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Battle draws blue blood from students

By LIZ WILSON staff writer

Hundreds of USU students have shown their dedication to the school by donating blood this week. The annual Blood Battle between USU and the University of Utah is almost over, and Aggies have literally been bleeding for the cause.

The annual drive began Monday and ends Friday as part of ASUSU’s Week of Welcome.

Each year the two universities battle it out to see who can get the most blood donations at the end of one week, and this year’s ASUSU goal is 1,000 units of blood.

USU has won this six-year tradition every year so far. But this year, the University of Utah is trying a different strategy. At the start of the competition, the two universities made an agreement to both have their blood drives during the first week of school to even the playing field.

This year, however, the University of Utah is holding its blood drive the week of the USU vs.

University of Utah football game.

ASUSU member and Service Center core council secretary, Julie Ung, explained that this year USU is in it to win it. “We’re shooting for 1,000,” Ung said. “I’m really confident.”

Kim Elwood, a graduate student from Logan studying animal science, gave blood Thursday in the After three days, USU had succeeded in getTaggart Student Center. Elwood said she has given blood around 10 times. She was one of hundreds of students to participate in the annual Blood Battle between USU and the University of Utah. USU has won every battle thus far. The blood drive ends Friday. Julie Ung, ASUSU member and Service Center core council secretary, said she is confident the school will reach there goal. TYLER LARSON photo

-See BATTLE, page 3 The Day on the Quad provides a break from the first week of classes and introduces students to organizations and businesses in the valley.

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Background checks now Robotic camera cannot get down required for employees 7th hole in mine vent anything like that from happening at USU, Menlove said.

The State Board of Regents has set policy for the bill, but some implementation Students won’t have to worry their teachissues have been left to the university to ers are murderers or convicted sex criminals decide, said Fred Hunsaker, vice president thanks to new background checks that have of Finance and Campus Operations. He has been put in place by the state Legislature. talked with many of the departments and Ronda Menlove, Vice gathered considerable inforProvost for Regional mation for other universities’ Campuses and Distance programs. A committee is Ed and Utah House reprebeing formed to make the sentative, has helped pass final implementation deci“This is a noa bill that will require new sions for USU, and Hunsaker employees at universities to brainer, we don’t said it will probably meet have background checks. within the next week or two. want convicted The university may also Among these decisions criminals working submit current employees will be whether the univerin schools.” to checks if there is a reasity or the job applicants sonable cause. If anything will have to pay for the tests, incriminating is found, the Ronda Menlove, Utah which range from $15 to $75 applicant or employee will depending on the depth.

House representative “In the current era, (backbe able to tell his or her side before any action is taken. ground checks) appear to be “It is our goal to make the university the right things to do,” Hunsaker said. safe and protect the students and faculty,” The bill was put into action July 1, 2007, Menlove said. after being unanimously approved by both Other institutions have implemented such the House and the Senate with a few mempolicies, and Menlove said she has been bers absent. Menlove said while implemenconcerned that USU didn’t have any policy. tation will take time due to costs and paperShe believes it may even help recruitment work, soon everyone will have been checked. because students and parents will feel safer.

“This is a no-brainer, we don’t want She cited a time a few years ago when a pro- convicted criminals working in schools,” fessor at Penn State was found to be a conMenlove said. victed murder after having taught at several –alison.baugh@aggiemail.usu.edu universities.

These background checks will help pre-

By ALISON BAUGH senior writer

For Pete Schropp and his wife, making cheese all starts with spending time with the “girls,” their cows.

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Sports The USU football team struggles in the second half but shows improvement over last season.

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Opinion “Are we getting ‘sold’ something we don’t really understand or appreciate?”

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Today in History: In 1997, Princess Diana died in Paris’ Pitie-Salpetiere Hospital from injuries sustained in a car crash earlier in the day as she was chased down by paparazzi.

In 1888, Jack the Ripper killed his first victim, a prostitute.

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – A video camera lowered down a seventh hole Thursday in search of six miners trapped Aug. 6 in a huge cave-in found only 2 1/2 feet of clear space and a pile of rubble and mud 7 feet high, the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration said.

The seventh hole started plugging up with mud and rubble at a rate of 5 feet per hour, making it impossible for technicians to get a special robotic camera 1,856 feet down into the mine to look for signs of the men, who haven’t been heard from since the collapse, said Rich Kulczewski, an MSHA spokesman. It’s not known if the six men survived.

Another hole drilled earlier also was tried, but the mud and rubble conditions were similar, he said.

“That was a disappointment. There’s no doubt about it,” Kulczewski said at a news conference in Huntington.

The robotic camera is 8 inches wide, going down holes only a fraction wider, but if it can get down one of them, it has the ability to maneuver as much as 1,000 feet into the mine.

After the crews broke through the seventh hole about 4:15 a.m. Thursday, they rapped on the drill steel to try to signal the miners, but there was no response.

A decision was made to lower the robotic camera Thursday evening into a hole drilled Aug. 18 – despite an earlier determination that there was a high risk of losing the robotic camera in the effort, Kulczewski said. There was no estimate of how long that would take.

“We haven’t given up, but we’re running out of possibilities,” Kulczewski said.

-See MINE, page 3

USU offering new degree specialization

By ARIE KIRK news editor

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Logan, Utah

USU is now offering a new degree specialization in speech-language pathology.

The doctorate-level emphasis was added this year because of a demand nationwide for speech-language pathologists. The department of communicative disorders and deaf education also received new doctoral level faculty that has allowed them to expand their programs, said Ron Gillam, a professor in the department.

“There are a number of reasons why this program is needed. There is a shortage of doctoral level speech-language pathologists across the nation,” Gillam said. “The department of communicative disorders and deaf education has grown rapidly. We now have a critical mass of doctoral level faculty who have active research programs. This enables us to offer a strong doctoral training program.”

To receive the degree, students are required to take 67 credits of doctoral seminars and graduate courses, Gillam said. They must also have internships involving teaching, grant writing, researching and publication. He said doctoral dissertation must also be completed.

The program helps students learn to become teachers and help people who struggle in developing language and speech, said Tim Slocum, professor in special education and chair of the Disability Disciplines Doctoral Program.

Those who get doctorate degrees typically become professors at universities, Gillam said.

A small number also work in clinics.

Aside from benefiting the field, Gillam said this will be an advantage to the university as well.

“We hope that this specialization will increase the capacity for research, training, service and grant development in a critical area of the College of Education and Human Services,” he said. “Increasing doctoral training should enhance the national reputation of the department.”

Slocum said only one student has enrolled so far. However, he said he does not expect the program to see large amounts of students in the coming year. He also said programs of this level are typically small in number.

“This program is never going to be huge. We are talking dozens,” Slocum said. “Down the road there may be five to 10 graduate students.

It will grow to that size. Doctorate programs are always really small.”

Doug Petersen, the only student currently working to receive a degree in speech-language pathology, said he is very excited USU is offering this emphasis.

“I was accepted to many prestigious schools in the field, but just the attention I was going to receive here and the line of research the professors and faculty do here at Utah State is so close to my personal interests, I couldn’t deny it,” he said.

With the help of Gillman, Petersen said he is researching language impairments in bilingual children.

He also said he is working on an early childhood screening that can predict whether or not the child will have reading problems in the future.

“The brilliance of it is that the child doesn’t have to be able to read for us to know if they will have problems later,” Petersen said. “This is to enforce the method of prevention to help the child before they have Doug Petersen is the problems.” first student to enroll in the After completdoctorate-level emphasis of ing his doctorate, speech-language pathology.

Petersen said he NOELLE BERLAGE photo wants to continue conducting research and would like to teach at a university.

“It is a perfect marriage of the continuing work at universities,” he said. “I want to make a difference and help children. I want to have a broader impact and thereby help thousands of children.”

–arie.k@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Friday Aug. 31, 2007

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Today’sIssue

Today is Friday, Aug. 31, 2007. Today’s issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Hannah Garrido, an undeclared sophomore from Modesto, Calif.

ClarifyCorrect The writer of the letter to the editor titled “Ride bikes responsibly” was Bob Bayn.

Nat’lBriefs Student suspended for tricking fans

HILLIARD, Ohio (AP) — A high school student who tricked football fans from a crosstown rival into holding up signs that together spelled out, “We Suck,” was suspended for the prank, students said.

Kyle Garchar, a senior at Hilliard Davidson High School in suburban Columbus, said he spent about 20 hours over three days plotting the trick, which was captured on video and posted on the video-sharing Web site YouTube. He said he was inspired by a similar prank pulled

by Yale students in 2004, when Harvard fans were duped into holding up cards with the same message.

At the end of the video, Garchar wryly thanks the 800 Hilliard Darby High School supporters who raised the cards at the start of the third quarter during last Friday’s football game.

“It couldn’t have been done without you,” reads the closing frame of the video.

Garchar, 17, created a grid to plan how the message would be spelled out once fans in three sections held up either a black or white piece of construction paper.

New Web sites try to recreate TV experience

NEW YORK (AP) — Watching video online in small, fuzzy boxes is heading the way of rabbit ears.

Some highly anticipated Web sites are being modeled on making the experience of watching video online more like watching television. These sites rely on software that enlarges the interface so that it fills your computer screen — from edge to edge.

This new wave of applications is led by Joost and includes VeohTV and Babelgum.

Though all are in beta (testing) phases, the hype has been mounting — leading many to claim the next big advance in online video is imminent.

“The distribution problem is starting to get solved by many different people, but the experience of online video is still very poor,” said Veoh founder Dmitry Shapiro.

“Companies like Veoh and Joost are trying to create a more TV-like experience for viewers.”

Of course, YouTube, which Google Inc. bought for $1.76 billion last October, is the site that braved the online video path. Though YouTube offers the option of a full-screen mode, video is typically watched in a smaller box that can be embedded in other sites.

Rescue Workers Rush a firefighter to a waiting ambulance at a four alarm fire in Boston Wednesday, Aug. 29. Two Boston firefighters were killed and two others critically injured after crews became disoriented in dense smoke and trapped in a restaurant fire in the city’s West Roxbury neighborhood, officials said early Thursday. AP Photo

Boston restaurant fire kills two firefighters BOSTON (AP) – Fire broke out in a restaurant ceiling and smoldered above diners and employees for an hour or more before erupting, killing two firefighters and injuring 10 who became disoriented, officials said Thursday.

A paramedic was also injured, but no employees or customers were harmed in Wednesday night’s fouralarm fire at the one-story Tai Ho restaurant. The blaze also damaged a block of businesses.

When workers first saw the fire, they quickly evacuated the restaurant and called 911.

But while the fire smoldered unnoticed in a grease-filled crawl space

above the drop ceiling, toxic and flammable gases had collected, Fire Chief Kevin MacCurtain said, and what looked at first like a routine fire quickly turned deadly.

“When they started to extinguish the fire, something unexpected happened,” he said. “Very quickly and very suddenly the entire ceiling was blown down under force, and a volume of fire was pushed down that had accumulated in that crawl space.”

The firefighters likely became disoriented and could not find their way out, he said.

“The flames were coming out of everywhere, through the roof, out the windows,” said George

Hines, who lives nearby.

“I saw three firefighters pull one guy out — just dragged him right through the flames. He was in bad shape, you could tell.”

The blaze spread to adjoining businesses in the row of yellow-brick storefronts, and at least four other stores were damaged.

A three-ton air conditioning unit partially fell through the roof, providing a burst of air to help fuel the blaze, authorities said.

The fire’s cause is still being investigated.

Paul Cahill, 55, and Warren Payne, 53, were killed. Cahill served on Engine 30 and Payne on Ladder 25, units housed at the same fire station just

down the street from the restaurant. The causes of death are being investigated.

One firefighter remained hospitalized Thursday but was expected to be released Friday.

The last death of a Boston firefighter in the line of duty was in March 1999, department spokesman Scott Salman said.

