700 East

HIGHLANDER

t $BCMF 57 XJUI +BDLT JO FBDI #FESPPN

A c c e p t i n g A p p l i c a t i o n s f o r S u m m e r a n d N e x t S c h o o l Ye a r

For more information call Dennis!"!#$%&'!(()*+%+,!"!#$%&'!(&&*-&+&!"!./01234.565789/:

720 North 700 East

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

StatesmanCampus News

Page 3

Community responds to licensing ordinance Briefs Campus & Community

Conference benefits hearing health care

By RACHEL A. CHRISTENSEN news editor

Renters and landlords in Logan have reacted with approval and disgust at a new landlord licensing ordinance passed March 2 in a Logan Municipal Council meeting.

The license would cost landlords about $50 a year, with the option of participating in a program that could lower the cost $40 a year.

Laraine Swenson, Logan Municipal Council member, said licenses are required for any business, and renting property and receiving that income constitutes a business.

Herm Olsen, Logan Municipal Council member, said, “Well, are landlord operations a business?

Pretty clearly, it is. If so, why aren’t they licensed like everyone else?”

The $50 licensing fee costs less than most business permits in Logan, Swenson said.

The Good Landlord Program is an educational tool that can help landlords know how to improve their relations and property, Swenson said.

Landlords who choose to participate in this program, which is sponsored by the Utah Apartment Association, may only have to pay $10 for a license in their second and third year, she said.

Olsen said he knows a landlord who participated in the program and said it was “the best thing in the world for him.”

Swenson said the safety and welfare of Logan citizens is the mission of the council, and the license is aimed to ensure this mission.

A landlord license has been in discussion for a number of years, Swenson said. While there is a vocal minority who are against the licensing, Swenson said the majority of responses have been in approval.

To the students who rent housing in Logan, Swenson said licensing “gives them one more avenue for

WITH THE LANDLORD LICENSING ORDINANCE passed earlier this month, landlords will be held more accountable for repairs and keeping their property up to code, said ASUSU Vice President Spencer Lee. While some have expressed opposition to the ordinance, Lee said he believes those are a vocal minority and that most favor the license. Statesman photo illustration

ensuring the place they live in is safe, clean and legally established.”

Olsen, however, has his doubts whether tenants will see much of a change.

“Will licensing protect tenant rights? One would hope. Ninety-five percent of landlords actually do a pretty good job,” he said.

Spencer Lee, ASUSU vice president, served on the landlord licensing committee with 13 others. Ten of those are or have been landlords, Lee said.

Lee said he knew a renter who had a broken water pipe in the place he was renting. A broken water pipe is supposed to be fixed within 24 hours, Lee said, but it took three days for the landlord to fix the problem. Lee

said students can call the city if the landlords are unresponsive. The city will inspect the claim, send someone to make the repairs and then charge the landlord for the costs. This adds extra incentive for landlords to take care of problems called in by tenants, Lee said.

The process of creating and passing the ordinance has been a longtime coming because it had been met with opposition that slowed the process down, Lee said. Public forums were held to gauge residents’ opinions, and Lee said he also got feedback from students who rent in Logan. Lee said the license committee met weekly for about six or seven weeks to go over the ordinance.

Lee said he thinks much of the opposition is not against the licensing itself, but that it constitutes more government regulation.

There are about 2,800 landlords in Logan, Lee said, and about 54 percent of residents live in rented housing.

He said about 15 angry landlords came to the meeting when the council passed the ordinance, but these landlords represent the minority. Some landlords will have to work on their properties in order to bring them to code to be licensed, which Lee said could be a big reason why the minority is upset.

“It ticks people off because it costs them money,” Lee said.

– rac.ch@aggiemail.usu.edu

ASUSU: Executive Council passes bill to fund arts senator -continued from page 1 The council also voted to pass three bills to second reading items – meaning they will be voted on next week with any changes discussed at Tuesday’s meeting. One bill will provide $2,000 to supply the office of the new arts senator as well as one bill to provide $2,500 toward costs of the Intermountain Graduate Student Symposium, to take place March 31.

The Graduate Student Symposium has record registration this year, more than double last year’s, making it the largest of its kind in the nation.

However, registration costs have never covered the entire cost of the conference, Graduate Student Senate President Rick Kelly said. Even with the registration cost up 25 percent, he said the extra money is needed to

“make the symposium a success.”

The third and final bill aims to provide $5,000 to USU’s entrepreneur club, E-club, for its Rail Jam, an event promoting “collaboration, innovation and discovery among USU students and the surrounding community,” the bill states.

Executive Vice President Spencer Lee said the money for the Rail Jam is a “one-time request,” because if the event is successful this year, then there will be corporate sponsors for future events. He also said that people may lose scholarships if the E-club has to take the money from existing funds typically used for scholarships rather than get the money from ASUSU’s Capital and Support Fund as proposed.

Two ASUSU officers, Academic Senate President Ben Croshaw and Service Vice President David Knighton, went over changes with their office charters, including updating old information and specifying items that have changed or been added during their year in office.

In council updates, which the council voted to limit to one minute per person this week, Student Advocate Tyler Haws said he has changed the online student survey to ask students about their views on ASUSU elections.

Croshaw reported that this year’s funding – $10,000 per semester – for the Academic Opportunity Fund has all been awarded. There were 65 total recipients who received up to $500

each or $2,000 per team. Teams of students can apply for funding to attend conferences or for group projects, Croshaw said.

He also said sophomore scholarship applications are due Friday, March 26, along with a letter of recommendation and unofficial transcript. The application can be found at the ASUSU Web site and turned in to the Student Involvement and Leadership Fund. The scholarship is $1,000 per semester and is awarded to 10 students who are entering their second year at USU and did not get financial aid their first year.

– chelsey.gensel@aggiemail.usu.edu

Barn: Almost century-old building to get a face lift in 2012 -continued from page 1 the Richard L. and Joyce Shipley Foundation, donating $500,000 to endow an operating budget for the museum.

Pitblado assures the community of the museum’s worth and said, “We need to understand people. It is a premium in our world today.”

Pitblado also spoke of what the additional space would mean to the museum, saying that it would give more chances to students especially in museum studies, and the museum would be able to accept more exhibits and collections to put on display.

One project that Pitblado currently holds on her plate: a barn blog. A blog has been started to share stories about the historic barn, whether known as the Art Barn or as a place students met with faculty.

“Everyone has stories about the barn, and we want to preserve that,” Pitblado said.

The blog is open to student and community members of all ages who have stories about the barn to share.

Pitblado said, “We want

ABOVE IS AN ARTIST’S DEPICTION of what the inside of the renovated barn will look like. The barn will hold the Museum of Anthropology and USU’s first Welcome Center. illustration courtesy of Bonnie Pitblado

people to feel like they are a part of raising this barn. We want everyone to feel invested.”

For more information

about the upcoming renovation, visit the Museum of Anthropology’s Web site, anthromuseum.usu.edu.

People who want to read or

share stories relating to the barn can can visit USUBarn. blospot.com or e-mail Holly Andrew at holly.andrew@ usu.edu.

– jessie.a.sweat@aggiemail. usu.edu

“Traumatic Brain Injury: The Silent Epidemic,” a multidisciplinary conference, will take place Saturday, March 27, in the Eccles Conference Center, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The regular general fee is $100 for the conference, and the regular student fee is $40. More information and links to register can be found at tbiconference.usu.edu, or by calling 797-0423.

The conference is being hosted by the USU chapter of the Student Academy of Audiology (SAA).

All earnings from the conference will go toward an annual project by the SAA. This year, the money will help the SAA provide hearing health care to those living near the Four Corners. The SAA will test hearing, clean ears and fit hearing aid devices on that health care trip.

The conference is aimed at health care providers, first responders, athletic trainers, lawyers, veterans, traumatic brain injury (TBI) victims and their families as well as interested students. As of Tuesday, 120 students and professionals had already signed up for the conference.

Saturday afternoon, a panel will give guests an opportunity to ask questions about TBI. Presenters will come from all over the western region.

Registration can be done online or by phone.

– rac.ch@aggiemail.usu.edu

HR students continue 9-year winning streak Teams from the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University competed at the state HR Games contest Feb. 27 and returned with top honors, placing first and second.

This is the ninth year in a row that teams from the Huntsman School of Business have placed first in the state competition.

“We had a lot more competition this year,” said Lydia Bushman, the captain of the first-place team. “It is our team’s second year, but we didn’t know how we would be in the heat of the competition. We’re just lucky that we ended as well as we did.”

But winning the competition takes more than just luck, according to the group’s faculty advisors.

The two three-person teams started preparing for the games last fall by dissecting human resource concepts and vocabulary.

HR Games is a competitive “Jeopardy”-style game that tests students in various human resource areas, including strategic management, workforce planning and employment, human resource development, employee and labor relations and total rewards and risk management. Sponsored by the Society for Human Resource Management, the competition is preliminary to the regional competition and conference, held this year in Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 26 and 27. Since both USU teams placed at the state level, they will each compete in Albuquerque at the end of the month.

This year’s first-place team includes Stephen Allred, Lydia Bushman and Brian Francom.

Yvette King, Jacquie Snyder and Nate Peterson finished second.

The winning effort was guided by faculty coaches Carrie Belsito and Al Warnick, both of the department of management, along with graduate students.

Cari Markham, A.J. Kim, Jordan Housley, Will Heath, and Ben Spicer, are students working on their master’s degree in human resources.

The Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University seeks to inspire and equip students to become innovative, ethical leaders with refined analytical skills that will help them understand and succeed.

-Compiled from staff and media reports

Great Summer Jobs in California for the largest family-owned pest control company in the US. 100% commissions up-front. Gas & cell phones paid.

Check out www.clarksummerjobs.com

or call now 877-899-1205

Page 4

CampusNews

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Paint: Oil portraits give character -continued from page 1 finished. One man told Sonsini he would prefer hard labor over sitting for another portrait.

“He said he would rather remove a roof in 100-degree weather for free than work with me again for seven hours,” Sonsini said.

Sonsini said the sitter was mostly frustrated because Sonsini started the portrait over again five times.

When a portrait is finished, Sonsini has each man sign the back of it.

Cory Pitcher, senior in sociology, attended Sonsini’s presentation and said in each painting he viewed, the Latino men portrayed their unique personalities.

“Most portraits I have seen in the past are pretty basic,” Pitcher said. “The paintings that were presented here seemed more abstract.”

Banerjee said, “His paintings have a way of looking at social and personal issues.”

She said his paintings capture men that are often overlooked, those who often fall through the social cracks.

In some of his paintings, Sonsini said he will paint some of the men’s belongings next to them whether it be a backpack, suitcase or baseball cap. He said this often adds a lot of character to the painting and can hint at who the man in the painting is.

“It’s like a wedding ring on a finger,” Sonsini said. “It’s not specific, but it’s suggestive of so much.”

Sonsini has had a 30-year history of painting, Banerjee said.

Since he was 20 years old he has been collecting photographs of the male physique, Sonsini said.

This is not the first time Sonsini’s work has been seen at USU. His painting “Jorge” is owned

by USU and has been on display in the art museum since 2002. His works are displayed at many art museums throughout the country, such as the Gugenheim in New York.

– catherine.meidell@aggiemail.usu.edu

THE POST SPRING BREAK SLUMP How to get A’s in college: Staying motivated Need help with your grades? Here’s some advice about staying motivated, from the book “How to Get A’s in College” straight from people who’ve done it:

• “The personal satisfaction of getting a high GPA is one way I stayed motivated as an undergraduate student. However, my desire to get better grades than my boyfriend might have had an even stronger influence. Although we went to different schools and had different majors, we started college at the same time. We kept up a healthy competition with each other; unfortunately I only beat his GPA once.”

– Patty, Wheatfield, N.Y., Niagara University • “I took a year off between my sophomore and junior years: I’d burned myself out and wanted to figure out what I was going to do. During my year off, I did an integrated study program of philosophy, world history and some theology. In my opinion, college is not going to show you who you are: it’s going to show you who you could be.”

– Jonathan Gardener, Yreka, Calif., California Institute of Technology • “Staying motivated is about finding the right balance. If I can enjoy college a little bit more and end up with a 3.5 GPA instead of a 3.7, I don’t stress out about it.”

– Naomi Goldin, Hawthorne, N.Y., Cornell University information from MCT Campus

Recession pushes parents to enroll at community colleges along with kids

By BONNIE MILLER RUBIN Chicago Tribune

Prices Starting at $1000

CHICAGO – Lucy Horton, just one of the millions of Americans out of work, rushes out of English class at Harper Community College, a requirement for the associate’s degree she is seeking in search of a better life.

As the 49-year-old leaves the Palatine, Ill., campus, her 19-year-old daughter is just arriving – same subject, different generation.

“I’m fine with my mom being here,” said Anna Horton, who graduated last year from South Elgin High School. “But at the same time, it’s a little weird.”

Enrollment at many community colleges is at a record high. Within the surge, there is a boomlet of parents and children attending school together, experts say.

The phenomenon is a convergence of two market forces: A larger-than-usual crop of recent high school graduates diverted from pricier schools by the recession, and their elders who are back in the classroom, hoping that retraining is the path to more stable and lucrative employment.

It’s hard to imagine any adolescent willingly embracing this arrangement. Back in high school, the mere prospect of passing Mom or Dad in the hall would have been a profound source of humiliation.

But now, the cringe factor is greatly diminished because the post-secondary environment means fewer cliques, more age diversity and a better shot at anonymity, the progeny say.

“It’s OK as long as she doesn’t follow me around,” explained Marissa Gudowski, 19, who attends Prairie State College in Chicago Heights with her mother, Diana Gudowski, 52.

The daughter has only one iron-clad rule: “No moms in the same classroom,” cracked the teen, while her mother expressed mock indignation.

Although the number of such pairs is difficult to measure, no one disputes that demand at the nation’s 1,200 community colleges is strong and coming from across the age spectrum.

Illinois can count nearly 159,000 community college students age 40 and older – a group that accounts for about 23 percent of the state’s enrollment, according to the Illinois Community College Board.

Maria Coons, interim vice president at Harper Community College, said the challenging economy has attracted more adults who want to learn new skills or earn a degree. The school has seen the population of adult students jump by 17.5 percent this semester from spring 2009.

Simultaneously, 17- to 20-year-olds have flocked to these institutions as a way to stretch

their tuition dollar.

“This has led to more parents and children from the same family attending classes here,” Coons said. “The number of duos like these has increased over the past year, and we anticipate it will continue to grow.”

In many cases, the stubborn economic downturn is behind the generational collision. Even with fledgling signs of a recovery, labor experts say it will take years to absorb the 15 million Americans currently out of work – especially older women with limited education, who have been among the hardest hit.

“I saw the handwriting on the wall,” said Lucy Horton, the sole breadwinner for a 13year-old son, along with daughter Anna and an infant granddaughter.

The elder Horton had worked for years in collections, but the business shriveled and by November 2008, she was axed. She quickly landed a part-time gig in retail, but that lasted only through the holidays. Once again, she found herself with too much month and not enough money.

