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Latino Voices project gathers life stories and cultural values

Students’ designs on display in Swiss museum

By DEVIN FELIX staff writer

Campus News

Presidential hopeful and New Mexico governor Bill Richardson urges diplomacy with Iran.

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Features Two USU students describe their experiences running the Top of Utah Marathon.

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Sports USU cross country and track coach Gregg Gensel explains the story behind his success.

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Opinion “With his integrity, I half expect ‘multiple-choice Mitt’ to change religions as well.”

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Almanac Today in History: In 1995, after a 252day trial, former football player O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the double murder of his estranged wife Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman.

Simpson’s trial was the longest in California history.

Students who want to take part in USU’s Summer Design Program in Switzerland need to act quickly: Within two hours of enrollment opening for this year’s program, 37 students signed up, filling the program.

The program has grown in popularity since it began in 2002, and it’s now the largest and longest-running Study Abroad program at Utah State, said Bob Winward, associated professor of graphic design and the program’s organizer.

“It was the sweetest summers I’ve ever had in my life,” said Ben Evjen, a USU graduate who participated in the program in 2005 and 2006. “It was an awesome experience.”

The program averages 35 students each year, who spend a month in Switzerland studying art, design and being immersed in foreign cultures, Winward said. They travel throughout the

By LIZ LAWYER assistant news editor

Utah speaks, and USU is listening.

An oral history project by Special Collections and Archives in the Merrill-Cazier Library, in which 44 Cache Valley Latinos recorded their life stories, is nearing completion, said Randy Williams, coordinator for the project.

“We’re calling it Utah Speaks because that’s Students for USU’s 2007 summer design prowhat we’re trying to do – listen to what people gram in Switzerland installed their Olympic torch designs in are saying,” Williams said. an exhibit at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. photo She said the organizers for the projects wantCOURTESY USU MEDIA RELATIONS ed to focus on Latinos in Cache Valley because country every day, drawing, writ- Museum in Lausanne. Museum of the ongoing controversy concerning Latinos. ing, going to museums and cathe- staff liked the designs so much “We wanted to show there are more simidrals, photographing and more. that they created an exhibit in the larities than differences (between whites and museum to display them.

“This is not a classroom Latinos),” she said. “Our goal is to find out experience,” Winward said. “It’s “That’s a very hard venue what it’s like to be Latino in Logan.” getting out in the environment, to get into,” Winward said.

Williams said the interviewers, including meeting people, seeing things.”

“Professionals would love to get students and volunteers from the community, in there.”

Students also take part in a focused especially on gathering stories about project each year in which they The designs will now be given their subjects’ work and home lives, as well as pitch their designs to a Swiss to the organizing committees any immigration stories they may have. organization or company. This of the Vancouver and London Folklore is the expression of groups of year, students created Olympic Games for them to consider as people and how they interact with each other, torch designs for coming they develop designs for the Williams said. So, the formulation of a life Olympic Games in Vancouver and London and submitted them - See DESIGNS, page 3 - See FOLKLORE, page 3 to the International Olympic

Valley waterways under consideration for protection by Wild and Scenic Rivers Act

By ROSS NELSON staff writer

USU recreation enthusiasts may soon be enjoying federal protection on select Cache Valley waterways under the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. The United States Forest Service has selected nine river segments in Cache Valley, including the Logan River, to be placed under congressional review sometime next year to determine whether this action will be taken.

The Utah Rivers Council, an organization formed in 1995, has been an advocating this project for more than two years. Mark Danenhauer, the river solutions coordinator for the URC, has been heading the drive.

“The biggest thing is for the rivers to stay the way they are now forever,” Danenhauer said. “We are not locking people out of these rivers, merely saving places for our children to kayak, fish, and to have a serene place to enjoy nature.”

The Cache Valley river segments are among more than 80 candidates throughout the state of Utah, “all of which are realistically possible to become protected,” Danenhauer said.

A protected wild and scenic river has a quartermile corridor protection from its high water mark.

Danenhauer said protected rivers will never be dammed or rerouted, and development will be restricted only to maintain the current structure patterns in place.

