The Signpost - Thursday | February 28, 2019 | Volume 89 | Issue 51

Thursday | February 28, 2019 | Volume 89 | Issue 51

LAST NIGHT ON THE ICE WILDCAT SENIORS WAVE GOODBYE TO STELLAR CAREERS » PAGE 10

DIVERSITY » PAGE 10

MINORITY CLUBS NEED SUPPORT FROM MAJORITY

COLUMN » PAGE 8

IF HE BUILDS IT, THEY WILL COME — THROUGH AIRPORTS

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MAR. 1 The Women’s Center is hosting Lunafest on March 1 at 6 p.m. at the WSU Davis Campus Ballrooms. Lunafest is a short film festival made by, for and about women. The Women’s Center will host a silent auction at the event.

MAR. 11 Historian Val Holley will visit the WSU Hurst Center Dumke Legacy Hall on March 11. Holley will share the impact the railroad had in Ogden and its development during the late 1800s. Holley is a native of Weber County and attended Weber State College.

MAR. 14 Despite Utah voters approving medical marijuana, the Utah State Legislature has voted to replace Proposition 2. WSU will host a discussion on recent changes to laws and the potential impact on the community on March 14 at the Shepherd Union Wildcat Theater.

Troy Pollard, an assistant professor of accounting at the University of Alabama, will speak at the Nye Lecture Series on March 14.

The lecture series aims to highlight experiences and philosophies of business and government leaders.

By NIC MURANAKA Desk Editor

1. Which musician, taken into custody earlier this month, posted $100,000 in bail money and has plead not guilty to the charges against him? a. Rapper 6ix9ine b. Rapper 21 Savage c. Rhythm and blues singer R. Kelly 2. Which film took best picture at the 91st Academy Awards? a. “Green Book,” directed by Peter Farrelly b. “Roma,” directed by Alfonso Cuarón c. “Black Panther,” directed by Ryan Coogler 3. Congressional Democrats have recently threatened legal recourse if what happens?

a. President Donald Trump raises tariffs against Chinese goods again b. The findings of the report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller are not made available to the general public c. Trump doesn’t lift sanctions against North Korea prior to the follow-up summit meeting to last year’s Singapore meeting 4. Who of the following was named among a series of arrests stemming from a sting targeting day spas suspected of human trafficking in Florida?

5. Trump declared a national state of emergency in a bid to secure funding for the border wall after Congress approved $1.375 billion for border barriers but no funding for a wall in order to keep the government open. The House of Representatives voted Feb. 26 on a resolution to overturn the emergency declaration. Did the resolution pass? a. Yes b. No

a. Former chief operations officer for Citigroup John Havens b. Founder of investor firm J.W. Childs John Childs c. New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft d. All of the above

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Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on May 29, 2017, in Pasadena, California.

ANSWERS ON PAGE 14 Other Side of the Hill

By B.C. Sterrett

WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY

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FOUR STUDENTS VIE FOR WSUSA PRESIDENCY

By HARRISON EPSTEIN Chief Editor

Election season has begun.

At least, at Weber State University, it has.

On Feb. 22, the WSU Student Association deadline for candidacy packets passed, leaving 22 candidates up for eight positions in the Executive Branch. There are four candidates for WSUSA President for the 2019–20 academic year, including one who is currently a member of the executive and two student senators.

College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Senator Jovany Bahena-Rosario and College of Business & Economics Senator Scott Lund are looking to take a step up from the legislative branch while Leadership Vice President Bret Alexander and Hispanic Area Council member Julio Otay are looking to succeed Jordan Slater.

For Slater, he sees the coming elections as a chance for the students to choose from a diverse pool of potential presidents with differing life and WSU experiences.

“I think there’s a huge learning curve for sure," Slater said. "Mine was kind of little because I knew what I was doing going in, but I think it will be difficult for Jovany, Scott or Julio."

Slater added Alexander will have the smallest learning curve because he’s currently serving in the executive. Slater said he will remain unbiased through the election process and has confidence in all four of the candidates to succeed him as leader of the student body.