So, she enrolled in Harper’s Women’s Program, which provides support to displaced homemakers, and has immersed herself in the certified nursing assistant curriculum. While she’s awaiting her certification, she’s taking some nursing classes, hoping that the additional instruction will make her even more marketable.

Economics also played a large part in the Gudowskis’ decision. Originally, Marissa had her heart set on St. Mary-of-the-Woods College near Terre Haute, Ind., but the $30,000-plus annual tab was just too steep for a mostly stayat-home mother and her postal clerk father.

Instead, the family scaled back, choosing Prairie State (average tuition: $2,228), which just posted the largest spring enrollment figures in the school’s history. An elementary education major, the daughter plans to knock out her prerequisites, then transfer to Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. Her mom graduated with honors from Prairie State, receiving her associate’s degree in photographic studies in May, but is still taking classes toward a bachelor’s of fine arts in photography.

The Gudowskis, who live about 25 minutes from campus in Dyer, Ind., have one car between them, which means their schedules have to be in sync.

“When I got out of high school, I thought ‘Cool. ... Now I can take my first class at noon.’

But four out of five days, my Mom starts at 8 a.m.,” Marissa said, rolling her eyes.

Sleeping in is rarely an option for Diana Gudowski, who started her studies in 2003.

“It’s much easier to do this right the first time, before you have to juggle a lot of family and household responsibilities,” she said.

AggieLife Wednesday, March 24, 2010 Page 5

Utah State University • Logan, Utah • www.aggietownsquare.com

Culinary chill and thrill

By STOREE POWELL senior features writer

Variety is the spice of life. Add a little ice to the spice, and it tickles the imagination and taste buds, making Spice on Ice, the annual fundraiser and community event at the George S. Eccles Ice Center in Logan.

The ice center was opened in 2002, just before the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, according to Tommy Kite, the sales and marketing manager of the center.

He said, “The center is nonprofit, and many people don’t know this. This fundraiser is what provides the operating funds for the center.”

The spicy ice of the center offers many different programs, according to Kite, such as figure-skating competitions, curling, free skating for the public and the USU hockey team. It was even used by Olympians in 2002: Russian ice dancers, Chinese speed skaters and some hockey players, Kite said.

This year’s seventh annual event is March 25 from 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. It features seven chefs from Cache Valley who will compete for a People’s Choice Award, a Judges Award and an overall Best Chef of the Year award by cooking an entrée.

Kite said nearly 250 people have bought tickets for the evening, which starts with appetizers presented from various restaurants, followed by the main course where each chef presents his or her item “family style” – on one big platter – at each table, which seats eight people.

A dessert reception also takes place, along with an auction after the awards ceremony.

Kite said, “We always have a big variety of dishes, shrimp, fish, chicken, steak.”

Craig Wright, operation manager of USU Catering, said aside from the variety of dishes there is a fun atmosphere.

“The nice thing is this is not a real formal setting, it’s a relaxed crowd. There’s a lot of energy as the chefs are slamming dishes around, and each person has a ballot at their place setting, and they can take notes and cast their own ballots, he said. “It’s an

opportunity for the chefs to do something they usually don’t.”

Alan Andersen, the Dining Services’ executive director at USU, said USU Catering runs the service for the evening.

“We volunteer our time, and we get staff, family, whoever to come so the university isn’t paying anyone to be there,” Andersen said.

USU Catering has been involved with Spice on Ice for the last three years, according to Andersen.

Although, for every hour they work the Ice center gives them a free ice skating pass.

“Last year we had a ball. We have, I think, the best chefs in northern Utah. We could compete in Salt Lake,” Andersen said.

Andersen said for USU, it is all about fundraising for the ice center because of the support the community and ice center gives to the university.

“The Eccles center has supported the hockey team for years, as well as many other programs, so the university donates the cost of the food, and we donate our time. It is a way of giving back,” Andersen said.

According to Andersen, USU Catering donates the desserts that are prepared by professional pastry chef DeWayne Phillips. He said each year one of USU Catering’s chefs compete.

Last year, executive chef Richard Peterson took second place in the Judges choice. This year, Catering chef de cuisine Jeff Woolley will compete.

Wright said the judges and chefs volunteer time to the event.

One of the four judges this year is Janet Anderson, USU associate dean of the College of Agriculture and professor of food and nutrition science.

He said the entrées are judged according to flavor profiles, ingenuity and presentation.

Andersen said, “The judges are in a closed room, like a secret cave, and it is a blind test so they don’t know whose food they are eating.”

Kite said the chefs submit their dish recipe before the event, but it is “not let out so the chefs don’t know each other’s dish.”

Andersen said the awards are mostly for recognition, as well as glass trophies.

“A lot of the winning chefs advertise with it. Most of the chefs all know each other. There’s camaraderie.

Last year our chefs went to help another chef because they were behind,” Andersen said.

According to Kite, the overall chef of the year is

- See FOOD, page 7

TED MATHESIUS, EXECUTIVE chef of Hamiltons Steak and Seafood, left, and Ash Oberoi, chef and owner of The Indian Oven, right, are two of the participants in this year’s Spice on Ice. The event will feature seven chefs from Cache Valley who will compete by cooking a single entrée. CARL WILSON photo

Hot, not or maybe?

By KASEY VAN DYKE staff writer

Sitting in class, it’s sometimes easy for the mind to wander to the opposite sex. Some may base physical attraction on a hair cut or nose shape or eye color, but it varies for everyone. Though attraction is subjective, Helen E. Fisher writes in her Psychology Today article, “The Biology of Attraction,” that the reasons people flirt, date or marry follow natural and common processes.

Fisher starts her article with a section called “flirting,” explaining common flirting practices for men and women. Women begin by smiling and jerking up the eyebrow to widen their eyes, then may hide behind a hand as they giggle. Men, in turn, attempt to appear as large and macho as possible to assert dominance. This tactic is also found in the animal kingdom, where the dominant animal will puff themselves up to appear larger and, therefore, stronger.

Fisher goes on to talk about the “’copulatory’ gaze,” which consists of a two- to three-second stare, during which the pupils may dilate, showing “extreme interest.” She continues, saying a gaze triggers an impulse to either approach someone or walk away.

Often when people receive the copulatory gaze, they may adjust or fidget with something to release some tension while they decide how to respond.

Once this contact has been made, Fisher says men and women go through an “attention getting” phase.

According to a study by David Givens, an anthropologist, and Timothy Perper, a biologist, which had them spend hundreds of hours in singles bars, men will over exaggerate their movements, for example, stirring a drink with their whole arm instead of just the wrist. Women, too, tend to exaggerate their femininity by giggling, playing with their hair or wearing high heels, which force them to unnaturally arch their back and stick out their chest.

Finally, the two parties will begin synchronizing their movements.

Whether it’s a brush of a hair or crossing of the legs, their movements will begin mirroring the others.

Though people may flirt in a similar way, they may not find the same person attractive. People may search for certain characteristics over others and create a formula for what they like. Sexologist John Money, in Fisher’s article, calls these “love maps.”

Fisher goes on to explain that people are most often attracted to someone they view as “clean” and a viable option to have children with. This, in general, means men will be attracted to women with slightly fuller figures with wide-set hips, and women will be attracted to the man who can provide for her and her offspring.

These conclusions pose the question, is racism, then, a biological process? Racism is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as the belief that certain “characteristics, abilities or qualities” possessed by a certain race make it inferior or superior. According to the American Psychological Association (APA) Web site, part of this is based on people’s natural genetic makeup.

The Web site explains that people naturally catagorize people into different groups or stereotypes, including themselves. The example of intelligence is used: A group who views themselves as intelligent would be quick to view another as stupid and, therefore, separate from their group.

The Web site argues that “it seems that one function of stereotypes, or prejudice, is to help us feel good about ourselves and our group by focusing on comparisons with other groups on issues that are most important to our personal and group identity.” This, in turn, leads them to treat the other group differently to show affiliation with their group.

So, what does this all mean for college students looking for someone to date? It means, students are attracted to certain stereotypes based on what they look like and how they categorize others.

Enter the frat boy, the nerd, the goody-two-shoes and the model student. Like any cliché teen movie, USU is full of stereotypes.

With as many on campus groups as there are, it’s obvious the school is not unique when it comes to its student body.

Anytime there’s a movie about a college campus, there is at least one stereotypical frat boy, complete with tilted visor, polo shirt, chiseled features, blonde hair and sarcastic attitude. When compared, Bryce Parkinson, sophomore in political science and member of Sigma Chi, might seem atypical with brown hair, slouching beanie and tight pants. While most Hollywood frat boys are seen with a blonde-haired, big-boobed, fake-tanned bimbo, Parkinson said he puts more weight on a girl’s brain than her backside.

“I like smart girls,” he said. “I need a girl I can have an intelligent conversation with. That’s more important than looks.”

Though he said he wants a brain, Parkinson does have a few physical characteristics he looks for, among those are a “great

INDIVIDUALS ARE ATTRACTED to certain stereotypes based on appearance and how others are categorized. People stereotype to feel good about themselves. UTAH STATESMAN photo

smile, white teeth,” “definitely brunette,” “taller girls” who “dress well,” are “in shape” and have a “natural look.”

Parkinson also said he needs a girl with confidence.

“I like a girl who’s confident in her looks and doesn’t wear too much makeup,” he said. “That’s a huge turn off.”

No teen movie would be complete without the nerd. Complete with thick glasses, high IQ and painfully awkward social skills, the nerd is harmless, adorable, predictable and uncommonly good at math. James Patton, senior in computer science, laughed when he volunteered to categorize himself as a nerd. He said what usually makes an impression on him is a girl with a good attitude.

“I look for just general attitude and demeanor,” he said. “You

- See ATTRACTION, page 6

AggieLife

Page 6

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

A Google translator fail

I

was at work one evening, minding my own business, which was, as it turned out, business as usual. I’m employed at a local Web hosting company doing tech support. Fascinating, I know.

One way clients can ask about their technological maladies is via chat. So, on that uneventful evening, I received a live text chat from one of our clients, and he began to explain his quandary to me.

It only took me a few sentences of scanning his question to realize this person had no grasp on the English language.

He had completely thrown grammar out the window, and syntax, structure and phrasing were, metaphorically speaking, beaten with a PVC pipe and left for dead.

I did a GeoIP lookup on his IP address, and surprise surprise, he’s from China.

Tianjin to be exact. Then it dawned on me. I said to myself, “Self. I guarantee ... no ... I guaran-freakin’-tee you that he’s using Google translator to form his sentences.”

I agreed with myself, and with a wry smile, I pasted his last slaughtered English sentence into the Google translator, and bingo. A well-formed and grammatically correct Chinese sentence. (It might help to know that I speak Mandarin, due to a two-year religious excursion that may or may not have involved the orient in several ways.)

So I called him on it, asking if he was, in fact, in cahoots with the Google translator. In a woeful, melancholy, but still slaughtered English sentence, he admitted to his trickery. I laughed to myself, fixed his problem and sent him on his merry way.

However, this left me intrigued: How inept is this Google translator? And how bad would the translation become by

going through multiple languages? Can I, James Rasmussen, completely destroy the meaning of the sentence?

And so, like all of my stupid schemes, my quest for “language obfuscation” sent me into a several-hour spree where I perfected the art of destroying the English language via Google translator. And here are my results. Enjoy.

The first four are from English – Icelandic – Vietnamese – Japanese – Yiddish – English: Original: The yellow dog jumping majestically over the garbage can.

Translated: Dog can be a great Bond to jump in trash.

Original: You are the fattest young man I have ever met. Heaven help you.

Translated: Her ‘bad a rugged young man how little. Heaven help you.

Original: You are about to witness my unbelievable strength, and charming good looks.

Translated: Witness to View the wonders of your power to me is, he is a great Attraction.

Original: Last night I dreamed about dinosaurs with jet packs. It was amazing.

Translated: In the dark I at Dreams about Dinosaurs in a black coup. This was great.

And now for English – Bulgarian – Korean – Polish – Japanese – English: Original: These pretzels are making me thirsty.

Translated: These pretzels, I’m thirsty.

– Chinese – Czech – English:

Original: Complete the square of this equation. If you don’t, I will slap you.

Translated: Square to complete the equation. For any errors or you and I face.

And my favorite: English – Japanese – Afrikaans – Chinese – Arabic – English:

Original: I just bought a Slurpee out of a combination of peer pressure, and nostalgia.

Translated: I suffer from peer pressure and a mixture of nostalgia Slurpee purchase.

As you can see, some of them got really messed up. Like, really messed up.

Like, “Hey I have a blue spruce growing out of my chest cavity” messed up. And that’s messed up.

So if you’d also like to abuse our mother tongue, or any other tongue for that matter, just go to translate.google. com, and using a maximum of four other languages besides English (my own personal rule), translate your sentences.

See what you get. E-mail your good ones to me, if you’d like: james.r@aggiemail.usu.edu. May your linguistic defilement provide entertainment, peace and joy in your life.

Look every Wednesday for more columns by James Rasmussen.

Let’s try English – Danish – Arabic

Attraction: Students share what catches their eye -continued from page 5 can tell if someone is an upbeat person.”

Physically, Patton said he tends to notice an “awesome butt,” “cute, quirky clothes” and “something that makes them stand out, like a bag or hat, something that catches your eye, like dyed hair.” Patton said he’s also attracted to “uncon-

ventional” girls but that “after the visual, it’s all based on personality traits.” Patton concluded by giving girls a secret to catching his attention.

“She scores major points if she has any reference to a video game on her back pack or clothes,” he said.

According to goarmy.com, the army is comprised of “the best-trained, most dedicated, most respected soldiers in the world” and the “embodiment of physical strength, emotional strength and strength of purpose.” Josh St. John-Sellers, junior in history, with his clean-cut hair, mild manner and professional attitude, is a third-year cadet with the army and said a girl “can’t be stereotypical.”

“I like girls who like to have random fun,” he said, “and aren’t afraid to do things that aren’t confined by the norm.”

John-Sellers said some specifics he looks for include “ath-

letic, involved on campus, hazel eyes, good smile, good group of friends, brunette.”

“Once you get that factored in, a good face and body doesn’t hurt,” he said.

He also said that though he wants someone he can “talk to and have an actual conversation with about things going on in the world,” looks do count.

Last, the model student.

Often seen with a textbook in hand and pencil behind the ear, this stereotype usually has an aggressive and driven personality and seems almost obsessed with getting the grade, even though it usually comes easily. Elsa Schneider, junior in English, has focused much of her time on her studies, which has transferred a bit into what she finds attractive, mentioning word games as something she enjoys.

“I like dorky word play, you know, being witty and fast,” she said.

Because her family are dentists, she said teeth are what she notices first. She said teeth have to be “straight and preferably white.”

Schneider also expressed the importance of a companion being driven.

She said, “You can normally tell if someone is driven when you first meet them. If I feel more driven than someone, I can’t do it.”

Also a self-proclaimed “sports nerd,” Schneider said she loves guys who are into sports.

“If they like football and they like a girl that likes football, then that’s awesome,” she said.

Schneider finished by mentioning her favorite body part.

“I’m a big arms person,” she said. “I like to cuddle, so if they have good arms it makes cuddling that much better.”

– k.vandyke@aggiemail.usu.edu

Street Speak What is your most embarrassing cell phone moment?

