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Dean of HASS Microsoft selects USU student for video to step down By PETER BROWN staff writer
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Yolanda Flores Niemann will return to USU next fall, but not as the dean of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. As of last week, Niemann said she sent a request to USU President Stan Albrecht to not renew her appointment as dean. Niemann announced her decision to faculty and staff Tuesday, said John DeVilbiss, USU spokesperson. Niemann will remain dean of HASS until the end of the academic year, ending June 30. DeVilbiss said Niemann will return to the university in some other capacity, but what she will be doing on campus has not been decided. He also said Niemann will help with the transition process. Provost Raymond Coward said because Niemann NIEMANN wants a position where she can serve the whole university, Coward, Niemann and Albrecht will work together to find the right position for her. Every dean signs a contract for multiple years, said Niemann, who is two years into her five-year contract, but the contract has to be renewed annually. With the plans moving forward to separate the College of HASS into the Caine College of the Arts and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Niemann said she felt it was a good time for her to make a clean break. This way, the reorganized colleges will each get a new dean. The fact that Niemann announced her intentions this early is a “gift,” Coward said, because administration can take time to find a new dean. Coward said the university will begin looking for an interim dean, instead of conducting a national search. He said he will consult with the faculty, staff and students in an effort to find the bestsuited person for the job. Coward will then make a recommendation to Albrecht, who will appoint the new dean. When Niemann took the position of dean, she inherited a budget deficit. Niemann said the university’s financial situation made it hard to become a firstyear dean. “I don’t want to be a dean unless I can be an excellent leader,” Niemann said. Niemann said when she was hired, she was given two tasks: to get the college back on its feet financially, while at the same time moving the college forward. “It meant doing what I had to do,” she said. In her efforts to put the college back on solid fiscal ground, Niemann said she had to make decisions that many faculty and staff didn’t like. She said some departments that were expecting to hire weren’t able to, instead positions had to be cut and some faculty and staff had to be laid off. “Nobody likes when their friends are laid off,” she said, adding that these decisions regarding people were the most painful she had to make. The students were inspiring to Niemann, who said she sees Aggies as students who are engaged and don’t want to just sit on the sidelines. “The students give me tremendous hope for the future,” she said. – rac.ch@aggiemail.usu.edu
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Microsoft selected a USU student for a video to be launched with its new product, Office 2010. Sterling Morris, a Huntsman Scholar with a dual major in international business and economics, was one of 30 people invited to participate in the beta-test program from 30,000 applicants. He is one of three people Microsoft is currently featuring on video at its Web site. “I found the opportunity through commercials in between episodes of NBC’s ‘The Office’,” Morris said. “They were looking for students, and I told them what I’m doing here at the university. They caught up to me while I was in Chile on a Study Abroad and interviewed me over Skype. I think that really helped give me an international flare.” Microsoft narrowed the conSTERLING MORRIS, a Huntsman Scholar with a dual major in international business and economics, will appear in testant pool down from 200 to a video launching Microsoft’s Office 2010. Morris, a home user and a small business owner were filmed for Microsoft’s group of 30 individuals, who would a“Real Life Stories” program. MAKAELA HERRAN photo be loaned a laptop with the beta version of Microsoft Office 2010, Business has really provided great Hills, co-director of the Huntsman Hills wants students to be Morris said. The participants are opportunities for him.” Scholars program. “For students inspired by this story. She wants required to do training sessions Being one of the Huntsman who have maintained academic students to know that the Jon M. over the phone twice a month on Scholars, Morris was able to travel excellence, we fund these trips. Huntsman School of Business is how to use all of its new features. to South America and Europe. He But there is also the Study Abroad seeking to provide opportunities Microsoft selected a small busihas worked with the Hope Alliance program, and this is open to all for education and travel for all USU ness owner, a home user and a to provide several eye clinics and students, not just the Huntsman students. college student to film for its “Real glasses to those in need. Morris students.” “What I hope this whole experiLife Stories” program. The three said people from all over the counMorris will continue with the ence does is give other students the were filmed and told their story of try send in glasses that they either training sessions for the next four confidence to pursue something how they use Microsoft Office in don’t need or have gone out of fash- to five months. Microsoft has that they really want to do,” Hills their personal lives. ion. The glasses are cleaned, clinics asked Sterling whether he would be said. “Sterling did it because he was “They were looking at a human are set up and there are about 7,000 willing to speak to the press on its passionate about it. We want to get angle to take this,” said Steven pair of glasses that are taken on any behalf. students excited about being themEaton, director of communications one of these humanitarian trips. Eaton said Morris’ story has selves, but do things that they’re for the Jon M. Huntsman School of Morris said the Huntsman Scholars already been picked up by more really excited about and that they Business. “Sterling is genuinely a plan to take a trip to Senegal in than 200 news publications. think are cool.” humble man. What really sold the May and Peru in June. “I think this will continue to – peter.brown@aggiemail.usu.edu story is two-part: Sterling is articu“The Huntsman Scholars is a generate a lot of positive buzz,” late. Also, the Huntsman School of scholarship program” said Stacey Eaton said.
Natural resource students encourage campus compost location to serve as a hub for the project and involve more students. “It’s still in that informal position,” Rentschler said. Students in USU’s College of Natural Rentschler said that for many students, living Resources are challenging students to comin apartments without gardens or indoor plants, post their food and plant waste. The Campus the idea of composting might not seem practical, Composting Challenge, directed by horticulbut stressed that while they may not benefit tanture sophomore Bethany gibly, they would be doing Heineman, began last semestheir part in the community. ter and continues as part of “We pay money to “The ‘why’ is to allea campus-wide initiative to viate materials in the landhave all the waste improve the sustainability of fill that can break down,” USU’s waste disposal. from campus Rentschler said. Composting, Heineman dumped.” Heineman said the said, is a process in which idea for the composting organic wastes, such as – Michael Dietz, College challenge came, in part, food and plant scraps, are doing research last disposed of in a controlled of Natural Resources from year with Campus Dining method that allows an faculty and Food Services. After increased breakdown of the gathering garbage at the USU material, as compared with Marketplace in the Taggart traditional landfill dumping. Student Center for two hours during lunch, After a period of time the material degrades to a it was estimated that the day’s total yield of state, known as humus, that returns nutrients to organic waste would be in the neighborhood of the soil and can be used as fertilizer in gardens 900 pounds. That waste, like most of the garbage and farms. on campus, goes to the local landfill. Heineman “Things don’t break down in a landfill,” spoke of research that has been done by landfill Heineman said. “You’re not going to get that archaeologists, where perfectly preserved hot stuff back.” dogs, business cards and full newspapers from Near the end of fall semester, Heineman and decades past have been recovered from tradiNatural Resource Sen. John Rentschler distributed empty Aggie Ice Cream buckets to students tional dumping sites. Michael Dietz, who teaches sustainable living to aid in separating and storing organic wastes, for the College of Natural Resources, said that and a dumping bin was set up in the parking lot aside from losing the usage of biodegradable of the Natural Resource Building to collect the material, there are financial concerns for tradimaterial. Around 60 buckets were given out and tional dumping. Heineman said she is looking for a permanent
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“We pay money to have all the waste from campus dumped,” Dietz said. “It’s a waste of money and could be turned into a useful product.” According to data from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), provided by Dietz, around 25 percent of landfill content nationwide is yard waste and food scraps. A full university compost program would incur expenses, too, requiring storage facilities and regular maintenance, but Dietz said that other universities have found ways to adopt composting programs and save money overall. “It’s definitely possible. A lot of other places are doing it,” Dietz said. Dietz came to USU more than two years ago. He said that when he started he was impressed with the steps the university had already taken toward green programs and hopes that such endeavors continue in the future. “I can’t say enough good things about the facilities people here,” Dietz said. USU’s waste and recycling is managed by Kevin Phillips, who said that each year USU generates an average of 2,400 tons of waste. Of that sum, 625 tons are recycled leaving 1,775 tons of garbage taken to the dump every year. Put on a smaller scale, 6.8 tons of garbage go to the local landfill every day. Ultimately, Heineman would like to see a compost program for all of USU, but for the time being, she is trying to get as many students to do their part. Composting may seem daunting at first, she said, but the initial steps of separating out organic waste is simple.
- See COMPOST, page 4
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Webb to direct next Spidey film LOS ANGELES (AP) – Marc Webb has caught the job of “Spider-Man” director. Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios announced Tuesday that the “(500) Days of Summer” director will helm the next “SpiderMan” film following the departure of Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire, the director and star who worked on the previous three Spidey films. The fourth installment is set for a 2012 release and will focus on a younger version of the superhero. Webb said in a statement he was not taking over the series from Raimi but instead wanted the “opportunity for ideas, stories and histories that will add a new dimension, canvas and creative voice to ‘Spider-Man.’”
NewsBriefs GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) – A New York woman accused of forcing her children to torture household pets and burying dozens of animals in her backyard has been indicted on charges of child endangerment, animal cruelty and animal torture, according to court records released Tuesday. Sharon McDonough, 43, is scheduled to be arraigned on the upgraded charges Thursday in Suffolk County Court in Riverhead, on Long Island. Her attorney said she will plead not guilty.