“If a river already has cabins and roads near or around it,” Danenhauer said, “roads and cabins will be allowed to be built.” Construction and activities will be limited to those that “protect the value of the waterways.”

The goal of the URC is to protect the value of Utah rivers, he said, and each candidate has been determined to have significant public value.

“It is unbelievable that Utah, with all of its rivers, has no WSR protection,” Danenhauer said. “The

sections of THE LOGAN RIVER are under congressional review to receive protection under a federal law. The Wild and Scenic Rivers Act will preserve the current condition of rivers by placing a quartermile-wide corridor around its banks within which new development will be restricted. Protected rivers will never be dammed or rerouted. DEBRA HAWKINS photo

Colorado, the Green, the Logan and others are too good to let by us.”

The state of Oregon alone has more than 50 protected segments, and there is no quota concerning the amount of water protection allowed.

The USFS has put together a Wild and Scenic Rivers team for the state of Utah. Cathy Kahlow, the team leader, said the project has received thousands of letters from across the state expressing support for and against proposing rivers for the designation.

Public input has been overwhelming, Kahlow said, and is not only appreciated, but crucial.

New ASUSU logo aims to better represent ASUSU

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Already, more than 5,000 public comments have been submitted, not by corporations or organizations, but by individuals.

“This is a chance for students to be involved,” Danenhauer said, “Public comments are what will determine a lot of what we do here.”

Comments can be made through the National Forest Service Web site.

Currently Utah is one of only 12 states with no WSR designations, but with a group of more than 80 possibilities, it may shortly be off that list.

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ASUSU members attend a meeting earlier this year. ASUSU has chosen a new logo, which will hopefully represent student government’s goals better than the old one, ASUSU public relations director Jodie Savage said. CAMERON PETERSON photo

ASUSU has a new look thanks to a logo designed by Michelle Allred, a graphic designer for ASUSU. As ASUSU celebrates its 100th anniversary, the group wanted to have a new logo that represents its goals, said Jodie Savage, ASUSU public relations director.

“It’s a fresh look to get people to realize what ASUSU is,” Savage said.

The past logo, a circle around ASUSU, has been used for long enough that no one working

with ASUSU remembers when it started, Savage said. The graphic designers for ASUSU came up with numerous logos, and then ASUSU voted on them. By the final vote, Savage said the group was all leaning toward the logo that was chosen. The ASUSU with Aggie bull horns on each side also explains what ASUSU stands for.

Later this year, ASUSU will unveil a separate centennial logo to celebrate its 100th birthday, and Savage said there will also be a party for all students to remember how long ASUSU has been around.

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Knicks executive to get $11.6 million award NEW YORK (AP) — A federal jury decided Madison Square Garden and its chairman must pay $11.6 million in damages to former New York Knicks executive Anucha Browne Sanders in her sexual harassment lawsuit. The jury also found Knicks coach Isiah Thomas subjected Browne Sanders to unwanted advances and a barrage of verbal insults, but that he did not have to pay punitive damages.

Deciding MSG had harassed Browne Sanders, the jury found the Garden owes $6 million for allowing a hostile work environment to exist and $2.6 million for retaliation; MSG chairman James Dolan owes $3 million.

“What I did here, I did for every working woman in America,” said Browne Sanders, who came out of the courtroom beaming. “And that includes everyone who gets up and goes to work in the morning, everyone working in a corporate environment.”

She said it also was for “women who don’t have the means and couldn’t possibly have done what I was able to do.”

The Garden said it would appeal, but the verdict gave Thomas a partial victory after an ugly, three-week trial.

UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS STUDENTS raise candles, pledging to help end crime in the Memphis area, Monday night during a vigil to honor Taylor Bradford in Memphis Tenn. Bradford, 21, a University of Memphis football player, was fatally shot near a university housing complex on Sunday. AP photo

Students return to school with shooter still on loose

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – Students at the University of Memphis returned to class Tuesday without knowing whether the fatal campus shooting of a football player was a targeted or random attack.

University officials had said they believed the Sunday night attack was specifically aimed at Taylor Bradford.

But no suspects have been identified and police later said they could not yet determine the motive for the shooting outside a university housing complex that led officials to cancel classes Monday.

