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North Korea said Tuesday it was restarting its rogue nuclear program after the U.N. Security Council condemned its rocket launch earlier this month.

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News A sergeant’s Article 32 hearing continued Tuesday as a fellow sergeant testified against him.

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Features

Doctors at the Health and Wellness Center warn against UV rays.

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Sports Stavon Williams is leaving USU’s basketball team.

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THE TSC QUICKSTOP WILL NO LONGER SELL TOBACCO PRODUCTS due to a resolution unanimously voted on Friday by the Board of Trustees. The resolution also bans the advertisement of tobacco products on campus. PETE P. SMITHSUTH photo

Tobacco sales on campus banned

By RACHEL A. CHRISTENSEN news editor

A policy amending the USU student code to ban the sale or advertising of tobacco products on campus was unanimously passed through the Board of Trustees Friday.

The policy’s resolution document states the policy change was approved

by ASUSU Executive Council, the vice president for Student Services, the vice president’s council, USU’s president and provost before it was put for approval to the Board of Trustees.

Jeremy Jennings, ASUSU Academic Senate president, said although the ban was just recently passed, the university

“Pay your taxes, smile and remember the very small price you are paying for something so valuable.”

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“It’s kind of like putting a Band-Aid on a huge student concern,” he said.

The real issue isn’t the sale of tobacco on campus, he said, but the fact that students have to walk through secondhand smoke as long as smoking is allowed on campus. Jennings counts this policy change as a small success on the path to bigger goals.

For years, the Academic Senate, along with other groups on campus, have been working towards a campus-wide ban of tobacco use. Jennings said they’ve worked at moving toward a ban in smaller, less drastic steps. Currently, he said they are working on a policy that would ban

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Program insures USU international travelers

By BECKA TURNER senior news writer

Opinion

hasn’t had advertising for tobacco on its campus for about 30 years. He said the only thing this new code will change is prohibiting the sale of tobacco at the Quickstop.

Jaime Bradford, the Quickstop’s operations manager, said she didn’t find out about the policy change until Tuesday.

She said the Quickstop will continue to sell tobacco until May 1 because it needs to get rid of the product it already has.

She also said tobacco sales aren’t a large enough part of the Quickstop that the policy will really impact its business.

“It’s just not a significant amount,” Bradford said.

Jennings said the policy change is a step in the right direction, but only a baby step.

Utah State University has made some exciting changes concerning its travel programs, said Joe Dulin of Risk Management. The university has partnered with SOS International in hopes of providing more comprehensive international travel options for USU faculty and students.

When traveling overseas in the university’s name, faculty, students and staff will be provided with emergency medical, personal, travel, legal and security assistance services, Dulin said. Such occasions that would necessitate these options would be when students travel for research, humanitarian purposes and other learning experiences internationally, he said.

“Students travel for all sorts of reasons, such as

the micro-lending program through the business department and Engineers Without Borders, but there are numerous reasons students travel abroad,” Dulin said.

SOS is involved in the safety of Utah State’s travelers and will provide their services in circumstances that are not optimal, including sickness, accidents, security-related incidents and politically unstable environments, Dulin said.

According to the program’s Web site, students and volunteers can get the insurance for $1.25 per day of travel.

Alumna who travel on alumni tours can expect to pay $5 per day. Faculty and staff can be insured for $50, regardless of how many days they spend traveling.

Ed Reeve, interim vice provost for international education, said, “USU continues to be concerned with travelers’ health, safety and security

while traveling on behalf of the university, especially to international locations.”

Dulin said the program is available to any person attending or working for Utah State and is traveling with the university or in its name.

“It’s like a big umbrella. It covers all students,” he said.

Dulin said for a fee, the program will even cover students who are not necessarily traveling for university purposes.

“This will help us to evaluate different circumstances abroad and to be able to decipher what we are supposed to do in those situations,” he said.

Dulin said the university hasn’t had a program of this kind before. In the past, various departments over individual travel ventures oversaw safety concerns and insurance issues for participants.

“We were using a piecemeal

approach before with different departments contributing, but some were traveling without insurance,” he said.

Risk Management has decided to use all the money from the different departments to invest in the new program, Dulin said.

“The provost provided $50,000 up front and is willing to make up for whatever we fall short with, for now,” Dulin said.

Students, faculty and staff can learn more about the SOS program at www.usu.edu/riskmgt/other/international.cfm where they can find out what exactly the program does to keep its students safe.

“The safety and well-being of our students and faculty is our highest priority,” Dulin said.

–beck.turner@aggiemail.usu. edu

Treating child behavior issues early is key

By TRESSA GILBERT staff writer

Psychology doctoral student Jessica Malmberg is researching how to prevent treatable behavior from becoming clinically diagnosed by dealing directly with the parents of the child at an early age as a thesis project.

“We spend time with the parents,” Malmberg said. “You can’t prevent problems if you don’t work with the family.

Historically, psychologists were spending time with children and that has proved ineffective in some cases.”

Malmberg’s thesis project is a prevention research program that helps identify children between the ages of 18 and 30 months who are acting out in slight to extreme ways by having tantrums and being aggressive.

Malmberg said she is looking for

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JESSICA MALMBERG, PSYCHOLOGY DOCTORAL STUDENT, said time-outs for children will be more effective if the parent is consistently spending quality time with their kids. She said treating a child’s bad behavior is easier if parents get an early start. PETE P. SMITHSUTH photo

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Today’sIssue N. Korea vows to restart nuclear reactor Celebs&People

Today is Monday, April 13, 2009. Today’s issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Haylee Vallejo, a freshman majoring in English from Cedar Hills, Utah.

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Nat’lBriefs Oops, state’s tourism growth numbers are wrong SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – State officials vastly overestimated the number of visitors who came to Utah last year during a global economic meltdown.

The Governor’s Office of Economic Development said this week that 20.4 million visitors came to Utah in 2008, an increase of about 200,000 people from the year before.

But an Associated Press review of Salt Lake City International Airport passenger statistics shows that the governor’s staff overestimated the number of passengers who flew into Utah last year by more than 200,000 people.

It is unclear how much the incorrect numbers impact state estimates that tourist spending increased by more than $400 million last year to $7.1 billion.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea vowed Tuesday to restart its nuclear reactor and to boycott international disarmament talks for good in retaliation for the U.N. Security Council’s condemnation of its rocket launch.

The International Atomic Energy Agency said Tuesday that North Korea ordered the immediate expulsion of its inspectors and told the U.N. nuclear watchdog it was reactivating all of its nuclear facilities.

North Korea told inspectors to remove seals and cameras from its Yongbyon nuclear site and leave the country as quickly as possible, an IAEA statement said.

Pyongyang informed the IAEA it was “immediately ceasing all cooperation,� the statement said. “The (North) also informed the IAEA that it has decided to reactivate all facilities and go ahead with the reprocessing of spent fuel,� it said.

The vow to restart its nuclear reactor and boycott international disarmament talks was a serious step in the wrong direction, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.

North Korea must “cease its provocative threats� and respect the will of the international community, which won’t accept the communist country unless it abandons what the White House calls its pursuit of nuclear weapons, Gibbs said.

Russia, voicing regret over the move, urged Pyongyang to return to the negotiating table. Its

Foreign Ministry called the U.N. statement “legitimate and well-balanced,� and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said all sides must stick to the disarmament process. China, North Korea’s main ally, appealed for calm.

All 15 members of the Security Council, including Beijing and Moscow, agreed to condemn the April 5 missile launch as a violation of U.N. resolutions and to tighten sanctions against the regime.

The U.N. statement was weaker than the resolution Japan and the United States had pursued.

North Korea claims it sent a communications satellite into space as part of a peaceful bid to develop its space program. The U.S. and others call the launch an illicit test of the technology used to fire an intercontinental ballistic missile, even one eventually destined for the U.S. A Security Council resolution passed in 2006, days after North Korea carried out an underground nuclear test, prohibits Pyongyang from engaging in any ballistic missile-related activity – including launching rockets that use the same delivery technology as missiles mounted with warheads, Washington and other nations say.

President Barack Obama called the U.N. statement, which also called for quick resumption of disarmament talks, a “clear and united message� that North Korea’s action was unlawful and would result in real consequences, Gibbs said.

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Utah school buses going green

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Some of Utah’s yellow school buses are turning green.

On Monday, Sevier School District became the third school district statewide to begin using clean-burning, compressed natural gas instead of tradition fuel to power school buses. Sevier transportation supervisor Lynn Julander said Sevier paid about $18,000 to convert the 30-passenger bus to run on natural gas.

FBI: DNA points to identity of Book Cliffs remains SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – FBI investigators say they are 99 percent certain human remains found last month in Utah’s Book Cliffs mountains are those of a Colorado woman missing since 2003.

Grand County Sheriff Jim Nyland says DNA tests identified the remains as Leann Emry, 24, of Centennial, Colo.

The remains were found March 11 by sheriff’s deputies and FBI agents in the mountains. They were directed to the Book Cliffs by Scott Lee Kimball, 42, who drew a map of the area and marked it with the initials of Emry and Jennifer Marcum, 25, of Denver, also missing since 2003.

NEW YORK (AP) – Jamie Foxx launched a crude attack on teen sensation Miley Cyrus on his Sirius satellite radio show, saying: “Make a sex tape and grow up!�

It’s not clear when the comments were made.

But the insults began flying after someone brought up the 16-yearold’s recent feud FOXX with Radiohead after Cyrus wasn’t allowed to hang out with the band after the Grammys.

Foxx is heard saying: “Who is Miley Cyrus? The one with all the gums? She need to get a gum transplant!�

He also says: “Make a sex tape and grow up!�

A woman is heard calling Cyrus the b-word.

There’s been no comment from representatives for Cyrus or the 41year-old actor, who is the father of a teenage daughter.

LOS ANGELES (AP) – A court commissioner has issued a threeyear restraining order against a Florida man who police say tried to break onto the “Dancing With the Stars� set to meet Shawn Johnson.

Robert O’Ryan has been in custody since last month, when police say the 34-year-old jumped a fence at the Los Angeles studio lot of the popular dancing competition. Court records state a search of O’Ryan’s car turned up loaded guns, duct tape and love letters to Johnson, a 17-year-old Olympic gold medalist.

The order approved Tuesday morning is meant to prevent O’Ryan from contacting Johnson or her family for three years.

O’Ryan remains jailed on $220,000 bail and was not represented in court. Johnson’s parents appeared but were not required to testify.

LateNiteHumor TIBETAN BUDDHISTS AND TOURISTS are seen through prayer flags as they congregate

at Bodhnath Buddhist stupa, in Katmandu, Nepal, Tuesday. Some thousands of Buddhist pilgrims traditionally circumambulate the stupa, reciting prayers and spinning prayer wheels. AP photo

Afghan Taliban kill young woman, man for eloping KABUL (AP) – A Taliban firing squad killed a young couple in southwestern Afghanistan for trying to elope, shooting them with AK-47s in front of a crowd in a lawless, militant-controlled region, officials said Tuesday.