LateNiteHumor Monday, Jan. 18, 2010, Top 10 Signs The New York Jets Are Getting Cocky 10. Offered to give the Colts a 14 point head start. 9. Just purchased Ikea shelving unit for Vince Lambardi trophy. 8. Four words: Field goal kicking donkey. 7. Several confused Jets have called Eli Manning to say, “See you Sunday.” 6. Whole team is now dating Jessica Simpson. 5. Posted playbook on Twitter. 4. Focus on tomorrow’s practice: executing a flawless postgame Gatorade bath. 3. Players have this weekend off. 2. Instead of focusing on Colts receivers, Darrelle Revis negotiating a deal to host “The Tonight Show” in 2015. 1. Rex Ryan calling his abs “The Situation Plus 40 Years of Cheese Fries”
REPUBLICAN SCOTT BROWN, winner of the U.S. Senate election Tuesday in Massachusetts, votes in Wrentham, Mass. Tuesday morning. AP photo
BOSTON (AP) – In an epic upset in liberal Massachusetts, Republican Scott Brown rode a wave of voter anger to win the U.S. Senate seat held by the late Edward M. Kennedy for nearly half a century, leaving President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul in doubt and marring the end of his first year in office. The loss by the once-favored Democrat Martha Coakley in the Democratic stronghold was a stunning embarrassment for the White House after Obama rushed to Boston on Sunday to try to save the foundering candidate. Her defeat on Tuesday signaled big political problems for the president’s party this fall when House, Senate and gubernatorial candidates are on the ballot nationwide. “I have no interest in sugarcoating what happened in Massachusetts,” said Sen. Robert Menendez, the head of the Senate Democrats’ campaign committee. “There is a lot of anxiety in the country right now. Americans are understandably impatient.” Brown will become the 41st Republican in the 100member Senate, which could allow the GOP to block the president’s health care legislation. Democrats needed Coakley to win for a 60th vote to thwart Republican filibusters. The trouble may go deeper: Democratic lawmakers could read the results
as a vote against Obama’s broader agenda, weakening their support for the president. And the results could scare some Democrats from seeking office this fall. The Republican will finish Kennedy’s unexpired term, facing re-election in 2012. Brown led by 52 per cent to 47 percent with all but 3 percent of precincts counted. Turnout was exceptional for a special election in January, with light snow reported in parts of the state. More voters showed up at the polls Tuesday than in any non-presidential general election in Massachusetts since 1990. One day shy of the first anniversary of Obama’s swearing-in, the election played out amid a backdrop of animosity and resentment from voters over persistently high unemployment, Wall Street bailouts, exploding federal budget deficits and partisan wrangling over health care. “I voted for Obama because I wanted change. ... I thought he’d bring it to us, but I just don’t like the direction that he’s heading,” said John Triolo, 38, a registered independent who voted in Fitchburg. He said his frustrations, including what he considered the too-quick pace of health care legislation, led him to vote for Brown. For weeks considered a long shot, Brown seized on voter discontent to overtake Coakley in the campaign’s final stretch. His candidacy energized Republicans, including backers of the “tea party” protest movement, while attracting disappointed Democrats and independents uneasy with where they felt the nation was heading. A cornerstone of Brown’s campaign was his promise to vote against the health care plan. Though the president wasn’t on the ballot, he was on many voters’ minds. Coakley called Brown conceding the race, and Obama talked to both Brown and Coakley, congratulating them on the race. The Democrat said the president told her: “We can’t win them all.” Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin said he would notify the U.S. Senate on Wednesday that Brown had been elected. Originally, he had said he might take over two weeks to certify the results of the special election, giving Democrats a window in which to try to rush through final passage of Obama’s health care plan. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., promised to seat Brown “as soon as the proper paperwork has been received.” Brown will be the first Republican senator from Massachusetts in 30 years. Even before the first results were announced, administration officials were privately accusing Coakley of a poorly run campaign and playing down the notion that Obama or a toxic political landscape
had much to do with the outcome. Coakley’s supporters, in turn, blamed that very environment, saying her lead dropped significantly after the Senate passed health care reform shortly before Christmas and after the Christmas Day attempted airliner bombing that Obama himself said showed a failure of his administration. Days before the polls closed, Democrats were fingerpointing and laying blame. Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, head of the House Democrats’ campaign effort, said Coakley’s loss won’t deter his colleagues from continuing to blame the previous administration. “President George W. Bush and House Republicans drove our economy into a ditch and tried to run away from the accident,” he said. “President Obama and congressional Democrats have been focused repairing the damage to our economy.” At Boston’s Park Plaza Hotel, giddy Republicans cheered, chanted “USA” and waved the “tea party” version of the American flag. Even before Brown won, the grass-roots network fueled by antiestablishment frustrations, sought credit for the victory, much like the liberal MoveOn.org did in the 2006 midterm elections when Democrats rose to power. GOP chairman Michael Steele said Brown’s “message of lower taxes, smaller government and fiscal responsibility clearly resonated with independentminded voters in Massachusetts who were looking for a solution to decades of failed Democrat leadership.” Wall Street watched the election closely. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 116 points, and analysts attributed the increase to hopes the election would make it harder for Obama to make his changes to health care. That eased investor concerns that profits at companies such as insurers and drug makers would suffer. Across Massachusetts, voters who had been bombarded with phone calls and dizzied with nonstop campaign commercials for Coakley and Brown gave a fitting turnout despite intermittent snow and rain statewide. Galvin, who discounted sporadic reports of voter irregularities throughout the day, predicted turnout ranging from 1.6 million to 2.2 million, 40 percent to 55 percent of registered voters. The Dec. 8 primary had a scant turnout of about 20 percent. Voters considered national issues including health care and the federal budget deficits. Fears about spending drove Karla Bunch, 49, to vote for Brown. “It’s time for the country, for the taxpayers, to take back their money,” she said. And Elizabeth Reddin, 65, voted for Brown because she said she was turned off by the Democrat’s negative advertisements, saying: “The Coakley stuff was disgusting.”
Egypt announces find of ancient temple CAIRO (AP) – Archaeologists have unearthed a 2,000-year-old temple that may have been dedicated to the ancient Egyptian cat goddess, Bastet, the Supreme Council of Antiquities said Tuesday. The ruins of the Ptolemaic-era temple were discovered by Egyptian archaeologists in the heart of the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, founded by Alexander the Great in the 4th century B.C. The city was the seat of the Greek-speaking Ptolemaic Dynasty, which ruled over Egypt for 300 years until the suicide of Queen Cleopatra. The statement said the temple was thought to belong to Queen Berenice, wife of King Ptolemy III who ruled Egypt in the 3rd century B.C. Mohammed Abdel-Maqsood, the Egyptian archaeologist who led the excavation team, said the discovery may be the first trace of the long-sought location of Alexandria’s royal quarter. The large number of statues depicting Bastet found in the ruins, he said, suggested that this may be the first Ptolemaic-era temple dedicated to the cat goddess to be discovered in Alexandria. This would indicate that the worship of the ancient Egyptian cat-goddess continued during the later, Greek-influenced, Ptolemaic period, he said. Statues of other ancient Egyptian deities were also found in the ruins, he added. Zahi Hawass, Egypt’s chief archaeologist, said the temple may have been used in later times as a quarry as evidenced by the large number of missing stone blocks. Modern Alexandria was built squarely on top of the ruins of the classical-era city and many of its great temples, palaces and libraries remain undiscovered. The temple was found in the Kom el-Dekkah neighborhood near the city’s main train station and home to a Roman-era amphitheater and well preserved mosaics.
THIS UNDATED PHOTO released Tuesday, Jan. 19, by Egypt’s supreme council of antiquities, shows the ancient cat-goddess Bastet found amongst the temple’s ruins in the Kom el-Dekkah area of the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria. The council says its archaeologists have unearthed a Ptolemic temple dating back more than 2,000 years and which may have been dedicated to the ancient cat-goddess Bastet. AP photo
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Museum guests get taste of Old World Briefs Campus & Community
The activity cost two beans. “The colors were symbolic in Aztec culture,” Izatt said. Yellow represented food, blue sacrifice, black war, red blood and green royalty. The kids at the table seemed to glue on their favorite colors without regard to their ancient meanings. Sarah Fassmann talked about Mayan hieroglyphics and helped the kids draw colorful symbols that could be glued to magnets for Old World-style refrigerator décor. Both Mayan and Aztec cultures used hieroglyphic systems, Fassmann said. “Both created books called codices, and when the conquistadors came, they burned a lot of the codices. So we’ve lost a lot of information about their history and culture,” Fassmann said. By destroying the codices, the explorers severely weakened the native cultures, allowing them to usurp power more easily. However, Fassmann also said some codices survived when explorers took them home as souvenirs. “The best place to find a codex now is in Europe,” she said, citing the libraries in Germany, Spain and France. Because there are so few codices left, researchers have only been able to crack the Mayan language to a certain extent. “Over time we’ve found more clues to the
By CHRISTINA WRIGHT staff writer
Last week’s Saturdays at the Museum event centered around the theme “Mesoamerican Marketplace,” – Central and American cultures – where for the work of grinding corn, children earned beans that they then used as currency for the opportunities to make Inca jewelry, learn Mayan hieroglyphics or taste New World food, among others. At the entrance to the museum, children were asked to grind corn, using small stone pestles, into a large square mortar. They were to grind enough to fill one hand. For this work, they were each given 10 beans, which were representative of the cocoa beans that the Mesoamerican cultures actually used as currency. “All that matters,” said Joelle Young, who oversaw the work and payment, “is that they grind it to powder.” Children then had to choose where to spend their money. They could make Aztec fans with symbolically-colored feathers, weave traditional back straps, try their hand at Mayan hieroglyphics, create royal Inca jewelry, color and glue an Aztec ritual calendar or taste New World food. Megan Izatt ran the Aztec fan table, where kids colored pictures in the center of paper plates with popsicle stick handles and glued brightly-colored feathers around the edges.
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Theater company hosts auditions
KIDS GRIND CORN during Saturdays at the Museum Jan. 16. Museum guests learned about Mesoamerican cultures and sampled food. ANI MIRZAKHANYAN photo
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The Old Lyric Repertory Company (ORLC), base for an advanced theater program at USU, is hosting auditions for the 2010 summer season. Auditions are in Logan Saturday, Jan. 30, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. in the Black Box Theatre of the Chase Fine Arts Center, Room 224. Call backs will begin at 4 p.m. “The OLRC has been called ‘one of the best-kept secrets of Utah’s theater scene,’ and to be selected to join the company is an honor,” said Kris Bushman, OLRC production stage manager. The summer 2010 production schedule includes “Always ... Patsy Cline” by Ted Swindley, “The Mousetrap” by Agatha Christie, “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)” by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield and “Blithe Spirit” by Noel Coward. The OLRC is auditioning men of playing age 20-40 years, women of playing age 25-40 years and an actress to portray Patsy Cline. All auditioning men and women should come prepared to present two monologues; one monologue must be a comic piece. The total time should not exceed four minutes and pieces may be from the season’s shows. Those auditioning should also come prepared to read. Sides will be available on the OLRC Web site, theatre.usu.edu and click on the OLRC link. For more information about the audition process, visit the OLRC Web site (http://theatre.usu.edu/ olrcauditions.aspx).
