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Sting brings legality of booting into question By SETH R. HAWKINS editor in chief
Two escaped convicts are captured in Wyoming. Gallegos was shot in the stomach and is currently in the University of Utah Hospital.
Campus News
Self-taught artist Irving Norman is being featured on campus. Norman’s widow spoke to students Friday. Page 3
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The battle over booting between university students and Cache Auto Booting wages on, this time with a new twist. Three USU students, led by Brady Newswander, junior in accounting, parked their vehicles in parking-permit-only lots, Wednesday, Sept. 26, to intentionally get booted. This was all part of an operation Newswander calls “Serpent Sting,” where these students would get booted so they could have legal grounds to press charges against Cache Auto Booting for what Newswander said he believes is a violation of a Logan City ordinance. Newswander said after researching the city ordinance regarding booting, he believes Cache Auto Booting has been illegally booting students since May because signs in 14 parking lots in Logan do not comply with sign specifications outlined in Ordinance 0716. “I’m personally not against booting, and I’m not against (the owner of Cache Auto Booting),” Newswander said. “I’ve met some of his subcontractors, and they’re very nice. I’m against the concept that (Cache Auto Booting) has been unlawful for almost a decade and doesn’t care. I would much rather see a new booting company born that is A closer look at issues completely affecting USU lawful.” Under Ordinance No. 07-16 C.1, the city code states that “at a minimum, signage shall: i. Provide sufficient information to assist vehicle owners in the prompt recovery of any vehicle booted; ii. Be at least 12 inches by 18 inches in size and have a reflective background. iii. Be placed at all entrances to the parking lot and be clearly visible.” Newswander said Cache Auto Booting complies with almost all aspects of the code except for the detail of reflective background. Newswander said his problem with
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USU students take to flight in aviation technology program. Page 5
Sports The losing streak continues for the USU football team as it loses its 10th straight game. Page 15
Opinion “It’s also the right of any citizen to make sure the law is being adhered to. So even if Brady Newswander’s complaints are ‘nit-picking,’ he is well within reason to demand the signs to be in compliance.” Page 10
-See STING, page 4
Going barefoot so they don’t have to feet first, a shoe drive sponsored by Aggies for Africa, is being held until Friday. The drive included Barefoot Friday, an event where the club asked students to donate their shoes to the people of Zambia and walk barefoot. Aggies for Africa said nearly 500 pairs of shoes have been donated already. Photo courtesy of Allie Gardner
pile,” he said. “It was awesome.” Whittier said a student who was wearing brand new Chacos willingly gave them up for the cause after talking to club members about their mission. Coupling Barefoot Friday with the shoe drive was the idea of one group member as the club worked to come up with a way to attract a lot of attention. According to members of the club, it worked. Allie Gardner, junior and member of Aggies for Africa, said her bare feet drew a lot of looks. Having recently returned from working in Zambia, Gardner said she is used to having people stare at her because she is white. On Friday, however, Gardner was attracting attention for her bare feet. She said many people approached her, inquiring about her absence of shoes. Those conversations, Gardner said, were perhaps the greatest thing to come from Barefoot Friday, aside from the many donations. Aggies for Africa is working with Mothers Without Borders to donate the shoes. Every year, Mothers Without Borders sends shipments of various supplies to Africa. Early next year, the shoes donated in the drive will be sent to Zambia. Until they are sent, Gardner said the shoes will be stored in a warehouse in Orem.
By ARIE KIRK news editor
Some students opted to go barefoot Friday, getting a small taste of how many people all over Africa live every day. The event, Barefoot Friday, part of Feet First, was sponsored by Aggies for Africa to raise awareness of shoeless people in Africa and to generate donations from students. Coy Whittier, junior and president of Aggies for Africa, said he was “blown away” by student response. Feet First, which continues through Friday, has already received nearly 500 pairs of shoes. Whittier said he suspects much more will be given throughout the week. Boxes for donations are located in the Taggart Student Center, Old Main and the Merrill-Cazier Library. Aggies for Africa has also had a table outside of the TSC. During Barefoot Friday, Whittier said some students who saw the barefooted club members sitting at the table would ask what they were doing and, upon hearing the idea behind sacrificing shoes for a day, would take off their shoes without hesitation and add them to the collection. “It was unbelievable. It was quite a feat. There was way more than expected. Some would take shoes right off of their feet and put them in the
-See FEET FIRST, page 3
Gunmen storm Spectrum in mock disaster By HOLLY WARDLE-VENTURA staff writer A mock disaster held Saturday in the Spectrum gave insight to law enforcement of what to expect if a serious emergency were to take place on campus. An actual call was placed at the time of the incident to alert police and begin the mock disaster, which was put together by USU Emergency Manager Judy Crockett and was planned throughout the summer. “At 10:22 we received reports of a shooting during a gymnastics meet,” said Steve Mecham, unified commander of the USU Police. “We received another report of hostages. Logan City
S.W.A.T. police officers responded and apprehended four suspects.” In the scenario, four gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons at a gymnastics meet and planted two bombs made of chlorine inside the Spectrum. One of the bombs went off, expelling chlorine gas into the air that caused the victims to be contaminated. As part of the drill, students and Cache Valley residents volunteered time to play victims. Complete with make-up, artificial wounds and instruction cards around their necks, the victims acted out their symptoms after the gunmen stormed the Spectrum. Some victims were wounded, while others were instructed to scream and run. Four victims were “killed” in the shooting.
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During saturday’s mock disaster, four gunmen planted two bombs and opened fire in the Spectrum during a gymnastics meet. The drill was held to give emergency response teams and law enforcement practice in responding to emergencies. PATRICK ODEN photos
Liz Kefauber, who is on the CERT team, was inside the Spectrum during the attack. “Even though you know it was a drill, when the guy came screaming in your face it was really scary,” she said. Because law enforcement wanted to ensure the scenario was an accurate way of testing the emergency response system, they played out the drill in real time with accurate tools, safety devices and protective gear. Victims were actually placed in levels of injury – red, yellow or green – and then transported by ambulance or bus to the hospital. Mark Meaker, fire chief of Logan City, said after Sept. 11, 2001, there needs to be preparation among the response teams in case of a catastrophic event. “We want our exercises to be realistic,” he said. “We have met our objective.” Meaker said the drill was partially funded by a $10,000 grant from Homeland Security. Cache Valley has adopted a new Mass Casualty Incident Team, which now joins 55 other teams throughout the nation. The grant also paid for three new trailers in Logan, Hyrum and Smithfield that can assist in emergency management during crisis. Each trailer can house up to 150 patients. The exercise gave response teams an idea of how to handle a situation if it actually was to occur. The drill included USU campus police, the Logan City Police Department, Logan City Fire Department, North Logan Fire Department, Bear River Health Department, National Guard, HazMat and S.W.A.T. teams. The list of improvements needed that were noted by those who participated after the drill included failure to discuss evidence at the scene, overwhelmed treatment stations and lack of quick dispersement of information, making it hard for others to be informed. Kevin Christiensen, who was assigned to evaluate law enforcement during the mock disaster, said “I was impressed they had a pretty good idea of what was going on inside. (The situation) was quite the education.” –holly.ventura@aggiemail.usu.edu
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Today is Monday, Oct. 1, 2007. Today’s issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Kristi Colledge, a sophomore majoring in piano performance from Bountiful, Utah.
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Nevada man accused of showing sex tape
LAS VEGAS (AP) – A man accused of holding and showing off a tape depicting the sexual assault of a 3-year-old girl was taken into custody Sunday, authorities said. Darrin Tuck, 26, arranged to surrender after evading arrest since Friday, said Nye County Sheriff Tony DeMeo. Prosecutors are set to charge Tuck with possession of child pornography and possibly promoting child pornography on Monday, DeMeo said. Tuck has told authorities he found the tape in the desert, but authorities said he possessed it for as long as five months before turning it in. The girl in the tape was located after authorities on Friday released information they would not normally disclose in order to get tips from the public, including a picture, DeMeo said. The widespread media attention led someone to call the girl’s mother, who contacted police but did not know about the assault, authorities said. Tuck’s defense lawyer, Harry Kuehn of Gibson & Kuehn in Pahrump, said he was unaware his client had surrendered, but noted it was “a good thing.” He also denied that his client had showed the video to others.
Wall Street nervous over housing slump
NEW YORK (AP) – Wall Street is on surer footing than it was a month ago, but it enters the fourth quarter with many questions still unanswered about the health of the nation’s economy and corporations. The Dow Jones industrial average is only about 100 points below its record, and investors appear to be more confident the Federal Reserve will do what it can to keep the economy from slipping into recession. The third quarter, after all the tumult in the housing and credit markets this summer, ended with the Dow up 3.6 percent after the Federal Reserve lowered key interest rates. However, not everything that keeps the stock market afloat is under the Fed’s control. The housing market is the weakest it’s been in years, and some homebuilders have said recently that they see conditions deteriorating through next year. The financial markets remain unsure how problems with spiking mortgage defaults and excessively leveraged debt will shake out.
Philadelphia District Attorney Lynn Abraham, left, flanked by Keith R. Sadler, second left, and Patricia Giorgio-Fox, and Ed McCann, makes remarks during a news conference in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Sept. 4. AP Photo
Scandals old and new plague Chicago’s police department CHICAGO (AP) – Videotapes of angry officers savagely beating civilians and charges that a murder plot was hatched within an elite special operations unit have Chicago’s troubled police department reeling again. Adding to the department’s woes is word from federal prosecutors that they are investigating claims that homicide detectives tortured suspects into confessing to murders that landed them on death row in the 1980s. Not since club-swinging cops in baby-blue helmets chased demonstrators through clouds of pepper gas at the 1968 Democratic National Convention have Chicago police been so awash in trouble. The biggest shock came Wednesday when federal prosecutors charged special operations officer Jerome Finnigan with planning the murder of another member of the unit to keep him from talking to the government. “This kind of stuff on Page One is just horrible,” and reinforces a
misleading stereotype of police, said Roosevelt University political scientist Paul Green, who taught at the police academy for four years. “The overwhelming 99.9 percent do their job professionally,” he said. But evidence of deep-rooted problems is piling up. Finnigan, 44, also is one of six members of the special operations unit, created to crack down on gangs and drugs, who are charged with operating a shakedown operation aimed at civilians. Prosecutors say they have him on tape weighing the possibility of having someone kill a fellow special operations officer to keep him from becoming a witness against him. Finnigan and his attorney, Michael Ficaro, declined to comment. In July, three off-duty officers pleaded not guilty to charges that they beat four businessmen in a bar in a videotaped confrontation. In another videotaped confrontation, off-duty officer Anthony Abbate
was seen apparently beating a 115pound female bartender because she would not serve him another drink. Abbate has pleaded not guilty to a felony charge of aggravated battery. The quagmire is deepened by five federal lawsuits accusing police and city officials of covering up the torture of murder suspects at the Area 2 detective headquarters under violent crimes Lt. Jon Burge in the 1980s. Burge was fired in 1993 after a suspect in the murder of two officers allegedly was abused while in his custody. A four-year study by two special prosecutors appointed by a Cook County judge, released in July 2006, found that Chicago police beat, kicked and shocked scores of black suspects in the 1970s and 1980s to get confessions. The report said it was impossible to file charges because the incidents were so old that the statute of limitations had long since run out.