The New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox observed a moment of silence before their game in New York Thursday afternoon, paying tribute to Cahill, Payne and two New York firefighters who died in a fire at a ground zero skyscraper this month.

Train crashes in Rio suburb RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) – A train slammed into a stationary train Thursday near a Rio de Janeiro depot, officials said. A firefighter said there were reports of casualties.

The collision occurred about 200 yards from the Austin station on Rio’s poor north side, said a firefighter who gave his name only as Sgt. Goncalves, in line with company policy.

“We heard there were various victims, including fatalities,” he said by telephone.

Civil Defense officials said 60 firefighters were working at the site to remove victims.

“Our priority is to give support to the survivors, the passengers trapped in the wreckage, and reduce the number

of fatal victims,” Col. Souza Filho, the head of Rio de Janeiro’s Civil Defense Department, said in an interview with the Globo TV network.

Souza Filho said preliminary reports were that one train was empty and the other was carrying commuters. He said he didn’t have an estimate of the number of victims.

“We have no idea how many people were on the trains,” he said.

Trains are widely used to commute

to downtown Rio from the city’s poor northern outskirts.

Local media reports had said the two engineers were killed, but an official with the Supervia company that operates the train denied the report.

“The two did not die. They were

Firefighters Work at the site of a train crash in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Aug. 30. AP Photo

hurt and are in the hospital,” said Joao Gouveia, the operational director of Supervia, said.

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Alec Baldwin, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert and Kyra Sedgwick are among the celebrities added to the list of presenters for the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards.

Baldwin and Fey star on NBC’s “30 Rock,” Colbert is host of “The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central, and Sedgwick stars on TNT’s “The Closer.”

Other presenters announced Thursday by executive producer Ken Ehrlich include Marcia Cross, Ellen DeGeneres and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

The Emmys Awards, hosted by Ryan Seacrest, will air live Sept. 16 from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on the Fox network.

Previously announced presenters include Jon Stewart, Jeremy Piven, Kelsey Grammer, Kiefer Sutherland and Katherine Heigl.

NEW YORK (AP) – Julia LouisDreyfus has a TV date with Jason Alexander.

The former “Seinfeld” co-stars will reunite in an episode of LouisDreyfus’ comedy, “The New Adventures of Old Christine,” Dreyfus and Alexander CBS said Wednesday.

Alexander’s character — a lizard handler for children’s birthday parties — will go on a date with Christine, a divorced working mom.

“Old Christine” will return this winter. No date for the third-season premiere has been announced by the network.

Louis-Dreyfus, 46, won an Emmy for “Old Christine” last year, and is nominated this year. She also won an Emmy for “Seinfeld.”

Alexander, 47, received seven Emmy nominations for “Seinfeld,” which aired from 1990 to 1998.

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Mine collapse leaves utility Mine: Rescuers continuing scrambling for coal in Utah -continued from page 1

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – The shutdown of the Utah coal mine where a huge collapse trapped six men has a major customer scrambling for fuel to keep a power station operating.

“We can fill that gap – I wouldn’t say easily – from other Utah mines,” Reed Searle, general manager of Intermountain Power Agency, said Thursday.

IPA operates a pair of coal-fired generators near Delta, Utah, and jointly owns the crippled Crandall Canyon mine with Cleveland-based Murray Energy Corp.

The power station also was relying on coal from another mine shut down by its financial partner in the coal belt of central Utah.

Together, both mines provided more than 20 percent of IPA’s coal and it will have to look elsewhere to maintain its dwindling 3 1/2month stockpile, Searle said.

IPA wheels power for a consortium of 36 municipal power providers in Utah and California.

Its stake in the Crandall Canyon mine is purely financial. “We don’t known anything about coal mining,” Searle said.

But it will pick up an equal share of the

mounting search and rescue tab – “whatever it takes,” he said.

IPA’s half-ownership also makes it equally liable for fatalities.

It’s not known if any of the six miners survived the Aug. 6 cave-in; another collapse killed three rescuers and injured six others trying to tunnel into the mine on Aug. 16. That halted the underground rescue effort, possibly leaving the six miners entombed, officials have said.

The biggest expense so far has been the drilling in a bid to find the miners more than 1,500 feet underground. On Thursday, crews for Salt Lake City-based Boart Longyear Co. punched a seventh hole into the mine. The University of South Florida’s Institute for Safety Security Rescue Technology planned to send a robotic camera down that hole.

Each drilled hole costs about $600,000, Bob Murray, chief of Murray Energy Corp., said Thursday. Murray corrected a federal regulator who told Utah legislators on Wednesday the cost was $1 million a hole.

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Battle: Students donate willingly

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Spencer Whipple, a junior from Brigham City majoring in deaf education, gave blood on Thursday.

The Red Cross received the donations. A raffle was also held during the blood drive. Prizes included an iPod nano, a gift certificate to Pita Pit and a guitar. ASUSU offers these prizes in hopes that they will entice people to donate. PATRICK ODEN photo

ting 613 donations, more than half its goal.

German Ellsworth, vice president of the Service Center, boasted about the drive’s great turnout so far.

“We’re breaking records,” he said.

On Tuesday alone, 239 units of blood were donated. Ellsworth said the success is not just because of the students.

“We’ve had a really positive response working so well with the Red Cross,” he said. “The Red Cross has really stepped it up. They’ve cancelled other drives to help. I can’t imagine it going any better.”

A raffle is also being held as an incentive

to give blood. When students donate, they can enter to win an iPod nano, a guitar or gift certificates to places like Pita Pit and Firehouse Pizzeria along with many other prizes. ASUSU’s hope is that these new prizes will boost the number of volunteers and help beat the University of Utah again.

Friday is the last day to donate, and more blood is still needed to reach the 1,000-unit goal. For those who want to donate, it is advised that potential donors eat before they give blood and stay hydrated. The drive ends Friday in the Sunburst lounge at 3 p.m.

–liz.w@aggiemail.usu.edu

Meanwhile, the U.S. Labor Department said an independent review will be conducted of MSHA’s handling of the Utah mine disaster. Separately, MSHA announced its own investigation, led by the man who was in charge of the review of the Sago mine tragedy in West Virginia, where 12 people died in January 2006.

Richard Gates, an MSHA district manager in Alabama, has been with the agency for 19 years.

“MSHA’s investigation will fully examine all available evidence to find the cause of the ground failure at Crandall Canyon mine and any violations of safety and health standards,” MSHA chief Richard Stickler said in a statement.

Six miners have been trapped more than 1,500 feet below ground since Aug. 6. It is not known if they are dead or alive. Three rescuers trying to tunnel to the men died during another collapse Aug. 16.

Stickler said the investigation at Crandall Canyon would involve people who have no ties to MSHA’s Western district, which oversees safety at the mine, 120 miles south of Salt Lake City.

They include Timothy Watkins, assistant district manager in Kentucky who has ventilation and retreat mining experience; Gary Smith, a supervisor in Pennsylvania who has roof-control expertise; and Joseph O’Donnell who is based in MSHA’s district office in Alabama.

Hours after Stickler’s announcement, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao said an independent team of mine-safety experts will review MSHA’s handling of the Crandall Canyon mine accident.

The review will look at MSHA’s actions before the collapse and during the subsequent rescue operations. The agency is an arm of the Labor Department.

Leading that review will be Joseph Pavlovich of Gray, Ky., a former MSHA district manager and expert on mine rescue, and Earnest Teaster Jr. of King George, Va., a former MSHA administrator for coal-mine safety. Each has been in charge of three post-accident internal reviews.

They have a broad mandate, including a study of all mine plans and inspection records and interviews with MSHA employees.

Chao “picked two fine people to lead the review,” said Tony Oppegard, a lawyer in Lexington, Ky., who was a senior MSHA official in the Clinton administration and also a mine-safety prosecutor in Kentucky.

“The internal reviews that MSHA does, they can be informative and helpful, but it also places a lot of pressure on the people who do the review,” Oppegard said.

He said Pavlovich and Teaster should have a “no-holdsbarred approach.”

The United Mine Workers of America, however, said the review would not be independent. The union, which does not represent Crandall Canyon miners, has been very critical of mine executives and MSHA. “A truly independent investigation would be done by people who are from outside the agency with no ties to MSHA or its employees,” President Cecil Roberts said in a statement.

University of Utah seismologists insist the Crandall Canyon cave-in was violent enough to cause a 3.9 magnitude earthquake. The mine’s co-owner, Murray Energy Corp., claims a natural earthquake caused the disaster.

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Canyon recreation area closes for safety A popular Logan Canyon recreation access is slated to close to the public following the Labor Day weekend. The access, located at milepost 462.2 on U.S. Highway 89, sits approximately one mile east of Stokes Nature Center and just west of Second Dam. The area has long served as a parking spot and launch point for recreational “tubers” on the Logan, Hyde Park, Smithfield Canal.

The decision to close the access was made jointly by the Utah Department of Transportation, Utah Highway Patrol, U.S. Forest Service, Cache County, Logan City and the canal company due to increasing safety concerns.

“As of now, we have not had a serious injury accident at this location, however, with the amount of traffic, high speeds and limited sight distance, it is only a matter of time before we experience a serious automobile or auto/pedestrian fatality,” said UHP Lieutenant Lee Perry.

After the Labor Day weekend, UDOT will place “No Parking” signs at the existing access on U.S. Highway 89 and violators will be ticketed by the UHP. Cache County and Logan City plan to host a series of public input forums later this fall to receive comments on the decision and to discuss options on how to maintain limited access to the canal as a recreational feature.

Fridayfest ‘80s Party tonight in the TSC As part of the Week of Welcome, an ‘80s Party is being held tonight at 9 p.m.

The event is free with student id. Dance and party the night away with an ‘80s DJ, Neil Diamond cover band, food, and tons of people. There is also going to be an ‘80s fashion show, so come dressed in ‘80s styles and get a free slap bracelet while supplies last.

Early and absentee voting continuing Early voting for the Logan Primary Election is being held at the Logan City Recorder’s office, 255 N. Main. Voting began Tuesday and is continuing through Friday, Sept. 7 during regular office hours, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Any person who is registered to vote may vote before the election date. Absentee voting will begin as soon as ballots are available.

Applications may be obtained from the City Recorder. To vote in this municipal election, a person must be a registered voter residing in the City of Logan.

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District Court named The First District Judicial Nominating Commission has selected three nominees for a vacancy in the First District Court.

The position will replace Judge Gordon Low who will retire effective August 31, 2007. The First Judicial District is comprised of Box Elder, Cache, and Rich counties.

The nominees are as follows: Kevin J. Fife, Logan, Olson and Hoggan; Stephen W. Jewell, Logan, self-employed attorney; John K. West, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Legal Defender’s Association.

A 10-day public comment period will be held before the names are submitted to Gov. Jon M. Huntsman. First District Nominating Commission Chair Gary Anderson is accepting written comments regarding the nominees at Administrative Office of the Courts, P.O. Box 140241, Salt Lake City, UT, 841140241. The deadline for written comments is 5 p.m. on Sept. 6.

The commission may request further interviews or an investigation of the nominees after reviewing public comments. After the public comment period, the names will be sent to the Governor who has 30 days to select a candidate.

The Governor’s nominee is then forwarded to the Senate Confirmation Committee, which reviews the nominee’s qualifications and conducts a public hearing and interview session. The Senate Confirmation Committee will forward the final nominee to the Utah State Senate, which has 60 days from the Governor’s nomination to confirm the nominee

Students jump into school

James Stosich, left, a sophomore majoring in aviation, didn’t need an airplane to fly during USU’s annual Day on the Quad, an event welcoming students back to school.