Joyce Albrecht honors Kappa Delta
COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND USU STUDENTS brave freezing water Saturday, taking part in the fourth annual Polar Plunge. Cache Valley law enforcement officers host this annual event at the Hyrum State Park reservoir, to raise money and promote awareness of Special Olympics Utah. USU was represented by a group of students from LLC Area Government who swam the 38 degree Fahrenheit water. Each plunger raised money in support of Special Olympics Utah athletes through donations and pledges. Nearly 200 participants wearing costumes ranging from ballerina tutus to football jerseys, bellyflopped, dove, flipped and jumped into the water. All quickly swam the roughly 30 feet of open water to the exit where towels and warm changing tents promised relief from the cold. Firefighters in special winter diving drysuits were on hand to help anyone struggling in the water because of frozen muscles. SCOTT PAGE photo
PoliceBlotter Saturday, Jan. 9
Tuesday, Jan. 12
• USU Police assisted North Park Police on a trespassing incident, which resulted in an arrest of a disorderly female for trespassing and a warrant.
• USU Police responded to the Dairy Herd Improvement Association building for a report of a noise problem. Upon arrival, officers located a USU vehicle with a stuck horn. The horn had been sounding for approximately 45 minutes, according to witnesses. The vehicle battery went dead eventually and the horn stopped honking.
Sunday, Jan. 10 • USU Police assisted Logan City Police with a animal problem. Upon arrival officers located a deer that had a broken leg. The deer was unable to walk and was suffering. The deer was destroyed by the Division of Wildlife Resources. • Police responded to the Old Main building on an elevator alarm. Police made contact with one male individual who was stuck in the elevator. Police released the individual from the elevator and then created a work order to fix the problem. Monday, Jan. 11 • USU Police responded to the Living Learning Community, Building D, for a report of a suspicious odor. Upon arrival, contact was made with the resident adviser and the complainant. The resident adviser informed officers that a student had been smoking cigarettes in the bathroom. The resident adviser only wanted to report the incident for later reference.
• USU Police responded to Mountain View Tower on a report of possible drug use. When police arrived they found that a group of residents were using a tobacco product. Those involved were released after they were found to be of legal age. • Police responded to the Fieldhouse on a medical assist. A student injured her finger while exercising in the weight room area. The student was transported to the Logan Regional Hospital so she could receive medical care. Wednesday, Jan. 13 • USU Police responded to the Aggie Terrace for an individual that could not get out his car out of the Terrace. The toll machine would not accept his money. The individual was let out of the terrace with directions to contact Parking to pay his parking fee.
Contact USU Police at 797-1939 for non-emergencies. Anonymous reporting line: 797-5000 EMERGENCY NUMBER: 911 • USU Police observed four teenagers skateboarding in the Big Blue Parking Terrace. The teenagers were informed of the university’s skateboard policy and were released with a warning after the officer confirmed it was their first warning. Thursday, Jan. 14 • USU Police responded to a fire alarm at the Fine Arts Center. Workers had blown dust out of the heating vents by the dock doors and set off the alarm with the dust. Facility personnel were on scene to clean out the detector and reset the alarm. Friday, Jan. 15 • USU Police received a complaint from a resident of the Living Learning Community that some unauthorized person had opened the door to their apartment. Police are investigating. • USU Police assisted the Logan City Police Department on a noisy house party. Upon arrival, officers made contact with the responsible person of the house. The responsible person was informed that they needed to be quiet and not disturb the neighbors. -Compiled by Rachel A. Christensen
Joyce Albrecht was a VIP at Kappa Delta’s scholarship dinner. Albrecht presented certificates to those members who reached at least a 3.5 grade point average. Albrecht said, “Continue to achieve academically. Knowledge is power. It empowers you in a way that will change your lives.” Elisabeth Arellano, Kappa Delta Academic Excellence Chair last semester, credited the Academic Resource Center (ARC) for helping to raise the overall chapter GPA through providing programs and ideas such as sisterto-sister tutoring. Kappa Delta had a 14.6 percent increase in GPA from spring and fall semester. Director of the ARC Carol Rosenthal said “Kappa Delta may have started a major culture shift in the Greek system. It will be exciting to see how the KD program continues to evolve as well as to see if other chapters adopt similar programs.”
Next HASS Hour planned for Jan. 21 January’s HASS Hour will feature associate professor of German Felix Tweraser with “Vienna: City of My Dreams and Site of Cultural Transfer.” The event will take place Thursday, Jan. 21, at 5:15 p.m. at Hamilton’s Steak and Seafood restaurant. Tweraser works on the literary and cultural legacy of turn-of-thecentury Vienna, film theory and criticism and the instrumentation of arts and letters during the Cold War. He is the author of the book “Political Dimensions of Arthur Schnitzler’s Late Fiction” and is currently working on a monograph, titled in draft “Vienna and Hollywood: Dream Factories and Cultural Transfer,” which traces the contributions of CentralEuropean émigrés to the U.S. film industry and Hollywood’s Golden Age. The cost is $6.95 per person, plus tax and gratuity. For planning purposes, please RSVP to Natalie Archibald Smoot at 7972796 or natalie.archibald@usu. edu.
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Albrecht pulls from funds to address recent budget cuts By CHELSEY GENSEL news senior writer
Addressing the Associated Students of USU Executive Council at its Tuesday meeting, President Stan Albrecht said the administration revisited ways to make up the budget cuts, following Utah Gov. Gary Herbert’s executive order, in December, to further reduce budgets. Albrecht said the administration looked at ways to address the cuts over the break without resorting to additional furloughs and came up with some money from quasi-endowments and other funds. “The salary reductions are voluntary, but most are choosing to participate,” Albrecht said. He emphasized a desire to address the state budget cuts without affecting student programs and classes. Quasi-endowment funds will provide $700,000 from interest, which the holders have agreed to contribute, and $1 million set aside for the university to invest will be delayed and applied to addressing the budget cuts instead. Albrecht said there are other one-time amounts in various accounts that will be used. “We have also asked three of our vice presidents to help,” he said. “The research vice president, for example, because they may have access to some funds not normally available to academic colleges.”
Albrecht said he is optimistic about the current legislative session ending with no additional cuts passed and will attend the ASUSU Executive Council meeting in February to give an update. Also at the meeting, Vice President of Student Services James Morales said he had visited the campuses of some nearby colleges to tour recreational facilities to get a feel for what USU may need if and when a new student recreational facility is planned. “It was a great experience to see the variety of facilities these institutions have put together,” Morales said. The campuses he visited had built their facility within the last 10 years, he said, and had taken into account students’ wants and needs and tailor-made the facility to fit them. He said USU would probably take some elements of each and of others to develop a concept for a new facility. “We offer some of the services, but we really don’t have the full facility, recreational as well as health and wellness, for students,” he said. Morales said the current stage of the project is research and fact-finding, after which a proposal will be put together for ASUSU to develop and decide if and when to pursue it. – chelsey.gensel@aggiemail.usu.edu
Compost: Making campus sustainable -continued from page 1 “I keep (the bucket) under my kitchen sink,” Heineman said. Sustainability is not new to USU’s campus. Many initiatives in the Blue Goes Green campaign have already led to a more environmental-friendly university. In Heineman’s opinion, sustainability and green living is gaining footing in the mainstream. “I think people see the big picture more,” Heineman said. “It’s not some weird hippie notion as much as it used to be.” Rentschler agrees that going green is talked about more than it used to be, but he feels that action is lacking.
