Wednesday, April 14, 2010

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ISC Executive Council elections open to more voters

By BENJAMIN WOOD assistant features editor

Recent changes in the International Student Council (ISC) constitution allow for greater student participation. Under the new system, all international students will be able to vote and students with executive experience in a university-recognized international organization will be eligible to run for ISC Executive Council positions, said Konrad Lee, ISC faculty adviser.

Previously, only students who attended 50 percent or more of the ISC’s general meetings were able to participate in ISC elections – as voters or candidates – and ISC secretary Kathleen Tam said that only resulted in some 20-40 students.

“It makes it so that not many people can vote,” Tam said. “We have limited people running and limited people voting. We’ve expanded our requirements so that more people can run for the positions.”

At USU there are more than 1,000 international students from 85 countries, and beginning with this year’s upcoming election, all international students will be able to vote for ISC leadership. Not every represented country has its own student organization with leadership positions, like the Chinese and Indian student associations, but Lee said students who have been involved with ASUSU can qualify for ISC candidacy.

Lee said the idea for the change

CHANGES TO THE INTERNATIONAL STUDENT COUNCIL CONSTITUTION will affect who can vote and run for Executive Council positions during elections in the coming weeks. PETE P. SMITHSUTH photo

came from the current students serving on the ISC Executive Council.

Students recognized the need to broaden the scope of the ISC Executive Council while preserving country representation.

“I’m fully supportive of the changes,” Lee said.

Regarding the stipulation that

candidates have previous leadership experience, Lee said it is especially important in the ISC to ensure a committed executive.

“International students face challenges that local students don’t face,” Lee said. “They face complications that we don’t even think about.”

Lee said that unlike local students

who can often adapt their number of credit hours or even opt to take a semester off to earn money, international students are under VISA stipulations that require a certain number of credit hours, among other things, to remain in the country. Unlike some other student leaders on campus, members of the ISC Executive Council

do not receive a financial stipend, something that Lee said he would like to see changed.

“Our Executive Council is an amazing group of students,” Lee said.

“They contribute so much to the university.”

The elections will be held in the coming weeks, and Lee said a meeting was held with the various international organizations to inform all eligible candidates of the changes and to present the new constitution for their feedback. He said some groups were concerned about disenfranchisement in the new constitution. Any changes, Lee said, were inclusive, not exclusive, and the ISC hasn’t heard anything but positive responses.

Tiffany Evans, director of student involvement and leadership, said her office has been working with the ISC to facilitate the changes in the voting process. The same program that is used during USU general elections, where students log on with A numbers and are identified by their college, will be implemented for the ISC Executive Council elections.

“You log in, you’re identified as an international student. Bam! The ballot comes up,” Evans said. “The system will be in place for this year’s elections.”

Applications are being accepted for council candidates, Tam said, and students who would like to know more about eligibility requirements and the election can contact the current members of the ISC Executive Council.

– b.c.wood@aggiemail.usu.edu

ASUSU continues Difficult projects are worthwhile, prof says discussions about new Access Center

By CATHERINE MEIDELL assistant news editor

By CHELSEY GENSEL news senior writer

A steering committee to direct the efforts of locating and designing the new Access Center, a division of student services, will meet at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, April 14, in the Senate Chambers located on the third floor the Taggart Student Center.

Diversity Vice President Krista Bustamante said specific students have been invited to be a part of that committee, but all are welcome to attend and share their input.

Other upcoming events discussed at the ASUSU Executive Council meeting Tuesday include a Republican debate and the HURD Bowl flag football tournament.

USU and ASUSU will host a debate featuring Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, and three Republican candidates vying for his seat in the upcoming elections, and will be held in conjunction with the Cache Valley Republicans Convention. The debate will be open to students as well as the public and will be held at 12:30 p.m. April 30 in the Sunburst Lounge in the TSC. The HURD Bowl flag football will take place Saturday, April 24, preceding the USU football team’s spring game and will be coached by the USU football coaching staff. Four teams will compete for a championship trophy and a prize to the MVP of the tournament will also be awarded. The tournament was first opened to HURD members, but Athletics Vice President Jeremy Winn said about 40 spots remain on the four co-ed teams and signups are now open to all students. Winn said those interested need to e-mail hurd@aggiemail.usu.edu

by April 18. A meeting will be held the following Monday for participants.

The outgoing ASUSU Executive Council passed several bills in its final meeting, including one

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Inside This Issue

The intellectual minds of USU students are capable of doing hard things that “aren’t going to be done unless someone stands up and decides to do them,” said Charles Swenson, engineering professor.

Swenson was selected to give the Last Lecture, an event hosted annually by the Honors program. This has been a tradition at USU since 1976 and influential professors are asked to give a speech as if it were their last.

This year, Swenson received the most nominations from students to give the lecture which he titled “We Choose to Go to the Moon.” The event took place Tuesday in the TSC Ballroom.

The ballroom was filled with Swenson’s students, one of which introduced him and has known him since childhood. Ben Carroll, junior and electrical engineering major, and Swenson lived in the same neighborhood while Carroll was growing up. Carroll said not only was Swenson his professor at USU, but his scoutmaster and mentor.

“He is inspiring,” Carroll said. “One of my defining moments was in his class banding together with others in the class. ... He changed the way I learn.”

Two of Swenson’s greatest passions are teaching and space, specifically heliophysics, the study of the sun and the space between the sun and other planets. He said he researched projects pertaining to heliophysics for NASA and became a member of the panel that approves project proposals sent in by researchers throughout the U.S. Swenson said he did a lot of difficult and intensive research while working at NASA, like many others who work in his scientific field.

Though the pathway

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to progress in heliophysical research is strenuous, it is necessary and beneficial to mankind, he said.

To prove his point, Swenson presented a quote by President John F. Kennedy in 1962 that states, “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one

we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”

Since NASA sent astronauts to the moon, scientists have been working diligently to travel to other parts of the universe by creating space vehicle designs that have the potential to make these goals happen, Swenson said.

However, when the Obama administration began in 2009, the reality of sparse funding for these projects presented itself. Swenson said Obama and his staff decided to not put forth the funding necessary to further space travel.

“You are probably wondering how in the world I got into NASA,” Swenson said.

His work with NASA began by him submitting a proposal outlining his interest in studying the effects of lightning on the upper atmosphere of the Earth, he said. When it was rejected, Swenson said he felt he had been treated unfairly and called NASA discipline scientist Mary Mellott to express his concerns.

“It didn’t go over well,” Swenson said.

However, Mellott later invited him to join the proposal review panel and was first overwhelmed by the complexity of the review process. He said after he spoke with Mellott about his first-day experiences on the panel, she asked him if he would rather study rainbows or lightning.

“Rainbows are pretty, but they don’t mean anything.

Lightning is important,” Swenson told Mellott.

Mellott agreed and told him to invest his time in the important things, not the pretty things, he said.

Richard Fischer,

JESSE WALKER photo

Junior college star prepares to battle for starting point guard duties in 2011.

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- See NASA, page 4

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Celebs&People NEW YORK (AP) – Bret Michaels is recovering from an emergency appendectomy at a Texas hospital.

The 47-yearold rocker’s Web site says Michaels was urged to go to the hospital as he was preparing MICHAELS to take the stage in San Antonio on Sunday night.

He had been having severe stomach pains all day “and what was assumed to be a severe case of the flu.”

NewsBriefs Boy Scouts of America rebuked to tune of $1.4M

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A jury delivered an embarrassing rebuke to the Boy Scouts of America on Tuesday when it found that the organization failed to protect a man who was molested by an assistant Scoutmaster in the early 1980s.

Jurors awarded $1.4 million to the former Portland man and decided that the Irving, Texasbased organization was liable for up to $25 million in punitive damages that will be decided in a separate phase of the trial.

LateNiteHumor Wednesday, April 15, 2009 Top 10 Things I’ve Learned From Being An Accountant 10. When you know the right people at the post office, it can be April 15th whenever you want (Phil DeFalco) 9. Wite-out and 7-Up – surprisingly refreshing (Andrew Ross) 8.I f you’re confused by something on the tax form, just write “Huh?” (John Fodera) 7. You do the taxes; don’t let the taxes do you (Richard Koenigsberg) 6. People will pay you a lot of money if you pretend to know how the tax code works (Adele Valenzuela) 5. The only thing more satisfying than getting a client a sizeable refund is the garlic shrimp scampi at Red Lobster (Doug Cohen) 4. Numers is hard (Andrew Rubin) 3. After completing tax returns for 12 straight hours, your calculator starts talking to you (Sandra Busell) 2. Always put your clients first... unless you get an offer to go on Letterman (Roger Levenson) 1.Women want me. Men want to be me. (Richard Cohen)

Huckabee sounds off on morality, gays WASHINGTON (AP) – Mike Huckabee, a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2012, says the effort to allow gays and lesbians to marry is comparable to legalizing incest, polygamy and drug use.

Huckabee also told college journalists last week that gay couples should not be permitted to adopt. “Children are not puppies,” he said.

Huckabee visited The College of New Jersey in Ewing, N.J., last Wednesday to speak to the Student Government Association. He also was interviewed by a campus news magazine, The Perspective, which published an article on Friday.

Huckabee told the interviewer that not every group’s interests deserve to be accommodated, if their lifestyle is outside of what he called “the ideal.”

“That would be like saying, well there’s there are a lot of people who like to use drugs so let’s go ahead and accommodate those who want to use drugs. There are some people who believe in incest, so we should accommodate them. There are people who believe in polygamy, should we accommodate them?” he said, according to a transcript of the interview.

The 2008 presidential hopeful and former Arkansas governor also said that deciding which lifestyles should be accommodated and which ones should not creates a slippery slope.

“Why do you get to choose that two men are OK but one man and three women aren’t OK?” he asked.