The woman, 19-year-old Gul Pecha, and the man, 21-year-old Abdul Aziz, were accused by the militants of immoral acts, and a council of conservative clerics decided that the two should be killed, officials said.

The two had hoped to travel to Iran, which borders their home province of Nimroz, but their parents sent villagers to bring them home, said Sadiq Chakhansori, the chief of the provincial council. Once back home, the pair was either turned over to the Taliban by their par-

ents or the militants took them by force, the officials said, providing slightly varying accounts.

Riflemen in the remote district of Khash Rod shot them Monday, said Chakhansori. “Unfortunately, Khash Rod is an area that is almost out of the control of the government,� said Gov. Ghulam Dastagir Azad. “We don’t have coalition or Afghan army forces there like we do in other districts.�

The U.S. has 38,000 forces in Afghanistan, and President Barack Obama recently announced that the U.S. would send 21,000 more troops to the country this summer.

But in remote and dangerous regions of Afghanistan, Taliban fighters operate what are sometimes referred to as shadow gov-

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The conservative Taliban movement ruled Afghanistan from 1996-2001 and put in place harsh social rules that forbade unmarried men and women to talk or meet in public. Women were not allowed out of their homes without a male relative, and girls couldn’t go to school.

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U.S. soldier says he saw Sgt. chase, shoot comrade Briefs Campus & Community

FORT STEWART, Ga. (AP) – An Army sergeant, his face lit by the muzzle flash of his rifle, chased a superior officer at their base in Iraq until he fell, then stood over the man and fired two shots into him, a soldier in their unit testified Tuesday.

Staff Sgt. John Dresel was the first U.S. soldier to testify that he witnessed Sgt. Joseph Bozicevich shoot a fellow soldier during Bozicevich’s Article 32 hearing, which entered its second day Tuesday.

Bozicevich, 39, of Minneapolis is charged with killing a fellow team leader in his unit, Sgt. Wesley Durbin, and their squad leader, Staff Sgt. Darris Dawson, whom Dresel said fell to the ground pleading before Bozicevich shot him twice Sept. 14 at a small U.S. patrol base south of Baghdad.

On Monday, witnesses testified that the two slain soldiers had been giving Bozicevich a critique about performance problems before he shot them. The platoon leader, 1st Lt. Ryan Daly, testified Dawson was pulling Bozicevich off patrol duty after he left a soldier behind during a foot patrol the night before. Bozicevich had another problem a few hours earlier, when he lost one of his grenades and couldn’t find it.

The hearing at Fort Stewart, similar to a civilian grand jury, will determine if there’s enough evidence to try the case in a courtmartial. Testimony was scheduled to resume Wednesday.

Dresel said he ran toward the sound of gunfire at the base when shooting broke out at about 1 a.m. He saw Dawson lying on the ground and Bozicevich, armed with a rifle, running until he stood over him a few feet away.

“As I’m seeing Sgt. Bozicevich, he’s saying, ‘(Expletive), I’m going to kill you,’” Dresel said.

“POW! I could see the muzzle flash. ... When the muzzle flash came up, I could see his face.

You could just see the expression on his face, angry and wild.”

As Bozicevich fired his rifle, Dresel said, 24year-old Dawson of Pensacola, Fla., was “beg-

ging him to stop” and yelling “Why? Why?” Dresel, a former high school wrestling champion, said he tackled Bozicevich onto the ground, flipped him over face-down and began driving his face into the dirt and rocks as he struggled to get back up.

Durbin, 26, of Dallas was found at a nearby security station where he lay against a wall, blood pooling around him from gunshots to his neck and chest.

Sgt. Jesse Everson, one of the soldiers who found Durbin, said he was so badly wounded there was little he could do but kneel by his side and pray.

“I put my right hand on his forehead,” Everson said. “He was cold, he was blue. His eyes were rolled back in his head.”

Bad weather prevented an Army helicopter from flying the wounded men to a hospital.

Soldiers drove them to an Army surgeon at a base 45-minutes away, where Durbin was pronounced dead. Dawson, who appeared to be in better condition, was transferred again to a combat field hospital in Baghdad, another 90 minutes away, where he died soon after arriving.

Durbin’s parents and his wife, Brandi, sat in the courtroom hearing many details of how he and Dawson died, and the efforts to save them, for the first time.

“It’s good to get some facts, because we’ve been waiting for that,” Carole Durbin, the slain soldier’s mother, said after testimony ended Tuesday. “But it’s extremely difficult.”

Recounting how Bozicevich acted as soldiers held him on the ground, Dresel said Bozicevich laughed and said, “I’m glad they’re dead. Kill me.”

“We didn’t gag him,” Dresel said. “We thought about it, because he was just making everybody go crazy wild, talking like he did.”

Bozicevich’s Defense attorney, Charles Gittins, asked Dresel why he never mentioned Bozicevich saying “I’m glad they’re dead” in his typewritten account of the shootings given to

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U.S. ARMY SGT. WESLEY DURBIN’S WIDOW Brandy Durbin, right, and parents Carole and Randy Durbin exit the courtroom during a break in the Article 32 hearing of accused murderer Sgt. Joseph C. Bozicevich, April 13 in Fort Stewart, Ga. AP photo

military investigators the day after the shootings last year.

“You typed it very soon after the events, while they were still fresh in your mind, correct?” Gittins said.

Dresel said he’d been woken up from sleeping to write his statement, so he did it quickly so he could go back to bed. He said other soldiers heard Bozicevich’s words as well.

Though several of the 12 soldiers who have testified mentioned hearing Bozicevich say “kill me,” no one else has stated that Bozicevich said he was glad the two soldiers were dead.

High school student killed in love triangle CHANDLER, Ariz. (AP) – An 18-year-old high school student caught with his 48-year-old math teacher in her bedroom was stabbed to death by her boyfriend, who was himself a former student of hers, police said Tuesday.

Chandler police said 20-yearold Sixto Balbuena told them he never meant to kill Samuel Valdivia. He allegedly told police “the blade went in like going into butter” and that he just wanted to show Valdivia how much he hurt him by sleeping with Tamara Hofmann.

Balbuena, a Navy sailor on leave from California, was arrested on a charge of seconddegree murder after police found him covered in blood and told them about the killing.

He remained jailed in lieu of $100,000 bond on Tuesday and did not yet have a lawyer.

Balbuena found his girlfriend naked and Valdivia in his boxer shorts in the woman’s bedroom around 2:40 a.m. Friday, according to police reports and court documents.

Balbuena told police that

BALBUENA Valdivia apologized to him before Balbuena began kicking, punching and throwing things at him, according to a police probable cause statement.

Police said Balbuena told them he “wanted to teach the victim a lesson,” and stabbed him in the lower side with a kitchen knife, according to the court document. Valdivia later died at a hospital.

He also threw Hofmann to the floor jumped on top of her and demanded to know how long she had been cheating on him, according to the document.

Police said Hofmann taught

Valdivia math at El Dorado High School in Chandler and was also Balbuena’s teacher when he attended Marcos de Niza High School in Tempe.

A call to both schools was not immediately returned Tuesday.

Hofmann’s phone number is unlisted.

Balbuena is the one who called 911. He told officers he felt remorse for stabbing Valdivia after seeing him lying on the floor struggling to breathe, police said.

Police spokesman Sgt. Joe Favazzo said Hofmann is being investigated for potential misconduct relative to her involvement with Valdivia.

A 2006 Chandler police report obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday shows that police suspected Hofmann of having a sexual relationship with a then-17-yearold Balbuena.

Both Hofmann and Balbuena denied being in a sexual relationship, and police closed the case.

Program seeks to keep mentally ill out of prison SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – A yearold federal court program is helping rehabilitate mentally ill offenders by getting them to treatment rather than just sending them to prison.

RISE – Re-entry Independence through Sustainable Efforts – is the first program of its kind in Salt Lake City’s U.S. District Court. A program team including a judge, prosecutor, public defender, probation officer, case manager and treatment provider gets participants therapy and other services they need to live crime-free.

The help also extends beyond the courthouse doors, to assistance with housing or access to benefits such as Medicaid and Social Security.

Magistrate Brooke Wells led the effort to create the program.

Participants must appear weekly in her court to describe successes or struggles.

“It’s a positive approach rather than a punitive approach,” Wells said.

“We’re a problem solving group.”

Good behavior is rewarded with applause and praise while bad behavior is discouraged with penalties.

Child: There is no certification process for parenthood -continued from page 1 parents who feel overwhelmed by their child’s behavior, much like those referred to as the usual terrible twos.

“We are looking for the borderline kids, that’s who we really want,” she said.

Once she finds the parents, the child is screened for free. Atypical actions for an 18- to 30-month-old may include physical and verbal aggression, excessive tantrums and frequent displays of noncompliance, Malmberg said.

After the children are screened and if they meet the criteria, parents are set up for two sessions of preventative behavior training. While this service would typically cost $200 or more, Malmburg said she offers it free of charge.

Doctors from the Budge Pediatric Clinic in Logan have joined Malmberg and Clint Field of their psychology department on their quest to help parents help their children.

Field said more and more kids are developing behavior problems because there was no intervention at a young age when signs were apparent.

The need for these early intervention programs is real, Field said.

“It’s the number one reason children are referred to mental health clinics in the country, and the number one concern reported to pediatricians by parents,” Field said. “Often, the parents know something is wrong, but they don’t know how to handle certain types of behavior.”

Field, Malmberg’s professor, said sometimes parents make mistakes because no type of certificate is required for parenthood.

“Take driving for instance,” he said. “You learn how to drive and get your license, but there is no learning and licensing process for parenting. We certainly don’t believe that there

should be, but there is some basic and sound advice that could benefit all parents.”

Dealing with misbehaving children can be more than parents are equipped for. In the training, Malmberg and her team work to teach parents what these struggling toddlers need.

“We emphasize the use of ‘time-in’ that makes ‘time-out’ effective,” Malmberg said.

“Through regular, planned and positive interactions with their parents, children become more responsive to time-out.”

Speak Up “Once they reach adolescence, the chances that their behavior can be altered are so much smaller.”

-Jessica Malmberg, psychology doctoral student “It’s all about contrast,” she said. “We encourage them to spend 10 minutes during the day where the children do what they want, and just hang out with the parents. No instruction, but rather where you praise and imitate them.”

Other positive reinforcement strategies she teaches the parents to implement include catching the child doing good things, giving five positives for every negative and using a different approach to time-outs.

Other students at USU agree with Malmberg in her idea of catching the problem early.

“I definitely think the age of 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 is appropriate to see the emergent behaviors in children,” said Caitie Thomas, junior in early childhood education. “I’ve never worked with a child that I thought was beyond intervention.”