“I once called my “My phone fell aunt by mistake, under my sister’s thinking it was my car tire when I was wife. She thought I racing my friends was her husband. for shotgun. I The conversation didn’t realize what quickly became awk- happened until my ward once we both sister backed out realized what hapand ran over my pened.” phone.”

– Adam Rodriguez, – Hailey freshman, Keefe, freshman, mechanical physical therapy engineering “I dropped my cell phone in the toilet at a party but told everybody outside that I dropped it in the sink.”

– Kayse Fernandes, freshman, elementary education

“I have had a bad habit of talking about a certain person in a text conversation, then accidentally sending it to that person. It tends to get me in trouble. ” – Danny Hays, junior, International business information and photos by STEVE SELLERS

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

EatThat Taking back the kitchen and all about it.

Making bread is fun to do Lots of people I know (and probably many college students) have a mental block against homemade bread. Don’t get me wrong, they love homemade bread … as long as they’re not the ones who made it. I think these people think making bread is hard or time-consuming or something. But it’s not. It’s pretty easy and kind of fun to do. This recipe for foccacia (a dimpled Italian bread) is ready in fewer than two hours, and most of that time, it’s rising or baking while you’re doing something else.

Rosemary Focaccia 1 cup lukewarm water 1/2 packet yeast (1 1/8 teaspoons) 1/2 teaspoon sugar 3/4 teaspoon salt 2 1/2-3 cups flour 1 tablespoon olive oil 1/2 teaspoon minced garlic 1 teaspoon rosemary cornmeal (optional) – Pour the water into a medium bowl.

Add the yeast and sugar and let sit for five minutes.

– Add the salt, olive oil and 1 1/2 cups of the flour. Stir with a wooden spoon until well blended.

– Add one cup more of the flour, stirring to form a soft dough. Use remaining flour to dust the countertop (you can add a little bit more to the dough if it seems too soft to knead) and dump the dough out onto it. Knead for five minutes, incorporating more flour as necessary to get a workable dough.

– Form the kneaded dough into a ball and place in a greased bowl. Turn over once to coat both sides. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about one hour.

– Punch the dough down and knead it in the bowl for about one minute.

– Brush a cookie sheet with oil and sprinkle with cornmeal (optional).

Spread out the dough onto the pan until it is about 1/2-inch thick.

– Dimple the dough. You can do this with your fingers or the end of a wooden spoon. (You may want to grease your fingers or the spoon so it doesn’t stick.)

– Brush the dimpled dough with a little more oil, then sprinkle with garlic, rosemary and a little salt.

– Let sit in the pan for 10 minutes. Bake at 400 degrees for 22-25 minutes until the top is lightly browned. Use a pizza cutter and slice it into breadstick-like pieces to serve.

Another option for easy homemade bread is quick breads. They are so quick to make (hence the name) because they don’t require any rising time. You just make the batter and bake it. Easy as, um, bread.

Almond Poppy Seed Bread 1 1/2 cups flour 3/4 teaspoon salt 3/4 teaspoon baking powder 1 1/2 tablespoons poppy seeds 2/3 cup oil 1 1/2 eggs 3/4 cup milk 1 cup + 2 tablespoons white sugar 3/4 teaspoon vanilla 3/4 teaspoon almond extract Glaze: 2 tablespoons orange juice 1/4 teaspoon almond extract 1/2 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup powdered sugar 1/3 cup slivered, oven toasted almonds – In a medium bowl, combine oil, eggs, milk, sugar, vanilla and almond extract.

Mix until well combined.

– In a separate bowl, combine flour, salt, baking powder and poppy seeds.

– Add the dry ingredients to the wet and stir just until all combined.

– Pour batter into a greased nine-inch loaf pan.

– Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. The top will be very dark before this happens.

– Let the bread cool for five to 10 minutes, then use a butter knife to poke some holes in the top of it.

– To make the glaze, combine the orange juice, almond extract, vanilla and powdered sugar. Drizzle over the bread and allow the glaze to seep down into the holes in the top. Sprinkle with toasted almonds (optional).

Making either of these breads will fill your house with good smells and, probably, friends who will envy your amazing ability to make your own bread.

Jennelle Clark is a junior in psychology who’s happy it’s finally spring. Questions or comments can be sent to her at jenn.nelle@gmail. com

Don’t forget ...

Watching your wallet Only available on aggietownsquare.com

Answers To Today’s Crossword Puzzle!

Page 7

AggieLife

Food: Chefs add spice to the ice -continued from page 5 picked by averaging the two scores.

“Nobody is actually on the ice cooking, but we do have exhibitions going on. We have figure skaters and hockey players,” Kite said.

“After dinner we do the awards and dessert, and then do an auction with a live auctioneer and also have a donation drawing.”

According to Kite, the auction is free so no tickets are required. The auction will start around 7:30 p.m. and will feature different packages donated by local businesses and organizations.

“We have a Kennedy Center astronaut training package for two to go to Florida, stay four nights in a hotel, including airfare, and a hands-on, shuttle launch simulation,” Kite said. “We also have a USU athletics package, which includes a football signed by coach Anderson and a sideline pass to a game, a basketball signed by this year’s team and the chance to announce a game with radio personality Al Lewis.”

The proceeds from the tickets and auction go toward the ice center. Kite said the event usually raises about $26,000 a year. Tickets are still available and can be purchased at the door the day of. Tickets are $50 each, which includes appetizers from all the restaurants and dinner from the competing chef.

Kite said this year’s competing chefs are Woolley, Ted Mathesius, executive chef of Hamiltons Steak and Seafood; Ash Oberoi, chef and owner of The Indian Oven, executive chef Dustin McKay of Elements restaurant; Smokin’ Blues BBQ executive chef, Frank Ford; Tandoori Oven’s Sham Singh, chef and coowner and Firehouse Pizzeria’s co-owner Greg Chambers.

Chambers’ first year doing Spice on Ice as a competing chef was last year, and he made

Steak Parmigiana Pasta.

“It was stressful. Our dish last year was pretty labor-intensive. We had to cut the steak and grill it,” Chambers said.

He said the dish included a Sundried tomato alfredo sauce, New York strip steak, heirloom tomatoes and herbs “to make it look fancy.”

“It was a first time recipe we’d been testing.

The sauce is one of my favorites, so I had to make something with that. Now we use this dish on the menu.” Chambers said Chambers took first place in the People’s Choice award and second place in the Judges Choice award.

“The people’s choice is what really counts because that is who is coming into the restaurant eating, though, of course, you want to impress the judges because they’re the professionals who know food and what the chefs are doing,” Chambers said.

He also said his goal this year is to get first place in the Judges choice. He said he does lots of testing to prepare by cooking for family and employees, and also talking to different chefs from the area to get their opinion.

“I’m fine tuning it now to make sure it meets my expectations and figuring out how to make 40 plates of it,” Chambers said.

This year he is using a new pasta from Italy, Trotolle.

“It is really cool, it looks like spinning tops.

It’s been fun working on the recipe, though I didn’t decide what I’m doing until last Thursday,” Chambers said.

For more information about Spice on Ice, visit http://www.ecclesice.com or call 7872288.

– storee.powell@aggiemail.usu.edu

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 Page 8

MondaySports Utah State University • Logan, Utah • www.aggietownsquare.com

Aggies aiming for chance in the NFL Safety James Brindley wows NFL scouts at annual Pro Day with 40 time

By ADAM NETTINA staff writer

In the span of 4.44 seconds, former USU safety James Brindley went from virtual afterthought to potential NFL playmaker.

With his gut-wrenching, vain-tightening 20second rep of 225 pounds on the bench press, center Brennan McFadden passed over from just another graduating offensive lineman to future pro football player. With one quick and powerful swing of the leg, kicker Chris Ulinski took his status as just another college student in a T-shirt and sweats to that of a legitimate free agent prospect.

And you thought you had a lot riding on your first job interview.

On Thursday, March 11, Utah State hosted its annual Pro Day in conjunction with Southern Utah University. A springtime rite of passage for the select few outgoing USU seniors who have a chance to make it to the professional ranks, this year’s Pro Day was attended by NFL scouts from the Pittsburgh Steelers, Oakland Raiders, Tennessee Titans and Denver Broncos. The scouts put the eight USU seniors and five SUU prospects in attendance through a variety of physical tests, carefully watching and recording everything from the players’ 40-yard dash times to the number of repetitions they put up on a 225pound bench press.

According to USU strength and conditioning coach Evan Simon, the outgoing seniors put up solid numbers as a group, with each

player improving their chances at being invited to an NFL mini camp come May. “I thought our guys did really well today,” said Simon, who has been helping to train the former Aggie players since the semester

began in January. “They’ve been preparing hard and training hard the past eight to nine weeks. We’ve been preparing for what the scouts put them through, and I thought they executed the drills well. They got the times

SENIOR BUSINESS FINANCE MAJOR JAMES BRINDLEY readies himself for the 40-yard dash in front of pro football scouts from across the league. Brindley’s 4.44-second time greatly helped his chances to see time in an NFL mini camp this fall. Scouts from the AFC Champion Indianapolis Colts are coming to Logan this weekend to have a private workout with Brindley. TY RODGERS photo

that we expected them to get.”

Notable Aggie standouts included McFadden (22 bench-press reps, 5.01-second 40-yard dash) and receiver Xavier Bowman (4.62-second 40-yard dash, 37.5-inch vertical leap), but the highlight of the day was provided by safety Brindley. Brindley, who finished his Aggie career with 253 total tackles and nine interceptions, ran the fastest 40-yard-dash time of any of the prospects present, clocking in at an unofficial time of 4.44 seconds on both attempts while also putting up an impressive 19 reps on the bench press and a 37-inch vertical leap. The events – which measure a player’s speed, upperbody strength and explosiveness, respectively – confirmed that the outgoing USU senior has a possible NFL career in his future.

“You could see that they had been working, and we were pleased with everything that went on,” commented an NFL scout, who asked to remain anonymous.

Brindley, who is considered undersized by traditional NFL scouting standards, said he was happy with his performance and credits Evan Simon with helping all the Aggie seniors prepare for the biggest job interview of their young lives.

“I think I did as well as I could have done, and I’m extremely happy with all my times,” the former All-WAC selection said. “(Coach Simon) has been extremely helpful. He taught us everything we possibly needed to know for

- See BIG LEAGUE, page 10

Outdoor track and field jumps into season

BY USU ATHLETICS

JUNIOR DISTANCE RUNNER NICK BOLINDER is set in the blocks during a race in the 2009 outdoor track and field WAC Championships, which was hosted by Utah State. The Aggie track team began its outdoor season in Arizona during Spring Break. PATRICK ODEN photo

Utah State track and field opened the outdoor season by taking eight titles at the Arizona Willie Williams Classic this weekend. Aggie men won the 400m hurdles, shot put and high jump, while USU women won or took section titles in the 200m, long jump, triple jump, pole vault and discus.

“We had a bunch of athletes perform really well this weekend,” USU veteran head coach Gregg Gensel said.

Senior Nick Karren won the 400m hurdles in a time of 52.49. Sophomore Joe Canavan won the shot put with a distance of 18.00m (59-00.75). Junior Clint Silcock won the high jump with a 2.05m (6-08.75) height.

Sophomore Julia Stewart set a new PR and won the triple jump with a distance of 11.69m (38-04.50), while junior Sonia

USUIntramurals /GP¶U 5YGGV

Grabowska won the pole-vault clearing 3.80m (12-05.50) in her first action after being out during the indoor season recovering from an injury. Fellow junior Lindsey Spencer won the discus with a distance of 48.76 (160-00).

“This meet is always a great way for our athletes to get used to running outdoors where it is warm,” Gensel said. “It is great for us to run on an outdoor track because it has been still pretty chilly in Logan.”

Junior Kandace Shoell won her section of the 200m (26.67). Freshman Shalyse Olsen won her flight of the long jump 4.81m (15-09.50) in her first outdoor meet of her collegiate career, capping off the collection of USU’s event and section wins.

The Aggie men and women both collected 18 top three finishes.

Utah State returns to action on Friday, April 2, at the BYU Invitational in Provo.

Seed, team and scores of matchups leading to the title game:

– Campus Recreation’s ORC (Outdoor Recreation Center) is hosting another Thursday night Kayaking class at 7:30 pm to 9:15 pm. Cost is $5 for students, $10 for non-students.

– The USU Swim Team is hosting the State Championship Swim Meet for Utah Masters (Swimmer age 18 and over). Held Friday from 6 pm to 10 pm and Saturday from 8 am to 1 pm. Swimmers from across the state will be coming to USU to compete to qualify for the national competition in Atlanta, GA. Many of USU’s swimmers have or will qualify for these national competitions.

– Men’s Rugby is holding a tournament on Saturday from 1 pm to 5 pm.

– Campus Recreation will be hosting the Annual 5K Spring Run-off. It will begin at 10 am on Saturday (registration closes at 9:45). Entry fee is $5 for students, $10 for non-students.

Men’s tennis loses Tues.

By KAYLA CLARK staff writer

The Aggies’ men tennis team faced off with conference-rival New Mexico State, losing Tuesday afternoon’s matchup 6-1. This match puts the Ags at a 9-6 season record and 0-2 in WAC play.

“It was a good match,” head coach Christian Wright said. “There were quite a few close sets, but we just didn’t come up with it. The boys gave their best and gave 100 percent, that’s all you can ask for. New Mexico just played a better game than we did.”

Doubles action was close, but USU just couldn’t make the cut. The point was dropped to New Mexico with losses in all three positions.

At No. 1, juniors Jakob Asplund and Bryan Marchant lost a heartbreaker to NMSU’s Jim Brouleau and Orlando Superlano, 9-8. Senior Amit Maharaj and freshman Sven Poslusny fell to New Mexico’s Arthur Surreaux and Eduardo Salas, barely dropping the match with another score of 9-8. Juniors Nikita Ryashchenko and

- See TENNIS, page 9

National Champion Kentucky

9 Northern Iowa (1) Kansas (8) UNLV

69-67 69-66

5 Michigan St. (4) Maryland (12) N.M. St.

85-83 70-67

Fri., 9:37 p.m.

Thurs., 9:57 p.m.

MIDWEST

EAST

St. Louis

Syracuse, N.Y.

Sun., March 28

Sat., March 27

6 Tennessee (14) Ohio 83-68 (11) San Diego St. 62-59

Thurs., 7:27 p.m.

Fri., 7:07 p.m.

2 Ohio St.

1 Syracuse (8) Gonzaga (16) Vermont

87-65 79-56

Final Four Indianapolis • April 3

Championship Game Indianapolis

54-52 77-59

Final Four Indianapolis • April 3

April 5

Thurs., 7:07 p.m.

WEST

5 Butler (13) Murray St. (12) UTEP

Fri., 9:57 p.m.

SOUTH

Salt Lake City Sat., March 27

All times EDT

Houston Sun., March 28

71-68 65-54

Thurs., 9:37 p.m.

Fri., 7:27 p.m.