UN members respond ‘overwhelmingly’ on gun treaty, as lobbyists gird for showdown HANLEYUNITED NATIONS (AP) – Britain, Japan, Australia and others are pushing for an unprecedented treaty regulating the arms trade worldwide, in a campaign sure to last years and to pit them against a determined American foe, the National Rifle Association. In what U.N. officials say is an “overwhelming” response, almost 100 governments have submitted ideas for such a treaty, to be reviewed over the next year. There’s an “extremely urgent” need for controls on the international gun trade, says Kenya, echoing the sentiment in much of guns-besieged Africa. But in the U.S., the NRA says it sees a creeping attempt to limit civilian gun ownership within nations — even though the focus now is on setting
standards for arms exports and imports. The international issues “necessarily will come to involve at some point domestic laws and policies regarding firearms,” said former congressman Bob Barr, a leading NRA voice on the subject. “That’s not what we’re looking at here,” countered Greg Puley, of the Control Arms coalition of pro-treaty advocacy groups. “The point is to control trade in weapons that contribute to conflict and atrocities.” The NRA and other U.S. gun lobbyists have helped blunt earlier efforts at the United Nations to rein in the weapons trade. Last December, the U.S. delegation cast the lone negative vote when 153 nations approved a General Assembly resolution initiat-
ing this new treaty process. Now, alone among the world’s top 10 arms suppliers, the United States – by far the biggest, with almost $13 billion in arms export agreements in 2005 – has not filed a requested report to the United Nations with its views on a treaty. “The United States has not yet decided whether it will or will not participate in (the review), and thus we will have no submission at this time,” Richard Kidd, a deputy assistant secretary of state, told The Associated Press. The treaty campaign may encounter resistance beyond Washington as well. The reports from Russia and China, two other big arms exporters, offered only lukewarm endorsement for stricter controls.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson had the winning game plan at the box office. Disney’s “The Game Plan,” starring Johnson as a football quarterback whose bachelor lifestyle is disrupted by the arrival of a daughter he never knew he had, opened as the top weekend flick with $22.7 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. The weekend had looked like it would be a show- JOHNSON AND SEDGWICK down between “The Game Plan” and Universal’s Middle East thriller “The Kingdom,” which stars Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Garner as members of a U.S. team investigating a terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia. But “The Kingdom” fell short, debuting at No. 2 with a solid $17.7 million. The previous weekend’s top movie, Sony’s action tale “Resident Evil: Extinction,” fell a steep 66 percent from its opening-weekend gross, finishing in third place with $8 million and raising its total to $36.8 million. Johnson was the latest action hero aiming to broaden his audience with a family film. With a PG rating, “The Game Plan” took advantage of a long dry spell for kid-friendly movies, as parents with children made up two-thirds of the audience. “There was definitely pent-up demand for people who don’t necessarily want to go to the heavy R-rated films,” said Chuck Viane, head of distribution for Disney. “The entire general audience has been underserved lately.” “The Kingdom” faced heavy competition from other violent R-rated films. Though not an overtly political film, “The Kingdom” also had to test audience interest for action tales set against the war on terrorism. “If you’re going to tell stories like this, you’re going to tell stories of what’s actually going on in our world.” said Nikki Rocco, head of distribution.
LateNiteHumor
Top Ten Questions To Ask Yourself Before Buying A $14,500 Dessert, from Sept. 28, 2007. 10– “Does my kid really need a college education?” 9– “Do I get to keep the plate?” 8– “May I leave off the second ‘S’ in ‘Dessert’ for savings?” 7– “Is this why the terrorists hate us?” 6– “What would Leona Helmsley’s dog do?” 5– “Should I save $14,499 and get a Kit Kat bar?” 4– “Why?” 3– “How am I going to explain this to Fred Nigro?”
2– “Should I just overpay for a pastry at Starbucks?” 1– “Do I really want to be fat and a dumbass?”
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Monday, Oct. 1, 2007
Dark Metropolis brings new light to museum By LINDSAY ANDERSON staff writer Dark Metropolis, the latest exhibit at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, showcases artist Irving Norman, “an artist we’ve believed in for a very long time,” said Victoria Roe, director and curator of the museum. Norman’s wife, Hela Norman, along with curator of the Irving Norman pieces, Scott Shields, spoke to USU students Friday morning about Irving Norman’s life and work. It took Irving Norman, a mostly self-taught artist, according to Hela Norman, two years on average to finish a painting. Irving Norman would first draft the painting in his mind, then pencil the image onto the canvas. He would then outline the design in ink. For the final step, “he would do a wash of complimentary color and decided it would be more wise with a green underneath, and then he would start on the top layer,” Hela Norman said. “When he came to the end, he would probably prepare for the next one but would take a little time off between paintings, and during this time he was not too easy to live with,” Hela Norman said. “That’s when things would go on in his head, and he would have to plan for the next one. But once that was settled, he was sweet as pie.”
Art historians often describe Irving Norman as a social surrealist, but Shields said he doesn’t think Irving Norman would have called himself a social surrealist, as he didn’t really like the term. However, the exhibit is classified as social surrealism because “you can’t look at his work and not think of social causes,” Shields said. Hela Norman said Irving Norman’s works reflect social issues because he was “very bothered by what was happening to people in the world. His intense caring for human beings made him paint these works.” When Roe asked Hela Norman what life experience influenced Irving Norman to paint these pieces, Hela Norman said, “I think it was his war experience.” Irving Norman fought in the Spanish Civil War with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, and because of his experience with war, “he felt the need to show what war was so people would understand,” Hela Norman said. “He came to the conclusion that our society was based on war. “He was a visual person. He just saw everything, and he was never bored. He knew his work was great.” “It feels like he has been ignored,” Roe said. “Because of the magnitude of his work, he hasn’t received the critical acclaim that he should have earlier on.” Irving Norman’s work has only recently begun to be recognized;
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After walking barefoot Friday, Dan Allen, junior and member of Aggies for Africa, said he learned how lucky people in America are and just how many conveniences are readily available. Putting on his 50-cent flip-flops after walking around campus shoeless, Allen said he couldn’t believe the difference. Allen said the drive is something in which students need to participate. Whittier agreed and said he believes the drive can bring out the goodness and charity in people, something that today’s society is lacking. “Some students would take their shoes off right there, and that is something we are seeing less and less of in our culture, doing something to make a difference. I think that is being lost. Anything you can do to bring it out, that desire, is a positive experience,” he said. Allen said he expects Feet First to
really raise awareness and that students will participate in the drive. This time of life, he said, presents the best opportunity students have to truly make a difference. “It is a good thing, especially for college kids, to be involved. After we graduate, we get a job and get married and are enveloped in our own life. We are not really tied to anything now,” he said. “We are kind of free floating, and we can make a big difference in whatever we choose to do.” Allen said he hopes the drive will be successful, not only in collecting shoes for the people of Zambia and raising awareness of problems facing all of Africa, but also by increasing aid to the struggling countries. “All we can do is hope,” Allen said. “We are not going to save all of Africa, by all means, but we can do little things to help one person at a time.” –arie.k@aggiemail.usu.edu
Members of aggies for africa are collecting shoe donations for Feet First. The club also hosted Barefoot Friday. Club members said they were surprised by the number of students who joined them in sacrificing their shoes for a day. Donations will be sent to Zambia with Mothers Without Borders. DEBRA HAWKINS photo
• USU Police are investigating a criminal mischief case that occurred in the USU Trailer Court. Police believe this incident may be related to a previous criminal mischief case. Sunday, Sept. 23, 2007 • USU Police responded to a report of a medical assist at Valley View Tower. Logan City Fire and EMS also responded. Upon arrival, it was discovered that a resident suffering from various medical problems had passed out, but was conscious and alert upon police arrival.
Clothesline Display created by victims
HELA NORMAN, the widow of Irving Norman, spoke Friday about her husband’s work that is on display at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Norman stands next to her husband’s 1959 oil painting “The Palace.” NOELLE BERLAGE photo
people never knew what to think of his work because it didn’t fit with his time, Shields said. “There are a whole generation of artists who are starting to work like Irving Norman. He just did it 40 years earlier,” Shields said. “I think people are catching up now, he was just a bit ahead. I don’t think he is ever going to be obscure again. When you’re really talented, you have a sense that people are going to catch up.” When asked what she felt the paint-
ings conveyed, Hela Norman said, “I think he was trying to say, ‘Look folks, can’t we do a little better?’ He had that hope that we actually could.” Roe said, “At first glance, you realize how powerful and how much impact this artwork has. You will have to come back. The first time is not enough; it is somewhat overwhelming.” Dark Metropolis will be at USU through Oct. 6 at the museum. –lindsay.anderson@aggiemail.usu.edu
Understanding human’s learning key to teaching By AMANDA MEARS staff writer
Understanding human learning and challenging students to break down their misconceptions is what makes a good teacher, said Ken Bain in a lecture, Friday in the Eccles Science Learning Center. Bain, author of the book “What the Best College Teachers Do,” spoke to a crowd of about 150 people as part of a series of lectures that will be given throughout the year, hosted by the Provost’s Office at USU. Bain, who is a history professor as well as a vice provost for instruction at Montclair State University in Montclair, N.J., said many factors influence what makes teachers great and there is no set formula for teaching effectively. “If you came expecting a few simple dos and don’ts, you will be disappointed,” Bain said. “It’s not that simple.” In order to understand what makes a great teacher, Bain said he conducted a study in which he handpicked 63 teachers who he thought met the qualifications of a good teacher and studied them intensely. “We wanted to identify people who fostered deep learning in their students,” he said. Bain said he interviewed the teachers, sat in on their classes and videotaped them in order to observe common variables that made them superior teachers. The central quality, Bain said, was their ability to understand human learning. This was a new concept to Bain, who said he had never thought to study the way humans learn in order to teach them better. “It took 20 years of teaching before it occurred to me to look at literature on human learning,” Bain said.
Golden Toaster on a motorist assist call. The vehicle had stopped at 1200 E. 600 North due to a flat tire. The driver of the vehicle was able to have her husband come and handle the problem. There was no further action taken. • USU Police trespassed an individual from the stadium for having alcohol inside the stadium at the USU Football game. • USU Police responded to Mountain View Tower where an individual was stuck in elevator. Police were able reset the elevator and it resumed normal operation.
• USU Police responded to the Widstoe emergency phone for an activation of that alarm. No one was found in the immediate area.
• USU Police responded to the Aggie Terrace Parking in one minute for an emergency phone alarm. No one was found in the area needing assistance.
• USU Police responded to an agency assist on a suspicious incident. After an investigation, it was determined that the report was a prank. There was no further action taken by USU police.
• Police responded to the area of the Student Center on a report of individuals on unicycles bothering pedestrians in the area. They were no longer in the area when police arrived.
Saturday, Sept. 22, 2007
• Police responded to the Trailer Courts on a citizen assist. Police assisted a resident in removing items from their trailer.
• USU police responded to the west side of the
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He also said he began looking at literature on human learning while he was doing the study, and he noticed the books and the teachers he was studying talked about many of the same ideas. However, Bain said good teaching does not just come from literature. Students are individual cases and often already have a conception of what they think is right in their heads. Good teachers must break through that paradigm, Bain said. Bain used the story of two physics teachers as an example of this phenomenon. Bain said the teachers gave a Force Content Inventory to 600 students at the start of class on how they perceived motion. After students went through the course, the professors brought them back and gave them the same test. Bain said the results were shocking because the teachers found virtually no change in the students’ ideas about motion. It was not based on grades. A students were just as likely to retain the same ideas as C students, Bain said. “In every subject, students are reluctant to give up prior knowledge,” he said. “Before teachers even begin to address this issue of deep conceptual learning, you must create a complex learning environment.” Bain gave some key ingredients in creating this environment, including putting students in a situation where their existing paradigm did not work and making them interested in learning why it did not work. One problem advanced educators face is being able to ask advanced questions, he said. In order to do this, teachers must dig deep and find questions that students will find important, he said. “Each student has curiosity,” Bain said. “You just have to spark it.” –amanda.m@aggiemail.usu.edu
Contact USU Police at 797-1939 for non-emergencies. Anonymous reporting line: 797-5000 EMERGENCY NUMBER: 911 • USU Police investigated a two vehicle accident. One vehicle stopped in the lane of travel when the secondary vehicle backed into it. Police had the drivers exchange information. Friday, Sept. 21, 2007 • Police responded to a fire alarm at Davis Hall. It was determined that a blow dryer had set off the alarm. • An individual who was stopped for a traffic stop was booked into jail for outstanding warrants. • Police responded to Wasatch Hall on a report that a bicycle tire had been cut by a knife. Police are investigating. • USU Police received a delayed report of a rape that allegedly occurred at the University Inn. • Police responded an emergency phone alarm at the Tennis Court. No one was found needing assistance.
