The Utah Statesman, January 27, 2010

Utah Statesman Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010

The The

Campus Voice Campus Voice since 1902 since 1902

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

Students to present undergraduate research to Utah legislators

By MEGAN ALLEN staff writer

Utah legislators will spend Thursday in the Capitol Rotunda, talking to 31 USU students, as well as a group from the University of Utah, about their undergraduate research.

USU created Undergraduate Research Day in 2001, with the goal to communicate to legislators the value of students obtaining their undergraduate education at a research university. The university combined with the University of Utah to share students’ research from different disciplines from around Utah.

“One of the benefits of undergraduate research is that it provides a venue for students to apply their classroom skills to real-world issues, and it puts them in the practice of becoming society’s problem solvers,” said Brent Miller, vice president for research.

Erin Fleming, sophomore studying fisheries and aquatic science, is one of the students whose research will be presented Thursday. While working in the Limnology Lab on campus, she has done research on brine shrimp in the Great Salt Lake and the possibility of their role in transferring methylmercury, a toxic metal found in local waterfowl, from the deep brine layer of

the South Arm to the birds feeding on them.

“Being able to present my research and represent our school at the Capitol is a huge honor,” Fleming said. “I will do my best to let our state politicians know how outstanding our school is.”

Fleming’s project is one of 26 different projects that will be presented. Students’ research ranges from interpretive programming in local hospitals, to snow goose reproduction, to the impact of math placement exams on students.

“The findings of these projects will be farreaching,” USU President Stan Albrect said.

“Some of them will be published in academic journals, while others will be presented at research conferences throughout the country.

Many of them will be used to solve practical problems by guiding action on community and state issues.”

Joyce Kinkead, associate vice president for research and director of USU’s undergraduate research, said, “At Utah State, the educational and research missions dovetail beautifully as students get their hands on research.

Undergraduate research is one of the few highimpact educational practices that have been demonstrated to have value.”

In 1975, Glen L. Taggart, then-president of the university, created the Undergraduate

Research Program. It is the second-longest program in the country, second only to MIT. The program is in its 35th year.

There are hundreds of alumni who have been involved in the Undergraduate Research and Creative Opportunities Program. These students have gone on to be scientists, doctors, teachers, artists and government officials.

Being a part of undergraduate research is a great opportunity for students, Fleming said.

“It makes your diploma from this university that much more prestigious,” Fleming said.

“Undergraduate research is a fairly rare opportunity at other schools, but is more than accessible here. Talk to your teachers and advisers about getting involved today.”

Professors and advisers know these are exceptional students with exceptional opportu-

nities, Miller said.

“Few aspects of my job are as enjoyable as interacting with USU’s undergraduate researchers and learning about the remarkable things they are doing in the lab, studio, field and library,” Miller said. “I am often amazed at the problems being studied and addressed by precareer university students.”

Kinkead agreed, saying, “Working with undergraduate researchers brings me in contact with extraordinary students, and you’ll see several of them at this event. These 31 students represent only the tip of the iceberg in terms of students doing research at USU.” The event is open to the public.

– megan.allen@aggiemail.usu.edu

USU students USU telescope discovers galaxies give helping hand to Haiti

By LIS STEWART staff writer

By CHELSEY GENSEL news senior writer

Students who want to help victims of the Jan. 12 Haitian earthquake can join forces with more than a dozen campus clubs and organizations that have banded together to raise money and material aid.

Hope for Haiti, a nonprofit organization that has been established in Haiti for more than 20 years and two Haitian orphanages with local ties, will receive the profits of USU’s efforts.

Tye Smith, a USU student whose relatives have adopted from the Foyer de Sion and Ruuska Village orphanages, approached local restaurants about helping. Those restaurants – Angie’s, Cafe Sabor, Hamilton’s, Center Street Grill, Firehouse Pizzeria, Elements, Papa Murphy’s and Iron Gate Grill – will be donating 20 percent of their profits made on Wednesday, Jan. 27, to the orphanages.

Also on Wednesday, an “Understanding Haiti” lecture will be hosted from 6-7 p.m. in the business building, Room 216. The lecture is hosted by the Society for International Business and Economic Development and will feature professors Bill Furlong and Maria Cordero.

Traci Burnett, community service chair for the Sociology Graduate Students’ Association (SGSA), said the easiest way to stay informed of events is to join USU’s Hope for Haiti Facebook page. There are links to sign up to volunteer, as well as to donate online.

All week, the ASUSU Information Desk will have volunteers manning the “donation station,” Burnett said.

She said even if students want to donate online or don’t have change when they come by the desk, they are encouraged to sign the donation sheet, so total donations can be tracked, regardless of what cause they help. As of 2 p.m.

Monday, about $350 has been raised, she said.

Campus clubs and organizations that are involved include ASUSU, the Dominican

- See HOPE, page 3

Inside This Issue

ZACH PETERSON AND ASHLEY HANSEN stand next to a replica of a telescope built

by USU and sent into space. Both students work at the Space Dynamics Laboratory and helped with the building of the telescope. STEVE SELLERS photo

1/27/10 Improv. Club keeps students in character.

Page 5

Basketball star Tyler Newbold overcomes challenges to succeed on and off the court.

Page 8

An 800-pound telescope, built by USU’s Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL), is sending back pictures that reveal never-before-seen galaxies, asteroids, comets and brown dwarfs, according to NASA. Most pictures will not be available for public viewing until at least six months after the mission is over, SDL program Manager John Elwell said.

Since the telescope’s launch Dec. 14, only two photos have been released to the public. Several detailed photos of recently discovered galaxies hang on the wall outside SDL offices, but these are not available for public viewing yet, Elwell said.

He said, “Only NASA can decide which ones to publicly release. In the long run, they all will be.

What they don’t like to do is prematurely release them before scientists look at the pictures and are happy with them.”

The telescope, called Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), will create an infrared atlas, according to a document NASA provided. There are four digital cameras on the telescope that take pictures in infrared, Elwell said. It will spend the next nine months taking photos of the universe every 11 seconds, until the instrument runs out of hydrogen, which keeps it cool. The telescope orbits 326 miles above earth, about 15 times a day.

“It looks at heat and light,” Elwell said. “They’re looking out to the universe taking photos.”

In taking these photos, WISE will help the science community in the search for the universe’s origin, according to the document.

“The science community can hardly go to sleep at night,” he said.

Two USU students, who helped with the project at SDL, said it is exciting to see something they worked on sending back pictures.

Ashley Hansen, junior in statistics, and Zach Peterson, master’s student in mechanical engineering, cleaned and packaged the parts and helped in other vital maintenance duties associated with building the instrument for NASA. Peterson said, “It’s cool seeing all the parts and how they fit together. You get something and clean it and see it on the satellite later and say, ‘Hey, I know what that is.’”

Cleanliness is important to SDL and its clients. If an instrument malfunctions while in space, Hansen said, the entire mission will fail. Every piece must be

- See SPACE, page 4

www.aggietownsquare.com Did you know you can put your own movie review on the web? Just add your comments to any of our movie reviews. Siskel, Ebert and you.

Official Student Newspaper of Utah State University • “It’s All The News You Need!”

Wednesday, January 27, 2010 Page 2

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

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

Celebs&People

ABBAWORLD opens in London LONDON (AP) – Is it possible to have too much ABBA? Knowing me, knowing you, the answer is no.

The spangly Swedish quartet that gave the world “Waterloo” and “Dancing Queen” has sold 400 million records since its 1970s heyday and spawned the hugely successful stage and film musical “Mamma Mia!” And now there’s ABBAWORLD – a new museum-cum-theme park in London with enough music, mementoes and memory-lane appeal to satisfy even the most fervent ABBA fan.

NewsBriefs

WASHINGTON (AP) – Toyota suspended U.S. sales of some of its most popular vehicles – including the bestselling car in America, the Camry – to fix sticking gas pedals that could make the cars accelerate without warning.

In another blow to the world’s No. 1 automaker, Toyota Motor Corp. said Tuesday it would halt some production at six assembly plants beginning the week of Feb. 1 “to assess and coordinate activities.”

The company said it would stop selling eight models of cars and trucks, a significant portion of its fleet.

LateNiteHumor Thursday, January 21, 2010 Top Ten Surprising Facts About Scott Brown 10. He’s the nephew of Godfather of Soul James Brown.

9. Climate change is partly the result of his smoldering hunkiness.

8. His response to the health care reform crisis: “Don’t Blame Conan.”

7. Got start in politics by rounding up illegals to work in Mitt Romney’s yard.

6. Once in state senate, cracked a walnut with his ass.

5. Purchased his first car at Harrison Ford.

4. Promised people of Massachusetts he’d bring back witch trials.

3. When his daughter was finalist on “American Idol,” he exchanged beauty tips with Ryan Seacrest.

2. His election helped GOP ratings skyrocket to 17%!

1. So cold today in Boston today he actually put on pants.

Obama to deliver first ‘State of the Union’ WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will try to pivot past rocky times for the nation and himself Wednesday night in his first State of the Union address, offering a skeptical public repackaged plans to energize the economy, stem a tide of red ink and strengthen anti-terror defenses.

He’ll also be trying to revive his own “yes we can” image.

One year into office, and a week after pledging to do better at “speaking directly to the American people,” Obama faces urgent challenges as he stands before lawmakers gathered in the Capitol and a prime-time television audience at home for the constitutionally mandated ritual of U.S. governing. The country has lost more than 7 million jobs since the recession began two years ago, unemployment is stuck at 10 percent, and the government is grappling with a record $1.4 trillion deficit.

Obama’s presidency is troubled as well. The percentage of Americans giving him a thumbs-up has fallen precipitously, from 74 percent when he took office to 56 percent now. He hasn’t had a breakout legislative or diplomatic victory, and he’s failed to break Washington’s partisanship as promised.

Then last week, an upset Republican victory in a Massachusetts Senate race threw Obama’s signature domestic priority, a sweeping health care overhaul, into jeopardy and shined a spotlight on economic angst now being taken out on him.

Obama will be using one of the presidency’s loudest and grandest megaphones to press several themes. They will be fleshed out in greater detail afterward as the president travels to Florida on Thursday and New Hampshire on Tuesday for jobsfocused appearances and when he submits his 2011 budget to Congress on Monday.

Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia will deliver a televised response Wednesday night, two months after putting his state in GOP hands in one of the party’s major recent election victories.

Among the freshly sharpened messages Obama will weave through his remarks: He’s a fighter for struggling families and against wealthy special interests; he relates personally to Americans’ everyday concerns; he has come far in one year but has made some errors along the way and has much more to do.

And he does not intend to fling aside an ambitious agenda on health care, energy, education, immigration and other issues in favor of trimmed-down goals.

In fact, Obama will argue that his sweeping ideas for change are as much a part of putting the economy back on track as more immediate job creation and economic security proposals.

“If we don’t get that stuff right, then it’s going to be very difficult for us to answer the anxieties that people feel over the long term,” Obama said this week in an interview with ABC News.

Advisers say the president doesn’t plan to reshape his agenda as much as better explain and defend it: – He’ll map a way forward for mired health care legislation, facing several options for passage. With each option deeply problematic, White House advisers continued to wrestle with that portion of the speech in particular late Tuesday.

Obama planned to acknowledge that the long, messy health care debate has soured many on the idea and try to make a far-reaching overhaul relevant and attractive again to voters. “We have to move forward in a way that recaptures that sense of opening things up more,” he told ABC. – He’ll talk about why he thinks the nation’s future economic health also depends on reshaping financial industry regulations to place tighter rules on Wall Street, another immediate domestic priority. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Obama will detail “what he would find acceptable on that.”

– He’ll renew his call for immigration reform, a volatile issue once considered a first-year priority but lately sent to the back burner. Obama is expected to prod Congress to craft a plan to tighten the Mexican border, crack down on businesses exploiting undocumented workers and resolve the status of roughly 12 million illegal immigrants.

– He’ll give specifics on how he believes Washington’s combative, partisan, gridlocked ways can be changed. Obama will call on Congress to address what he considers to be a dangerous Supreme Court decision that has suddenly changed the rules of campaign finance and expanded corporate influence over elections.

On national security, Obama will detail his administration’s efforts to combat terrorism around the globe, which have seen some success but have been overshadowed by the attempted airline attack on Christmas Day and political difficulties in Pakistan.

He also will address the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, nuclear disputes with Iran and North Korea, this month’s devastating earthquake in Haiti and his larger ambition to restore the U.S. image around the world.

But bread-and-butter issues – lost jobs, difficulties paying for college or retirement, soaring deficits, anger at Wall Street fat cats – will dominate the speech.

“What he’ll discuss more than anything is getting our economy moving again,” Gibbs said.

IN THIS JAN. 22, 2010, file photo President Barack Obama takes questions during a town hall style meeting at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio. AP Photo

The first priority is reversing persistent joblessness, and Obama is expected to defend the jobboosting results of last year’s stimulus package while pushing anew for proposals such as giving tax credits to small businesses that add workers and incentives to make homes more energy efficient. Neither proposal made it into a jobs bill passed by the House in December.

He also plans to propose modest new measures to help the middle class — money for child care, helping out aging parents, saving for retirement and paying off college debt, for example.

Aware of increasing voter frustration over the government’s red ink, Obama will talk about various efforts at what Gibbs called “a slow chipping away” at the deficit. The White House announced that Obama would ask Congress to freeze spending on some domestic programs for three years — though the savings would total only a tiny fraction of the annual deficit.

Bode Miller makes 4th Olympic ski team

IN THIS DEC. 18, 2009 file photo, Bode Miller, of the United States, speeds down the course on his way to fifth place during Men’s World Cup Super-G alpine skiing event in Val Gardena, Italy.

AP Photo

(AP)– Hardly a surprise, Lindsey Vonn and Bode Miller lead a list of U.S. skiers earning spots for the Vancouver Games.

The announcement of the team was delayed until Tuesday to see if any extra spots opened up.

Some did and the Americans received four extra spots, bringing the total on the men’s and women’s teams to 22 skiers.

Vonn is rolling into Vancouver having won five straight World Cup downhill events this season. She also leads the overall standings.

The way she’s been storming down the mountain, the 25-year-old Vonn could be a five-medal threat in Vancouver.

Miller made his fourth Olympics team. He captured two silver medals at the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City but got shut out in Turin.

Reigning Olympic champions Julia Mancuso and Ted Ligety also made the team. Mancuso won the giant slalom at the Turin Games in 2006 and Ligety captured gold in the combined.

The squad features nine skiers with Olympic experience and 13 newcomers. The list wasn’t broken down into what events each would ski.

Like Miller, Sarah Schleper will be competing in her fourth Olympics.

For Vonn, Vancouver could be a chance at redemption. She crashed during a training run at the 2006 Games, slamming her right knee,

EDINBURGH & HIGHLANDER

back and head into the snow at nearly 50 mph.