2 Kansas St. (7) BYU 84-72 (15) North Texas 82-62

Regional Semifinals SOURCE: NCAA

Cornell

87-69 78-65

Washington

11

(3) New Mexico 82-64 (6) Marquette 80-78

Regional Championship

2

(10) Missouri 68-59 (15) Morgan St. 77-50 Duke (8) California (16) Ark.-P.B. Purdue

1 68-53 73-44 4

(5) Texas A&M 63-61 (13) Siena 72-64 3

(11) Old Dominion 76-68 (14) Sam Hou. St. 68-59 St. Mary’s

Regional Championship

12

(4) Wisconsin (5) Temple

Baylor

6 Xavier (3) Pittsburgh (11) Minnesota

(9) Wake Forest 90-60 (16) E. Tenn. St. 100-71

West Virginia

(10) Georgia Tech 75-66 (15) UCSB 68-51

1

(2) Villlanova (7) Richmond

10 75-68 80-71

Regional Semifinals

A

StatesmanSports

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Page 9

Mark of excellence?

USU’s regular season success has not led to post-season victories

By TIM OLSEN contributing writer

Despite having its 17-game winning streak snapped in the championship game of the WAC tournament, the Utah State men’s basketball team was awarded an atlarge bid to the 2010 NCAA tournament.

“Now we are just so thrilled and elated that our 17-game winning streak, our regular season championship – winning the WAC by a three-game margin – was rewarded,” Aggie head coach Stew Morrill said after USU was selected on March 14. “When you look at eight teams from non-BCS conferences getting at-large bids, it is a big step up from last year when there were only four.

I think that is extremely positive for leagues like the WAC and schools like Utah State.”

That bid put the Aggies into the field of 65 for the second-consecutive year – USU got the conference’s automatic bid in 2009 – and marked the seventh time in the past 11 years that USU has advanced to the NCAA tournament. It was also the second at-large bid the Ags have received since joining the WAC five years ago.

Even with USU’s falter against New Mexico State, the Aggies seemed primed for an upset in 2010. The group returned four starters from last year’s squad that fell to an under-seeded Marquette team by a single point. Plus, USU was awarded the magical 12-seed – the 12-5 matchup is where the most first round upsets take place. In 2009, three of the four 12 seeds knocked off their fifth-seeded counterparts.

However, the school’s first tournament win in nearly a decade was not to be for the Aggies of Utah State. Forward Tai Wesley was whistled for two quick fouls, and senior guard Jared Quayle missed 12-consecutive shots during one stretch as the Aggies of Texas A&M ran away with a 16-point victory.

When the dust settled, USU had suf-

fered its fifth-consecutive loss in the NCAA tournament. Not since 2001 has Utah State, as a 12-seed, advanced past the first round of the NCAA tournament. That win over the Buckeyes of Ohio State was supposed to be USU’s stepping stone into the realms of mid-major royalty with the likes of Gonzaga and Butler.

Now, it’s just a distant memory.

USU’s current streak? Eleven-consecutive 23-plus win seasons. Eleven-consecutive trips to the postseason. And that one postseason victory. The Aggies are regularseason warriors, as they boast the fourthhighest winning percentage in the country since 2000, trailing only Duke, Kansas and Gonzaga. That regular season success, however, has not transitioned into postseason victories.

For all the Spectrum magic, regular season and conference tournament championships and plethora of outstanding Aggie players over the past decade, USU has made little postseason noise.

That’s not to say USU hasn’t been close to pulling off an upset during its trips to the Big Dance. As a 15-seed out of the Big West in 2003, the Ags missed two 3-pointers in the final 10 seconds, which would have sent their game against Kansas to overtime.

In 2005, as a 14-seed, USU held a threepoint halftime lead over Arizona before fading in the second half, and in 2006 the Aggies played tough as a 12-seed against a Washington Huskies team led by a fellow named Brandon Roy, a current NBA standout.

The toughest loss for Aggie fans to swallow may have been the one-point loss to Marquette. USU had a four-point lead late in that game before Wesley and Quayle fouled out, and the Golden Eagles were able to snag the victory.

For years now, the Aggies have had to deal with questions about their strength of schedule. That problem was especially prev-

HEAD COACH STEW MORRILL looks on as his team falls to Texas A&M in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Although USU has the fourth-best winning percentage over the last 10 years, the Aggies have yet to make a significant post season run. PATRICK ODEN photo

alent in the Big West and has still lingered with USU since they joined the WAC. Though the Aggies played one of their tougher schedules in recent memory this season, the question of their schedule strength – or lack thereof – has been brought up again.

They did beat a BYU team that was ranked as high as No. 10 in the country at one point and easily handled a Wichita State team that knocked off recent bracketkiller Northern Iowa earlier in the year. But both wins came in the friendly confines of the Spectrum, where USU has lost two games in four years. One of those losses came to fellow mid-major Saint Mary’s, a team that is currently in the Sweet 16.

Saint Mary’s and Wichita State are as good as BYU, but none of them reside in a Power-Six conference. Teams like Marquette (Big East) and Texas A&M (Big-12) do, and the Aggies need to start facing more of these teams in preseason tournaments or early season games.

After the Aggies’ most recent exit from March Madness, maybe even Morrill has realized the Aggies may need to tweak their

formula a little.

“We haven’t played anybody as good as Texas A&M,” he said after USU’s first-round loss to the other Aggies. “Texas A&M physically dominated us.”

For nearly as long as Morrill has been at the helm, Utah State has been on the periphery of the national spotlight.

Multiple ESPN games and “Wild” Bill Sproat only furthered that cause this season. USU’s program is a model of consistency and is well respected. However, if the Aggies want to take the next step – if they wish to join fellow mid-major’s like Cornell and Saint Mary’s – then they need to make a run in the NCAA tournament.

They’ll have another shot next year with a senior-laden and tournament-tested returning. Wesley, Tyler Newbold, Pooh Williams, Nate Bendall, Brian Green and Matt Formisano will lead this experienced group.

Hopefully, by the time they play their 35th game of the season, it won’t be the toughest game they’ve played.

– t.olsen@aggiemail.usu.edu

Tennis: Utags fall to New Mexico State, dropping to 0-2 WAC record -continued from page 8 Alex Thatcher lost 8-4 to Gustave Diep and Luis Fernando Rameriz of NMSU, wrapping up the doubles play.

Singles action claimed one point, recovered by Poslunsy, who battled against Diep at the No. 2 position, to come out on top, winning 6-0, 6-3. Wright said he was impressed with Poslunsy’s play.

“Sven had an excellent performance,” Wright said. “He played with intensity. He did great.”

Jim Brouleau of NMSU defeated Asplund, 6-4, 6-3, at the No. 1 position, while Marchant lost to Surreaux, 6-2, 6-3 at

the No.3 position. Maharaj lost, 7-5, 6-4, to New Mexico’s Superlano at No. 4, and Thatcher fell to Rameriz at the No. 5 spot, losing 6-2, 6-3. Ryashchenko finished off singles action, battling through three sets, ultimatley being defeated by Salas, 6-7, 6-3, 10-5.

The team continues WAC conference action this weekend in Reno, facing Eastern Washington on Friday and then facing off with the Wolf Pack of Nevada on Saturday.

“We are realizing that you can stay positive after every loss,” Wright said. “Especially in WAC competition, any-

Spring camp opens for Aggie football

SectionF

A

A different point of view

nd just like that, basketball season is over. Doesn’t seem like too long ago that the talk of the town was of constant concern about why the Aggies were only 10-6, then the ride got really interesting. Now the ride is finished, and the talk is now focused on next season.

As bad as it was finishing the season on a two-game losing streak, this season was undoubtedly a huge success for Utah State basketball. When the Aggies started the 2009 season with a 24-1 record, nobody in Logan had the slightest clue what losing felt like. Everything went the Aggies’ way, and fans soaked it all in. After a 1-2 road trip to start the season, seeing the nation’s second-longest home-court winning streak snapped in the Spectrum and an eventual 10-6 record a week into conference play, I’d say it’s fair to say that everyone was reminded about what it’s like to be on the losing end of things.

That’s what made this season’s 17-game win streak so special.

Over the course of two months, USU went from a team looking to have almost no chance of winning the Western Athletic Conference to a team worthy of at-large selection to the NCAA tournament. Sure, the ending was loaded with heartbreak after the losses to New Mexico State and Texas A&M, but again, that’s what makes each season unique. That’s what makes the ride thrilling. If everyone knew USU would win the WAC regular season and conference tournament every year, the fun would be sucked out of it.

The reality is that Utah State, along with almost every other team who doesn’t belong to one of the six major conferences, will always be the underdogs in the big picture. It wasn’t hard to find a college basketball analyst picking the Aggies to advance in this year’s NCAA tournament, yet USU was one-and-done. Again, that is what makes every big win that much more special,

body can beat anybody. You have to bring your A game, and there is a lot of parody in the lead.”

When asked how he plans on preparing the boys for the rest of conference action, he said, “Physically, we will continue to work hard. The boys always bring 100 percent to practice. The mental part of the game is a huge element, and we will continue to be positive and bring our best to the court on Friday.”

– kayla.clark@aggiemail.usu.edu

and for everyone who was been around for the first-round losses to Kansas, Arizona, Washington, Marquette and Texas A&M, that next time Utah State finally is among the final 32 teams standing in March will be that much sweeter.

Simply put, losing is what makes winning as special as it is, and even though USU has one of the highest win percentages of any team in the nation over the past decade, there’s still more to aim for once spring rolls around.

The Aggies have established a presence as the annual team to beat in the WAC, and despite the NCAA tournament losing streak, they are annually mentioned as a team to be reckoned with in the big dance.

The sad truth is that USU is probably not going to ever be in a spot to contend for a national championship, which means every season is going to end with a loss at some point. Where that final loss happens is a big part of the enjoyment of things, but when it all comes down to it, the most important thing is to enjoy the ride as it happens.

With that in mind, there was plenty to enjoy during this year’s ride with the dominant win at home over BYU, the Spectrum going to insane levels of volume during conference play and storming the court for a third-straight WAC championship. The ride is over now, but the ride was a great one yet again, and looking ahead, the ride should only be much more thrilling next year.

Matt Sonnenberg is a junior majoring in print journalism. Matt is an avid fan of Aggie athletics and can be found on the front row of every home football and basketball game.

He can also be reached at matt. sonn@aggiemail. usu.edu.

BY USU ATHLETICS

Utah State football opened 2010 spring camp on Tuesday, March 23, taking the field for the first of its 15 practices, which culminates with the annual Blue-White Spring Game on April 24.

Head coach Gary Andersen is entering his second spring at the helm of the Aggie program, and USU will have approximately 90 players in action Tuesday when the Aggies take to the turf of Romney Stadium.

All practices will be held at Romney Stadium, unless bad weather forces them inside the Laub Indoor Practice Facility.

Utah State will practice on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday for the next five weeks, starting Tuesday through the Spring Game at 2 p.m.

All weekday practices are closed to the public, while Saturday practices on April 10 and 17 will be scrimmages open to the

CLARK PEST CONTROL NOW HIRING FOR OUTSIDE SALES POSITIONS IN: *BAKERSFIELD, CA *LANCASTER, CA *VISALIA, CA *FRESNO, CA *SANTA CLARITA, CA

SUMMER JOBS MAY – AUGUST CONTACT TEAM LEADER PARKER FOLKMAN 208-221-7578 PARKERFOLKMAN@GMAIL.COM

public along with the Spring Game.

Andersen and his staff are anxious to get the spring season underway.

“We’re really excited to get going,” Andersen said. “Our players have done a phenomenal job during their offseason workouts, getting bigger, faster and stronger, and we’re ready to get out on the field.

The players have also done a terrific job of making a major push in improving their mental preparation, learning the schemes along with the ins and outs of their position and their assignments.”

Andersen and the Aggies will return 45 letterwinners – 21 offense, 22 defense, two special teams – including 19 starters – eight offense, nine defense, two special teams.

“Even though we have a lot of returners, no one’s job is guaranteed. There will be

- See SPRING, page 10

StatesmanSports

Page 10

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

March Madness; mad as ever

UTAH JAZZ GUARD DERON WILLIAMS (8) drives as Boston Celtics center Kendrick Perkins (43) defends during the first half of an NBA basketball game Monday, March 22, in Salt Lake City. AP photo

Jazz beat Boston at home SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Mehmet Okur scored all of his 14 points in the second half and pulled down 15 rebounds, Deron Williams added 22 points and 11 assists, and the Utah Jazz ended the Boston Celtics’ four-game winning streak with a 110-97 victory Monday night.

C.J. Miles added 23 points and Carlos Boozer overcame early foul trouble to finish with 19 points – all but one in the second half – nine rebounds and two blocks. Okur added three blocks for the Jazz, who controlled the lane and outscored the Celtics 50-36 inside.

Utah scored the last seven points of the first half, then the first nine of the third quarter to regain the lead and held off the Celtics the rest of the way.

Ray Allen had 15 points for the Celtics.

Glen Davis scored 13, Paul Pierce 11 and Kevin Garnett 10.

Boston coach Doc Rivers had seen enough and was ejected when he got two technicals with 1:11 left. After the first technical, Rivers held his hands high while applauding. Referee Ed Malloy felt he was being mocked and called the second technical, then pointed toward the tunnel as Rivers left for the locker room. His players followed a few minutes later, knowing they had let one get away.

Boston had Boozer, Okur and reserves Paul Millsap and Kosta Koufos in foul trouble, but

could not capitalize. Okur was able to stay out of trouble by keeping out of the lane and making four 3-pointers during Utah’s second-half surge.

Boozer, who had just one point and two rebounds at halftime, didn’t get called for a foul in the second half and made the defensive play of the night when he swatted back Allen’s 3-point attempt, then got around Allen and ran down the loose ball for a two-handed dunk that put the Jazz up 95-81 with 6:41 left. Jazz fans were rumbling even before Boozer got to the ball and continued to roar through a timeout called by the Celtics.

With the win and Dallas’ loss to New Orleans, the Jazz pulled within 1.5 games of the Mavericks for the No. 3 spot in the Western Conference and two games behind Denver in the Northwest Division.

After missing all six 3-point attempts in the first half, Utah was 7 of 15 in the second half.

The Jazz also went 21 for 27 from the foul line, where Williams made all 11 of his shots.

The Jazz closed the second period on a 70 run to get within 54-49 at halftime, then scored the first nine of the third quarter. Miles opened the third quarter with two free throws, Williams found Boozer alone under the basket for an easy layup and then Okur hit a 3-pointer that put Utah up 56-54 and the Jazz never trailed again.

!"#$%"" !&"!"'(%)$')'*+, )&-,".%/'$&0 01234%567%58987%:%;<=< !1>>12?%*?@ABC?%.BC?B2%*@CD@2E?%,F@C>B

!""#$%&$'(&')#*+,)'&+*#-&)#$.+./'&*# -('#.&0.+')#+%#+1'#2,3".$#1'-(.&45 .F==BC?E%12B%GBH3F=B 67,)4'+#('),$+.%& 68+,)'&+#.&.+.-+.0'* 692'(-+.&4#3,)4'+* 6:"%3-"./-+.%&#.&.+.-+.0' 6;.3(-(<=8,22%(+ 6>%?'&@*=A'&+'(=s,22%(+ 6B(%?%+.%&=-&)=C'&,('=s,22%(+

AP – Brackets across the country are obliterated. Underdogs, meanwhile, keep moving on.