“It’s not a matter of, ‘Should we?’” Rentschler said. “It’s, yes, we should. Let’s stop talking about it and let’s start doing it.” The program is in its infancy, but Rentschler and Heineman hope to see more students become aware of and participate in sustainability. Students wanting to take part in the composting challenge can pick up a bucket in the academic advising office of the College of Natural Resources or contact john.rentschler@aggiemail. usu.edu and bethany.h@aggiemail.usu.edu for more information. – b.c.wood@aggiemail.usu.edu
Mayan: Kids experience ancient foods -continued from page 3 Mayan language, but there are still gaps,” Fassmann said. “We don’t know everything, but most of it’s broken.” Aurora Durfee worked at the Inca jewelry table, where children used strips of metal cut from a turkey roasting pan, flattened and spray painted gold, as well
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huge peanut plantations in Mexico, Martin said. She also explained that the first potatoes were earthy, or turnip-like, with much lower sugar and starch contents than the potatoes people eat now. The potatoes were genetically modified and grown in Ireland when explorers brought them home. Potato chips were the representative snack for this explanation. Martin also talked about the origins of chocolate. “They used cocoa beans as currency because it was easier to find gold than cocoa trees,” she said. The first hot chocolate was made of cocoa powder, cinnamon, chili powder and boiling water. The result was a bitter hot drink, served only to royalty or those the people believed to be gods, such as Cortez. Cortez took the cocoa bean home and the Spanish added sugar and milk and other ingredients to make chocolate. A 60 percent cocoa chocolate bar was the main reason Martin’s table was popular. “Kids will dump 10 beans to try 10 pieces of chocolate,” she said. “Or it will be time to go and they don’t want to waste their last bean, so they’ll come get a piece of chocolate.” One bean bought a taste of each food, but there was no restriction on how many times the kids could come through the line. In addition to running a booth at the event, Martin was also the event coordinator, the liaison between the curator of the museum and the anthropology 5800 class. Students in the class organize themselves into teams and divide up which Saturdays at the Museum events they will design, market and represent. – christina.wright@aggiemail. usu.edu
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Fight for rights USU celebrates human rights By APRIL ASHLAND staff writer
Human rights are defined by dictionary.com to be “fundamental rights, especially those believed to belong to an individual and in whose exercise a government may not interfere.” Human Rights Day at USU, which will be celebrated Thursday, was designed to teach USU students, faculty and staff about human rights across the world, said Krista Bustamante, vice president of Campus Diversity and Organizations . She said the plan was originally to have a week dedicated to human rights, but she was unavailable during winter break to plan the activities. “I didn’t want to have a week with a couple half-hearted attempts at activities, so I decided it would be better to have a full day of well thought out and planned events,” Bustamante said. Bustamante said, to her, human rights are the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and what Martin Luther King Jr. did. Everyone should be concerned with human rights debates because “we all look to the inalienable rights” written in the Constitution, Bustamante said. Freshman in vocal performance Kristopher King said he favors the idea of celebrating human rights on campus. “I think it’s a great idea, but I think it’s a better idea to celebrate it year round, everyday,” he said. King is from New York and said coming to Utah was a huge shock, because of the religion and how much race factors into everyday life. He said Americans needs to focus on human rights today, even though they have more human rights available to their citizens than other countries. Gay and lesbian rights, specifically marriage, is one issue that needs to be dealt with, King said. “It’s their right. Our generation and past generations need to adjust and figure it out,” he said. There have been many human rights revolutions in the United States, with gay and lesbian rights being one Americans are currently involved in, said Shelly Steele, freshman in psychology. “Everyone ought to have the right to live as they please, as long as they’re not hurting others,” she said. Steele is involved in the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Allies (GLBTA) Club on campus and said when it comes to fighting for gay rights, people don’t do anything. “They don’t understand it (gay rights) affects people they love,” Steele said. One of the problems with the fight for gay rights, she said, is homosexuals are not a visible minority. If she was walking down the street, people wouldn’t know she was a lesbian unless they saw her holding hands with her girlfriend, Steele said. “You never ask people to come out before they’re ready, but that makes it so people don’t realize how many gays, lesbians
and straight allies are out there,” she said. Steele considers the right to marry one’s own decision and is not up for debate. “I think the top four rights everyone in the world should have are the rights to safety, to make their own decisions, to defend their personal beliefs and to have fair representation in the government,” Steele said. King said there are four rights he thinks everyone should have: freedom of speech, the right to date whomever, the right to apply for any job without discrimination and the right to feel safe wherever people travel. Human rights are still an issue around the world, and Bustamante hopes Human Rights Day will help inform those around campus of the human rights issues around the world. “I think USU students are beginning to understand not every culture has the same outlook on human rights,” Bustamante said. The events planned for the day include a series of exhibits in the Taggart Student Center, Merrill-Cazier Library and other places on campus that look at different cultures and human rights. The exhibits focus on the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, Asia and discuss topics such as women in Islam, sweatshops in Asia and African trade. Bustamante hopes to continue the conversation about the problems in the Congo and maybe even bring up immigration issues in the Americas. “This day is a good start for what I want to become Human Rights Week in the future,” she said. – april.ashland@aggiemail.usu.edu
An important message from me
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appy new semester everyone. I’m a rather new columnist here, so by way of introduction, my names is James Rasmussen. I’m a junior majoring in computer science, with a minor in Chinese. I like music, probably more than food. I’m left handed, and my favorite color is red. I started this column last semester and it went swimmingly, but the whole column was a conglomeration of my weekly thoughts and not on a specific topic that interests all of you, such as gun control or porcelain kittens. As a result, this semester I’ve decided to open it up to the panel. Yes, you. My devoted readers. All four of you. This semester, we’ll have a democratic vote to see what the semester-long theme of this column will be. Several ideas have been suggested so far. I’ll just list them out and let you savor them as you see fit. 1 – A weekly synopsis of the most interesting dream I had that previous week. I’m currently keeping a dream journal, and some of them are pretty good. For example, I had a dream the other night that I left a cup of grated cheese on my nightstand, and when I woke up, three mice were in the cup, nibbling silently. I gave them a disapproving look, put my hands on my waist and said, “Oh you guys. You know I hate it when you get into the cheese cup. Scurry along now. There ya go.” I smiled and shook my head in a motherly way as the three mice scurried out of my room in single file. So something up that alley would be my weekly contribution to your lives. 2 – A column documenting my weight gain progress and severity of mood swings while I’m on anabolic steroids. 3 – A weekly column about looking into famous peoples’ lives and contriving an odd moral by something that has happened to them. E.g., ‘You can still knock a home run like Mike Piazza and not be an Eagle Scout.’ 4 – I’ve thought about this: I’ll start a bee colony and train them to recognize subtle changes in pitch wave forms. Pitches too high for any human or other animal to hear. Then I’ll train them to run complex reconnaissance and infiltration missions for me. Eventually, and inevitably, the CIA will get word of it, and the last you’ll see of me is a pyroclasmic boom and a shatter of glass as me and my bees, tied to a specialized sweater of mine that houses the whole colony, careen out of my bedroom window as the military shoots blindly into the cold night air, desperate for my knowledge on bee control. But don’t worry, I’ll tell you guys about the whole thing, every week.
- See IDEAS, page 7
Playin’ a little bluegrass
Grammy nominated group takes stage in Cache Valley
The Grascals began their career in 2004, with their debut album, “The Grascals.” Eldredge said the band was able to take off quicker than expected, with the help of Dolly Parton. Parton and The Grascals recorded at the same recording stuGrammy nominated bluegrass group The Grascals are dio, and Parton was greatly impressed by The Grascals’ music coming to the Ellen Eccles Theatre Thursday Jan. 21, as part that she invited them to join her on the road and be her openof the the theater’s expanded live-music program. ing act. Eldredge said she also asked them to perform as part The Grascals play a blend of traditional bluegrass and of her band. classic country. The band is comprised of six band members, “We had the rocket and she had the fuel,” Eldredge said. who, according to guitar player Terry Eldredge, have been “For any other band, it would take at least 10 years to get playing together for quite some where we were at.” time. However, guitar player Johnson “We all have played together said playing for Parton was not some“Mainly this is our own in different bands for about 20 thing they were used to. He said plaything. Any artist has a years,” he said. “We all played at ing in small auditoriums is normal dream of doing their own the same premier bluegrass club in for most bluegrass bands, and while Nashville, so we were all together thing and doing their own playing with Parton, the band was and knew each other.” in front of 10,000 to 20,000 people a music. I’m getting to do this Other band members include night. with five other musicians.” Jamie Johnson, Terry Smith, Danny “You learn quickly to be calm and Roberts, Kristin Scott Benson and professional,” he said. “You kick it Jeremy Abshire. Eldredge said – Terry Eldredge, into high gear and have high energy.” eventually many of the current Eldredge said playing with Parton member of The Grascals band members became unemwas an opportunity to share their ployed in their previous bands, but music with those who knew little that didn’t stop them from doing about the genre. what they love. Eldredge said they decided to move forward “We were playing for people who didn’t know of us and and start their own band, which they had talked about in didn’t really like bluegrass. If you don’t like it, you haven’t prior years. By COURTNIE PACKER features editor
POPULAR MUSICAL GROUP, The Grascals, will be playing at the Ellen Eccles Theatre Thursday as part of the theater’s expanded live-music program. The band is comprised of six members who play a blend of traditional bluegrass and country music. photo courtesy GOOD STUFF PR
heard it,” he said. Parton is not the only person The Grascals have shared the stage with. Other musicians include Brooks & Dunn, Dierks Bentley, Patty Loveless, Mac Wiseman, J.D. Crowe, Charlie
- See MUSIC, page 8
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Once upon a time ... Students tell stories to make difference in children’s lives By KATE MARSHALL staff writer
About a year ago, a service group called the Storytelling Club was started as part of the Val R. Christensen Service Center at USU. Students last year initiated the service group in an attempt to help grade-school children start to love learning and to promote literacy in the community. The club consists of about 100 students, and Katie Fredrickson, this year’s storytelling director, communicates with members through an email list about once a month. Fredrickson, senior in English Education, with a minor in Spanish, has a passion for service. On the second Saturday of every month, she sends out an e-mail requesting a certain amount of people to volunteer at the Hyrum library. Fredrickson said the club works through National Student Speech Language and Hearing Association (NSSLHA), located in Hyrum. Its efforts are mostly directed toward the Hispanic community residing in the city, but any family is welcome to participate in the activities. The club’s main purpose is to make learning fun for the kids and to get them familiar with books. “The storytellers and the NSSLHA students create a bilingual reading experience for children and their families,” said Sonia ManuelDupont, a facilitator in the club’s connection to NSSLHA. They send materials out to parents, in Spanish, to make them aware of the events. Sometimes only a few kids show up for the learning activities, and sometimes there are almost too many to handle. On these monthly occasions in Hyrum, the club members take time to read to
the kids in English to get them familiar with the language. The members do more than just read aloud, though. They often have themed presentations for the time of year. For instance, during Halloween last year, the club went and decorated pumpkin-shaped sugar cookies with the children, then played a game relating to “There was an Old Woman Who Swallowed A Fly” (changed to “The Little Old Witch Who Swallowed a Fly”). Fredrickson said, “What’s important is to have interactive activities to give the kids an opportunity to use language and to have fun learning, instead of it being a burden.” The club has also had requests to do some literacy fairs at the local elementary schools. There was one instance when the group attended an elementary school literacy fair, and the school requested the college students to act out one of the books at the fair. The students, not being theater majors, were hesitant to do it, but, using their creative minds and most innovative escape plans, they found some puppets and had the kids do a puppet show for one another. In the past, they have also set up treasure hunts for the kids, drawn with them, taught them how to make paper airplanes and other things that teach the kids, especially the ones growing up in primarily Spanish speaking homes, to speak English and not be intimidated by school just because it’s hard for them to understand. It is helpful for the club to have some Spanish-speaking members, such as Fredrickson, who can easily communicate with the Hispanic grade-schoolers. Volunteering at USU is
STORYTELLING DIRECTOR KATIE Fredrickson does a craft with a young girl while reading. Storytellers works through the National Student Speech Language and Hearing Association, located in Hyrum. The club’s main purpose is to make learning fun for the kids and to get them familiar with books. BENJAMIN WOOD photo
helpful to surrounding communities and easy to do. There are more than 35 service clubs in the Val R. Christensen Service Center. One of the Storybook Club’s members, Steve Worthington, said, “Community service doesn’t need to be related to your career aspirations or require a huge time commitment. If every student were to volunteer just a few hours a month to any project, we could make a great, positive impact in the community.” If any students are interested in being on the club’s mailing list, be sure to e-mail storytellers@aggiemail.usu. edu. – kmarshall222@gmail.com
Ideas: A fresh start with options -continued from page 6 5 – Lastly, a weekly column about me walking into a random class on campus each day and interjecting raucous and wildly untrue comments about the subject being taught. As they ask me to leave, I’ll have my carefully hidden bees sting them mercilessly, while I steal all of their school supplies and light them on fire in the middle of the Quad, as a ritual to the Norse god Bragi (the god of poetry). And there you have it, the options for what this column will contain this semester. So exercise your God-given right to use a computer and e-mail me at jamesrasmus@gmail.com. I’ll take your suggestions
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ssignments and tests and deadlines, oh my. A new semester inevitably brings stress and late nights. Pulled between work, friends, school and homework, how does someone keep from going insane? Jessie Kingsford, senior in the English program, gives her solution. “I just try to get ahead in the classes and develop good habits early on,” she said, “so I don’t get over stressed at the end of the semester.” Kingsford also suggests that students avoid falling into the common trap of procrastination. “Don’t leave things until the last minute,” she said. “We all do it.” So, according to Kingsford, to keep up with the school work, students should focus on getting the work done early. But there are only 24 hours in a day. Taylor Empey, sophomore studying journalism, suggests a way to keep track of everything. “I literally schedule every hour of the day. That’s how I do good in school,” he said. “I realized that my first semester was my best, because I went to bed every night by midnight.” Empey goes on to mention the importance of being social. “I survive by spending time with my friends, outside of school activities,” he said. Anna Harris, sophomore in international studies, said she focuses on finding a good study group. “I pick out my hardest class,” she said, “and find the people that complement my strengths and weaknesses for a study group.” Harris also stresses finding likable classes. “Find a class that you love, even if
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it’s one that you are required to take,” she said. “Find one that you are passionate about and will enjoy.” It comes down to five tips: 1 – Don’t procrastinate. It may be fun to go out with friends, but cramming work within a short time just to get back on top of things will stress you out. 2 – Make a schedule. Having a regular schedule takes the the guess work out of juggling everything. 3 – Take a break. If you’re too stressed or over worked, take a break with friends. Relaxing your mind will help in the long run. 4 – Get in a study group. Not only will it give you a support group, it’ll motivate you to actually study.