Although she climbed into the starting gate soon after that harrowing fall, she didn’t win any medals.

Since then, Vonn has captured just about everything there is to win, including two overall World Cup titles.

“I would predict she would win a gold medal or two or three or four or five in Vancouver,” said Billy Kidd, who won silver in the slalom at the 1964 Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.

“This is not another Olympics. This is her Olympics. This is her chance to show what she could’ve done in Torino.”

Miller had a rather forgetful performance four years ago, his socializing pretty much overshadowing his skiing.

He came into Turin about the same way Vonn is entering Vancouver – as the cover story – but failed to land on the podium.

Now the father of a little girl and back with the U.S. Ski Team after two years of training and racing on his own, the 32-year-old Miller may be showing signs of mellowing.

But, he sprained his right ankle playing volleyball in December, forcing him to miss some competitions.

With his aggressive, hold nothing-back style, Miller is a factor in any race he enters.

EDINBURGH

Best of the Best t 4JOHMF 4UVEFOU "QBSUNFOUT

t -JWJOH 3PPN

t 1SJWBUF #FESPPN BOE #BUISPPN

t /P 1BSLJOH )BTTMFT

t %FTL #FE #PPLDBTF JO FBDI #FESPPN

t "JS $POEJUJPOJOH

t 'VMMZ 'VSOJTIFE

t )JHI 4QFFE 8JSFMFTT *OUFSOFU

t -BVOESZ JO FBDI "QBSUNFOU

4FSWJDF JO FBDI #FESPPN

t .PEFSO ,JUDIFO 'BDJMJUJFT

t 57 7$3 %7%

710 North 700 East

HIGHLANDER

t $BCMF 57 XJUI +BDLT JO FBDI #FESPPN

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

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

720 North 700 East

StatesmanCampus News

Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010

Page 3

Briefs USU studies effects of classes taught pollution in Cache Valley Art for adults, teens Campus & Community

By MARISSA BODILY staff writer

USU colleagues are conducting a study to demonstrate the health effects of particle pollution in Cache Valley.

The study – led by Roger A. Coulombe Jr., director of Interdepartmental Graduate Toxicology Program, along with USU associates Jim Davis, MD, director of Student Health and Wellness Center; Randy Martin, environmental engineering; John Stevens, math and statistics and partners at the University of Utah – tests volunteers’ blood cells on days with high air pollution, as well as days with cleaner air, in order to find particulate mat- ter-related health problems.

Coulombe said the study has been going on for seven or eight years, but last week they began using human volunteers for research. Using cultured cells, they hope to find predictive markers of potential health problems caused by particulate matter (PM).

Teresa Allpress, master’s student working on the study,

said they test for inflammatory responses in the skin and lungs.

PM is potentially harmful, because the particles formed are large and can get stuck deep in the lungs and interact with cells, Allpress said.

Air quality is especially poor in Cache Valley because of “cows and cars,” Coulombe said. Cars produce nitric oxide and cows’ urine releases ammonia gas. These gases combine, resulting in air contamination. Cache Valley’s geography also contributes to the air quality. In the winter, as the temperature changes, the warm air rises, trapping the heavy pollutants in the valley, resulting in an inversion.

Because of the geographic characteristics, the impure air cannot disperse, leaving Cache Valley with terrible pollution. In 2003 and 2004, Coulombe said, Cache Valley was said to have the worst air in the nation.

Some health problems thought to be associated with PM are cardiovascular disease, shortened life span, strokes and aggravated asthma, Coulombe said.

To prevent these possible negative health outcomes, going outdoors should be avoided on bad air days as these dirty air particles are less common indoors, Allpress said.

Exercising strenuously outside should be avoided. She said working out in an indoor facility, such as the Nelson

- See PARTICLES, page 4

Campus may see Redbox machines in future

By CHELSEY GENSEL news senior writer

A Facebook group for students to voice their concerns will begin offering surveys to gather student input on issues, ranging from additions to campus facilities to reactions to recent campus events, Student Advocate Vice President Tyler Haws said at the ASUSU Executive Council meeting Tuesday.

“Part of my role is surveys and polling, and I want more results,” Haws said.

He said online polls about issues that concern students will hopefully get more responses than he can get by passing around papers and tallying them. Haws hopes to increase membership in the group, which will

be called “Voice Your Concerns and Initiatives,” and will post surveys on different topics regularly to keep students interested.

“My biggest worry is that it’ll get dry, so I definitely want to keep hot topics on it and cause a lot of talk,” Haws said.

The council also discussed some potential physical additions to campus, such as new trash cans, a food pantry and Redboxes.

Administrative Assistant Nate Robinson said the Executive Council will work with USU Housing to get a Redbox near student dormitories and the Living Learning Center or the Taggart Student Center.

Facilities is also working with the council to purchase trash cans for designated spots around campus.

Robinson said the Facilities budget allows for two trash cans, and they are waiting to hear back from USU President Stan Albrecht about additional funding to buy up to eight.

The trash cans cost about $1,5002,000 each, because they are “so nice and extremely durable,” Robinson said.

The USU food pantry, in conjunction with the Logan food pantry, will be opening in February to provide some help to students in need, said David Knighton, vice president of service.

Also at the meeting, Diversity Vice President Krista Bustamante explained the problems many clubs have been having logging onto the ASUSU clubs Web site. The site is important, because clubs that are

not registered with the university cannot host events or rent rooms, Bustamante said.

She said the problems with the Web site stem from clubs that have been inactive for a period of time, even if they are an official club. She said that using an Aggiemail account, club officers can log onto the ASUSU clubs Web site and fill out a club application and send it to her.

Clubs need to have a constitution, mission statement for this year and current officers, and Bustamante said she can answer any questions clubs have with restoring their active status.

– chelsey.gensel@aggiemail.usu.edu

Hope: Opportunities to aid Haiti are in planning stages -continued from page 1 Student’s Association (DSA), Black Student Union (BSU), Greek Community, LDS Student’s Association (LDSSA), Sociology Honor’s Society, Multicultural Student Services, USU Housing, the Val. R. Christensen Service Center and several others.

JC Almonte, DSA’s activities chairperson, said DSA will focus primarily on educating people about the culture and history of Haiti.

DSA counselor Vladimir Sosa said, “The DSA got involved with this initiative because we understand that it is the right thing to do. They need us, and united with other clubs, we can achieve great things.”

With hundreds of students already involved through their organizations or the Facebook page, donations and planning efforts are quickly taking shape.

“Right now most of our ideas are still in the works, but we are planning some big events coming up soon,” Burnett said.

Some of these include activites on the TSC Patio, dances, a blood drive, T-shirts and a benefit concert. During Feb. 16-19, which is designated as BSU’s week, BSU will also dedicate many of its activities and events to USU’s Hope for Haiti.

During an upcoming housing pledge campaign, resident assistants promise to do embarrassing acts, such as singing or dying their hair, in order to provide more incentive for residents. The more money raised, the more embarrassing the acts become. Other high-profile individuals on cam-

pus, such as ASUSU officers and student athletes, will be approached for similar campaigns.

On Feb. 18, a Hunger Banquet at the service center will donate its proceeds to Hope for Haiti.

She said many later events will be advertised in The Utah Statesman, posters and at the ASUSU Information Desk.

“We are kind of disorganized at the moment,” Burnett said, “but keep your eyes open.”

A planning meeting, which will be open to students, will be hosted Thursday, Jan. 28, at 9 a.m. on the third floor of the TSC outside the Student Involvement Office, Room 326.

Colie Peterson, the PR and activities chair for the Greek community, volunteered to head PR efforts for USU’s Hope for Haiti. She said the focus

will be on education and relief.

Fundraising will be the focus initially, but long term efforts will be led by International Students Office and council, according to a press release issued by Lisa Vaughn, Community Service coordinator with the Student Involvement and Leadership office.

In the long term, the most important thing students can do is educate themselves and others about Haiti, Almonte said.

Aside from joining the Facebook page, Peterson encouraged students to be aware of their surroundings on campus for news of how to get involved.

“Read event posters, look at the wire banners in the TSC, listen to announcements in class. Read the Statesman and listen to FusionHD radio,” she said. “All these media sources give campus updates constantly. If students decide to become aware then events will come to them, they won’t need to search too hard.”

Money from campus fundraising will reach the orphanages first by plane to Florida and then by barge to Haiti. Materials and supplies, including $10,000 in building materials donated by NUCOR steel, will be used to rebuild the orphanages and clinics, but several thousand dollars are needed just to get a boat to take supplies to Haiti before they can be used, Smith said.

There will be a team of volunteers going to Haiti to help with rebuilding efforts once the supplies and money have reached their recipients.

– chelsey.gensel@aggiemail.usu.edu

Corps of Engineers takes bids for Utah data center SALT LAKE CITY – An electronic data center the National Security Agency plans to build in Utah will be self-contained with its own water supply, sewer system, power backup system and antiterrorism defenses, a government bid document states.

The core of the 1-million-square-foot complex will consist of a 100,000 square feet “mission critical” control room with a raised floor to hide cables, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer.

The corps is supervising construction for the NSA, which has refused to disclose the full purpose or function of the $1.7 billion center. Many believe it is meant for analysis of domestic and international telecommunications. A high percentage of Utah’s population, predominantly Mormon, speaks a foreign language.

The Army Corps of Engineers released details of the super-secret data center on a government contracting Web site. It called for a “very aggressive” construction schedule of around 600 days. General

contractors have until Feb. 18 to submit bids.

The corps said it won’t necessarily pick the lowest bid. It’s using a best value approach instead that takes both price and technical considerations into account.

In June, President Barack Obama signed into law a supplemental war-spending bill that included an initial appropriation for the Utah data center.

Another is being built in Texas.

The Utah data center will be protected by multiple security rings on a 200-acre parcel inside Camp Williams, a sprawling Utah National Guard site about 30 miles south of Salt Lake City.

Humming with banks of computer servers and air conditioning units, the complex will consume 65 megawatts of power, enough for more than 33,000 houses. The state’s utility, Rocky Mountain Power, said it can supply that much extra electricity.

The NSA selected Utah over 37 other sites for its “abundant availability of low-cost power, robust

communications infrastructure and the space that was needed,” former intelligence official Glenn Gaffney told a Utah news conference in October.

Gaffney, who was deputy director of National Intelligence for Collection, has since return to the CIA, where he heads up a science and technology directorate.

Ross Feinstein, a spokesman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which oversees 15 federal agencies, said Tuesday it was highly unlikely any agency would comment on the mission of the Utah data center.

In October, Gaffney played up the data center’s mission in protecting the military’s computer networks from cyber attacks. He declined to say what else it would do.

There’s a good reason for secrecy: Disclosing the center’s actual operations or tactics would render it obsolete against threats from hackers, criminals and foreign enemies, Sen. Bob Bennett has said.

The Alliance for the Varied Arts has new classes starting in February. The creative writing classes for teens and adults are taught by Christine Allen-Yazzie and children’s drawing classes are taught by Kristi Grussendorf.

Also, there are performances by the Logan Youth Shakespeare class coming up in February at the Dansante building in Logan. Visit the alliance’s Web site, avaarts. org, for more details or call 7532970 Tuesday through Friday 1-6 p.m. for more details.

Museum explores collapse of societies Joseph Tainter, professor of Environment and Society at USU, will be the featured speaker at the upcoming Saturdays at the Museum event at the USU Museum of Anthropology Jan. 30 at 1 p.m. Tainter’s topic, “Why Societies Collapse,” is based on his original research published in his book “The Collapse of Complex Societies.”

Tainter’s research has also been featured on the ABC News program “Earth 2100” and he served as a subject matter expert for the 2007 documentary film “The 11th Hour,” narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio. Tainter’s research focuses on social conflict in environmental issues, human responses to climate change and environmental degradation and human uses of energy and resources. “(Tainter’s) insight is remarkably interesting and even eyeopening,” said Mary Kay Gabriel, museum curator. “He explains where our own society is heading and that it is not all roses, yet his realistic assessments leave plenty of room for positive action. We are very fortunate to have the opportunity to discuss these ever-looming issues with him directly.”

For more information, call 7977545 or visit the museum Web site, anthromuseum.usu.edu.

Bullens honored for years of service The Utah State University Alumni Association recently awarded long-time Cache Valley residents Bill and Marty Bullen a merit citation for their continual service in the community and dedicated support of USU. Both attended and graduated from USU. Bill earned two economics degrees, a bachelor’s in 1965 and his master’s in 1968.

Marty earned her bachelor’s degree in English in 1966. Since graduating from USU, they became highly involved in USU and their own communities as well.

“Bill and Marty have each had a significant influence on the lives of many people in Cache Valley,” said Patty Halaufia, executive director of alumni relations at USU.

Robins awards nominations due The Robins Awards reward students and faculty for hard work and dedication to their individual goals, as well as the goals of USU. The awards memorialize William E. Robins, a campus hero who had a rare quality to turn his vision into Utah State’s vision.

Robins served as USU’s student body president in 1949. He was the primary and initial visionary of today’s Taggart Student Center.

As a change this year any student who nomiates another student or organization will have the chance to attend the ceremony if their nominee becomes a finalist. This year’s Robins awards will be held April 24 in the TSC Ballroom. You can nominate students on the first floor of the TSC and at http://www.usu.edu/asusu.

The deadline is Feb. 5.

-Compiled from staff and media reports

Page 4

StatesmanCampus News

Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010

The United States redefines strategy in Yemen WASHINGTON (AP) – The terror incubator in Yemen, birthplace of the Christmas Day airliner attack, is forcing the United States and allies to pour millions of dollars into a shaky government that officials suspect won’t spend the money wisely and isn’t fully committed to the battle against al-Qaida.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other world leaders meet in London on Wednesday to hash out a plan. Efforts to stabilize the impoverished nation, where the government is battling al-Qaida strongholds with American help, are suddenly urgent after years of faltering.

“Clearly December 25th had an electrifying impact,” said Daniel Benjamin, State Department coordinator for counterterrorism. The failed attempt to bring down the Detroit-bound airliner by a Nigerian tied to Yemen’s radicals made “many members of the international community think that this was a time to get past the excuses and get back to work.”

U.S. officials are uneasy, however, about Yemen’s government.

President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s army has only sporadically pursued the growing al-Qaida threat in Yemen’s vast tribal territory.

The United States wants its aid to be closely monitored, and tied to economic and political reforms.

American worries about Yemen’s commitment heightened last year after several Yemeni detainees who had been released from Guantanamo Bay prison resurfaced as leaders of the country’s growing al-Qaida faction.

At the same time, the Yemeni government can be undermined by appearing too close to the Americans. The Yemeni people are virulently anti-Israel, and by extension anti-American. Sensitive to that concern, U.S. officials have played down the Pentagon’s efforts to provide intelligence and other assistance to the Yemeni military.

The effort, Benjamin acknowledged, will have to overcome a history of failed commitments on all sides.