Stosich took to the air with the help of a professional trampoline. The band Allred was another of many attractions. Drummer Sheyn Love, John Allred and lead guitarist Dave Hunsaker performed on Wednesday. GIDEON OAKES, TYLER LARSON photos

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Authorities said the older boy repeatedly hit Tahir Francis in the head a week ago, causing skull fractures. Tahir was taken to a hospital and died about six hours later while undergoing surgery. “I want to know what kind of home the 9-year-old comes from,� father Tafawah Francis told The Associated Press on Thursday. “He doesn’t understand, you can’t do these things to a baby.�

The child was buried on Wednesday, the Francis said. “Right now, it’s still devastating, and I don’t know when it will not be devastating,� he said. “We’re trying to cope as best we can.�

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Christian Fleming, said she Fleming said. pleaded not guilty Wednesday.

Fleming also said his cli The 9-year-old has been ent initially thought the todcharged with the juvenile dler was having a seizure and equivalent of aggravated man“didn’t suspect any sort of slaughter and has been released assault.� on house arrest to his parents.

Tafawah Francis said he and Bryant’s lawyer said that his wife started taking Tahir “things were moving quickly� to Bryant’s facility five months

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Bryant’s husband, Stanley Bryant, is a case worker in Middlesex County for the state Division of Youth and Family Services. Spokeswoman Kate Bernyk said Bryant has worked for the agency since September 2003.

The state office of the public defender will investigate to avoid a conflict of interest, Bernyk said.

In 2003, also in Woodbridge, a 10-year-old boy was accused of luring a 3year-old boy from a library and bludgeoning him with a baseball bat. The younger boy died the next day. The 10-year-old pleaded guilty to the murder and was sentenced to up to 18 years in the custody of the state juvenile justice system.

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – A federal judge has ordered the former director of a city housing program to serve one day in jail and perform 10 hours of community service after pleading guilty to health insurance fraud.

Rosemary Kappes divorced her husband in 1996, but kept him on her employer-paid health insurance for another eight years. The couple reconciled before the divorce was finalized, although they have not remarried, Kappes has said. “I think it’s a very, very,

very small crime,� U.S. District Judge Dee Benson said Wednesday.

Kappes, 62, of Layton was the director of the Housing Authority of Salt Lake City. She resigned her position this summer during a federal investigation.

A federal grand jury indicted her on 22 counts of health care fraud and 13 counts of mail fraud. She also faced one count of theft from a program receiving federal funds.

Prosecutors contend that Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield

of Utah paid $14,000 of claims submitted by health care providers who treated Ray Kappes.

Since an audit uncovered the insurance fraud, Rosemary Kappes has repaid the company $28,000. “This is the most humiliating experience of my life,� she said in court Wednesday.

Kappes was arraigned and sentenced during the same hearing, first entering a plea of not guilty to one judge, before Benson took over the hearing and accepted her guilty plea.

Spinach recall calls for oversight to protect nation’s food supply FRESNO, Calif. (AP) – Consumer advocates and some lawmakers say that a Salinas Valley company’s recall of spinach because of a salmonella scare shows that the federal government must do more to protect the nation’s food supply, but industry officials call it proof that their voluntary regulations are working.

Metz Fresh, a King Citybased grower and shipper, recalled 8,000 cartons of fresh spinach Wednesday after salmonella was found during a routine test of spinach it was processing for shipment. More than 90 percent of the possibly contaminated cartons never reached stores, company spokesman Greg Larson said.

California’s leafy greens industry adopted the voluntary regulations last year after a fatal E. coli outbreak, but advocates said a national, mandatory inspection and testing program overseen by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is needed. “Eight thousand cartons left the plant for distribution in the U.S. That’s 8,000 too many,� said Jean Halloran, a food safety expert with Consumers Union. “At this point, we are relying on the leafy green industry to police itself.�

Some growers said Metz Fresh’s ability to catch the bacteria showed that the new testing regimes are working.

No illnesses have been reported from eating spinach linked to the company. “I think the test of the industry is how we react to these types of situations,� said grower Joseph Pezzini, who heads the board that administers the new produce safety rules. “No

one was harmed by the product and that’s important.�

Larsen said the recalled spinach, which was picked Aug. 22, had tested negative in earlier field and production tests.

Metz Fresh began telling stores and restaurants on Aug. 24 not to sell or serve the lettuce after a first round of tests came up positive. “The first thing we are looking at right now is making sure this product, as much as possible, is under our control,� he said. “The next step is to back up and take a hard look at how this happened.�

Metz Fresh has complied with the California Leafy Green Products Handler Marketing Agreement, a set of voluntary food safety rules drafted after last year’s E. coli outbreak in fresh spinach killed three people and sickened 200. By joining the program, participants also agree to have their fields and plants checked for compliance.

In two separate plant and field visits earlier this month, California auditors found no signs of danger at Metz Fresh, said Scott Horsfall, who oversees the industry-sponsored program. “I’m not trying to put a pretty face on it, but the overall system is working very well,�

Horsfall said. “Consumers can have a high degree of confidence in this product, notwithstanding this recent problem.�

But some legislators said the latest recall showed the FDA had yet to improve a patchwork produce safety system critics believe is vastly understaffed and poorly monitored. “This in no way should be seen as a success story,� said

state Sen. Dean Florez, who chairs a committee on foodborne illnesses. He said that Metz Fresh should have caught the salmonella before any of its spinach reached consumers, and that he has written the state’s agriculture secretary demanding answers about “this breakdown in California’s food safety system.�

U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, DIowa, is crafting legislation that would set up national food safety practices for growing and processing fresh produce that run the highest risk of causing food-borne illnesses. “This is a food safety concern for consumers who wonder if it is OK to serve this produce to their families, and it is an agricultural concern for growers who face another blow to sales of their product,� said Harkin, who chairs the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. “It is long overdue for the FDA to exercise more oversight of food safety practices.�

FDA and state public health officials said Thursday they were investigating the company’s records, tests and products.

The recall covers 10- and 16-ounce bags, as well as 4pound cartons and cartons that contain four, 2.5-pound bags, with the following tracking codes: 12208114, 12208214 and 12208314.

The California Department of Public Health and the Food And Drug Administration are investigating the Metz Fresh processing facility in King City.

Salmonella sickens about 40,000 people a year in the U.S. and kills about 600.

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Judge strikes down same-sex marriage law, orders licenses for 6 gay couples DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – A county judge struck down Iowa’s decade-old gay marriage ban as unconstitutional Thursday and ordered local officials to process marriage licenses for six gay couples.

Gay couples from anywhere in Iowa could apply for a marriage license from Polk County under Judge Robert Hanson’s ruling.

Less than two hours after word of the ruling was publicized, two Des Moines men applied for a license, the first time the county had accepted a same-sex application. The approval process takes three days.

Gary Allen Seronko, 51, was listed as the groom on the form and David Curtis Rethmeier, 29, the bride.

“I started to cry because we so badly want to be able to be protected if something happens to one of us,” Rethmeier said.

Deputy Recorder Trish Umthun said she took five calls from gay couples after the judge filed his ruling Thursday afternoon and expected a rush of applications Friday.

County attorney John Sarcone said the county will appeal to the Iowa Supreme

Court and immediately sought a stay from Hanson that would prevent gay couples from seeking a marriage license until the appeal is resolved. The Supreme Court could refer the case to the Iowa Court of Appeals, consider the case itself or decide not to hear it.

A hearing is likely to be held on the stay motion next week, said Camilla Taylor, an attorney with Lambda Legal, a New York-based gay rights organization.

House Minority Leader Christopher Rants, R-Sioux City, said the ruling illustrates the need for a state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

“I can’t believe this is happening in Iowa,” he said. “I guarantee you there will be a vote on this issue come January,” when the Legislature convenes.

Massachusetts is the only state where gay marriage is legal, though nine other states have approved spousal rights in some form for same-sex couples.

Nearly all states have defined marriage as being solely between a man and a woman, and 27 states have such wording in their con-

stitutions, according the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Dennis Johnson, the lawyer for the six gay couples who sued in 2005 after they were denied marriage licenses, had argued that Iowa has a long history of aggressively protecting civil rights in cases of race and gender.

He said the Defense of Marriage Act, which the Legislature passed in 1998, contradicts previous rulings regarding civil rights.

Roger J. Kuhle, an assistant Polk County attorney, argued that the issue is not for a judge to decide.

Hanson ruled that the state law allowing marriage only between a man and a woman violates the constitutional rights of due process and equal protection.

“Couples, such as plaintiffs, who are otherwise qualified to marry one another may not be denied licenses to marry or certificates of marriage or in any other way prevented from entering into a civil marriage ... by reason of the fact that both person comprising such a couple are of the same sex,” he said.

Coal: Customers scrambling for fuel

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“The cost is not an issue,” Murray told The Associated Press by e-mail. “The people are what is important.”

Murray has temporarily shut down a second company mine in Utah as engineers test its ability to withstand seismic shocks, which have also plagued the Crandall Canyon mine.

At the Aberdeen mine, Murray said he was planning to equip a longwall mining machine with an array of cameras and fiber optics to allow

for automatic mining, something never tried before, he said.

“When people talk about the future and going deeper, they are trying to get these machines to operate remotely,” said Michael D. Vanden Berg, a mining expert for the Utah Geological Survey. “I didn’t know that was possible yet.”

The sprawling Crandall Canyon mine was largely spent by the time Murray Energy took it over in August 2006, he said.

The company planned to take the last of the mine’s recoverable coal, estimated at 11 million tons.

With prices for energy soaring, Utah coal is worth $23.62 a ton, up from $16.64 a ton in 2003, Vanden Berg said. It goes for more than $30 on the spot market. Murray has laid off some miners and consolidated crews at a third Utah mine while shipping some veterans to other mines he operates in Ohio and Illinois.

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Say cheese

By Manette Newbold features editor

Every morning Pete Schropp in Richmond wakes up while the sun is rising to spend some time with “his girls,” Gertrude, Ingrid, Elsa, Ruby and Greta. Each week they help him and his wife, Jennifer Hines, produce 200 gallons of milk and 175 pounds of cheese a week. The “girls” are his cows.

For the last two and a half years, the couple has been making cheese from their licensed dairy farm, Rockhill Creamery, and sell the products in and out of state, from their farmstand in Richmond to the gardener’s markets in Logan and Salt Lake City.

“It’s a lot of work,” Hines said as she stirred 98 gallons of milk in a cheese vat.

“We haven’t been on vacation in six years. You have to be really dedicated to milk a cow two times a day, 365 days a year.”

Schropp, who bought the farm about 22 years ago, said he doesn’t mind working with his cows every day though.

“Pete’s the one who loves the cows, and I love making food,” Hines said Twice a week, on Mondays and Thursdays, the couple spends 7 to 8 hours making cheese. Schropp milks and then Hines stirs about 100 gallons of the milk while heating it to the perfect temperature. Eventually, the milk turns into curds and Hines cuts it into small cubes. The curd is then placed in plastic molds and shaped into wheels. The same afternoon, the cheese is flipped five more times before being ready for the aging room where it is shaped and brined in salt water for three days. Then, for two months, the cheese wheels age and Hines “babies them.”

“I like to say the cows are my girls and these are like my babies,” Hines said as she stood in the refrigerated aging room with nearly 200 wheels next to her on shelves. “They have to be cleaned and flipped twice a week,” she said. “They’re rubbed down after they develop molds, which add flavors to the cheese.”

Even though it takes time and a lot of work, the couple enjoys what they do.

“I like having a direct relationship with our customers. When you think about

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Jennifer Hines oF RICHMOND stirs 98 gallons of cow milk at Rockhill Creamery. She and her husband, Pete Schropp, make cheese out of the cow milk and sell it in Logan and out of state. They usually make about 8,800 pounds of cheese per year. TYLER LARSON photos

Celebrate America Show at USU

By Ranae Bangerter staff writer

Dinner, dancing, singing and a live band are all included in what people from all over the country come to USU for, the annual Celebrate America Show, being performed this week.

The program director, Brenda Anthony, said some people travel 1,200 miles both ways for the performance, and those people say the show is better than a Broadway show or any show in Las Vegas.

“You don’t just find dinner and a show and dancing,” Anthony said. “You just don’t find it.”