No. 12 seed Cornell upset Wisconsin on Sunday to join No. 11 Washington and No. 10 Saint Mary’s among the 16 teams left in the NCAA tournament – three double-digit seeds who know precisely how to put the madness in March.

It didn’t stop there.

No. 9 Northern Iowa was the double-digit underdog that took apart the tournament favorite, Kansas, while No. 6 Xavier and No. 5 Butler were two of five mid-major teams that advanced.

Americans love underdogs, but many fans who filled out brackets – either to show off their hoops expertise or to win a few bucks in their office pool – suffered after this kind of uprising.

President Barack Obama was one of more than 2 million – that’s 42.7 percent – who picked the Jayhawks to win the national title in their ESPN brackets and now find themselves more or less relegated to also-rans. ESPN said there were no perfect brackets and only four of 4.78 million entries contained 15 of the 16 remaining teams.

Also eliminated after the first weekend: No. 2 Villanova, No. 3 Georgetown and No. 3 Pittsburgh, three of six Big East teams to bite the dust. Last year’s national champion, North Carolina, didn’t even make the tournament, which leaves Michigan State, a No. 5 seed in the Midwest, as the only remaining program from last year’s Final Four.

Replacing Kansas as the odds-on favorite is Kentucky, which breezed through its two games and is listed at 2-1 in Vegas to win the championship, April 5 in Indianapolis.

Before that, though, are the regionals. If the

first weekend is any indication, there will be more craziness waiting in Salt Lake City, St. Louis, Houston and Syracuse, N.Y. In the Midwest on Friday, Northern Iowa will face Michigan State and No. 2 Ohio State plays No. 6 Tennessee.

In the East on Thursday, No. 1 Kentucky plays Cornell – Big Blue vs. the Big Red – while Washington faces No. 2 West Virginia.

In the South semifinals Friday, No. 3 Baylor will play Saint Mary’s, while No. 1 Duke plays No. 4 Purdue.

And the West is mid-major country: No. 2 Kansas State advanced to play Xavier, and No. 1 Syracuse will play Butler on Thursday.

The Bulldogs and Musketeers used to be among the poster children for the small-school darlings. But in a sign of how upside-down this tournament has been, their trips to the regional semis haven’t made a huge splash outside of their hometowns of Indy and Cincy.

“I don’t think there’s the mid-major anymore when you get into the NCAA tournament,” said Ohio State coach Thad Matta, who used to coach Xavier.

Instead, the loudest noise came from those in double digits – and the upsets were spread among big conferences and small.

Helped by No. 13 Murray State, which beat Vanderbilt in the first round, and No. 14 Ohio, which knocked out Georgetown, double-digit seeds won 11 games over the first two rounds.

Other double-digit winners included No. 10 Georgia Tech of the Atlantic Coast, Missouri of the Big 12 and, of course, Washington of the Pac-10.

Big league: Aggies looking for contracts -continued from page 8 today. All the Utah State guys did well. We had no errors or mess-ups, so it was just a solid day for all of us.”

While he came into this Pro Day as just a blip on the screen of many NFL teams, Brindley’s numbers compare favorably to some of the top college safety prospects in the country. According to NFL.com, his 4.44 second 40-yard dash would have ranked second only to Southern California safety Taylor Mayes’ 4.43-second 40 time at the NFL combine, while Brindley’s 19 reps on the bench press would have tied him for fifth most among safeties had he been present at the combine. Pro Day numbers often appear better than the numbers recorded at the NFL combine due to several factors, some of which can include the surface run on and the timing method used. Brindley and the other Aggies ran their drills indoors on Astroturf and may have benefited from the hand-timing method employed by the scouts in attendance.

Simon admitted that while the surface Brindley ran on is conducive to fast times, the first-year strength coach cautioned against discrediting the safety’s speed.

“The surface he ran on is a faster surface compared to conventional grass or even the field turf we have at the stadium, but I feel like a time on this surface would still be comparable to a time on any surface. If you’re fast, you’re fast,” Simon said.

Brindley’s accomplishments are especially impressive given the fact that he

is coming off of an injuryplagued senior season in which he fought through a severe hamstring pull.

According to Simon, the senior’s ability to overcome the injury coupled with his ability to come back from a minor postseason medical procedure speaks volumes to not only Brindley’s athleticism but his work ethic.

“We knew he was very capable of running what he did today, but coming off of a knee scope after the season and a severe hamstring pull that he played through, I knew it would be an uphill battle for him to hit those times again,” Simon said.

“But he did, and he did a great job with running his 40 and the rest of the drills.”

Brindley wasn’t the only Aggie to impress the NFL scouts present at Pro Day, with his longtime friends and high school teammates McFadden and Ulinski who also had their chance to shine. McFadden put up the most reps of any prospect present at the event while displaying good speed and agility in a number of the running tests. While Ulinski didn’t take part in most of the events, including the 40yard dash, the former rugby player drew the applause of friends and teammates when he put up 16 reps on the bench press while displaying his strong leg in simulated kicking drills in front of the scouts. The performances by all of USU’s seniors will only help the program in the future, said Simon, who pointed out the potential recruiting benefits of having former and current Aggies

make it to the professional ranks.

“Anytime you’re talking about a football program, one of the questions recruits have in their minds is whether or not they can come in here and perform and then have a shot at the NFL,” Simon said. “The fact that we hosted a Pro Day and that this information will be given out to all of the NFL teams, I think that’s great for our program and for our university.”

For Brindley, the future looks bright. It isn’t likely that he improved his stock enough to hear his name come draft day, but he’s fast becoming one of the potential free agent “steals,” according to draft pundits and experts. He’s likely to make his way to an NFL camp later this spring but is modest when assessing his professional future, saying that he’s not above taking his game to the Canadian Football League or possibly even the Arena League if the NFL doesn’t work out.

Overall, the California native is reflective on the whole experience and maintains that just having the chance to play professional football is a “dream come true.”

“As a kid you dream of it, but when you get a little older reality sets in that only so many make it,” Brindley said. “Having just the opportunity to come out and work in front of scouts is huge, and if I do get an opportunity to be on a team, it will be a dream come true.”

– adam.nettina@aggiemail. usu.edu

Spring: football team back on field -continued from page 9 competition at every position this spring,” Andersen said. “One of our main goals is to improve in all areas, specifically administrative penalties as well as our production in the red zone, both offensively and defensively. On offense, we’ve got to get touchdowns while on defense. We’ve got to do a better job preventing the other team from scoring.”

Utah State finished Andersen’s first year at the helm of the USU program with a 4-8 mark, the Aggies’ most wins since 2002. Utah State was 3-5 in WAC action,

matching last season for top-conference record in USU’s five seasons in the league.

The Aggies were tied for fifth in the final league standings, USU’s highest-ever finish in its time in the conference and the best league finish since tying for fourth in the Sun Belt Conference in 2004.

The Aggies have six home games in 2010, including a nationally-televised game on the ESPN network for the secondstraight season, as the USU-BYU game on Friday, Oct. 1, will be televised by either ESPN or ESPN2.

World&Nation

Page 11

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

China counters Google anti-censorship measures

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google’s attempted detour around China’s Internet censorship rules was met with countermeasures Tuesday by the communist government, which blocked people on the mainland from seeing search results dealing with such forbidden topics as the pro-democracy movement.

China’s maneuver, as well as its public rebuke of Google’s decision to stop censoring searches for the government, rattled some of the company’s investors, advertisers and users.

The chief concern is whether Google poisoned its business in one of the world’s most promising Internet markets. One analyst critical of Google’s move predicted the maneuver will cause the company’s stock to fall by as much as $50 – or about 10 percent – in the coming weeks.

The stock fell $8.50, or 1.5 percent, to $549 Tuesday.

Last month, Google said it no longer felt comfortable complying with the country’s demands that it censor Web content deemed objectionable by the communist rulers. On Monday, Google began sending Web searchers in mainland China from the Chinabased Google.cn to Google.com.hk, based in Hong Kong. The former British colony has an open Internet, and Google is not legally required to censor results there.

But that end-run doesn’t prevent China’s government from using its Internet filters – known as the Great Firewall – to block some search results and Web sites from being seen in the mainland.

On Tuesday, a search request from within mainland China about the 1989 Tiananmen democracy protests returned a notice that the “page cannot be displayed.” It also caused the Web browser to disconnect for several seconds. Under the old google.cn, a similar query usually returned a list of sanitized sites about Tiananmen Square.

If the Chinese leaders really want to foil Google, they could block all mainland access to the Hong Kong service. Or they could exert their control of Chinese telecom-

FLOWERS ARE LEFT on the Google logo outside the Google China headquarters in Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 23. Google Inc. stopped censoring the Internet for China by shifting its search engine off the mainland Monday but said it will maintain other operations in the country. AP photo

munications companies to slow the speed of queries and responses, to help drive traffic to homegrown rivals.

“It really comes down to the extent of their vindictiveness,” said Duncan Clark, managing director of BDA China Ltd., a technology market research firm.

The tensions between Google and China’s government already appear to be denting the company’s business.

TOM Online, a provider of online and mobile services in China that is owned by a Hong Kong tycoon, said it would not renew an alliance with Google to avoid violating any Chinese laws. Owners of Chinese businesses also may be more reluctant to advertise on Google for fear of reprisals.

If that happens, Google may reduce its sales force in China. For now, the company is maintaining both its engineering and sales staffs in the country, reflecting its hope that the Chinese government’s anger will cool off. Google also believes it will be

able to revive plans, delayed for now, to have its Android software support more mobile phones and applications in China.

Other foreign companies that have angered the Chinese government have been stymied in the country. American defense contractor Raytheon Co. closed its Beijing offices last year in frustration over its inability to win contracts for commercial aviation and consulting services. American executives believed Raytheon was being penalized for selling its Patriot missiles to Taiwan.

Although Google discussed various options in talks with the Chinese government over the past two months, the company made its decision to shift mainland traffic to Hong Kong without the ruling party’s approval.

Google makes relatively little of its money in China now. Analysts have estimated the country accounts for $250 million to $600 million of its $24 billion in annual revenue.

But the pie is expected to get substantially bigger as China’s economy expands and the country’s Web audience increases beyond the roughly 350 million people online now.

Susquehanna Financial Group analyst Marianne Wolk expects China’s Internet ad market to grow from about $3 billion last year to as much as $20 billion in 2014.

Google appeared to be well positioned to pick up about $5 billion to $6 billion of that projected 2014 revenue, Wolk said, because its Chinese search engine has a roughly onethird share – a distant second to the homegrown Baidu Inc. But Google’s share is likely to shrink if the Great Firewall blocks or slows traffic.

BGC financial analyst Colin Gillis said he expects Google’s dustup with the Chinese government to reduce the company’s market value by $10 billion to $15 billion, or $30 to $50 a share.

“What Google has done is a slick trick, but it’s also a direct slap in the face to the government,” Gillis said. “The repercussions from this will be going on for several years.”

Gartner Inc. analyst Whit Andrews said any financial pain Google suffers will be worth the respect the company wins for refusing to bow to a government’s demands.

“Google now has irreproachable proof of its editorial objectivity,” he said.

In China some Internet users mourned Google’s exit, placing flowers and chocolates at the large Google sign in front of the company’s offices in Beijing. But others noted that the situation could raise awareness about China’s strict online censorship.

Zhang Shihe, a freelance Chinese journalist and well-known blogger, said coverage of Google’s departure could spur Chinese to demand more free speech online and offline.

“The incident has angered and saddened a lot of netizens, and now they will understand what type of country we live in,” said Zhang, who blogs under the name “Tiger Temple.” ‘’This is another win for freedom of expression.”

Arrests made after thirty years in case of missing teens NEWARK, N.J. (AP) – One night in 1978, five teenage boys disappeared without a trace in what would become one of the longest and most baffling missing-persons cases New Jersey has ever seen.

Thirty-two years later, prosecutors announced the arrests of two men and disclosed the victims’ gruesome fate: They were herded at gunpoint into an abandoned building in a dispute over missing drugs and burned to death in a blaze that obliterated nearly all evidence.

“For years, their families have wondered what happened on that August day,” acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert Laurino said Tuesday.

“Today, we believe that question has been answered.”

A relative of one of the victims said that one of the men charged with the crimes, 56-year-old Lee Evans, confessed to him 18 months ago, setting investigators on the task of corroborating the confession. On Tuesday, authorities would only say that a witness came forward then but didn’t give details.

“He just told me what happened,” Rogers Taylor, brother of Ernest Taylor, told reporters Tuesday.

Over the years, investigators conducted a nationwide search for the teens, chased hundreds of dead-end leads and enlisted at least two psychics. In the end, the evidence led back to a site just blocks from where the victims were last seen, in the same neighborhood where four of the teens lived, played and went to high school together.

Investigators believe that’s where two boys were taken into an abandoned house, followed later by three more. It was not known what pretense was used to get them to the house.

Laurino said the men restrained the boys and then set the house on fire. The five were

believed to have died from the flames and not from gunshots, he said.

The house was destroyed in the blaze, as were houses on either side of it, Laurino said.

The five bodies were never found, possibly because no one thought to look for remains in an unoccupied home. The boys were not reported missing until two days later.

Arrested late Monday were Evans, of nearby Irvington, who routinely hired teenagers to help with odd jobs; and Philander Hampton, 53, of Jersey City. They allegedly acted in retaliation for the theft of some marijuana.

Each is charged with five counts of murder and one count of arson. Both were being held on $5 million bail ahead of an arraignment scheduled for Wednesday. Prosecutors did not know whether the suspects had attorneys.

Both men were questioned after the boys disappeared, but neither was charged. Evans passed a lie-detector test.

William McDowell, an uncle of 16-yearold victim Michael McDowell, said Tuesday that the family always felt Evans was responsible, especially because his excuse – that he simply dropped the teens off after they were done working for him – was “lame.”

“It’s been very frustrating for Michael’s family and myself,” he said. “Once there is a trial and there is a conviction, I’m sure there’ll be closure, for me at least, anyway.”

The victims – Melvin Pittman and Ernest Taylor, both 17, and Alvin Turner, Randy Johnson and McDowell, all 16 – were last seen on a busy street near a park where they had played basketball on Aug. 20, 1978.

At the time, Evans told police that he dropped off the boys on a street corner near an ice cream parlor.

Later that night, McDowell returned home and changed clothes, then returned to a waiting pickup truck with at least one other boy

NEWARK MAYOR CORY BOOKER, center front, and others listen as acting Essex County prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announces Tuesday, March 23, in Newark, N.J., that two men have been charged with shutting five teenage boys into a house in 1978 and burning it to the ground in a case that has been one of New Jersey’s greatest unsolved mysteries for more than 30 years. AP photo

inside.

That was the last confirmed sighting of any of the teens.

Turner’s mother, Floria McDowell, who is no relation to Michael McDowell, still remembers the meal her son cooked her that night: roast chicken, mashed potatoes and green peas.

“He made dinner and then asked my husband if he could go out to play basketball,” she recalled Tuesday. “Around midnight, I said to my husband: ‘Alvin’s not here.’ We went out to look for him. The streets were dark and still. There was no movement, and I

said, ‘Something’s happened.’”