“The international community made a number of commitments to Yemen and they haven’t always been delivered, and Yemenis, as we know, have also sometimes made commitments and haven’t always followed through,” he said. “The important thing is that the (Yemeni) government’s doing the right thing now.”

U.S. officials say they want to combine a deeper involvement with the Yemenis on the counterterrorism front with programs designed to alleviate poverty, illiteracy and rapid population

growth.

Much like the effort with Pakistan’s Frontier Corps, the U.S. military has boosted its counterterrorism training for Yemeni forces, and is providing more intelligence, which includes surveillance by unmanned drones, U.S. officials and analysts have told The Associated Press. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the secretive nature of the operations, say the support comes at the request of Yemen.

A Yemeni official said Tuesday that the U.S. military and intelligence agencies have been participating in joint operations for some time with Yemeni troops, and the two countries are currently in discussions to build a new aviation unit to help bolster Yemen’s counterterrorism forces.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss military operations, said that while the intelligence sharing has been critical, the Yemen military badly needs helicopters for its counterterrorism operations.

The Washington Post reported Tuesday that operations have killed scores of people, among them six of 15 top leaders of a regional al-Qaida affiliate. Other officials told The Associated Press the number may be closer to four.

The operations were approved by President Barack Obama and begun six weeks ago and involve several dozen troops from the U.S. military’s clandestine Joint Special Operations Command.

U.S. officials have said repeatedly that American advisers do not take part in raids in Yemen, but provide intelligence, surveillance, planning and other weapons assistance.

As part of the operations, Obama approved a Dec. 24 strike against a compound where a U.S. citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American-Yemeni Islamic cleric, was thought to be meeting with other regional al-Qaida leaders. He was not the focus of the strike and was not killed.

Al-Awlaki has been connected with the alleged perpetrators of two recent attacks on American soil: the Nov. 5 shooting rampage at the Fort Hood, Texas, army base and the Christmas airliner bombing attempt.

The broad outlines of the U.S. involvement in Yemen have been reported by the AP and others, but the extent and nature of the operations have not.

A key U.S. complaint is that Yemen’s pursuit of al-Qaida insurgents inside the country has been fitful at best. The low point was

IN THIS DEC. 11 FILE PHOTO, Yemeni refugee children gather under a photo of Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh at the Mazraq Refugee Camp in northern Yemen. The terror incubator in Yemen, birthplace of the Christmas Day airliner attack, is forcing the United States and allies to pour millions of dollars into a shaky government officials suspect won’t spend the money wisely and isn’t fully committed to the battle against al-Qaida. AP photo

the deadly October 2000 al-Qaida attack on the Navy destroyer USS Cole in Yemen’s Aden harbor that killed 17 American sailors.

The Yemeni government largely defeated al-Qaida forces in 2003, but the terror group was able to rebound more as the government turned its focus to flare-ups by other insurgents. Then, early last year, al-Qaida groups in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, Yemen’s northern neighbor, merged, and turned their efforts toward Islamic jihad beyond those countries’ borders.

In the wake of the Christmas attack, Yemen’s military has struck repeatedly at al-Qaida sites.

N.H. teacher, 100, earns degree a day before dying CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – It was Harriet Richardson Ames’ dream to earn her bachelor’s degree in education. She finally reached that milestone, nearly three weeks after achieving another: her 100th birthday.

On Saturday, the day after receiving her diploma at her bedside, the retired schoolteacher died, pleased that she had accomplished her goal, her daughter said. Ames had been in hospice care.

“She had what I call a ‘bucket list,’ and that was the last thing on it,” Marjorie Carpenter said Tuesday.

Ames, who turned 100 on Jan. 2, had earned a two-year teaching certificate in 1931 at Keene Normal School, now Keene State College. She taught in a one-room schoolhouse

in South Newbury, and later spent 20 years as a teaching principal at Memorial School in Pittsfield, where she taught first-graders.

Through the years, she had taken classes at the University of New Hampshire, Plymouth Teachers College and Keene State to earn credits for her degree. With her eyesight failing, she stopped after retiring in 1971 and was never sure if she had enough credits.

Her wish for a degree became known when a Keene State film professor interviewed her a couple of years ago for a piece on the college’s own centennial, which the school celebrated last year.

The school decided to research her coursework and see if it could award Ames

her long-sought diploma. The offices of the provost, registrar and other departments worked quickly in the last month to determine, that indeed, it could.

“She wanted to be the best that she could be,” said Norma Walker, coordinator of the Keene State College Golden Circle Society, an alumni group for classes that graduated 50 or more years ago.

Walker said when she mentioned to Ames during a recent visit that the college was working on the degree, Ames started to cry and said, “’If I die tomorrow, I’ll know I’ll die happy, because my degree’s in the works.’”

College officials, including Walker, drove the document to Ames’ bedside on Friday.

Space: Telescope project took 5 years -continued from page 1 extensively cleaned by the students and tested for the smallest of specks in special rooms, so the pieces meet the preset standard before they are packaged and sent off.

After spending five years developing the telescope under a $76-million contract, SDL employees watched their creation, aboard a Delta 2 rocket, lift off from a launch pad in Vandenberg Air Force, Calif.

Elwell said, “I was sitting on the consoles with my boss at the Jet Propulsion Laboratoy.

And we’re sitting just watching two minutes after the launch, and he turns to me and says, ‘You know they’re actually paying us to do this.’

You can’t understand the rush, the excitement.”

Work for SDL is far from over.

“We’re still involved with the operations,” Elwell said. “Our job is to monitor the health and status of the instrument, watch any trends that might change over time. We know the instrument better than anyone else. We’re over a

month in our orbit now. It’s worked almost flawlessly. It’s one of the smoothest (projects) so far, and I’ve been here for 23 years.”

Hansen said, “Humans are just curious and they like to know exactly how everything works.

That’s how I describe it. We want to make sure we see everything out there.”

WISE is one of the many projects SDL works on for government agencies, military and other large corporations such as ATK. According to Elwell, getting the contract for WISE was a competitive process, and SDL is well-known for the work it has done over its 50-year history.

Photographs taken by the telescope have a resolution of more than 4 million pixels, Elwell said. They will replace the 62-pixel photos taken by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite in 1983, which was the last time an infrared all-sky survey was taken.

– la.stewart@aggiemail.usu.edu

Particles: Air could harm health -continued from page 3

Fieldhouse, is an alternative. well-being, perhaps they will alter their actions Because driving is a contributor to the poland circumstances will improve. When people lution, driving should be limited, particularly aren’t informed, they may not be aware there on bad air days. Coulombe said public transis a problem and, therefore, have no reason to portation should be used whenever possible. change, he said. Coulombe anticipates evidence Coulombe said writing to legislators to let them of a connection between PM and negative health know that something needs to be done about effects will motivate officials and others to do the issue can also help. more about this concern in Cache Valley.

Coulombe said he hopes to confirm the – marissa.bodily@aggiemail.usu.edu link between health problems and PM so that something will be done. If people realize there - Related info, page 5 is a relationship between bad air quality and

AggieLife Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010 Page 5

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

Just improvise ...

Club keeps students on their toes.

By KATE AUMAN staff writer

It’s more than just acting.

USU’s club The Antics was formed two years ago by former USU student John Terry, who found interest in improvisational acting while taking a theater course with The Antics’ President, Greg Probst, sophomore in political science. At first the club was comprised of a few students with their limited knowledge on the subject coming from one or two books. Soon the group grew as it performed in various venues and before long, The Antics became more serious about doing what they did: improv.

Probst said, “(Improv) is not only fun, but it improves on a lot of important skills in life.”

Freshman, and the publicity coordinator of the club, Matthew Allred, said one life skill is the ability to think quick. He compared improv to a pingpong game versus a game of chess.

“In pingpong it’s an automatic reaction, which is what good improv is; whereas, bad improv is like a chess game, slow and over-thought,” Allred said. “When you learn to respond on your gut in improv, it carries into your life, giving you a quick wit.”

Probst explained that improv also builds trust, which is why some businesses will have instructors of professional improv teams spend a few days teaching their employees improv. Probst explained why some corporations take this route by saying, “If you get up on stage and don’t trust someone, it will go nowhere. It’s like a basketball team, if you don’t trust your teammates, you will not do well.”

Improv also helps improve creativity through role-playing, by allowing a participant to become another character and develop a spontaneous relationship with other participants.

eS tev S by oto h p Then after establishing a relationship and a character, the person begins to feel the emotions in the situation.

Danielle Probst, senior in English education, said, “Improv is not just comedy, like most people think it is, it is all emotions. From anger to embarrassment, it is an expression of feeling, just like any other art form.”

In fact, one time Greg acted in a scene with a fellow classmate and the situation quickly became romantically heated.

As the situation escalated, the students’ faces became closer and closer into a near kiss, then the fire alarm went off. Greg said it was due to the fact that the scene was “so hot.”

The members of Antics do not just practice to improve on life skills. They have fun. Greg said The Antics annually perform in the USU Marketplace.

“We all went in and acted like we were casual and not really up to anything, all at different tables,” he said. “Then

elle

rs

over the sound system, a song came on, and we all got up and belted our parts of the song – which isn’t improv, but it is something we love. It was hilarious.”

The Antics perform at venues such as Why Sound and Spoon Me, where its first show was held this school year.

Allred said the club chose Spoon Me because of its intimate environment and great acoustics. The Antics also perform on campus. Its performance and practice schedule can be accessed at Facebook, Myspace and YouTube.

For those interested in joining the group, Greg gave this advice: “It will be awkward your first time. You will feel uncomfortable. But you need to realize that we are all here to support you and learn from you. And we make friends really fast, trust me,” he said.

– kate.auman@aggiemail.usu.edu

LOGAN WAS NAMED for having the worst air quality in the nation. A reason the air quality is so poor comes from a natural process of air circulation in the bowl-shaped valley gone wrong. STEVE SELLERS photo

Filling lungs with pollution

By KASEY VAN DYKE staff writer

As the sun peaks over the mountains, students can look down from Old Main Hill and across Logan to see the stores on Main Street, the Tabernacle and houses lit up with a morning glow. Unfortunately, sometimes blanketing the landmarks of Logan is a thick, gray layer of pollution and haze. On Jan. 11, Logan was named by airnow.gov as having the worst air quality in the nation, along with three other Utah cities. One of the reasons the air quality is poor comes from a natural process of air circulation gone wrong.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Web site, a temperature inversion occurs when air

Logan named worst air in nation gets warmer with higher altitude. Usually, air gets cooler as it leaves the ground and travels up through the atmosphere, but when this process is “inverted,” a warm layer of air traps the cooler air, pollution and smog near the ground, creating a surface temperature inversion. This, in turn, means low quality air.

The NOAA Web site also states that some of the best conditions for a surface temperature inversion are “calm winds, clear skies and long nights.” With Cache Valley’s high mountains, low valleys and sub-freezing winter nights, it’s not a mystery as to why there’s an air quality problem. Because of these conditions, Kelly Greenwood, a recent graduate in journalism, said she wasn’t surprised that Logan had the worst air quality in the nation.

“I’m not surprised at all, because we live in a little bowl where inversion gathers,” she

said.

Logan Mayor Randy Watts made it clear that the city is also aware of the problem.

“It’s a big issue,” he said. “There’s a lot that’s been done, but not a lot to rectify it.”

While Watts is aware of the issue, he goes on to recognize the necessity for transportation within the city.

“Everyone needs to get from point A to point B,” he said. “Some people can walk, some can bike, some just need a ride.”

One source of pollution is car emissions.

According to the Utah DMV Web site, Cache County does not require emissions testing. In fact, it lists only four counties across the state that require emissions testing: Davis, Salt Lake, Utah and Weber.

Though Greenwood wasn’t surprised by the air-quality ranking, she was shocked upon

hearing about the lack of emissions testing.

“I had no idea that Logan doesn’t require emissions testing,” she said. “I think that’s ridiculous, and I don’t know why they wouldn’t require it.”

The American Lung Association (ALA) Web site calls the type of pollution that comes from emissions and exhaust “particle pollution.” According to the ALA Web site, particle pollution has been linked to “illness, hospitalization and premature death.” It also states that particle pollution also “diminishes lung function, causes greater use of asthma medications and increases rates of school absenteeism, emergency room visits and hospital admissions.” It also states that “chronic exposure to particle pollution can shorten life

- See POOR, page 6

AggieLife

Page 6

Read this before doing anything else

EatThat

Taking back the kitchen and all about it.

A column for the rest of us

T

he year 2010 came upon me with stealth and swiftness this year, and I wasn’t ready for it. It came like a fox in the night, and laid waste to the chicken coop that was the previous year. I keep writing 2009 on all of my papers and important documents. I feel antsy, out of place. I feel strange.

But as much as I hoot and holler, I know the truth. A new, kicking, screaming, amniotic fluid-covered year is upon us now, bawling and waving its arms around in a generally panicked motion, tangled in a red sash with the words “Hello 2010!” embossed in gold. That’s a strange visual. On with the column. Quickly, quickly.

Don’t worry, I’ve since recovered from the initial shock of the new year, and I got to thinking about that fickle thing we call time. More specifically, I started thinking: What has changed the most drastically since I was a child?

So, let’s talk about history. Yep, history. The history of the ol’ World Wide Web. Or at least as far back as circa 1995 or so. And we’ll start with this: Beeeeooowww daahhhdeeddaahhhdeee pfffcchchchchch pcherrrrrrrrr waaaaahhhhhhhh mchiiichhhhhhhhh.

Oddly enough, that sound, for those of you that still remember, was the Internet. Or at least, your modem making the screeches of a dying rabbit as it faithfully connected to the Internet.

Once connected, you would wait excitedly as your modem would fire information at you at about the rate it takes paint to dry, and eventually display your home page.

You would then choose your favorite “search engine” (before Google ingested every other search engine with sheer Web-crawling might) and browse the Web. (Our metaphoric paint had already dried by then, unfortunately.)

Wow, huh? Has it really been so long that we’ve all forgotten how incredibly and majestically slow the Internet was? Those were simpler times. The days when you typed in www.nintendo.com, and before the Web site came up, it told you that it would be loading its content for a while and that you might want to grab a snack.

I’m not joking, it used to say that. The times when when AOL was more than just a pile of CDs lurking in the corner, before you realized that asking Jeeves was actually far less effective than Googling the same question, and when e-mail was “cool” and “new” and it was OK to have a really stupid e-mail address, because, hey, everyone had one. Mine was leavemealone451@hotmail.com – and I was dang proud of it. It was only until 1999 that I realized how eccentric and strange my e-mail address was and dumped it for something far cooler: soccer_007845@ hotmail.com.

These were the times when you’d come home from school and get on the Internet, only to find that you’d been clogging the entire phone line up for hours, and everyone was angry at you. “James, get off the in’ernet before you and I tangle big time.” The times when it would take about four hours to download a single song off of Napster, and yet you still had a good solid collection of about 200 tunes that you had managed to haul off the Web at about 18 kilobits a second.