HISTORY Originally the dinner and dance performance was called

An Evening with Glenn Miller and was run by the programs and entertainment department at USU. After nearly 30 years of performances, the university had to remove the special department and consequently drop the Glenn Miller show because of financial issues.

When the community found out, some were upset and wanted to keep the show going.

So they rallied together to create the same type of show, with a new name and new cast members.

Anthony said she has been directing the performance for the past nine years and oversaw the program’s change. She said very little has changed – the talent is still outstanding and the band is the same.

THE CAST The cast features college students who sing and dance, 12 male and female singers and 10 female dancers.

“They don’t have to be in college, but they have to look like they are in college,” Anthony said. Before the rehearsals begin, Anthony said she and other committee members go to several events on campus and in the community to scout for exceptional talent.

One of the dancers, Cassie Finch of Salt Lake City, said this is the type of show she’s always wanted to do, and her favorite part is dancing to the old time music and feeling like she’s on Broadway.

“The cast is great. We love being around each other and just goofing off and having fun,”

CELEBRATE AMERICA SHOW DANCERs strut their stuff on stage during a 2006 performance at USU in the TSC Ballroom. Photo courtesy of BRENDA ANTHONY, Production Designer for Celebrate America.

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PICK True Aggie Café is located in downtown Logan on Main Street. Store owner, Richard Steele, said the store’s name comes from the midnight tradition of True Aggie night. The café sells soup, sandwiches and textbooks. DEBRA HAWKINS photo

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New café hopes to become a True Aggie tradition Dallin Koecher staff writer

Books, food and fun, which are some of the staples of college life, are now combined in one of the newest hangouts in Logan at the True Aggie Café.

On Main Street in Logan just north of 100 North, where the old Gandolfo’s used to be, is a sandwich shop decorated with USU memorabillia. There are pictures of Old Main, a big screen TV, Aggie sports jerseys and pictures of the one of the most famous events on campus: True Aggie night.

In spirit of the midnight tradition held by USU students, the True Aggie Café is one of the newest hangouts for students in Logan. At least that’s what store owner Richard Steele said he hopes the Café will become.

When student walks into the soup and sandwich shop, they will see college textbooks and may even be asked by the Café staff if they have a textbook they want to sell. It may perhaps be a little strange to some, but Steele said such a combination is a goal he has always had.

“I have been in the textbook

business for a long time, and I wanted to combine it with soups and sandwiches as a fun hangout for college students,” Steele said.

Back in April, the store opened and since then Steele said he has seen a steady stream of customers, some of which are customers from his old book store location a few blocks north. One of the biggest challenges so far, he said, is that most students don’t know about the store yet.

Steele said he wants to use his store as a place where students can feel comfortable hanging out. He said he hopes to attract students to the store through fun activities, special deals and sporting events like away football and basketball games shown on the big screen. In respect for the Café’s namesake, Steele said he will have extended hours and specials on True Aggie night; he said he wants the students to come to his store to work out some premidnight jitters.

During normal business hours, students can take their unwanted school books and sell them to Steele for cash. As an incentive to buy and sell books at his store, Steele said he gives students a free sandwich for every

purchase or buyback over a certain amount. From what he has heard, students have been very enthusiastic about his sandwich and book deal.

“Once students have been here, they turn out to be very loyal and they say, ‘I will tell all my friends and roommates,’” Steele said.

Also, the True Aggie Café is the only place off campus that sells Aggie Ice Cream, Steele said. So now, students have another place to get their Aggie Ice Cream fix.

The café is open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday. True Aggie Café is located at 117 N. Main. Parking is available in front of the store, on Main Street, as well as at the rear of the building.

Steele said he has enjoyed running the True Aggie Café and looks forward to the time when students choose his café as a place to hang out.

“I’m enjoying watching it grow,” Steele said. “The idea has been in my head for a long time.

Making it a physical reality has been a lot of fun.”

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Cheese: Two months to age -continued from page 6 farmers harvesting grain and bailing hay, they never get to meet the customers,” Hines said. “Once a week I get a shot in the arm when someone says, ‘We love your cheese.’ It’s very rewarding.”

Hines said she began making cheese a few years ago with goat milk that she used to buy even though she and Schropp were raising heifer cows. Eventually it just made sense to use their own cow milk for cheese and see if they could make a business out of it.

They had the facilities and the animals, Schropp said, and they wanted to try doing something they had control of. This idea led to visiting California wineries, and the couple decided they could do something like that – but not quite.

Because of the Cache Valley climate, they wouldn’t be able to make wine. Instead they could make cheese. And now, almost three years later, they are still making six different flavors of cheese and are learning about their art.

“Every batch is different depending on the season, how the cows are feeling and the grass they eat,” Hines said. “Our recipes are still slightly changing and that’s normal. A lot of master cheese makers in Europe study cheese making for 20 years.”

The whole process is very precise, from the temperatures and the time it takes for the cheese to become perfect, Hines said.

There are even certain times of the year when the cows won’t produce milk.

What a lot of people don’t know, Hines said, is that the cows have to be bred to be able

to produce milk. After that, farmers can milk the cows for 10 months before a dry spell of two months. Someday, if the Rockhill Creamery cows get on the same schedule, the couple could have two months in the year when they wouldn’t have to make cheese. But Hines said the girls just aren’t cooperating.

However, she said she doesn’t seem to mind for now.

“Our pace of life is different.

We don’t live in the cubical culture. We’re not on our e-mail and cell phones all the time. We have a nice lifestyle,” she said.

Rockhill Creamery will probably always stay small; the most cows the couple would want to milk is six. Currently they make about 8,800 pounds of cheese a year, and Hines said they are about maxed out.

“Some people think we’re absolutely insane. We won’t make a lot of money,” she said.

Hines said she was working another 30-hour job as of June and will now just focus on the farm. And for both her and Schropp, it’s all worth it.

“I like the animals, and I really like the people that buy our cheese,” Schropp said.

Rockhill Creamery is located at 563 S. State Street in Richmond and is open 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays during

At RockHill Creamery, the cheese sits in salt water before it ages for two months. TYLER LARSON photo

the warm months. Its cheese can also be purchased online, at its stand every Saturday, at the Gardener’s Market at Pioneer Park in Logan and at Crumb

Brother’s, Sweet Peas and Lee’s Marketplace. For more information call 258-1278.

-manette.n@aggiemail.usu.edu

JENNIFER hines describes how the cheese ages at Rockhill Creamery in Richmond. The cheese must sit on shelf for two months. Twice a week, it is cleaned and rubbed down by Hines to remove mold. The mold enhances the flavor. TYLER LARSON photo

All I see is jailbait ‘Pervert’ is a relative term. Like ‘drunk’ or ‘angry.’

Some people think they are drunk when the world starts moving a little bit. We call those people lightweights.

Others still won’t admit they’re drunk even after they’ve crawled into Beto’s — God rest its soul — dressed as Barney, trying to sing the “I love you” song in Spanish and ended up eating their mixed breakfast burrito, wrapper and all, while lounging on the condiment bar in the middle of the restaurant.

People also have different definitions of angry, especially when it comes to rating how angry other people are. Very chilled-out people probably think someone screaming monumental strings of four letter words at the top of their lungs at a computer in the lab that won’t read their jump drive is pretty angry.

Others, mainly Pantera fans, know the computer person is just a little bit upset. For Pantera people, real anger involves driving a semi truck through the wall of a convenience store while listening to “Walk,” just because they weren’t satisfied with the amount of Funions in the bag they just bought.

What was the other word ... oh yeah, pervert.

Some may say looking at naked girls/guys, depending on preference, is perverted. Others are less easily offended, and it takes a skanky combination of things like pandas, a bag of Milano cookies, a fire hydrant and six clothespins for them to draw that line of perversion.

This week, I found that like anything, your definition depends on a few things — namely age and experience.

Don’t understand where I’m going yet? Well you must not be old, or you must not have been on campus all week.

I feel like a dirty old man — some people who know me probably would say that’s a compliment compared to some of the things I actually am, but those people are drunks. I’m only 21, but after a week of looking at the new crop of freshmen, I feel like I’m the creepy, handsy PE teacher at some junior high school.

For the most part, you’d think it’s safe to assume anyone walking around with a backpack in the halls of Old Main, the Taggart

Student Center or any other building on campus is at least 18 years old. You know what happens when you assume. This time it has less to do about making an ass of anyone, and more about getting my ass thrown in jail for hitting on a girl who looked like she was 13, but was actually in college, so you assumed she was 18.

This is where the ‘pervert’ is a relative term thing comes in. I feel like a perv hitting on these freshmen girls. There, I said it. I’m scared of jailbait, and to me, most of the new freshman girls I’ve seen look like they’re straight off the bus and ready for their first day of middle school.

Sophomores don’t probably have this problem. They’re just barely out of high school.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d like to hook up with freshmen girls — that’s what God created freshmen girls for, otherwise they’d all start out as sophomores or juniors — but I can’t bring myself to do it. Maybe it’s the fact that I feel like a pedophile just being on campus. Or maybe it’s just some sense of morality welling up in me that my parents always hoped would show up, but I was sure didn’t exist.

Maybe I know it’s not realistic. We’d have nothing to talk about. They’d want to talk about the latest issue of Tiger Beat or Seventeen magazine, and I’d try to talk to them about Newsweek, The New Yorker or Rolling Stone — no, I don’t actually read the first two.

I guess I could put some effort in. Get some headgear. Buy an old Hanson CD. Brush up on my MTV reality TV. Anything to take me back to my early teens and hopefully spark some conversation about overarching late-middleschool, early-high-school things.

I’m just going to stop. I’ve dug myself enough of a hole here. Now even if I did make that conscious decision to go ahead and pursue freshmen girls and risk going to jail, this column just burnt those bridges.

There’s nothing like screwing yourself over.

David Baker is a senior majoring in print journalism. Please be nice to him if he tries to hit on you. Comments can be sent to da.bake@aggiemail. usu.edu.

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• Local Lambs at the Slaughter, 6:30 p.m. at the Avalon in SLC. Tickets available on SmithsTIX.com. $10 • Summit ET Series, 4:30 p.m at Rocky Mountain Raceways.

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• Historic Downtown Logan Walking Tour, 10:30 - 11:45 a.m. FREE. Contact the Visitor’s Bureau, 755-1890 for more information.

Saturday, Sept. 1 • USAC Western States Sprints & Focus Midgets, 4 p.m., Rocky Mountain Raceways. Adults $20, children (5-12) $10.

• Elite Hall lessons and dancing, 7:30 p.m. - 11:45 p.m. Located at 98 W. Main in Hyrum. $4 for lessons, $3 for dancing only.

• Latino Night at Club NVO, 339 N. Main, Logan. Hip hop, salsa and reaggeton, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m.

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Go ahead – just say you’re sorry

By Jessica Yadegaran Contra Costa Times (MCT)

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. – For some, they are the two hardest words to say. But learning how to make a sincere apology is not only a necessary skill, it’s an art.

Just look at the headlines. Recently, singer Kelly Clarkson lashed out at record mogul and star-maker Clive Davis after they clashed over the content of her new album.

But last month Clarkson released a statement on her Web site taking back her words. “I’m well aware that Clive is one of the great record men of all time,” Clarkson said. “I really regret how this has turned out and I apologize to those whom I have done disservice.”

Sounds sincere. But is it? Celebrities are told when and how to apologize, usually when their careers are on the line. Meanwhile, politicians are masters of the unapology, showing remorse largely because they got caught and often without uttering those two magic words. Even for regular folks, the state of saying “sorry” is a sorrowful one. Why is it so hard to show contrition?

“We tend to not apologize because we think it’s a sign of weakness and vulnerability,” said Sheila Quinn Simpson, the Michigan– based author of “Apology: The Importance and Power of Saying `I’m Sorry’” (Balcony, $12.95). “We tend to not take responsibility for our actions. It’s always somebody else’s fault, and if they apologize first, maybe you will, too.”