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The Women’s Center is having their annual Clothesline Display Oct. 1-3, 10 a.m. – 9 p.m. Monday & Tuesday and 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Wednesday. The display will be in the TSC International Lounge The Clothesline Project is a visual display of shirts with messages and illustrations that have been designed by women survivors of violence, by their friends, or families. The Clothesline may also contain shirts made to honor women who have died as a result of violence. The purpose of this project is to increase awareness of the impact of violence against women, to celebrate a woman’s strength to survive, and to provide another avenue for her to courageously break the silence. Survivors, family and friends are invited to join in “breaking the silence” as the first step in trying to end the vicious cycle of abuse by designing a shirt. For shirt designing sessions, call or email the Women’s Center, 797-1728, womenscenter@usu.edu, to arrange a time and location to design a shirt. Appointment times are available for Oct. 1 and 2, between 4 p.m. – 6 p.m. Confidentiality is respected.
Interior Design lecture series begins this week Penny Bonda is the opening speaker in the Interior Design Program Lecture Series at USU. She speaks Wednesday, Oct. 3, at 9:30 a.m. in the Kent Concert Hall of the Chase Fine Arts Center. The lecture is free and open to the public as well as USU faculty, staff and students. “The Incredible Green Growing Machine” is the title of Bonda’s lecture. Bonda works in the field of environmental communications and is a prominent writer and lecturer, said Darrin Brooks, a USU interior design faculty member and lecture series coordinator. She is eco-editor of “Interior Design” magazine and a monthly contributor to the magazine’s online resource “The Green Zone.” She is the founding chair of the U.S. Green Building Council committee for LEED Commercial Interiors and the ASID Sustainable Design Council. She is the current co-chair of the Green Residential Renovation and Interior Remodeling Program. Bonda attended the American University in Washington, D.C., where she earned degrees in education and interior design. A practicing interior designer for 27 years, she has headed her own firm and served as the interior design director for leading design and architectural firms. In 1996, Bonda served as the 21st national president of ASID, a 30,000-member organization that is the oldest and largest professional association of interior designers in the world, representing practitioners in all design specialties. For information on the interior design program at USU or the lecture series, contact Brooks at 797-1559. The Interior Design Program Lecture Series is made possible by a grant from the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation.
CAPSA receives grant from Dept. of Justice The Community Abuse Prevention Services Agency (CAPSA) was awarded a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to develop a program for “Education, training, and enhanced services to end violence against women with disabilities”. The grant is part of a three-year cooperative agreement between CAPSA and the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW). The Vera Institute of Justice, a non-profit located in Manhattan, N.Y., will provide technical assistance and a framework for the team to follow in developing this program. The goal of the program is to create meaningful and sustainable change resulting in more effective services for victims of violence who have disabilities, with a focus on systems change through knowledge and policy. This will be achieved by helping communities and service providers understand some of the distinctive barriers for people with disabilities who are also victims of domestic violence, and providing programs that will result in effective and enduring improvements in the services available to these victims. CAPSA was chosen as one of six award recipients out of 50 applicants nationwide. CAPSA is a non-profit organization in Logan that is dedicated to providing safe, caring, and confidential shelter, advocacy and support for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault
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offending signs is that they have reflective trim, not a complete reflective background like those used on speed limit signs or license plates. The reflective tape does not fully illuminate the sign, Newswander said, and makes it difficult to know if parking in a given parking lot is prohibited. “Say you’re pulling into a parking lot, you can’t read the reflective trim from the car. You’d have to walk over to the sign and read the sign,” Newswander said. “I feel the reflective background informs the reasonable person that he will be booted if he parked there.” The owner of Cache Auto Booting, who preferred to remain unnamed for protection reasons, said his company operates according to the laws found in the city ordinances, including the detail about the reflective background. “The students are incomplete in their research process,” he said. “That ordinance was created after all of those signs had been erected and once those signs were erected and they passed the city ordinance, the city agreed that all those city signs would be acceptable under the city ordinance.” The reflective background required for booting signs was also a requirement of the old booting ordinance. However, the owner of Cache Auto Booting said reflective tape was good enough for the signs then. Because the signs were placed before the new ordinance went into effect, they would be legal for up to 12 months, the result of a deal he worked out with the city attorney. “Those signs are completely legal and have the approval of the city attorney until they are replaced,” the manager of Cache Auto Booting said. Lee Edwards, prosecuting attorney for Logan City, said when the new ordinance was enacted, there was a grace peri-
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partners losing $70 apiece. Either way, Adam Dickey, junior in accounting who had his car booted as part of the operation, said, “It’s worth a try. I think it’s a worthwhile effort to do this sort of thing because it’s getting down to how business should be done. It should meet certain codes. I’m willing to go for it all the way, as much as it takes. If the attorneys and the judge were to rule that it does fit the description of this law, then I really think that it should be changed to the point where it has reflective signs like a speed limit sign. “The ideal scenario would be that the business would be able to change signs around the parking lot it’s enforcing. People should be aware of where people should and should not park.” Dickey’s ideal scenario has already come true. As of Saturday, Sept. 29, Cache Auto Booting replaced all offending signs with reflective background signs that fully meet ordinance specifications. “This company has gone out and ordered signs to bring every single one of those into compliance,” said the owner of Cache Auto Booting, “and it cost this company a bundle to do that.” The owner of Cache Auto Booting said he is not out to boot at random; he is doing what the businesses he contracts with want – to provide parking spaces for their residents. “Our job is not to boot cars in parking lots,” he said. “That’s a product of what we do. Our job is to make sure that the tenants who pay for those parking spaces have a place to park when they pull into their driveway. Our job is to keep those people from stealing parking spaces from the people who pay for them.” –seth.h@aggiemail.usu.edu
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Students take to the air with aviation tech degree By AMANDA MEARS staff writer
Aviation Technology professional pilot major Jace Ovard inspects the aileron during a preflight inspection. CAMERON PETERSON photo
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’ll never understand why, but somehow hair is linked to emotions. There’s something about cutting, curling and coloring hair during life’s crises that makes everything wrong go away – even if it’s only until the first look in the mirror after the damage has been done. I’ll be honest. The last few weeks I’ve been a little on edge. I mostly blame it on the fact that I graduate in a couple months and feel like I have to decide what I’m doing with my whole life now. Some days it seems at any moment I could get my car keys and drive to the coast of Florida just so I wouldn’t have to deal with it all. However, as nice as laying on a beach with pina coladas sounds, it’s not really logical. So that’s where hair comes in handy. About a week ago, after eating half a pizza of my feelings and then pushing everything out of my mind while I worked for a few hours, I found myself driving to Wal-Mart in search of a solution to all my problems. Food was not going to cure me and neither were hula hoops, cheap dishes or discounted grandma sweat pants. I found myself in the health and beauty aisles of the big-box retailer, and soon I found a friendly face. She was the model on a box of Garnier Nutrisse hair dye, and she seemed to be daring me with her perfect blond highlights. Not being one to look like a complete wimp, I embraced her challenge, buying not just one, but two boxes of dye and a Diet Coke I could drink while my roommates experimented on me. It was nearly 1 a.m. by the time I made it home, and my friends began pulling strips of my hair and drenching them in glue-like bleach. Patiently I sat on a wooden chair in my dining room and sipped caffeinated heaven while they took over. One on each side of my head, I could feel their fingers thumbing through my locks, taking huge chunks and laughing as they told me it was going to look good. This wasn’t the first time I had been in a situation
- See HAIR, page 7
Small planes emblazoned with an Aggie bull picture and the words “Utah State University” circle around the sky before landing at the Logan Cache Airport. Across from the landing pad sit two trailers full of classrooms and life-size flight simulators. This is where students majoring in aviation technology spend most of their time learning to become pilots. Tyson Vencill, flight instructor in the USU professional pilot program, said he began flying when he was 7 and has loved it ever since. “I never had a plan B, I never questioned the fact that I was going to fly,” Vencill said. “When I was younger, my birthday present would be to take a couple friends up and go flying.” Jace Ovard, junior majoring in aviation technology, said the moment he knew he wanted to be a pilot didn’t come until high school. “In high school I wanted to be either a teacher or a pilot, kind of opposite ends of the spectrum,” Ovard said. “Then my friend’s dad took me up in a plane, and I was hooked.” The aviation technology major is broken into two parts: maintenance management and professional pilot. Director of aviation Nolan Clifford said the major sees about half as many students in the maintenance program but it is becoming more popular. Students in the professional pilot program earn a bachelor’s degree in aviation technology as well as flight ratings, which are based on flight hours and determine the type of flying graduates can do, Ovard said. A private pilot certificate is the lowest tier and allows students to fly friends and family for nonprofit only, Nolan said. Ovard said students looking to fly for a commercial airline must receive an instrument rating, a commercial certificate and a multiengine rating. “Most students who complete the private pilot courses go all the way,” Clifford said. USU also offers a CFI, or certified flight instructor, program for students who need more hours of flying time before they can get a job, Vencill said. Vencill said he is currently working as a flight instructor to meet his hour requirements and said he loves to instruct because he gets to travel more. Having traveled as far as London from the Logan Airport, Vencill said he encourages students to fly
long distances for the experience. Occasionally, Vencill said, they will even fly down to Las Vegas, stay the night, and come back the next morning. “In my opinion, that’s one of the most rewarding things,” Vencill said. “When you can do cool stuff, it’s motivation to continue flying.” Because flight instructors are in charge of monitoring students who are new to flying, safety is a main concern for both USU and the flight instructors themselves, Clifford said. “As a flight instructor, you always have to be on your toes,” said Sean Heiner, a USU alumnus who is currently the chief pilot of aviation technology. “You have to watch and make sure the student doesn’t go too far.” As part of their training for flying with no visibility, students have to fly with a hood over their heads. A flight instructor is in charge of take-off and landing, but the rest is up to the student. Cory Schow, senior in aviation technology, said this exercise was part of his training. “The first time I was a little nervous,” said Schow, who is currently in the professional pilot program. “But when you get up there, you realize it’s totally safe.” Heiner said the flight instructors keep a very close eye on the students as they fly with no visibility and that safety is their main concern. Despite the emphasis on safety in the flight program, Heiner said every flight instructor still has a few exciting moments. Vencill said he has had similar experiences. “The scariest experience I had was when I was flying with students and we had engine failure,” Vencill said. Vencill said he and the three students on board worked together to assess the problem. After declaring an emergency, Vencill said they were able to safely land at the Salt Lake International Airport. “Being in charge of three people’s lives was kind of scary,” Vencill said. “But in the end it was a good experience. It made me a better pilot and instructor.” Schow, who was flying with Vencill when the engine failure occurred, said he had a couple seconds of “Oh, crap,” but since they had been trained for an emergency, he said he was confident in their ability to land the plane. Flying solo for the fist time can be another nervewracking experience for students, Ovard said.