“We really don’t know whether it was a random act or whether or not this individual was targeted,” WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat City Police Hillary Rodham Clinton raised $22 million Director Larry this summer for her presidential primary Godwin said. BRADFORD campaign, outpacing all other candidates Bradford, 21, so far with her best three-month showing apparently was shot near his apartof the year. ment complex Sunday night, then For the first time, she reported attractcrashed a car he was driving into a ing more new donors in a quarter than her tree a short distance away on campus, chief fundraising rival, Illinois Sen. Barack authorities said. They have not deterObama.

Clinton raised a total of $27 million in the three months, her campaign said Tuesday, but $5 million is designated for the general election and can’t be used in her quest for the Democratic nomination.

Her $80 million total for the 2008 presidential race puts her on a par with Obama, though he still leads her in money raised for the primaries alone.

Clinton leads other Democrats in ASRA, Iraq (AP) – Prime Minister national opinion polls, three months before Gordon Brown announced Tuesday the first primaries. that he was slashing the remaining British contingent in Iraq by nearly 20 percent. A beleaguered Iraqi leader said his own forces would be ready to take up the slack in the country’s oil-rich southernmost province in two CLEVELAND (AP) — A woman on months.

Tuesday was charged in the bathtub Brown’s one-day, unannounced drowning deaths of her two young daughswing through Iraq comes as U.S. militers, and was being held in jail on suicide tary officials are concerned that the watch. City prosecutors filed two counts reduced British presence in the south of aggravated murder against Amber Hill, could open security gaps along key sup22, after a coroner ruled the deaths of the ply and transit routes to Kuwait. girls, ages 4 and 2, were homicides.

The roadways are a vital lifeline for Hill had no documented history of U.S. forces. And everything that the neglecting the girls, but had herself been Americans can’t fly out of the country the victim of abuse by their father, Jamie when they eventually leave must make Cintron, according to authorities and the long and potentially dangerous court records. road journey to Kuwait through Basra “We never had a call of any malprovince. treatment of the children,” said Jim Brown is said to be contemplating McCafferty, director of the Cuyahoga early elections in Britain, where the County Department of Children and war is deeply unpopular. He arrived Family Services. “The kids were clean and in Baghdad midmorning and went well cared for. It’s just a sad situation.” straight into a meeting with his Iraqi Hill, who neighbors said was studying counterpart, Nouri al-Maliki. to be a nursing assistant, was calm and “We are prepared to take over secushowed no emotion when she was taken rity of Basra within two months and we away by police, Stacho said. The girls will,” al-Maliki said after the meeting were placed on life support and were proin his Green Zone office. “Basra will be nounced dead at a hospital.

Clinton leads Obama in primary money race

mined whether he was shot before or after he started driving.

Police were responding to the crash when they found Bradford slumped over in the car.

“It wasn’t until the paramedics got there that they determined there was a possible gunshot wound,” said Bruce Harber, director of university police.

He was apparently shot once, police said, though an autopsy was pending.

University President Shirley Raines said authorities quickly determined Bradford’s killer or killers were not a threat to other students but still banned all outsiders from campus housing throughout the night.

In an e-mail alert to faculty, students and staff members early Monday, the university said “the initial investigation indicates this was an act directed specifically toward the victim and was not a random act of violence.”

The university, which is primarily a commuter campus and has more than 20,000 students, still decided to cancel classes Monday.

Witnesses saw two unidentified men running from the area where investigators believe the shooting occurred and other witnesses reported hearing gunfire, said Godwin, the city

police director.

He said investigators had no evidence that Bradford was involved in any illegal activity.

“Everything I’ve heard about him ... he was just a good kid,” Godwin said.

Bradford, a 5-foot-11, 300-pound defensive lineman, was a junior who transferred to Memphis last year after two seasons at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala. The Nashville resident was to play for the Tigers this season.

Monday afternoon, several football players and others tied a large red ribbon to the tree Bradford struck with his car and put up a large poster board for friends and acquaintances to leave personal notes.

“Our entire football team is deeply saddened by the loss of Taylor,” Memphis head coach Tommy West said. “He was well respected and a popular member of our team.”

The Memphis Tigers host Marshall University on Tuesday night, and a moment of silence was planned before the game.