We are also a highly litigious society, Simpson explained, so to not own our behavior is often recommended, at least legally.

In other words, yes, you caused the accident. But don’t apologize, or you’ll be culpable.

Ironically, Simpson pointed out, we are obsessed with the importance of forgiveness, but nobody talks about the other side of it, which is apology. There are few apology cards in the greeting card aisle, and we rarely acknowledge how powerful and healing an apology is – for the apologizer.

“Apologizing means acting with integrity and being aware of how our behavior affects people for the good or the bad,” Simpson said. “It is our choice to avoid or to face the music.”

As a rule, Lindsay Newsom tries to avoid conflict. She describes herself as a moderate person who always sees both sides. But if she does hurt someone, she’s the first to offer up an apology. “I want the situation to be as normal as possible as soon as possible,” she said.

Recently, Newsom took the side of one of two friends involved in a conflict. Upon reflection, she realized she’d taken the wrong side.

“I went back to the other friend and said `I’m sorry, I handled it wrong, and it was the wrong side to take,” she explained. The friend accepted.

Sarah Gorback of San Francisco is a fan of the silent apology, especially when it comes to petty arguments. Think back to the times you exchanged hurtful words with mom, only to show up half an hour later, helping to wash dishes at her side.

“A verbal apology can mean so much less anyway,” Gorback said.

“Besides, without saying the words, you can maintain a bit of pride and still passively admit you were wrong.”

Action apologies are very much acceptable, Simpson said. But in general, a verbal or written apology is most effective. They convey emotion and remorse best.

Timing, of course, is paramount. “Do it as soon as you have that gut feeling,” Simpson said. “That minimizes the rage, resentments or judgments that can escalate a situation. It’s not time that heals, it’s what you do with the time.”

That said, it’s never too late for an apology. Wes Allnutt learned

-See SORRY, page 10

PATRONS ARE ENCOURAGED to purchase tickets early because of demands and also because many of the tickets have been reserved a year in advance. Photo courtesy of BRENDA ANTHONY, Production Designer for Celebrate America.

the sophomore said.

It’s a good thing the cast gets along well, because they have to practice 20 hours a week and rehearse all through the summer for the one-weekend performance. The cast first meets at the beginning of the summer, when they are given a CD of the music to practice on their own, and then they meet up again for 30 rehearsals throughout July and August.

Once the performances draw near, the rehearsals are held more often and take more time.

A singer in the show, Katie Freeman, said they practice three times on weekdays for four hours and on Saturdays for eight hours.

“It’s a huge time commitment,” said Freeman, sophomore in vocal performance and choral education.

And due to the time spent with each other, Freeman said the cast has become close.

“I think the cast itself has grown into a family, and I think

you can see that on stage,” she said.

Anthony agrees.

“They are so ready by the time performance comes around, and there’s such a camaraderie that develops between the cast. It’s a very strong group of friends,” Anthony said.

REHEARSALS Once the initial stress of learning the dances and songs is over, the group rehearsals begin, and the detailed costumes are tried on.

“Some of (the costumes) are really flashy, and you really feel like you are a rocket in Radio City Music Hall,” Finch said.

It’s her first year in the production, and she said it’s definitely a different experience from the other shows she has done. For one of the songs, “Pennsylvania 65,000,” she said the performers dress up like telephone operators with polka dotted dresses, white gloves, blond wigs and headsets.

“It really just adds to the dances,” Finch said. “With wearing the blond wigs and everything, we really feel silly out there, but it’s just a lot of fun. It just really adds to the show.”

In her 15 years of experience, Finch originally studied ballet dance but has since learned others.

Although her major in political science is far from dancing, her dream in the dancing world would be to dance on Broadway.

From the musical side Freeman, 19, said she loves what the music says about the people and the history behind it.

“The music is designed in such a way that it shows different types of music people listened to (and how) it affected them throughout (that time),” she said INFO The program starts Wednesday night with a college night for all students for $7 per person. No food is included on

that night, but following the performance there will be an open floor dance.

Thursday through Saturday will feature a buffet dinner, a performance and dancing afterwards for $42.50 per person.

Patrons are encouraged to purchase tickets early because of the demand and also because many of the tickets have been reserved a year in advance.

All productions are held in the Taggart Student Center Ballroom and only 420 seats are available. Tickets can be purchased at the TSC Ticket Office or the Spectrum Ticket Office.

Freeman encourages all students to attend even if they are not familiar with the music of the era.

“Jazz music was not only entertaining at the time, but it was also a way that people were able to kind of express (emotion) and lighten their moods for hard times when we were at war,” Freeman said.

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Sorry: Admitting you’re wrong -continued from page 9 that when he apologized to his parents for a lie he had told 16 years earlier.

“I felt no longer tied down by it,” Allnutt said. “When you admit you’re wrong, you clean up your past and sleep better at night. I walk with my head held a little higher.

Even the phrasing and delivery of an apology can be transformative. Avoid the word “but,” as in “I’m sorry you feel that way, but ...,” Simpson said. Instead, try “I’m sorry I wasn’t more careful with my words.”

And if you think a proper apology rides only on the person giving it, you’re mistaken.

“A person can be poor at accepting apologies, for example, teasing or making more of the offense all over again when the apology was meant to put it to rest,” said Nancy Perry, a clinical psychologist and clinical director of Concord’s

Center for Adaptive Learning.

You should never underestimate the power of apology.

Perry knows someone who was entrusted with money by friends when they left the country for a prolonged trip.

The person dipped into the money and got caught.

“They were so mortified that they ended the friendship, even though the wronged friends were willing to accept an apology,” she said.

As a teenager, Tres Peterson of Concord, Calif., witnesses a lot of over-apologizing: people who apologize profusely for insignificant things, like accidentally bumping into someone.

“You can say ‘Excuse me,’ not ‘Oh my gosh, I’m so sorry,’ Peterson said. “I think they’re taught to say sorry as a kid and they don’t want to offend anyone, so they get into the habit of over-apologizing for everything.”

If the habit carries over to adulthood, it could be part of a larger problem, Perry said.

“Low self-esteem and the feeling that one is always wrong or always offending others can lead to excessive apologizing,” she said. “Often friends will gently tease a friend out of this habit, and that’s a nice outcome.”

SAYING ‘YOU’RE SORRY’ They can be the hardest two words to utter. But if you’re going to apologize, make it count. Here are guidelines to an effective apology from Sheila Quinn Simpson, author of “Apology: The Importance and Power of Saying ‘I’m Sorry’”: –An apology must be sincere and without qualifications. Avoid the phrase “I’m sorry, but ...” “But” is a divisive word and can negate the intention of an apology because it sounds defensive and self-serving.

–An apology should be specific and stem from one’s own awareness. You shouldn’t feel forced to apologize because you got caught. Avoid the generalized “I’m sorry for whatever.” It indicates you don’t want to own your behavior and minimizes your apology.

–Avoid the phrase “I’m sorry you feel that way ...” because it is nearly always followed by “but.” People are entitled to feel the way they feel. The goal is to extend good listening skills to learn what led them to feel the way they do.

–Apologies are not purchased. A person may receive a large monetary award for an accident, yet still yearn to hear words of apology and remorse from the person who caused the accident.

–It is never too late to apologize. We have the power to transform lives. If it is timely, all the better. Yet whenever we can apologize, even years later, it is the call of integrity to do so.

–How someone receives an apology is up to them. All we can do is extend healing and hope for renewal through our courage of being accountable, apologizing, and not repeating the harmful behavior.

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A tale of two halves

Game 1: USU 16, UNLV 23

Four quarters to win

What a difference a year makes. After finishing last season near the bottom of most NCAA defensive ratings, the Aggies came out with something to prove against the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. For two quarters, the defensive squad that returned all 11 starters from last year did just that.

In the opening two quarters of play, the defense clearly put the past behind them and made a statement that they are much improved. In the opening half, UNLV amassed a whopping 49 yards on offense and the Aggie defense looked like they could not be beat.

Of those 49 yards, only two came from the arm of Rebel play caller Travis Dixon. UNLV’s only score came on a 48 yard field goal after an Aaron Lesue fumble. The Rebels were 0-6 on third down conversions and were seemingly confused by Utah State’s defensive schemes. Utah State was able to record two sacks and clearly had the Rebel offense reeling.

Unfortunately in football there are four quarters.

UNLV came out in the second half and showed by their offensive play a sudden look of confidence and poise that was non-existent in the first half.

USU Head Coach Brent Guy said, “We were doing some stuff (in the first half) that was hurting their passing game on the outside and with some of our front stuff. I think they did a good job of checking it and letting (Dixon) run the ball inside.”

It may have been the water at halftime, or perhaps adjustments from the coaching staff, but the freshman signal caller came out ready to play. When Guy talks about Dixon checking and changing plays, he couldn’t be any more on. Watching the game from the sideline you could see a look in his eyes that he was in complete control and showed excellent field vision. If he wasn’t running for a first down he was checking at the offensive line and hitting open receivers for big plays.

UNLV Head Coach Mike Sanford, who you will recall, comes from the Urban Meyer coaching tree, attributes Dixon’s change of play due to his competitiveness and offense adjustments.

“I think he’s a competitor,” Sanford said.

“He wanted to win you know, and along the way we did some things and made some adjustments.”

Aggie linebacker Jake Hutton, who recorded eight tackles and one sack, feels that the defense just made mistakes and got out executed.

“I don’t know if it was so much of them changing, they executed a little better and we just made mistakes,” he said.

In the second half, the Aggie defense gave up 265 yards total offense, including 139 yards through the air and 126 on the ground. Although for the game the Rebels only converted on 3 of 14 third down conversions, it was the big plays that changed the game.

“We did great on third downs defensively, but we gave up some big plays in critical situations and that’s when UNLV got the majority of its yards,” Guy said.

The main play that comes to mind was when there were less than three minutes left in the game and UNLV had the ball on the Aggie 36-yard line. With third and five the Aggies needed a stop to force UNLV to kick a long field goal or try for it on fourth down.

Dixon completed a six-yard pass to Ryan Wolfe and essentially ended the game for the Aggies.

“Obviously it’s disappointing; we need to come up with big plays like that,” Hutton said.

Although the defense struggled at times in the second half and did give up some big plays, some Aggie fans should take solace in the fact that it was an improvement from last year. Unfortunately, the road ahead does not get any easier and Guy needs to use this game as a learning tool and the players need to take the positive and use it as motivation for the rest of the year.

Sam Bryner is a senior majoring in business management. Comments can be sent to him sam.bryner@ aggiemail.usu.edu

Top: Leon Jackson III (7) roles to his left and dumps a pass to wide reciever Otis Nelson (14) over a UNLV defender. Jackson started the game for the Aggies Thursday night, finishing 13 of 19 for 137 yards. PATRICK ODEN photo

SENIOR TAILBACK AARON LESUE (1) fumbles the ball as center Ryan Tonnemacher makes a block. Lesue carried the ball 13 times for 33 yards.

He also scored the first Utah State touchdown. PATRICK ODEN photo

Aggies come out strong, but drop a close one after lackluster second half

By SAMMY HISLOP sports editor

In the beginning there was fire, determination, and a lot of hope.

In the end, it was another loss and a frustrated attempt at a fresh start.

After leading by as many as seven, the Utah State Aggies lost 23-16 Thursday night to the University of Nevada-Las Vegas Runnin’ Rebels.

With UNLV kicking off after a touchdown with 1:02 remaining in the game, the Aggies had a final opportunity to come back and tie or take the lead.

Unfortunately, kick returner/wide receiver Kevin Robinson (who was one of USU’s most lethal threats throughout the game) lost the ball on the return as he tried to jump over UNLV defenders to gain extra yardage. The Rebels recovered, and that was that.

“I’ve said this from the first time I got here: We just need to learn how to win,” said Aggie linebacker Jake Hutton, who finished with six tackles.

“Teams like Boise State, when it’s on the line they make big plays and win. That’s what we’ve got to do, just bear down and win.”