- See SOAR, page 7
HURD works to increase support for USU athletics By DEBRA HAWKINS staff writer
With the USU football team currently 0-5, it might be easy for students to lose heart and abandon the team as hopeless, but that is exactly what HURD refuses to do. Corinne Smith, president of HURD, said HURD is all about supporting USU sports, regardless of wins or losses. HURD is the USU school spirit club and should be and will be there to support all of the sports, she said. HURD, named after a herd of cattle, is in its second year as a club at USU and is the largest on campus, boasting 1,100 members and still growing. HURD sponsors events such as the weekly football Coach’s Show, with USU Head Coach Brent Guy, and tailgate parties before every home football game, she said. In the spring, HURD will also sponsor pregame parties for the basketball games. “The HURD is for every USU student,” Smith said. “There are a lot of new people to meet in the HURD, and there are lots of sports to support so there is something for everyone. We have anything your interested in. This club is really about getting students to show support to our school.” Megan Darrington, Athletics vice president, said HURD is really trying to get students excited about participating and getting involved with the school, and they give students incentives to become a HURD member to have the opportunity to get involved. “Every HURD member gets a HURD t-shirt and a discount card to business in the town,”
Members of the school spirit club, HURD, joined in the painting of the street for the homecoming parade. DEBRA HAWKINS photo
Darrington said. “If you are a HURD member, you get the perks in USU Athletics.” HURD, which is based on an old USU club called the Blue Crew, is the only spirit club on campus. Darrington said one thing HURD aims to do is pull the different aspects of USU together. “The tailgate parties are really fun,” Darrington said. “We get to combine forces with the HURD, the Greeks, ASUSU, Athletics and the community and pull everybody together to throw a really great party.” HURD members work to inform students on the athletics that are going on at USU, whether they be school-sponsored
teams, club sports or intramurals, Darrington said. HURD informs its members each week of the happenings in the athletics community by sending out a mass e-mail, she said, which gives students the opportunity to go and get involved if they want to, which benefits the students and the sports they are supporting. “The HURD is a great thing for USU Athletics in general because it informs the students of what is going on,” Darrington said. HURD is currently working on projects to involve the students more, Smith said. One project HURD is actively working on is making the Junction
the “Home of HURD,” she said. The HURD will paint the wall in the Junction, where there are already foosball and air hockey tables. “We really want to make the Junction a place for the HURD members to come hang out and get to know each other,” Smith said. HURD works to get volunteers for sports that need them and is especially working to improve the student body’s opinion of the football team, Smith said. “We want the students to be more positive about football,” Smith said. “We are trying to
- See HURD, page 7
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Nidhi Garg India Graduate Student Food Engineering By DEBRA HAWKINS staff writer
Utah Statesman: Why did you
Nidhi Garg: I came to USU to study and get skills and to become more better in my field. I am in my master program, in the first year in food engineering. US: Was there culture shock when you came to Utah? NG: There was no culture shock. There is not much difference between Utah and India, just the language and eating habits. There is not much difference because it is Utah. US: Are you superstitious? NG: I’m superstitious. My lucky charm is my parents. I need to see their faces every morning. US: Is there anything you would die to save? NG: I would die to save my parents, nothing more than that. US: Do you believe in ghosts?
NIDHI GARG PAINTS A HENNA TATTOO on a USU student’s arm. Garg said she has been doing henna since childhood and the most elaborate tattoo she has done is the bridal henna. DEBRA HAWKINS photo
NG: I believe in ghosts because how can you say that I am not a ghost?
NG: I would tell them don’t miss me.
US: What can you never say no to?
US: Have you ever broken the law?
NG: I can never say no to friendship.
NG: Yeah, not here of course, but in India I broke Indian driving laws.
US: Describe yourself in one word.
US: What is your ticklish spot?
NG: Great. People here are very nice but I am a little better, so I am great.
NG: My ticklish spot is my neck.
US: What is your favorite food?
NG: Yes. I sing any song, whatever I have heard.
NG: Indian cuisine, of course. US: What would you tell the people at your funeral?
US: Do you sing in the shower?
NG: I have been doing henna since childhood. I learned it from my dad. The most elaborate tattoo I have ever done is the bridal henna. Men only get the tattoos at their wedding, but women can get them anytime. After marriage, the tattoo is essential for women for any occasion. US: If you could have dinner with anybody, who would it be?
NG: I would have dinner with Arnold Schwarzenegger because I like his acting, and Amitabh Bachchan, an actor from India. He’s a legend. -debrajoy.h@aggiemail.usu.edu
US: Where did you learn to do henna tattoos?
USU offers new class for senior citizens By JENNA QUINN staff writer
If students have noticed more senior citizens on campus on Wednesday afternoons, there is a reason: USU has a new class designed just for them. Melissa Nuntapreda, a junior studying nutrition science, said she helped organize the class along with Service Learning Scholar adviser Robert Schmidt. Nuntapreda said seniors come in the summertime and take classes, but they are usually from other states, and during the school year, there aren’t many seniors on campus. She said it is important for senior citizens to continue to learn
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throughout their lives. “If elderly people keep their minds active, it will help prevent diseases, and they have a less chance of getting Alzheimer’s,” she said. So far, Nuntapreda said the seniors seem to really like the classes. “Every week they say they have been waiting for it since last week,” Nuntapreda said. One senior citizen, who takes the class but did not want to be named, said, “This is the perfect way to continue learning.” Nuntapreda said the topics are specified toward
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get them to support them, even if they are losing.” Smith said although the team is not winning, she wants students to be aware of all of the progress both the coach and the team have made. Christie Bagley, senior in music composition and current HURD member, said the support for the football team and other sports that are not necessarily doing well is one of the reasons she decided to join the HURD in the first place. “I think the HURD is cool,” Bagley said. “It ties us together as students more, and it helps us support our fellow students instead of bashing on them. We all make mistakes and even though they reflect on us as stu-
dents, I think it is still important for us to stick it together.” HURD is for student athletes and for students who just want to support the athletes. “I am really not an athletic person, but I really liked getting involved and going to games and supporting the school,” Smith said. Cami Jones, undeclared freshman who is also a member of the HURD committee, said she thinks it is especially important for athletes to go out and support the athletes on other teams. “I think that any team has bad streaks, and you need to go support everybody,” Jones said. “In high school we weren’t the best, but we try to support as many
other teams in hopes of getting support in return.” HURD organizers said they hope to have more people come out and support them and the athletics teams throughout the school year, Darrington said. If students want to get involved, they have to pay $20 and sign up either at one of the events or in the Student Involvement Office in the Taggart Student Center Room 326, she said. Smith said she thinks HURD is for every person at USU and she would love for the club to keep expanding. “There is always fun with HURD,” Smith said. “Anyone who loves to be an Aggie should be in this club.” -debrajoy.h@aggiemail.usu.edu
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“The first day I flew solo was a day of mixed emotions,” he said. “I was really nervous, but the first time I touched down it was a good feeling. When you pull it off it’s a big confidence booster.” Ovard said one of the biggest concerns for students in the professional pilot program is the high cost. In addition to tuition, flight costs can be a minimum of $44,000, Clifford said. “You have to be dedicated,” Ovard said. “I plan on using financial aid, getting a summer sales job and trying to get through quick to save some money.” Although the costs are high, Schow said the money is worth it for the chance to take what he loves and turn it into a career. “If you love flying, don’t let the money scare you,” he said. One reason the cost to go through the program is worth it, Heiner said, is because many commercial airlines are in need of pilots. Heiner said pilots are in high demand right now because the baby boomers have just reached the age of mandatory retirement. With so many pilots retiring, Clifford said now is the time to get into aviation. “If (every school) put out all their pilots,” Clifford said, “we still could not meet the needs.” Although the price to fly may seem high, Clifford said it is one of the cheapest air programs students can find. And while costs may be
low compared to other schools, Clifford said USU also has one of the most modern training fleets. Right now the school has a fleet of 10 Diamond DA-40 Diamond Star and two Diamond DA-42 Twin Star airplanes for primary, instrument and multiengine training, all equipped with glass cockpits. They also have three Piper Arrow airplanes, which are used for commercial training. For Schow and Ovard, one of the best things about majoring in aviation technology and becoming a pilot is getting to fly to different places, they both said. “One day we flew up to Jackson Hole, had lunch and flew back down in time for class,” Schow said. Ovard said traveling a lot as a pilot will have its ups and downs. He said he is excited to travel to places other than Utah but that it will be hard not to see his wife as much. In the end though, Ovard said as a commercial pilot, he will only be gone for three days out of the week and will have the rest of the time to spend with his family. The traveling and flexible schedule are reasons Ovard said he is excited to do what he loves and get paid for it. Heiner agreed, saying, “It’s an exciting career. It’s fun and there is a lot of opportunity, but it’s a roller coaster. If you are considering aviation, be prepared for the ride.” -amanda.m@aggiemail.usu.edu
OCTOBER IS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH JACE OVARD CHECKS HIS FUEL DURING a pre-flight inspection. Ovard said of the biggest concerns for students in this program is the high cost. Students have to be dedicated to make it worthwhile, he said. CAMERON PETERSON photo
Hair: Emotional breakdowns solved by hair experimentation -continued from page 5 like this. I’ve let roommates dye my hair a handful of times, never worrying too much about the results. I didn’t worry this time either. In fact, I wasn’t worried about anything anymore. After they finished and I waited 20 minutes for the dye to do its magic, I took a shower. When I came out and looked in the mirror, I was no longer me. I was a Martian from Planet Blond. Malibu Barbie gone bad. I frantically started combing my yellowy orange hair, but as the tangles disappeared, the color did not and I knew I’d be stuck looking like an outcast member of the Brady Bunch for quite some time. I’m not really sure how long I sat on my roommate’s floor that night as I stared into her mirror hoping it would get better. We tried blow drying it, straightening it, parting it in different places and putting it up. It was useless. Nothing was going to cure my Madonna disaster but a hat. Once again hair was linked to my emotions, only this time I wasn’t stressed because of life, and I wasn’t being brave because I took on a stupid imaginary dare. At that moment I was hysterically terrified. My roommate was laughing and, surprisingly, I was laughing too, although deep down I was wondering how expensive it would be to purchase a ticket to Malibu, or how easy it would be to get a job with Mattel. If I
was lucky enough I could just be abducted and taken somewhere I would belong. I realized at that moment that girls can sometimes be really dumb. During emotional breakdowns, instead of simply staying calm while rationally working things out, there are times when we eat our weight in ice cream, max out our credit cards on shoes, or end up with some severe color streaking our hair. Why I ended up with two highlighting kits, I’ll never really know. Mostly, I think I was stressed and blond was an outlet. More importantly, I wasn’t thinking. I’ve generally never made my best decisions at 1 a.m. in WalMart. I should have remembered that. For now, it no longer matters that I only have two and a half months before I put on a cap and gown and face the real world. At the moment, I have bigger problems which will last until I can earn enough money to see a professional. Hair stylist that is. Manette Newbold is a senior in print journalism. Comments and questions can be sent to manette.n@ aggiemail.usu.edu.