ACTOR ROBIN WILLIAMS, center, poses for photo with fans on Main Street during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, on Sunday, Jan. 18, 2009. AP photo
5 – Take a fun class. If you’re passionate about the class, it’ll feel less like work and make it easier to study.
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The Sundance Film Festival, which sets up shop in Park City, Utah, on Thursday, is more than a festival, it’s a delicate balancing act. This is an institution that walks the line between two competing notions of what a celebration of cinema should be, straddling as best it can a gap that is especially evident this year. What Sundance is eternally caught between is the Scylla and Charybdis of commerce and art. Its proximity to Hollywood and its success at premiering audience-friendly independent films (for instance, last year’s “An Education” and “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”) have led to perennial charges that the festival is not pure enough, not devoted enough to the strictures of high art that it was supposedly created to enforce and encourage. You can easily see why Sundance worries. There is a big-business aspect to a festival that last year had 40,000 visitors and an economic impact for the state of Utah of $92.1 million. Not to mention the cachet of being held in a party town that, filling a need no one previously knew existed, recently opened what’s been called “the nation’s first ski-in, ski-out distillery.” But to anyone who actually goes to Sundance and sees the films, those charges don’t make a lot of sense. Year in and year out, the festival – especially the dramatic competition section – is overloaded with undeniably noncommercial (and not necessarily artistic) films that don’t have a prayer of getting a theatrical release. But the accusation of worshiping Mammon is such a feared one that this year’s program guide fairly shouts on the cover, “This Is Your Guide to Cinematic Rebellion.” And John Cooper, the festival’s new director, has not only said all the right things about not being “swayed by the marketability of a film,” he also has done away with the tradition of an official opening night film. He also has launched two new sections, one directed at art and the other, recognizing the Sundance inevitable, toward popularity. The section called NEXT is devoted to films made with very little money that are meant to epitomize “creative risk-taking.” Spotlight, on the other hand, repurposed and renamed from the old Spectrum, will
among other things show films that have proved popular at other festivals. Here can be found Jacques Audiard’s knockout “A Prophet,” the most universally admired film at Cannes, as well as the Italian “I Am Love,” a rich family drama that is both a sensual celebration of bourgeois pleasures and a showcase for Tilda Swinton. As always at Sundance, it’s the documentaries that are the most consistently rewarding films on view, and some of the best come from veteran doc filmmakers whose work will be familiar to fans of the genre. In the documentary competition section, one of the strongest entries is “12th and Delaware,” co-directed by Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing, who earlier did “Jesus Camp “ and “The Boys of Baraka.” Set on a particular corner in Fort Pierce, Fla., it casts a heart-rending light on the abortion divide by looking inside both an abortion clinic and the anti-abortion center that sits directly across the street. In the world documentary section, one of the best is the new work by Brazil’s Jose Padilha, who did the excellent “Bus 174.” His complex, shattering “Secrets of the Tribe” examines the effects waves of cultural anthropologists have had on the Yanomami Indians of the Amazon basin, a society that had been totally isolated from nominal civilization. Barely more than an hour in length and made for ESPN’s “30 for 30” series, Dan Klores’ “Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. the New York Knicks,” the story of the clash of NBA civilizations in the 1994 and 1995 playoffs, is minute for minute likely the most engaging, irresistible film in the festival. Another real-life situation well-told is “Smash His Camera,” Leon Gast’s film about photographer and celebrity antagonist Ron Galella. Documentary veteran Lucy Walker (“Blindsight,” “Devil’s Playground”) has not one but two excellent docs in the festival. “Countdown to Zero” is a chilling be-veryafraid examination of the threat that rogue nuclear weapons pose for the world, while “Waste Land” is a surprisingly heartening look at how an unexpected dose of fine art and personal respect changes the lives of people who recycle trash in Brazil’s enormous Jardim Gramacho landfill. A surprising number of the best Sundance documentaries have to do with armed conflict zones in southern and central Asia.
Music: Award-winning band plays in Logan -continued from page 6
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Daniels, Kenny Rogers, Vince Gill and many others. The band has also made appearances on “Opry Live”, “The Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson” and the “TV Guide Channel.” Johnson said playing with these celebrities has been an amazing and unforgettable experience. “The elite of the elite are out there,” he said. “You are standing there with these stars who you have watched while growing up. It is a huge honor.” The band has released three albums, with a fourth to be released late February or early March. The first two albums, “The Grascals” and “Long List of Heartaches”, have earned the band two Grammy nominations. Eldredge said the feeling of being nominated for such a prestigious award is a little overwhelming to think about. “It is like your peers voting for you to be accepted,” he said. “We didn’t win, but we were still nominated.” Along with the two Grammy nominations, The Grascals have won more than a dozen awards, including 2005 Emerging Artist of the Year, 2006 and 2007 IBMA Entertainer of the Year, 2008 SPBGMA Bluegrass Band of the Year and 2009 SPBGMA Instrumental Group of the Year. Johnson said the awards are something the band is proud of and does not take for granted. “You do it for the love of the music, not the awards,” he said. “But when you do get the awards, enjoy them because they might not come back again.” Eldredge said their music and the chance to play at the Grand Ole Opry are what makes him proud to be a member of The Grascals. He said in the year 2009, the band played 23 times at the Grand Ole Opry. “Mainly this is our own thing,” Eldredge said. “Any artist has a dream of doing their own thing and doing their own music. I’m getting to do this with five other musicians.”
Johnson agreed and said the Grand Ole Opry meant the most to the band and are experiences that stick out in his mind. “The Grand Ole Opry is the mother-church of country music and bluegrass music. Every musician who plays our type of music wants to play where we were able to play,” Johnson said. The Grascals show begins 7 p.m. on Jan. 21 in the Ellen Eccles Theatre, 43 S. Main Street. Ticket prices are $12, $15 or $20. For more information about The Grascals, visit their Web site www.grascals.com. – courtnie.packer@aggiemail.usu.edu
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Green fuels Aggies in Bronco blowout By TYLER HUSKINSON staff writer
Utah State Aggie junior forward Brian Green scored 14 points off the bench to lead five players in double-figures, as the Aggies (13-6, 3-2) defeated the Boise State Broncos, 8159. The Broncos (9-10, 0-6) were playing their fourth game within eight nights and fatigue was evident. The Aggies performed better in every statistical category, including out scoring the Broncos’ bench 35-15 and winning the battle in the post, out scoring the Broncos 36-12 in the paint. “They’ve had four games in eight days,” Aggie head coach Stew Morrill said. “I think they felt that a little bit tonight. Feeling a little bit down from losing some close games and tired from playing so many games.” The Broncos’ leading scorer, senior forward Ike Okoye, only managed eight points while junior forward Robert Arnold led the Broncos with 12 points but didn’t contribute significantly statistically elsewhere. The Broncos’ second-highest leading scorer in junior guard La’Shard Anderson, who is averaging 12.2 points per game, was also held to eight points on the night by the defense of Aggie junior forward Pooh Williams. The Utah State student body, among others, heckled Bronco guard Anthony Thomas all night and he was limited to seven points and committed eight turnovers. Both teams struggled with offensive flow in the first half and it was Green who provided much needed offense and defense after checking in at about the 14 minute mark of the game. “He’s (Brian Green) a little spark plug,” senior guard Jared Quayle said, “he’s always got the energy. Tonight he came in and played an amazing game and he got us going there in the first half. He knocked down some big shots when we needed them.” Green had 12 points in the first half on 3of-4 shooting from the 3-point line and 4-of-6 shooting from the field. The Broncos’ had cut the lead to two points near the halfway mark of the opening half when Green hit a deep 3pointer with the shot clock winding down that shifted the momentum in the Aggies favor. “First half he (Brian Green) was great; really added some energy and made some shots and played excited,” Morrill said. “His energy is awesome for our team. We need it. We like it. We love it. He gets on the floor. He’s that way in practice every day. He’s just got a lot of energy
JUNIOR GUARD BRIAN GREEN drives past Boise State’s Anthony Thomas during Utah State’s 81-59 win over the Broncos. PATRICK ODEN photo
and really helps our team,” he said. Utah State managed to score only two points in the first four minutes of the second half and the Broncos took advantage cutting the lead to single digits. The Aggies finished the night shooting 52.6 percent from the field but only 38.9 percent from 3-point range, and the Broncos hit 40.8 percent from the field and 30.8 percent from behind the 3-point line. Aggie junior forward Tai Wesley chipped in 13 points and pulled down seven boards. Junior guard Tyler Newbold finished with 10 points and five rebounds. Sophomore forward Brady Jardine played well off the bench scoring 10 points and pulling down five rebounds in 16 minutes. Jardine’s play has steadily improved this season and
consequently Jardine, along with Green, have earned a key reserve role. “They’ve played better (the Aggie bench) and I think it’s helped them to know who’s going in when and who’s gonna play,” Morrill said. “ Brady’s definitely solidified himself off the bench and Brian’s solidified himself as well.” After the Aggies downed the Hawai’i Rainbow Warriors in the Spectrum 98-54 on Monday, Jan. 11th, Wesley said that the team was definitely a different team; Coach Morrill concurred with Wesley after the victory over the Broncos. “What a difference a week makes, I think that’s the way our guys feel,” Morrill said. “An awfully good week for us; something hopefully we can build on. What I stressed to them afterwards is, the reason we are feeling a lot better a
HOCKEY
week later is because we practiced with purpose and we practiced well and it paid off for us and we’ve gotta go and try to do the same thing next week to get ready for our road trip.” The Aggies face some familiar coaches as they take on the Fresno State Bulldogs and former BYU head coach Steve Cleveland on Thursday, Jan. 21 at the Save Mart Center in Fresno, Calif., and then make their way to Moscow, Idaho to take on the Idaho Vandals and former Aggie assistant coach Don Verlin on Saturday, Jan. 23 at the Cowan Spectrum. “We’ve got to realize what we had to do at Nevada to win and be ready to go do the same thing at Fresno State,” Morrill said. Tip-off against the Bulldogs is slated for 8 p.m. MST. – ty.d.hus@aggiemail.usu.edu
Aggies sweep weekend doubleheader against Vandals and Spartans By LANDON HEMSLEY sports senior writer
The ACHA No. 4 ranked USU Hockey had a good weekend in Spokane, Wash., beating the Idaho Vandals 9-3 on Friday and then beating the San Jose State Spartans 7-3 Saturday. USU 9 - 3 Idaho, Friday Behind a hat-trick from Tyler Mistelbacher, the Aggies’ recurring hero and leading goalscorer, and the seven-point performance of Brendan MacDonald, USU was able to put away the No. 14 Vandals. The Aggie beatdown on Idaho angered the team from Moscow, and several Vandals were sent to the locker room before the game’s end.