Yes, things have definitely changed. Nowadays, if you don’t know something, you Google it. And if you can’t find it via Google, then it probably doesn’t exist.

Nowadays, we get all hot and bothered if our questionably obtained media files aren’t downloading at more than 1megabites per second. It certainly is a different world. And what does tomorrow hold? Probably something remarkably similar to what today held.

So let’s re-ask that question: What do the next 10 years hold? And that answer, boys and girls, is waiting for us, 10 years from now. And as 2010 finally quiets down, gets himself untangled from that red sash of his and gets all of that strange bodily fluids wiped off of him, he smiles, looks into your eyes, and says, Movin’ my hips like yea I got my hands up, They’re playin my song I know I’m gonna be OK Yea, it’s a party in the USA Yea, it’s a party in the USA.

Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010

Saving your week one bowl of soup at a time After a long day of class, work or both, standing at the bus stop with your feet frozen in the snow, stomach growling and a backpack full of homework, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to walk in the front door to a pot of warm soup bubbling on the stove? If only.

If only you could make the soup on a random Sunday, after waking from your afternoon nap with nothing to do. And then you could put it in the freezer.

And then on that feet-freezing day, after class you could walk in the door, dump the frozen square of soup into a pot and you’d be eating in no time.

The following soup recipes are not only freezable, they’re so good you may want to make a double batch to be sure you’ll have enough left to freeze.

– Saute onions in butter until soft.

– Add broth and bring to a simmer. Add broccoli, cover and steam until soft, about 10 minutes.

– Puree cooked broccoli and potatoes until smooth.

– Pour back into pan, bring to a boil.

– Add cheese, stir until melted.

– Remove from heat.

Red Lentil Soup

– Whisk in cream, and salt and pepper to taste.

2 tablespoons olive oil

One thing you can do to jazz up any soup is serve it with homemade croutons. To make them, you just need bread (any kind will work), oil or butter and a little seasoning. Cut or tear the bread up into squares (they don’t have to be perfect) and spread them out on a baking sheet. Pour a little olive oil or melted butter into a bowl and brush both sides of the squares with it.

Sprinkle with garlic salt and your choice of any other seasonings and bake at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes, or until the squares as crispy as you want them.

You may need to stir them once during the baking to make sure they get cooked on all sides.

The croutons in the following dessert soup recipe are just your favorite brownies cut up into small pieces.

1/2 large onion, chopped 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 tablespoon tomato paste 2 teaspoons cumin 1 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper dash of chili powder, to taste 1 1/2 teaspoons thyme 1 bay leaf 2 cans (4 cups) vegetable broth (can use water) 2 cups water 1 cup red lentils (Red lentils can be found in the bulk section of the grocery store)

White Chocolate Raspberry Soup with Brownie Croutons 1 1/2 cups frozen raspberries 1/2 cup and 2 tablespoons water 1/4 cup sugar

2 large carrots, peeled and diced

1/4 cup seedless raspberry jam

1 tablespoon lemon juice

1 tablespoon orange juice

shredded Parmesan cheese for garnish (optional)

1/4 cup whipping cream

– In a large pot, heat olive oil. Add onion and saute until soft and clear. Add garlic and saute until fragrant, about two minutes.

2 ounces white chocolate chips

– Stir in tomato paste, cumin, salt, pepper and chili powder and saute for two more minutes.

– Combine raspberries, water and sugar in a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Cook until sugar is dissolved and raspberries are falling apart, about five minutes.

– Add broth, water, lentils, carrots, thyme and bay leaf.

Bring to a boil and let simmer, partially covered, for 3o minutes, until the lentils are soft.

– Pour mixture into a blender and add jam and orange juice. Puree until smooth. Strain the mixture to remove seeds and refrigerate until chilled.

– Remove the bay leaf and throw it away.

– Meanwhile, in another saucepan heat, the cream until it simmers. Remove from heat and add white chocolate chips. Let sit two minutes, then beat until smooth. Let cool.

– Stir in the lemon juice.

– Garnish with Parmesan cheese.

Cheesy Cream of Potato and Broccoli Soup

– Ladle the raspberry soup into a bowl, top with a few teaspoons of the white chocolate cream and use a spoon to swirl it in. Serve with brownie croutons.

1/3 cup minced onion 2 tablespoons butter 1 can (2 cups) vegetable broth 2 cups chopped fresh broccoli

Jennelle Clark is a psychology major who just decided to minor in art.

1 potato (about 1 1/2 cups) chopped and boiled Questions or comments can be sent to James Rasmussen at jamesrasmus@gmail. com.

1/2 cup cream salt and pepper 1/2 cup sharp cheddar cheese

Don’t forget

Watching Your Wallet Every Wednesday at www.aggietownsquare.com

Poor: Emission testing contributes to poor air -continued from page 5 by one to three years.” Having lived in Logan for four years, Greenwood said on some level she feels the air has continued to deteriorate throughout her stay.

“I didn’t pay attention at first, but it seems worse this year,” she said. “My body is responding to it more this year.”

Aaron Johnson, sophomore in philosophy, also expressed strong feelings about the pollution.

“You can see the pollution,” he said. “That pisses me off.”

Though Johnson expresses furor about the pollution, he recognizes that implementing emissions testing would put financial pressure on students and citizens in Logan.

“Cars that can pass emissions testing are a bourgeois luxury,” he said. “We can’t all drive a Prius. The poor can’t afford to get their cars tested. If their job requires them to drive and they can’t pass emissions testing, what are they going to do, starve?”

Johnson also gave advice to the Logan mayor.

“I would tell him (Watts) that the air quality needs to improve,” he said, “but in such a way that it wouldn’t harm people who rely on transportation for sustenance.”

One way Logan citizens and USU students can help cut down the amount of emissions in the air is to utilize Logan’s

transit system, Watts said.

“It’s basically a matter of trying to do a better job with what we can control,” he said. “More traffic on our transit and driving less.”

Though the pollution is an important issue that can’t be resolved easily, Watts expressed his belief that students are helping.

“I think students do a better job,” he said, “because, by their nature, they seem to look for more economically feasible options.”

Johnson agreed, saying, there may be a point when it is no longer economically feasible for students to own cars.

“Adding emissions testing would make it not cost effective for students to have a car,” he said. “Most students would find it financially unsound to drive. Unless Mom and Dad are paying for it, it’s not worth it.”

Watts said he believes an important step will be awareness and change of mind.

“If everybody changes their mind-set a little bit,” he said, “we might reach attainment.”

– k.vandyke@aggiemail.usu.edu

Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010

AggieLife

Page 7

Program offers financial guide for women

changes during breaks, because I have different jobs than during the semester when I am on workstudy. I have to adjust for that.”

Rowbury said.

Since 1997, Jean Lown, USU professor in One way Rowbury said she accomplishes the family, consumer and human developthis, is by having a revolving account so she ment department, has been offering and can pay large, occasional expenses, such as teaching a free program for women in Utah: car registration.

Financial Planning for Women (FPW).

Lown said students should keep track of But why financial planning for women? what they spend during the first two weeks Lown said her announcement fliers around of the semester to see where they can cut campus sometimes have “What about men?” back. written on them.

“Write down everything According to Lown, you spend for a couple of women tend to defer to “Women need to weeks,” Lown said. their spouses on finances, Something Lown advobe encouraged to because men often make cates strongly for women have more power more money. However, planning their finances is and control over women are more likely to having realistic goals. money. And I outlive their spouses or “If your goal is to be end up divorced, single, rich, it is too vague. Be spealso never turn having a disabled husband cific in a dollar amount and men away from or deserted and “it hapmake it realistic and attainthe seminars.” pens more than you think,” able. Have a specific time Lown said. element involved, as well,” “Women need to be – Jean Lown, profes- Lown said. encouraged to have more Lown said a posisor in family, consumer tiveAlso, power and control over attitude is crucial. and human money,” Lown said. “And I “Having a positive attialso never turn men away development tude pays off when trying to from the seminars.” meet your financial goals.

The FPW Web site, You will be more satisfied www.usu.edu/fpw, stated with your finances and have the mission of the proa better ability to meet your goal. This idea gram is to “educate women about personal is based on a very solid body of academic finance and investing and motivate them research by psychologists,” Lown said. to take responsibility for their financial Part of keeping a positive attitude is “if future.” you fall of the wagon, you can get up and Lown said, “A person who earns more start over. No one is perfect. Expect backmoney than their spouse can translate into sliding,” Lown said. a real power thing. A good solution to this According to Lown, this is because meetis to work it out on an individual basis. ing financial goals is a “process of change.”

What works for one couple may not work There are stages, which include precontemfor another. But difficulties arise when you plation, contemplation, preparation, action don’t talk about it.” and maintenance.

Lown said having a personal allowance According to Lown, individuals and couevery month, or money one doesn’t have to ples have to be ready, or at the contemplaaccount for, is something everyone needs. tion stage, to change their financial habits.

Lown said for students and newly married Lown said, “It really is a stair-step procouples, the amount may only be $10 a cess and backsliding is common. There is month, but is still important. strong research linking behavior to finanFor couples who are struggling with cial habits.” finances and working together on the issue, FPW meets every second Wednesday the Family Life Center at the bottom of of every month at noon and at 7 p.m. The Old Main Hill offers financial counseling format this year, Lown said, will be less to anyone in the community for a minimal of a formal lecture and focus on the workcost based on income, according to www. book “Money Talk: A Financial Guide for flchfc.usu.edu.

Women” by Patricia Brennan and Barbara Another issue college women can face is O’Neill. having an irregular income, Lown said.

Also according to the FPW Web site, FPW attendee, Scarlett Rowbury, junior FPW is the only program in northern Utah in family finance, said this is true in her providing monthly financial planning educase. cation. Approximately 200 women have “My husband works as a pharmacy attended FPW since 1997. technician at Walgreens, but my income The workbook, bought with a grant from

By STOREE POWELL features senior writer

Street Speak Who would you rather fight: Chuck Norris or Dog the Bounty Hunter?

“Chuck Norris, as long as there’s an eagle by my side.”

– Heather Griffiths, senior, American studies

“I’d fight Dog the Bounty Hunter because I look like Bruce Willis from ‘Die Hard’ right now.”

– Alix Court, senior, English teaching

“I’d fight Dog the Bounty Hunter because Chuck Norris drives an ice cream truck covered in human skulls.”

–Ian Graham, junior, history

“Dog the Bounty Hunter because he has awesome, long, white-trash hair, which is easy to hold onto and I’d lose against Chuck Norris. ” – Rebekah Epperson, junior, cultural anthropology

information and photos by Makaela Herran

Answers To Today’s Crossword Puzzle!

FINANCIAL PLANNING FOR WOMEN (FPW) is a free program. FPW is the only program PASTA~SEAFOOD~STEAK~PIZZA in northern Utah providing financial planning education. CARL WILSON photo illustration

the Certified Financial Planners Board of Standards, is free to use by attendees, though Lown said donations help stretch the grant money.

February’s program, Lown said, will focus on credit, because of the recently passed Credit Card Act, which will go into effect Feb. 20, by Congress. The act will con-

FREE

stitute many changes, such as lowering credit limits, which can really impact finances, SODA OR ICE TEA Lown said.

WITH ANY REGULAR PRICE ENTREE EXPIRES 1/27/10 For more information on FPW, resources, to sign up for the newsletter or view past ENTREES INCLUDE SOUP OR SALAD presentations, visitTOO www.usu.edu/fpw.

DIE FOR ENDLESS BREADSTICKS – storee.powell@aggiemail.usu.edu ENTREES FROM 9.95-GREAT BEER & WINE MENU 54 No. Main, Smithfield 563-9179

Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010 Page 8

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

The modest

By STEVE CLARK staff writer

You see him walking around campus every day. He looks familiar to you, but you can’t quite pin where you’ve seen him before. You think to yourself, “Maybe he’s that guy who loaned me his notes one time in class. Or maybe he’s that guy who sat by me at USU Marketplace when I had a table by myself. Or maybe he’s that guy who gave me a ride up 800 East in his sweet green minivan.” This mysterious nice guy also claims the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum as his home, and as I discovered Utah State forward Tyler Newbold may be one of the most humble persons to don an Aggie uniform.

“I’m just a normal college student, just like everyone else,” Newbold said. “I don’t think I’m anything special or better than anyone else.”

Newbold’s modesty is special. There is only a choice amount of people who carry themselves as well as this guy does. Not many students that know his name are aware that he has started all but his first 10 games in his threeyear career at USU. Or that during his reign as starting small forward, Newbold has quietly played his part into many all-time great Aggie basketball moments.

While in his freshman year, Newbold was teammates with Aggie legend Jaycee Carroll. When, on Jan. 19, 2008, Carroll broke the record for all-time leading scorer in school history, passing Greg Grant’s 2,129 career points, Newbold was the one that dished Carroll the ball on the shot that put him in the record books.

We’ve all seen the theme on the USU game day shirts this year, “Where AmAzing Happens.” But did you know the phrase was coined from a YouTube clip made by a USU fan, showing Newbold hitting the game-winning shot against New Mexico State in last year’s WAC tournament?

Last season, Newbold was recognized by the NCAA as No. 1 in the nation, in the

assists to turnovers ratio, 3.96 to 1.00. It was no big deal, really. His award only meant that he played unselfish and took care of the ball better than anyone else in college basketball.

Of course, as I found out, Newbold himself would never boast about these accomplishments, because of the kind of person he is.

“It’s mostly always been about who I’ve been and who I am,” Newbold said about the way he presents himself. “Even if you’re having a bad day, people are watching you no matter who you are – your friends, your family, your brothers and sisters – so you always have to remember who you are, what you stand for and who you want to be remembered as when you’re gone.”

Newbold, like most of us, learned those lessons from his parents, Kelly and Lynette Newbold, and younger siblings, Kristin and Tanner. Newbold’s family is as die-hard Aggie blue as they come.

His father is a high school counselor, as well as an assistant coach for Payson High School’s men’s basketball team.

He and his wife make the two-and-a-half-hour drive from Utah County for every USU home game, occasionally bringing 15 year-old Tanner if he leaves basketball practice early enough.

Kristin, who is a junior at USU, is always found in the front row of every home game to support her big brother.

One thing that all Aggies should, but few do, know is that while both of Newbold’s parents graduated from USU, they are both employed by Brigham Young University. Not only by BYU, but by BYU’s athletic department. His father is the

steed

announcing voice at BYU home basketball games and his mother has an office in the athletic department.

“It’s kind of interesting,” Newbold said. “My mom has all sorts of Utah State stuff up in her office at BYU. A lot of the people there give her crap for it, but it’s something that she’s all about, so she doesn’t care.”