Otay ran for Legislative VP after spending two years as the Hispanic

Student Senator.

Bahena-Rosario served one year on the senate in his current position.

“I’m running because I want to make students feel Weber State is a home to them,” Bahena-Rosario said.

Bahena-Rosario has the support of Kaly Thompson, the College of Health Professions Senator, as well as Delta Chi Nu President Brooklyn Knight and members of several fraternities at WSU. Lund started at WSU during the 2017– 18 academic year after transferring from Utah State University. He became a senator in his second year. Lund has the support of Hispanic Student Senator Abdiel Vazquez and Nontraditional Student Senator Shalay Beenfield and said that one of his main focuses will be mental health.

He has spearheaded a bill in the senate that would add information about mental health services at WSU to campus syllabi.

Lund would also want to elevate public awareness of the student government to the greater student body.

“I think we have so many students that would be excited to do things, but they don’t know about it," Lund said. "I’ve talked to countless students who had no idea elections were coming up.”

Alexander brings the most experience of the candidates, with four years in student government. If elected, Alexander would be the first openly-gay WSUSA president.

He also has the support of the three WSUSA presidents before Slater in Aulola Moli, Greg Woodfield and Cash Knight.

“I probably have more name recognition, but not significantly," Alexander said.

"Julio is famous on campus for being this non-trad superpower, and Jovany and Scott are actually my senators."

While the four still have time to meet and strategize for the future, Lund and Alexander already met and discussed the possibility of serving in each other’s presidential cabinets should the other win the election.

As for getting out the vote, WSUSA is planning a social media push to make sure students are aware of the election.

Two current senators are angling for the Legislative VP role currently held by Minsum Choi. The candidates are College of Science Senator Kade Crittenden and Traditional Student Senator Brody Bailey. The Legislative VP serves as a member of the Executive Branch while acting as president of the Senate and leading the Legislature.

The only position in the executive branch with an unopposed candidate is the Clubs and Organizations vice president, where incumbent Katie Giddens is seeking a second year in the position.

“Truthfully, you never know what’s going to happen during elections week," Giddens said. "Someone could run against you, and whether it’s write-in or not, it’s still someone running against you.”

The two candidates for Leadership vice president, Hannah Olsen and Raven Uribe, both have spent time within student government. Both candidates for Activities VP, Wyatt Walk and Michelle Thao, have already been on the activities team.

There are three students competing to become the Davis Campus vice president.

They are Spencer Ramsey, Gustavo Medina

and incumbent Heather Shaheen.

Four different candidates are up for the Service VP position and Diversity & Unity VP positions. The 22 candidates for executive positions are an increase from the 2018–19 academic year, where there were 19 candidates across the Executive Branch.

Elections for the Executive and Legislative branches will be held concurrently for the second straight year according to Suzy Flint, the Administrative Specialist for Student Involvement and Leadership.

According to WSUSA’s campaigning guidelines, there are strict rules all the candidates must adhere to. The main guidelines that affect the general student body regard the timing. Candidates will be allowed one week to campaign in person or on social media, beginning on March 11 and ending on March 15.

The presidential candidate debate is on March 11 at 11:30 a.m. in the Shepherd Union. Students will have two and a half days of voting, and the winners will be announced during Weber’s Got Talent.

Once the winners are announced, they have eight weeks to prepare for their new jobs before the end of the semester.

Those who don’t hear their names called may have to figure out what to do more in the short-term.

“I have to schedule my crying time promptly after Weber’s Got Talent," Alexander said.

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Tuesday, March 12 6:30 p.m.

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Panel discussion following the screening with Pulitzer Prize winner Jessica Miller of the Salt Lake Tribune Clare Morgana Gillis, war correspondent who worked with Jim Foley Tom Durkin, program director of the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation.

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PEEPING TOM PLEADING NOT GUILTY

By DEBORAH WILBER Reporter

The 36-year-old Weber State University student and registered sex offender has plead not guilty to eight counts of voyeurism. Between Dec. 12, 2018, and Dec. 19, 2018, Anthony Ray Sunford was captured on video entering the women’s locker room on the second floor of the Wildcat Center for Health Education and Wellness.