Bradford lettered in three sports at Antioch High School in Nashville, and held school records in shot put and discus.

1,000 troops out of Iraq by end of year says British leader

Mother charged with drowning of daughters

one of the provinces where Iraqi forces will completely take over security.”

Brown confirmed al-Maliki’s plans and said, “as we move to overwatch, we can move down to 4,500” troops from the current level of 5,500. He promised to bring the 1,000 troops home by Christmas.

Last month, British troops vacated their last remaining base in downtown Basra, Iraq’s second-largest city, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad. The British force now is based mainly at an air base on the fringes of Basra city inside Basra province.

The British leader said any further decision on troop withdrawals would be made next year. His visit overshadowed the opposition Conservative Party conference in Blackpool, England.

Brown spoke at the Green Zone residence of Britain’s top commander in Iraq, Gen. Bill Rollo.

Later, he traveled to Basra, where he gave a five-minute speech in Basra to British, Australian and U.S. forces, commending their courage.

“What you are doing is making a big difference,” he said. “You are building a democracy in this country by sustaining the people who want the people

of this country and not terrorists to control the future of this country.”

U.S. commander Gen. David Petraeus, who met briefly with Brown, gave qualified assent to the British leader’s plan.

“I think that’s actually quite doable.

Basra currently has four battle groups, Iraqis are largely in the lead. There are innumerable challenges in the security situation in Basra ... but there are really Iraqi solutions that are emerging to some of these,” the American commander said.

Britain’s defense ministry said rocket and mortar attacks on their base at Basra airport had fallen sharply in the month since British troops left the city.

Nevertheless, Karim al-Miahi, the head of the Basra security committee and a member in the provincial council said, the departure of the British force from the city “had a negative effect on security in the city.”

“Iraqi forces still are not able to control the situation which has deteriorated over the past three weeks. There has been an increase in assassinations of police and religious leaders. As for the areas around the British base, the situation is more stable. Shelling there has stopped,” he told The Associated Press.

CHICAGO (AP) – Halle Berry says she and her boyfriend, Gabriel Aubry, tried and tried and tried to get pregnant.

“So there was a lot of staying home and doing what you do.

Like, all the time, around the clock,” the 41-year-old Oscarwinning actress said Tuesday on “The BERRY Oprah Winfrey Show.”

One negative pregnancy test followed another, “and finally, after about 35 tests, we finally got a positive test,” Berry told Winfrey in one of her first interviews since announcing last month that she was expecting her first child with Aubry, her boyfriend of two years.

Berry, who is about three months pregnant, told Winfrey she doesn’t want to know the sex of the baby.

“There’s so few genuine surprises in life anymore that, why not have a huge surprise?” she said. “And I like fantasizing one day it’s a girl, one day it’s a boy.”

Berry won the best-actress Oscar for 2001’s “Monster’s Ball.” She also won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for 1999’s “Introducing Dorothy Dandridge.”

She said playing a mother in her latest movie, “Things We Lost in the Fire,” helped convince her that motherhood was for her.

“I think it validated that I was meant to be a mother because every day I dealt with the character as a mother and thinking as a mother,” Berry said. “It let me know that I must be a mother.”

Berry said she and Aubry don’t plan to marry, but feel fully committed to each other.

ATLANTA (AP) – Anna Nicole Smith’s lawyer and companion, Howard K. Stern, filed a $60 million libel lawsuit Tuesday against Rita Cosby and her publisher over a book she wrote that claims Stern and Smith’s ex-boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, had a sexual encounter.

The suit, filed in federal court in New York, seeks $10 million in compensatory damages and $50 million in punitive damages from Cosby, the former MSNBC host who wrote “Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith’s Death” — and Hachette Book Group USA Inc. The book, which hit stores in September, claims that besides the alleged sexual encounter, Birkhead and Stern both worked together after Smith’s death to manipulate the media and maximize profits.

Smith died of an accidental drug overdose in Florida in February at age 39.

Stern initially claimed to have fathered Smith’s young daughter, Dannielynn, but Birkhead eventually showed he was the father. The baby could inherit millions from the estate of Smith’s late husband, Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II. Stern’s lawsuit says that the book falsely accuses Stern of, among other things, criminal lewd acts, homosexual acts, illegal possession and use of cocaine, conspiring to commit murder and kidnapping for ransom.