She said, however, as children get older it becomes more difficult to correct their behavior.

Malmberg said she wants to reach out to the parents of these children, and is offering free advice and counseling through her project. She said she believes the time is now if their child is young and has shown characteristics of excessive anger or defiance.

“Once they reach adolescence, the chances that their behavior can be altered are so much smaller,” she said.

She said research shows the problematic kids often end up going to juvenile detention and prison, after committing crimes as adults.

“I believe that if we can prevent at such a young age, we can really help the world,” she said. “I would never say it’s too late to help a child or teen, but I am such an advocate of prevention psychology.”

Malmberg said parents don’t have to be scared if their 2 year old is acting out, but a free screening can only help.

“It’s normal for children of this age to throw tantrums, but we want to help those that are maybe a little excessive,” Malmberg said.

Malmberg is still looking for parents with children to take part in her program. She can be reached at j.malmberg@aggiemail.usu.edu.

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USU students took first place in eight events at a state leadership conference that tested business skills in a variety of areas.

The Jon M. Huntsman School of Business students are members of Phi Beta Lamba (PBL), a collegiate business organization. They competed in a two-day conference sponsored by the national PBL organization.

The USU students entered 20 different events that tested their business skills through role plays, case studies and exams.

USU placed in each category. Those who placed first, second or third have the opportunity to go on to the national competition in Anaheim, Calif., June 20-23.

“We are proud of these students because they go the extra mile to refine the job skills they’ll put to use in the marketplace,” said Krystn Clark, advisor for the Huntsman School’s PBL chapter. “It is particularly rewarding to see them do so well in contests that test ethical and entrepreneurial instincts because those are areas we emphasize daily at the Huntsman School of Business.”

To raise money for the trip to California, USU hosts the Aggie Invitational in December, an event that draws high school students who are members of the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA). There are more than 11,000 students in the PBL nationally.

Attorney speaks as HASS guest The legal director of the Nevada Immigrant Resource Project (NIRP) at the University of Nevada Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law is the next guest in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Distinguished Alumni Speaker Series at Utah State University.

Angela Morrison speaks Friday, April 17, at 12:30 p.m. at the USU Haight Alumni Center. Members of the public are invited to join students and faculty at USU for the presentation.

Morrison will present “Myths and Realities of Immigration” during her presentation that includes an overview of immigration history and a discussion of how the immigration system actually works. A discussion of immigrants and public belief in relation to taxes, economic contributions, welfare and schools is included.

USU orchestra hosts trumpeter

Utah State University’s Wind Orchestra, under the conductorship of Director of Bands Thomas P. Rohrer, hosts Roy Poper, professor of trumpet at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in an April 24 concert. The Friday concert begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Kent Concert Hall of the Chase Fine Arts Center.

The performance is part of a series of master classes and lessons at the university made possible by a grant from the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation.

Concert admission is $5, with free admission to USU staff and students, as well as public school band students.

Tickets are available at the CSA Box Office by calling 797-8022, online at http:// boxoffice.usu.edu or at the door.

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Federal officials had taken Demjanjuk to a federal building in downtown Cleveland, but the 89-yearold retired autoworker’s impending return to Germany was halted when three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of

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An arrest warrant in Germany claims Demjanjuk was an accessory to some 29,000 deaths during World War II at the Sobibor camp in Nazioccupied Poland. Once in Germany, he could be formally charged in court.

Demjanjuk was driven to his home in Seven Hills after his release, former son-in-law and family spokesman Ed Nishnic said. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement they’ll supervise him through electronic monitoring.

In granting the stay, the three-judge panel said it would further consider Demjanjuk’s motion to reopen the U.S. case that ordered the deportation, in which he says painful medical ailments would make travel to Germany torturous.

Citing the need to act because of the possibility of Demjanjuk’s imminent deportation, the court issued the stay without addressing the U.S. government’s argument that the court had no jurisdiction to rule on Demjanjuk’s appeal.

The government planned to continue its legal battle in court, said Justice Department spokeswoman Laura Sweeney.

Nishnic said the family was relieved the stay was granted. “We’re delighted. We’re prepared to make our arguments with the 6th Circuit, and it’s just a shame that Mr. Demjanjuk had to go through the hell that he went through once again this morning,� he said as he walked into a federal build-

JOHN DEMJANJUK, SECOND FROM RIGHT, is taken from his home in Seven Hills, Ohio, by immigration agents Tuesday. Demjanjuk is being deported to Germany to face charges because he was a guard at a Nazi death camp during World War II. AP photo

ing in Cleveland where Demjanjuk was being held.

Earlier Tuesday, Demjanjuk’s wife, Vera, sobbed and held her hands to her mouth as immigration officers loaded his wheelchair into a van at their home.

Several family members, including a 10-year-old grandson, were in the home when the officers removed Demjanjuk.

Nishnic said Demjanjuk, a native of Ukraine, told his family, “I love you,� in Ukrainian and was aware that the officers were there to take him to Germany.

Nishnic said his former father-in-law moaned in pain as he was placed in the wheelchair.

John Demjanjuk Jr., who filed the appeal with the 6th Circuit earlier Tuesday, said the government hadn’t lived up to earlier understandings of how his father would be removed. “They told me that they would have an ambulance.

They told me we would have three to five days’ notice, and obviously you can’t believe everything the government tells you,� he

told The Associated Press by phone while headed back to Cleveland from the federal appeals court in Cincinnati. “If he is deported, if this madness and inhumane action is not stopped by the 6th Circuit, he will live out his life in a (German) hospital. He will never be put on trial,� he said. “It makes absolutely no sense that the Germans, after nearly killing him in combat, would try to kill him once again.�

The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center said it was undeterred. “We remain confident that John Demjanjuk will be deported and finally face the bar of justice for the unspeakable crimes he committed during World War II when he was a guard at the Sobibor death camp,� said Rabbi Marvin Hier, Wiesenthal Center founder. “His work at the Sobibor death camp was to push men, women and children into the gas chamber. He had no mercy, no pity and no remorse for the families whose lives he was destroying forever,� Hier said.

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smoking at large events as well as in certain locations on campus. This ban has passed several levels, such as a student vote and the Faculty Senate, but the university’s deans and administration expressed concerns and have halted the ban’s progress.

He said they verbally committed themselves to research to see if there is a better way to address these concerns. If they don’t find a more appropriate alternative, they will pass the ban policy on to the Board of Trustees.

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Focus: Health

A guide to women’s health

By CANDICE SANDNESS staff writer

Had a check-up from the gynecologist lately?

Female students may or may not need to depending on the status of their reproductive organs and sexual activity, said USU Wellness Center nurse practitioner Linda Roberts.

Pap smears are used to detect cervical cancer and if women have been sexually active for at least two years, it’s time for a pap smear, Roberts said.

In a pap test, a speculum is entered into the vagina and a swab is taken from the cervix to take a sample of the cells to detect malignancy.

Jessica Shaw, graduate student in education, said she has seen her gynecologist on an annual basis since she was 18, and said having an annual check-up is important for women to protect their health.

“I’d be apprehensive not going to my gynecologist because I’d be living every day not knowing whether I have female health problems,” she said. “I’m taking steps toward good health.”

Risks for cervical cancer include smoking, having multiple sex partners, becoming sexually active at a young age and practicing sex without a condom, Roberts said.

One way to combat cervical cancer is the HPV vaccine. The vaccine is a preventative to cervical cancer and genital warts in women and Roberts said she recommends getting vaccinated before becoming sexually active.

Because the HPV virus is transmitted solely by skin to skin contact, it’s important to get vaccinated. Roberts said other STDs such as gonorrhea and syphilis are bacteria diseases, which simply need to be treated with antibiotics.

There is not a government approved HPV vaccine for men, but should be approved in the near future, Roberts said.

The vaccine consists of three shots in a sixmonth period.

Urinary tract infections, commonly known as UTIs, are another health risk that commonly effects women because

they are more susceptible to women than to keep the body strong with the physical and endometriosis, according to articlemen, Roberts said. UTIs can be treated demands of their sport, Roberts said. click.com. with antibiotics and are not a STD, which Irregular menstruation, missing periods To prevent anemia and to stablize iron many people believe it is, she said. Sexually and very painful heavy periods indicate levels, Roberts said eating foods high in active people are more prone to receiving a hormonal imbalance. Roberts said she iron or taking a multi-vitamin with iron them because of the mechanics of sexual advises women to have it evaluated because are great ways to be iron sufficient. intercourse in skin-to-skin contact, Roberts it could be a risk for more serious things.

Anemic symptoms include fatigue and said.

“Hormones are out of balance when dizziness, which are the two most experiRoberts said she makes her visits as (your cycle is abnormal or absent) enced symptoms, Roberts said. comfortable as possible for female and our job is to put hormones Loss of a monthly period is normal durpatients, so they can feel able to back into balance,” she said. ing high-stress times, such as a freshman’s ask or say anything concerning Having hormones out of first couple of weeks of school or a period their sexual health issues. balance can result in numerof rigorous, heavy training for a collegiate Roberts said she advises stuous symptoms and discomfort athlete, she said. dents to practice safe sex and to get including depression, fatigue, “(Having your period irregularly) isn’t out of unhealthy relationships anxiety, headaches, abnormal under high stressful times; howwhich can leave women in an decrease in libido or ever, if it’s ongoing, it needs to be evaluenduring state of stress and weight gain, Roberts ated,” she said. unhappiness. said.

Roberts said the most important thing For young adult Hormonal imbalfor women to do is just to pay attention to women, breast examinaance may manifest their body and be aware of any abnormal tions are important through more functions. so that lumps or any severe symptoms, “Just come in and don’t worry about it abnormalities can be like osteoporosis, and we’ll consult with you,” she said. “We detected before they urinary infecare a convenient health clinic for students. form into breast tions, uterine It’s what we are here for.” cancer. fibroids, fibro–candice.sandness@aggiemail.usu.edu Roberts said cystic breasts 25 percent of the cause of breast cancer is because of a genetic line-up and the other 75 percent is unknown.

“We simply don’t know the cause of it,” she said. “There may be correlations between smoking and breast cancer or high-fat diets and breast cancer, but there is no absolute known cause of breast cancer.”

Roberts said women should periodically examine themselves for breast cancer at their homes.

Roberts said a lump will feel something like a very small grape and if there is anything unusual about a woman’s body, she should come in and have it checked by her physician.

For female student athletes and for women with heavy menstruation, anemia LINDA ROBERTS, nurse practitioner at the USU Student Health and Wellness Center said can be a concern because an abundant it is important for women to actively check for breast cancer. CAMERON PETERSON photo amount of iron is lost because of blood loss. Athletes need more iron supplements

Just say ‘no’ to soda pop

By KARLIE BRAND features senior writer

America’s favorite drinks such as Coke, Sprite, Dr. Pepper, Mountain Dew and others get quite the bad rap these days.