With the new NCAA rule of pushing kickoffs from the 35 yard line back to the 30, it looked as though Robinson wouldn’t even get a final opportunity to recieve the ball. That’s because of a 10-yard penalty on the Aggie defense after Rebel kicker Aguayo converted the team’s extra point.

“I feel even worse because of the last play,” said Robinson, who collected 216 yards off of punt and kickoff returns. “You try to make a play and stuff

happens. It didn’t go my way this time.”

Added Guy: “We gotta have them kicking that ball off from the 30. I had confidence at that time even. I told the guys I did not have a speech prepared. I still believed down to the end that we could still win the football game. The bottom line is we turned over the ball at critical junctures.”

With a touchdown scored by Aggie tailback Aaron Lesue early in the second quarter, USU kicker Peter Caldwell put in a 38-yard field goal to give the Ags a 10-3 lead at the half.

But UNLV adjusted in the second half — thanks in large part to that new kickoff rule.

Rebel kick returner Gerold Rodriquez took USU’s opening kick of the second half 48 yards, all the way up to midfield. Dixon followed that up by completing a 21-yard pass to Casey Flair. By the end of that drive, UNLV had a field goal and a four-point hole.

Robinson followed suit on the next kickoff, gaining 45 yards. USU’s offense gained only 24 yards on that drive, turning the ball over on downs.

Even though the Rebels were pushed back 15 yards on their following drive because of a personal foul, they still made every opportunity count. On a second down from their own 45, Dixon kept the ball and busted through a USU hole for a 45-yard scamper to the USU 10. To the credit of the Aggies, the Rebels still only got a field goal out of it, but whittled the Aggie lead to one.

Forcing USU to punt, the Rebels made contact with the end zone for the first time on the night in their next march downfield, which began at their

own 20. A Dixon pass to wideout Ryan Wolfe for 35 yards and another to Aaron Straiten for 26 more set up a 15-yard run by Dixon for a touchdown and the lead.

Robinson only took the following kick 23 yards, and USU went four-and-out.

Dixon fumbled on the next drive, giving USU the ball at the Rebel 34. After two short passes by Jackson and a 15-yard facemask penalty, the Aggies quickly found themselves on the Rebel 11. Jackson eventually quarterback sneaked for a touchdown.

Ulinksi then missed the point after.

Although Rodriguez then did it again with the next kick return as he ran 35 yards to put UNLV at its own 46, the Aggie defense held strong and allowed only five yards before UNLV punted and landed the ball on the USU one-yard line.

The Aggies gained two yards on three plays.

Jackson put up a 41-yard punt from the back of the end zone, and UNLV ended up with the ball on the Aggie 36.

Four plays into the Rebel drive, UNLV running back Frank Summers took the ball 11 yards for the game-winning score.

Even with the loss, Guy still remained positive in outlook of the upcoming games.

“I think we’re gonna be a team that grinds it out and have a defense that doesn’t give up big plays,” Guy said.

The Aggies travel to Laramie, Wyo., next Saturday to take on another Mountain West opponent in the Wyoming Cowboys.

-samuel.hislop@aggiemail.usu.edu

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By DAVID BAKER assistant sports editor

Making a fitting sequel is tough to do.

People expect the second to be as good as the first, especially when the first was a blockbuster.

They may not be making movies, but Utah State cross country will attempt to produce a fitting sequel to a blockbuster 2006 season that saw the men’s and women’s teams capture Western Athletic Conference championships.

But the team doesn’t see those expectations, only goals.

“I’m not sure that I have preset expectations, but our goal is we’d like to repeat as the conference champions,” Head Coach Gregg Gensel said. “That’s easy to say, but it may be hard to do ... Everybody’s trying to win, and we’re trying this year to defend our titles. And we’re not just going to say, ‘Here, take the title. It’s your turn.’

They’re going to have to earn it.”

The Aggies will have a few things on their side as they try to defend their WAC titles.

Home-field advantage. The 2007 WAC Championships will be held in Cache Valley, right in the Aggies’ backyard.

Experience.

Although Utah State lost some important cogs from last year — Vance and Jennifer Twitchell spring to mind — they also return four firstteam All-WAC selections, all Top-10 finishers at the championships last fall.

For the men, those include senior Ben Kessen and junior Seth Wold. Kessen was the fourth-place finisher at last year’s WAC Championships, while Wold was fifth.

“On the men’s side, I think we’re the team to beat, but we can’t just go in there thinking we’re going to win. We’ve got to run and we’ve got to run well,” Gensel said. “... I would like to think that we have a better team than we had last year, and, as you know, we won the conference championship last year.”

Other important pieces for the Aggie men will be sophomore Jared Glenn and the return of sophomore Steve Strickland, who is coming off a two-year LDS Church mission, Gensel said.

JARED GLENN (LEFT) AND HEATH WING (RIGHT) run near First Dam for practice

Wednesday.

The Aggie men’s and women’s teams open up the cross country season at 2 p.m. today at the American West Heritage Center. NOELLE BERLAGE photo

For the women, seniors Stacie (Lifferth) Dorius and Amy Egan return from All-WAC seasons that saw Dorius finish fifth and Egan seventh at the WAC Championships. Junior Caroline Berry is another important holdover for the Aggie women, Gensel said.

Gensel said to also watch for junior Alison Taylor and Kim Quinn — a freshman out of Bingham High School in South Jordan, Utah — to help out on the lady Aggies.

The Utah State women may be up against some tough competition in their title defense.

He said Idaho and Nevada should be tougher in ‘07.

“The nice thing about our conference on the women’s side, you can run your best race and be fourth,” Gensel said. “But I like that competition, I like that competitiveness.”

Much of the talk about the Aggies’ competition is just speculation at this point. Gensel said he wouldn’t have a good idea about other WAC teams until they run their first race, which for most schools will happen this weekend.

USU is no different. The Aggies open their season at 2 p.m. today at the American West Heritage Center. Four men’s teams and

five women’s teams will test out the WAC Championship course, including WAC competition Idaho, and in-state schools Weber State University, the University of Utah and Utah Valley University.

Gensel said he is looking to use this first race to feel his team out.

“I just want to know where everybody is at and how they are doing,” he said. “So, if we don’t win the meet, I’m OK with that. It’s the end of October and in November that’s the most important meets for us.”

The meets Gensel is referencing are the WAC Championships Oct. 27 in Logan and the NCAA Mountain Regionals on Nov. 11 in Ogden, Utah.

“Our goal when we got into the WAC was to be the team at our school who won the first WAC championship,” Gensel said. “We did that with our (men’s) cross country team two years ago, and then last year, our women’s team was the first women’s team to win a championship. I’m not going to win every championship, but I’m certainly going to go out on the field trying to do that.”

- da.bake@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Three aggies attempt to block a hit by a teammate in drills at practice on Wednesday in the Spectrum. Utah State volleyball opens against Texas A&M University today at the Holiday Inn Classic hosted by Montana State University. TYLER LARSON photo

Ags net tauted recruiting class

By G. CHRISTOPHER TERRY staff writer

On the heels of a disappointing 13-19 year, women’s volleyball Head Coach Grayson DuBose and Assistant Coach Shawn Olmstead went looking for new talent to help Utah State improve on its sixth-place showing in the Western Athletic Conference.

“Olmstead is our recruiting coordinator and my assistant coach,” DuBose said, “and that guy has done a wonderful job finding athletes that can help us compete in the WAC.” What they unearthed is the second-ranked recruiting class in the WAC. Six high school players, one four-year transfer and two junior college transfers make up the class, and along with

redshirt junior Melissa Osterloh, give DuBose 10 newcomers.

DuBose called the infusion of talent “unique” in the history of USU volleyball, saying, “There have been some really nice athletes that played volleyball here.

It was kind of nice to put six of them together in one class.”

DuBose said the greater depth of this year’s team is already helping in practice situations.

“The biggest thing they have allowed us to do is compete at a pretty high level in practice because we’ve been able to have depth at every position. When a kid gets injured, we can plug someone else in and we don’t really lose a step,” he said.

One of the new freshman players is Chelsea Fowles, who will be competing with returning letter-winners Heather Hillier and Dani Schaap for playing time as

a setter. In high school, Fowles was named first-team all-league as a junior and senior at San Benito in California.

“I really hope to get all-freshman team if I have the chance,” Fowles said. “There’s a ton of position-specific things I need to work on, and I just hope to focus on those this season. There’s a lot of things that I hear over and over during practice because I’m a setter, just helping out my hitters more and stuff like that.”

One of the hitters Fowles will be playing alongside is Amanda Nielson, probably USU’s best returning player.

“Amanda Nielson is probably the most prominent returning starter we have,” DuBose said.

Nielson was second-team All-

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Jacoby Jones WR • Texans Rangy, very athletic, can use speed and frame to get open and can high point the ball. Selected in third round, No. 73 overall.

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While the offense got better, the defense is the strong suit, ranked No. 2 in the AFC Conference in points allowed per game last season. Winner of three of four Super Bowls between the 2001-2004 seasons, New England is considered a favorite to get another Super Bowl ring.

Darrelle Revis CB-PR • Jets Won 2006 Jim Thorpe award (nation’s top defensive back); made successful move to right CB from the left side prior to his final campaign.

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DETROIT (AP) — Rookie Trent Edwards directed a 90-yard drive that set up a tiebreaking field goal with 1:46 left, and Buffalo recovered a fumble on the ensuing kickoff.

Reserve running back Fred Jackson pulled Buffalo within three with a 5-yard run early in the third quarter.

The plodding game was won by the Bills (2-2) as Edwards drove them downfield with some clutch passes on third downs.

Kevin Kasper brought the final kickoff out of the middle of the end zone while teammate Brian Calhoun tried to stop him and turned over the ball for Detroit (2-2).

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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Eli Manning had another solid tuneup for the regular season, even if it was brief. Tom Brady didn’t need one.

Manning led a 16-play touchdown drive on the opening series, then went to the sideline with most of the New York Giants’ other starters in the Patriots 27-20 exhibition win Thursday night.

The Giants (1-3) got the ball first and scored on a 1-yard run by Brandon Jacobs. Manning was 5-for-8 for 58 yards on the drive, including four first-down passes to Jeremy Shockey.

Backup Jared Lorenzen was sacked seven times and went 10-for-16 for 53 yards.

Matt Cassell started for the Patriots (2-2) and led two scoring drives, ending in Stephen Gostkowski’s 37-yard field goal and Heath Evans’ 1-yard touchdown run that gave them the lead for good, 10-7.

Cassell went 10-for-14 for 99 yards on three series before being replaced by 43-year-old Vinny Testaverde.

With the score 20-13, Matt Gutierrez threw a 12-yard scoring pass to Bam Childress with 2:54 left before Ryan Grant scored on a 1-yard run with 49 seconds to go.

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Jaguars had 30 players, including Byron Leftwich, who were inactive or rested. But backup quarterback David Garrard was effective and Jacksonville rallied to beat Washington.

Jason Campbell returned to the starting lineup after missing a game with a bruised left knee, completing 5 of 5 passes for 54 yards and his first touchdown of the preseason.

Mark Brunell, trying to old off Todd Collins for the No. 2 job, was 5-of-6 for 47 yards and a touchdown for the Redskins (2-2). Collins did not play.

Third-team quarterback Quinn Gray, who could be cut on Saturday, was 17-of-22 for 172 yards and two touchdowns for the Jaguars (3-1).

Saints 7, Dolphins 0 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Rookie Pierre Thomas may have played himself into an NFL roster spot. The former Illinois running back rushed 16 times for 81 yards and the only touchdown, had two catches for 47 yards and added a decent kickoff return. Fellow rookie Antonio Pittman rushed for 77 yards for New Orleans (3-2).

Rookie John Beck had trouble getting the offense going for Miami (2-2).

He was 8-of-15 for 63 yards and two interceptions and was sacked four times. Saints safety Chris Reis had two interceptions.