The pre-trial hearing for Sunford held Feb. 26 at the Ogden City Justice Court was put on continuance.

Judge Michael S. Junk of the Ogden City Justice Court denied the defense’s request for a three-month extension for discovery.

“That seems a little far for me,” Junk said.

“Let’s get working on it right away.”

Instead, the defense has been given a six-week window to obtain information and gather evidence in preparation for his trial on April 8 at 1:30 p.m.

The court entered a not guilty plea on the defendant’s behalf Jan. 15 after the court

found the defendant did not qualify for a court-appointed lawyer and was denied PDA as counsel.

Sunford retained private counsel with the Law Office of Randy Phillips.

On eight separate occasions, Sunford entered the same locker room, and spent lengths of time ranging from 3 minutes on Dec. 12, 2018 to 17 minutes on Dec. 18, in the locker room, each time with his cell phone in hand.

The initial incident was brought to the attention of the WSU Police Department on Dec. 13, 2018, by a young woman who claims she saw Sunford in the locker room crouched near a wall facing the showers.

According to video footage, an unknown woman followed Sunford out of the locker room at 9:57 a.m. on Dec. 18, 2018, the first of two entrances he made that day.

California charged Sunford with two felony counts on Feb. 19, 2010: assaulting a person under 18 with intent to commit sex offense and failing to register as sex of-

fender based on felony conviction.

A no-contest plea was entered on the felony charges against him on Nov. 29, 2010.

Sunford came to WSUPD for questioning, at which point his cell phone was logged into evidence pending a search warrant to view its contents. Magistrate Ernie W Jones of the Second District Court issued a search warrant of Sunford’s phone on Jan. 4.

According to the report provided by WSUPD Officer Megan Nicholls, the phone in question contained some pornographic images and surreptitious pictures and video of his wife, Kathryn.

In addition, there were several screenshots of message threads indicating that a HomeFacts man by the name of Eric had sexually asAnthony Ray Sunford was seen ensaulted a woman. The text messages go to tering women’s locker rooms. a recipient by the name of Cindy.

The Superior Court of California waived jury A records check performed by Nicholls by trial and imposed a judicial judgement on all the names found on the phone did of time in state prison. not turn up any useful information.

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WSU players and coaches posing for a picture, celebrating their win against USU.

WILDCATS WIN IN

DRAMATIC FINALE

By JOE TRAUB Assistant Editor

On Senior Night at Weber State University, the Wildcats hockey team capped off their torrid season-ending run with a 5–4 victory over the Utah State University Aggies at the Ice Sheet.

The ‘Cats trailed 2–1 entering the final period, but a back-and-forth with twenty minutes left on the clock saw WSU take their second consecutive win over the Aggies after prevailing in Logan the night before.

“It doesn’t get much better than this,” said forward Troy Quarnberg, one of seven WSU graduating seniors on the team. “You have to go out with a bang in the last game of your career.

This is unreal.”

The victory gave WSU 10 wins in its last 13 tries dating back to Jan. 18. Head coach A.J. Kapinos said the surge was a matter of the team meshing together.

“We have a really good group of kids that are growing up right in front of our eyes,” Kapinos said. “They worked their tails off in the second half of the season. To win these two games in comeback fashion is a big deal.”

After a defensive battle in the first two periods, the Wildcats came out with a sense of urgency in the third.

They tied the game at 2 with 16 minutes remaining on a goal from William Fobair.

The crowd and WSU bench did not have time to catch their collective breaths when defenseman Ken Gorges promptly found the back of the net to give the ‘Cats a 3–2 lead. Quarnberg then ended the flurry, as he scored with nine minutes left and WSU led 4–2.

“It was very loud tonight. You couldn’t hear half the time,” Quarnberg said. “It was a lot of fun. It gave me more energy to keep going.”

The Aggies did not go quietly, cutting the deficit to one and then tying the game with just over three minutes to play. A once raucous Weber State crowd was in disbelief.

However, the ‘Cats again had an immediate answer, as senior forward Kevin Meza scored with 2:38 left to make it 5-4 in favor of the hosts.