Nutritionists, researchers, moms and school principals are accusing the drinks of causing diabetes, osteoporosis, obesity and other serious diseases. But what adverse health effects can really be attributed to the sugary drinks children, teens and adults crave?

Janet B. Anderson, USU nutrition and food science professor and registered dietitian, said although there are theories stating soda may directly contribute

to serious diseases, the real problem with soda is that it acts as a replacement for more nutritious drinks.

“It’s really a replacement problem,” Anderson said. “What we’re finding in research is that people who drink large amounts of soda, especially teens, are primarily at risk because they are replacing nutrient dense drinks (milk, water, real fruit juices) with soda.”

According to Center for Science in the Public Interest, companies produce enough soda pop annually to provide 52.4 gallons to every man, woman and child in America. The same source states the average American gets 7 percent of their calories from soda and the average teenager gets 13 percent of their daily caloric intake from the sugary stuff. Between 56 percent and 85 percent of children in school have at least one can of soda every day.

Anderson said that by replacing milk with soda, teens and young

adults aren’t getting the nutrients they need to develop bone mass and density to protect against osteoporosis. She said many people don’t understand that men and women continue to develop bone mass into their 20s, but the growth stops between the ages of 20-30. Bone mass stays stagnant or decreases slightly until menopause in women or 50-60 range in men. Anderson said women begin losing bone mass and density rapidly due to hormonal changes in menopause, and that is often when women develop osteoporosis.

“The concept we try to teach is that college students are still developing bone,” Anderson said.

“It’s important (especially for women) to develop as much bone as they can ... because at menopause women lose bone really fast.”

Anderson said if women’s bones are weak before menopause they will likely develop osteoporosis and have problems with brittle spines, wrists and hips. According to the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, a survey indicated that “teenage girls in the United States are less likely than teenage boys to get enough calcium. In fact, fewer than 10 percent of girls age 9-17 are actually getting the calcium they need each day.” So, not only are girls more susceptible to osteoporosis by nature, most are extremely calcium deficient.

Anderson said the other main problem with soda is the high amount of empty calories with little nutritional value. Instead

REPLACING NUTRITIOUS MEALS WITH SODA POP can wreak havoc in the future, said to Janet B. Anderson, registered dietitian and USU professor. PATRICK ODEN photo illustration

of snacking on fruits or vegetables, people are drinking 150 empty calories from a 12 oz. can of soda that offers no nutrients, causing them to feel hungry again soon.

Moderation is key in determining how much soda a person should limit themselves to, but Anderson said “moderation” varies person to person.

“It depends on the individual,” she said. “If a person struggles with weight we really need to get them off soda or get them on diet soda.”

Anderson said choosing diet soda or using half regular soda and half diet soda is a good solution to cutting the high calories in drinks.

–karlie.brand@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Unprotected sun exposure not worth the risk

By NATALIE CURTIS staff writer

With warm weather and summer approaching, laying out in the sun and getting tan may be on students’ minds. However, Jim Davis said he advises tanners to be very cautious about the damaging effects of ultraviolet rays.

“You have to avoid UV exposure,” said Davis, director of the Student Health and Wellness Center at USU. “Everyone thinks a tan is healthy, but it’s just not worth it.”

The incidence of skin cancer in the United States is about 800,000 cases per year, he said, and sun exposure is “definitely the number one cause.”

“You should have been here this morning,” he said.

“I just extracted nine moles from a student who was worried about skin cancer.”

Davis said treatment varies depending on the type of skin cancer. If it’s invasive then the patient must have it surgically removed, he said, which requires an anesthetic. He said it can be painful but cuts away the cancer spots.

Chemotherapy treatments may also have to be done to prevent the spread, he said, which can make the patient nauseous, vomit and lose his or her hair.

When it comes to the

cost, skin cancer treatment expenses vary. Localized skin cancer can be removed at the student health center for less than $30, Davis said, but an incision on the face may require plastic surgery and skin grafting that can cost up to $100,000.

Susan Hansen, 58, said she had a small lesion of basal cell cancer removed from her upper chest area when she was 34. Hansen said her treatment was simple and not very painful because the cancer was localized and the doctor just cut it off and stitched her up.

Her father had squamous cell cancer on the crown of his head, she said, but he did not recognize it at first.

“He thought it was just a scabby sore that would not go away,” she said, “so he put alcohol on it to try and heal it and waited for six months before he went to the doctor.”

Hansen said by the time her father’s cancer was diagnosed it had grown into part of his skull. He had three surgeries to try and get it all, she said, and it has been successful for the past nine years. He was fortunate enough not to have had chemo, she said, but the remaining wound is about the size of a half dollar on the top of his head.

Davis said skin cancer is

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JIM DAVIS, M.D., director of the Student Health and Wellness Center, examines a student for signs of skin cancer.

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always much better if it can be caught earlier, but with moles and freckles appearing frequently, people may wonder how exactly to know if they are at risk. To detect skin cancer, he said, there are general guidelines to follow when things

become suspicious.

“The rule is to get rid of anything bigger than a pencil eraser, multicolor, changing in color, irregularly edged or basically any type of change,” he said.

If people are uncertain, they should take an

up close, color, in-focus digital picture, Davis said, and then take subsequent photos at one month, six months, eight months, 10 months and one year. If there is any change, they should look at getting the spot removed, he said.

After she had her skin cancer removed, Hansen said, she realized that she had a few habits growing up that likely contributed to the damage. She said when she was a teenager she laid out in the sun frequently and got very dark.

“Sometimes I even got pretty burned,” she said, “because I would always use baby oil and never sun block.”

Some people may assume that having a base tan is better than getting sun burned. Davis said although it does take more radiation to get a burn, “UV rays are still UV rays.”

“Being tan isn’t better than being burned, it’s just less bad,” he said. “Neither would be ideal.”

When it comes to attempting to undo the damage done from the sun, Davis said, destroying the skin with liquid nitrogen is really the only way that the pre-malignancy in the skin can be changed.

“A chance to cut is a chance to cure,” he said.

Hansen said because of all the time her father spent in the sun farming, he also has pre-cancer on his arms and yearly the doctor applies nitrogen to freeze the cancer spots.

“It is extremely painful,” she said, “and leaves sores that last up to a week.”

Although there are many treatments available for skin cancer and the survival rate has increased, Davis said, some cases can be fatal, especially cancer of pigment cells called melanoma.

When evaluating peoples’ risk for cancer, there are some complexions that are more prone to it, like people with pale skin, he said, because the darker or olive complexions have more pigment that helps protect the skin and absorb the ultraviolet rays and keep them from hitting the deep cell layers.

Jenna Oldroyd, sophomore in public relations, said she has olive skin so

she goes tanning at a salon and lays out in the sun without protection. She said she is aware of the effects UV rays can have but said she isn’t scared of getting skin cancer because her dermatologist told her that she has a low risk because of her skin tone.

“I don’t ever use sun block because I never get burned,” she said.

Davis said he advised people of all skin types to use the highest level of SPF, even those who don’t burn. Ultraviolet light is a carcinogen, he said, and people should avoid these rays because they “weaken the elastic fibers in the skin making them sag and wrinkled.”

Sarah Carr, junior studying history, said, “As a rule, I don’t lay out in the sun without sunscreen.”

Carr said she isn’t scared about getting skin cancer because she doesn’t spend a lot of time in the sun unprotected, but she said she is worried about getting wrinkles.

“I’d like to look my age,” she said.

The habit of applying sunscreen is healthy, safe and will leave no room for regret in future years, Davis said. Looking back, Hansen said, she wished she would have been more careful about UV exposure.

“I would not be so vain, shallow and stupid about tanning,” she said. “It not only heighted my risk of cancer, but has contributed to wrinkles and other skin damage.”

Hansen said her father always wears a hat when he is outside now and covers his arms as well.

“My dad wishes he would have worn a hat all the time,” she said, “but back then things were different and they didn’t even know about sunscreen.”

Hansen said her advice is that tanning is not only risky, but costly and a waste of money. She said she has changed her behavior and hopes to take better care of her skin from now on.

“I just don’t lay out in the sun anymore,” she said.

“I still don’t use sun block but I try to use common sense when I’m outside.”

–natalie.c@aggiemail.usu. edu

How to treat a sunburn Source: Adrienne Packham Physician Assistant (PA) for Dr. Kelly Hubbard, M.D., dermatologist – Prevention will eliminate the need for treatment.

Packham said people need to remember to use sunscreen and reapply often.

– Packham said for mild to moderate sunburns, “It’s mostly about managing discomfort.” In the first 48 hours, cool the burn with a cool bath or shower, apply cool packs, and use home remedies like witch-hazel or oatmeal in baths. Packham also suggested that vinegar in a cool bath may take the sting out of a burn. Refrigerate aloe vera and apply to help cool the burn.

– Once the burn has cooled (after approximately 48 hours), Packham suggested using a good moisturizing cream. “Nothing too thick, like Vasoline, because that can hold in the heat,” she said.

Moisturizing the skin helps heal the burn.

– Keep hydrated. “A lot of times people are dehydrated because they’ve been out in the heat,” she said.

– If the sunburn is severe or is blistering, Packham recommended seeing a doctor; if the blisters break there may be a secondary infection. “If somebody has a blistering sunburn it might be a good idea to go and see the doctor because often that requires oral medication,” she said.

Information compiled by Karlie Brand

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Alleviating springtime allergies

By CATHERINE MEIDELL staff writer

As all the plants are budding and blooming in the dawn of spring, many students are groaning thinking about the bottles of allergy medicine it will take to keep their noses from running.

According to www. achooallergy.com, 55 percent of Americans test positively to one or more allergens. The most common allergens include dust, mold, pollens, animal dander, eggs, milk, penicillin, peanuts and latex.

Right now, pollens are the most prominent allergen because spring is officially known as allergy season, according to the Achoo Allergy FAQ. Achoo Allergy explains that spring is the worst time for an allergic disease called rhinitis, which is most commonly known as

hay fever.

Alex Schmall is a freshman majoring in mechanical engineering who experiences hay fever from the middle of spring into early winter. He said the symptoms he experiences include a runny nose, a lot of congestion in his throat and itchy eyes. When his eyes get itchy, he said he cannot rub them or they will become swollen.

Throughout allergy season he said he experiences these symptoms multiple times a week. Schmall said he has never been to a doctor for his condition because he found Benadryl works wonders for him every time he feels the allergy symptoms coming on. “Sometimes at night and during the day it has gotten to the point where I’m hacking for 10 to 15 minutes. Then I take a Benadryl when I can breathe for 40 seconds. It

sucks. You can call it an episode,� Schmall said.

The Benadryl takes effect quickly for Schmall. He said his allergy symptoms become less intense immediately and then a little while after that he can function normally again.

Some are allergic to more than foreign particles floating around in the air.