“Idaho had about 16 players all total,” head coach Jon Eccles said, “five on the ice, six with their goalie, and that left about 10 on the bench. When they got done with the game, they had about two players sitting on the bench. We were attacking from every angle and as the score showed. We gave them a pretty good beating, and their frustration kind of boiled over to the referees.” Two USU players, Alex Lund and Kyle Soder were also removed from the game due to poor sportsmanship. However, Eccles said he felt the players were removed not necessarily because what they did was out of line, but more because the officials were attempting to avoid the appearance of favoritism with all of the Vandals that had been removed from the game. Overall, Eccles said he was pleased with the way the game
turned out. “It was a good game,” Eccles said. “The team worked really hard, played well, and Dan (Cornelius) had a good game, the goalie.” USU 7 - 3 SJSU, Saturday After the game between USU and Idaho on Friday, the Aggies decided to stick around the arena and watch the next featured game between No. 7 SJSU and No. 1 Colorado State University. The Spartans shocked the region and defeated the No. 1 Rams from Fort Collins, Colo., 2-1. Eccles said the Spartan win made the up-and-coming match against SJSU a bit more intimidating. “We thought, ‘Oh, boy. San Jose is going to be riding high,’” Eccles said.
“’They just beat the No. 1 team.’ And I was thinking, ‘Either they’re going to be riding really high, or its going to be a let down because they used all their energy and emotion in that game.’” The latter proved true. Utah State never trailed, and although for a moment it appeared that San Jose was going to move ahead from a 2-2 tie in the first period, the officials disallowed a goal after SJSU committed a penalty, and USU was able to retake the lead permanently from SJSU on the power play. “I was a little bit worried at first,” Eccles said, “you know, not knowing what we were going to run into. I think we just took it to them, we outskated them, and I think our speed helped us a lot.” MacDonald and Mistelbacher once again led their team in points with four
apiece. Mistelbacher scored four goals on the night to add to the current hot streak, and MacDonald scored once and had three assists. Also scoring for the Aggies were David Wyman and Matt Ferris. Kent Arsenault, while scoreless, assisted his teammates three times to tie with MacDonald for most assists in the game. This weekend - The Unknowns USU will be missing two players this weekend. Billy Gouthro and Matt Hamilton were disqualified from USU’s next match by the official in the San Jose game because of unsportsmanlike conduct toward the referees. Hamilton
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GYMNASTICS
Aggie tumblers drop season opener on the road, bounce back strong in New Hampshire By DAN FAWSON staff writer
After watching his team suffer a disappointing season-opening loss, Utah State women’s gymnastics coach Jeff Richards adamantly proclaimed his squad to be better than its debut suggested. Richards didn’t have to wait long for vindication. After falling at Central Michigan, 192.275187.725, Friday night, the Aggies returned to competition Sunday afternoon, competing in a four-team meet hosted by the University of New Hampshire. The Aggies finished third with a score of 191.650, garnering their first win of the young season. Through two events against CMU, the Aggies had posted scores of 48.000 on the vault and 47.950 on bars, putting themselves in good position to reach the 192.000 Richards said the team was hoping for. Junior Jackie Dillon scored a 9.675 on bars,
good for second in the competition, giving the Aggies its top individual finish of the night. “We opened fairly strong,” Richards said, noting he would have liked scores of 48.000 in both events, but felt the team was doing OK. The Aggies’ third event, floor exercise, proved a different story. The Aggies posted a disappointing 45.775, ultimately losing touch with the host Chippewas. To compound the matter, the Aggies followed the dismal floor showing with a 45.550 on beam, the lowest score either team posted in an event. “There was nothing to say we were going to have a bad night (on floor),” Richards said. “We warmed up well.” Richards felt his squad may have succumbed to a case of first-meet jitters, as the team missed an opportunity to upset a perceived superior opponent. “We were on track to be right there with them,” he said. “We just didn’t perform as well as we should have.”
Overshadowed amid the frustration surrounding its two-event meltdown was the performance of freshman Amelia Montoya. The Aggie newcomer followed up a strong Blue and White showing, with a team-high all-around score of 37.925. “For her first opening she was pretty solid,” Richards said of Montoya. “We knew she was going to be pretty good when we recruited her.” Further enhancing her strong debut is the fact Montoya has been battling an injured heel, which Richards believes she will probably have to deal with all season. He said Montoya may perform a less-difficult vault in order to keep from further aggravating the injury. Despite being disappointed with the loss, Richards said he and his team were confident they would be able to bounce back. “I know this is not the team we had,” he said. “They (the team) know this is not the team we had.” Fewer than 48 hours later, Richards’ proclama-
tion proved correct, as the Aggies improved upon their first-meet score by nearly four full points. Meet host New Hampshire took first with a score of 195.000, Ball State earned second place with a 192.850 and Yale finished behind the Aggies in fourth place, with a score of 186.525. The Aggies were led by junior Lyndsie Boone, who finished second in the all-around with a 37.825. Senior Heather Heinrich took first in the vault, with a 9.800, followed by Boone who finished second, tying her career best of 9.75. “Lyndsie Boone stepped up tonight and had three good events,” Richards said. “It was kind of nice to get our first win of the season this early.” The Aggies finished with scores of 47.475 on beam, 48.075 on floor, 48.325 on vault and a 47.775 on bars. Richards attributed the team’s success to its
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Lady Agâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s skid up to three games Amber White put in a layup line. almost three minutes into the The first half was a game of game. The Bulldogs turned the streaks, with Hawaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;i hot scorball over their first five posing the first five points, folAfter a six game winning sessions, getting on the board lowed by a six-point run from streak, the Aggies longest three and a half minutes into the Aggies. The battle of the streak in over a quarter centhe game on a free throw. The paint was even in the first half: tury, USUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketfirst half ended with Fresno both teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scoring a dozen ball team has dropped three State holding the lead 31-23. points underneath. The two straight games, giving it a Both teams struggled from teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s went into the break tied record 10-8 overall and 2-3 in 3-point range in the first half. at 31. Western Athletic Conference Fresno State was 1-of-7, while Coddington opened the play. USU hit 1-of-6. Both teams second half with a jumper that The Aggies two-game road added just one 3-pointer in the put USU on top, but Hawaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;i trip took them more than second half, and the Aggies responded with a bucket 3,000 miles from Logan, first finished 2-of-14, while Fresno of their own and the battle stopping at Fresno State, folState finished 2-of-10. ensued. Half way through the lowed by a much-too-quick The Bulldogs controlled second half, the game was stay in Hawaii. the second half, outscoring the once again tied â&#x20AC;&#x201C; this time at Saturday nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game in Aggies 23-42. On the night, 44. This was the last time the Fresno pitted two of the best USU shot 33 percent from Aggies were within striking stealing teams in the conferthe field (16-48), 14 percent distance. Hawaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;i soon went on ence against each other, and it from 3-point range (2-14) and a 7-2 run and forced the Aggies was the Bulldogs that pulled 75 percent from the charity into seven turnovers in six away, forcing 26 turnovers, stripe (12-16), while Fresno and a half minutes to seal the 19 of them were steals. The State went 44 percent from the Wahine win 69-56. leading scorer for USU was field (27-61), 20 percent from The second half battle junior forward Stacy Howard, 3-point land (2-10) and 77 perunderneath was heavily who scored a career-high cent from the free-throw line weighted in Hawaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favor, nine points to go along with (71-22). Fresno State outscored with them scoring 20 in the two rebounds. Senior center USU in the paint 44-18 and paint compared to USUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eight. Lydia Whitehead added six 31-8 in points from turnovers. The points off turnovers was points with four boards, folUSUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bench came through close, with Hawaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;i scoring 17, lowed by freshman guard scoring 28 points, outscoring while the Ags scored 16. Pualei Furtado, who scored Fresnoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bench by five. USU shot 34.4 percent from a career-high five points. For After Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s loss the the field (21-61), 23.8 percent the first time since Dec. 31, Ags crossed the Pacific to play from 3-point range (5-21) and junior guard LaCale Pringlethe Hawaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;i Rainbow Wahine 64.3 percent from the freeBuchanan was held under on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. throw line, while Hawaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;i shot double-digits, scoring five. Whitehead had her fourth 41.1 percent from the field (23Although no Aggie scored double-double of the season, 56), 41.7 from 3-point range more than 10 points, 11 of the with 11 rebounds to go along (5-12) and 58.1 from the free13 Aggie players who tallied with 11 points. Although going throw line. minutes in the game scored 0-4 from 3-point range, junior The Ags return to The points. guard Alice Coddington led Spectrum, hoping to end their The two teams came out the Aggies with 13 points, three-game losing streak on sluggish. Neither team scored going 6-of-17 from the field Saturday at 1 p.m. until Aggie junior forward and 1-of-2 from the free-throw â&#x20AC;&#x201C; c.h.j@aggiemail.usu.edu Currently on the USU hockey schedule, Utah Valley University is set to come to Logan to play USU on Saturday night at 7 p.m. However, the UVU hockey program contacted USU hockey on Monday -continued from page 9 and informed Eccles that the Wolverines were and Gouthro are two high-impact players on the canceling the rest of their season because their only Aggie squad. Hamilton has the third-most assists remaining goaltender was recently rendered inelion the team with 35, trailing only David Wyman gible. (38) and Brendan MacDonald (43). Gouthro is tied Eccles said UVU feels that the Wolverines can with Kent Arsenault for third place for goals on the no longer play hockey without a goalie. He said he is season with 21, trailing only Mistelbacher (32) and trying desperately to remedy the situation. MacDonald (24). â&#x20AC;&#x153;How do you tell a team youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re shutting down â&#x20AC;&#x153;Billy is a high energy player,â&#x20AC;? Eccles said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the rest of the season when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to play one of the highest energy players on the team. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s them in five days?â&#x20AC;? Eccles said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been scramvery passionate and is becoming a good team leader bling and working with BYU to see if theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll come with his example on the ice and his hard work. up Saturday and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll go there on Friday because Hamiltonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been doing quite well and playing hard UVU was supposed to play them on Friday. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be interesting to see how we do this weekwhat weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re hoping.â&#x20AC;? end.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; la.hem@aggiemail.usu.edu
Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010
SectionF
A different point of view
By CONNOR JONES sports editor
Nevada win could be start of something special
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ust more than a week ago, Utah State looked like a basketball team with its backs against the wall. The Aggies scored a combined 112 points in their first two road games in Western Athletic Conference play and suffered losses in both of those contests. The last time USU opened conference play with an 0-2 record was in the 2007 season, when the Aggies ultimately finished the season as the No. 4 seed entering the WAC tournament. Although the 2007 season was a poor one by Aggie basketball standards, the highlights of that down year were two late-season victories over conference powerhouse Nevada. The first of those two took place in the second-to-last game of the year, where Utah State upset No. 9-ranked Nevada in overtime at The Spectrum by a final of 79-77, with the final two points coming off free throws by Chaz Spicer. A week later in the WAC tournament semifinals, Spicer went to the line again with the score tied at 77-77, with seconds remaining to beat Nevada one more time to send the Aggies to the championship game. Four players from the Nevada team have gone on to make NBA rosters for at least a short period of time. The main point is that the 2007 season, after the two victories against a top-10 ranked Nevada team, turned from being just a mediocre year into something special and memorable for everyone who was there to see it. It might be safe to say that this 20092010 season had been a disappointment thus far, considering the returning talent from last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 30-5 team, which seemed to overcome nearly every challenge thrown its direction. It also might be safe to say that this season could be turning into something special after last Wednesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s upset win against none other than the Nevada Wolf Pack. After the two-game stretch to open WAC play, where the Aggies seemed nearly incapable of scoring, USUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offense exploded in the last three games, with an average of 86 points per game. Headlining the surge has been the re-emergence of Jared Quayle in just about every aspect of his game that seemed a bit off through the first two
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months of the season. Through 16 games this season prior to last week, Quayle averaged 11.7 points per game to go along with 4.1 assists and 2.1 turnovers. In three games against Hawaii, at Nevada and Boise State, Quayleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s averages jumped to 14 points, 5.7 assists and 1.7 turnovers. On top of his numbers improving, Quayle showed a killer instinct in his play with his go-ahead 3-point shot to cap the Aggiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 10-point comeback in the final minutes of regulation, as well as a 3-pointer in overtime that put Utah State into the lead for good. On top of Quayle returning to his allWAC form of a year ago, Tai Wesley has continued to dominate the post, Tyler Newbold has regained his 3-point stroke to go along Brian Green and Brady Jardine emerging as excellent options off the bench for the Aggies. The victories over Hawaii and Boise State were expected for USU this past week. The margin at which the Aggies pounded the Warriors and Broncos was more than expected, and after how poorly Utah State played on the road prior to the Nevada game, the victory in Reno not only came as a shock, but also was an emphatic jump back toward the top of the WAC standings. A win on the road this Thursday against Fresno State would put the Aggies in a place to potentially finish the WAC season at 14-2 for a second straight year as the four toughest road games of the WAC season will be a thing of the past. A week ago any road game in WAC play looked to pose a major threat for the Aggies, but much like in 2007, a big win over Nevada has apparently turned the tides on everything.
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.
Gymnastics: Up swing -continued from page 9 ability to overcome nerves, saying the team was more motivated and less scared than they had seemed against CMU. Richards hopes the improved demeanor continues, saying the girls must continue to build confidence in themselves as the season moves forward. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re nervous and just a little bit unsure of themselves,â&#x20AC;? Richards said. Looking ahead, Richards knows things wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get any easier for his team. The Aggies open Western Athletic Conference play on the road against in-state
rival Southern Utah on Friday. The Thunderbirds are currently ranked No. 21 in the nation and are consistently in contention for the WAC title. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really going to have to step it up,â&#x20AC;? Richards said of his team in preparation for SUU. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They had a couple falls and still scored a 194.000 (194.100). For us to beat them weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really going to have to step it up.â&#x20AC;? Following Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meet with Southern Utah, the Aggies will return to Logan to presumably face its second straight ranked opponent, squaring off against Boise State in their Jan. 29 home opener. The Broncos are currently ranked No. 18 in the nation. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; dan.fawson@aggiemail.usu.edu
Aggies & Bulldogs to battle for second place in WAC By TYLER HUSKINSON staff writer
The Utah State Aggies (136, 3-2) start a two-game road trip Jan. 21, as they take on the Fresno State Bulldogs (10-9, 3-2) at the Save Mart Center in Fresno, Calif. The Bulldogs have done well at home and sport an 8-2 overall homecourt record. The Bulldogs average 69.6 points per game, but allow their opponents to only score 65.9 points per game. Although the Bulldogs play tough defense, they have
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trouble turning the ball over as they average more than 13 turnovers a game. Even so, Aggie head coach Stew Morrill isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t overlooking the Bulldogs, who played the Aggies in Fresno and Logan last season, as both contests were decided by six points or fewer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fresno State is very talented,â&#x20AC;? Morrill said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have athleticism and size all over the court. It starts with Paul George averaging over 20 points. He can score from all over the court. A lot of people think he is a first-round pick. Silvester Seay gave us fits last year. He is a talented four man that can shoot it and post up.â&#x20AC;? Seay scored a total of 52 points for the two games and hit a 75-foot prayer that sent the game at Fresno into overtime. Seay is averaging 16.4 points per game, right behind George, who is leading the team with 17.7 points per game. Bulldog freshman center Greg Smith has started
every game this season averaging 11.5 points per game. Smith causes some concern for Morrill and may be a handful for the Aggie big-men. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Smith is a freshman, but his potential is scary,â&#x20AC;? Morrill said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He just takes up a lot of space and has skill. They are very capable and talented. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are going into this week optimistic that we can go out and play well. I kept telling them we were going to play well on the road. It was just a matter of when. It just happened to be at Nevada. We need to continue that. I always ask my teams if they have what it takes to get it done Saturday night on the road. We havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t to this point. That is something I mentioned to my guys yesterday. We havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t rallied in the second game of a road trip yet. We are going to need to.â&#x20AC;? Tip-off against the Bulldogs is set for 8 p.m. at the Save Mart Center. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ty.d.hus@aggiemail.usu.edu
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o some, Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday is truly a day to rejoice and ponder the progression of the civil rights movement, but to others, the day means sleeping in, frolicking through television channels and doing a whole bunch of nothing. Are American’s worthy of this holiday when racism is seen on a daily basis in media and everyday lives? We would like to submit that though we have come light years closer to equal opportunity in our nation, we are still far from reaching an ideal country where those of different ethnic backgrounds are not stereotyped and one is seen as the weaker race. Human Rights Day is a joke to most college students, many forgetting battles fought for integration and is instead an attachment to their sofa, completely absorbed in a marathon of last season’s “The Office” episodes. Our nation has not yet earned the luxury of an extra holiday on top of the drawn-out holiday season. Our lack of effort is a sign of how much we are working toward better equality in America. Many of us forget there are civil rights that still need fighting for. Of course there is no time to think about how to improve racism in our country, because it would be an utter waste of a day off. There are much better things to do, especially when games at the bowling alley are two for one. We’re sure employers still hire a Caucasian over an African-American because it is more comfortable. We are also sure baleful glances are exchanged between races who intrude another’s turf. Who are we to take an entire day off because our nation finally has things in perfect order concerning racial prejudice. Honestly, we’re ignorant. Sure we all deserve a holiday once in a while, but we act as if holidays are created to allow more opportunities for laziness, rather than to commemorate a milestone in our nation’s history. Next year, let us not sit back and watch Human Rights Day sail by like any other day, but rather engage ourselves in some way in making our impressive progression toward equality closer to perfection.