Newbold is the hustler on the team – he’s the workhorse – which seems to fit perfectly with his nickname, “Horse.” Having gone to Payson High, known for its abundance of cowboys, farm land and “Footloose”, Newbold must have known the reputation would follow him to Logan.

But is that the real reason why his teammates and some fans call him horse? After some digging, Newbold shared the origin of his nickname.

“My freshman year we (teammates) would play ‘NBA Showtime’ on the original Playstation, we would all go at it” Newbold said. “We would often get complaints from the surrounding people in the hotel for being too loud because we were freaking out at the game like after a game-winning shot or whatever. The reason why I’m nicknamed Horse goes back to that game.”

He explained that he and his teammates would create their own players as mascots and

his happened to be, you guessed it, a horse.

“Every time I would make a shot on the game, the announcer would say, ‘Horse for three,’” he said. “And I was really good at the game. I got really good at it, so starting then, some of the guys on the team just started calling me horse whenever I’d make a shot in a real game or in practice they’d be like, ‘Nice shot Horse.’”

After that, the name just stuck. The coaches got in on it and even some of the well-educated Aggie basketball fans call him Horse.

“Now a lot of the players on the team call me that and they don’t know why or where it came from. A lot of them think that it’s because I work hard and I’m a workhorse, which I’m glad they think that but isn’t correct,” Newbold said with a grin. “I like that nickname and I’m thankful for it, I guess.”

Newbold’s accomplishments on the court have been phenomenal, but I wouldn’t be doing his story justice if I only talk about his basketball life. As I found out there is much more to the man than sports.

When Newbold was 12, he was diagnosed with Type I Diabetes. Before practice and games he has to make sure his blood sugar is at a safe level for him to perform. He makes sure his blood sugar is a little bit higher than normal before a game, so his energy doesn’t depleted over the course of the game.

“It’s really just trial and error and learning how your body works,” he said. “I’m pretty healthy, and I just have to monitor it by checking my blood. I check my blood about four or five times a day, and I have to take insulin shots three, four, sometimes five, times a day, depending on what and how much I’m eating.

So on Thanksgiving, it’s like six.

“I’m used to it now. Sometimes I wonder what it’d be like to not have to do it anymore and it’s just a weird thought to me. It’s just become a part of me.”

Newbold recalled the worst time his disease had ever affected him. During his LDS mission in San Bernardino, Calif., he suffered a seizure one night after taking too much insulin for the amount of food he had eaten that night, which, consequently, brought his blood sugar down too low. He didn’t realize that his blood sugar was low because of how tired he was, so he fell asleep really quickly.

“I started having a seizure in the middle of the night, and luckily my companion was a light sleeper and he heard the wall being hit, so he started asking me what was going on and I wasn’t responding,” he said. “But he turned the light on and called 911. The paramedics shot me with, I think, sugar, which shot my blood sugar back up in 15 seconds. Luckily, that was the worst that’s ever happened.”

He’s learned how to cope with a disease that keeps most people discouraged from trying to play sports or even try to live a normal life.

“I’ve been able to talk to a few kids and a few parents who have kids with diabetes. It’s a nice experience to let kids and parents know that they are not limited,” he said. “They can do whatever they want to do. They can continue to play sports and be whatever they want to be as long as they continue to take care of themselves. Just to be able to be a role model to kids who have problems like that is a really rewarding thing.”

So the next time you’re cheering at a basketball game this season and you see No. 24 on the court, take a step back to see this humble mystery man for what he really is – a friend.

Just a regular nice guy who happens to be good at basketball.

– steve.clark@aggiemail.usu.edu

StatesmanSports

Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010

Page 9

Aggie women’s hoops look Freshman tennis player named to end losing streak at four Student-Athlete of the Week

By CONNOR JONES sports editor

After losing a season-high four straight games, Utah State’s women’s basketball team hits the road on a two-game trip, squaring off against the Idaho Vandals, Wednesday at 8 p.m. and then will travel south to play Boise State on Saturday, Jan. 30, at 6 p.m.

While the Vandals are 4-14 on the season, their 2-3 Western Athletic Conference record puts them ahead of the 10-9 Aggies in conference standings. Idaho has won two of its last three games, one an overtime thriller at home against Boise State 84-81, a road win coming against New Mexico State 68-65 and a road loss against San Jose State 53-58.

While the Vandals may be just gaining speed, the Aggies seemed to have hit a wall, losing four straight games, two on the road and two at home. Granted, three out of the four games were against top-four WAC teams.

These two teams last met in the opening round of last season’s WAC tournament, where the Aggies earned their first WAC-tournament

win in dramatic fashion, forcing overtime and pulling away to win 59-58. The two teams have gone head-to-head 16 times, with the Vandals holding an 11-5 commanding series lead. Each of the Aggies’ five wins come since joining the WAC in the 2005-’06 season, where USU has gone 5-4 against the Vandals. Last time the team was in Moscow, USU lost 71-63.

The Aggies have been held under 60 points in each of their previous four losses. At this point in last year’s season, the Ags’ were 9-10, and although the team has only one additional win, it has out scored last year’s team, 1,1271,092.

The road woes have continued for the Aggies, who have lost 6 of 9 road games this season.

While playing in Cache Valley, the team is 7-3, losing to BYU, Nevada and New Mexico State.

Senior forward Nicole Johnson is looking to solidify her place in the USU record books this road trip, needing only five additional blocks to tie Jessica Freeman’s career record of 127.

Per game, Johnson is averaging 1.82 blocks, which is the highest BPG in the conference.

– c.h.j@aggiemail.usu.edu

BY USU ATHLETICS

Utah State men’s tennis player Sven Poslusny has been named the America First Credit Union Utah State Student-Athlete of the Week for the period ending on Sunday, Jan. 24. The award is voted on by a statewide media panel.

It is the first time in his career that Poslusny has been named USU’s Athlete of the Week.

Poslusny, a freshman from Loerrach, Germany (Hans Thoma Gymnasium), won all four of his matches last week as he led Utah State to a 5-2 win at Idaho State and a 4-3 loss at No. 51 Utah. Against the Bengals, Poslusny notched a 6-7(7-9), 6-4, 7-6 (7-2) win at No. 1 singles and a 9-7 win at No. 2 doubles with senior Amit Maharaj. Against the Utes, he posted a 6-2, 6-3 win at No. 2 singles and a 9-7 win at No. 2 doubles with partner Maharaj.

Utah State (1-2) will play two more matches this week in Las Vegas, Nev., as it faces UNLV on Friday, Jan. 29 and then plays Northern Arizona on Saturday, Jan. 30 with both contests beginning at 11 a.m. (MT). USU’s first home match of the 2010 season will be on Wednesday, Feb. 17 when it hosts Weber State at noon at the Sports Academy & Racquet Club.

Nominees from other sports included: Men’s Basketball – Senior guard Jared Quayle (Perry) led Utah State to a 2-0 record last week with a pair of road wins at Fresno State (69-43) and at Idaho (60-48).

Against the Bulldogs, he had 13 points, five rebounds, four assists and three steals in 28 minutes. Against the Vandals, he had a game-high 16 points to go along with seven rebounds, two assists and two steals. For the week, Quayle averaged 14.5 points,

SENIOR FORWARD NICOLE JOHNSON searches for an open teammate. Johnson is five blocks away from tying USU’s career-blocking record. CODY GOCHNOUR photo

A different point of view

S

fourth, had a career-best mark on vault with a 9.600 to place ninth, and logged a 9.675 on floor to place seventh, just shy of her top score of 9.725.

Women’s Tennis – Junior Hailey Swenson (North Salt Lake City) helped Utah State notch a 5-2 win at Idaho State in its first match of the 2010 season. Swenson recorded a straight sets wins (6-0, 6-2) at No. 1 singles and teamed with freshman Jaclyn West at No. 1 doubles and posted an 8-3 win.

Men’s Track – Sophomore Brian McKenna (Farmington) won the 3,000-meters with a personal-best time of 8:35.37 last weekend at the Washington State hosted Cougar Indoor Invitational.

Women’s Track – Senior Ashlee Cannon (Kaysville) won the 60-meter hurdles at the Washington State Cougar Indoor Invitational last weekend with a time of 8.74. She also placed fourth in the 200meters (25.71) and was seventh in the 60-meters (7.89).

Meet the Challenge USU (10-9) @ IDAHO (4-14)

Raegan Pebley (7th year) Jon Newlee (2nd year)

Jan. 27, Cowan Spectrum, 8:00 p.m.

USU probable starters

Idaho probable starters

C - Lydia Whitehead 6.9 F - Nicole Johnson 3.6 G - Tahara Williams 5.6 G - Alice Coddington 8.9 G - Amber White 11.5

C - Charlotte Otero F - Bianca Cheever G - Yinka Olorunnife G - Shaena Kuehu G - Rachele Kloke

Seeing Double: The Origins of Cloning Dr. Ken White

SectionF

tarting out the Western Athletic Conference schedule with five out of seven games on the road against arguably the five toughest opponents USU will face in the WAC this season, a 2-5 start was a real possibility, given USU’s play on the road during the season up until conference play began. A 3-4 record seemed like a good scenario for USU to be facing after the first seven games.

A record of 4-3 almost felt like too much of an expectation, while 5-2 was hardly even considered a possibility.

After the Aggies’ blowout of Hawaii at The Spectrum Jan. 11, it was just refreshing to see something other than a zero in the win column of USU’s WAC record. The turnaround of this season officially manifested itself during the Nevada win, which shortly after that game, one USU player sent me a text message, reading, “We’re back.”

That could not have been more true as USU went on to embarrass an athletic and talented Fresno State team who had started off the conference season strong and thoroughly handled a struggling Idaho Vandals squad up in Moscow, Idaho. Lo and behold, the Aggies are now, indeed, 5-2 in WAC play.

Two weeks ago, I wrote that the fairytale of 2009 for Aggie basketball was officially over. I still stand by that statement. However, I think it is definitely fair to say that this 2010 version of the Aggies have begun to make its story a good one, with potential to be great before all is said and done.

Probably the biggest reason for this turnaround is that the Aggies these days are running seven-deep in superstar players. Beyond the starting five of Jared Quayle, Tyler Newbold, Pooh Williams, Tai Wesley and Nate Bendall, reserve players Brian Green and Brady Jardine seem to have fully established themselves as star-caliber players for Stew Morrill to put onto the floor.

Since the 0-2 start and during the Aggies’ current fivegame winning streak, Green has averaged 10.2 points per game, been the team’s leading scorer twice and is shooting an astonishing 70.5 percent from behind the 3-point line. He has also brought an attitude of toughness through his hustle style of play and his demeanor of the team. When Green enters the game for USU, it now seems to be a safe bet that he’s going to quiet fans on the road or electrify the crowds at home.

Along those same lines, Jardine can come into a game and make big plays happen almost immediately, whether it be a high-flying block of an opposing player’s shot or a hammer dunk on the offensive end. Jardine has averaged 7.8 points and 5.6 rebounds over the past five games, while playing an average of 18.2 minutes per contest.

6.0 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 2.5 steals, while shooting 45.0 percent from the field (9-20), 61.5 percent from 3point range (8-13) and 75.0 percent at the free-throw line (3-4).

Women’s Basketball – Junior guard Alice Coddington (Canberra, Australia) averaged 13.0 points and 5.5 rebounds last week for Utah State in a pair of losses at Hawai`i (69-56) and to New Mexico State (56-55). Against the Rainbow Wahine, she scored 13 points and added four rebounds and four assists. Against NMSU, Coddington once again scored 13 points and added four assists and two steals.

Gymnastics – Freshman Amelia Montoya (Mission Viejo, Calif.) had career-high scores in three events plus the all-around, in Utah State’s 195.050-191.225 loss at No. 21 Southern Utah Friday.

Montoya was USU’s top all-arounder, placing second with her career-best of 38.600, and was the Aggies’ top finisher on bars with a top-career mark of 9.675.

She also tied for top team honors on beam to tie for

He’s not as physical of a player as Wesley or Bendall, but he is light-years ahead of those two starting big men in athleticism. Jardine has stepped up and contributed much more significantly and efficiently during WAC play in every aspect of his game.

All of this has come during the toughest stretch of games USU will face all season. To cap things off, Green and Jardine each have 12 steals to their credit this season, which are the third most on the team.

The remainder of the season for USU holds just two road trips and three more road games overall. Two of those games are against Boise State and Hawaii, who USU beat by an average of 33 points earlier this month in the Spectrum. At home, the Aggies have no cupcake of a schedule, but history has shown that when the ESPN cameras arrive in Logan, the USU student section rises to a whole new level of noise and rowdiness to make life miserable for visiting teams. ESPN TV crews will visit Logan at least three times during February and possibly a fourth time for the annual Bracketbuster weekend for the Aggies’ game against an opponent that will be announced Feb. 1.

Of the current four teams atop the WAC standings, Utah State has faced by far the toughest WAC schedule, meaning its remaining schedule will be the easiest of the bunch. If Louisiana Tech drops another game to even its loss-column number with USU’s, the Aggies will then control their own destiny toward a thirdstraight WAC championship.

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

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

Join us Friday Jan. 29, at 7 p.m.

ESLC Auditorium

www.usu.edu/science/unwrapped Join our Facebook group

Answers To Today’s Crossword Puzzle!

6.7 9.8 9.1 11.4 13.6

Page 10

Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010

SpecialFeatures W I N T E R

G A M E S

2 0 1 0

V A N C O U V E R , C A N A D A

Lasting impressions Reviewing some of the memorable moments in Winter Games history CHAMONIX, FRANCE

USOC ARCHIVES

Initially organized as an International Winter Sports Week, the Games at Chamonix were not officially recognized as the first Winter Olympics by the International Olympic Committee until 1925. Five sports were represented: Nordic skiing, figure skating, speed skating, bobsled and hockey.

Canada established its reign as hockey champions by winning the gold in the first four Winter Olympics.

Charles Jewtraw

won the United States’ only gold medal in the 500-meter speed skating event.

1928

the first Winter Olympic live coverage.

“Eurovision” allowed parts of central Europe to watch competition.

The United States swept the men’s figure skating competition. Gold went to Hayes Alan Jenkins, silver to Ronald Robertson and bronze to David Jenkins, Hayes’ younger brother.

The new Soviet hockey team upset Canada in the finals and took the gold undefeated.

1960 SQUAW VALLEY, UNITED STATES

The opening and closing ceremonies were stage-managed by Walt Disney, chairman of the Olympic Pageantry Committee. South Africa was represented for the first and last time until 1994.

Figure skating events moved indoors.

Georg Thoma (Germany) became the first non-Scandinavian to win the Nordic combined.

1964 INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA

ST. MORITZ, SWITZERLAND

1932 LAKE PLACID, UNITED STATES

Due to the Depression, turnout was low, with only 17 nations participating. Half of the athletes were from the United States or Canada. Dog sledding was included as a demonstration sport.