Huckabee added that his goal isn’t to tell others how

to live, but that the burden of proving that a gay marriage can be successful rests with the activists in favor of changing the law.

“I don’t have to prove that marriage is a man and a woman in a relationship for life,” he said. “They have to prove that two men can have an equally definable relationship called marriage, and somehow that that can mean the same thing.”

Since the magazine published the interview, Huckabee’s remarks have attracted considerable attention on the Web. In a statement Tuesday, Huckabee said that while he believes what people do in their private lives is their business, “I do not believe we should change the traditional definition of marriage.” He also said he thought the college magazine was sensationalizing his “wellknown and hardly unusual views of same-sex marriage.”

In response to a 1992 questionnaire from The Associated Press, Huckabee, then a Senate candidate in Arkansas, spelled out his opposition to homosexuality, saying it was crucial that the country not “legitimize immorality.”

“I feel homosexuality is an aberrant, unnatural, and sinful lifestyle,” he wrote, in response to a question about gays in the military.

He also advocated isolating AIDS patients from the general public, saying it was necessary to confine “carriers of this plague.”

As governor, Huckabee supported an Arkansas

policy that prevented same-sex couples from serving as foster parents. On gay marriage, he said in an interview, “Marriage has historically never meant anything other than a man and a woman. It has never meant two men, two women, a man and his pet, or a man and a whole herd of pets.”

BEIJING (AP) – A series of strong earthquakes struck China’s western Qinghai province Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of casualties in the remote rural area, though witnesses described houses quickly crumbling.

The USGS reported on its Web site that a magnitude 6.9 temblor struck an area in southern Qinghai, near Tibet, on Wednesday morning and was followed by two quakes in the same region.

The quake hit the county of Yushu, a Tibetan area in Qinghai, the official Xinhua News Agency cited the China Earthquake Networks Center as saying.

The Chinese center measured the quake’s magnitude at 7.1. A local government Web site put the county’s

population in 2005 at 89,300, a community of mostly herders and farmers.

The quake sent residents fleeing as it toppled many houses made of mud and wood, said Gasong Nima, the Yushu county television station’s deputy head of news, speaking by phone with state broadcaster CCTV. “In a flash, the houses went down. It was a terrible earthquake,” the witness said. “In a small park, there is a Buddhist tower and the top of the tower fell off.

“Everybody is out on the streets, standing in front of their houses, trying to find their family members,” he said, adding that school buildings had not collapsed but students had been evacuated and were

assembled in outdoor playgrounds.

The epicenter of the first quake was located 235 miles (380 kilometers) south-southeast of Golmud, a large city in Qinghai, at a depth of six miles (10 kilometers), the USGS said.

Ten minutes later, the area was hit by a magnitude 5.3 quake, which was followed after two minutes by a temblor measuring 5.2, according to the U.S. agency. Both the subsequent earthquakes were measured at a depth of 6 miles (10 kilometers).

Calls to the local Communist Party office and the government of Yushu county and the Qinghai provincial seismological bureau rang unanswered.

In 2008, a magnitude-7.9 quake in Sichuan province left almost 90,000 people dead or missing.

IN THIS DEC. 20, 2009 file photo, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks in Omaha, Neb. Huckabee, a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2012, says the effort to allow gays and lesbians to marry is comparable to legalizing incest, polygamy and drug use. AP photo

Chinese province struck by 6.9 earthquake

Calif. investigates group behind Palin speech SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – California Attorney General Jerry Brown said Tuesday his office had launched an investigation into the finances of a state university foundation and the alleged dumping of documents related to Sarah Palin’s upcoming speech at the school.

Brown also intends to look into whether the California State University, Stanislaus Foundation violated public disclosure laws.

“This is not about Sarah Palin,” Brown said in a prepared statement. “The issues are public disclosure and financial accountability in organizations embedded in state-run universities.”

Matt Swanson, president of the foundation board, did not immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment about the investigation.

Palin is scheduled to speak at a June 25 gala hosted by the foundation to mark the university’s 50th anniversary.

Jason Recher, a spokesman for Palin, did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

The investigation came after students at the school retrieved five pages of the contract with Palin last week from a campus trash bin after hearing administrators might be shredding it.

State Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, who has been seeking details of Palin’s compensation package for several weeks, released copies of the paperwork earlier in

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY,Stanislaus students Alicia Lewis, left, and Ashli Briggs, move a cart loaded with documents and shredded papers they say they found on the school’s campus that included parts of a speaking contract for former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, after a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, April 13. AP photo

the day.

Among the perks laid out in the contract, the former Alaska governor will fly first class from Anchorage to California – if she flies commercial. If not, “the private aircraft MUST BE a Lear 60 or larger ...,” the contract specifies.

Palin also must be provided with a suite and two single rooms in a deluxe hotel near the campus in Turlock in the Central Valley. During her speech, her lectern must be stocked with two water bottles and bendable straws.

The document, dated March 16, does

not include compensation details for Palin, who commands speaking fees as high as $100,000. Her appearance at the university gala is expected to draw a large crowd, with tickets selling for $500 each.

Palin’s fee and accommodations will be covered entirely by private donations, not state funds, Swanson said earlier in the day.

The students who found the document said they acted on a tip that documents were being shredded when campus staff members were supposed to be on furlough.

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“I was informed that there was suspicious activity taking place at the administration building, which I found very alarming,” said 23-year-old Ashli Briggs, a junior at the school.

Briggs contacted senior Alicia Lewis, 26, who went with several other students to investigate. The building was locked and gated, but the students were able to retrieve piles of paperwork, including the contract document, from a nearby trash bin, Lewis said.

On Tuesday, Briggs and Lewis gave Brown’s office material they said came from the trash bins, including two boxes of documents and two trash bags filled with shredded files.

The contract pages have Washington Speakers Bureau printed at the top and a contract number. The speakers bureau did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Yee called the incident “a dark day for the CSU.” “This is our little Watergate in the state of California,” he said Tuesday at a news conference where he was joined by Briggs and Lewis.

Russell Giambelluca, the university’s vice president of business and finance, said no one at the university was advised to destroy specific foundation documents, and staff members routinely shred and dispose of paperwork that is no longer needed.

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A humanities dept must be flexible, prof says Briefs Campus & Community

By RACHEL A. CHRISTENSEN news editor

The humanities are at a place where they need to respond to new demands in order to survive, said guest speaker Stephen Watt, a professor from Indiana University.

Watt gave his speech, titled “The Humanities, Graduate Education and the Way Ahead,” Monday and discussed problems the humanities are facing as well as possible solutions.

Shane Graham, associate professor of English, said, “The humanities are in crisis.”

Graham quoted information from the MLA 2007 report, stating 32 percent of English faculty nationwide have tenure and that there were about 51 percent less positions advertised.

“Let me be more blunt: The humanities are dying in America,” Graham said.

It is important for faculty to be honest with future humanities academics about the trend of humanities positions, Graham said.

Watts said there are four main challenges to humanities: obsolescence, antiquated disciplinary boundaries, departments’ costs and fractiousness within humanities departments.

At a red carpet event welcoming freshmen to Indiana University, Watts said he talked to 120 freshmen and asked them what they were coming to the university to study. The top response he received was business.

“Not one said English. Not one said physics,” Watt said. “I went back to the (humanities) dean and said, ‘We’re out of business.’”

According to Louis Menand, who Watt quoted, in 2007, 22 percent of bachelor’s degrees in the nation were business degrees, 8 percent were education and 4 percent were English.

There were more degrees in parks and recreation, leisure and fitness studies

than in all languages combined.

According to an article written by David Kirp in 2003, the nation is seeing a shift away from liberal arts to what is being called “practical arts.”

In order to combat the idea of humanities being obsolete, departments need to acknowledge new developments and capture new markets, Watt said. Often, humanities departments’ structures are “so rigid” they can’t respond to new demands, Watt said.

One way humanities can be more flexible is to create four-week courses about current topics, such as Haiti’s government and culture or the relevance of J.D. Salinger’s work today.

Another way humanities can be more flexible is by providing courses for the general public or by putting the classes online.

The importance of humanities studies is also under fire.

“I think Shakespeare, Chaucer and Jane Austin’s worth is self-evident,” Watt said.

Watt said faculty should be able to explain the importance of their scholarly work to students and “doubting Thomases.” He said this communication is important in order to show the importance of humanities as an academic study.

Disciplinary boundaries need to be redrawn, Watt said, but sometimes departments are slow to respond to students’ needs. Part of the problem, he said, is that the boundaries are set up by literary specialists and not by students. Students would like to learn things such as Spanish economics terms and foreign policy, but the professors are often specialists in language literature and therefore focus on literary topics.

Watt said the disciplines’ boundaries need to be made more “porous,” meaning able to allow more disciplinary cross over, but this makes tenure decisions, for example, more com-

Visiting scholar to speak on architecture Professor Geon Chai Chong, a visiting scholar from Korea, will present “Korean Culture Mirrored on Architecture and Landscape” at the Asian Language Division’s Roundtable Forum.

The forum will take place Thursday, April 15, from 46 p.m. in the Merrill-Cazier Library Auditorium (main floor).

Everyone is welcome and refreshments will be served.

Chong’s Ph.D. came from the department of architecture at Han-Yang University. Chong is at USU as a Visiting Scholar at the department of landscape architecture and environmental planning.

The forum is sponsored by the department of languages, philosophy and speech communication at USU. – rac.ch@aggiemail.usu.edu

A-Week activities continue to Saturday

STEPHEN WATT, Indiana University professor and USU guest speaker, said humanities departments across the nation are facing several problems, from others’ perceptions of humanities to problems within the department itself. CODY GOCHNOUR photo

plex. He said he believes the humanities will become more porous in 10 to 15 years, however.