Vikings 23, Cowboys 14 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Brooks Bollinger shrugged off a shaky performance in Seattle by throwing for 109 yards and a touchdown in just under two quarters of Minnesota’s victory over the Cowboys.

Matt Moore was also impressive for Dallas (2-2) after fumbling the exchange on his second snap of the game, completing nine of his first 10 passes and finishing with 94 yards and a touchdown.

Ryan Longwell kicked three field goals for the Vikings (2-2).

Kelly Holcomb, acquired by the Vikings in a trade with Philadelphia, went 5-for-8 for 59 yards.

Rams 10, Chiefs 3 ST. LOUIS (AP) — Larry Johnson carried three times for 12 yards in his first action since ending his holdout, but the Chiefs’ offense struggled again in a loss to the Rams.

Third string quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick threw a 20-yard touchdown pass to Marques Hagans in the third quarter to give the Rams (2-2) a 10-0 lead. Hagans, battling for an extra receiving spot, had four catches.

The Chiefs (0-4) were held to a 40yard field goal by Justin Medlock late in the fourth quarter.

Jets 13, Eagles 11 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Mike Nugent kicked a 35-yard field goal as time expired, lifting the Jets over the Eagles in a game that quarterbacks Donovan McNabb and Chad Pennington sat out.

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Lady Ags open season on the road

By Seth R. Hawkins editor in chief For the second straight season, the Utah State soccer team will begin nonconference season play on the road, with matches against Texas State, Friday at 6 p.m. and Texas Christian University, Sunday, Sept. 2, at noon.

Armed with a new style of play in the attack, the Aggies look to claim their first win of the season against a TSU squad they have never played before.

This will also mark the first time the Aggies have opened season play under the hot summer sun of Texas.

“I think in both of the games we’re certainly going to have to adjust to the conditions in each place,” USU Head Coach Heather Cairns said. “It’s going to be hot and humid, and we’re not going to be used to the humidity. Both of the teams are going to be good solid teams for us.”

Last season, Texas State finished with a 7-13-2 record and nearly reclaimed their 2005 Southland Conference title but fell 1-0 against NcNeese State in the Southland Conference title game, finishing third in the conference.

The TSU Bobcats return just five starters, including sophomore forward Lindsay Tippet, the secondleading scorer for the Bobcats last season with 45 shots and five goals. Tippet will be joined up top

by Nicole Kinard, who tabbed three goals and two assists last season.

Defensively the Bobcats are young. Last season the defense allowed 156 shots on goal, 48 of which resulted in goals. The goaltender position is a potential weak spot for TSU, as both of last season’s goaltenders graduated. This season the goaltender

position will be fought over by a freshman and a sophomore.

But inexperience does not necessarily mean the Bobcats will be an easy win.

“They’re going to be a very blue-collar team, a very physical team,” Cairns said. “They’ve been on the verge of winning seasons. They’re in the upper part of their conference.”

Following Friday’s match against TSU, the Aggies will travel north more than 200 miles to face TCU. The Horned Frogs definitely don’t have it easy as they will have faced two Top 25 teams before taking on the Aggies. On Saturday, Aug. 25, TCU tied No. 23 Oklahoma State 0-0. The Horned Frogs next take on No. 9 Texas on Friday.

TCU returns eight starters from the 2006 season, including its second-leading scorer, midfielder Lauren Pope, who missed the last 11 games of the season with an injury. Last season TCU posted a 68-4 record in the extremely competitive Mountain West Conference, which is dominated by rival schools Brigham Young University and University of Utah.

Even though TCU might not be as good as BYU, Cairns said the MWC “is pretty strong head to toe.”

The Aggies will be led by senior forward Dana Peart, who took six shots on goal in USU’s exhibition game against Dixie State, and freshman forward Lauren Hansen, who scored the lone goal for the Aggies against the Rebels.

“We’re really going to have to rally behind that road warrior mentality to come away with two wins,” Cairns said. “We’ve done so much work on our system. We’re itching to test it against somebody else. We’re ready to test it for real.”

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USA cruises to berth in FIBA semis LAS VEGAS (AP) — A new and improved U.S. team was too good for Argentina’s B team.

Kobe Bryant scored 27 points — 15 in the first quarter ­— and the United States cruised into the semifinals of the FIBA Americas tournament as the No. 1 seed by beating Argentina 91-76 Thursday night.

The Americans took control early and were never threatened in the matchup with the defending Olympic gold medalists, who also came in undefeated despite playing this qualifying tournament without the core of their team.

Carmelo Anthony added 18 points and LeBron James had 15 for the Americans, who will face Puerto Rico in one of Saturday’s semifinal games.

A victory there gives them a berth in the 2008 Olympics.

That seems likely for a U.S. team (8-0) that had overwhelmed its opponents before playing their toughest foe in the finale of round-robin play.

The Americans averaged 117.6 points while beating their first seven opponents by 42.7 per game, not too far from the 121.2 points and 51.5 victory margin averaged by Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and the rest of the Dream Team in the Olympics 15 years ago.

“I think the biggest compliment I saw yesterday was that this team was compared to the ‘92 team,” Jason Kidd said Wednesday. “And if you look back at all the other Dream Teams, that’s never happened. And that’s the biggest compliment that (we) can take because that was the best team ever assembled. So when you start seeing that, that means that we’re doing something right.”

While this game was closer, it wasn’t much harder. Bryant hit his first three shots to get the Americans off to a quick start, and they led by as many as 25 points in a game that was never in doubt after the opening minutes.

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Weber State, out of the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly I-AA) Big Sky Conference, got on the board with 3:40 left in the third quarter when Jimmy Barnes hit Bryant Eteuati with a 21yard touchdown pass to make it 56-7.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Brian Brohm threw for 375 yards and four touchdowns and the Cardinals sparkled in coach Steve Kragthorpe’s debut.

Brohm led Louisville (1-0) to touchdowns on each of the Cardinals’ first eight drives, guiding an attack that looked awfully similar to the wide-open system that former coach Bobby Petrino used to lead the Cardinals to national prominence.

Louisville rolled up 655 yards of total offense, and worked with a stunning efficiency.

The Cardinals averaged a touchdown once every four plays in the first half, and their longest scoring drive with the starters in took all of 2:58.

Brohm, who decided to return for his senior year rather than enter the NFL Draft last spring, completed 16 of 21 passes, most of them to wide-open receivers who met little resistance against a team that features 72 underclassmen.

Harry Douglas caught five passes for 151 yards and two touchdowns, the first on Louisville’s first play from scrimmage in the first half, the other on Louisville’s first play from scrimmage in the second half.

By the time Brohm put a towel over his shoulder 20 seconds into the second half, the Cardinals led 56-10. It didn’t get much better for the Racers (0-1), a member of the Football Championship Division, formerly Division I-AA.

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No. 16 Rutgers 38, Buffalo 3 PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — Ray Rice rushed for 184 yards and three touchdowns, Tiquan Underwood had 10 catches for a school-record 248 yards and Mike Teel passed for a career-best 328 yards as the Scarlet Knights opened their most anticipated season.

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WAC last season. Osterloh, who DuBose said did “a real nice job in the summer,” should also figure heavily in the team’s outside hitter plans.

It is the hitters Dubose is most focused on as he tries to guide his team to the top of the WAC. “We need to improve our kills per game; that was one of the biggest things that jumped out at me,” DuBose said. “We were the third best blocking team in our conference last year behind New Mexico State and Hawaii, so we felt that our blocking system and our block was really good. The area where we lacked was kills per game, so we’re trying to increase that. We have some nice outside hitters: Osterloh, Amanda, Kris Hymas is a transfer from Salt Lake Community College and she’s a really nice volleyball player.”

New assistant coach The 10 players are not the only newcomers to second-year coach DuBose’s program. Former Aggie volleyball player Taubi Neves joins the coaching staff. Neves graduated from USU in 2004 with a degree in physical education/prephysical therapy.

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LSU, Louisville and Rutgers notch wins in season openers STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Craig Steltz had three of LSU’s six interceptions of Mississippi State quarterback Michael Henig and the secondranked Tigers manhandled the Bulldogs again in a 45-0 victory Thursday night.

LSU’s new starting quarterback Matt Flynn and new offensive coordinator Gary Crowton struggled to find a rhythm early, but they received plenty of help from Henig, who set a school record by throwing six picks.

It was LSU’s eighth straight win overall and eighth straight in the series with the Bulldogs.

Since Mississippi State’s last win in 1999, LSU has outscored the Bulldogs 340-81, including three shutouts by 42 or more points.

Mississippi State has lost 12 straight games to Top 10 opponents and 11 of its last 13 home games.

LSU’s Steltz, Curtis Taylor, Jonathan Zenon and Danny McCray had interceptions in the first half and Steltz added two more in the second half. The Tigers needed the help as a stout Bulldogs defense held them scoreless on every drive but one that wasn’t set up by a turnover.

Henig also fumbled the snap on a fourth-and-1 attempt after he led the team on a nine-play drive in the first quarter that put the Bulldogs at the Tigers 36. It was one of only two serious forays into LSU territory.

Henig tied the school record for interceptions in a game that had stood since 1949 before giving way to freshman Wesley Carroll midway through the fourth quarter. It was Henig’s fifth multipleinterception game in 10 career starts and the most picks he’s thrown since giving away three passes against Alabama on Nov. 5, 2005, as a freshman.

While Henig struggled, Flynn gained confidence as the game progressed. After completing 3 of 7 passes for 23 yards in the first quarter, JaMarcus Russell’s replacement zeroed in on Early Doucet. The fifth-year senior finished with 128 yards on 12 of 19 passing with two touchdowns and no turnovers in his second career start. That included an 11-yard touchdown to Doucet, who had nine catches for 78 yards.

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BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Ian Johnson ran for 129 yards and three touchdowns and Taylor Tharp was steady in his first start at quarterback, guiding Boise State past Weber State 56-7 on Thursday in the season opener for both teams.

Coming off an undefeated season, the Broncos ran their winning streak to 14 games — the longest in major college football — and even dipped into the bag of tricks that helped them upset Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl last season.

Wide receiver Vinny Perretta, who threw for a score in the Fiesta Bowl, lined up at quarterback on third-and goal from the 7, and ran up the middle for the first score of the game.

Boise State took a 49-0 lead into halftime, scoring touchdowns on their first seven possessions and getting stopped on fourth-and-goal from the 1 on their eighth drive with the second quarter winding down.

The overmatched Wildcats picked up just two first downs in the first half, fumbling the ball away on their next play on both occasions.

Boise State has now won 52 of its last 54 games on its home blue turf.

Tharp, a senior, looked poised, smart and tough, throwing the ball away when necessary and hanging in the pocket to deliver a 53-yard touchdown pass to Titus Young just before getting drilled.

Tharp was slow getting up after the hit, and Boise State coach Chris Petersen checked on him with a look of concern as Tharp walked off the field.

But Tharp, replacing Jared Zabransky, directed five more touchdown drives before the half for the defending Western Athletic Conference champions.

Tharp directed another touchdown drive to start the second half, making it 56-0 with 10:49 left in the third quarter before leaving the game. He finished 14 of 19 passes for 184 yards and a touchdown.

Johnson, who scored 25 touchdowns last season to led major college football, sat out the second

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She will handle travel coordination, academic progress and equipment for the team.

“Taubi Neves is a former player recommended to me by my former head coach, a guy named Tom Peterson,” DuBose said. “She’s a great worker, and she’s wonderful to have in the gym. She’s really organized, which helps both Shawn (Olmstead) and myself out a little bit.”

Looking ahead at the schedule, DuBose said, “We’re going to play New Mexico State and we’re going to play Hawaii, and those are really good volleyball teams. We play Utah here at home, and that’s always a nice rivalry match for us.”

USU plays at NMSU on Sept. 20, then hosts the southern Aggies on Oct. 4. The Rainbow Wahine will visit the Spectrum on Oct. 15. The Aggies host the rival Utes Oct. 30 in a nonconference game.