LateNiteHumor Top 10 Things To Ask Yourself Before Marrying Michael Jackson — 10: “Are OJ Simpson, Phil Spector and Robert Blake spoken for?”

9: “Does the hyperbaric chamber fit two?”

8: “Technically, is Michael the bride or groom?”

7: “Is the best man a llama?”

6: “Will it bother me when he uses my make-up?”

5: “If I do this, which one of us will people call ‘the crazy one’?”

4: “Can I put up with being a ‘football widow’ during the NFL season?”

3: “What would Liza Minnelli do?”

2: “Will he let me raise our monkeys Jewish?”

1: “How long can I put off consummating this thing?”

StatesmanCampus News

Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2007

Good business practice – winning

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Briefs Campus & Community

Businessman honored

by College of Business

Fifteen business students vied for a prize of scholarship money at the Business Week College Bowl Tuesday. Jenni Gudmundson, Tommy Marcheschi and Ben Barret won the College Bowl. Other Business Week activities include a lecture by Jason Lindsey, owner of Overstock.com, today at 12:30 p.m. in Business Building Room 215, and a movie, The Bourne Ultimatum, put on by STAB at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. in the Taggart Student Center Ballroom. Thursday is a scholarships banquet at 6:30 p.m. in the TSC international lounge. The closing social will be at 11 a.m. on Friday in the Business Building, and there will be free Aggie ice cream. GIDEON OAKES photo

Tension between the Legislature and state school board continues to grow SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – A lawmaker seems even more committed to getting school districts to consider a year-round calendar, after a state school board member said the proposed remedy to Utah’s teacher shortage is “a little bit in dreamland.”

The rift highlights the growing tension between the Republican-dominated Legislature and the nonpartisan state Board of Education, a conflict that erupted when the board refused to implement private-school vouchers while the legality of the program was uncertain.

The latest dispute comes over a plan designed to increase teacher salaries, attract more people into the profession

SpeakUp “It seems to me to be a no-brainer.”

Sen. Howard Stephenson, state senator and send high-school graduates out earlier — all without raising taxes.

The proposal by a Washington School District official in southwestern Utah is embraced by Sen. Howard Stephenson, R-Draper, co-chairman of a committee that focuses on teacher shortages and compensation.

Under Lyle Cox’s plan, schools would create a school calendar with three semesters. High-school students would pick at least two, but some could attend all three and graduate early. At the

elementary level, students would attend three semesters but for half a day.

Teachers would earn about 60 percent more because they would be working more, Cox said.

Schools would be able to afford higher salaries because they would need fewer teachers. Classes would be smaller. In growing districts, money would be saved by using buildings all year instead of building new schools, Cox said.

“It seems to me to be a no-brainer,” Stephenson said during a committee meeting last week.

But the details make the plan more difficult.

Cox’s proposal depends on an equal number of high-school students in each semester. Some might be forced to attend during a semester they don’t want. Students who take Advanced Placement courses could go months between the end of class and their national exams.

Parents of younger children would have to give up traditional summer breaks, and teachers would have to be willing to work more hours.

“The Lyle Cox model is a little bit in dreamland. We need to use realism,” school board member Debra Roberts said. “Yes, it might be very good for five districts, but we have 40 districts. ... I think even Lyle himself would say there are problems with this model.”

Cox doesn’t dispute that more work needs to be done with his proposal. It also needs a public-relations campaign, he said Tuesday.

“The only way you can really do it is to change a mindset that’s been around for years and look at this in a totally

Designs: Students light new fires -continued from page 1 torches.

In previous years, the students have submitted designs to watchmaker Swatch, knife-maker Victorinox and the International Red Cross.

Winward said the program is beneficial to design students because Switzerland has some of the best designers and museums in the world and because students can experience a wealth of different cultures.

“There are three distinct cultures in Switzerland,” he said.

“There’s a French culture, a Germanic culture and an Italian culture. Students can travel and become immersed in one of those cultures and be back for dinner that night.”