An argument against humanities is the cost of keeping faculty versus the amount of money the department

brings in. However, Watt said that at a California university, an English department generated $5.9 million

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Greeks host charity auction for cancer research THE THREE MEN, dancing to the right, were auctioned off April 12 to wash cars in their speedos. The trio went for $250 at the Cancer Research Service Auction, a fundraiser put on by USU’s fraternities and sororitites.

The money will go to the Huntsman Cancer Institute and Relay for Life. STEVE SELLERS photo

AFTER AUCTIONING OFF ASUSU President Tyler Tolson, student and personal trainer Chase Casillas, and a slew of sorority and fraternity members, the event raked in $2,510. Tolson was auction off for $120 to create an original piece of art for his buyer, and Casillas will give three personal training sessions.

The Sigma Chi fraternity and Greek Council organized the event for Derby Days Philanthropy Week. STEVE SELLERS photo

ASUSU: Bill prohibits officers ‘hand picking’ their replacements -continued from page 1 awarding $4,000 to install running water at the Student Organic Farm. The water for the farm is currently being hauled in buckets from another source. The new hook-up will involve tunneling under the road to access water lines across the street, at a city-estimated cost of $10,000, some of which has already been raised by the Student Organic Farm from other sources. The new water source will benefit about seven students who consistently volunteer at the farm, and several others who occasionally volunteer, as well as graduate researchers and students who volunteer at the farm for service-learning classes.

The council also passed a bill that will block out a period of time during which no classes may be scheduled, beginning with the fall 2011 semester, so that students will be able to attend lectures, guest speakers, convocations and other day-time events either for credit or for personal interests.

The time slot will be from noon until 1:15 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with classes resuming at

1:30.

Another bill addressing current ASUSU officers’ involvement in ASUSU elections was expedited through status as both a first and second reading item after its introduction at the meeting, and was passed by the council after a discussion.

The bill prohibits current officers from campaigning, either actively or passively, for candidates for the following school year’s positions. Student Advocate Tyler Haws said the intent behind the bill was to introduce measures that will keep the playing field as even as possible and not perpetuate the common assumption that ASUSU officers “hand pick” their replacements. It was fueled in part by the results of a student survey Haws conducted in which students voiced the opinion that this year’s elections process involved unprofessional conduct.

The council also passed revised charters for the traditions director and for the administrative assistant. The council voted to amend the administrative assistant’s charter to specify that he or she

facilitates the posting of bills and resolutions coming before the council on the ASUSU Web site.

ASUSU Administrative Assistant Nate Robinson said that because the minutes and agendas for the council’s meetings are now available online, it will be easier to post the bills before they are voted upon, as well. He said the council hopes this will make it easier for students and faculty to be aware of what the Executive Council is doing and give their information.

In the final act as a body, the council voted to recommend a budget to the incoming council. If approved, changes to the budget will include allocating a $5,047 surplus to organizations that the council felt had the most urgent need for additional funds. Members suggested $2,000 each be given to the public relations budget and to the Greek community’s council, while the remainder be split up among the budgets of the senators from each college.

– chelsey.gensel@aggiemail.usu.edu

A-Week activities continue through April 17 with events scheduled both day and night.

The musical group Dala will perform Wednesday, April 14, at 7 p.m. in the TSC Sunburst Lounge.

Amanda Walther and Sheila Carabine of Dala (the duo’s name was formed by combining the two last letters of each artist’s name) have performed at Toronto’s legendary Massey Hall six times. Darlings of the Canadian music scene, the duo draw upon influences such as The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Bob Dylan. Dala’s new album “Everyone Is Someone” was released in June of 2009 to critical acclaim. It earned them their fifth Canadian Folk Music Award nomination, and it was touted by The Irish Post as the Album of the Year.

The song “Horses,” which speaks to the heartbreak and hope of a young man dealing with disability, was nominated by National Public Radio as one of the top ten folk songs of 2009.

Travis Chambers will perform in a Operation Smile Concert Thursday, April 15, at 7 p.m. in the Sunburst Lounge. Donations accepted for Operation Smile ($1 suggested).

Travis Chambers is a USU student currently recording his first album. His musical roots include gospel/soul, ‘90s alternative rock/ nu-metal, jazz and classical. His current style is mostly influenced by pop/rock, acoustic artists such as Jason Mraz. His style has been shaped by his years in the southern states, Portland/Seattle music scene and Czech/Slovak republics.

Chambers is currently recording his first album at Whysound Studio in Logan with producer Robert Linton and recording-engineer Tim Moes.

He has performed at various venues in Cache Valley.

On Friday, April 16, students can participate in the Day on the Quad from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Booths will include many campus clubs and organizations in addition to local vendors. There will be food, fun and music. Day on the Quad is a way to meet people, get involved on campus and find out about different companies throughout the valley. Cafe Sabor will be there with food, and Firehouse will have some treats.

Friday will feature several live music events, including the Joe Reynolds Project at 11:15 a.m., HiFi Diaries at 12:15 p.m., Double or Nothing at 1:15 p.m. and Water and Walls at 2:15 p.m.

True Aggie Night Dance on the Quad, will take place Friday at 10:30 p.m. The dance will feature music from DJ Absolut and participants should be on the watch for a special celebrity couple.

True Aggie Night begins at midnight at the A. Saturday, April 17, features a new event. Aggie Service Day will take place from 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Participants should check in at the David B. Haight Alumni Center to participate in several projects to benefit the community.

-Compiled from staff and media reports

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Cost: Humanities often self-sustained -continued from page 3

and cost $5.2 million last year, debunking the “I’m not yet in despair, but it is tough,” Watt idea that humanities departments cost all unisaid. versities.

Another thing graduate students should look The costs of humanities departments is small at is how much financial aid they will definitely compared to other departments, especially high receive compared to cost of living. Students are science departments, Watt said. In fact, most constantly facing debt without fully realizing humanities could “live off how much time it will take the table scraps of high scito pay it off. Watt said for ence,” he said. his entire university, the “I’m not yet in “We just need to stand up debt burden on graduate despair, but it is and say we’re not that expenstudents is 400 percent since tough.” sive and we make money,” 1990. He told students to Watt said.

– Stephen Watt, beware of promises of fundOf the last challenge to in two to three years Indiana University ing the humanities, Watt said because budgets change and professor these promises aren’t sure faculty need to learn to get along. He said he’s heard things. war stories from humanities Graham added that deans about languages and English departgraduate students should apply for any scrap of ments. external funding they can find.

“How do you keep a preening academic While the amount of years most humanicockatoo from preening?” Watt asked. ties study programs take to complete cannot These department wars often involve be shortened much, Watt said there are things research funds and arguments over basic ideas, students can do to maximize their time. He said but Watt said the faculty members need to learn being able to “hit the ground running” helps. to get a long because they “can’t survive on an Watt said many humanities courses of study internal gridlock.” have foreign language requirements, and if “This requires people to be sane and not students have these done beforehand it can sigdelusional, and that’s a challenge. I know that,” nificantly reduce the amount of time they spend Watt said, to laughs from the crowd. in a doctoral program. Also, he said to look for Watt gave advice to anyone looking to go programs whose faculty are honest. to graduate school. Students should look at a “I tell my students disappointment starts school’s placement rate. With the job market with a B,” Watt said, explaining that if faculty as it is, there has been a decrease in placement are honest about whether students can cut it in rates. Watt said Indiana University’s graduate their chosen field of study up front, they can students had a 78 percent job placement rate in help prevent cases where students are simply the 2007-2008, a 40 percent rate in 2008-2009 unable to finish their degree. and the rate for 2009-2010 is projected at 32 per– rac.ch@aggiemail.usu.edu cent.

WATT’S ADVICE TO FUTURE GRAD STUDENTS

Things to look for when picking a school: • What is the quality of the school’s program?

• How much faculty do they have?

• What is their median year to date?

• How much financial aid is available, and how does this compare to cost of living in the area?

• What is the department’s job placement record? What percent of the record are actually working in their field?

Avoid wasting time once you’re in the program: • Be able to hit the ground running. If there are requirements, especially in languages, do those ahead of time so you don’t waste time in the program.

• Make sure the people in the department are honest. This can lessen the risk of being unable to complete the graduate work a student has started.

• Find out what needs to be done in order to earn funds for research beforehand.

• Also, find out what kind of exams you will be expected to take and what they will look like.

• Visit colleges during new student weeks when deciding on a school to attend. This will help you be sure you’ve picked the right program.

NASA: Begin with a vision, prof says -continued from page 1 director of heliophysics for NASA, gave Swenson three points of advice while working with him.

Swenson said while preparing and executing his difficult research projects, Fischer told him to begin with a vision, then identify available resources and finally have the political power to execute the initial goal.

Swenson composed a list of difficult projects he would like to see done at some point in the future, and all require this three-step process, he said. He would like to see a rebalanced society with a secure cyberspace, a way to make solar and nuclear energy affordable and available to everyone, and an electric battery that can be widely used and reversed engineering of the brain. He said the results of reversed engineer-

ing of the brain will result in smart machines such as the human-like robots in “I, Robot.” The last project Swenson would like to see perfected is that of human compassion.

“There are a lot of people in the world that we need to love and take care of,” he said.

Swenson is convinced that people who take difficult problems head-on will be much happier in their lifetime. He shared a poem written by Robert Frost to display his idea that fearlessly dealing with “hard things” is a rewarding aspect of life.

Frost’s poem states, “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”

– catherine.meidell@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Aggie Angels ready for first flight MEMBERS OF THE Aggie Angels Motorcycle Club, left, are planning their first ride May 1. Below, an Aggie Angel club member shows his riding skills. The club is new to USU and has plans to ride throughout the summer and fall. Also, members plan to do a charity ride called the Teddy Bear Run. Aggie Angels will host their opening social April 17.