WSU’s defense held strong, foiling Aggie attempts in enemy territory.

Utah State pulled its goalie with a minute remaining and was unable to get any quality looks as the Wildcats finished off a one-goal victory.

“Mentally, I think it’s a huge deal for us to be able to win a one-goal game against them,” Kapinos said. “Last year on our senior night, they (USU) beat us in overtime. We don’t forget

those things.”

For Weber State senior and team captain Jon Cosman, the win marked a perfect footnote for his career.

“My first game I ever played here was a win over Utah State, so it’s nice to end the same way,” Cosman said. “It is something I will remember for the rest of my life.”

Senior forward Zan Hobbs, who scored Weber’s first goal of the night, said the victory was a meaningful end to the season.

“It’s bittersweet since it’s the last game of my career, but it is pretty sweet to end the way we did,” Hobbs said. “We had a great second half, and it was pretty awesome to beat these guys the last two games.”

Quarnberg said his friendship with Hobbs came full circle on the final night of the season.

“I’ve known him since I was six years old,” Quarnberg said. “We’ve played hockey together for a long time. It was unreal to finish the season with him.”

With the victory, Weber State finished the 2018-19 season with a record of 17–19–2.

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Weber State University is proposing a tuition increase of 2-3%, meaning an additional $49 to $73 per semester for a full-time resident undergraduate student for the upcoming school year.

It is proposed this tuition increase be used for the following: Academic Support: up to $154,600 Student Support: up to $640,000 Administrative Support: up to $376,000 Compensation: up to $1,093,200 A public hearing on the proposed increase will be held on: Monday, March 11, 2019, 2:30 –3:30 pm Shepherd Union 404

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Joshua Kirk looking to make a pass to another teammate.

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WORK AND DESPAIR COLE ECKHARDT Columnist

The wall has never been about national security. Trump’s drivel about Syrian suicide bombers infiltrating America via Tijuana aside, every step toward its construction has been evidence to the contrary.

During his month-long Mexican standoff (no pun intended) with Congress, Trump effectively stole over a billion dollars from a quarter of a million Americans with government jobs, gambled it all on the wall and lost. What’s worse is he wagered America’s safety as his buy-in.

Terrorists attempt to enter the U.S. all the time. In fact, Department of Homeland Security records reported by the Washington Post reveal that 2,554 people on the terror watch list were intercepted in 2017 alone. U.S. Customs and Border Protection, however, can point to only six among them attempting to enter the U.S. through its southern border.

Ninety-one people on that same list were intercepted along America’s northern border, NBC reported, 50 of whom were U.S. citizens (but no one’s clamoring for a northern border wall). So what of the other 2,457?

CBP records confirm nearly 90 percent of those intercepted in 2017 were attempting to enter through airports, and the Transport Security Administration was among the agencies most affected by the shutdown.

What resulted was people with terrorist affiliations trying to come in through ports

of entry made vulnerable by the absence of the many TSA agents who (surprise) didn’t want to perform a high-stress job for no money.

But Trump told America on his campaign trail he knew how to rig the system better than anybody, and on Feb. 15, he backed up that bluster.

Shortly after declaring a national emergency (which he admitted to the public wasn’t really an emergency just before his caddy arrived), Trump began siphoning money directly from the DHS budget at a time when his own security advisors told him vulnerability to cyberattacks is America’s top-priority threat.

Then again, why on Earth would Trump want to interfere with cyberattacks? They worked out well for him in 2016.

With all the energy and resources being diverted away from known vulnerabilities, the threat approaching the southern border must be serious. Trump talks about “the caravan” the way Cersei Lannister talks about the Dothraki.

If tens of thousands of Mexican drug lords, assassins and sex traffickers are roving across Juarez toward El Paso like Fury Road marauders, then America doesn’t need a wall; it needs mine fields and panoptical sniper towers (which would be less expensive and more effective than a wall anyway).