The last regular season game of the year before the WAC tournament in Las Cruces, N.M., will be at Hawaii on Nov. 11.

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Relief groups say Peru still badly needs aid two weeks after quake LIMA, Peru (AP) – Relief officials urgently appealed for more aid Thursday for earthquake survivors along Peru’s shattered southern coast.

Medical help, blankets and tents top the list, along with food, water and latrines.

Two weeks after the devastating quake, survivors are huddling in cardboard shelters in desperate, unhygienic conditions, said Doctors Without Borders spokesman Francois Dumont, speaking from the town of Guadalupe.

“We found the town completely destroyed,” Dumont told The Associated Press. “In makeshift shelters made of cardboard and bed sheets in front of their destroyed houses, families are living in cold and unhygienic conditions. They have no latrines, no drinking water and no real space to bathe.”

“It’s like one day after the quake,” said Dumont, whose group has 35 people operating mobile clinics and offering psychological counseling in the disaster zone.

The magnitude 8 earthquake on Aug. 15 leveled most of Pisco, a port city 125 miles southeast of Lima, killing at least 519 people, injuring 1,366 and destroying 40,000 homes. At least 40 other people remain missing, said Alberto Visual, a director in Peru’s civil defense agency.

Despite substantial help initially from Latin America, Europe, Japan and the United States, some 200,000 people still need still need help to save their lives, said Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman for the U.N.’s humanitarian affairs office, which has appealed for US$37 million more in donations.

The town of Cabeza del Toro is one of many where survivors are in dire need of help, said Mar Mora, an adviser to the U.N. World Food Program.

“All the houses are completely down, many of them broken, or many of them have disappeared. There are problems with water as well,” Mora said. “They have not received absolutely anything until now and they are requesting medical services, tents, food, and special assistance for children.”

Peru estimates the cost of rebuilding these coastal towns to be US$220 million. Other estimates run much higher.

President Alan Garcia also has promised financial aid and jobs to quake survivors.

Garcia said help was reaching 95 percent of victims.

Last week, he noted that elec-

Earthquake survivors receive supplies from a Spanish rescue team in Pisco, Peru. Relief officials urgently appealed for more aid for survivors of a magnitude 8 earthquake that shattered cities along Peru’s southern coast, saying people still badly need blankets, tents and medical help. AP Photo

tricity had been restored to 90 percent of the city of Ica and 60 percent of Chincha.

But U.N. officials blame poor organization and coordination for a patchwork aid response, especially in rural areas. Trucks carrying aid have been spotted far from the disaster zone, raising fears of stolen donations, according to local media reports.

And politicians are feuding over the relief effort. Federal lawmakers created a rebuilding fund Tuesday, but the president of the Ica province, Romulo Triveno, created a parallel fund and blasted the central government’s effort as a violation of regional autonomy.

The quake also badly damaged at least 173 churches, monuments and historic buildings, with about one-third completely destroyed, said the director of the National Culture Institute, Cecilia Bakula.

Experts say it could have been much worse if the quake had struck closer to Lima, a metropolis of 8 million where many homes are built of adobe on sandy soil, just like the ones that crumbled in Pisco. Many of

Lima’s adobe buildings rise five stories tall, with walls reinforced with nothing more than “quincha,” thick reeds mixed with mud.

Senator arrested WASHINGTON (AP) — The officer who arrested Sen. Larry Craig in a police undercover operation at an airport men’s room accused the senator of lying to him during an interrogation afterward, according to an audiotape of the arrest.

On the tape, released Thursday by the Minneapolis Airport Police, the Idaho Republican senator, in turn, accuses the officer of soliciting him for sex.

“I’m not gay. I don’t do these kinds of things,” Craig told Sgt. Dave Karsnia minutes after the two men met in a men’s room at the airport on June 11.

“You shouldn’t be out to entrap people,” Craig told the officer. “I don’t want you to take me to jail.”

Karsnia replied that Craig wouldn’t be going to jail as long as he cooperates.

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says that we need to think through all alternatives to be prepared for all outcomes in a given situation. This is the point. We should focus our To the editor: collective information process Dr. Atul Gawande’s visit as ing and organizational develpart of USU’s Connections opment efforts on such a goal. program was timely and ben- If USU will lead in such an eficial. He focused on what effort to eliminate externalities is likely the most challenging and target wanted outcomes in issue of our time: Collaborating organizations, we will not have amid complexity within large to worry about our rankings. organizations and networks. We will be number one.

We collaborate poorly even Kenneth Tingey with regard to simple tasks - a condition abetted by computerized systems that push arcane solutions on us rather than reflect our knowledge, gained from study and experience. As a result, we as a peo- To the editor: ple have very low expectations from our organizations.

Did my heart good to see so Rather than basking in the many USU students packed in joy of McGregor’s Theory Y, the Ballroom breaking the law where we are all assumed to and being bold enough to pubbe good and competent, we lish the photographic evidence live in a Dilbert-oriented men- on the front page of the paper! tality under Theory X, where ...reminds me of the old days. we are assumed to be bad and incompetent. Dr. Gawande Kathryn Pannell

Breaking the law boldly

Writer warns to ‘be careful’ To the editor: Apparently, we have another gay Republican politician out there. This time, it’s a senator from Idaho caught messing around in an airport bathroom.

I’ve always thought Orrin Hatch wears makeup and Bob Bennett used to own a paint company, so he was probably dealing with a lot of interior decorators.

All I’m saying is be careful who you vote for, because it might just be a gay man.

Dave Axford

Cyclists need to be cautious To the editor: Kudos to the author of “Ride Bikes Responsibly” in

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Getting sold by those we trust

he older woman who had just let me in her door after less than five minutes of knowing me left me alone in her kitchen to sip on the Pepsi she had offered. She searched her house, without much concern for me, looking for the contract she signed two months ago for a security system she was still afraid to use.

“Well, I can’t remember the name of the company who sold it to me…,” I always found it ironic: being afraid to use something designed to make you feel more secure. I also began fearing for this woman’s children. I seem to remember my mother counseling me not to sign anything without reading the fine print. What are her adult children doing with an example like hers?

Yes, my friends, I am a door to door salesman. Rather, I was over the summer. I was threatened, sworn at, offered drugs (for the first time in my life), treated subhumanly and, more than a few times, I actually feared for my safety.

Unable to find the agreement with the nameless company, she came back and sat down at the table with me. I asked a few questions to see if she might qualify for us to do business for both of our benefits. I then realized something: She got sold. She got sold in the true sense of the word. Without knowing what she was getting herself into, she signed on the dotted line.

How often does the public buy into something or someone they haven’t really looked into? Maybe that’s the American dream: getting people to buy into something – good or bad. The dream or nightmare must depend on who is whispering into our ears day or night.

The night I met a woman who was “sold” something by

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he first week of school can be extremely intimidating. New roommates, new jobs, new classes and new professors require considerable adjustment. Teachers hand out syllabuses and attempt to overwhelm students with the projected heavy workload over the semester. Even if professors seem a little intimidating, at least the fear of a professor being a pedophile, crack-addict or homicidal maniac can be minimized thanks to background checks being instituted by the state.

A new bill has been passed by the state of Utah that requires new employees at universities to undergo background checks if there is a reasonable cause for concern. This is a great move by the state to protect the safety and privacy of students.

The safety of college campuses around the country have been called into question many times due to incidents such as the Virginia Tech massacre. While horrible tragedies like that cannot easily be avoided, keeping students safe from professors with questionable pasts is easily avoidable and necessary.

Professors have unique relationships with students, often working in close proximity with them.

Students deserve the right to feel safe and secure while working with these professors. While a background check cannot prevent a shameful act from occurring, it can weed out potential dangers. The university owes it to the students to protect them and the fact that the university and state are This isn’t to say every professor is a sex fiend in hiding. Most professors, like most people, are generally good people with no intent to injure students but universities can never be too careful.

Perhaps if more universities across the country instituted tougher screening policies, including the all-too-necessary background check, teachers with questionable goals would not sneak through.

A classic instance of a professor working at a university that should not have, occurred at Brigham Young University. Frank Abagnale Jr., one of the most well-known American con-men, worked at BYU as a teachers assistant, teaching sociology in the 1960s. He faked his credentials and the school bought into the con. Why should they worry about someone trying to fool them?

While background checks at the time were not what they are now, even a simple call to the university Abagnale claimed he received a degree from, could have weeded out a professor that was a danger to students. While Abagnale never did anything wrong to the students he taught, he was still teaching without a degree.

Since the ‘60s, background checks have become more complex, accurate and telling. They are simple to perform and with a small fee can tell much about a person.

We applaud our state legislators for unanimously pushing this measure through and urge university officials to carefully and thoroughly perform background checks on potential new employees.

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Letters: bike responsibly -continued from page 18 Wednesday’s issue.

As a short-haul truck driver in the summer months I’ve had one or two close calls with cyclists. As a pedestrian during the school year, I’ve had a few more. Probably all of these could have been avoided if the riders had known and obeyed state laws.

A quick Google search is all it takes to find the laws

that apply to cyclists in any given state. I think you owe it to yourself and those you share the road, or sidewalk, with to learn what those are.

My thanks to the responsible cyclists, and my apologies for having let few individuals taint my view of the cycling community.

Cody Gochnour

Trust: watch who you vote for -continued from page 3 someone she couldn’t even remember, our continuing scene of political elections came to mind. There are plenty of “salespeople” involved in our elections. Campaign managers, pollsters, political advisers and, of course, the politicians themselves. Part of me is OK with that. After all, I think I understand the process of effective communication and relaying things to a mass audience. Most of the time, however, we take what we’re given like a baby’s first bite of smashed carrots: regrettably, but we take it.

Door-to-door salesmen and, I venture to say, even public leaders have an interesting string to play on. Both groups must promote an often flawed agenda with integrity – but not too honest too fast because it might scare the listener out of participating. It’s a unique challenge. I tried to treat people the right way, but I can never forget the time a kid just a few years older than me looked at me sideways through a screen door with an almost frightened look on his face. I think he was prepared for me to jump through the door; tie him up; take his iPod, DVD collections of “Heroes” and “The Office”; and leave enough time to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for the road. I think I’d leave dirty dishes on the counter just to spite him.

Before letting myself out, I briefly showed the woman how to use her home alarm. It took considerable effort and skill to politely get out of her home. She was content to chat with anyone who came through the door, even the bald guy (me) who knocked on her door right before dark. Thinking about it now, that may be the reason someone before me gave her a security system. She just wanted to feel important and valued by talking to someone.

Feeling like you’re being listened to brings on strong emotions.

This wasn’t the first time she had purchased something from a door-to-door person without fully understanding it.

Funny how for the past four months I worked in one of the most despised professions, and for the next four months I’ll be working with another group of people – politicians – who, due to the demands of a large democracy, have become a subculture of professional salespeople. They don’t have to sell a product.

They try to sell themselves in order to make a difference in the world. The merits of a political candidate are not always seen if the salesmanship, if you will, of the competitor knocks him out of the running.

Please don’t get me wrong – I actually like most elected officials because I believe they do a lot of unappreciated work behind the scenes (not just behind closed doors as some people believe). But I wonder how many of us, the “non-politicians”, really understand what we’re getting ourselves into when we vote for, contribute money to or otherwise support a local or national leader. Are we getting “sold” something we don’t really understand or appreciate? If that lonely old woman could let me into her home when she was all alone and offer me a drink without really knowing me, do you think our voters are really making educated decisions?

The dire situation of our society is that political candidates seem to need to sell themselves more than their stance on the issues.

Being unable to remember the name of a door-to-door company selling anything seems a trivial thing. But, can you remember who you voted for in the last election besides the president, governor or state official who happens to be your distant relative? To be honest, I can’t. Attorney general? School board members? I can’t remember the incumbents’ names half of the time let alone the people running against them. It’s a good thing those “other” positions just aren’t that important. Oh, wait…maybe they are.

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