JESSE WALKER photo

By JESSE BUDD staff writer

Live the ride, love the journey. That’s the motto for the new upcoming motorcycle club called the Aggie Angels. “Even if people don’t have a motorcycle, I want them to live the ride and love the journey,” said club founder and President Daniel Crossen, freshman in aviation maintenance.

The Aggie Angels is in its early stages of development, working on growing from an embryo to becoming a fullfledged club. However, the process of starting a club is not an easy task.

The idea came to Crossen while he was an employee at USU, a year before he enrolled in ‘09. He said while he was working he noticed the bikes in the parking lot and wondered if USU had an organization for bikers. This fall as an incoming freshman, Crossen attended the Student Orientation, Advising, and Registration program (SOAR). He said there was a table set up promoting freshman to join clubs and he asked the people there if the school had a motorcycle club.

When they told him they did not, he said, “I decided that this college needs a motorcycles club … . My thought process was: First, how do we start one up? And, second, how am I going to get the word out?”

The first challenge for Crossen was that he didn’t know any bikers at USU, but when he started going to his classes, he met many bikers that shared the same mechanical classes as him. It was then that he decided to go create the club. He went to the Council of Student Clubs and Organizations (CSCO) and got the manual that has all the information and paperwork for starting a club.

“I was looking at the manual, and I was overwhelmed a little bit on how to write a constitution and all that,” he said.

He eventually filled out all the paperwork and got the six required members to sign the constitution. Now, all they needed was a name for the club. Before the great Christmas break of ’09, the seven bikers held their first unofficial meeting, reading over the constitution and deciding a name.

“I wanted a club name that would get around the university fast and that people would talk about,” Crossen said.

They threw around some names, such as the Aggie Bull Riders and the Fearless Ones, and after much debate, the Aggie Angels won by popular vote.

“My first thought of the Aggie Angels is seeing them ride down the road, all in jackets and with all these patches on their jackets,” Crossen said.

However, they didn’t want to create an image of fear.

Crossen said he wanted people to look at them for how uni-

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Performing groups unite for abuse prevention

By JESS WALLACE staff writer

It’s time to support a good cause and laugh out loud. USU’s improv troupe The Antics have put together a charity festival for Friday, April 16. The event will take place over a six-hour period, 4-10 p.m., during which time ticket holders may come and go as they please.

Tickets will cost $5 with student ID and $7 without and can be purchased at the CSA Box Office or the CSA box office Web site. All the proceeds from ticket sales and donations will go to Community Abuse Prevention Services Agency (CAPSA), an organization dedicated to abuse prevention.

The program will highlight the talents of not only The Antics but several other performing groups, such as Off the Wall, Off the Cuff, Choking Hazard, Toy Soup, Collin Williams,

International Conspiracy Theory, Stir Fry and many more. anything can happen. It’s usually funny, but doesn’t necessarThis is the first of, hopefully, many ily have to be. It’s an art form.” such festivals to be hosted on campus A more accurate example of improv “It’s a place to come and would be the theater games used in

by USU’s The Antics.

“The University of Utah did a Drew Carey’s hit television series make new friends and similar festival last year,” President of “Who’s Line is it Anyway.” Such games gain an appreciation for The Antics Greg Probst said, “so we and hijinks will be in play this Friday as the theater arts.” decided to take on the project this year. troupes from all over Utah unite to sup– Connie Beaty, port laughter, fun and a great cause.

We would like to foster relationships between all the people doing improv in “Improv is magical good times,” member of The Antics the state of Utah.” said Connie Beaty, an avid member of Nowadays improvisational theater is The Antics. “It’s a place to come and often misunderstood as stand-up comedy but, in fact, it is a make new friends and gain an appreciation for the theater separate and unique art in and of itself. arts. It’s also just a fun chance to perform.”

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currently know of about 20 couples tying the marital knot. I’ve seen more engagement rings lately than S.E. Needham. I’m pretty sure if I get one more engagement picture I’ll probably go into prenuptial shock. Call the paramedics, another announcement just came in the mail.

If you saw my Valentine’s Day how-to column, you’ll remember my singleness. That hasn’t changed.

With my group of single friends dwindling, I’ve decided the only solution is to take the plunge: I have to get married. Since I’m completely clueless, let’s look at some examples.

According to the Bible, it all began with Adam and Eve. Those two had it easy; she was literally the only woman on Earth. She didn’t have to worry about Adam checking out another girl wearing less leaves, and flirting. Unfortunately, unless I happen to survive 2012 with a cute guy, I don’t think this scenario helps much, since there are about 6.8 billion people on the planet right now, according to the census.

What about Romeo and Juliet?

They saw each other at a party, she stood on a balcony, he called for her and they fell madly in love.

Unfortunately, I live in Old Farm apartments, which does not have balconies. Oh, and I’m pretty sure I’d have a hard time finding a guy who would “deny (his) father and refuse (his) name” after just meeting me.

Maybe we should take a look at

romantic comedies, which always seem to end well. I recently watched “Benny and Joon,” which gave me some hope, though, I’ll clarify, I don’t think I’m as odd as Joon. Joon falls in love with Sam, the cousin of a friend of her brother’s who comes to live with them. I am very sure my parents would disapprove of me hiring a male housekeeper to marry, so let’s move on.

In “Sleepless in Seattle,” the main characters meet through Tom Hanks’ character’s son on a talkradio program. Here are the flaws: 1. I never call in on talk-radio shows; 2. I would never trust just a voice; 3.

I don’t have a son to set me up with my soulmate. Moving on.

The romantic equivalent of kryptonite, “The Notebook,” shows that giving in to a summer romance and letting it control the rest of your life is the best plan, even if it means rejecting the handsome, rich and parent-approved fiancée you’ve picked up after seven years apart from your childhood sweetheart. I have no child sweetheart and there is no way I’m getting back with any of my sordid exes if I have gorgeous James Marsden at my disposal.

An ancestor of the romantic comedy, the fairy tale, is almost as useless. Let’s start with Cinderella.

Another party (that seems to happen quite a bit) but this time she was masquerading as someone she wasn’t. She got the guy by being forgetful and lying. I don’t like either of those qualities in myself, so I think I’ll steer clear of her advice.

Snow White seemed like she

had it together, until she moved in with seven men. Maybe this tactic, sometimes referred to as the “in demand” trick, made Prince Charming jealous and that’s why he came to rescue her. At any rate, I’m not interested in eating a poison apple or cleaning for seven boys.

Sleeping Beauty didn’t even have to do anything; she just slept.

Granted, all the other girls in her castle were asleep as well, thanks to the spell that had been cast by the fairies, so really, Sleeping Beauty was just the prettiest girl at, once again, another party. I’m not that attractive when I sleep. I twitch, snore and on occasion talk in my sleep. Ask my roommate.

I have no childhood sweetheart, I don’t like parties, I don’t want to meet someone based on their voice and I don’t want to hire a male nanny. Maybe I’ll just have to follow some advice I got from a high school friend. She said, “The person you are going to fall in love with will walk into your life when you’re least expecting it.”

Kasey Van Dyke is a sophomore majoring in print journalism and political science.

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CAPSA: Utah troupes to perform at festival -continued from page 5 Outside of the impending festival of awesomeness, the improv club and coexisting troupe meet twice a week for practice and a solid good time.

Membership within the club itself is pretty lax.

“People are pretty free to come and go when and if they want to,” Kenley said. “We have a core of people who come consistently, who get to perform, but everyone is welcome to come whenever they want.”

They also usually host smaller, independent shows once a week, sometimes with other troupes, and invite any and

all people to come and watch.

“There are troupes all over Utah,” Beaty said. “I like driving to see Off The Wall. They perform in Ogden, The Quickwits are down in Salt Lake.

Weber State just started a group called Choking Hazard. Look up The Antics on YouTube and watch shows we’ve had over the past few years. Improv is everywhere.”

These performers greatly encourage new talent and audiences daily. They hope to inspire others to get involved and try something new and unusual in improvising.

“Improv is probably the coolest thing I could have done in college, and I love every minute of it,” Beaty said. “The people in the group are fantastic and funny, and what’s great is you don’t have to be a theater major or anything to be good at improv. Some of our best players had never done it in their lives. It’s a great learning experience and so much fun. I don’t know what I’d do without my improv nights every week. It’s what keeps me going.”

– jess.wallace@aggiemail.usu.edu

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“The calzone from Firehouse.”

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“The tiny spicy chicken from Mandarin Garden.”

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Reflections: The reality of the War on Terror W ar? What war? Who has time to worry about al Qaeda when your home is in foreclosure, the AIG guy stole your bonus money for himself and grandma has no health insurance? How about rising college tuition? I’m sure we all identify there.

Daily, the American population is reminded by necessity of the struggles it currently faces: the recession, a partisan Congress, the collapse of many American industries (including newspapers) and, of course, the exquisite health care mess.

I would argue, however, that very few of us are reminded daily of the reality that we are in two extremely expensive wars in the overseas countries of Iraq and Afghanistan. Can you point out these countries on the map? Your answer may tell you how far removed you really are. Do you know the U.S. casualties?

Same thing applies. So I think many of us would agree the war(s) are not on our personal agenda – of course when I say us, I include all U.S. lawmakers. But they should be.

Here’s why: U.S. casualties in Afghanistan since the 2001 invasion: 952.

U.S. casualties in Iraq since the 2001 invasion: 4,394.

Total cost of the Iraq War: $860 billion.

The U.S. predicted deficit for 2010: $1.35 trillion. Perhaps Congress thought it could call 1800-debt-relief when it agreed to the war. Oh, right we did call! China sure has our back.

Why the war in Afghanistan isn’t working: Besides that the U.S. cannot financially afford the wars, the bigger question looms large: is it actually working? I am not a war general, nor the president, nor a soldier. However, I am a citizen who has done my research. I say

the war is not working, and it is not a necessity.