Dalton Bennett is a freshman and accounting major who is allergic to cats and some types of grass along with the pollens that the spring season brings. “My dad has hay fever and grass allergies and my mom is allergic to animals.

I got a nice combination of both of them,� Bennett said.

Bennett said he, like Schmall, has never seen a doctor, but has found ways to get rid of the tickling he gets in his throat when all the flowers are in full bloom. His own remedy is a combination of Wal-Mart

ALLERGIES AFFECT 55 PERCENT OF AMERICANS. In order to stop allergies before they start, students said they rely on at-home remedies. TYLER LARSON photo illustration

brand allergy relief medicine, eye drops and sometimes Claritin. If a person has allergies and knows that they are going somewhere that could spark their allergy symptoms, taking medicine ahead of

time is a wise idea, Bennett said. “If the allergy symptoms take you by surprise, then medicine takes one to two hours to work,� Bennett said.

By taking medicine

before allergies kick in, Bennett said other students can attempt to alleviate the inconvenience of spring allergies. –catherine.meidell@aggiemail.usu.edu

Eating healthy: A day in the life of a dietitian

By MACKENZIE LOVE staff writer

It’s midnight and a seven-page paper is due, along with studying for several exams. When most students reach for the bag of M&Ms or a Mountain Dew, it’s important to know the body and mind can work better when following good nutritional guidelines.

If students want to know whether or not they are getting the nutrition they need, MarLee Harris, registered dietitian, can help. Harris works at the USU Student Health and Wellness Center and does one-on-one nutritional counseling. Harris said nutrition is an element that should be important in the daily life of students. “Just have fun, live in the moment but also plan a little bit as to how you’re going to take care of your nutrition,� Harris said.

Harris graduated from USU in dietetics and after an internship with Idaho State University came back to USU. Harris said she has worked as the center’s dietitian for about two years.

Harris’ day starts at 8:30 or 9 in the morning. She meets with students and covers topics ranging from weight loss and eating disorders to general nutrition questions. She also holds cooking classes, grocery shopping tours, works with athletes and helps dietetic students who are looking for internships. Her day ends at 5 or 6 p.m.

Harris also works with USU Dining Services and the healthy living challenge they promote. Harris spends Monday, Wednesday and Friday working at the Student Health and Wellness Center and Tuesday and Thursday at the Living Learning Center and Counseling Center on campus.

She also issues a healthy living

challenge within her nutritional counseling that helps students live better by discussing topics that include getting enough exercise and eating breakfast.

Harris tries to accommodate each student and their individual needs when counseling. “We work with each person individually because some people have different tastes or different schedules,� Harris said. “I sit down one on one and try to figure that out with each person so that it works for them.�

Harris said the number one thing students can do to help their nutritional needs is to stay hydrated. Harris recommends having a water bottle and drinking at least eight fluid ounces of water each day. “It’s something that is kind of quick, free and something they can do that will help make a big difference in how they feel,�

Harris said.

Harris also said students should take time to plan out what they are going to eat and have a balanced meal with carbohydrates and protein that will give energy and sustain the body. “One thing with snacks and meals is that you want to get some carbohydrates to give you energy, but protein as well to sustain that energy,� Harris said. “You’ll also feel like you’re satisfied longer when you include that protein.�

Balanced meals should include fruits and vegetables, she said.

Harris said students should aim for five to nine servings of fruit and vegetables each day, even if it’s packaged.

Harris said, “That’s better than no vegetables or fruit, so it’s OK to buy frozen and canned especially if money is a little bit tight.�

When students do get chocolate or sweet cravings, Harris said it’s OK to allow an indulgence once and a while.

“Don’t think that any food is a forbidden food because then you’ll want it more,� Harris said. “Recognize that it’s human and OK to eat those foods. You just want to be aware of why you’re eating them and actually enjoy it.�

Harris said students should eat what they like but try something new every once and a while. She also said food should not be worried about, but enjoyed. “Food should be fun so don’t stress about it,� Harris said. “Plan a little bit, take some time and a little bit of money to make sure that you’re feeling well fueled. It’s going to make a big difference in how you feel.�

To schedule an appointment with Harris, students can call or visit the Student Wellness Center.

More information on simple nutrition guidelines can be found at www.usu.edu/nutrition. –mackenzie.love@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Stavon is movin’ on

By TIM OLSEN sports editor

Despite being part of the winningest men’s basketball team in USU history, sharp-shooting guard Stavon Williams has decided to leave the team due to personal reasons.

“The reason I signed was because of James Ware, me and him had a tight relationship … and I knew it was going to be hard for me going so far away from my family,” Williams said.

“When he left it was a month before the season so I’m already signed and it’s already a hassle to decommit and go through that whole process.”

Ware joined the Aggies as an assistant coach in 2006 and stayed with the Aggies for two seasons before taking an assistant coaching job at Santa Clara University last June. Ware, a former Utah Jazz draftee, hails from Williams’ native Minnesota and the two formed a tight bond.

With Ware’s departure before the season and Williams’ preseason troubles, his short USU career was nearly over before it took place.

“I wasn’t playing well and I wasn’t producing like I thought I was going to and I was just going through all the things I went through at the beginning of the year, the little trouble I got in and whatnot,” Williams said. “I was going to leave at semester, but then another player left and I was like I don’t want to do that to the team.”

The Aggies are sure glad he stuck around.

Williams played in 34 of USU’s 35 games this season, and though he only averaged six points per contest he was deadly from beyond the arc. He knocked down nearly 43 percent of his 3-pointers and sparked the Aggie offense on several occasions.

One of Williams more memorable moments

STAVON WILLIAMS has decided to leave the team due to personal reasons. PATRICK ODEN photo

came on the Spectrum floor against league foe Nevada. After trailing at the half, Williams scored eight straight points during a critical stretch in the second half that pushed USU to an 11-point win.

Williams said playing in front of the Spectrum crowd is something that he will miss a lot, and really made his decision to leave a tough one.

“It made it so much harder – the fans are great, they’re just amazing,” he said. “They’ll

come out every game no matter what, if we’re losing they’re still up there cheering hard still packed and everything.”

Along with the thrill of playing under the Spectrum lights – a thrill he said sent shivers up his spine – Williams will also miss his teammates.

“I’m going to remember how great of teammates I had because they were so supportive,” he said. “I’ve never been around a group of guys like that, period, in my life. I’ve never been on a team with so many positive players and just nice, kind … like a family.”

As Williams leaves one family to return to another, the Aggies are now faced with replacing his team-leading outside shot, his 18 minutes of playing time per game, and arguably their most important role player.

The junior said he was grateful for his experience here and expressed his love for the Aggie faithful.

“I’ve got so much to say, I thank them for supporting me everywhere. They were the best fans that you could ever have. I don’t want people to look at me like oh he’s leaving, because it’s not like that at all,” Williams said. “It’s just personal reasons and I feel like everyone should understand that. It’s nothing about Utah State because it’s the best school and the best fans I’ve ever played in front of – the best people, period.”

Williams said he is looking to return closer to either family in Minnesota or Texas, but he’s not sure where he’ll end up or whether he’ll be playing Division I or II basketball.

“I definitely want to stay Division I, but if it’s anything like not a full ride than I’m going to

- See STAVON, page 9

SPRING FOOTBALL SERIES: PART 2 OF 8

THE DEFENSIVE LINE LOOKS to shut down the offense during goaline drills. The defense stepped it up in the Aggies second scrimmage of the season which took place last Saturday. Many USU defenders are playing new positions in an effort to get more speed on the field. CAMERON PETERSON photo

A new breed of Aggies

By TIM OLSEN sports editor

Speed is the name of the game on the front lines of head coach Gary Andersen’s new system. As the Aggies wind down spring ball and gear up for the 2009 season, they’re looking forward to showing the USU faithful a new kind of machine.

“We’re beasting everybody,” said senior Alan Bishop. “We’re knocking back O-linemen and making plays with our speed, and I think everyone is going to be impressed.”

A big key to getting the most speed on the field at one time has been a shuffling of players into different positions by the new coaching staff. Former defensive ends have moved inside to defensive tackle, former linebackers have moved down to the end position and former safetys have moved to linebacker.

“Speed is huge and the main thing they’ve done to have our speed on the field is getting people in the right positions,” said junior Nathan Royster, one of the recent change-

lings. Royster has moved to the inside this season after playing on the end.

“It’s a huge mentality change,” he said.

“You have to go from being a finesse player to being a more aggressive, pound the ball and get off the block player. It’s a whole different world.”

Along with getting players in the right position, new defensive line coach Chad Kauha’aha’a said his group has been held to a tough regiment of working out and a disciplined weight program.

“What we did in the off-season through winter conditioning was get the guys in shape and get them on a weight program,” Kauha’aha’a said. “Every week we have a goal they had to meet and if they didn’t, they had to do extra running, lifting, whatever to get that weight down.”

Both Kauha’aha’a and Andersen said the defense has taken a while to get used to their new positions and the new schemes being introduced, but that Tuesday’s practice was the best yet.

“This was the best step forward we’ve seen from the defense as far as flying to the football, playing with pad level and playing with emotion,” Andersen said. “The defensive line was a big part of that because they were able, for really the first time, to get underneath the pads of the offensive line and actually get the line of scrimmage moving in a positive direction if you’re on the defensive side of the football.”

Bishop talked about how everything the new staff has brought with them has helped the defensive front get better and better.

“The strength coach has been working with us real hard since they got here to improve our speed and athleticism,” he said.

“We practice at a lot higher tempo, every drill we do with Coach K is real high tempo and everything is real technique so we’re not wasting any movement.”

As well as gelling as a unit on the field, the defensive line spends some time bonding

- See SPEED, page 9

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Nevada 9-2 Fresno State 8-4 Hawaii 8-4 NMSU 4-4 La. Tech 5-6 Boise State 4-7 SJSU 4-8 Utah State 1-8

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Wilkinson performs well at invitational

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Utah State’s Gary Wilkinson was named to the 2009 Portsmouth Invitational AllTournament team this past weekend as he helped his club (Tidewater Sealants) to a 1-2 record. In three games, Wilkinson averaged 16.7 points and 11.7 rebounds, and shot a tournament-best 71.4 percent from the field (20-28).

Wilkinson, a 6-9 senior forward from South Jordan, Utah (Salt Lake CC), scored in double-figures in all three contests, including double-doubles in his last two games. His best game of the tournament was in a 100-83 win against Portsmouth Sports Club as he was 10-of-11 from the field and finished with 26 points and 11 rebounds. Wilkinson began the tournament with 11 points and nine rebounds in his first game, and then had 13 points and 15 rebounds in his second contest.