Of course, that’s hardly necessary. The numbers spinning out of the White House fail to include any context: nearly half of the convicted criminals intercepted crossing the southern border were guilty only of having tried to enter illegally in the past, according to CBP. So what would drive a person to risk so much a second time after having failed already? I know drug dealers; they’re not that motivated.

According to Amelia Frank-Vitale, an anthropology doctoral candidate conducting her dissertation fieldwork in Honduras (where most of the migrants are from), the situation there is grim.

In her Washington Post column “You want to see a real emergency, Mr. President? Visit me in Honduras,” she details the half-failed state’s unprecedented levels of violence.

One of her subjects told her about smuggling himself to his mother’s house in the trunk of a car for fear of being executed by the gang in her hometown. Another spoke about her teenage daughter being taken by police, never to be seen or heard from again. A police officer told her he’d all but given up on law enforcement for all its corruption.

Most of the diaspora approaching the southern border is comprised of desperate Honduran asylum seekers fleeing a state that’s been unravelling into entropy since the coup in 2009, and violence there is reaching a crescendo.

Equally upsetting is the rhetoric surrounding “the caravan.” The word itself was strategically chosen for its historical association with the Islamic world, conjuring visions of dubious Persian merchants on camelback. Trump is simply antagonizing nearly 20 years of distrust and hatred toward the Middle East to kindle the ethnocentrism in his base.

It’s a simple magic trick: he says caravan, visions of somewhere vaguely Middle Eastern appear in his supporters’ peripheral awareness and before they know it, emotions they felt on the morning of 9/11 swim up from their subconscious. It’s a psychological shortcut to make his base fear a band of Central American refugees so badly he wins the support he needs to begin constructing the wall in time for

campaign season.

There’s a part of me that would almost have appreciated the elegance of such propaganda, but Trump ruined that, too. Being uncomfortable with subtlety, he simply tweeted “Middle Easterners are mixed in” with the caravan, as if nobody would check a globe to see if that made any goddamn sense. He may side with white nationalists, but he’s no Joseph Goebbels.

This is Trump’s 11th hour. Without the wall, he’ll not win reelection, and without reelection, he’ll never see the completion of his monument — because that’s all it’s ever been.

Civilizations throughout history and across the world have used monumental architecture to embed the state into the very landscape and project power across vast physical expanses, aggrandizing the ruler who commissioned them in the process.

It won’t be on the same scale as those of Washington or Lincoln, and it’s not as if they’ll be carving his face into Rushmore, but long after Trump is dead, American’s will no longer refer to it as the wall or even the southern border wall. They’ll call it Trump’s wall.

A quick survey of his structures will prove my point: Trump Plaza, Trump Tower, Trump University — the man would have branded his name onto the derrieres of his Miss USA contestants if it weren’t a human rights violation.

The wall is merely another way for Trump to smear his name onto the landscape to pacify his pathological insecurities, and if you think his name won’t be emblazoned on the wall in gold upon its completion, you’re not paying close enough attention.

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By ALLY NELSON Reporter

Thirty-nine percent of Weber State University’s student body is non-Caucasian or identifies as LGBT. With a plethora of scholarship money and programs like Dream Weber, WSU attempts to represent everyone.

However, leaders of diverse campus organizations aren’t seeing the student and community involvement they would like.

Organizations at WSU that often feel overlooked are the American Indian Council, Black Scholars United, the LGBT Resource Center and Diversity and Inclusive Programs.

Jayson Stokes, coordinator of the LGBT Resource Center, wants students to be able to go to centers across campus and attend events, whether they identify with specific programming or not, because marginalized identities need supporters and allies.

“We partner with other organizations to let people know that everyone is welcome here,” Stokes said. “We have a place here for everybody.”

Nadina Delgado, American Indian Council president, said diverse organizations should openly claim to be more inclusive.

“In our club, you don’t have to be Native American to join. You can just come and support,” Delgado said. “There are only about ten of us involved in the American Indian Council, so we really need to work on including others.”

Native American students make up less than one percent of the WSU population, according to WSU’s Reports and Publications.

Delgado said minority organizations need support from students who do not identify the same as they do, but she also noted she would love if more Native Americans who attended WSU would get involved in the council.