The most shocking thing about hearing the news was finding out it had happened so close by, she said.

“I didn’t have no idea it happened right under my nose,” she said.

Newark police Lt. Louis Carrega, who worked on the case for the last three years, said the matter was never looked at as a homicide.

“It was always treated as a missing-persons case, and missing-persons cases are worked differently,” Carrega said. “The kids were only reported missing after the fire, so they

Federal Reserve issues new rules on gift card restrictions, fees

CONSUMERS USING GIFT cards to make purchases will be protected by new regulations from the Federal Reserve. AP photo

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Federal Reserve issued new rules on Tuesday to protect Americans from getting stung by unexpected fees or restrictions on gift cards.

Gift cards have grown in popularity – with more than 95 percent of Americans having received or purchased them, the Fed said.

And as usage has gone up, so too have complaints from people taken by surprise by fees that eat into the value of the cards as well restrictions on how long they’ll be good for.

Under the rules, consumers must have at least five years to use the gift cards before they expire. The Fed also says service or inactivity fees can be imposed only under certain conditions.

Such fees can be charged if the consumer hasn’t used the card for at least a year, if the consumer is given clear disclosures about them and no more than one fee is charged a month.

The rules take effect Aug. 22.

Congress ordered the Fed to issue the new protections under a law enacted last year.

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., who championed the gift card crackdown in Congress, wants faster implementation of the rules.

“Now that the new rules are finalized, we will work with the Fed to speed up the effective date rather than keep consumers at risk of being ripped off until next summer,” Schumer said. “These new rules will curb the abusive fees and early expiration dates that can drain gift cards of their value before they are ever even used.”

The Fed received more than 230 letters weighing in on its proposal first unveiled in November.

Many individual consumers urged the Fed to ban all fees and to eliminate expiration dates so that people didn’t lose any value on the cards.

Views&Opinion

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 Page 12

Utah State University • Logan, Utah • www.aggietownsquare.com

AboutUs

OurView

Editor in Chief Patrick Oden

Contracting Spring Fever

News Editor Rachel A. Christensen

I

t’s official. The temperature has stayed consistently above 50 degrees for more than three days so it’s time to break out the sundresses, cut-offs and aviators. The sun is back in town, and students on campus don’t appear to be taking it for granted. Spring Break only encouraged students to bring out their strappy sandals and walk around in a T-shirt when their breath is still visible. It would be a waste not to show off skin that is no longer pastey white but a normal-flesh tone, thanks to the week of sunshine Spring Break vacationers absorbed.

The sunshine is not only affecting our winter wardrobes, but our ability to perform in the classroom. Instead of gazing off into the distance, appearing to look at the notes on the projector, we blatantly stare out the nearest window, wishing we were back on our cruise or lounging on the California beaches. The sheer bliss of being mindless on a roadtrip with friends to the WAC basketball tournament or sinking into a coma on the beach sand is a sweet taste on the tip of our tongues that leaves us craving more. Summer simply cannot arrive soon enough no matter how we slice it.

Not only is spring making us antsy, it’s making us shake our heads and purse our lips every time we drive by First Dam and see the gray sky looming above it. The water is calling to us and so are our swim trunks. It’s depressing, to say the least. Even professors are complaining during class time about being cooped up and confined to their offices like pregnant women on bedrest.

Sorry, we don’t feel bad for you, you’re getting paid.

Never fear fellow sun-worshippers, approximately six weeks of school are left to endure and sooner or later, we will have made it through. We don’t promise they will be painless, but all things end in time, and when we are finally set free into the warm summer air, the endless days of frigid air will help us appreciate the rays on our faces that much more when they decide to hang around.

Ask Miss Jones Dear Miss Jones, I think I’ve made a pretty big mistake. During the last home basketball game against New Mexico State, my roommates and I met these girls. I thought one of them was particularly cute so I worked on making eye contact with her the whole time. As my roommates and I were walking home, my roommate started talking about the same girl I was checking out. Nothing really happened for a couple weeks, and then the week before Spring Break, he came home from class and said we were going to hang out with her and some friends. We hung out as a group a couple times, and somehow I wound up with her number. We started texting a lot, nothing intense, just talking about life and whatnot with the occasional flirtatious message.

Like an idiot, even though I knew my roommate was still interested, I took her to a movie over Spring Break. We held hands and enjoyed each other’s company, and even though I’ve always understood hand-holding as a pretty mutual thing, she apparently was upset with my hand-holding style and, therefore, won’t be seeing me again.

Although I’m confused and a little disappointed, I accept that she won’t be hanging out with me again. Now the problem isn’t with the girl, it’s what to do about my roommate.

Do I tell him, hide it from him, act like nothing happened or underplay the whole situation?

Man in Self-dug Hole Dear Man in Self-dug Hole There are two ways to approach your problem: 1 – Keep digging.

2 – Ask for a hand and accept that you may get punched in the face.

As I’ve discussed in pervious issues, you should have stuck to man law. From what I understand, man law clearly states that if two friends are seeking to lay with the same woman, one friend must submit all laying rights to the other or neither can lay with the woman. About 30 years ago, two of my neighbors brought a calf to me, claiming the calf was theirs. I told them to cut the calf in half so each could have an equal portion. While one of the neighbors thought that was a splendid idea the other said, “No! Give the calf to her, just don’t kill it.”

I agreed with the second neighbor and gave the calf to the one who was planning on slaughtering it. The next day we had a delicious veal dinner, and everyone was happy, except the neighbor who didn’t get the calf, but he was an a-hole so no one cared.

The moral of the story is – someone is always going to be upset. You can’t please everyone so do your best to make those close to you happy. Tell your roommate the truth, it’s always the best way out ... unless you killed someone, then apparently the best thing to do is to feed the body to pigs and never say a word.

Good luck and remember: “With as many times as Miss Jones has been around the block, her directions must be good.”

E-mail your questions to be answered by Miss Jones to statesman.miss. jones@gmail. com or find me on Facebook.

Assistant News Editor Catherine Meidell Features Editor Courtnie Packer Assistant Features Editor Benjamin Wood Sports Editor Connor Jones Assistant Sports Editor Matt Sonnenberg Copy Editor

F

Frankly, Clinton’s right

riends tell friends when they’re wrong, even when they don’t want to hear it.

That’s what Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton did Monday when she told the American pro-Israel lobby that perpetuating the status quo with the Palestinians does not serve Israel’s long-term security or U.S. strategic interests, and that “unilateral statements and actions” such as announcing new settlement construction undermine prospects for peace. It’s not easy for a U.S. administration to stand up to powerful lobbies, so Clinton deserves credit for her frank remarks.

Many backers of Israel view even the slightest U.S. reproof as a form of betrayal, and they are likely to have heard only Clinton’s condemnation of Israeli actions in this speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Washington. But U.S. support of Israel is unbending. The country receives nearly $3 billion annually in military assistance to maintain its edge, Clinton noted, adding that “we firmly believe that when we strengthen Israel’s security, we strengthen America’s security.” This is unchanged by her criticism, and only bolstered by her push for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

There are many obstacles in the path to peace, not the least of which is the hostility of the militant Islamic group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip. But it was Israel’s announcement of plans to build another 1,600 housing units on East Jerusalem lands captured from Jordan in the 1967 Six-Day

L

War that has turned a spotlight on a problem of Israel’s making – continued settlement expansion.

Most Israelis see East Jerusalem as part of their state, but the international community does not recognize the annexation of the territory, whose future is to be determined in peace negotiations. This was reiterated over the weekend when the “quartet” – the United Nations, the European Union, Russia and the United States – condemned Israel’s East Jerusalem plans and called for a negotiated agreement within 24 months to end the occupation of the Palestinian territories and create a viable Palestinian state “living side by side in peace and security with Israel and its other neighbors.”

Israel’s dismay at the reproach is understandable. Most U.S. administrations have protested settlement construction and then sat by passively as Israel continued to build.

The Obama administration appears to have internalized the message Army Gen. David H. Petraeus delivered last week: that two states are in the United States’ interest, and lack of progress not only fuels Arab anger with the United States but undermines our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now it is up to President Obama to drive that point home when he meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington on Tuesday. That’s what honest friends do.

This editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday, March 23.

As a matter of faith

ike many students, I had a fabulous Spring Break in warmer weather. I relished in exploring the ins and outs of southern Utah in car and on foot. And like those students, I saw the end of Spring Break coincide with the passing of what some politicians call health care reform. I suppose it is reform, because a lot of things will work differently. Whether things will change significantly for the better has yet to be seen, and there’s a lot of economic theory in the bill that’s suspicious to me.

One of the big issues holding the bill back was the issue of funding abortions. Many opponents of the bill spoke as though the bill explicitly funded abortion. Some congress members probably believed it, since very few people have likely read the damn thing.

But what was at issue here with many opponents was the lack of clarity in the bill. There is no language specifically stating abortions will not be federally covered, and some say therefore they must be covered under a number of blanket terms they fall under.

Some have argued that executive orders will solve this dilemma, but an executive order isn’t a real law and would be toothless.

The reason this was such a hangup for so many congress members was based on religious belief about life. House Rep. Anh Cao, a devout Catholic from my home state of Louisiana, said before the House, “I understand the crushing costs of health care. I understand that we have to fight these companies, but I also understand that abortion is wrong. ... Tomorrow will be a sad day for me, as I cast a no vote against something I believe we need.”

Many others in Congress and across the nation felt the same way, though a lot of media sensationalized things. Many people I talked to claimed this was just another example of religion interfering with politics and the country. The simple reality is this nation has deep religious roots. The First Amendment is not a restriction on faith, and its lack of recognizing a faith in law is part of this. Belief, practice, or lack thereof, are not governed by the state except if it breaks laws (sacrifice, fraud, etc). This also applies to religion in the public sphere.

People say you should “leave your religion at the door” on election day, which is pretty deluded. While there is no state-established religion, faith informs the moral code of almost every believing person. People voting on gay marriage or a bill funding abortion is going to bring their religion into it at some point. They believe their faith is true, and its values are essential to human flourishing and so would serve as good policy. There is nothing in our laws which restrict that. Secularists or atheists do the same thing.

I also believe that such application of faith should be accompanied by proper understanding. Faith and reason should work together, especially in a religiously free nation such as ours. In the public sphere, laws or ideas can’t be adequately dismissed just because one doctrine says it’s bad. The consequences of voting or acting on faith without proper understanding are especially great regarding the direction of a powerful nation.

Arguments must be compelling regardless of their religious origins. This requires a healthy and reflective religious mind-set, and, unfortunately, today those with such a mind-set are often drowned out by blowhards and attention seekers.

Religion has a place in establishing policy but not out of blind dogma. I think it’s very sad that so much criticism is focused on those loudmouths and dogmatics. I agree they are wrong, but I also think it would be best not to give them the attention they seem to be seeking. The criticism against their actions often becomes a blanket statement against those they represent, and productive dialogue gets lost in the fray.

Many congress members voting either way on the health care bill were of the dogmatic type, and they dominated the public perception.

It burned me to no end to see their endless charades on C-SPAN, and I think in the next election many will pay for their idiocy.

Such punishment may be the right thing to do, and justice is part of our national iden-

- See FAITH, page 13

Mark Vuong

Photo Editors Pete Smithsuth Steve Sellers Web Editor

Karlie Brand

About letters

• Letters should be limited to 400 words.

• All letters may be shortened, edited or rejected for reasons of good taste, redundancy or volume of similar letters.

• Letters must be topic oriented. They may not be directed toward individuals.

Any letter directed to a specific individual may be edited or not printed.

• No anonymous letters will be published.

Writers must sign all letters and include a phone number or email address as well as a student identification number (none of which is published).

Letters will not be printed without this verification.

• Letters representing groups – or more than one individual – must have a singular representative clearly stated, with all necessary identification information.

• Writers must wait 21 days before submitting successive letters – no exceptions.

• Letters can be hand delivered or mailed to The Statesman in the TSC, Room 105, or can be e-mailed to statesman@aggiemail. usu.edu, or click on www.aggietownsquare.com for more letter guidelines and a box to submit letters. (Link: About Us.)

Sound Off

Leave your comments on the stories and columns you find in The Utah Statesman at aggietownsquare.com

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Views&Opinion

Page 13

Scholarships Scholarships Scholarships Scholarships

Student Involvement and Leadership Center Scholarship Application 2010-2011

Faith: Religion, State and abortion -continued from page 12

tity; however, the problem of these men was their own egos, not their faith or lack thereof.

I found it far more reprehensible that some seemed to ride the values of their faith for the cameras, then turned their backs on those values for a partisan victory.

Many people on the Hill were not like that. Many had grievances with the bill that were real and thoughtful, not obstructive.

The believers among them were thoughtful because they took their faith and values seriously, and believer or not, took the moral implications of the bill seriously.

Regardless of my views on abortion, I could never vote for a bill that uses tax dollars to fund it. I realize that would be asking a number of people to support what they consider to be a horrible crime against innocent human lives.

Religion entering the public square needs to be serious and reflective about its views.

That will be a shield against those jackasses who just want camera time and it will add to the dialogue of good culture and policy. It can’t happen enough, and it certainly hasn’t, but that’s no reason to just leave faith at home altogether. Faith is the core of most Americans’ lives, not out of delusion or fear of change but a common desire to orient family and community toward what is good.

It would be wrong to ignore this important aspect of our national culture because of the actions of a few.

Will Holloway is a senior in philosophy. His column appears every other Wednesday.

Comments may be left at aggietownsquare.com.

A sliver of progress in Myanmar

T

he Obama administration’s strategy of engaging with rogue regimes may have paid off in a small way in Myanmar. The release from prison of a pro-democracy activist doesn’t signal that democracy is coming to that oppressed nation, but it does argue for continued contact to keep pressing for desperately needed change.

Naturalized American citizen Nyi Nyi Aung was arrested on spurious charges, sentenced after an unfair trial and mistreated in prison, according to Human Rights Watch. Myanmar’s military junta pardoned and deported him last week in what it said was deference to its “bilateral friendship with the United States” and a request by the State Department.

Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, is planning its first parliamentary and local elections in two decades. Opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has spent 14 of those years under house arrest, one of about 2,200 political prisoners in the country, according to Amnesty International.

Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party won the 1990 general election with a majority of seats in parliament, but was never allowed to take power. To ensure that it never does, the junta has rewritten the nation’s constitution and imposed a new election law. Among the changes: Anyone married to a foreigner is disqualified from running for public office. (Suu Kyi is the widow of Briton Michael Aris.)

Political prisoners are also disqualified, military control of a bloc of legislative seats and key ministries is guaranteed, and the regime is officially annulling the 1990 election results. Suu Kyi’s party is suing the government in response.

The National League for Democracy is right that none of this bodes well for a free and fair vote, and it is understandably concerned that opposition participation in such an election would only serve to legitimize a junta that does not intend to relinquish power. Yet the junta is taking steps that could inadvertently lead to change. It is trying to broaden the private sector _ if only to benefit its cronies _ and improve economic conditions in a country where most live in dire poverty. The new constitution establishes a presidential system of government with a bicameral legislature and 14 regional governments and assemblies.