Experiencing those cultures made for memorable experiences, Winward said, such as watching the local cow fights, in which angry pregnant cows were pitted against each other on a steep hill. The experience also helped him prepare for a career after leaving school, he said.

“It was a matter of getting out and experiencing a whole new place and knowing that when you leave school you’re going to be doing the exact same thing: experiencing a brand new surrounding situation and culture,” he said.

Winward got back from

as opposed to using that money efficiently,” Stephenson said.

“When a proposal will improve teacher pay, improve productivity, increase the use of our school buildings and actually reduce the need for additional buildings, the education community is suddenly cold to the idea and instead pushes proposals to raise taxes and increase spending,” he said.

High-interest loan shops won’t deal with military personnel SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Highinterest loan shops in Utah won’t lend money to members of the military after a new federal law capped the annual interest rate at 36 percent, a spokesman said.

“The total fees we could charge are $1.38 per $100 for a two-week loan. That is less than 10 cents a day,” said Cort Walker, spokesman for the Utah Consumer Lending Association, which represents the payday-loan industry.

The law, which covers members of the military and their dependents, applies to all financial institutions, including banks.

It is estimated about 13 percent to 19 percent of military personnel took out high-interest, short-term loans last year, borrowing roughly $350 each time at annual interest rates starting at 390 percent, according to a report in August by the Government Accountability Office.

They’re called payday loans because people often borrow against a future paycheck.

Walker predicted the law will force members of the military to bounce checks or venture into “more risky alternatives.”

Linda Hilton, an industry critic and director of the Utah Coalition of Religious Communities, disagrees.

“It may be taking an option away from the military, but it’s taking away their worst option and leading them toward others,” she said.

“People who go to payday loans first often find themselves deeper in debt and trouble than when they started, then they ask their church, military-relief groups, family or others for help – places they should go first,” she said.

In 2005, the Deseret Morning News did a series of stories on payday loans and found a high concentration of shops near Hill Air Force Base.

USU 4-H creates Web site to expand program

Utah State University Extension 4-H recently launched a new Web site, the Gateway to Adventure.

“The site was designed to be more updated and user friendly and is now both fun to look at and fun to use,” said Web site designer Alden Jack. “We have adopted the theme Gateway to Adventure for the new Web site because we feel it will be easy to use and will enable the public to have much greater access to Utah 4-H activities and resources.”

The Web site includes an introduction for volunteers and parents involved in 4-H, a promotion and funding page, events and registration page and a resource library.

“We are excited to use this site as a tool to expand the 4-H program throughout Utah and to provide the public and current 4-H members with information in a timely and efficient manner,” said Noelle Cockett, vice president for Cooperative Extension and agriculture.

The Utah 4-H program is designed to help youths learn independence, develop character and acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to help them master life’s challenges. The program is sponsored by Utah State University Cooperative Extension and has many volunteer workers throughout the state.

“I am very pleased with the new 4-H Web site,” said Kevin Kesler, director of 4-H and This year’s project, called Latino Voices youth programs. “It should help the public Project, took two and a half months of interviewing, Williams said. The interviews learn more about 4-H and make it much easier were conducted mostly in Spanish, with the to get involved with the 4-H program. This is a choice of language given to the interviewees. fun and exciting time for 4-H.” Williams said this was a matter of making the interviewees as comfortable as possible, though now the interviews will need to be translated. The few interviews conducted in English will also be translated into Spanish.

USU’s Women’s Center is accepting applica“For most people, English wasn’t their tions for “The Giving Tea Scholarships” for first language,” she said. “My feeling is, female students from Cache, Davis, Salt Lake if I was being interviewed, even if I was and Box Elder counties who are reentering in Morocco, if I was talking about my USU after a gap in education of more than five life experiences, I will want to speak in years.

English.”

Scholarship applicants must have a miniThe interviews will be available in a mum 2.5 GPA, show a need for financial aid digital format and will be accessible on the and submit a complete goal statement and an Special Collections Web site the first of the academic reference. year. People will be able to use the collec USU First Lady Joyce Albrecht began hosttion for research or personal history puring the Giving Teas in Cache County in spring poses, Williams said.