When hosting events, WSU organizations advertise to their audience through social media. Delgado said WSU and its various social media accounts should support and help promote smaller organizations like the American Indian Council.

“If Weber took initiative in advertising not only our events but even smaller clubs and told the community about volunteering, it could result in a better turnout,” Delgado said.

Annually, WSU hosts the Native Symposium, a weeklong event aimed at educating the WSU and Ogden communities about Native American culture. WSU partners with the American Indian Council, but because it is WSU’s event, the council does not promote the event as much, according to Delgado.

Delgado said she cherishes her Shoshone culture, and she would have loved to have seen more people involved and attending the event last November but said there was not enough advertising done on WSU’s behalf.

According to Delgado, there were five members of the council trying to advertise the event. These members relied on WSU’s social media pages to help spread the word.

Similar to Delgado, Stokes is the only coordinator for the LGBT Resource Center. Andrea Hernández, Diversity and Inclusive Programs coordinator, said she would love to see more events centered on LGBT topics.

“The only way we can see more LGBTQ events is if we get more support in the center,” Hernández said.

“Jayson has to deal with keeping a resource center, grants and scholarships. I could only imagine everything he has to do, plus organizing and promoting events.”

Hernández urges students who might feel like they do not belong in a place of diversity to join club meetings

and get involved in organizing events.

She said she would love to have people help her with the organization while she could focus on events.

Hernández said if she had an assistant, they could run a diversity booth in the Shepherd Union to recruit students to the center at least once a week. The assistant could help in promoting events to different classrooms, hand out flyers and work on preparing programming. Meanwhile Hernández could focus on handling events that are held by Diversity and

Inclusive Programs.

Hernández would like to enlist the help of a graphic designer for diversity programming advertising.

She said this might increase student involvement at events.

Having these events to host is important for Hernandez — and she wants to bring more to WSU — but without students and community members attending, the events will have been for nothing, she said.

Bessie Pettigrew, the American Indian Council Senator, said it’s important for her that non-Native Americans join the council because she wants people to know how much Native American culture matters. Native Americans are not just a group of people who

have come and gone through history but people who still exist today, Pettigrew said.

“Representing my culture and getting people to know the importance of it means a lot,” Pettigrew said. “Debunking the stereotypes of ‘Native Americans came and left with the dinosaurs’ is why it’s important for me to share and teach about my culture.”

JaLisa Lee, president of Black Scholars United, was surprised when WSU would not promote scholarships for students to get involved within diverse programs.

Lee said doing this would be beneficial for students who need the money and show more visibility to smaller clubs. The more involved students get, the more opportunities there are for shining a light on club events.

Lee said she hopes BSU attracts more visibility. She recalled attending her orientation and hearing no mention of diverse clubs. However, there was repeated recognition of the WSU Student Association, fraternities and sororities.

Lee wants more students and Ogden community members to be involved in BSU because she wants all people to feel included and comfortable.

“We don’t discriminate because we’ve already been discriminated against,” Lee said. “We will not shut out anyone who wants to learn about who we are or our culture. Our main focus is to talk about issues among the black race and the commonality of being students.”

Despite not receiving the involvement they desire, WSU diverse organizations will continue to push for programming that represents the entire student body.

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UNDERGRAD RESEARCH

By ASHLYND GREENWOOD Reporter

Students across Utah visited Weber State University on Feb. 22 for the 13th Annual Utah Conference of Undergraduate Research, which saw research projects in opioid use, poverty and the Autism Spectrum Disorder, among many others.

UCUR is an opportunity for students to become more familiar with undergraduate research options and explore graduate schools that work in unison with their academic interests.

The all-day event saw a total of 517 out of 705 registered participants who used posters, oral presentations, performances and visual arts to showcase a variety of topics in creative research and scholarly endeavors.

Student Abel Reed was one of these presenters. At Dixie State University, he and his mathematics professor work to assess the role of prescribed painkillers and their impact on the opioid epidemic.

“Utah is number 14 in the nation for opioid abuse, with West Virginia being first and Illinois second,” Reed said.