Afghanistan is a tribal state. It always has been. It has been occupied by Russia, Britain and now the U.S. We cannot change the minds of the people of these countries with coercion. Ultimately, they must decide the kind of country they want. As Americans, I think we falsely base our idea of the U.S. as liberators in all situations from our history. But Iraq and Afghanistan have their own history and perceptions. They see us as an occupier, not a liberator. No matter how well-intentioned we are, the complexity of the situation married to the fact that we kill civilians does not paint us as liberators. We cannot win the trust and foster hope of the people with firepower. In fact, we drive many to join al Qaeda. If al Qaeda isn’t seen as the occupiers and we are, “Houston, we have a problem.”

According to Barber, every time we kill a civilian in the Middle East, we create 10 new terrorists. I am not a mathematician, but those are some overwhelming odds.

A wonderful analogy was given by Barber: “It’s like an elephant who goes into a chicken house where there’s a fox loose, and he thrashes around to kill the fox, and he may even get the fox in the end, but half the chickens are dead when he’s done. You can’t have an elephant there.”

I do think that the situation calls for action, but firepower only fuels the problem. Of course I do not believe we should have turned our backs after the 9/11 attack. However, was invasion the best option? I believe the war on terror can be more successfully fought in other ways besides militancy.

Alternatives to militancy: Many, if not all, of the things I suggest are being implemented in the invaded countries.

However, when Westerners are the implementers, and Westerners are the militant

occupiers, it is hard to create trust and a positive image of the non-military do-gooders.

Winning the trust of the people is more than any firepower can accomplish.

Education: I believe that this should be the No. 1 priority in these countries. The total adult literacy rate in Afghanistan is 28 percent.

Primary school attendance is 61 percent.

The gross national income (this reflects the average income of a country’s citizens) for Afghanistan is $250. Education will do two important things: first, it will provide people more opportunities, a better income and a more secure life, and I believe less people will have reason to join al Qaeda. Secondly, educating the people on their rights as humans, the propaganda used by terrorists, and they will learn empathy for themselves by learning of the reality of their situation. The empowerment of education is real and life-changing, and is the way to bring enlightenment to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Women’s rights: Afghanistan has a terrible track record of humanitarian rights for women. The youth female literacy rate is 18 percent. The prevalence of contraceptives is 10 percent. Secondary education attendance for females is a mere 33 percent. Honor killings are still prevalent. The U.S. News and World Report reported in 2008 that since 2003, nearly 50 women have conducted suicide attacks in Iraq. These things are unacceptable. Until the women of Iraq and Afghanistan receive their humanitarian rights, these countries will not be at peace. Women’s rights must be part of the education process.

Humanitarian aid: There are few resources for the people, including water. Twenty-two percent of Afghanis use improved drinking water sources, and 30 percent of the population uses improved sanitation facilities. Life expectancy in Afghanistan is 44 years. Children less than 5 years old suffering moderately to

severely low weight is 39 percent. I believe a healthy population can better mentally and physically fight extremists. Rather than putting our millions of dollars into military money, we should be putting it solely into humanitarian aid.

The U.S. promise: If we are attacked (which we hope to high heaven isn’t the case) again, the U.S. needs to make clear we will strike hard and fast at the heart of al Qaeda in defense (not retaliation, key here). Pacifism is not realistic in such extreme situations, as many realize, like President Obama.

The news industry (aside from a few resources) needs to step up the quantity and the intensity of the coverage. The American public needs to hound the hell out of Congress. Congress needs to get its Vaudeville act together and reduce troops and costs asap. The Pentagon needs to quit pretending they are Domo Arigato, and they have a secret they’ve been hiding and come clean about the reality of the war (like their extremely modest estimate of the Afghanistan War, $156 billion, I am kind). And President Obama, God bless his most-likely overwrought heart, needs to quit sending troops overseas!

Perhaps, we need to re-evaluate our perception as a whole country: forget the Iraqi’s and Afghani’s changing their mind about us, maybe we need to change our mind about them. As one genius once said, “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.” – Albert Einstein Storee Powell is the senior features writer. Questions or comments can be made at www.aggietownsquare. com.

HiFi Diaries showcases talent Friday on the Quad

By KELLYN ANDERSON staff writer

This Friday, USU students will have the opportunity to hear one of Logan’s local bands perform live on the Quad.

HiFi Diaries began in 2005, and although other members have come and gone, the band’s founder, Chris Jordan, has kept the music going.

Self-trained pianist and songwriter, Jordan writes and records his own music, including HiFi Diaries No. 1 hit, “For What It’s Worth,” which had 8,000 hits on YouTube in the first two weeks.

The band normally only performs its own music but will be branching out with some covers this weekend. Selections from Muse, Kings of Leon, and a variety of self-written music will hit the stage, and hopefully give the students a sense of the bands’ style. Jordan not only wants to reach the hearts of the students, but put a new twist on an old technique.

“I would classify us as piano rock, if that’s a style,” Jordan says.

The band will be performing at noon on Friday, but except for Jordan, the members are temporary. Even though they are leaving Logan this summer, they have enjoyed learning the music and playing together. Aaron Gumucio, senior in graphic design, has known Jordan mutually through the Guitar Club and says it’s been fun to jam together.

“My favorite part is that I can write my own parts to those Chris has already written. I love spicing it up,” he says.

Gumucio also believes in the reality of the few bands that become famous, but still has great goals.

“I want to play every show like it’s the last chance I’ll get,” he says.

Jordan hasn’t had much time to work with the band members but isn’t worried. The band gets together to practice every chance they get, but with hectic schedules, it gets a little crazy.

“The guys are super talented, so it’s been great so far,” Jordan says.

Jordan has had a lot of time to practice his stage presence, including opening for Kalai, Sherwood and Ryan Shupe. Jordan markets heavily with college students and also has a following on YouTube. He is confident in his abilities, but enjoys all the feedback he can get from listeners.

“Come support your local band, you won’t be sorry,” Jordan said.

Jordan started playing piano at a friend’s house in fifth grade when he was bored. When he showed interest in piano, his mother got him into piano lessons, but he fought the teachers every time. Not understanding the “rules” of music, he would improvise on every song he could. Jordan did not understand why he would want to play someone else’s music when he could play what was in his head, so he taught himself to play by ear, and went to work on his writing. Now he has written dozens of songs, including hits like “For What It’s Worth,” “I Heart You” and, a favorite of many followers, “The Stagecoach Letters.”

Jordan is currently working on a second music video for his song “Whatcha Gonna Do,” putting even more time and effort into it than the first one. The first video has a huge demographic, has fans on every continent and is still getting hits on YouTube. This new video is projected to widen that demographic even farther, and will hopefully spur into a full-blown album.

Jordan got the inspiration for his first 12 songs from a bad breakup years ago, but writes happy songs as well as sad.

“I know it sounds cliché to write music from a breakup, but honestly, life is a cliché,” he says.

LOCAL BAND HIFI DIARIES will be performing at noon on the Quad this Friday. The band normally only performs its own music but will be performing some covers during the event. CODY GOCHNOUR photo

In addition to tackling his songwriting, Chris also balances a job in marketing, finishing the house he built and building parts and designs for his auto design company.

“Someday I hope to devote more time to the band, really get the word out there. But right now, there’s so many things going on in life,” he said.

A huge supporter of HiFi Diaries, and long time friend Brad Neumann believes in the band’s potential.

“They’ve got catchy stuff. It’s so easy for their music to get stuck in my head, and then I can sing it all day,” he says.

Bikes: Club making its debut -continued from page 5 fied they are, not because they’re “riding around with chains” and they’re going to “whack you if you don’t respect” them.

When they pass, he wants people to say, “There goes the Aggie Angels.”

Everyone is welcome to join. They are not discriminatory toward any bike, as long as it has a motor.

Even faculty, staff and people from the community can join.

“The whole point of the club is to create unity … here at USU and hopefully in the community,” he said.

The primary task of the club is to ride together.

“I ride my motorcycle a lot alone, and it’s not as exhilarating as it is riding with a group. It’s kind of addicting. It’s like a high,” Crossen said.

The Aggie Angels are planning their first ride for May 1, and they will be going around Cache County and then grabbing some steaks and fries to eat afterwards. They also plan to ride during the summer, and in the fall they plan to do a charity ride called the Teddy Bear Run. “The Teddy Bear Run is kind of fun,” Crossen said.

“Everyone puts a teddy bear on the back of their motorcycles, and stuffed animals.”

He said everyone pays $2 to go on the ride, and all the money is donated to a charity. The run is pretty common in places around the U.S. If you want to be a part of the action, just e-mail the Aggie Angels at aamc@aggiemail.usu.edu.

They will be having their opening social April 17.

–j.budd@aggiemail.usu.edu

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With students reaching the last leg on the semester journey, some time to get away from classes and relax is extremely helpful for studying, and “Day on the Quad” is the perfect way to get the motivation to pull through these last few weeks. HiFi Diaries encourages students to come enjoy food, relaxation, and great music. The band energetically believes in the power of the students, and especially in the power of music.

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Brockeith to bring the Pane

By MATT SONNENBERG assistant sports editor

In every offseason in college basketball, the questions loom of who will ever be able to replace each of the past season’s departing senior superstars.

A year ago, the burden of replacing 2009 Western Athletic Conference Player of the Year Gary Wilkinson fell on the shoulder of Nate Bendall. Two seasons ago all eyes were on Jared Quayle to step in and fill the shoes of 2008 WAC Player of the Year and USU’s all-time scoring leader Jaycee Carroll.

Now the question is about who will step in to fill the void left by Quayle, the lone senior on the Utah State team from this past season. The answer to that question appears to be in junior college transfer Brockeith Pane.