Wilkinson was one of 13 players named to the all-tournament team joining A.J. Abrams (Texas), Alade Aminu (Georgia Tech), Jimmy Baron (Rhode Island), Jon Brockman (Washington), Paul Delaney III (UAB), Wes Matthews (Marquette), B.J. Raymond (Xavier), Alex Ruoff (West Virginia), Garret Siler (Augusta State), Jermaine Tayler (Central Florida), A.D. Vassallo (Virginia Tech), Gary Wilkinson (Utah State), and DeMarre Carroll of Missouri who was named the tournament’s MVP. Wilkinson’s list of postseason honors continues to grow as he was named an honorable mention All-American by the Associated Press and the Western Athletic Conference Player of the Year, along with being named a second-team high-major All-American

by Collegehoops.net and earning academic all-WAC honors for the second straight year.

Wilkinson’s other honors this year include being named the Most Valuable Player of the 2009 WAC Tournament along with receiving first-team alldistrict honors from both the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) and the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA).

As a senior, Wilkinson led Utah State in scoring and rebounding with 17.1 points and 6.8 rebounds per game. He finished the year ranking second in the WAC in scoring and free throw shooting (.826), was fourth in field goal shooting (.580), and sixth in rebounding.

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1. Thoughts on the NBA playoffs?

The East is going to come down to one of three teams: the Boston Celtics, the Cleveland Cavaliers or the Orlando Magic. My money is on the Cavs. The last time LeBron and his entourage made the trip to the finals, there weren’t as many good role players on the team as there are now. Mo Williams has added a whole new dimension to that team. Boston lost James Posey and some other important role players, and I think that Cleveland is just too good for Orlando over a sevengame series. As far as the West goes, we still don’t know for sure how the picture is going to turn out, but I will say this, I’m not too thrilled about it. I’ll pick L.A. and Denver with L.A. winning in six.

This is the year that another superstar will be born. People always say that superstars are made in the playoffs. This year Lebron James is going to become a superstar. He is going to do something amazing that will cement his superstar status, and his team will win the championship. That will be the story of these playoffs, and that is what people will be watching for.

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-continued from page 8 go Division II,” he said. “I’d rather be somewhere where I’m close to home.”

Williams also said he would always have a place in his heart for the school and its fans.

“I’m going to keep in touch with all the players and everyone. Hopefully I still get love from my fellow Utah Aggies on Facebook,” he said. “I just hope they still have love for me, because I have love for them.”

Williams is leaving a team that set a school record with 30 wins this past season and came within a point of making it to the second round of the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2001.

“I was proud that I got to play on this team; 305 is something I’ll never forget,” said Williams as he walked away.

Neither will the Aggies.

–t.olsen@aggiemail.usu.edu

2. Who is the NBA rookie of the year? Speed: Ags Coming through the draft last year, I Seems like this field is narrowed getting faster wondered how many of those prospects down to two players, Derrick Rose and that looked so promising were going to pan out for their teams. Really, only one did. That one is Derrick Rose. He’ll be it, no question. But I’m betting Paul over there on the other side picked D-Rose, too, and since I’m tired of reading about the Blue and the White agreeing on stuff, I’m going out on a limb here and going to pick someone else. Brook Lopez of the New Jersey Nets has posted numbers that would make most veterans envious. He averages 14 points per game and a bit more than eight rebounds. That’s awfully close to a double-double average. What’s more, although the Nets aren’t a playoffcaliber team, they have improved.

Brook Lopez. It is very close between the two and I have a hard time picking one over the other. Since I have to pick one I am going with Rose, just because he has six times more assists than Lopez which directly relates to points scored, and assists are Rose’s secondbest stat behind points scored. Lopez only doubles Rose in rebounds, which is Lopez’s second-best statistic behind points. Lopez does have an advantage in blocks, but I feel like Rose means more to his team that Lopez does.

3. Who is the NBA MVP? This award is also one that appears to be a breakaway. The leading candidates are Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Dwight Howard and Dwyane Wade. Now, most sports writers would say that this award belongs to King James, and I’m going to agree. This is truly an elite all-around player. Only time will tell if he is as good as other ballers who have gone before him, but I am willing to bet that his name will go down in the pantheon of basketball greatness. He averages nearly 30 points a game and around seven rebounds and assists per game. The man nearly averaged a triple-double this year.

Although in my mind Kobe Bryant comes in at a close second simply because he has transformed his game from “all about me” to “all about us,” there really can be no question to this award. It’s LeBron.

Long live the King.

This one is easy, it’s LeBron James.

One thing that people forget is what MVP actually means: Most Valuable Player. To be more valuable to your team than any other good player is to his team means you have to be on one of the best teams. There might be better players than James, but are they more valuable to their teams. Kobe Bryant is amazing but he has a very strong team that still would be very good without him. Without James, the Cavilers would be significantly worse.

Therefore, James is by far the MVP this year because he does more for his team than any other player.

4. What’s up with the Jazz?

Ugh, Utah. The door was wide open and the potential was there, but they totally fell flat on their face at the end of the year. And it wasn’t just a small oops. The entire team forgot how to play defense and lost their heart. Really, one of the worst things to happen in Salt Lake was the return of Carlos Boozer. Sure, he can get you stats. Boozer looks very good on a stat sheet, but he cannot make the play when it counts. He could once upon a time, but not this year. Millsap had a stretch of 19 double-doubles in a row this year. Speaking of Millsap, if the Jazz are going to have any shot at all this post season, they will absolutely need to bring the energy that Millsap, D-Will, Brewer and Matt Harpring bring to the team, especially Harpring. This team needs a will to win. If they can find it, there is hope.

I don’t even want to talk about the Jazz; they make me sick. Being a Jazz fan right now is hard. They have so much potential and one of the most talented rosters in the NBA, but for some reason they can’t win right now.

We know they are good, but heading into the playoffs they are playing at a season low. They will lose in the first round and unless they figure out where the cancer is on their team, they will do the same thing next year. Is it the coach? Is it locker-room chemistry? Whatever it is, hopefully they can hide it in the playoffs.

-continued from page 8 off the field. Much like the offensive line, their defensive counterparts have been know to frequent buffets – including a new favorite, Pounders.

“We hit some barbecues, we get together and eat a lot, if you take us down to Pounders,” said Bishop, who’s favorite dish consists of beef and pork.

“We go there every day after practice and I think the defensive line is winning so far on that one.”

This combination of weight, speed and camaraderie has the potential to produce one of the best defensive fronts in recent memory by the time August rolls around.

“The speed on the front is pretty ridiculous to me,” Royster said.

Despite the positives he’s seen in practice, Andersen knows the Aggies front four will have to continue to work hard up to and throughout the season.

“We’ve made strides, but we’ve still got a lot of work to do,” he said.

“We’re going to be undersized, we’re not real big and we’re not real strong so we have to rely on not letting people know where we are all the time.”

If Bishop, Royster and the boys keep battling the offensive line for buffet supremacy, Andersen just might not have to worry about that anymore.

–t.olsen@aggiemail.usu.edu

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5. Rant Real Salt Lake and the rest of the MLS started a couple weeks ago. Let it be known, I am a huge soccer fan.

So, I’m going rant about them. It was really good to see them thrash both the Columbus Crew and DC United at home. I think this year will be a good one for them. They are a strong team. In other soccer news, the UEFA Champion’s league quarter-final is going on across the big pond today. The big surprise there is the Portuguese team, FC Porto, that made it to the quarter-finals and is going up against last year’s champion, Manchester United, and tied in Manchester. English teams don’t play well in Portugal. Porto will move on.

I love the NBA playoffs. They are like the Final Four on steroids. It is too bad that most of the NBA players play in a lazy hypnotic fashion for most of the way to long 82-game season. Oh, but it is great when they all break out and actually play like they love it. It is where the best athletes are playing the most exciting game and it sets up for the most amazing show of athleticism in any sports tournament in America. I can’t wait to see Kobe and LeBron go at it in the finals. I can’t wait to see the two best point guards in Deron Williams and Chris Paul when they will their teams to victories they have no business winning. It is going to be great.

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f you are reading this and have not filed your tax return yet, you might want to think about it. April 15, lovingly known as Tax Day, is one of those days that everybody dreads (it’s today, by the way). Why do you hate it? Do you not understand how your taxes actually benefit you? As a student at Utah State University you have probably never thought about how much it really costs to run the university. Though tuition is more than you think you can bear, it is less than half the amount needed to fund all of the school’s research, facilities and projects. Research. Many of the professors that teach your classes have their research funded through grants from federal agencies like the EPA, FDA, USDA, NSF and many more. Oh yeah, and you are probably one of the many students receiving a nice scholarship, Pell Grant or federally subsidized loan to pay for your experience. If you have filed a tax return, most likely you are getting a refund. That does not sound like the act of an oppressive government. If you add it all up, you are getting a pretty good deal, even with all the military spending.

Still, some may cry, “Lower my taxes!”

The belief that middle- and low-income persons are burdened by the U.S. government with outrageous taxes is a fallacy.

“Tax the big business!” Many uninformed Americans believe that businesses do not pay taxes. Actually, corporations, while benefiting from many write-offs, are still taxed a rate approaching 40 percent.

Increasing their taxes decreases profit and making it difficult for them to make more jobs. The thousands in Detroit would not have much work without the existence of those corporations. Tax incentives for corporations exist to encourage economic growth.

You probably sleep well at night because you live in a relatively safe neighborhood.

You may have recently borrowed a book (for free) from your local library, which you drove to on a fairly smooth road that you did not have to pay a toll for driving on. If you are more eco-minded, you may have even used the complimentary public transportation system to go and get your groceries. If you really have a problem with the taxes you pay in this country, you might think about those in Japan or Germany whose income tax approaches 50 percent of their income.

Like the freedom in this country that came from the sacrifice countless young lives, the services that keep you safe and allow you to go to work without come at a price. An immigrant from Tyrol wrote these words: “Every right bestowed upon you by your country begets a corresponding duty. We are promised the pursuit of Happiness. We are not promised happiness. We are promised equality of opportunity. We are not promised riches. We are promised Freedom to speak and to write. We are not promised wisdom. We are promised liberty we are not promised peace.” Pay your taxes, smile and remember the very small price you are paying for something so valuable.

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t is that time of year again when stress-outs, freakouts, break-outs and pure emotional explosions occur. People who seem to be calm and collected snap and become berserko over the teeniest things because of the big impending things that loomingly threaten to crush them.

What big things? Oh, you know, all of those endof-the-year projects and examinations and obligations and unfulfilled wishes. Where did all the time go? What the flipper have I been doing all semester?

We realize that a copious amount of work and play must be shoved impossibly into the last few weeks of school, so we become nervously excited, spastic and precarious. Precarious, because at any given moment, we might pop our tops from the sweltering pressures of academic survival.