“With that in mind, I went to the CDC and looked at what the prescription rate was in Utah.”

According to Reed, in 2012, various counties in Utah had extremely high prescription rates. In Washington County, 89 out of 100 people had opioid prescriptions and in Sevier County, that number jumped up to 112 out of 100 people — which is not a statistical impossibility.

“What that means is not that 100 people have prescriptions, but out of a group of 100 people, someone is being over-prescribed,” Reed said. “This is the root of the problem.”

Over time, Reed came to the conclusion that summer months have the highest risk of non-addicts becoming addicted. He proposed doctors need to educate their patients on the high potential risk of opioid addiction.

Another presenter at the conference was one of WSU’s own. Psychology student Marisa Rodriguez works with her sister on a partnership with the Ogden-Weber Community Action Partnership. Their goal is to diminish the effects of poverty in Weber County through education, individualized support, advocacy and collaboration.

Rodriguez said her goal is to work with OWCAP and help the community of Ogden get the resources they need. The two sisters strive to accomplish this by provid-

ing OWCAP with useful statistics to help their program be more effective.

“We are specifically researching the needs based on Maslow’s Hierarchy,” Rodriguez said. “We are comparing those who have more or less needs and are seeing who is considered homeless based on this interpretation.”

Another student, Jihyun Lee from Brigham Young University, studied the perseveration rates and repetitive brain habits of young children who are susceptible to Autism Spectrum Disorder. Lee and several psychology professors created a perseveration test with pictures to allude to these symptoms at a young age.

“When we do the perseveration test, infants generally show this repetitive behavior like tickling their fingers or scratching their ears,” Lee said. “Those children are more likely to have this repetitive behavior that leads to ASD.“ UCUR is an annually-occurring event, and those interested can get involved through the office of Undergraduate Research on campus or through the official Utah Conference of Undergraduate Research website.

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QUIZ ANSWERS FROM PAGE 2 1. c. Kelly was arrested Feb. 22 after being indicted for ten sexual abuse charges with four victims, three of whom were underage, according to the Chicago Tribune. A judge set Kelly’s bond at $1 million, with bail at 10 percent. Kelly did not post the money himself, but according to the Chicago Tribune, court records showed that a woman who identified herself as a friend of Kelly’s posted the bail. Kelly has plead not guilty to the charges.

2. a. “Green Book” took best picture at the conclusion of an awards season many have called unpredictable, according to the Los Angeles Times. While “Green Book” won the top prize at the Producers Guild Awards in January, the best picture

race still seemed wide open, “Black Panther” having won best picture at the Screen Actors Guild awards. Netflix, fighting for its first best picture win, spent upward of $30 million promoting “Roma” prior to the awards. When “Green Book” was announced for best picture, director Spike Lee stood from his seat and seemed to attempt to leave before eventually retaking his seat.

3. b. Congressional Democrats have threatened to sue the Trump administration and subpoena the report if it is not made available to the general public, according to the Los Angeles Times. Rep. Adam Schliff, chair of the House Intelligence Committee, commented in an interview on ABC’s “This Week” that Democrats will “obvi-

ously” do whatever it takes to get the information out to the public. Democrats have become concerned that attorney general William Barr may try to keep the results of the Mueller probe private. Some speculate that the report will go to the Justice Department this week.

4. d. All three men were arrested in a sting at the conclusion of a months-long investigation into suspected human trafficking at day spas in Florida, according to the Palm Beach Post. The day spas have been alleged with forcing women from China into sex acts with clients. Kraft was among the most prominent arrests in the case and was was charged with two counts of soliciting a prostitute. Trump, a personal friend of Kraft,

called the charges surprising, according to USAToday.

5. a. The resolution overturning the emergency declaration passed in the House. According to the Los Angeles Times, the vote passed with a 245 to 182 vote. The resolution now goes to the Senate. According to the Los Angeles Times, three Senate Republicans have pledged support for the resolution. Assuming every Senate Democrat voted yes, that would put the resolution one vote short of passing with a majority.

Trump has pledged to veto the resolution if it reaches his desk.

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