While maintaining targeted economic sanctions against Myanmar, the United States should use its new, if limited, influence to push for a credible electoral process with the freedom and participation of Suu Kyi and other prisoners of conscience.

Representatives of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations should be allowed to monitor the vote. The door has opened a crack. The election is an opportunity to try to pry it open further.

This editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday, March 23.

Instructions: (Please read carefully) 1. Application must be submitted to the Student Involvement and Leadership Center, TSC 326, by Thursday, April 8, 2010.

2. Applicants must be currently enrolled at Utah State University and meet minimum academic requirements.

3. Scholarships are awarded on leadership ability, contributions to USU, involvement in student clubs and organizations and the criteria required for each of the scholarships listed below.

4. Application must be complete to be reviewed. Essay questions are required for a complete application.

5. Recipients will be awarded during the Awards Banquet on April 21, 2010, at 6:30 p.m.

Listed below are the available scholarships and the criteria for each. Please check the box of the scholarship(s) you are applying for. ! Amanda Moser Lyons Leadership Scholarship One recipient/ $800 per semester / Fall 2010, Spring 2011 1. Must be a member of Alpha Chi Omega 2. Must be a sophomore or junior 3. Must exemplify integrity, leadership and friendship 4. Have made significant contributions to Utah State University, Alpha Chi Omega and the Greek Community 5. Preference will be given to direct descendents of Amanda Moser Lyons ! Claude J. and Frances Burtenshaw Outstanding Emerging Student Leader Scholarship Two recipients/ $800 per semester / Fall 2010, Spring 2011 1. Must be a sophomore or junior 2. Have demonstrated outstanding leadership potential in performance of duties 3. Have made substantial contributions to the student government thus far in their collegiate career ! Val R. & Ruth Ann Christensen Student Leadership Scholarship One male & one female recipient/ $800 per semester/ Fall 2010, Spring 2011 1. Must be a junior or senior 2. Demonstrated leadership involvement in ASUSU or any organization affiliated with ASUSU 3. Has devoted significant time and initiative to serve the community 4. Minimum USU cumulative GPA of 3.0 ! ASUSU Student Involvement Scholarship Two recipients/ $800 per semester per semester/ Fall 2010, Spring 2011 1. Demonstrated leadership involvement in ASUSU or any organization affiliated with ASUSU 2. Made significant contributions to Utah State University 3. Committed to continued involvement at the university ! Harold C and Grace Minson Steed Scholarship One recipient/ $800 per semester/ Fall 2010, Spring 2011 1. Academically qualified junior or senior student 2. Majoring in the Jon M. Hunstman School of Business 3. Serving in a campus leadership role 4. Native born U.S. Citizen

Name__________________________________________________________________________ A Number _______________________________ Cell Phone _____________________________ E-Mail _________________________________ Local Address___________________________ City _______________________________ State ______________ Zip Code_________________ Major/Minor_____________________________________________________________________ Year in School ___________________ Cumulative GPA _______________________________.

Please type your answers to the following questions on a separate piece of paper and attach them to the application.

1. List the leadership positions you have held while attending USU. What are your involvement plans for the upcoming year? Why are you qualified for the scholarship you are applying for?

2. Highlight an experience at Utah State University where you demonstrated exceptional leadership ability.

3. Briefly explain what receiving this scholarship means to you.

4. What qualities are necessary to be a good leader? How has your leadership experiences helped you to become the person you are today?

I certify that the information provided on this application is correct to the best of my knowledge. I authorize the release of this information and/or my transcripts to the Student Involvement and Leadership Center in the awarding of the above scholarship.

Signature ___________________________________________ Date __________________________

Scholarships Scholarships Scholarships

World&Nation

Page 14

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

UN: Fishing interests trump conservation efforts DOHA, Qatar (AP) – Japan and China on Tuesday torpedoed proposals to protect hammerhead and oceanic whitetip sharks – heavily sought for their prized fins – in the latest victory of fishing interests over global conservation efforts.

The defeat of the U.S.-backed measures was part of an aggressive campaign by the Asian nations to oppose all marine proposals at the 175-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. They also defeated an export ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna, a proposal to regulate the coral trade and a separate shark conservation plan.

Critics accused the countries of putting business and politics ahead of efforts to protect the sharks, which are often fished only for their fins, with their carcasses discarded.

The issue has taken on more urgency due to an increasing demand for shark fin soup as increasing numbers of Chinese middle class families become wealthier. The soup has long played central part in traditional Chinese culture, often served at weddings and banquets.

Rwanda’s Fidele Ruzigandekwe, who supported the shark listing, said afterward that “science had been set aside for politics.”

“It’s proven that shark populations have diminished and they warrant protection,” Ruzigandekwe said. “Yet, most proposals were rejected. People are not properly informed and the information is being distorted because of commercial interests.”

China, Indonesia and other nations that benefit from the trade in shark fins joined the Japanese-led opposition to the proposals arguing that trade restrictions were not the answer and would be difficult to apply. The shark proposals

would have for the first time regulated the trade, requiring nations to among other things track their imports and exports and the amounts they catch.

“This is not about trade issues but fisheries enforcement,” Masanori Miyahara, chief counselor of the Fisheries Agency of Japan, told delegates.

“Poaching is a big problem. Small-scale long liners are chasing sharks all over the world.”

China said it opposed the proposals because it would be “impossible” to differentiate between regulated and unregulated shark species. It never mentioned the growing demand for shark fin soup but said the ruling would put an unnecessary burden on customs officials.

Hisashi Endo, the director of the Ecosystem and Conservation Office in the Fisheries Agency of Japan, said Tokyo was already working to protect marine species but wanted the matter to be addressed by regional fishing commissions, rather than CITES. “We are just saying that CITES is not a good place for the conservation of marine resources,” said Endo. “We already are making progress on conserving marine species.”

The United States, supported by Europe, Australia and many Arab countries, said regional fisheries bodies had failed the sharks with a lack of protective measures.

Widespread illegal fishing and caused populations of the endangered scalloped hammerhead, great hammerhead and the threatened smooth hammerhead to plummet by as much as 85 percent. Oceanic whitetip sharks face similar threats and their numbers are down 60 percent to 70 percent.

The hammerhead measure was only narrowly

AN OCT. 27, 2005, file photo shows a hammerhead shark in a large tank at the Georgia Aquarium, in Atlanta. A U.S.-backed proposal to protect the heavily fished hammerhead sharks was narrowly rejected Tuesday, March 23, over concerns by Asia nations that regulating the booming trade in shark fins could hurt poor nations. AP photo

rejected by the U.N. committee, failing by five votes to take the necessary two-thirds of majority. The whitetip proposal fell nine votes short of approval.

Tom Strickland, the head of the U.S. delegation, said it was possible they would try and revive the proposals at the larger, plenary meeting, which begins Wednesday.

“It’s disappointing we didn’t get the two-thirds but that is the way the rules are set up,” Strickland said. “We are going to continue our efforts both here and going forward to put the necessary protection in place for these shark species.”

The tiny Pacific nation of Palau, which last year created the first ever shark sanctuary, joined the Americans in introducing the shark proposals. It called on countries to protect the species so they can be fished well into the future.

“Millions of sharks are killed each year to support the global fin trade, while a significant percentage of the world’s sharks are threatened or near threatened with extinction,” said Palau’s Ministry of Natural Resources, Environment & Tourism Harry R. Fritz, adding that his country supports the protection of other shark species as well.

Endangered right whale birth captured on camera SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) – Biologists conducting a survey for the U.S. military said Tuesday they photographed an endangered right whale giving birth near a proposed Navy training range offshore of Georgia and Florida.

The news caused waves of excitement among researchers and conservationists. Experts said it was only the second time right whales have been documented giving birth in the wild. And environmentalists opposed to the Navy’s plans said the sighting bolsters their argument that submarine warfare training in the area would pose a threat to the rare species.

“We can not have undersea warfare training taking place in that area where mother whales are going to give birth to their calves,” said Sharon Young, marine issues field director for the Humane Society, which sued the Navy in January over the training range.

Researchers say only about 400 North Atlantic right whales remain, and each whale killed by ship strikes, entanglement in fishing lines and other underwater gear is considered a large step toward extinction.

The right whales migrate each winter to the warm, shallow waters off southern Georgia and northern Florida to birth their calves. In nearby Atlantic waters, but farther out to sea, the Navy plans to build a $100 million range for training

ships, submarines and aircraft.

Biologist William McLellan said his research team photographed the whale birth Saturday about 40 miles offshore from Jacksonville, Fla. His research team was conducting an aerial survey of marine species near the proposed training area.

McLellan, a research biologist for the University of North Carolina Wilmington, said Tuesday the scientists were tracking a female right whale when it dove underwater for about 10 minutes and then resurfaced along with a plume of blood.

“At first they thought it had been bitten by a shark,” McLellan said Tuesday. “And then this little thing pops up off to the side. It turned out to be a baby calf.”

The Navy said Tuesday the whale birth was at least 10 miles outside the boundary of its planned Undersea Warfare Training Range.

The range would be located over 500 square nautical miles, about 50 miles offshore and a short trip from Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay in south Georgia and Naval Station Mayport in north Florida.

“From what we would be doing on the range, there would be no significant impact to the right whales,” said Jene Nissen, the range’s program director and a retired Navy commander.

ClassifiedAds www.a-bay-usu.com

Utah State University • Logan, Utah • www.aggietownsquare.com stu9dent jobs Student Jobs For more information, see USU Student Employment, TSC 106. On-campus jobs: C323-10 Pre-purchase Counselor based on experience C203-07 Undergrad Research Assistant BOE C328-10 Tech Comm Intern-web Manager $8.50 C334-10 Physiology Tutor (biol 2420) 8.00 C112-02 Information Specialist 9.50/hr C347-10 Website Content Editor $9.50/hr C361-10 Forestry Extension Educator $15.00 C548-09 Child Care Assessor $8 per hour C483-00 Laboratory Assistant 10-14 hr depend on qual C408-09 Summer Conferencing Assist Coordinator $9.00 DOE C197-07 Research Assistant C371-10 Lab Assistant $10/hr

C318-04 Operational Excellence Seminar Coordinat $8.00 per hour C387-10 Undergraduate Research Assistant 8.50/hour C429-96 Mowing $6.55/hr C356-03 Research Assistant $9.50/hr C381-09 Health & Safety Assistant DOE C253-09 Technical Writer $9.00 - $10.00 DOE C264-01 Electrical Engineering Or Physics $8/hr. BOE C395-10 Research Assistant $9.50 / hr C397-10 Production Coordinator $8.00 C388-10 Lab Assistant $10.00/hour C396-10 News Reporter $8.00 C401-10 Biological Sample Collector 7.25 C400-10 Ecology Research Technician $9/hr C402-10 Marketer $15-$30 C267-02 Laboratory Technician $7.25 w/1 month probation C122-94 Tsc Custodian 7.25/hr C307-10 Game Programmer $15/hr, BOE C398-10 Curator Assistant $15.00

C005-04 Research Assistant $1500/month C160-06 Substitute Teacher 65.00 - 75.00 C448-07 Customer Service- Tooele Distance Ed 8/hr C296-05 American Sign Lanugage Interpreter $14-$26+ C106-09 Student Support Services Tutor 7.50 + C134-09 Laboratory Technician minimum $7.25 C208-96 Tutor $7.25/hr c226-10 Field Assistance In Hawaii $8.00 C233-10 Biological Technician $8/hr C240-10 Marshalese Interpreter $10/hr C249-10 Occupational Therapist based on experience C245-10 Research Assistant $8-$12/hr negotiable C203-06 Manager Off-campus Jobs: 3017 Independent Representative base on commission 3545 Quality Control Internship $14.00 5914 Common Ground Outdoor Adv Summer Intern 5926 Marketer/salesperson potencially 25 an hour 5398 Marketer/salesperson Up to $25/ hour 5969 Receptionist/quality Control doe 2873 Guest Personnel Sm. Guest/cattle Ranch $900- $1100/month plus 2872 Cook For Small Guest/cattle Ranch Depends on Experience 5981 Local Area Sales 5928 Electrical Engineering Apprentice DOE 5983 Support Engineer Salary BOE 5988 Daily Bread Food Storage Sales Job 5995 Customer Service Associate 5966 Sales $8-$12 6000 Customer Service Associate DOE 5893 Advanced Survey Team $11/hr+mnth/ wkly bonuses 5999 Appointment Setter 1326 Aide Room & board plus stipend 6004 Flooring Sales 8-9 /hr 6009 Sales Representative $7 per hour plus comm.

6017 Honeybaked Ham Kiosk $7.25 6016 Church Accompanist based on experience 6022 Dental Assistant DOE 6015 Sales Representative Hourly + Commission 6020 Freelance Writer With Welding Experience 10-12 6021 Server/waiter At Gias 0796 Boat Rentals $7.50 5400 Ink Cartridge Technician 7.25/hr 6029 Wildlife Technician $13-16/hr DOE

6032 On-site Apartment Manager Salary, Apartment, Util 6028 Undergrad. (animal/biology) Internship $1,000 per month 6033 Account Contact Rep 7.25 6037 Computer Technician Based on experience 6030 Sales Rep. Or Office Manger 2000/ mo, 5776 Cache Valley Transit District Bus Driver $10-11.25 DOE 6034 Clark Pest Control Summer Sales Position 6039 Pest Control Technician $2000/mo plus bonuses 6043 Legal Assistant Negotiable 6038 Door Sales hourly or commission 6040 Summer Sales 6042 Italian, French, German Research $14.00 6045 Safety Advisor Commission 0164 Parts Counter Clerk Neg 6047 Branch Manager In Cebu, Phillipeans salary 6046 Sales Person Up to $25 per hour 6052 Window Cleaning Sales up to $30 hr.

6051 Window Cleaning Manager up to $30 hr.

6049 Scheduler 8.00/hr = bonus 5663 Real Estate Sales/telemarketing $15$35/hr 5729 Phone Sales Consultant commission based 6048 Home Sewer 6050 Fiberglass Production 8+ Start 5939 After School Staff BOE 3397 A Happy Friendly Team Member 7.25/hr 6057 Gardner $8 hr 5819 Office Help $9.00/hour starting

3 5

1

2

6 8

3

4 7

5 6 1 4

5

8 2 1 8 7

3 4

2 5

3 2 6

5950 Agent Office Staff $8.00 Starting 6059 Piano Teacher based on experience 6060 Bsa High Adventure Camp Staff Salary for Summer 6058 Website / Sales starting at $8 6055 Hourly Door Sales 10 6056 Sales Rep On average over $50/ hour 6062 Secondary Teachers Teacher Salary Schedule 6063 Elementary Teachers Teacher Salary Schedule 6061 Special Educators Teacher Salary Schedule 6064 Software Engineer 6066 Legal Assistant $8.50/hr 1712 Childcare / Nanny $8/ per hour 6069 Modeling start 7.75 neg + 6068 In Home Care Provider hourly 6067 Outside Sales Representative Comission 5420 Wireless Consultant $9.00-$14+ 6065 Handiperson 8-10

Please Note Please note.