Stressed-out people are no good. It is no fun to be around stressed-out students because their edgy behavior affects everyone and everything within close proximity. The air becomes thick with anxiety. When I chat with a complaining, worrying individual, no matter how hard I try to maintain tranquility and optimism, I start to hyperventilate because I begin to focus on all of my own hurdles. Outwardly-expressed stress and self-centeredness strongly encourages the hidden, inward stresses of other sleep-deprived souls. If you come into contact with a stressed-out person, you can do any of the following three things:

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Hear the individual out, nod your head with support at appropriate places, express how pathetically sorry you are for their trials, tell them how great and capable they are, and then change the subject.

Start talking about how the Navajo language was used as code during World War II. Or something.

3. Execute tried and true therapeutic tactics. I do not mean to be prideful, but I have encountered innumerable amounts of steeply intense situations in my infernally busy life. Some I have handled better than others, but I am basically a pro at dealing with them. I shall share with you some of my most successful strategies. Feel free to share or use them yourself.

3a. Write a list of all the things you have to do and

cross off each item with triumphant glee once it has been conquered. Crossing off days in planners also works wonders.

3b. Every time you get an icky feeling, pretend to grab it in the air and fling it away as you chant viciously, “Icky feeling gone!” Never allow it to stay.

3c. Blow bubbles. (This does not count blowing them in the Spectrum, which is not allowed and will only give you additional stress from suspicious ushers with eagle vision.)

3d. Walk through campus, stop suddenly and scream into the howling canyon winds, “Bring it on!”

3e. Find a buddy and exchange back/neck massages.

3f. Decide at the beginning of a particularly troublesome day that it will be the best day ever. As life throws spit wads at you, exclaim eagerly, “I am sooo lucky!” This phrase, when used, might be semi-sarcastic, but having a farciful, cheery attitude when life rots is hilarious and should make you laugh. And laughter, straight from the gut, pure laughter that streams from the eyes, helps diminish stress best out of any the aforementioned methods.

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The price of piracy First off, it just has to be said: Nice shooting, SEALs. Simultaneously hitting and instantly killing three partly obscured pirates who were holding guns on an American hostage – and doing it after nightfall, from the deck of a ship in choppy seas – is a remarkable feat, making us very glad these highly trained and immensely capable naval troops are on our side. Yet, though there’s ample reason to celebrate the rescue Sunday of container-ship Capt. Richard Phillips after a five-day standoff with pirates off the coast of Somalia, it comes with recognition that the aggressive U.S. response risks escalating the piracy threat and endangering the lives of more merchant ships’ crews. Most of the attacks that have plagued the Horn of Africa over the last year have been relatively bloodless, compared with pirate encounters of the past. Typically, the unarmed crews have surrendered without a fight, and the owners of captured ships have

agreed to pay substantial ransoms, sometimes in the multimillion-dollar range.

That changed Wednesday when pirates for the first time seized a U.S.-flagged ship carrying humanitarian food aid. The crew fought back and disabled the ship, and the pirates fled to a lifeboat with the captain as a hostage. When the U.S. Navy arrived, negotiators refused to pay a ransom for Phillips. U.S. officials hope the tough stance and successful rescue will discourage pirates from attacking American ships. Maybe, but it’s more likely that it will just spur the pirates to bring more crewmen and bigger guns the next time around, and to be more inclined to use them. The threat of death isn’t much of a deterrent to hopeless young Somali men who face a choice between potentially making millions on the high seas or starving on shore. It’s impossible to fault any of the Americans involved in the hostage drama, from Phillips – who heroically surrendered himself to save his crew – to

the negotiators who rightly refused to give in to the pirates’ ransom demands, to President Obama, who gave the Navy orders to act if Phillips’ life was judged to be threatened.

But the gloves are off now, and ships passing within hundreds of miles of the Somali coast should be ready for a fight.

Shipping companies have been unwilling to arm their crews for fear it would put their employees in danger. That’s no excuse for offering pirates a soft, easy target. Too few have trained their crews in nonlethal anti-piracy techniques, hired armed security guards or contracted with private escort ships.

Meanwhile, the international community must do more to protect shipping in these waters, restore the rule of law in Somalia and improve the economic conditions that make piracy such an attractive profession.

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Advice on how to handle your savings and investments in these tough economic times

BY RICHARD BURNETT The Orlando Sentinel

The problem is that average rates on a certificate of deposit recently fell to less than 3 percent for five years and 2.5 percent for one year, according to Bankrate.com. That means inflation can easily eat away the returns. Savings and Tbill rates have dipped even lower, to less than 1 percent.

Some have found a viable option in Treasury InflationProtected Securities (TIPS), a government-backed bond whose principal — and subsequent interest payout — adjusts upward based on the inflation rate, so that your money at least keeps up with the cost of living.

fter the worst year for the stock market in decades and a financial crisis that has rocked the nation’s banks, who could blame investors for wondering whether there is any safe place to put their money now?

Yet, experts insist, there still are secure places to protect your cash and be in a position to profit when the market recovers.

Exactly what to do depends on how close you are to retirement, how strong your risk tolerance is and how badly you need your money now in a SOME RISKS recession that already has wiped ARE REQUIRED out millions of jobs.

Though that’s good for your But before doing anything, people need to save. There is no peace of mind, TIPS won’t yield the healthy returns you substitute for the systematic, may need to build a robust nest automatic, bite-the-bullet socking away of money — especial- egg. That will require taking at least some risks. ly for emergencies. “If your time frame is Despite the industry’s finanbetween five and 10 years before cial woes, banks still are the retirement, these are safe investsafest place to park savings, ments,� said Greg especially McBride, senior since the govfinancial analyst for ernment Bankrate. com. bumped each “But beyond that, bank’s FDIC you run the risk of deposit insurinvesting too conance from servatively. I mean, $100,000 to for longer than 10 $250,000 years, keeping your per account money in cash holder. doesn’t compensate As far as you for the risk of investments inflation. It would go, cash is — Financial planner be ‘safe’ in name still a priority only.� for senior Paul Auslander In general, the investors and massive flight to cash that took those nearing retirement, two groups of people who generally place last year went against the conventional wisdom that says need to protect their principal. investors should stay the course Many people already have and think long term. A diversifled to the safest havens they could find, diverting billions of fied portfolio of stocks, bonds dollars to U.S. Treasury securi- and cash carries you through even the worst downturn, the ties, savings deposits and other financial adviser’s template conservative cash investments. says.

Last year’s historic crash RATES ON CDS shook that advice to its roots, as TOO LOW many blue-chip financial stocks The appeal of secure money tanked amid the meltdown. “Diversity failed in 2008,� has been undeniable during said Cary Carbonaro, a financial tough times, even for investors planner with Family Financial many years from retirement.

Research in Clermont, Fla. But those investments are not “Every asset class fell with one necessarily safe, either — even exception: government bonds. if you tie up your money for a Most of us have never seen anylong time to get the higher thing like this.� available rates of return.

A diversified portfolio is still very much appropriate for a long-term investor ...

DIVERSITY IS STILL THE RULE That doesn’t mean, however, anyone has discarded the approach. It’s just a matter of diversifying smarter — and perhaps more conservatively — in the current market. “A diversified portfolio is still very much appropriate for a long-term investor who is still at least five years from retirement,� said Paul Auslander, a financial planner and CEO of American Financial Advisors Inc. in Orlando, Fla. “While this market didn’t support the theory (of diversification), the concept still applies.�

That may still be a tough sale for investors burned in 2008. Ultimately, however, almost everyone who fled the market must answer a problematic question: When do I get back in?

TOTAL SAFETY DOESN’T EXIST Investors are understandably wary, but they’re going to have to get used to taking risks again, while realizing there is no sure thing out there, said Philip van Doorn, a financial analyst with TheStreet.com Ratings, based in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. “There’s just no such thing as total safety these days,� he said. “Even if you buy gold, the value of gold could plummet. Putting money in the bank is fine, as long as the FDIC insurance is there to pay if the bank fails. People must realize there’s just no absolute certainty in this current environment.�

Set big money aside: You might need it

f the financial meltdown-turned-recession hasn’t made you start saving more money for a rainy day, you should have your head — and your bank account — examined.

An emergency-cash account, which should be enough for three to six months of living expenses, is a keystone of getting your financial house in order. And it is even more urgent now with millions more jobs in jeopardy amid the down economy. “People have to save more money. That’s the bottom line,� said Philip van Doorn, an analyst for TheStreet.com Ratings. “Do you really need fancy cable services, the latest Xbox game, ‘Guitar Hero,’ dining out four nights a week?

Question everything, cut back and put it in savings. If it doesn’t hurt, you’re not saving enough.�

But that’s far easier said than done for many people in an era of rising housing costs, insurance premiums, health-care expenses and other living costs. How many people can really afford to sock away a lot of money?

savings — a figure that raised some eyebrows. “I think those numbers are very high,� said Greg McBride, senior financial analyst for Bankrate.com. “I’m skeptical that many people actually have that much socked away for emergencies.�

Some may have considered 401(k) accounts or home-equity lines as emergency money. But the market crash and housing meltdown wiped out a massive chunk of those resources.

Besides, experts have never encouraged people to borrow from their retirement nest egg — a risky gambit that often can backfire. It is even more risky with the huge losses most 401(k) accounts took in the market crash.

And home equity — well, there’s still not a lot of that available. Real-estate values continue to fall, many credit scores are suffering and banks are tightening their grip on the till.

‘KEEP A CUSHION’

So the onus falls back on individuals to take initiative. “Keep in mind, you should first be meeting your basic expenses before you begin contributing to an emergency fund,� said Denise Kovach, a financial planner with Certified Financial Group in Maitland. “But getting started can be as simple as depositing $100 in an interest-bearing account, then following up with $50 or more per month thereafter.�

Don’t tie emergency money to easy access such as a debit card, she said.

It’s also a good idea to set up an automatic deposit from each paycheck. “A good day to have the draft occur is the day after you get paid,� said Andrew Orr, president of OrrGroup Financial in Orlando. “So the draft to savings is first in line.�

If you make the effort to build a rainy-day fund, you might never end up in bankruptcy court.

Not Marcia Bexley, an independent marketing consultant in Orlando, Fla., who works contract to contract and client to client. “Emergency cash? Well, I’ve always tried to keep a cushion, and I’m pretty careful with my money,� she said. “But I can’t say I have anywhere near three to six months’ worth. I might have one month in reserve.�

Overall, the nation’s personal-savings rate has hit the skids this decade. People saved an average of 1.5 percent of their income — not including retirement accounts — in 2008, compared with more than 4 percent 10 years ago and 7 percent 20 years ago, according to the Department of Commerce.

Still, a 2007 survey by Bankrate.com showed that 46 percent of consumers claimed to have as much as six months of emergency

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401(k) investors urged not to scale back

Saving for emergencies TRACK WHAT YOU SPEND: Tally your basic expenses versus discretionary “wants.�

Identify areas to cut back and flag as potential savings.

LOCK IT IN: Calculate at least three months of expenses and make that your emergency-fund goal. Determine what you can afford to save from each paycheck and set up an automatic bank draft to your emergency savings account.