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USU students celebrate their Islamic tradition By M.D. BUHLER staff writer
“This soup is way spicy,” Jessica Meyers, sophomore studying history and secondary education said. “I have never had American food like this before.” Meyers recently experienced Islamic culture firsthand along with many other students enrolled in Introduction to Islamic Civilization, which is taught by history professor Debra Baldwin. The students feasted with members of the Islamic community as they broke their Ramadan fast. Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, is a time of great religious significance for Muslims. The Islamic calendar, which is based on the cycles of the moon, as opposed to the Gregorian calendar, which is based on Earth’s orbit around the sun, is 11 days shorter than our calendar. Thus the month of Ramadan moves throughout the seasons over the course of a lifetime. Ramadan is the month Muslims practice their annual ritual of fasting between the hours of dawn and dusk. According to a pamphlet published by the Islamic Circle of North America, the fasting involves abstinence from eating, drinking, smoking and marital intercourse. “This reminds the believers of their dependence upon God
(also known as Allah), as well as kinship with and responsibility for the millions of human beings in the world who experience involuntary fasting because of lack of food, or its unjust distribution,” the pamphlet stated. According to the pamphlet, fasting is so important to Muslims that it is one of the “Five Pillars of Islam.” The other four pillars are declaring belief in Allah and the prophet Muhammad, praying five times a day in the direction of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, giving money to the poor and making the journey to the city of Mecca. These five pillars are found in the Quran, the holy book of Islam, and are considered essential for all Muslims. Ramadan, according to holidays.net, is believed to be the month in which the Quran “was sent down from heaven, a guidance unto men, a declaration of direction, and a means of salvation.” The Quran specifically mandates the fasting of Ramadan by stating, “One may eat and drink at any time during the night until you can plainly distinguish a white thread from a black thread by the daylight: then keep the fast until night.” On the 27th day of Ramadan, Muslims celebrate the “Night of Power,” which commemorates the night Muhammad first received the revelation of the Quran. After the month is over,
Muslims celebrate the end of their fasting with a three-day holiday called “Id-al-Fitr,” or “The feast of Fast Breaking.” During this time, families get together and exchange gifts. Last Tuesday, students participating in Ramadan got together at the Logan Islamic Center to break their fast with a variety of exotic delicacies. “Although fasting is universal throughout Islam, the food is different in every country,” said Ibrahim Mohammed, president of the Logan Islamic Center who is also a doctorate student from Sudan. We are blessed in this month by increased worship and by obeying the orders of Allah.” The food at the feast was a mix of foreign and American food and included several oriental rice dishes, a beef and tomato-based dish and a spicy, curry-based soup placed right next to Hot-and-Ready pizza and rice pudding. “The (participating students) were really friendly,” Meyers said. “I walked in and they just started handing me food. It is nice to know that there are good people out there.” Meyers said she recommends experiencing new cultures. “It was a great experience,” she said. “It was really cool!” -michael.buhler@aggiemail.usu. edu
Seniors: Class offers friendship -continued from page 6
AN ELDERLY GENTLEMAN RELAXES AND READS A BOOK much like in the senior citizens class offered at USU. NOELLE BERLAGE photo illustration.
subjects that apply to the seniors. So far the three classes that have been held have studied multiculturalism, identity theft and nutrition. The senior citizen said, “I like the classes that they have had because they are more equipped for our age group, like identity theft and nutrition, and the mutliculturalism class was so interesting.” It is also a great way for the seniors to socialize with others of their same age group, she said. The senior, who attends classes with her sister, said she has met new friends through the classes. Nuntapreda said there are about 25 seniors in the classes right now with room for more. “Hopefully it will continue to grow after I graduate,” Nuntapreda said. Nuntapreda said another goal is to incorporate Class Bill Act 60, where senior citizens 62 years or older will be able to audit regular college classes if they are interested. There is a $10 registration fee once the act goes into effect, which Nuntapreda said is why they charge $10 for the class, so that when seniors start auditing courses, the bill fee has already been paid. There is a scholarship available for those who cannot afford the fee, Nuntapreda said. “It will either be paid with funds, or we will figure something else out,” she said. The seniors are brought to campus every Wednesday for the 1:30 p.m. class by shuttle from the Cache Valley Senior Center, or they can drive themselves if they prefer. Nuntapreda said she is very grateful for the
professors who volunteer to teach the class. “We are really so grateful to the professors for teaching it,” Nuntapreda said. “I know they are busy, but it is so awesome that they still take the time to give service.” There are other service programs also offered through USU. Nuntapreda, who is the director of Friends of the Elderly, said they do two service acts per week where they visit centers such as Logan Nursing and Rehabilitation, Williamsburg Retirement and Logan House. Activities are offered such as bingo, doing hair, playing games and painting nails, Nuntapreda said, and this this year they will be helping the Cache Valley Senior Center with its Christmas party. Another program Nuntapreda is involved in is Adopt-a-Grandparent, where a senior is visited for at least one hour weekly. “It’s really fun,” Nuntapreda said. “I have a lot of friends who usually wouldn’t go, but when they do you can tell how happy they are. They tell me that whenever they have a bad day and go visit them it makes their day so much better.” Nuntapreda said she encourages everybody who is interested to check out all the programs they have available. “Anybody can come anytime, and you don’t even have to commit any hours,” she said. Nuntapreda said if anybody wants to get involved in any of the service projects, they can call (801) 712-8253 or send an e-mail to melissanuntapreda@yahoo.com. -jennaq@cc.usu.edu
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ere we go again. Last year former student body president Quinn Millet’s booting case went to court on the grounds that booting bypasses the due process of law, and was met with a big, fat, “No way, kid.” Now someone’s at it again, trying to find a way to get at the booting companies that are so often a pain in students’ butts. Last Wednesday, a group of three students set up a sting operation – of sorts – in which they parked cars in lots that were inappropriately marked according to current city code. They parked six cars without permits and coughed up $70 a piece for the three cars that were booted. The owner of Cache Auto Booting was quoted in today’s paper as saying, “When students get booted because they trespass, they want to figure out how to get around the law. They can’t fight it in court because Quinn Millet lost that one, so they nitpick with the signs.” Well, yeah. That’s the democratic process. If a group of citizens doesn’t like a law for whatever reason – maybe they think it’s just wrong or it’s biased against a particular group or it seems too heavy – they have recourse with the law to argue for redress of grievances. Students have complained for a long time that booting is too severe a punishment for parking in the wrong place. And now that the maximum booting fee is $70. It’s a penalty that’s getting even harder to tolerate. It’s students’ right to try to effect change. It’s also the right of any citizen to make sure the law is being adhered to. So even if Brady Newswander’s complaints are “nit-picking,” he is well within reason to demand the signs be in compliance. Adhering to the law works the other way too. This includes students obeying the law by not parking in lots marked as permit parking only. Regardless of what students may think of the lack of parking spots available, the owner of the parking lot wanted spaces for their tenants. But in order for students to comply with parking lot restrictions, they need to clearly be able to see signs to know where they can and cannot park. Even the owner of Cache Auto Booting seems to have recognized this, as less than a week after the students’ sting operation he replaced all the errant signs. He did that in less than a week, even though he had since last May to do so legally. Even the original code, which was changed in May, required reflective background, though the definition of reflective background could be disputed. Logan City Prosecuting Attorney Lee Edwards said that would have to be determined by a judge. So maybe it is nitpicking, but that’s what’s required to make sure everyone is on the same page. To be booted just because you couldn’t see a sign in the dark simply enrages the booted and enriches the booters. The law needs to be fair on both sides, after all, justice is blind.
Fighting back against workplace discrimination As the space race reached a fever pitch 40 years ago, an unheralded employment rights pioneer named Celio Diaz Jr. held fast to a dream. He didn’t endeavor to set foot on the lunar surface, but his ambition was still difficult to realize in 1967. Diaz wanted to be a flight attendant. Today, when in-flight opulence is limited to perusing the SkyMall catalog while sipping your one complimentary can of Sierra Mist, Diaz’s aspiration understandably elicits a shrug. In 1967, however, air travel held more allure. Being a flight attendant meant serving cocktails to captains of industry and chain-smoking celebrities aboard jetliners destined for exotic locales. Being a flight attendant in 1967 also meant being a woman – speWhat others are saying about issues. cifically a young, pert and unmarried woman. Though men exclusively served as flight stewards at the dawn of commercial aviation , by the 1950s all the major airlines reinvented the occupation as an exclusively female domain. Targeting businessmen as their core customer base, many airlines established academies where they would train stewardesses to walk that fine line between mini-skirtclad siren and nurturing potential wife. Blanching at the very notion that a man might elect to do a job they’d made synonymous with femininity , airline managers unequivocally stated that men need not apply. Nonetheless, Diaz, a married father of two from Miami, tried to get a job as a flight attendant with Pan American World Airways. Title VII, part of 1964’s landmark Civil Rights Act that forbade employment discrimination on the basis of gender (as well as race,
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the library catalog to find a book. That anecdotal evidence along with librarians’ contact with students at the MerrillCazier Library information desk and our interaction with 10,520 individual Aggies in 1,183 class sessions last year indicate to me that many students are at least aware of books. Many are genuinely interested in them. Granted, we all appreciate the convenience of the Internet and like finding online articles or other text instantly accessible to read or print, but I believe that students will continue to look for books for at least the near future. (The library offers hundreds of e-books for those into Book 2.0.) As for the temp-
tation to buy or borrow text from the Web for a research paper, I am heartened to hear many professors say that they see very little such activity at USU. Professors can tell when a student’s writing doesn’t sound like their usual voice or match their style. And students know that teachers can easily surf the Internet to find copied text, or they can use plagiarism detection software to identify unfortunate cases of cheating. Shameless plug: Never hesitate to call, write, visit, or IM reference librarians if you need help finding books or other information sources. Flora Shrode
The decline of American prosperity Last week over lunch, a friend in his 30s prodded me to explain how my generation, the boomers, had botched so many things. While not exactly conceding that we had, I said that the one thing none of us had anticipated was that America would cease to be a land of broadly shared prosperity. To be born, as I was, in mid-century was to have come of age in a nation in which the level of prosperity continued to rise and the circle of prosperity continued What others are to widen. This was saying about issues. the great given of our youth. If the boomers embraced such causes as civil and social rights and environmentalism, it was partly because the existence and distribution of prosperity seemed to be settled questions. Nor were we alone in making this mistake. Our parents may have gone through the Depression and could never fully believe, as boomers did, that the good times were here to stay. They remembered busts as well as booms. But the idea that the economy could revert to its pre-New Deal configuration (in which the rich claimed all the wealth the nation created while everyone else just got by), the notion that the middle class might shrink even as the economy grew: Who, among all our generations and political persuasions, expected that? Yet that’s precisely what happened. Median family income over the past quarter-century has stagnated. The economic rewards from increased productivity, which went to working-class as well as wealthy Americans from the 1940s to the ‘70s, now go exclusively to the rich. The manufacturing jobs that anchored our prosperity were offshored, automated or deunionized; lower-paying service-sector jobs took their place.
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It’s no great achievement for a people to recognize that their nation’s economy has tanked, but recognizing that their nation’s class structure has slowly but fundamentally altered is a more challenging task. It’s harder still for a people who are conditioned, as Americans are, not to see their nation in terms of class. Which is why a poll released this month by the Pew Research Center reveals a transformation of Americans’ sense of their country and themselves that is startling. Pew asked Americans if their country was divided between haves and have-nots. In 1988, when Gallup asked that question, 26 percent of respondents said yes and 71 percent said no. In 2001, when Pew asked it, 44 percent said yes and 53 percent said no. But when Pew asked it again this summer, the number of Americans who agreed that we live in a nation divided into haves and have-nots had risen to 48 percent — exactly the same as the number of Americans who disagreed. Americans’ assessment of their own place in the economy has altered, too. In 1988, fully 59 percent identified themselves as haves and just 17 percent as have-nots. By 2001, the haves had dwindled to 52 percent and the have-nots had risen to 32 percent. This summer, just 45 percent of Americans called themselves haves; 34 percent called themselves have-nots. These are epochal shifts, of epochal significance. The American middle class has toppled into a world of temporary employment, jobs without benefits, retirement without security. Harder times have come to left and right alike: The percentage of Republicans who call themselves haves has declined by 13 points since 1988; the percentage of Democratic haves has
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Submit a letter to the editor at www.utahstatesman.com Punishments for violating the law are no news flash, especially those dealing with parking restrictions. The all-too-familiar parking ticket sits on some car windows because too much time has elapsed at the meter or a parking permit tag wasn’t displayed properly. Sometimes a car gets towed for being parked in the wrong place. But in this neck of the woods, booting seems to be the most popular enforcement method. Logan, especially near campus, has seemingly no parking spots available to guests, making it difficult to visit friends. The penalty for parking in these lots without a permit is booting – a giant padlock of sorts placed on the wheel of a vehicle to prevent the driver from moving without severe damage to the vehicle. To get the boot removed requires a $70 fee. Is booting the best form of parking lot enforcement? Is there a better way to handle this? Are the fines too much? Are students always in the right when it comes to booting? Or are booting companies just fulfilling their contracts with companies? What’s your take? Tell us at www.utahstatesman.com/messageboard.