Pane, who is slated to attend USU next fall, will be joining the Aggies after stops at two schools thus far in his playing career and looks to be the front-runner candidate to be starting at point guard for USU next season.

Pane was a highly recruited player out of high school, earning a rating of 92 on ESPN.com’s recruiting, and throughout his freshman season at the University of Houston, he lived up to those expectations. Making an instant impact for his team, Pane averaged 17 points per game through his first seven games at the Division-I level before seeing a drop in his minutes and production throughout the remainder of the year. Still, his freshman campaign was a success as he finished the season averaging six points per game in one of the nation’s top-10 college basketball conferences.

Following an injury that ended what would have been Pane’s sophomore season at Houston, he decided that he wanted to take his talents elsewhere.

GUARD BROCKEITH PANE (RIGHT) dribbles past a defender in a game during his freshman season at the University of Houston.

“It was a good program, but it wasn’t a basketball Pane averaged 13 points and four assists per game this past season for Midland College in Texas and looks to compete for the starting point school,” Pane said. guard duties for Utah State next season. AP photo His time playing for the Cougars was not lacking in he plans to bring in both leadership on and off the court, what it takes to be at this level,” Felton said. quality competition and experience, as Pane went headas well as putting in extra time with film and practices to The coaches also see Pane as having the ability to bring to-head against two of the first 11 players drafted in the a different kind of offensive threat to the team than what 2008 NBA draft, including two games against No.1 overall try to make the team better. Perhaps most importantly, Pane seems very aware of his situation in coming to a Quayle provided over the past two seasons. While Felton pick and eventual NBA Rookie of the Year Derrick Rose. team with six seniors and four returning starters, and his said Pane and Quayle are very comparable as outside In one of Houston’s two games against Rose’s Memphis shooters from behind the 3-point line, he said Pane has team that ultimately played in the national championship attitude sounds like the exact type of attitude head coach Stew Morrill wants his players to have. a new dimension to his offensive game with his ability to game, Pane held Rose to just 10 points while putting in “It’s going to be hard to replace Jared Quayle and do get to the paint to make plays for himself and his team11 points of his own. He also earned Player of the Week mates. honors from Conference USA early in his freshman season some of the things he did,” Pane said. “I try to be the best defender on the court and on the offensive end, just let the Although he has yet to make his arrival at Utah State, at Houston. game come to me.” both Pane and the coaches are eager for his career to start.

Pane is confident that those games have given him The basketball coaching staff has similarly high expecPane is particularly excited to play in front of Utah State’s enough of a taste of what to expect as he makes his way tations for Pane going into the 2010-2011 season. home crowds. back to Division-I this next season.

“He has a tremendous knack for scoring the ball. He’s “I’ll be like a kid in a candy store,” Pane said. “I can’t “I know how fast Division-I speed is,” Pane said. wait to get in front of there.”

After this past season, where he was one of the key con- a big, strong, explosive guard, and he can really play the game,” assistant coach Tarvish Felton said. “We expect While there is plenty left to be done in practice for Pane tributors on a team that spent the majority of the season him to come in, have some maturity and be able to step in and the rest of the team, Felton believes Pane is indeed ranked as the No. 1 junior college team in the nation, and keep this thing going. He loves to play, so expect him the favorite to have his name called in place of Quayle’s in Pane is anxious to get back to competing on the big stage to make some plays for us.” next year’s starting line-up for the Aggies. of college basketball.

Felton also believes that Pane’s prior Division-I experiFelton said, “With his maturity, both physically and Looking ahead to his upcoming career at Utah State, ence will help him make the adjustment to playing at USU mentally just in the game, you’d think he’ll probably be Pane said, “These two years I have are the only two years faster than most junior college recruits the guy, but we’ll find that out in October and November.”

I have.”

“He has an understanding of the kind of work ethic of – matt.sonn@aggiemail.usu.edu He plans on making them count, too, with what he says

NMSU’s Young to join Nevada’s Johnson in NBA draft

By MATT SONNENBERG assistant sports editor

New Mexico State guard Jahmar Young will not be returning to Las Cruces for his senior season, after NMSU head coach Marvin Menzies announced Tuesday that Young intends to hire an agent and keep his name in the pool for this year’s NBA draft. Young averaged 20.3 points, 3.5 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game during the 2009-2010 season to go along with being named first-team All-Western Athletic Conference and the MVP of the 2010 WAC tournament. Young’s decision comes on the heels of being arrested and booked on

charges of battering a police office early Sunday morning.

Young will join Nevada point guard Armon Johnson as the second player from the WAC to officially declare early for the draft.

Johnson, who averaged 15.7 points, 3.4 rebounds and 5.6 assists per game as a junior for the Wolf Pack last season, announced his intent to hire an agent last Friday. He was named the 2008 WAC Freshman of the Year and was a member of the post-season All-WAC team during his sophomore and junior seasons.

Both players will now be ineligible to return for their senior seasons.

Although the draft status of Young and Johnson is now clear, two other WAC players

have yet to make their official decisions regarding their draft status this year in Fresno State’s Paul George and Nevada’s Luke Babbitt. George has entered his name into the draft, but has not yet hired an agent, leaving him with the option to return to the Bulldogs for his junior season if he desired to do so. It has been believed that George indeed does plan on hiring an agent and remaining in the draft due to a post George made on his Twitter account immediately following Fresno State’s WAC tournament loss to Louisiana Tech. The message simply read, “League time.”

George made several other updates to his Twitter that also indicated his intention to remain in the draft.

The status of Babbitt, who is the reigning WAC Player of the Year, remains uncertain.

Like George, Babbitt is projected by many to go in the first round of the draft, which means their rookie contract would be guaranteed for at least two seasons. Players drafted in the second round do not receive guaranteed contracts.

Babbitt has not yet entered his name into the draft, but has also not yet stated the he will return to the Wolf Pack for his junior season.

All players have until April 25 to submit their names into the NBA draft, and until May 8 to withdraw and maintain their remaining NCAA eligibility if they have not yet hired an agent.

– matt.sonn@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Medlin traveling to Poland in May to play week-long tour

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Utah State men’s basketball player Preston Medlin is one of 10 NCAA Division I student-athletes who will participate in a weeklong tour with Athletes in Action in late May and early June against teams from Poland.

Medlin just completed his freshman season at Utah State as he appeared in 22 games and averaged 3.7 points, while shooting 40.9 percent from the field (27-66), 37.5 percent from 3-point range (15-40) and 92.9 percent at the freethrow line (13-14).

“I’m really excited about going to Poland, and I hear that everyone who has traveled over there with this organization has had a great experience,” Medlin said. “I will be playing with some good collegiate players and against some really good competition, and hopefully it will help improve my game.”

Medlin, a native of Carrollton, Texas, (Hebron HS) scored a season-high

17 points this year for USU against Southern Utah, as he was 5-of-8 from the field and 5-of-6 from 3-point range. Medlin also scored nine points twice and eight points in two separate games during the season.

“This will be a very positive experience for Preston and a chance to improve as a basketball player, while at the same time see a different part of the world,” said USU head coach Stew Morrill. “We are delighted that he can participate in this overseas opportunity.”

The team will depart the United States on Saturday, May 29, and arrive in Katowice, Poland, on Sunday, May 30. The 10-player team will begin training camp on Monday, May 31, and play its first of three scheduled games on Thursday, June 3. The team will return home on Monday, June 7. Two of its games will be against the U23 Polish national team and the third will be against a professional team from the region on Silesia.

Along with playing

three games, the Athletes in Action members will also assist in several kids clinics and a national coaching clinic sponsored by the Polish Basketball Federation and Fiba.

Other members of Medlin’s Athletes in Action team include Cory Jefferson (Baylor), AJ Walton (Baylor), Garrett Stutz (Wichita State), Toure Murry (Wichita State), Joe Bertrand (Illinois), RJ Mahurin (Indiana State), Aleksandar Marcius (Purdue), Kyle Weems (Missouri State) and Levi Knutson (Colorado). The head coach will be Kent Williams who is an assistant with Missouri State.

Athletes in Action, a Christian sports organization, is active in 75 countries, on nearly 125 U.S. college campuses and with 35 U.S. professional sports teams. To learn more about Athletes in Action, visit their Web site at www.

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FRESHMAN GUARD PRESTON MEDLIN will join nine other student-athletes from around the country for Athletes in Action this summer in Poland. The freshman from Carrolton, Texas, averaged 3.7 points per game in 22 games during his first season at Utah State. PATRICK ODEN photo

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A different point of view

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t is that time of year when we finally have to let go of basketball season and begin looking forward. Next up is football season, and the first taste of football season has been going on for several weeks now with spring football practice fully underway for the Aggies. Every year this shift happens, and it’s tough to let go of each basketball season with the success Utah State has had, but at the same time there is a certain thrill in going from top-dog to underdog.

The past four years of Utah State football have seen about as steady of a progression as program could have with a one-game per year increase in the win total starting in 2006. Once upon a time we were hopeful that Brent Guy would lead the Aggies back to the football glory that has been missing for generations now. In fairness to Guy, his philosophy of how to rebuild a program was spot-on in my book. He bit the bullet of rebuilding with youth, which eventually turns into experience and, eventually, wins. Guy collected a rather impressive collection of talent to the Utah State program including the likes of superstars Bobby Wagner, Diondre Borel and Robert Turbin.

The only problem is that Guy didn’t know how to fully utilize those talents, and that ultimately cost him the head coaching job at Utah State.

Enter Gary Andersen. Andersen arrived in Logan and immediately put together a staff, mentality and philosophy at Utah State that resulted in the 12th best offense in the country behind the production of Borel and Turbin. To top it off, Wagner received All-Western Athletic Conference honors as a sophomore.

In a nutshell, Andersen took Guy’s recruits and catapulted them from solid players into the superstars they are today.