The U.S. bobsled team captured gold for the second time in a row. Team member Eddie Eagan became the only person to win a gold medal in both the Winter and Summer Olympics. He already had a gold in boxing from the 1920 Summer Games.

1936 GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, GERMANY

The Germans saw these Winter Games as a prelude to the Summer Games in Berlin. An attempt by German emigrants in the United States for a national boycott failed.

Ivan Brown and Alan Washbond (United States) won gold in the two-man bobsled.

Sonja Henie

(Norway) won her third consecutive gold medal, makUSOC ARCHIVES ing her the most successful individual Olympic female figure skater.

1940 The Games were scheduled to be held in Sapporo, Japan, but war with China caused Japan to pull out. Germany volunteered, but World War II forced cancellation of the Winter Olympics until 1948.

1948 ST. MORITZ, SWITZERLAND

The popularity of Alpine skiing increased, and slalom and downhill events were added. The winter pentathlon (crosscountry skiing, downhill skiing, fencing, shooting and horse riding) was held as a demonstration sport.

Henri Oreiller (France) won two golds and one bronze in Alpine skiing and was the most successful athlete of the 1948 Winter Games.

Barbara Ann Scott (Canada) became the first North American to win a gold in figure skating.

Lidia Skoblikova

The second Winter Olympics used the facilities of an established ski resort. It also was the first time since World War I that the Germans were admitted back into any Olympic competition.

The Games at St. Moritz were the only time that bobsled teams could have five men instead of four. The United States placed first and second in the event.

Computers helped officials time and judge events. Mild weather prompted the Austrian military to truck in snow.

Luge made its Olympic debut.

(USSR) captured all the golds in women’s speed skating.

Ortun Enderlein USOC ARCHIVES (Germany) won gold in the first women’s Olympic luge event.

1968 GRENOBLE, FRANCE

For the first time there were two separate German teams competing in an Olympics.

Peggy Fleming (United States) took home the gold in women’s figure skating.

Jean-Claude Killy (France), the host country’s favorite son, won gold medals in all three Alpine skiing events. The Games were dubbed the “Killympics.”

1972 SAPPORO, JAPAN

The Sapporo Games were the first Winter Olympics held outside of Europe and the United States. They also marked the first time all three medals in one discipline were won by a non-European country (Japan, in the normal hill ski jump).

Galina Kulakova (U.S.S.R.) captured three gold medals in women’s cross-country skiing.

Speed skater Dianne Holum (United States) won a gold (1,500 meters) and silver (3,000 meters). She would later coach Eric Heiden to the 1976 and 1980 Games.

1976 INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA

The Games were originally awarded to Denver but later nixed by Colorado voters.

Innsbruck used existing facilities from the 1964 Games.

Speed skater Sheila Young (United States) captured gold, silver and bronze medals, making her the first U.S. athlete to win three medals at a single Winter Olympics.

Ice dancing made its Olympic debut.

Ludmilla Pakhomava and Alexander Gorshkow (U.S.S.R.) took the first gold medal.

1980

1998

LAKE PLACID, UNITED STATES

NAGANO, JAPAN

The second Lake Placid Games marked the first use of artificial snow in Olympic competition.

Eric Heiden (United States) won five gold medals in speed skating.

Alexander Saizev and Irina Rodnina (USSR) won gold in pairs figure skating. It was her third consecutive gold medal.

The U.S. hockey “Dream Team” defeated the Soviets, who had taken gold since 1964.

The Olympics returned to Japan after 26 years. Three sports — curling, snowboarding and women’s hockey — made their medal debut. For the first time, the NHL suspended its season to allow the best professional players to participate in the Games.

1984 SARAJEVO, YUGOSLAVIA

It was the first and only time the Olympics were held in a Socialist country.

Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean (Great Britain) scored the first perfect scores in ice dancing and won the gold.

Scott Hamilton (United States) took the gold medal in figure skating.

Phil Mahre and his brother, Steve, (United States) placed first and second in the slalom event.

1986 IOC voted to have the Summer and Winter Olympics in different years starting in 1994. The Games would be held alternately every two years, with the Winter Games in the same years as soccer’s World Cup.

1988 CALGARY, CANADA

For the first time since 1968, demonstration sports (curling, short track speed skating and freestyle skiing) were included.

Speed skating events were moved indoors.

Alberto Tomba (Italy) took two gold medals in the men’s slalom.

Bonnie Blair (United States) captured the first of three consecutive gold medals in the 500-meter speed skating event.

1992 ALBERTVILLE, FRANCE

Germany was once again represented by one team. The Russian republics, with the exception of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia, competed on a Unified Team.

Nordic skier Lyubov Yegorova (Unified Team) won three golds and two silvers, making her the most successful female athlete in Albertville.

World champion Kristi Yamaguchi

1924

(United States) garnered the gold medal in women’s figure skating.

1994

USOC ARCHIVES

LILLEHAMMER, NORWAY

The South African team returned after 34 years. Each Russian republic had its own team.

Johann Koss (Norway) garnered three gold medals in speed skating and set a world record in each event.

Speed skater Bonnie Blair (United States) won two gold medals for a grand total of five, making her the most successful U.S. female winter athlete.

Drama lingered in the women’s figure skating competition as Nancy Kerrigan faced her U.S. teammate Tonya Harding, who was investigated for plotting to disable Kerrigan prior to the Games. Ukraine’s Oksana Baiul took home the gold medal and Kerrigan the silver.

A K I R A S U WA / K R T

Japanese ski jumper Kazuyoshi Funaki soars to a gold medal at the 1998 Games.

The Japanese ski-jumping team won four medals, including a gold in the team event.

Hermann Maier (Austria) won the gold in the giant and super giant slalom after recovering from a crash in the downhill.

Cross-country skier Bjorn Daehlie (Norway) won three golds and one silver, giving him an unprecedented 12 total Winter Olympic medals (8 gold).

2002 SALT LAKE CITY, UNITED STATES

Women’s bobsledding made its first appearance at the Winter Games. Jill Bakken and Vonetta Flowers (United States) won the gold medal.

A vote-swapping scandal leads to two gold medals being awarded in pairs figure skating — one to Russia’s Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze and one to Canada’s Jamie Salé and David Pelletier.

In the short track speed skating women’s 500-meter final, Yang A. Yang (China) won China’s first-ever Winter Olympic gold medal.

2006 TORINO, ITALY

More than 2,500 athletes from more than 80 nations participated in the Torino Games, breaking Olympic records.

Albania, Ethiopia and Madagascar were represented in their first Winter Games, and snowboard cross and speed skating team pursuit made their debut.

Canada’s Duff Gibson became the oldest athlete to win gold in an individual event, winning the skeleton at 39 years and 150 days old.

In his Winter Games debut, professional skateboarder and snowboarder Shaun White (United States), the first athlete to win both Summer and Winter X-Games titles, won gold in the men’s snowboarding halfpipe.

2010 VANCOUVER, CANADA

Canada plays host to the 2010 Winter Games for the second time. The Vancouver Games will be spread across a 74.5 mile (120 km) radius that includes the popular mountain resort of Whistler. Ski cross — an event in which four to six skiers race against each other down a course featuring rollers, jumps and banked turns — makes its medal debut.

— McClatchy-Tribune

SOURCES: “THE COMPLETE BOOK OF THE WINTER O LY M P I C S ,” B Y DAV I D WA L L E C H I N S K Y; “ T H E O LY M P I C FA C T B O O K : A S P E C TATO R ’ S G U I D E TO T H E W I N T E R G A M E S ” ; W W W. O LY M P I C . O R G ; W W W. N B C O LY M P I C S . C O M ; MCT

1952 OSLO, NORWAY

Germany and Japan were allowed to compete for the first time since World War II. The Oslo Games marked the first time the Olympics were held in a Scandinavian country.

Andrea Mead (United States) was victorious in the slalom and giant slalom, becoming the first U.S. athlete to win two golds in a Winter Olympics.

Richard Button (United States) won his second gold and was the first to perform a triple jump in the figure skating competition.

1956 CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, ITALY

An Italian television station provided

MARK REIS/COLORADO SPRINGS GAZETTE/MCT

Shaun White (United States) catches air on his gold medal-winning run in the men’s halfpipe snowboard competition at the 2006 Torino Games.

Views&Opinion

Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010 Page 11

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

OurView Getting involved where and how you can

E

ver since Tuesday, Jan. 12, the front pages of newspapers have been covered with stories about the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that turned Haiti inside out. From fundraising to adoption efforts, the world has responded with financial support and time donations.

Sitting in Logan, USU students, with the exception of a few, have no direct connection to the region. And yet, it’s hard to avoid the emotional pull of images of rubble or of the number of bodies waiting to be buried. It’s easy for Aggies to feel helpless in this situation.

Hope for Haiti, USU’s humanitarian response to the earthquake, provides students with an opportunity to get involved. Businesses across Logan are getting involved, and students can contribute from campus. The university created the opportunity to help, and now the students need to step up and respond.

Getting involved with Haiti is a great thing, and there is definitely a need for help, but while we’re helping Haiti, let’s not lose sight of the thousands of other causes that still need our support.

Haiti is not the only country in need. It may be the country that needs help most visibly, and it may be the country that needs the most immediate help, but it is not the only country with alarming mortality rates. It’s not the only country plagued with looting, starvation and disease. If anything, this earthquake should remind us all that the United States is not the only country and does not set a standard for the rest of the world.

Even within the U.S., there are causes that need help – whether it’s funding for medical research or helping a neighbor get back on his feet, need is everywhere. Opportunities are endless.

The university is the perfect setting to get organized and involved. Monday in the Taggart Student Center International Lounge, many of USU’s service clubs set up booths to gain campus awareness for their causes. The Val R. Christensen Service Center, located on the third floor of the TSC, is a hub of student service involvement. The center’s Web site, http:// studentlife.tsc.usu.edu/servicecenter, provides information for ways students can start serving. USU provides unique resources to guide students to service opportunities, and students can rest assured that money going to these university clubs and organizations will make its way to its intended recipients.

So go ahead and help the efforts in Haiti. The citizens of Haiti need the help, and, while our wallets may already feel light, we each have the ability to influence even one life. Once Haiti starts to get back on its feet, however, let’s not get complacent. The service needed is far from over and will always be far from over. Haiti should not be an excuse to get our “feel good” service done for the year. It’s not a reason to contribute two cents and then enjoy a clean conscious. Haiti should be an eye-opener to the help that is needed globally, nationally and locally.

Ask Miss Jones Dear Miss Jones, So, I’m pretty bummed.

This whole Haiti earthquake thing came at a really bad time. It’s really putting a damper on my plans to take this attractive girl out on a date that I’ve had my eye on for a while now.

Being the college student that I am, I don’t have a lot of money in the bank, if you know what I mean. I work but no matter how many times I check, my account always seems to be near the danger zone. What I’m trying to get at is, what’s more important, donating money to Haiti or finally being able to take this girl out? What sucks even more is the fact that Valentines Day is right around the corner. What if this girl and I hit it off and I want to get her some flowers for V-

Day? If I take the girl out instead of donating $10 to Haiti, am I heartless? It’s times like these that make me wish guys didn’t have so much financial responsibility in the dating world.

Haiti or Hottie Dear Haiti or Hottie, Unlike you, this Haiti earthquake came at a good time for me. Over the winter break I spent seven nights and eight days at the beautiful Kaliko Beach Club in Port-au-Prince southern Haiti. My bridge friend Marge won the tickets on the “Price is Right” and since she’s in debt to me for unpaid bridge bets, she took me along. We left on Dec. 26, which if you remember, is the day after that Nigerian boy tried to blow up a plane. Because

I

As a matter of faith

t was a lovely day in May, and I was attending my second funeral in as many years. A beloved professor at USU passed away from cancer, and I was one of hundreds in the pews of the St. Thomas Aquinas parish. I’ve always been drawn to ceremony, and a Catholic funeral has that in spades.

The mix of music, hymns, candles, decorations and movement drew me in hard – I fought back the tears.

Everything was beautiful and painful at once. The mourning against the soft organ playing, the sight of a heartbroken family against upbeat drums and the concussion of rifles from a 15 gun salute outside. It was a fine ceremony, but I began wondering at the point of all the theater. It wasn’t going to bring this man back to his family and, without the assumed meaning behind it, all of it would have fit into a carnival of the absurd.

I tried to push those thoughts away – it was the wrong time for them.

But an interesting question remains, What is the point of all this ceremony we surround ourselves with?

Religions have ceremonies for all kinds of things. Some are flamboyant affairs for special occasions, such as weddings or rites of passage for children, others are smaller, everyday rituals before a meal or daily prayers. They’re usually nice or quaint, but what’s the purpose? Friedrich Nietzsche believed later in his life that cultural matters such as faith and ceremony were just self-imposed delusions, and this still seems to ring true. Some religions even view ceremony as getting in the way of real worship.

One of the first acts of the Protestant Reformation was to take the decorations and artwork out of the churches and burn them in the

street and remove music or other ritual functions. It was thought that such things were distractions from true worship, because they were focused on worldly or materialistic things.

That idea of distraction from proper worship may be an argument against ceremony, but I don’t think it’s sufficient. The simple truth is that we do not live in a world of only concepts and abstracts, but also of sensations, of pain and pleasure, of a natural world always in motion that profoundly affects us. Many ceremonies, from Catholic to Pagan to Buddhist and others, do utilize this truth, but not as a distraction. Instead the use of music, singing, scents, lights and candles in various ceremonies is to embrace a holistic existence, one of spirit and of nature. While I do believe in maintaining reverence and meditation in ceremony, I don’t think it should just be avoidance of the physical world. Our connection to the divine is much the same as our connection to the world: something that transcends us and relates to us.

Ceremonies reaffirm that connection and does the same with community and identity. Worship that is devoid of ceremony and “worldly” things causes a disconnect, a sinking into the self rather than the culture and community, because the participants aren’t reminded of their connection to the world or one another. Ceremonies for weddings, rites of passage, birthdays, or celebrating survival help reinforce a communal understanding of participants who can share the wonder of their experiences together and support one another.

So these are all nice words about nice ceremonies, but what about that

funeral I attended, or any funeral where a bunch of joyous singing and incense burning has little to do with the immense pain the family was enduring? I didn’t know then until, after much music and prayer, most of the participants stood and filed in the center aisle to perform the Eucharist, and I had a moment to sit and absorb what I was witnessing. From the words, songs and actions, I realized this was more than an honoring of the dead, it was a call for strength and hope for the living in attendance, despite their feeling of loss.

The whole thing wasn’t an exercise in futility, it was a respect for a great loss and a message to remain strong and carry on again, to understand that as lonely as the suffering may feel, they are not alone in body or spirit. I saw this most in the people’s support for the family, and also a bit in my friend and mentor who attended that day, when he gave me a smile as he passed me in the pews.