Check out complete listings at www.a-bayusu.com Rommate needed Roommates Private Male Contract w/Garage parking Located 1/2 mile from campus. Private room w/walk-in-closet. Rent is $350/ month. This includes utilities, satellite TV w/DVR & big screen TV, high-speed wireless internet. Fully furnished including kitchen. Bedroom has twin bed, desk, and shelves. There is also a washer and dryer in the basement and A/C. Garage space is available for a car or small truck or SUV. Scenic views with lots of wildlife. blair.j@aggiemail.usu.edu Apartments for Apts.

4RentRent Female Summer Contact for Sale $250 + utilities. Spacious basement room with a walk-in closet. Requires own furniture. Includes wi-fi, cable, and washer/dryer. Shared living room, kitchen, and bathroom with 3 other awesome roomates. No alcohol, tobacco, or pets.

Super close to USU campus, just off 1200 east. Call Muriel @ (435)213-7696 Autos for Sale 4 Sale Autos 2006 Dodge Ram 2500 Laramie 5.9 Cummins Diesel, Crew cab, Leather, Heated Seats, low miles, Asking $4800, contact: tsm72ris@msn.com/ 919-287-2369.

4 7

Scientists for the New England Aquarium in Boston were the first to photograph a right whale birth, also off the coast of northern Florida, in January 2005.

Monica Zani, a right whale researcher at the Boston aquarium, said the whale birth McLellan’s team photographed occurred well outside the established calving grounds for right whales, about 20 miles off the coast. She said it’s not clear whether a birth that far out was a fluke.

“It’s a huge question mark,” Zani said. “That’s an area that hasn’t been surveyed a lot.”

Young of the Humane Society believes the sighting helps the cause the range’s opponents.

Young of the Humane Society believes the sighting helps the cause the range’s opponents.

In January, the Southern Environmental Law Center filed suit against the Navy in federal court on behalf of the Humane Society and other conservation groups. The lawsuit argues the Navy approved construction of the range without first completing studies to determine if it would pose threats to right whales and other rare species.

The Navy’s studies on potential impacts to marine life are expected to be complete by 2014, the earliest the range would open.

6

1

7

8

Dodge Ram 2500 Laramie 5.9 Cummins Diesel, Crew cab, Leather, Heated

Seats, low miles, Asking $4800, contact: pho68rg@msn.com/ 801-206-0083.

Electronics Computers & Electronics Verison Wireless Internet device *Free with transfer Free wireless device and activation- with (legal and approved) transfer of monthly payment for internet access. 5 gigs per month at 60.00 plus tax. This transfer is approved through Verison!!! Please call Jason 1-435-5355873 or email jason.patten@aggiemail. usu.edu Condos for Rent Condos Townhouse for Sale!

Two bedroom, one bath, fireplace, carport, storage, A/C, completely updated, close to campus! Qualifies for $8000 Federal Tax Credit! $79,500. Call 801-597-2700 for details! 1289 N 400 E #4 Logan UT 84341 Logan townhome rooms for rent, 1 available now and 2 in May We have 3 wonderful rooms available in our town home - $250/room. New house built in 2006. Internet, dishwasher, washer/dryer included. Utilities split 5 ways. Shopping and stores are all within walking distance. There is a free bus that stops across the street if you need it. Deposit is first and last months of rent. We have one room available now and two rooms in May. Please feel free to call us and come take a look at the place.

FHomes for Sale Homes Blackhawk End Unit Condo- Amazing Updates! Blackhawk End Unit $99,900 170 W 1275 S, not 1275 S 170 W Built in 1995. 1,190 sq. ft. None other like it! Updates Include: Newly Remodeled Kitchen and Dining Room. Tile in kitchen, bathrooms, and entry. Cabinets updated with sub crown and crown moldings. Island on wheels with electrical outlet. Built in pantry and display case in the kitchen. New granite looking counter tops. New stainless steel kitchen sink with soap dispenser and pull out spray faucet. New back French door (both sides open) with built in blinds.

Additional Information: 2 Bedrooms, 2 baths, 1 family room, 1 car garage, Taxes $620, Acres .02, HOA fee $100, central vacuum, walk-in master clos-et, sink disposal, appliances will include new oven/range, dishwasher, overhead microwave (not pictured ones) and

Page 15 Pearls Before Swine • Pastis

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

TimeOut A collection of student-produced & syndicated comics, puzzles, fun stuff ... and more FREE classified ads!.

Brevity

Reallity check

Loose Parts • Blazek

F-Minus • Carillo

Scootah Steve • Steve Weller

steve-weller@hotmail.com

Dilbert • Adams

Out on a Limb • Kopervas

It’s All About You • Murphy

Jewelry Jewelry

Women’s Engagement Ring Selling for $2,300 OBO. Bought from custom jeweler. Lifetime Warranty, Guaranteed Authenticity, free lifetime cleaning, free sizing from local Logan jeweler.

UNIVERSITY 6

1225 N 200 E (Behind Home Depot) • SHE’S OUT OF MY LEAGUE (R) 1:00, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:40

• REMEMBER ME (R)

12:35, 2:50, 5:05, 7:20, 9:35

• ALICE IN WONDERLAND* (PG)

STADIUM 8

535 W 100 N, Providence

• SHE’S OUT OF MY LEAGUE (R) 12:35, 2:50, 5:05, 7:20, 9:35

• ALICE IN WONDERLAND* (PG) 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45

• DIARY of a WIMPY KID

1:05, 3:05, 5:05, 7:05, 9:05

(PG)

IN DIGITAL 3D 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 • BOUNTY HUNTER (PG-13) 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 • DIARY of a WIMPY KID (PG) 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 • GREEN ZONE* (PG-13) 12:30, 2:45, 5:05, 7:25, 9:45

TUESDAY NIGHTS ARE STUDENT DISCOUNT NIGHTS

• GREEN ZONE* (R)

AT UNIVERSITY

1:10, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10

• REMEMBER ME (PG-13)

12:35, 2:50, 5:05, 7:20, 9:35

MIDNIGHT SHOWS FRIDAY & SATURDAY UNIVERSITY 6 ONLY $5.50 OR

ALL TICKETS ARE MATINEE

MOVIES 5

• PERCY JACKSON (PG)

*NO PASSES

6

PRICE WITH STUDENT ID

12:45, 3:45, 6:50, 9:40 • REPO MEN (R) 1:20, 4:00, 6:45, 9:25 • BOUNTY HUNTER (PG-13) 12:40, 2:55, 5:10, 7:25, 9:40

DISCOUNT TICKETS

2450 N Main Street • PERCY JACKSON (PG) 4:00, 6:30 Fri/Sat 9:20 • CRAZY HEART ( R) (PG) 4:00, 6:40 Fri/Sat 9:20 • SHUTTER ISLAND (R) 4:10, 6:50 Fri/Sat 9:30 • CRAZIES (R) 4:10, 6:55, Fri/Sat 9:25 • AVATAR (PG-13) 4:05, 7:05

Ring size Description:Gold: 14KT White Gold with Hammer andDiamond: Shape: PrincessWeight: .77 CaretsClarity: SI2Color HSide Diamonds 6 rounds / G color / SI Clarity/ 0.14WTotal Weight: 0.91 CaratsReplacement Price Estimate: $3,701.00please call Clayton at 208-406-2778 The ring is in Logan Ut. Lost and Found Lost and Found LOST: Silver Celtic Peridot Ring I recently lost a treasured silver Celtic ring, with a peridot gemstone in the middle.

I would dearly love to have it back! If you have seen it, please contact me at jessica.lynne.h@aggiemail.usu.edu, or my phone number 208-569-1758 Specific ring description can be found here: http://www.gaelsong.com/product/145882/-Jewelry_Rings Lost Wedding Band Thin, size 4 white gold and diamond wedding band lost between the FAC and Aggie Village. A reward will be offered for its return, if found please call 435660-1324.

Miscellaneous4 sale Misc.

Twin Size Bed Spread Reversible zebra/pink cheetah print twin size bed spread for $50obo. New, very clean, no tears, no stains, from nonsmoking environment. Includes bed spread, one sham pillow case, bed skirt and bed bag to hold it all in. Email for photos or questions cmerrill_1@hotmail. com Graduation Cap and Gown I have a bachelors graduation cap and gown for sale. Used once. Size: 5’7”-5’9” Cost $15.00. Great condition. If interested email me at tfausett81@yahoo.com.

Pets Pets English Bulldogs Puppies 2MALE,1FEMALE(SAME LITTER),PURE BRED,CHAMPION BLOODLINE,VET CHECKED,A.K.C REGD.ALL SHOTS UPDATED,8WKS OLD.HOUSE & POTTY TRAINED.$900 EA. bigboybulldogs@YMAIL.COM

7 4

2297 North Main, Logan 753-6444

2 8 7

3

8

OPEN SAT AT 11:30 FOR MATINEES

When in Rome PG-13

5

6

Complete the grid so that each ring and each pair of adjacent segments contains the numbers 1 to 8.

Sherlock Holmes PG-13 Daily 6:45, 9:20 NO 9:20 on Sunday

Daily 7:30, 9:45 No 9:45 on Sunday

Alvin & the Chipmunks Daily 5:00, 7:15, 9:15 The Squeakquel PG Daily 4:45 Sat 11:45, 2:00

Tooth Fairy PG

NO 9:15 on Sunday

Sat 12:00, 2:10

Princess and the Frog G

Blindside PG-13

Daily 4:30 Sat 12:15, 2:30

Daily 4:15, 7:00, 9:30 Sat 12:45 NO 9:30 ON Sunday

Answers found elsewhere in this issue. Good Luck!

used white refrigerator. Call to schedule a walk through! It won’t last long! Bart Caley, cell/text: 435-994-1200, email: bart.caley@gmail.com

Today’s Issue

Page 16

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

StatesmanBack Burner

Wednesday

March 24 Today is Wednesday, March 24, 2010.

Today’s issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Randy Smith, senior in mechanical engineering, from Mission Viejo, Calif.

Almanac Today in History: In 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker hits a reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound, resulting in an enormous oil spill.

Though there were no human victims of the crash, hundreds of miles of pristine coastline became coated with oil and thousands of sea birds, mammals and fish perished in the disaster.

Weather Thursday’s Weather High: 51° Low: 32° Chance of rain 50%

-Recyclemania, all day.

-Kick Butts, Merrill Cazier Library, 9:30 a.m.

-Undergrad Warehouse Show, Twain Tippetts Hall, 10 a.m.

-USU Guitar Club, True Aggie Cafe, 6 p.m.

-Jazz Combo concert, Performance Hall, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday

March 25 -Recyclemania, all day.

-Mountain West Public Relations Conference, all day.

-Men’s golf at Cal Poly intercollegiate, all day.

-USU Guitar Club, Lundstrom Center, 7 p.m.

-Senior vocal recital, Performance Hall, 7 p.m.

Friday

March 26 -Recyclemania, all day.

-Mountain West Public Relations Conference, all day.

-Men’s golf at Cal Poly intercollegiate, all day.

-Undergrad Warehouse Show, Twain Tippetts Hall, 10 a.m.

-Softball at Louisiana Tech, 5 p.m.

-Men’s tennis vs. Eastern Washington.

You need to know....

The Registrar’s Office would like to let everyone know that summer 2010 registration begins on April 12 and Fall 2010 priority registration is April 19-23.

A screening of the extreme sports movie “Go Big or Go Home” will be held on March 29 at 7 p.m. in the TSC Auditorium.

The price of $6 includes movie, food and a raffle.

The Disney college program will host two recruitment presentations on March 30 at noon and 4 p.m. in the TSC auditorium. Magic. Experience. Paid Internship. Go to disneycollegeprogram.com for more information.

Thinking about cutting your hair soon? Wait. The Val R. Christensen Service Center is hosting the second annual Aggie Lock hair donating even April 8 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Religion in Life will be held March 26 at 11:30 a.m. in the Institute Cultural Hall. The speaker will be Dr. F. Ross Peterson who is Vice President of University Advancement at USU. LDSSA friday night service activity will take place March 26 at 7 p.m. in the Institute Cultural Hall. Come help with all kinds of service.

Auditions for singers and dancer to perform in the Celebrate America Show “Hooray for Hollywood.” Dancers wear dance leotard and tights, bring dance shoes. Singers come prepared to sing both a Broadway and a ballad-style song. Call 435-753-1551 to schedule time on April 3.

Peter Breinholt and Falk will be performing on April 7 in the Kent Concert Hall. Tickets are $10, $8 for students. Proceeds will benefit the SEED program.

Healthy Back Workshop will be held April 9 from 2-5 p.m.

Must pre-register. Visit www.usu. edu/wellness or e-mail Dennise at muddiyogi@gmail.com for details.

Jessie Jo Kerr, Winn and Janet Patch will perform live music at Pier 49 Pizza in Providence March 26 at 6 p.m. Quinn Christensen and Spencer Jensen will perform on March 27 at 6 p.m.

Relay for Life College Against Cancer Relay for Life will be held on April 23-24 in the Nelson Field House. Join a team online at relayforlife.orf/ utahstateuniversityut.

SHRM Club Primary Children’s Hospital service activity SHRM Club will be held March 25 in BUS ninth floor at 5:30 p.m.

Kick Butts

“Kick Butts.” USU Student Health Services wants to inform students about smoking. The event will take place on March 24 from 9:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

A booth will be set up in the entrance to the Merrill Cazier Library.

Women Rock

Women Rock the Runway will be held March 25 from 3-5 p.m. in the Merrill Cazier Library Room 101. Dress as your favorite woman from history to win a prize. The event is free.

Pre PA Club

The Pre PA Club will be holding an informational meeting on March 25 at 7 p.m. in AGSC 302. We’ll be reviewing the prerequisites for various PA schools.

Don’t forget your transcript to see what you still need.

Bridal faire

On March 27 a bridal faire will be held at the Riverwoods Conference Center from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free and everyone is welcome.

FREE 21 oz.

Drink with any $5 purchase.

Exp. 5/5/10

50% Off Exam &andCleaning BiteWing X-rays Hyde Park Office @ 3125 North Main St.

www.myincrediblesmile.com

Moderately Confused • Stahler

More FYI listings, Interactive Calendar and Comics at www.aggietownsquare.com

Coupon Corner

Everyone’s Favorite Stop!

s Out!

t This!

Brain Waves • B. Streeter

Student info

FREE Rice Pudding Finest Indian Cuisine

with the purchase of Entree & Bread

FREE Fountain Drink 720 E 1000 No with the purchase of Buffet Logan, UT 84341 435-750-OVEN (6836) 435-787-4600 www.tandooriovenlogan.com Chicken • Lamb • Seafood • Vegetarian • Vegan Spice on Ice 2009- First Place Winner Chef/ Owner: Sham Singh

787-4444 Just south of Murdock Hyundai

Buy Anything in The Shoppe & Get One

Half Off Equal or Lesser Value

l, a e D t es B ht here! rig

One coupon per customer.

Coupons my not be combined with any other offer.

Exp. 12/15/09 Exp. 05/15/10

Pastries, Sandwiches, Salads and Cakes Follow me on Twitter for daily deals “Sweetly Divine”