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declined by 12 points. This equality of declining opportunity, however, isn’t matched by an equality of perception. The percentage of Democrats who say America is divided between haves and have-nots has risen by 31 points since 1988; the percentage of Republicans, by just 14 points. Indeed, though that 13-point decline in Republicans who call themselves haves has occurred entirely since they were asked that question in 2001, the percentage of Republicans who say we live in a have/havenot nation has actually shrunk by one point since 2001. (It had increased 15 points from 1988 to 2001.) Apparently, so great is Republicans’ loyalty to the Bush presidency that they’re willing to overlook their own experience. And, in many cases, to attribute the nation’s transformation solely to immigration, rather than to the rise of
a stateless laissez-faire capitalism over which the American people wield less and less power. Which helps explain why Republican presidential candidates bluster about a fence on the border and have nothing to say about providing health coverage or restoring some power to American workers. But the big story here isn’t Republican denial. It’s the shattering of Americans’ sense of a common identity in a time when the economy no longer promotes the general welfare. The world the New Deal built has been destroyed, and we are, as we were before the New Deal, two nations. Harold Meyerson is editor-at-large of American Prospect and the L.A. Weekly and is a special to The Washington Post.
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religion and national origin), bolstered Diaz’s confidence that Pan Am would at least consider his second job application in 1967. When they again refused, Diaz brought the airline to court. Through four years of legal proceedings, Pan Am, supported by its fellow airlines, steadfastly asserted that being female was a “bona fide occupational qualification” for the job. A barrage of newspaper articles likewise expressed incredulity at the idea of “male stewardesses.” Of course, the airline had a tough time proving that men could not actually do the job. With little else at its disposal, Pan Am relied on prejudices against gay and effeminate men to justify its discrimination. The airline’s lawyers laid out a doozy of a Catch-22. They argued that, on the one hand, real men would prove too masculine to provide the nurturing, maternal essence of flight attending. On the other hand, the men who could excel at the job would be effeminate and therefore unacceptable. Pan Am’s expert witness, psychiatrist and bestselling author Eric Berne, testified that effeminate male flight attendants would make a male passenger “uneasy” because they “might arouse feelings in him he would rather not have aroused.” Berne went on to opine that the airlines should cater to “standard American prejudices” against men who were associated with femininity – in short, who might seem gay. The district court in southern Florida actually perpetuated these prejudices. Ruling that being female indeed constituted a requirement for being a flight attendant, the judge’s decision reiterated Berne’s argument that “male passengers would generally feel more masculine and thus more at ease in the presence of a young female attendant.” It took the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
to put an end to Pan Am’s discriminatory policy. Eschewing the airline’s preoccupations with gender and sexuality, the justices concluded that a flight attendant’s job was to transport passengers safely, not reassure passengers’ masculinity. For the court, whether a job candidate was male or female, masculine or effeminate, was not a “bona fide occupational qualification.” Diaz’s taste of victory proved bittersweet. The case wasn’t resolved until 1971, by which time he was too old to re-apply . However, since Diaz vs. Pan Am, thousands of men – gay and straight – have served as flight attendants. Today, when passengers look up from their SkyMall and see a man serving their Sierra Mist, nary an eyebrow is raised. Yet other employers continue to elaborate on Pan Am’s discriminatory logic to explicitly deny jobs to people they suspect are gay. Title VII, alas, provides no protection from discrimination based on real or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity. In 31 states, it is still legal to fire or refuse to hire people for reasons that have no connection to their talent, education and dedication. Now that Congress is discussing the merits of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act , which would prohibit job discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, we would do well to remember that there are plenty of men and women like Diaz who are still struggling against prejudice and stereotypes to attain their dream careers – no matter how lofty or earthbound those happen to be.
Kate Johnson is a writer based in New York. Albert Garcia is vice president of the Association of Flight Attendants for Northwest Airlines.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces kill more than 60 insurgents; U.S. Embassy criticizes Senate
Iraqis chant anti-American slogans while mutilated bodies of U.S. contractors hang from a bridge over the Euphrates River in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, in this March 31, 2004 file photo. AP Photo
BAGHDAD (AP) – U.S. and rorists” over the past 24 hours. Iraqi forces killed more than 60 The operations were centered in insurgent and militia fighters Salahuddin and Diyala provinces in intense battles over the weekand around the city of Kirkuk, end, with most of the casualties where the ministry said its solbelieved to have been al-Qaida diers had killed 40 and arrested fighters, officials said Sunday. eight. It said 52 fighters were The U.S. Embassy, meanwhile, arrested altogether. joined a broad swath of Iraqi The ministry did not further politicians — both Shiite and identify those killed, but use of Sunni — in criticizing a nonthe word “terrorists” normally binding U.S. Senate resolution indicates al-Qaida. seen here as a recipe for splitting In a separate operation, U.S. the country along sectarian and forces killed two insurgents and ethnic lines. detained 21 others during weekThe U.S. military also end operations against al-Qaida. announced the death of an Intelligence led to a raid early American soldier killed Saturday Sunday that netted what the U.S. in a roadside bombing and gunmilitary called 15 rogue memfire attack in eastern Baghdad. bers of the Mahdi Army militia There were 62 U.S. military at an undisclosed Baghdad locadeaths in September, the lowtion. est monthly toll since July 2006 The mainstream of the militia, when 43 American soldiers were the armed wing of anti-American killed, according to a prelimicleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s organinary Associated Press tally. zation, has been ordered by the U.S. aircraft killed more than religious leader to stop attacks 20 al-Qaida in Iraq fighters who on U.S. and Iraqi forces. opened fire on an American air But many one-time members of patrol northwest of Baghdad, the the group have split off and are U.S. command said. acting independently of al-Sadr’s The firefight between U.S. control. Some have gone to Iran aircraft and the insurgent fightfor training and are receiving ers occurred Saturday about 17 weapons and financing from the miles northwest of the capital, Islamic regime in Tehran. the military said. The Senate resolution, adopted The aircraft observed about 25 last week, proposed reshaping al-Qaida insurgents carrying AK- Iraq according to three sectarian 47 assault rifles — one brandish- or ethnic territories. It calls for ing a rocket-propelled grenade a limited central government — walking into a palm grove, with the bulk of power going to the military said. the country’s Shiite, Sunni or “Shortly after spotting the Kurdish regions, envisioning a men, the aircraft were fired upon power-sharing agreement similar by the insurgent fighters,” it said. to the one that ended the 1990s The military did not say what war in Bosnia. Delaware Sen. kind of aircraft were involved Joseph Biden, a Democrat presibut the fact that the fighters dential candidate, was a prime opened fire suggests they were sponsor. low-flying Apache helicopters. In a highly unusual statement, The command said more than the U.S. Embassy said resolution 20 of the group were killed andA B-52 would seriously bomber loadedhamper with six Iraq’s warheads flew for more four vehicles were destroyed. Nonuclear future stability. hours several Iraqi civilians or U.S. soldiers than three “Our goalover in Iraq remains the states last week. were hurt. same: a united, democratic, fedpath defend, “Coalition forces have dealt eralPossible Iraq that flight can govern, significant blows to Al-Qaida Minot and Airsustain Force itself,” Base the unsigned Iraq in recent months, including statement said. the recent killing of the Tunisian “Iraq’s leaders must and will take Minneapolis how to head of the foreign fighter the lead in determining network in Iraq and the blows achieve these national aspirastruck in the past 24 hours,” tions. ... attempts to partition Kansas City military spokesman Col. Steven or divide Iraq by intimidation, St. Louis Boylan told The Associated force or other means into three Press. separate states would produce Iraq’s Defense Ministry said in extraordinary suffering and Dallas an e-mail Sunday afternoon that bloodshed,” it said. Iraqi soldiers had killed 44 “terThe statement came just
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hours after representatives of Iraq’s major political parties denounced the Senate proposal. The Kurds in three northern Iraqi provinces are running a virtually independent country within Iraq while nominally maintaining relations with Baghdad. They support a formal division, but both Sunni and Shiite Muslims have denounced the proposal. At a news conference earlier in the day, at least nine Iraqi political parties and party blocs – both Shiite and Sunni – said the Senate resolution would diminish Iraq’s sovereignty and said they would try to pass a law to ban any division of the country. “This proposal was based on the incorrect reading and unrealistic estimations of Iraq’s past, present and future,” according to a statement read at a news con-
Speak Up “Our goal in Iraq remains the same: a united nation, democratic, federal Iraq that can govern, defend and sustain itself.” Unsigned statement by the U.S. Embassy ference by Izzat al-Shahbandar, a representative of the secular Iraqi National List. Iraq’s constitution lays down a federal system, allowing Shiites in the south, Kurds in the north and Sunnis in the center and west of the country to set up regions with considerable autonomous powers. Nevertheless, ethnic and sectarian turmoil have snarled hopes of negotiating such measures, especially given deep divisions on sharing the country’s vast oil resources. Oil reserves and existing fields would fall mainly into the hands of Kurds and Shiites if such a division were to occur. Also Sunday, a judge delayed court proceedings for a second U.S. Army sniper accused in the deaths of two unarmed Iraqi civilians.
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Boris Chertok speaks to reporters in Moscow, Friday, Sept. 21. Chertok, 95, was one of the founders of the Soviet space program and he played a key role in the Sputnik’s launch on Oct. 4, 1957. AP Photo
Sputnik at 50: first space race won with scrounged rocket, improvised satellite MOSCOW (AP) – When Sputnik took off 50 years ago, the world gazed at the heavens in awe and apprehension, watching what seemed like the unveiling of a sustained Soviet effort to conquer space and score a stunning Cold War triumph. But 50 years later, it emerges that the momentous launch was far from being part of a wellplanned strategy to demonstrate communist superiority over the West. Instead, the first artificial satellite in space was a spurof-the-moment gamble driven by the dream of one scientist, whose team scrounged a rocket, slapped together a satellite and persuaded a dubious Kremlin to open the space age. And that winking light that crowds around the globe gathered to watch in the night sky? Not Sputnik at all, as it turns out, but just the second stage of its booster rocket, according to Boris Chertok, one of the founders of the Soviet space program.
In a series of interviews in recent days with The Associated Press, Chertok and other veterans told the little-known story of how Sputnik was launched, and what an unlikely achievement it turned out to be. Chertok couldn’t whisper a word about the project through much of his lifetime. His name, and that of Sergei Korolyov, the chief scientist, were a state secret. Today, at age 95 and talking to a small group of reporters in Moscow, Chertok can finally give full voice to his pride at the pivotal role he played in the history of space exploration. “Each of these first rockets was like a beloved woman for us,” he said. “We were in love with every rocket, we desperately wanted it to blast off successfully. We would give our hearts and souls to see it flying.” This very rational exuberance, and Korolyov’s determination, were the key to Sputnik’s success.
6-nation talks on North Korean nuclear program reach tentative plan, envoys say BEIJING (AP) – Negotiators at North Korea’s disarmament talks tentatively agreed to a draft plan Sunday on disabling the country’s nuclear facilities by year’s end, though they said the detailed blueprint required further consideration by their governments. The four days of talks, which began on an optimistic note after North Korea earlier agreed to a Dec. 31 deadline, were supposed to set specifics for the disabling, among other issues. Envoys described the talks as being in recess, with host China saying that they may reconvene in 48 hours depending on what the six governments — China, the United States, Japan, Russia and North and South Koreas — decide. The draft “lays out an entire roadmap until the end of the year” for the North’s nuclear disarmament, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill told reporters before boarding a plane for New York. “We’re into the nuts and bolts now of implementing denuclearization,” Hill said. He
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said the level of detail, which he declined to discuss, made it necessary for him to return to Washington for consultations. South Korean envoy Chun Yungwoo said the proposed blueprint set some deadlines for North Korea and for the other parties to meet. The six country are pushing forward a February agreement under which communist, impoverished North Korea agreed to declare and dismantle all its nuclear programs in return for 1 million tons of heavy fuel oil or other assistance. Under that deal, the terms for the North’s declaration and the dismantling should have been agreed upon five months ago. Talks have dragged on for four years but if ultimately successful would roll back a nuclear program that a year ago allowed North Korea to detonate a nuclear device and that experts say may have produced more than a dozen nuclear bombs. Agreement on the blueprint would be a boost for South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun ahead of a rare summit this week
with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. In his efforts to promote rapprochement with the North, Roh has sometimes appeared to be out of step with South Korean ally, the United States. “Many countries exerted the spirit of compromise. In particular, North Korea made many concessions,” South Korea’s Chun told reporters. Under terms in the draft, North Korea reiterated its Dec. 31 deadline for declaring and disabling its nuclear programs and accepted that other parties would not be able to deliver all aid within that time, Chun said. He said that South Korea by year’s end would only have delivered about a third of the economic and energy assistance it promised to. While the U.S. also restated its intention eventually to remove North Korea from a list of countries that sponsor terrorism, the draft did not set a deadline, Chun said. Envoys, however, did not comment on whether the draft addressed earlier sticking points.