Ceremony is more than just a religiously justified party or a bunch of activities to explain away the suffering of loss. It is a way of sharing in community our experiences of the divine and our love of them and each other, or of shouldering each other’s grief when those experiences seem to pull us into despair.

we were leaving the country, the security wasn’t any more aggravating than normal. But when we were heading back, I got the most thorough body exam I’ve had since the Nixon administration.

While Marge was somewhat upset by it, I just couldn’t stop giggling. They checked and re-checked the lining in my bra because it kept beeping in the machine and everytime the person put their hands on me I would just laugh and laugh.

The answer is, take this girl out. Don’t get me wrong, this disaster in Haiti is horrendous, more than 150,000 people dead.

That’s a crazy amount of loss and Haiti will need a lot of money for rebuilding, But as you can see throughout the rest of this newspaper, on any television

channel, during the Golden Globes or my favorite show Days of Our Lives it’s getting attention everywhere and people all over the US are pouring money in the funds.

I fully support philanthropy and donating goods to those who need it but in this situation, I think you’re better off taking the girl out for a Denny’s endless pancake special. But be warned, with Valentines Day fewer than three weeks away, if you continue to hang out with this girl you must get her something, even if it’s just a solitary sunflower. So be on the look out for loose change on the ground and take as many pennies from the take-apenny-leave-a-penny bin as you think you can get away with. As I learned by watching Marge lose most of her

social security money to me and her taking the risk to spin again on the showcase showdown sometime taking the risk can pay off big but sometimes it just bites you in the ass. The risk of Good luck and remember: “With as many times as Miss. Jones has been around the block, her directions must be good.”

Will Holloway is a senior in philosophy. His column can be found every other Wednesday. Comments can be left at aggietownsquare.com

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

AboutUs Editor in Chief Patrick Oden News Editor Rachel A. Christensen Assistant News Editor Catherine Meidell Features Editor Courtnie Packer Assistant Features Editor Benjamin Wood Sports Editor Connor Jones Assistant Sports Editor Matt Sonnenberg Copy Editor

Mark Vuong

Photo Editors Pete Smithsuth Steve Sellers Web Editor

Karlie Brand

About letters

• Letters should be limited to 400 words.

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

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

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

• No anonymous letters will be published.

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

Letters will not be printed without this verification.

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

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

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

Sound Off View our online edition and leave comments on any story or column at aggietownsquare.com

Page 12

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

World&Nation

Democrats pull back on health care WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrats retreated Tuesday from a quick push to pass President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, lacking a workable strategy to salvage the sweeping legislation that has consumed Congress for more than a year.

“There is no rush,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said after a meeting of Senate Democrats. His comments came as two centrists said they would oppose the plan Democratic leaders were considering to reconcile differences between the House and Senate bills and put comprehensive legislation on Obama’s desk.

A week after the loss of a Massachusetts Senate seat – their 60th vote – cost Democrats undisputed control of the congressional agenda, leaders are still casting about for a way forward. Given the congressional schedule, it could be weeks – the end of February at the earliest – before they act.

“There are no easy choices,” acknowledged House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md, insisting that the goal remains the same: to pass far-reaching legislation that would expand coverage, reduce costs and improve quality.

“I think right now it’s a time-out and the

leadership is re-evaluating,” said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. “They’ve asked us to keep our powder dry.”

“I think effectively we’re going to set health care reform aside,” said independent Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut. “I don’t think they’re ready to move now because there’s no clear path forward.”

Reid said he’ll keep talking with House Democrats and White House officials, noting that the Senate-passed bill is good for the year.

Two centrist senators threw up a new roadblock. Sens. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., and Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark. – both face re-election this year in Republican-leaning states – said they would oppose using a special budget-related procedure to go around Republican opponents in the Senate, a calculated risk sure to inflame critics on the political right.

Even as Bayh and Lincoln made their concerns known, House Democratic leaders were trying to get their rank and file to accept a modified version of the Senate bill.

Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, the No. 3 Democrat, told reporters he believes the House could pass the Senate bill if lawmakers get rid of special Medicaid deals for

Louisiana and Nebraska and dial back a tax on high-cost insurance plans opposed by labor unions.

But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said it “depends what the fixes are.”

Some conservative House Democrats want to abandon the health care effort altogether, said one of their leaders, Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, D-S.D., who nonetheless wants to press forward.

Lawmakers hope Obama will help them find their way when the president delivers his State of the Union address Wednesday.

Obama is unlikely to delve into the strategy for passing a health care bill, Hoyer said, but he is expected to stress the importance of getting comprehensive legislation along the lines of what the House and Senate already passed.

Democrats now have four options, Hoyer said: No bill, a scaled-back measure designed to attract some Republican support, the House passing the Senate bill, or the House passing the Senate bill with both chambers making changes to bridge their differences.

Opposition to the health care remake in Washington helped spark the Massachusetts revolt, Democrats acknowledge. Obama called the monthslong debate on Capitol Hill

“an ugly process.”

“It looks like there are a bunch of backroom deals,” the president said in an interview with ABC News.

Of the four options that Hoyer outlined, only one has been ruled out. Pelosi reiterated Tuesday she does not have the votes to pass the Senate bill without any changes.

Democratic leaders are coalescing around the idea of the House passing the Senate bill, with both chambers agreeing to follow-up legislation that would settle major differences.

The strategy calls for the Senate to use a budget-related procedure – reconciliation– that requires only 51 votes to advance. Even so, Senate leaders may not be able to round up the votes.

“My concern is that if reconciliation is used, that will really destroy any prospects for bipartisan cooperation on anything else for the remainder of this year,” Bayh said.

“That would be a regrettable state of affairs, something I think the American public would not react well to.”

“I will not accept any last-minute efforts to force changes to health insurance reform through budget reconciliation,” Lincoln said in a statement.

Coleman released from UT jail SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Actor Gary Coleman was released from a Utah jail Monday after being arrested over the weekend on a warrant for failing to appear in court, police said.

Santaquin Police Chief Dennis Howard said officers went to the “Diff ’rent Strokes” star’s home after a domestic disturbance call Sunday afternoon.

Howard said they arrested Coleman, 41, on the warrant and booked him into the Utah County Jail.

Santaquin City Attorney Brett Rich said the warrant is related to a domestic violence charge filed against Coleman in the city justice court on Aug. 26, 2009.

Jail records show Coleman posted $1,725 bail and was released Monday afternoon.

He is expected to appear at a hearing in Santaquin Justice Court on Feb. 8, Rich said.

Santaquin is about 65 miles south of Salt Lake City.

Coleman’s agent, Robert Malcolm, told The Associated Press he had no details about the arrest.

A telephone message left for Terry Plant, a Utah-based attorney who has represented Coleman in the past, was

not immediately returned Monday.

In December 2008 Coleman pleaded no contest to a disorderly conduct charge stemming from an incident at a Payson bowling alley and was ordered to pay a $100 fine.

A personal injury lawsuit against Coleman and his wife, Shannon Price, 24, related to the same incident has been settled.

Colt Rushton sued Coleman over a September 2008 incident in which Coleman allegedly hit Rushton with his truck in a Payson bowling alley parking lot after an altercation over photos.

Coleman moved to Santaquin in 2005, around the time he starred in “Church Ball,” a comedy based on basketball leagues formed by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He and Price met on the movie set.

“Diff ’rent Strokes” aired from 1978 to 1986. Coleman played a character named Arnold Jackson and was best known for the line, “Whatchu talkin’ ‘bout, Willis?”

231-mph NH wind gust is no longer world’s fastest CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – First the Old Man, now the Big Wind.

New Hampshire’s Mount Washington has lost its distinction as the site of the fastest wind gust ever recorded on Earth, officials at the Mount Washington Observatory said Tuesday.

The concession came three days after the World Meteorological Organization posted a snippet on its Web site saying a panel of experts reviewing extreme weather and climate data turned up a 253 mph gust on Australia’s Barrow Island during Cyclone Olivia in 1996.

That tops the 231 mph record set atop Mount Washington on April 12, 1934.

“It’s obviously a big disappointment. Having the world record for over six decades was such a part of the soul of this organization and for fans of Mount Washington around the country,” said Scot Henley, the observatory’s executive director.

The official title at issue is “highest wind gust ever recorded on the surface of the Earth by means of an anemometer.” But to most people in New Hampshire, it was simply “the Big Wind,” a source of pride in a state that also revered its Old Man of the Mountain, a rock outcropping that appeared to be a man’s profile and was featured on the state’s quarter.

The Old Man crumbled to bits in 2003, seven years after the wind record apparently toppled.

Henley stressed that Mount Washington still

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

Check out www.clarksummerjobs.com

or call now 877-899-1205

holds the record for the Northern and Western hemispheres, and said it still can claim to be home to some of the world’s worst weather given the combination of bitter cold, snow, wind and freezing fog it frequently experiences.

“So the work continues up there, and we’ll be ready for the next one,” he said.

No one noticed the new record gust at the time, Henley said.

“Somehow it fell through the cracks and the Australians didn’t think it was a big deal,” he said.

“We hear that, and it kinds of blows our minds, but of course, we’re weather fans and we’re tuned into that sort of thing.”

Henley first heard about the meteorological organization’s conclusion Monday, when someone posted a link to the item on the observatory’s forum.

He contacted the organization and learned that the information was part of a report being presented at an international conference in Turkey next month.

The panel of experts has shared its research with observatory officials, who plan to review it in the coming weeks.

“There’s no reason to believe it’s not accurate, but we owe it to this institution and to our state and really to weather fans all over the world to make sure it is indeed accurate,” he said.

The Mount Washington Observatory is a private, non-profit organization that maintains a weather station at the summit of the 6,288-foot

1

3 8

5 2

5

7 3

1

4 6

8 7 3 4

8

2 6 4 2 5

1 3

5 8

1 6 7

7

2

6

4

mountain. On April 12, 1934, there were three crew members, two guests, three cats and five kittens at the observatory, according to observer Alex McKenzie, who later wrote a book about the Big Wind.

According to his account, April 11 started with a brilliant sunrise, but the weather soon turned cloudy. By evening, fog obscured the summit and

rime ice formed up to a foot thick.

Gusts grew stronger through the afternoon, until 1:21 p.m., when the 231 mph gust was recorded.

Mary Stampone, assistant professor of geography at the University of New Hampshire and the New Hampshire State Climatologist, said she had long expected the record to fall.

www.a-bay-usu.com

ClassifiedAds

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

Student Jobs Student Jobs For more information about these jobs, see TSC 106, USU Student Employment.

On campus jobs: C281-10 Technology Programmer Graduate Student $1,500/semester C282-10 Web Developer 10.50 to 16.50 hour C244-10 Filmer/editor $7.5 C284-10 Teaching Assistant $8.50/hour C300-10 Student Mentor/supervisor 10.00 C135-91 Intramural Official $7.25 to $8 per game C458-07 Biological Research Technician $10 / hr C203-07 Undergrad Research Assistant BOE C197-07 Research Assistant C317-10 Undergraduate Research Assistant $8.00/hr C218-03 Graphic Design/commercial Arts $8/hr C305-10 High School Science Intern 7.90 C157-05 Project Assistant depends on experience C316-10 Graphic Designer $10-$12/hr BOE C314-10 Archaeological Technician $15/

hour C429-96 Mowing $6.55/hr C397-05 Research Technician BOE C005-04 Research Assistant $1500/month C160-06 Substitute Teacher 65.00 - 75.00 C448-07 Customer Service- Tooele Distance Ed 8/hr C238-97 Clerk/secretary 6.55/hour C126-10 Teachers Aide 7.25 C296-05 American Sign Lanugage Interpreter $14-$26+ C106-09 Student Support Services Tutor 7.50 + C134-09 Laboratory Technician minimum $7.25 C208-96 Tutor $7.25/hr C548-09 Child Care Assessor $8 per hour c226-10 Field Assistance In Hawaii $8.00 C233-10 Biological Technician $8/hr C240-10 Marshalese Interpreter $10/hr C483-00 Laboratory Assistant 10-14 hr depend on qual C249-10 Occupational Therapist based on experience C222-10 Research Assistant $10/hr C245-10 Research Assistant $8-$12/hr negotiable C205866 Part-time Us History Teacher $1,900 for semester Off-Campus Jobs 3545 Quality Control Internship $14.00 5781 Summer Camp Counselor $2300 plus perks 5829 Content Writer/marketing Intern Stipend 5839 Part-time Science Teacher $1,900 for semester 5838 Preschool Teacher negotiable 5850 Web Developer DOE 5862 Substitute Preschool Teacher $8.00 / hour 5870 Line Cook $7.25 (d.o.e.)

5877 Production Help 8.00/hour 5875 Cocktail Waitress $6.00 5874 Office Clerk 8.00 5873 Bartender $6.00 0095 Youth Counselor 8.28 per hour + bonus 5755 Personal Aide 8.00 5891 Alarm Technician per installation 5892 Sales Associate commission 5894 Technical Support $9-12/hour 5899 Security Officer 8.75 5898 String Bass And Drum Teacher DOE 5896 Landscape Spraying Technician $810/hr 5900 Engineering Assistant / Technician 7.50 5822 Marketing Representative DOE 5901 Forestry Technician/aid, Fire Prevention GS 3/4/5 $10.46-$13.14

5903 R&d Associate/scientist 5902 Marketing Excecutive 5906 T-mobile Sales Representative Base $7.25/hr 5905 Algebra Tutor $10-20 5904 Tutor 10-20 5907 Photographer / Video Assistant 7.25 - 9.00 5908 Web Programmer $8/hr 5910 Accountant/tax Preparation DOE 5911 Technical Services Consultant $33,000-$38,000 5909 Teaching Assistant For Study Abroad $1500 total stipend 5916 Nanny 5915 Nanny Based on experience 5914 Common Ground Outdoor Adv Summer Intern 5912 Summer Camp 7.50/hr 5729 Phone Sales Consultant commission based 5919 Web Content Writer $8 hr 5920 Web Site And Seo Specialist $8 hr 5921 Telemarketing $10 - $12 / hour 5925 Sales Manager/rep 10 - 30+/hr 5922 Child Care Flexible 5918 Account Contact Rep 8.00 1017 Cook $10-12/hr BOE 5924 On-campus Sales 10% and trailers

Please note: 5926 Marketer/salesperson potentially $25/hour PLEASE note:

If e-mails or phone numbers are missing on these ads, please consult the complete listings at www.a-bay-usu. com.

Announcements Cache Valley Particulate Air Pollution Study Utah State University is seeking

volunteers to participate in a Particulate Air Pollution study. To be eligible, you must be 18-35 years old, healthy (asthma ok), and willing to provide small blood samples during both clean air days and episodes of high air pollution. You will be compensated up to $100 for your time.

Call the USU Student Health and Wellness Center at 797-1660 to enroll in this study.