On top of that, Andersen has brought in some impressive recruiting classes of his own thus far. The tides are finally turning for Utah State football, and despite the injury to Turbin that hurts the Aggies on paper going into this next season, nearly every other position on the team looks to be improved from years ago. Improved from a team that dropped a few late leads in games that would have put the 2009 Utah State team in a bowl game.

While there have been little things here and there over the past four years to get excited about, the time truly is now to get on board with Utah State football. This may be the last chance people get before the “bandwagon fan” label becomes applicable, and the first place to get on board is with spring football practice.

with the Aggie Football Coaches April 24th at Noon

For many Division-1 programs out there, the annual spring football game is an event with close to the amount of fanfare as most regular season games.

This is not the case at Utah State, and this is another crucial part of what needs to change among the mentality of everything surrounding USU football.

Saturday, April 24, the Aggies will conduct the spring football game. While several hundred people have made their way out to the spring game every year, it’s time that those numbers increase to several thousand blue-clad Aggie fans. It’s time that the student body at Utah State gets behind its football team rather than endlessly waiting for the football team to get behind it. You could make the argument of the chicken and the egg theory in this situation but right now presents a rare opportunity where both football program and fan base can turn the corner to success at the same time.

I don’t expect there to be 50,000 fans coming to witness their first taste of football season like some major college programs have, but why not pack 10,000 people into Romney Stadium a week from this Saturday? Why not get a little sunburn from watching the team scrimmage each other at full-speed? Why not see a thunderous hit from a defensive back or a circus catch from a wide receiver to incite a few “ooh’s” and “ahh’s” from the crowd?

There is not a single good reason why not, and every reason why.

Anybody who follows Utah State can tell you that next basketball season will be great, but don’t forget that there’s an entire football season to get riled up for until the Spectrum re-opens its doors to Aggie basketball. It is time that the collective attitudes of Utah State fans shift to where football season isn’t something to just partly enjoy through the fall season to get to basketball, but rather to get on board, scream your lungs out and prepare for a high-level caliber team that generations of USU fans were never lucky enough to see.

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.

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Oil from crash turns up in wildlife sanctuary SYDNEY (AP) – Globules of oil believed to be from a Chinese ship that slammed into Australia’s Great Barrier Reef are washing up on a nearby wildlife sanctuary, officials said Wednesday in the latest environmental fallout from the crash.

The Shen Neng 1 coal carrier veered into protected waters and ran aground on Douglas Shoal on April 3, immediately leaking 2-3 tons of fuel when coral shredded its hull. The vessel tore a 2-mile- (3-kilometer-) long gash into the shoal, causing damage that one leading marine scientist said could take up to 20 years to heal.

On Wednesday, a team of about 25 people was working to clean up bits of oil that had begun washing ashore on North West Island, a turtle hatchery and bird sanctuary about 12 miles (18 kilometers) from where the ship crashed into the reef, Maritime Safety Queensland spokesman Adam Nicholson said.

The globules were about an inch (3 centimeters) wide, and were scattered across about a half-mile (1 kilometer) of beach on the island, the second largest coral key on the reef.

Officials had not officially confirmed the oil came from the Shen Neng, but suspected it had, given its proximity to the grounding site, Nicholson said. The cleanup was expected to be relatively quick, because the oil is confined to a small area, he said.

The 755-foot (230-meter) Shen Neng 1 was successfully lifted off the reef Monday after crews spent three days pumping fuel to lighten it. Salvage crews later towed it to an anchorage area near Great Keppel Island, 45 miles (70 kilometers) away.

Its refloating left a scar 1.9 miles (3 kilometers) long and up to 820 feet (250 meters) wide.

“There is more damage to this reef than I have ever seen in any previous Great Barrier Reef groundings,” Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority chief scientist David Wachenfeld said Tuesday.

Most of the oil that first leaked from the hull was quickly dispersed by chemical sprays and is believed to have caused little or no damage.

The Great Barrier Reef is a World Heritage site because of its gleaming waters and environmental value as home to thousands of marine species. The accident occurred in the southern tip of the reef, which is not the main tourism hub.

The reef was hit particularly badly because the vessel did not stay in one place once it grounded, Wachenfeld said. Instead, tides and currents pushed it along the reef, crushing and smearing potentially toxic paint onto coral and plants, he said.

In some areas, “all marine life has been completely flattened and the structure of the shoal has been pul-

A RIBBON OF oil snakes away on the surface from the Chinese-registered 230m-long bulk coal carrier Shen Neng 1, off the coast of Rockhampton, Australia, Monday, April 5. AP photo

verized by the weight of the vessel,” Wachenfeld said, speaking of the fragile coral and the plants that may have inhabited the area.

Even if severe toxic contamination is not found at the site, initial assessments by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority indicate it could take 20 years for the coral reef to recover, Wachenfeld said.

Twitter enters world of advertising

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Is Twitter the next Google, the next Pets.com, or something in between? It may have begun answering that question Tuesday, with its long-awaited first step into advertising.

The startup is trying to make money without alienating the tens of millions of people who have gotten used to tweeting and following friends, celebrities and others without commercial interruptions. Just as it has through most of its four-year existence, Twitter is treading cautiously.

The new ads, called “promoted tweets,” will pop up only on searches at Twitter’s Web site, and the messages will be limited to a small group of test marketers including Virgin America, Best Buy Co., Sony Pictures and Starbucks Corp. Fewer than 10 percent of Twitter’s users were expected to see the ads Tuesday, but the messages should start appearing on all relevant searches within the next few days.

One promoted tweet from Starbucks was getting retweeted heavily, thanks to its free tax-day offer: “On 4/15 bring in a reusable tumbler and we’ll fill it with brewed coffee for free. Let’s all switch from paper cups.”

The move heralds a turning point for Twitter, which has held off on selling ads even as its widening audience turned it into an obvious marketing magnet and investors poured $155 million into the San Francisco company.

The last cash infusion seven months ago valued privately held Twitter at about $1 billion, even though its only significant revenue had come from giving Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. better access to its service.

The technology powerhouses paid Twitter an undisclosed amount for that right.

Twitter’s seemingly ambivalent attitude about making money reminded some Silicon Valley observers of the profitless Internet startups that wooed investors during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, only to crash and burn at the turn of 21st century.

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone defended the company’s “slow and thoughtful approach to monetization” in a blog announcing promoted tweets, even as he recalled a joke Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert made at his expense during an interview last year: “So, I assume that ‘Biz’ in ‘Biz Stone’ does not stand for ‘Business Model.’”

DICK COSTOLO, CHIEF operating officer at Twitter, speaks during his keynote presentation at the Ad Age Digital Conference in New York, Tuesday April 13. AP photo

The new advertising system should give a better inkling about whether Twitter will be more like Google or Pets.com, whose most valuable asset turned out to be a sock puppet.

Google itself took several years after its 1998 inception before it began selling short ads next to its search results, spawning one of the world’s biggest marketing vehicles with ad revenue of nearly $23 billion last year.

Twitter already is parroting Google in some respects. That’s not surprising given that Stone and a fellow co-founder, Twitter CEO Evan Williams, briefly worked at Google, as did Twitter’s chief operating officer, Dick Costolo.

There’s a twist to the way Twitter is using its search engine as an advertising springboard. Instead of displaying commercial messages on the margins of the search results, as Google does, Twitter will blend them with the rest of the tweets and label them as promotions.

The ads will be confined to Twitter’s standard 140-character limit so they can be passed along, or “retweeted,” to other users.

Twitter plans to pull promoted tweets that aren’t attracting attention.

That will pressure advertisers to be pithy and creative, a priority that could make the marketing messages seem less intrusive, said Forrester Research analyst Josh Bernoff, co-author of “Groundswell,” a book

on social media.

“You want to create something that interests people rather than just screams at them,” Bernoff said.

Michael Wilson, a Brigham Young University student who lives in Salt Lake City, is worried Twitter’s advertisers eventually will dominate the service.

“I think it’s going to be harder and harder to have your voice heard,” he said.

Many companies already use their own Twitter accounts to connect with customers and offer discounts to people who follow them.

What remains to be seen is whether Twitter’s new advertising system will prove effective enough to persuade companies to pay for a featured spot in the search results instead of just trying to reach people through the free communications channel.

There’s no doubt Twitter has turned into a mass medium. The Web site’s worldwide audience has ballooned to 69 million people, up from 4 million people at the end of 2008, according to comScore Inc. Those figures don’t include the visitors who use their mobile phones or third-party programs to tweet.

Twitter says it distributes about 50 million tweets per day, creating ample opportunities for more advertising once the company is comfortable enough to allow marketing messages beyond its search results.

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or most students, the college experience lasts only four to five years. During that time, we, as students, enjoy the late night parties, the high energy in the Spectrum and the free Aggie Ice Cream found at events scattered around campus.

But these experiences only last for so long.

Before each of us know it, we will be wearing our own cap and gown and wondering where our college years went. But even though these times may be gone, we will be Aggies forever.

We will be Utah State alumni, and we should be proud of it.

As we have each walked to and from classes, we have seen the students with their backs turned, pointing at buildings to potential USU students. These ambassadors do a terrific job recruiting and showing what USU is truly worth.

They give tours, visit high schools and organize events. They do a lot to put USU in a good light, but they can’t do it all. We need to step up our game and show that we, too, are proud to be Aggies.

Individuals from all walks of life visit USU’s campus and judge what they see, which is the human thing to do. Trash littered on the sidewalk or pen written on the walls may seem like a small thing, but it may make all the difference to someone else. Show a little pride in your university.

Pick up the trash, attend campus events and be proud to be an Aggie, because whether or not you like it, you will be an Aggie alumni for life.

This week is A-Week and Friday is A-day.

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Participate, get involved and make a difference at USU. It may seem like a long journey ahead but soon, that degree will be handed to you and your life at USU will be done and over with. Do what you can now so USU will continue to be a good learning environment and atmosphere. Do a little recruiting, pick up that piece of trash and be proud to be an Aggie.