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So was happenstance. As described by the former scientists, the world’s first orbiter was born out of a very different Soviet program: the frantic development of a rocket capable of striking the United States with a hydrogen bomb. Because there was no telling how heavy the warhead would be, its R-7 ballistic missile was built with thrust to spare — “much more powerful than anything the Americans had,” Georgy Grechko, a rocket engineer and cosmonaut, told AP. The towering R-7’s high thrust and payload capacity, unmatched at the time, just happened to make it the perfect vehicle to launch an object into orbit — something never done before. Without the looming nuclear threat, Russian scientists say, Sputnik would probably have gotten off the ground much later.
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Oct. 2 p.m., Business Building. - College Bowl, 3 p.m., Business Building. - Concert with Cory Mon, 7 p.m., TSC Ballroom. - Clothesline Project, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., TSC International Lounge. - AWM’s, 3 to 4 p.m., Business Building. - Books & Buddies, 6 to 8 p.m. - Autumn Voices, a Department of Music eventm 7:30 p.m., Performance Hall. - Fry Street Quartet concert, 7:30 p.m.
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a.m. - Clothesline Project, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., TSC International Lounge. - Interior Design Visiting Designer Series presents sustainability leader Penny Bonda, 9 to 10:20 a.m., Kent Concert Hall. - Jason Lindsey, president of Overstock.com, 12:30 p.m., Business Building Room 215. - STAB Movie: Bourne Ultimatum, 7 p.m., TSC Ballroom.
Flying McCoys • G&G Mccoy Brain Waves • B. Streeter
Books and Buddies Books and Buddies are community events for children, parents, and child care providers to help enhance early literacy skills in children before they start school. A free book will be given to every child, while supplies last. October 2, 6 to 8 p.m. 797-3956
Festival of Lights
India Student Association is celebrating Diwali, the Festival of Lights on Friday, Oct. 5, at 6 p.m. in the TSC Ballroom. Please be there to have Indian Culture and Food.
Institute sign-up Register for Institute at wise. ldsces.org
Clothesline project The USU Women’s Center Clothesline Project will take place Oct. 1–3 in the TSC International Lounge, from 10 a.m.- 9 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday and from 10 a.m.- 3 p.m. on Wednesday. The Clothesline Project is a visual display that bears witness to the violence against women and children. The USU Women’s Center has been displaying these shirts for more than 10 years. Shirt designing may be arranged by
contacting the Women’s Center at (435) 797-1728. Confidentiality will be respected.
Downtown gallery The Alliance for the Varied Arts Downtown Gallery Walk. Friday, Oct. 5 from 6 to 9 p.m. Purchase the work of local artists and enjoy refreshments provided by many of the galleries. Participating galleries include AMC, Caffé Ibis, Citrus and Sage, Global Village Gifts, S.E. Needham’s Jewelers, and Winborg Masterpieces. For more information call 753-2970.
More to remember: • Utah Lacrosse Association (ULA) is holding training courses for those interested in officiating high school boys lacrosse during the ULA Spring 2008 seasons. Interested individuals can attend one of two clinics.Tuesday Oct. 16, 6-9 p.m. or Saturday, Oct. 20 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Both clinics will be in the USU Education Bldg. Room 282. For more information contact Hal Potter at hal.potter@usu.edu • French Club Conversation Hour, every Wednesday at noon at Cafe Ibis in the TSC. If you know french or want to learn, come join us! • USU’s AWM presents: A Taste of Mathematics Come and learn what you didn’t
Pearls Before Swine • Steve Pastis
learn in high school: actuarial math, number theory, graph theory, and topology. Tuesday, Oct. 2, Business Building Room 211 at 3 p.m. Snacks will be served. • “All are invited to participate in a Peace Vigil every Friday, 5 to 6 p.m. on the east side of Main Street between Center Street and 100 North, Logan. This is a nonviolent public event sponsored by Cache Valley Peace Works and has been on-going every Friday since September 2005. E-mail loganpeace@hotmail.com or call 7555137 if you have questions.” • Come help Common Ground Outdoor Adventures provide outdoor recreation for people with disabilities. Volunteer help needed on camping trips, cycling activities, skiing, office tasks and more. Visit www.cgadventures.org to sign up to be a volunteer or call 435-713-0288 or stop by the office at 335 N 100 E in Logan. • Parent-Tot Nature Hour, Friday October 5, 10 – 11 a.m. Stokes Nature Center invites all toddlers, ages 2-3, to explore their sense of SIGHT. The program will return to SNC at 2696 E. Highway 89, Logan. Costs are $3 ($2.50 for SNC members). All Toddlers must have a parent pal present. To register, call 435-755-3239 or visit www.logannature.org.
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Recent Results Saturday September 29 Utah 34, Utah State 18 Nevada 27, UNLV 20 San Jose St. 34, UC Davis 14 Hawaii 48, Idaho 20 New Mexico St. 20, Ark. Pine-Bluff 17 Fresno St. 17, Louisiana Tech 6
Thursday September 27 Boise St. 38, Southern Miss. 16
WAC Women’s Volleyball WAC Overall Hawaii New Mexico State Utah State Nevada Idaho Fresno State Louisiana Tech San Jose State Boise State
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Recent Results Saturday, September 30 Utah State def. Fresno State, 3-1 (3026, 28-30, 30-28)
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Recent Results Thursday September 27 USU 1, Montana 0 USU freshman running back derrvin speight (21) sprints past Ute linebacker Sylvester Stevenson (10). Speight collected 67 yards rushing in his first-ever career start vs. the Utes. The Aggies as a team totalled 136 yards on the ground. The Utes netted 144 yards in the same category. TYLER LARSON photo
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The Top 25 teams in the AP college football poll through Sept. 29 (first-place votes): RANK 1. LSU (33) 2. USC (32) 3. California 4. Ohio St. 5. Wisconsin 6. South Florida 7. Boston College 8. Kentucky 9. Florida 10. Oklahoma 11. South Carolina 12. Georgia 13. West Virginia 14. Oregon 15. Virginia Tech 16. Hawaii 17. Missouri 18. Arizona St. 19. Texas 20. Cincinnati 21. Rutgers 22. Clemson 23. Purdue 24. Kansas St. 25. Nebraska
Ags start hot, lose 10th consecutive game to Utes
are the ones that are keeping us from getting in the end zone.” The Aggies have lost 10 consecutive games and drop to 0-5 with a game at No. 16 Hawaii next SALT LAKE CITY — As the weather Saturday week. The Utes bumped their record up to 2-3. afternoon at Rice-Eccles Stadium went from cold, The consensus turning point of the game came to snow, to miserable for fans, so did the Utah State at the start of the third quarter when the Utes held football team. a 24-10 lead. Utah had the ball Though the Aggies picked up on a third-and-11 from its own a spark early in the first quarter - Related story, page 16 14-yard line. Utah quarterback thanks to a James Brindley 64Brian Johnson then was picked yard interception return that off by USU linebacker Jake Hutton at the Ute 29lead to a 7-0 lead, the University of Utah fired back yard line. with explosive plays on special teams for a 34-18 The Aggie offense initially responded as Leon victory. Jackson III connected with Otis Nelson for a 23“We’re not taking steps back, we’re just not yard pass completion. However, on the next three executing any better than we did before,” Aggie Head Coach Brent Guy said. “We’re making the same mistakes over. That’s what’s upsetting as a - See LOSS, page 17 coach is when you make the same mistakes. Those
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USU Head coach brent guy looks on during the fourth quarter of Saturday’s 38-14 loss at Utah. Guy is now 4-24 in his career at USU. TYLER LARSON photo
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Others receiving votes: Florida St. 101, Miami 83, Illinois 59, Auburn 52, UCLA 49, Texas A&M 29, Michigan St. 16, Michigan 15, Connecticut 9, Alabama 6, Arkansas 5, Colorado 5, UCF 5, Penn St. 4, Boise St. 3, Kansas 3, Virginia 3, Washington 1
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Ute punt returner derrek richards (26) eludes USU linebacker Jake Hutton (53) on a 75yard punt return for a touchdown Saturday. The score came at the beginning of the second quarter. It was the first time since 2000 that the Utes had a punt taken back for a touchdown. The Utes averaged 39.7 yards per return on punts. TYLER LARSON photo
Big plays key in Utes overcoming deficit By SAM BRYNER senior writer
SALT LAKE CITY — The University of Utah football team made big plays. Utah State did not. The Aggies had chances, but they were not able to convert. Whenever the Aggies seemed to be getting any sort of momentum, the Utes sucker-punched USU with a big play. In the first quarter it looked like the Aggies might be the team making the big plays and turning the momentum. After having lost seven yards on first down, Utah quarterback Brian Johnson dropped back and passed the ball toward receiver Jerome Brooks. Instead of Brooks coming away with the catch, it was Aggie safety James Brindley who ripped the ball away and raced down the field in and out of would-be tacklers all the way to the Utah 1-yard line. “When the team executes, plays like that happen,” Brindley said. “I just broke on the ball and had a great return, had teammates upfield blocking.” USU quarterback Leon Jackson III punched the ball in from the 1-yard line, and the Aggies appeared to be on their way to picking up their first win of the season. Unfortunately for Utah State, the next two scores would come from big plays by the University of Utah. With under six minutes left in the first quarter, the Aggies had the Utes in a third-and-seven situation. Instead of stopping the Utes, the Aggies gave up an 18-yard reception to receiver Brian Hernandez. Three plays later, Johnson found Brooks in the corner of the end zone for a 22-yard touchdown completion to knot the score at seven. This was the first of many fireworks lit off by Utah in the subfreezing weather. The last time the University of Utah had returned a punt for touchdown was in 2000 by current NFL player Steve Smith. With the beginning of the second quarter, that would soon change. Jackson punted the ball from the Aggies’ own 40-yard line down to the Utah 25 into the awaiting hands of return man Derrek Richards. Seventy-five yards later and after a plethora of missed tackles, Richards found pay dirt to give the Utes the lead for good. “This is the worst we have played teams-wise,” Aggie Head Coach Brent Guy said. “We have been a pretty good special teams football team and have kept ourselves in games. Today we didn’t do it. We
AGGIE CORNERBACK KEJON MURPHY (9) attemps to make a tackle on a Ute receiver. The Aggies gave up 181 yards passing. TYLER LARSON photo
AGGIE SAFETY JAMES BRINDLEY (26) takes an interception back 64 yards in the first quarter Saturday at Rice-Eccles stadium. It was his first career interception. TYLER LARSON photo
didn’t have good punt coverage, and we were missing tackles.” If there was one word to describe the third quarter for the Aggies, it would be frustration. Down 24-10 entering the quarter, it looked as though junior linebacker Jake Hutton would provide the Aggies with the big play they needed to get back into the game. With Utah facing a third-and-11, Johnson threw a pass that was picked off by Hutton at the Ute 29-yard line. After a 3-yard run and a 23yard pass to junior wide receiver Otis Nelson, Utah State was in good position with a first and goal from the Ute 2-yard line. Four plays later though, Utah State walked off the field without putting any points on the board. “That’s very frustrating because we’re so close to scoring, and we couldn’t get the ball in the end zone,” Hutton said. “It’s very frustrating.” Freshman running back Derrvin Speight agreed and called the Ute goal-line stand a huge swing in momentum. “That really hurt,” Speight said. “That was like the turning point of the game. We were on the two and didn’t get any points off that, and they scored after that. That kind of hurt us.” To make matters worse for the Aggies, the Utes followed up the defensive stand with a long 16-play touchdown drive that ran 7:02 off the clock. The straw that broke the camel’s back for the Aggies on that 80-yard drive came when it looked as though Utah State held Utah to a quick threeand-out. With fourth-and-eight on the Ute 22-yard line, punter Louis Sakoda ran for 22 yards on a fake punt. “We have four guys lined up there who should be reading that,” Guy said. “He did a good job holding the ball; he held on to it a lot longer and then took off running.” For the game Utah had three touchdown scores that were longer than 20 yards. Utah State’s two touchdowns were from one yard out and 10 yards out. -sam.bryner@aggiemail.usu.edu