Textbooks

Used Books. I have several used Books for

Page 13 Pearls Before Swine • Pastis

Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010

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

Brevity

Reallity check

Loose Parts • Blazek

F-Minus • Carillo

Scootah Steve • Steve Weller

steve-weller@hotmail.com

Dilbert • Adams

JT & Tea • Joseph Gould •

It’s All About You • Murphy

&REE #LASSIFIED ADS FOR 535 3TUDENTS #HECK OUT WHATÂŽS THERE AT WWW AGGIETOWNSQUARE 0LACE YOUR OWN AD )TÂŽS EASY "E A PART OF THE !GGIE4OWN3QUARE COMMUNITY

)+ (#"&"+ $'"+ $&0 *)++/)*! -11&" */9+* (> /). 577/8 '4* 5>)+ +</8

Painting Is Like a Pizza 978-0-69109052-8 $10 OBO Business English ED 9 978-0-324-36606-8 $85 OBO Apartments for Rent Female Apartment Contract(s) For Sale $400 for all of Spring Semester!!! Price is dramatically reduced! Heat Included. Indoor Swimming Pool and Jacuzzi! There are 2 contracts for sale for the same room; great for 2 friends wanting to live together! 4 girls per apartment. 1.5 bath.

Townhouse Style Apartment. Located at 590 East Canyon Rd. in Logan. Call 435764-1806. Willing to negotiate!

Oakridge Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Apartment Available.

NEED TO SELL! If you were to rent in Oakridge today, it would be 1485.00.

How about $1000.00 and we pay your deposit of $215.00!!! That makes it $785.00, $333.00 per month. Its a screaming deal! Oakridge is one of Logan finest student housing community.

They planned everything, so you don`t have too. *College is the best time of your life, make it an unforgettable experience come and live at Oakridge- you deserve the best! **Amenities Community Amenities Heated swimming pool

2297 North Main, Logan 753-6444

OPEN SAT AT 11:30 FOR MATINEES

Old Dogs PG

Fantastic Mr. Fox Daily 5:00, 7:30, 9:35 PG Daily 4:30 NO 9:35 on Sunday Sat 12:30, 2:45

Sat 12:15, 2:15

Did You Hear About The Morgans PG-13

Daily 7:00, 9:30 NO 9:30 on Sunday

Daily 7:15, 9:50

Invictus PG-13

Planet 51 PG Daily 4:15 Sat 12:00, 2:00

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs PG

2010 PG-13

Daily 4:45 Sat 11:45, 2:30

Daily 6:45, 9:40 NO 9:40 on Sunday

& Jacuzzi 24/7 FREE laundry facility Game room: Pool, ping-pong, Big screen TV, Drop screen Kitchen and more 24/7 Fitness BBQâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Basketball and Sandy Volleyball Courts Apartment Amenities All Private Bedrooms Free High-Speed Internet Furnished Bed & Dresser Central Air Conditioning Large Living Room Garbage Disposal All Utilities Included Free Cable Desk Couch & Coffee Table Barstools Full Kitchen w/ Microwave Lots of Storage Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: Private Female Room. Built in 2004.

New furniture, carport,laundry, AC, internet, dishwasher. Large bathrooms and living area. Gas included. Private bathroom available. $275/month Call Zsuzsanna 435-757-1269 Room need to rent ASAP. Female Contract, Private Bedroom, $230 a month + utilities. Free wireless and washer/ dryer. 2 awesome roomates! Super close to campus. Requires own furniture. Call Muriel (435)213-7696.

Computers & Electronics Electronics Final Cut Studio 2 - Like New, Unregistered and Complete We are selling version 2 of the Final Cut Studio.

Everything is included and in great condition. The software has not been

registered. We are asking $550 for everything... and lucky for you this price, plus the $299 to upgrade to version 3, is still $150 dollars cheaper than if you purchased a brand new version 3 yourself... AND you will have both newer and older to work with! iclicker $30 In good condition. Office in BNR #5 if you want to check it out.

Computer Tech for hire - free diagnosis 4 years experience with fixing desktops, laptops, and networks. Free diagnosis. $20 per hour fee for anything above diagnosis. Call and ask for Jeremy.

801-362-6144 Musical Instruments Musical Instr.

Art and Lutherie Guitar I bought this Guitar for about $350 and would like to sell for around 250 but I am willing to negotiate the price. It is in very good condition Tickets Tickets Utah Flash Tickets. Utah Flash 20092010 tickets. 6 any home game tickets in sections 1,2,10,or 11; which are at either ends of the court. $10 per ticket or $50 for all six tickets.

UNIVERSITY 6

1225 N 200 E (Behind Home Depot) â&#x20AC;¢ LOVELY BONES* (PG-13) 12:45, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20

â&#x20AC;¢ LEGION* (R)

12:30, 2:35, 4:40, 6:50, 9:10

â&#x20AC;¢ AVATAR* (PG-13) IN DIGITAL 3D

5

2:15, 5:30, 8:45

STADIUM 8

2

535 W 100 N, Providence

â&#x20AC;¢ LEAP YEAR* (PG)

12:40, 2:45, 4:50, 7:10, 9:20

â&#x20AC;¢ SHERLOCK HOLMES* (PG-13)

1 6

1:20, 4:20, 7:00, 9:35 â&#x20AC;¢ TOOTH FAIRY* (PG)

7

12:45, 2:55, 5:05, 7:15, 9:25

2

3

â&#x20AC;¢ AVATAR* (PG-13)

4

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

1:15, 4:30, 7:45

â&#x20AC;¢ PRINCESS & THE FROG* (G)

â&#x20AC;¢ SHERLOCK HOLMES* (PG-13) 12:45, 3:45, 6:30, 9:20

â&#x20AC;¢ BOOK OF ELI* (R)

12:55, 4:120, 7:05, 9:35 â&#x20AC;¢ TOOTH FAIRY* (PG)

12:40, 2:50, 5:00, 7:10, 9:15

TUESDAY NIGHTS ARE STUDENT DISCOUNT NIGHTS AT UNIVERSITY 6 ALL TICKETS ARE MATINEE PRICE WITH STUDENT ID

MOVIES 5

2450 N Main Street 12:45, 2:45, 4:45, 6:45, 8:45 â&#x20AC;¢ NEW MOON* (PG-13) â&#x20AC;¢ EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES* 4:10, 7:05 Fri/Sat 9:35 (PG) 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7:00, 9:10 â&#x20AC;¢ ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS â&#x20AC;¢ SPY NEXT DOOR* (PG) (G) 4:00, 6:30 Fri/Sat 9:00 1:05, 3:05, 5:05, 7:05, 9:05 â&#x20AC;¢ EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES â&#x20AC;¢ BOOK OF ELI (R)* (PG) 4:00, 6:40 Fri/Sat 9:20 12:45, 3:45, 6:50, 9:40 â&#x20AC;¢ THE BLIND SIDE (PG-13) MIDNIGHT SHOWS 4:10, 6:50, Fri/Sat 9:30 FRIDAY & SATURDAY â&#x20AC;¢ INVICTUS* (PG-13) UNIVERSITY 6 ONLY $5.50 4:00, 6:40 Fri/Sat 9:20 *NO PASSES OR DISCOUNT TICKETS â&#x20AC;¢ THE SPY NEXT DOOR* (PG) JANUARY IS CUSTOMER APPRECIATION 4:15, 6:55, Fri/Sat 9:25 MONTH. ALL EXTRA LARGE COMBO $10

! )536+9/957 4,'498 A/4 9.+ <55*8B "+7757 +'-'4C8 A!9'7 $'78B 675- /-. 2+;+2 8957'-+ '7+'8 A 9.+225B ;/22'/4

54*/3+49 /4

)7588 /86/7/9+* !',+ .';+4 7/418 *5- 89>2+ '4* 8:775:4*+* (> '-:' 25(+

%5: 3'> (+ 952* 95 (:9954 57 ?/6 /9 "/-+78C *+48 A 22+> &&B 6/+)+ :897/'4 )/9> </9. ' 8':8'-+ 4'3+* ,57 /9 $'9854C8 6'794+7 5:* '4* 254- </4*+* /1+ ' 8+7/5:8 8/4 :92>/4- 95<4 ;/8 @ ;/8 9.+ )/9> 5)18 95 7+,/4+ 75:4*.5- '> 35 +:*'2 6+548

54-9/3+ '88').:8+998 8+4'957 +44+*> ./)1+4 85 95 86+'1

573'4*> )/9>

!'9:7'9+

3:8/)'2 '(5:9 ' 3'77/'-+

'8/2> 5,,+4*+* 7+8+492> +73'4 ':953'1+7 /867/498 5+9C8 A(+,57+B 7+'3 5, 9.+ )756

')1 9'21/4 53C8 3'9+

99')1 ;/52+492> 2')1 !+' 6579 5<'7*2> 7'33> </44+7 7>1'.

0 -+ ( $+%$'$(+

/3/4:9/;+ +4+7-> 85:7)+8 4)/*+49'22> /4 9+=9/4- 8.579.'4*

A ). (/4 && +72/4+7B '77> 2'(57/5:82> 7'8+7 '4* 5:-2'8 97++8 "'1+ 45:7/8.3+49 +9 54 /4 >+'78 $57* ',9+7 ,/8./4- 57 2/-.94/4 !)57). ./36 ,57 54+ 5-/+ )'9).+78

7/+* )574 (7+'* 57+ 7'86/4- '8 ' ;5/)+

3(+)/2/) /1+ 3:). 9+' /4 8:33+7 )/*/9> 458 && -55* +='362+ 7+9+ (574 '79/89 </9. ' !6'4/8.

4/)14'3+

7- </9. 7:/48 '4* 5>59+8 C '7+ ,57 #4/9+* /72/4+8

,-*! 02+ -11&" )&."!

*$ -(" "!$ "*.$ "+ (

:7*+4 "7'*/9/54'2 </8*53 +).'4/)C8 -7+'8+ 05( 54 && </99/)/83 :82/3 <54*+7 <571+78

5-'79C8 .'9 2:77/+* + - !+'3'4C8 A B '1+7> 89'62+

$+/-.9 2588 7+-/3+48

7:36> 355*

:4+

7/41+78 3'> 7:4 54+ :6

5257

5/498 5:9 '8 ' 6+76

A /-.9 95 (+'7 '738B 57-

A , :2+* 9.+ $572*B 7'66+7

FILL A BAG FOR or Hardcovers $2, Paperbacks $1 and Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $1

$7

Jenson Books

1766 S. 400 W. Mon-Fri 10-8, Sat 10-6 www.jensonbooksonline.com

Over 25,000 books and more arriving daily!

Today’s Issue

Page 14

StatesmanBack Burner

Wednesday

Jan. 27 Today is Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010. Today’s issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Will Pope, sophomore in music, from West Valley City, Utah.

Almanac Today in History: In 1888, the National Geographic Society was founded in Washington, D.C., for “the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge.”

The 33 men who originally met and formed the National Geographic Society were a diverse group of geographers, explorers, teachers, lawyers, cartographers, military officers and financiers. All shared an interest in scientific and geographical knowledge.

Weather Thursday’s Weather High: 28° Low: 10° Partly cloudy

Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010

-Non-Traditional Student Week -Recycle Mania, all day -Massages for non-traditional students, TSC 315, 11 a.m.

-Eating workshop, TSC Center Colony Rm, 12 p.m.

-Reentry Social, TSC, 6 p.m.

-USU Opera Theatre, Caine Lyric Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

-Women’s basketball at Idaho, 8 p.m.

Thursday

Jan. 28 -Non-Traditional Student Week -Recycle Mania, all day -Government Fair, TSC Ballroom, 10 a.m.

-USU Opera Theatre, Cain Lyric Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

Friday

Jan. 29 -Non-Traditional Student Week -Recycle Mania, all day -Gymnastics vs. Boise State, 7 p.m.

-Science Unwrapped, ESLC, 7 p.m.

-USU Opera Theatre, Caine Lyric Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

Student info

You need to know....

The Registrar’s Office would like to remind everyone of the following dates: Jan. 25 is the last day to receive 100% refund. Feb. 1 is the last day to receive 50% refund, last day to add classes, last day to drop classes, and a tuition and fee Payment is due.

USU Extension and the Utah Commission on Marriage will be holding a “Marriage Week Banquet” on Feb. 9 at 6:30 p.m. at the Copper Mill Restaurant.

Keynote speaker will be Dr. Victor Harris. Must pre-pay $10 per person by Feb. 4. Call 752-6263 for more info.

USU Researchers are conducting a study on how to improve the Web experiences of kids with disabilities. Please consider joining our efforts. Read the details at http://webaim.org/projects/steppingstones/invitation.

Intramural Indoor Triathlon will be held Jan. 30 at 10 a.m.

300 yard swim in HPER Pool, 2 Mile Bike in the Fieldhouse on Spinning Bikes, and 1 Mile Run on Fieldhouse Track. Register at 9 a.m. at the HPER Service desk.

Slow Food USU Chapter meeting and potluck on Jan. 27 at 7 p.m. at the Cache Valley Unitarian Universalists building. Everyone is welcome.

On Mar. 1 abstracts are due for the Student Showcase, USU’s annual undergraduate research event. For more info go to: http: research.usu.edu/undergrad/htm.

Society for International Business and Economic Development presents Understanding Haiti: Political, Historical, and Cultural Realities

by Professor Bill Furlong and Maria de Jesus Cordero on Jan. 27 at 6 p.m. in BUS. 216.

Red Cross Blood Drive will be held Jan. 27 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Institute Cultural Center. FNA Date Night Olympics will be held Jan. 29 at 7 p.m. at the Institute. Religion in Life Devotional will be Jan. 29 at 11:30 a.m. in the Cultural Center, the speaker will be Stan Checketts.

LSAT and GRE Prep Course will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from Jan. 26- Mar. 4.

Register at http://sail2.ext.usu. edu/lsat/index.cfm. Or for more info call Melanie Klein at 7970462.

Overnight parking

No overnight parking on Logan City streets is allowed between the hours of 1 and 6 a.m. through the end of February. It is the responsibility of all Logan City residents to inform guests of these restrictions. If you need assistance, please call us at 435750-0255.

Native American

If you dine at Chili’s on Feb. 1 and mention you are supporting the Native American Student Council they will donate 10% of their total earnings that they generate. This will help the NASC in preparation for our upcoming pow wow on Feb. 26-27.

Dance competition

USU’s So You Think You Can Dance Competition will be held Jan. 27 in the Kent Concert Hall at 7 p.m. Sponsored by Full Circle and Velocity dance companies on campus. Come support a dance major at USU.

Learn rugby

Learn the game of rugby. A rugby clinic will be held Jan. 28 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in the Fieldhouse. All who are interested are welcome and there is no cost.

Weight Watchers

Join USU Weight Watchers at Work. Next session start Jan. 28.

Meet Thursdays at 11:45 a.m. in TSC 335. For info call 797-1470 or visit www.usu.edu/wellness.

Brain Waves • B. Streeter

Moderately Confused • Stahler

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