Ask Miss Jones Dear Miss Jones, I will just get right down to it. This guy I have a crush on mentioned to my friend a while back that he was sorta into me. Much to my happiness, I was interested in him, too. However, after hanging out a couple times, you know, watching movies and football games, he talks to my friend again and mentions that he isn’t so interested anymore, but that he has a plethora of women to choose from and isn’t so sure right now. Saddened by this news I moved on, still with a hint of a crush left for him. Christmas break occurs and my mind is completely free of this man. That is until a week before school starts when my trusty insider friend texts me. She tells me that he asked whether I was interested in him still, only to hint that he was still not into me. Yet this guy still comes over and watches football games with me and the occasional sitcom. What am I supposed to think? Sincerely, Used and Abused Used and Abused, Wow, this problem of yours really just takes me back to my junior high school days, when my friends and I would poke and prod one anothers’ crushes until they oozed out the information we desired. Now, when we were in college, we did things a little differently. But, hey, if that relay through your friend works for you, then by all means, stick with it. I know this kind of boy, the one that will come over and ride your new bicycle until the tires are flat, eat the delicious peaches from your tree until winter comes and watch your new Braun HF 12-inch
black-and-white TV until the next-door neighbor gets the 16-inch one. Oh, yes, Used and Abused, I know this kind of boy. I know how hard it is for a girl to shut off her feelings, but this is the way I suggest you deal with it. Option one: make plans with him to watch the next football game and then, the day before, tell him your TV broke, but you still want to hang out. If he finds a way to weasel out, then the solution is simple: delete his number from your phone, limit his ability to see you on Facebook and don’t make any initial contact. Let the little bloodsucker come to you. Option two: reverse the roles. Believe me, if my days as a USO showgirl during World War II taught me nothing else, I learned that young men love role reversal. So instead of him coming over to use you, you go over to his pigsty of an apartment, play his Nintendo, drink his power juice or whatever those pure sugar drinks are called and use his toilet without putting the seat up or wiping it down after use. There is no option three, but I’ll ramble on with a little story. I received my first kiss when I was in kindergarten. His name was Connor Harris, and he was dreamy, big blue eyes, dark hair, olive skin and a small birthmark under his left eye that I called an angel kiss. Of course, kindergarten boys spent all of their time avoiding girls, because of cooties and various other diseases. So what I did was devise a plan to catch this young Mr. Harris. I recruited my two -See MISS JONES, page 12
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t’s never been easy to be a Nigerian immigrant in the United States. Thanks to some Nigerians who send out scam letters and e-mails around the world, there’s the perception that Nigerians are financial predators prowling the cyber world for gullible victims. When I first arrived in the United States in 1988, I found it difficult to open a bank account. The FBI and other agencies had sent out bulletins to banks, credit-card companies and other financial services firms to beware of Nigerians. In the end, a bank opened an account only after I had lined up several longtime customers to vouch for me. Fast-forward to 2010 and Nigerians face a different kind of peril. It’s now going to be a nightmare to fly, domestically or internationally, while carrying a Nigerian passport. On Christmas Day, a 23-year - old Nigerian named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was foiled as he attempted to ignite a fire inside a Northwest flight that was about to land in Detroit. The wouldbe suicide bomber, a former engineering student in London, is a child of privilege. As a student, he lived in his father’s $4 million apartment in London. His father had held cabinet positions in Nigeria and, until last year, ran one of the country’s largest commercial banks. Abdulmutallab’s privileged background has baffled American commentators trying to come to grips with his dastardly plot, which would have killed close to 300 fellow passengers and crew members aboard the flight from Amsterdam. Nigerians are just as amazed. They are also troubled by the haste with which the Obama administration put Nigeria on a list of 14 nations deemed
breeding grounds for alQaeda terrorists. Other nations on the list include Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Somalia, Libya, Algeria and the Sudan are the only other African nations on the roll. I travel abroad several times a year and I dread the consequences of this designation. Even though I now carry an American passport – having become a U.S. citizen in 1996 – I travel frequently to Nigeria, and that makes me a target for increased security screening. Many Nigerians sympathize with the thinking that informed the recent branding of their country, but some strongly contend it’s an unfair policy. That’s my position. The decision by the Obama administration was, in the end, driven less by sound considerations than by hysteria. One doesn’t advocate laxity in the screening of Nigerian passengers. The reality is that, in the post-9/11 climate, few passengers ever get by without being thoroughly searched. My argument is that, despite Abdulmutallab’s depraved plot that was blocked by some vigilant passengers, Nigerians do not pose a unique terrorist threat to America. From what we know so far about the bombing suspect, Nigeria played little or no role in his action. He apparently became radicalized as an extremist Muslim during his student days in England, and then received his preparation and equipment in Yemen. Besides, the moment his father got a whiff that his son had fallen in with Yemeni radicals, he alerted the U.S. embassy in Nigeria. That the young man was subsequently able to board a flight bound for the United States was a terrible lapse by American intelligence.
I don’t believe that Nigeria deserves to be stigmatized as a terrorist haven on account of one sick man’s murderous designs. Many Nigerians who have traveled in recent weeks have had a taste of the unsavory experience of being treated as potential terrorists. A day after the aborted Christmas Day bombing, a Nigerian traveler suffering from diarrhea was forcibly removed from the toilet of another Northwest flight bound also for Detroit. Wole Soyinka, the 1986 Nobel laureate in literature and a frequent traveler, has described his recent trips as “stressful.” A Nigerian editor who visited Austin, Texas, has written about the mental torture of subjection to multiple “pat-downs” at Dulles International Airport near Washington. At 140 million people, Nigeria is Africa’s most populous nation. A huge number of Nigerians live in the United States and work hard at a variety of jobs to support themselves and contribute to America’s competitiveness in the world. Many Nigerians also visit the United States each year, on recreation or business. They are inspired by America’s openness, ingenuity and enterprising spirit. Far from wishing America ill, they were just as shocked and outraged by Abdulmutallab’s action as any. It’s sad to portray and treat these innocents as vile terrorists out to harm America. Okey Ndibe, a former editorial writer at The Hartford Courant, is a native of Nigeria. He teaches fiction and is director of the creative writing program at Trinity College. He wrote this column for The Courant.
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best friends, Georgene and Henrietta, to flank the tree that the boys normally hid behind, while I took the headon approach. When he saw me coming, he sprinted right, but was stopped by Henrietta. He turned left, only to find Georgene closing in. The three of us pinned him against the tree, tied his hands with our jump rope and placed him inside the empty tractor tire usually used by the second-grade boys as a bunker for their silly war games. I closed my eyes, leaned in and kissed him. The point I’m trying to convey is if you want something you have to make it happen, because males are
way too dim witted to take our subtle hints. Just to finish things up, Connor is now a 300-plus-pound retired plumber, who lives in his childhood home. 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. Miss Jones is now on Facebook.
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-Evening of One Acts, Chase Fine Arts Center, 7:30 p.m.
Today is Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010. Today’s issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Melissa Kerkmann, senior in pre physical therapy, from Logan, Utah.
Almanac Today in History: In 1841, during the First Opium War, China cedes the island of Hong Kong to the British with the signing of the Chuenpi Convention, an agreement seeking an end to the first Anglo-Chinese conflict. In 1898, Britain was granted an additional 99 years of rule over Hong Kong under the Second Convention of Peking.
Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010
Thursday
Jan. 21 -Women’s tennis at Idaho State, 1:30 p.m. -Book Club meeting, Old Main, 7 p.m. -Evening of One Acts, Chase Fine Arts Center, 7:30 p.m. -Men’s basketball at Fresno State, 8:05 p.m.
Friday
Jan. 22 -Track at Washington State Invitational, all day -Winter Wildlands Film Festival, TSC Auditorium, 7 p.m. -Women’s gymnastics at Southern Utah, 7 p.m. -Evening of One Acts, Chase Fine Arts Center, 7:30 p.m. -The Shuttles CD Release, Lundstrom Center, 8 p.m.
Weather Thursday’s Weather High: 32° Low: 18° Scattered snow show-
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The Registrar’s Office would like to remind everyone of the following dates: Jan. 22 is a tuition and fee payment due date. Jan. 23 is a registration purge. Jan. 25 is the last day to receive 100% refund.
Learn the game of rugby. A rugby clinic will be held Jan. 21, 26, 28 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in the Fieldhouse. All who are interested are welcome and there is no cost. USU depression screening sponsored by USU Counseling and Psychological Services will be held in the TSC Ballroom Jan. 26 from No overnight parking on Logan 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. City streets is allowed between Join USU Weight Watchers the hours of 1 and 6 a.m. at Work. Next session starts Jan. through the end of February. It 28. Register by Jan. 21 and receive is the responsibility of all Logan a free pedometer or Be Well gift. City residents to inform guests Meet Thursdays at 11:45 p.m. in of these restrictions. If you need TSC 335. For info call 797-1470 or assistance, please call us at 435- visit www.usu.edu/wellness. 750-0255. USU Extension is offering a series of workshops to strengthen your marriage and make it betStudy Abroad Fair will be held ter. Workshops will be held on Jan. 26 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Jan. 26, and Feb. 2 and 9 at 170 the TSC International Lounge. N. Main Street from 7-8:30 p.m. Come learn more about study A light dinner will be served, cost abroad options at USU. For more is $15. For more info phone 752info visit www.usu.edu/study6263. abroad. USU researchers are conducting a study on how to improve the Web experiences of kids with Cache Valley Comedy Night disabilities. Please consider joinpresented by LOL Productions ing our efforts. Read the details at will be held Feb. 26 from 8-10 http://webaim.org/projects/stepp.m. at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. pingstones/invitation. Compete to be the funniest Slow Food USU Chapter meetperson in Cache Valley and ing and potluck on Jan. 27 at 7 win prizes. It’s free to compete, p.m. at the Cache Valley Unitarian contact Dustin at 801-814-8021. Universalists building. Everyone is Tickets are on sale now. welcome. LSAT and GRE prep Course will be held on Tuesdays and ECOS opening social Jan. 21 Thursdays from Jan. 26- Mar. 4. at 6:30 p.m. in the NR Atrium. Register at http://sail2.ext.usu. Come learn about how we can edu/lsat/index.cfm. Or for more work on the Cache Valley air info call Melanie Klein at 797quality. There will be treats. 0462. The USU Aikido Club has arranged a special deal just in Intramural 5-on-5 basketball time to maintain your New and racquetball registration Year’s resolutions to stay fit. For deadline is Jan. 20 at 5 p.m. at all of February ,free training the HPER Service Desk. Sign will be offered at the Whittier up early, space is limitied. Visit Community Center. For more www.usu.edu/camprec/intrainformation visit us as http://aikimurals for more info. do.usu.edu.
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