DO SOME HOMEWORK: Check out Internet-based money-tracking services such as mint.com, geezeo.com, Quicken Online and Mvelopes.com. Some are free; others offer a 30-day free trial, then charge for a subscription.

THE FINAL WORD: “Pay yourself first by a direct deposit. Increase that contribution with every raise, tax refund, windfall or debt that gets paid off. Most importantly, cut your expenses.

That’s where the really tough decisions have to be made,� says Greg McBride of Bankrate.com. $ $ $ $ $ $

on’t touch that 401(k) savings; don’t raid it and certainly don’t starve it, the conventional wisdom tells us.

Experts say the market always rebounds, better times return and losses are often recovered. Don’t miss that recovery by messing with the central retirement savings vehicle for 50 million Americans over the past two decades. “Now is not the time to take money out, but to put more in if you can,� said Greg McBride, senior financial analyst for Bankrate.com. “I’ve talked to people who were thinking of scaling back since the market isn’t doing well. I ask them, ‘Do you buy shoes on sale or wait till they are full price again?’ Unfortunately, that’s how many people invest.�

After so many 401(k) losses last year, however, it’s not surprising many question the conventional wisdom, especially baby boomers approaching retirement. In fact, the market collapse wiped out so much boomer 401(k) money, it has prompted Congress to consider changes to the entire system.

That still doesn’t mean people should abandon it or divert all of their money into cash investment options, McBride said. “2008 was the year that broke all the rules,� he said. “But I don’t think the response now is to go ultraconservative if you’re, say, 55 years old.�

Of course, your top priority should be to have at least three months’ worth of expenses in a savings or money-market account, experts say. If you don’t, you might need to pare your 401(k) contribution temporarily to build that cash buffer.

It’s understandable that 2008’s historic losses can make investors lose sight of the advantages of a 401(k) plan, such as tax savings, diversification and dollar-cost averaging (i.e. long-term investing that maximizes your average return by acquiring bargains in a down market to get more bang for your buck). “Over time, this results in a higher dollarweighted return,� said Andrew Orr, a financial planner and president of OrrGroup Financial in Orlando, Fla. “It may go against your natural bias of loss aversion, fear and anxiety, but it is exactly what you should do. Just look at what Warren Buffett has been doing for the past year.�

But while it may be fine for stock pickers and traders to try to “time the market,� it is an illadvised gambit for long-term investors and their 401(k) savings, said Charlie Fitzgerald, a financial planner and partner in Maitland, Fla.-based Moisand Fitzgerald Tamayo. “When you start trying to time the market by moving money in and out of it, what you’re doing is adding more risk to the portfolio,� he said. “It might feel good sitting in cash during a downturn, but you are inherently damaging longterm returns by doing that.�

— Richard Burnett

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Woman charged in slaying Somali pirates hijack 4 of girl found in luggage ships, take 60 hostages STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) – A woman kidnapped, raped and murdered an 8-year-old girl and stuffed her body in a suitcase that was dumped in a pond just a few miles from home, prosecutors alleged Tuesday.

Melissa Huckaby, 28, was charged with murdering her daughter’s playmate, Sandra Cantu, in a gruesome crime that has shocked and terrified residents of Tracy, a Northern California city of about 78,000, 60 miles east of San Francisco.

Huckaby, who volunteered as a Sunday school teacher at her grandfather’s Clover Road Baptist Church in Tracy, was due to be arraigned Tuesday afternoon.

Prosecutors filed the murder charge Tuesday before Huckaby’s scheduled court appearance and included in their allegations the special circumstances of rape with a foreign object, lewd or lascivious conduct with a child under 14 and murder in the course of a kidnapping.

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Prosecutors have said they have not decided whether to seek the death penalty.

Sandra disappeared March 27, last seen on surveillance camera video skipping outside the Orchard Estates Mobile Home Park where she lived just five doors from Huckaby.

A 10-day search by law enforcement and the community ended April 6, when farmworkers draining an irrigation pond a few miles away from the mobile home complex found the suitcase containing Sandra’s body.

Police have said Sandra was found wearing the same clothes she had on when she was last seen: a pink “Hello Kitty” T-shirt and black leggings.

They have not said how, why or where she was killed, and the coroner’s office has said autopsy results are pending.

A criminal complaint said the murder occurred “on or about” March 27 but gave no other details.

Huckaby was arrested Friday, hours after she told a Tracy Press reporter that the suitcase was hers but it had been stolen the day

Sandra went missing.

In the days after Sandra’s body was found, police searched Clover Road Baptist Church, interviewed Huckaby’s grandfather, Pastor Clifford Lawless, and took items from the family’s home. Huckaby lived with her grandparents.

She grew up in Southern California and bounced back and forth between Tracy and Orange County after high school, said her family, who described her as a loving mother with a strong religious background.

Relatives visited Huckaby late Monday at the San Joaquin County Jail, where she was being held without bail.

Authorities were not aware if Huckaby had an attorney.

“We’re in shock,” said Brian Lawless, Huckaby’s father. “The young lady I see on film, that’s not my daughter.”

Lawless said the family cried and prayed together during the visit.

The slaying had already aroused fear among parents in Tracy and particularly in the mobile home complex, where residents described a tight-knit community. News of the rape allegation heightened concern for children.

The little girl’s family broke down in tears when they were told of the sexual assault allegations.

“I’m in shock. The whole thing is unimaginable,” Sandra’s aunt, Angie Chavez, said Monday.

MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) – Somali pirates captured four ships and took more than 60 crew members hostage in a brazen hijacking spree, while the American captain freed from their grip planned to reunite with his crew and fly home Wednesday to the United States.

Pirates have vowed revenge for the deaths of three colleagues at the hands of U.S. snipers rescuing Capt. Richard Phillips, as well as for two others slain by French forces in a separate rescue last week.

“Our latest hijackings were meant to show that no one can deter us from protecting our waters from the enemy because we believe in dying for our land,” Omar Dahir Idle, a pirate based in the coastal town of Harardhere, told The Associated Press by telephone. “The recent American operation, French navy attack on our colleagues or any other operation mean nothing to us.”

The top U.S. military officer said Tuesday he takes such comments seriously.

But Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that “we’re very well prepared to deal with anything like that.”

Phillips, who offered himself up as a hostage to save the crew of the Maersk Alabama, was rescued Sunday when U.S. Navy SEALs shot three pirates dead after a five-day standoff.

The commander of the USS Bainbridge, the American destroyer from which the SEALs took their shots at the pirates, said the captain’s life was repeatedly threatened.

Cmdr. Frank Castellano of the destroyer USS Bainbridge told The Associated Press the pirates repeatedly stated “it was their intention to kill him.”

Special forces on the warship, believing Capt. Richard Phillips’ life was in immediate danger, ended the standoff Sunday with three well placed shots, killing the pirates.

Castellano did not give further details about where Phillips is now.

The captain and his 19-man crew will reunite in the Kenyan port of Mombasa on Wednesday and fly from there to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on a chartered flight, according to the shipping company Maersk. They will be reunited with loved

ones at Andrews in a private reception area.

Despite Mullen’s confident statement and President Barack Obama’s warning of further U.S. action, Somali pirates captured two more nautical trophies Tuesday to match the two ships they seized a day or two earlier.

The latest seizures were the Lebaneseowned cargo ship MV Sea Horse, the Greekmanaged bulk carrier MV Irene E.M. and two Egyptian fishing boats. Maritime officials said the Irene carried 21 to 23 Filipino crew and the International Maritime Bureau reported 36 fishermen, all believed to be Egyptian, on the two boats.

It was not known exactly how many crew the Sea Horse had, but a ship that size would probably need at least a dozen sailors.

NATO spokeswoman Shona Lowe said pirates in three or four speedboats captured the Sea Horse off Somalia’s eastern coast on Tuesday – an attack that came only hours after the Irene was seized in a rare overnight raid in the nearby Gulf of Aden.

The two Egyptian fishing boats were hijacked in the gulf off Somalia’s northern coast but it was not clear if those attacks came Monday or Sunday.

The Gulf of Aden, which links the Suez Canal and the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean, is one of the world’s busiest and most vital shipping lanes, crossed by over 20,000 ships each year. It has been at the center of the world’s fight against piracy.

A flotilla of warships from nearly a dozen countries has patrolled the Gulf of Aden and nearby Indian Ocean waters for months. They have halted many attacks on ships this year, but say the area is so vast they can’t stop all hijackings.

Pirates have attacked 78 ships this year, hijacking 19 of them, and about 17 ships with more than 300 crew still remain in pirates’ hands, according to Noel Choong, who heads the International Maritime Bureau’s piracy reporting center in Kuala Lumpur.

Each boat carries the potential of a million-dollar ransom.

THE GREEK-MANAGED BULK CARRIER Irene E.M., hijacked by Somalia pirates in the Gulf of Aden during the early hours Tuesday, is seen in this undated file photo. The Irene E.M was sailing from the Middle East to South Asia, with a Filipiono crew. AP photo

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- A-Week, all day - Partners in Business Women in Business Seminar, Eccles Conference Center, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

- Interior Design Senior Exhibit, Twain Tippetts Exhibition Hall, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

- A-Week, tying baby blankets, TSC Patio, 12 p.m.

- Computer Information Literacy (CIL) information law and ethics workshop, Eccles Science Learning Center 053, 2:30 to 3:20 p.m.

- Grad School Session and Charity Activity, Old Main, 4 to 5:30 p.m.

- A-Week, Senior Celebration, TSC Evan N. Stevenson Ballroom, 7 p.m.

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- A-Week, all day - NCUR report due, Old Main, all day - Behavioral Pediatric Prevention Study, all day - Interior Design Senior Exhibit, Twain Tippetts Exhibition Hall, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Team members include: y K now Steven Kjar Damaris Kjar !” e l As th p Jenna Aldrich Carl James e V i l l a g e Pe o Maddox Aldrich Bricham Moore Chelsea Moore Cur t Snelgrove Have you heard of the HURD? The HURD is Utah State University’s Christine Snelgrove Jordan Kofoed Spirit Club on campus. We pride ourselves in being the biggest and best! The entire team gets FREE Hurd Memberships for the academic Megan Honsvick

. . . & t o Omar Rodriguez for winning the weekly p a r t i c i p at i o n d r aw i n g f o r a n i To u c h !

year 2009-2010. This membership includes; a HURD Shir t, discount card to local on and off campus businesses, and free food at all our athletic events. Also, each HURD member has a chance to win a FULL PAID TUITION SCHOLARSHIP with our newly renovated Point System at the end of the academic year!

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The Grand Prize winners of the Healthy Living Challenge are...

• Team Abdominous • They won dinner and a show provided by USU Dining Ser vices. The meal will be catered

by University Catering, and transpor tation to the movie provided by the Aggie Shuttle. b r o u g h t t o yo u by : USU University Inn & Bookstore Conference Center

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