Cross country places in top 20 By JAKE IPSON staff writer
The Utah State men’s cross country team finished 13th and the women 14th at the Bill Dellinger Invitational in Eugene, Ore. Coach Greg Gensel said, “The team ran pretty good against good competition.” The men were led by junior Seth Wold, who finished 33rd
in the 8,000-meter race with a time of 24:03. Sophomore Jason Holt also finished strong with a time of 24:52 putting him in 68th place. Senior Stacie Dorius led the women with a time of 21:33 in the 6,000-meter race. Senior Amy Egan finished 66th with a time of 21:44, and shortly behind her was junior Caroline Berry with a time of 21:49, placing her in 73rd place. The University of Oregon was
able to take advantage of being at home and placed first in both the men and women’s races. “We were looking for improvement, and that’s what we got,” Gensel said. “They all ran real good.” Utah State’s next meet will be the NCAA prenationals in Terre Haute, Ind., for both the men and the women. -jake.ipson@aggiemail.usu. edu
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Ags sweep road trip
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By G. CHRISTOPHER TERRY staff writer
USU 3, SAN JOSE STATE 0 The San Jose State Spartans had an eyebrowraising 50 kills against Utah State, but it wasn’t enough as USU blocked 17 shots en route to a 3025, 30-28, 30-28 sweep on the road. USU moved its record to 7-7 on the year, with a 4-1 mark in Western Athletic Conference play. USU Head Coach Grayson DuBose credited his team’s preparation for the block party they held in San Jose’s backyard. “We had a good scouting report and we stayed on their tendencies,” DuBose said. The tag team of Amanda Nielson and Melissa Osterloh led USU, as they have all year. Nielson had a match-high 13 kills while Osterloh had her fifth double-double of the year with 10 kills and 10 digs. Osterloh also contributed four blocks and hit a high .429 percentage. Rebecca Anderson led USU with eight blocks, and Danielle Taylor chipped in six blocks. “That was a big deal for us,” DuBose said of the outstanding defensive statistics USU compiled. “They had more digs and kills, but we had a lot of blocks.” The two teams had identical .152 hitting percentages, and USU got its winning edge from a powerful blocking presence and by making fewer errors. The Aggies had only four service errors to SJSU’s 10 and had seven service aces to SJSU’s four. USU’s win sent the Spartans to 0-3 in the WAC. USU 3, FRESNO STATE 1 The Fresno State Bulldogs were able to force a fourth game against USU by scoring 10 of the last 11 points in game three, but the Aggies took care of business, hitting .196 in the final game to go home with a 2-0 road trip under their belts. USU took the match by scores of 30-26, 30-19, 28-30 and 30-28. DuBose said getting two road wins was his teams “whole goal going in. It’s hard, we flew to San Jose and then we drove two hours to Fresno.
A SCRUM BETWEEN THE USU AND WEBER STATE RUGBY TEAMS during their game on the HPER fields Sept. 15. The Aggies traveled to Salt Lake City over the weekend and lost, 30-5, to the University of Utah. KYLE BEAR photo aggie outside hitter melissa osterloh (3) attempts a kill vs. Boise State, Oct. 13. USU improved to 5-1 in WAC play with road wins this weekend. PATRICK ODEN photo
Those things are distractions if you let them be.” Nielson took advantage of the fourth game to set season highs with 28 kills and 15 digs. Her partner Osterloh had her sixth double-double of the year, scoring 18 kills and 16 digs. USU moved its overall record above .500 with the win, to 8-7, and now stands at 5-1 in the WAC, with the only loss coming in four games to a tough New Mexico State team. The Aggies are now officially on a roll, having won six of their last seven games. Fresno State dropped to 4-12 overall and 2-4 in the WAC. After taking some lumps in the preseason against nationally ranked opposition, DuBose’s team is now right where he wants them to be. “You look at the season and say these are the games where we have a good chance, and these are the games where we will have to play really well to win,” DuBose said. “We knew we had a good team going in. Preseason prepared us for this because we played really good teams, so now every time we step out onto the court, we are confident in our team.” USU hit .276 overall in the match and held Fresno State to .148 hitting. USU’s best performance was in game two, when the team hit a ferocious .484 percentage. -graham.terry@aggiemail.usu.edu
Ag hockey blasts Utes in SLC start this season, said if USU didn’t score two goals to make it a 10-goal lead with 17 minutes to go in the third period, Utah State continued its he would have blown the game dominant run over the rival on purpose. University of “Having two Utah Utes Friday goals scored night at the against him, he Steiner Ice Center already considin Salt Lake, ered it a loss,” USU 12 putting up a 12John said. UTAH 2 2 score on the Kent Arsenault board. led the Aggies This was just the most recent with a hat trick. blowout the Ags have hung on Jeremy Madigan scored the Utes, and perhaps a mere twice, and Jay McFadden, Ryan 10-goal win is blasé these days, Osterheldt, Matt Ferris and because team captain Scotty Paul Reinhardt all scored one John said not everyone on the each. team was pleased. While the talent gap between “Basically, we played down, USU and Utah is no longer as didn’t have a great game against pronounced as it was the night them,” John said. “The coaches last season when the Ags won were kind of upset about it.” 20-0, John said bluntly, “Their The coaches were not the goaltenders really suck. Their only ones unhappy with USU’s goalies are brutal, but their play. According to John, goalie team is improving.” Greg Finatti, making his first In the end, even if the Ags By G. CHRISTOPHER TERRY staff writer
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were not exactly firing on all cylinders against Utah, John is not sweating it. “The team came together and was excited to play. Everybody was happy we are doing well,” he said. This Friday, the Aggies will be at the Ice Sheet in Ogden to try and upset the Division-I Weber State Wildcats for the second game in a row. Then they return to their own barn Saturday night to play the Utah Valley University – formerly Utah Valley State College – Wolverines, an upstart club which served USU an embarrassing 9-6 loss back on Sept. 22. John had harsh words for the Wolverines. “We hate UVSC with a passion,” he said. “We’ll see them on the sixth of October at our place, and we are looking forward to beating the stuffing out of them.” -graham.terry@aggiemail.
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plays from the Ute 2-yard line, the Aggies failed to get into the end zone. To top it off, Peter Caldwell missed a 22-yard field goal wide left because of a strong westward wind. “You make the play, you’ve got to finish it on offense,” Guy said. “We’ve got to score points in the red zone. That’s what our Achilles’ heel is right now. We’re gonna put (our team) at the goal line and go live this week (in practice). That’s all I know how to do. Go put them down there at the 5-(yard line) and let’s do it.” The Utes gave the Aggies another punch in the gut on their next drive. The hosts faced a fourth-and-eight from their own 22-yard line and lined up to punt. Ute punter Louie Sakoda held the ball for a moment until all Aggie defenders had turned to go block downfield, and then, with a clear path, ran 22 yards for a first down. The Utes continued onward down the field for a 16-play, 80yard drive that ate up 7:02 off the clock. “Obviously we didn’t play well enough (on defense) to win,” Aggie junior linebacker Jake
Hutton said. “They threw up 34 points on us. We didn’t play good enough to win, obviously.” Though down 34-10 with 6:27 remaining in the game, the Aggies displayed their iron will in the midst of adversity and made one last push to come back. Kevin Robinson returned a punt 44 yards to put the ball on the Ute 24. Seven plays and 3:54 later, USU was in the end zone and converted the two-point conversion to make narrow the Ute lead to 16 points. An onside kick gave the ball back to USU with 2:33 at their own 40. The biggest play in the final drive was when Jackson completed a 31-yard pass to Robinson. But, even though the drive lasted nine plays, the Aggies failed on a fourth-and-five from the Ute 13. With the week-after-week repetition of being so close, is it getting tiring and monotonous for Aggie players? “Very,” Hutton said. “Every game we’ve played except Oklahoma we’ve had a chance to win. This wasn’t as close as the others, but a play here, a play there and we could have won
every game.” Another important issue to note from the USU side is that Jackson was 17-of-24 passing for 139 yards and zero interceptions. “They continue to fight,” Guy said. “They’re upset in the locker room when they lose games, which is good. I haven’t always felt that before in the past. I feel like they’re just really frustrated.” Notes: The Aggies’ first quarter touchdown was their first openingquarter points since last year’s home loss to Hawaii. Aggie tight end Jimmy Bohm left the game walking on crutches. On third down conversions, the Aggies were 4-of-17; the Utes weren’t much better at 5-of-14. The Utes tallied 15 first downs while the Aggies had 14. The Aggies won the battle of possession time as they had the ball for 33:21 to the Utes’ 26:39. The Aggies have been outscored in the first quarter 37-7 this season. Temperature at kickoff was 38 degrees. Snow began falling at halftime and throughout the remainder of the game. -samuel.hislop@aggiemail.usu. edu
USU rugby falls to Utah By JACKSON OLSEN staff writer
Confidence and optimism weren’t enough to combat the experience and crisp execution of the University of Utah’s men’s rugby team Saturday, as the Aggies fell to the Utes 30-5 in Salt Lake City. The Aggies, who had just come off their season-opener win against Weber State, went into Saturday’s contest with hopes of an upset. Their practices were upbeat and positive. Head Coach Jeff Bruce was encouraging. In general, the team seemed buoyant. Then the rain came. On what was one of the coldest and wettest days of the season, the Aggies marched on to Fort Douglas Field and quickly realized they were in for a long, hard afternoon. It took only a few minutes of play before the Utes would get onto the board—
something they would continue to do throughout the remainder of the game. “They were a good team,” said Porter Macey, junior and twoyear member of the Aggie squad. “They came out and dominated, which is what you would expect from a nationally-ranked team.” The Utes, who finished last season ranked No. 4 in the nation, were led by senior David Bonnemorte, a 6-foot-6, 215pound giant from Lyon, France, who was a constant threat when on the field. But it wasn’t Bonnemorte’s performance alone that did the Aggies in. It was the complete team effort, consistency and execution from the Utes that proved to be too much for Utah State. The Utes seemed to have better ball control, force more errors and continually interrupt the Aggie game plan. Utah State didn’t help themselves at times, committing several unforced errors that the Utes happily
cashed in on. On the other side of the scrum, however, the Aggies didn’t just fall down and accept defeat. They held their own as they went head to head with one of (if not the) best teams in the nation, and only lost by 25. Nationally ranked teams such as Purdue and Air Force can’t boast the same—both teams lost to the Utes last spring by margins of 43 and 62, respectively. Utah State’s lone score came late in the first half. By that time, however, the Utes were already in the height of their rout. The points, unlike the stone and sling of David, hardly seemed to slow this Goliath up at all. “We came out and did our best,” Macey said. “We’re proud of our effort, but now we’ve got to focus and get ready for next week.” -jackson.olsen@aggiemail.usu. edu