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Supreme Court needs another mind like John Paul Stevens’

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ustice John Paul Stevens, who announced his retirement Friday, will not be remembered as the champion of a distinctive theory of the U.S. Constitution or as the author of a number of notable landmark rulings. But in almost 35 years on the Supreme Court, the former antitrust lawyer from Chicago epitomized an approach to judging that always serves the court well: dispassionate, deliberative, but also determined to adapt to changes in the life of the nation. In choosing a successor, President Obama is under no obligation to clone Stevens; but he should insist that his nominee share these qualities.

Stevens is routinely referred to as “the leader of the court’s liberal wing,” an appellation that sometimes seems to be part of his name.

It’s a fair description, but one of relatively recent vintage. For a long time Stevens was known not for influence over his colleagues but for idiosyncratic dissents. More recently he has demonstrated that he can craft majorities on closely divided issues, notably the propriety of the George W. Bush administration’s tactics in the war on terrorism.

He also became a trenchant critic of a lack of judicial restraint by the court’s conservatives, accusing them just this year of creating “a dramatic break from our past” by ending restrictions on corporate spending on election campaigns. But over his long career, Stevens sometimes has voted on the conser-

vative side. In the landmark 1978 Bakke case, he wrote that a white applicant’s civil rights were violated by a University of California medical school’s affirmative-action policy. In 1989, he dissented from a ruling providing First Amendment protection for burning the American flag as a political protest – a position he still defends.

Whether Stevens moved left or the court on which he sat moved right, it’s undeniable (and unsurprising) that a careful but intellectually curious justice would evolve over three and a half decades. That suggests to us that in choosing Stevens’ replacement, Obama should focus on enduring intellectual traits rather than on whether a nominee possesses views that would augur well for the administration’s priorities.

Some Obama supporters also hope that, specific issues aside, the president will choose a justice who will defend an expansive view of constitutional rights with the same combativeness displayed by Justice Antonin Scalia and other conservatives in pressing for constitutional “originalism.” Even if the president finds such advice persuasive, he should insist that his nominee also possess the independence of mind that allowed Stevens to survive and grow over a long and remarkable career.

This editorial first appeared in The Los Angeles Times on Sunday, April 11.

Ask Miss Jones Dear Miss Jones, I have a perplexing problem.

It is quite the predicament. You see, I met a strapping young man in one of my classes this semester. He really is a stand up guy, and I was super excited about him. We started spending a lot of time together, and I was thoroughly impressed with everything about him.

However, (dun dun dunnnn) soon after he began hounding me with unceasing text messages and requests to see me.

I like attention, don’t get me wrong, but too much is, frankly, smothering. This guy wouldn’t let me breathe. I dropped a few hints to give him the idea that the constant need to be in communication with me was too much, but they were obviously in vain. The messages and phone calls increased, and I started to become severely annoyed.

At this point, I am running for my life and resisting the never-ending urge to light him on FIRE. I need my space and he is just not willing to give it.

It’s a waste of a perfectly good guy! Am I nothing but a wiley temptress if I drop him and pursue other men? Because honestly, I have already started to.

Turned off & Ticked Dear Turned off & Ticked, I agree with you: I hate it when a perfectly good man is wasted for stupid little things.

I had this man who was wonderful, smart, beautiful, and he had abs you could bounce M&Ms off (literally, I would bounce M&Ms off his stomach and catch them in my mouth, it was amazing). He was perfect ... Perfect until I found out

he suffered from Gherkinson’s Disease. What a waste. It was horrible. I later heard he married a nice Jewish girl who filed for a divorce the day after they were married. I only wish I could have warned her and saved her the trouble.

Boys have a hard time realizing they’re smothering, especially boys who work out everyday ... tools. Anyway, yeah, the only advice I can really give you is to drop it like it’s hot. The great thing about boys is they’re like dogs; when Fido doo-doos on the carpet, you yell and curse and scream but an hour later Fido forgets you were upset and puts his big, dumb drooling head back on your lap. With men you can yell and scream and call them awful things, but at the end of the day they’ll be either in your bed or wishing they were.

My second boyfriend, William, turned out to be pretty creepy. We went on a few dates, nothing serious.

After the third date I decided I needed to play hard to get, so I didn’t telegraph him or anything. One night, as I was coming home from piccolo lessons, I had this feeling like I was being followed. I kept looking behind me but couldn’t spot anything. When I was on my street this boy jumped out from a bush and grabbed me.

I had no idea who it was so I kneed him in the testicles, poked his eyes and booked it toward my house. The next day, William wasn’t at school.

He wasn’t there again the next or the day after that. I asked his friend John where William was. John answered, “He busted one of his nuts earlier this week.” Being the innocent girl I

am, I was uncertain what John meant. Turns out William had followed me from piccolo lessons and jumped out as some sick way of flirting with me.

Needless to say, I never dated William again, and from what I’ve heard he never fully recovered.

My advice to you Turned off & Ticked is not to light him on fire, that could easily escalate into first-degree murder, but if he continues to get too close give him a swift left knee to his bo-jangles.

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Slavery should be more than an afterthought

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hat was Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell thinking when he declared April to be Confederate History Month without mentioning slavery? None of the possibilities are encouraging: Maybe he wanted to pander to Virginians who, even now, romanticize what used to be called the War of Northern Aggression. Perhaps he thought mentioning slavery, the overarching if not the only issue in the war, would be bad for tourism and economic development. Or he simply lacked what is sometimes called moral imagination.

Whatever the explanation, the proclamation, pegged to the fact that Virginia joined the Confederacy in April 1861, has been hastily revised after a public protest. It still commemorates the sacrifices of the war dead and salutes Confederate soldiers who pledged allegiance to the United States after being “overwhelmed by the insurmountable numbers and resources of the Union Army.” But now it also contains a paragraph – one that easily could have been included in the original – that “the institution of slavery led to this war and was an evil and inhumane practice.”

(Though inserted in the middle of the proclamation, it still reads like an afterthought.)

Politicians put their feet in their mouths all the time – and just as often have to extract them – so why is the furor over McDonnell’s proclamation important? Is it really necessary to condemn slavery

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as evil and inhumane in this day and age? Was McDonnell really so wrong to suggest that Confederate war dead deserve to be honored by their descendants? Was the protest against the declaration just political correctness run amok?

Not as we see it. Anyone familiar with the Civil War knows that the preservation of slavery was not the only motive for secession and that Confederate soldiers saw themselves as defending hearth and home. Nor did every Union soldier feel called to battle by a commitment to emancipation.

Still, slavery was at the heart of the War Between the States, an irreducibly brutal reality that generations of revisionists have attempted unconvincingly to efface. Consider this description of the war by the commander of the Virginia Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans: “Our Confederate ancestors fought to save our homeland from invading troops and it is our duty to see that their memory is not tarnished but given the respect and honor due them for the sacrifice they gave.”

Like the flying of the Confederate flag, a sanitized portrayal of the Confederacy inspires anger and uneasiness that once would have been regarded – and not just in the South – as oversensitivity. We know better now, and so, we hope, does Robert McDonnell.

This editorial first appeared in The Los Angeles Times on Sunday, April 11.

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riting for the Statesman has certainly been memorable, in challenge and circumstance. The challenge has been a new form of writing, but the circumstance has been timing. I have a Tae Kwon Do class at night and just walk right into the office in my uniform to save time. My editors enjoy the sight of a long-haired nerd dressed for a karate tournament, writing about religion, and it spawned a name. No longer mild Will, I am now Ninja Jesus, credal messiah of shuriken warriors campuswide. Mostly this meant disco songs about mutant turtles filling the office air. Recently though, the creator of the name, my editor Patrick Oden, tested his gymnastic skill in some mud and suffered for it. After getting him ice and helping him to his impossibly kitsche car, I wondered about my office moniker. The name is odd, but since Patrick printed this story for all to see, I’m stuck with it. As Nietzsche says though, we should embrace our inner child, the yes sayer, so I embrace this. As a start, here are some guidelines from this longhaired stealth magician.

Eleven Demands of Ninja Jesus 1. Embody all that you believe, with more exercise if you’re a buddhist.

2. Seek the truth above all else, even yourself, and stay away from beans.

4. Honor your elders and their ways, for they had to put up with your crap.

5. All things are born and then die, many do so alone. I told you about those beans.

6. Fidelity to every face you meet, to every heart you love, to every gang you throw signs for.

7. Be kindness itself, to great and small, to friend and foe, and remember “Trespassers will be shot” signs sell cheap.

8. Honor your vows before man and divine, and leave the red stapler alone.

9. Protect the innocent, bleed the wicked and electrify the sittin’ fence.

10. Honor the life and chastity of others, even that of World of Warcraft devotees.

11. Fear nothing of man, not even his evil, for he turns to greasy mush like anything else.

Will Holloway is a senior in philosophy.

He writes a bi-weekly column titled “As a mater of faith.” Will was resently saddled with the nickname Ninja Jesus. Comments can be left at www.aggietownsquare.com

3. Some paths lead to clearings, and some to thickets. Always be wary of foggy moors.

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April 14 Today is Wednesday, April 14, 2010. Today’s issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Jaiden Olsen, junior in civil engineering, from Manti, Utah.

Almanac Today in History: In 1865, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shoots President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War.

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-Interior design senior exhibit, Twain Tippetts Hall, 10 a.m.

-Women’s tennis at Weber State, 11 a.m.

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

-Dala Concert, USU Amphitheatre, 7 p.m.

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April 15 -Interior design senior exhibit, Twain Tippetts Hall, 10 a.m.

-Aggie CARE, noon.

-Operation Smile benefit concert, USU Amphitheatre, 7 p.m.

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