2006 and has held teas in Salt Lake, Davis and “There may even be hidden things that Box Elder counties. The funds raised at these I’m not aware of that will be useful down Giving Teas will be used to award scholarships the road,” she said. for female students in each of these counties.

Her only regret is that other opportuniAlbrecht plans to host Giving Teas in each ties for collections like this have passed by. county where USU has a regional campus.

“Imagine what it would be like to have 40 For more information about The Giving interviews from Shoshone in the 1870s,” she Tea Scholarships and how to apply for the said, “or 40 teenage girls from 1890s Cache scholarships, visit the Women’s Center Web Valley ... or 40 young men getting ready to site at www.usu.edu/womencenter, call 435go to war.”

797-1728 or email the center at womenscenWilliams said the interviewing process is ter@usu.edu. done, but the door is not closed on the collection. Anyone who would like to add an -Compiled from staff interview to it is welcome to do so, she said.

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Folklore: Gathering voices

Switzerland Tuesday morning, where he was making arrangements for next year’s trip. Next year students will spend three days living with monks inside St. Bernard Monastery in the Alps. They will spend the time separated from all technology and learning about the monastic lifestyle while doing art, Winward said.

Students will also be participating in a project in which they go in pairs to different parts of the country to photograph with Swiss photojournalists. Their work will then be shown in an exhibit and likely published in a book, Winward said.

The program is hard work, but it’s worth the effort for the experience, Evjen said.

“It was so rigorous,” he said.

“You were out early, hitting the streets, drawing in cathedrals all over the country, taking photos all over the place, writing your thoughts about the design of posters that are all around in the streets.”

Students who participate also get a leg up in their careers, Winward said.

“If you have it on your resume that you worked on an international project like this, your resume rises automatically to the top,” he said.

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different way — and that’s not easy,” he said.

Stephenson and committee co-chairman Rep. Greg Hughes, R-Draper, are livid with Roberts for her comments during the hearing.

“What I’m learning is that the diehard education advocates have a different goal than the public. Their goal seems to be simply to get more money

The Utah State University College of Business plans to recognize the leader of a company that makes recreational vehicles with its highest honor, the Distinguished Executive Alumnus Award.

The College of Business selected Kay L. Toolson, chief executive officer and chairman of Monaco Coach Corporation, for the honor because of the way he has conducted his successful business career, according to Dean Douglas D. Anderson. Toolson is a 1968 College of Business graduate. The college will honor Toolson at the annual Fall Awards Banquet, Oct. 4.

“Kay Toolson has been just the kind of leader we like to hold up as an example,” Anderson said. “He shows consistent respect for his employees, has developed a culture of integrity in his company and he has helped Monaco Coach develop an outstanding reputation for customer service and quality.”

The Monaco Coach Corporation, based in Coburg, Ore., makes recreational vehicles that that range in price from $12,000 to nearly $1 million.

When Toolson and a partner purchased the company in 1987 it was bankrupt. It has since grown from a small, specialty recreation vehicle manufacturer, recording $17 million in annual revenues to a 5,400employee company that makes a broad spectrum of recreational vehicles generating annual revenues in excess of $1.3 billion.

Toolson bought out his partner in 1993 and is now the company’s largest individual shareholder.

Toolson said his company practices what it calls “Peak Performance,” which is a philosophy that encourages employees at all levels to find ways to improve the company’s products and processes.

The Annual Fall Awards Banquet for the College of Business is an event the college uses to honor the donors who help fund the many scholarships available to qualifying students. The college also uses the event to recognize faculty and staff for achievements.

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story is an expression of folklore.

The reason this is so important is folklore reveals a person’s values.

“The bottom line of folklore,” Williams said, “is it does express deep-seated beliefs a person has.”

Through these life stories, Williams said Special Collections is looking at the flesh of history rather than just the bones, or dry facts.

Jose Camilo, senior in economics and finance, said he found it fulfilling to hear people telling their stories.

“Every person has a different story,” he said. “I heard people who came to this country because of war, others came because of economic reasons. I was surprised at the range of experiences.”

Camilo said he got involved because he felt connected to the project.

“It’s a part of the Latino community, and I’m a part of the Latino community,” he said.

The collection of interviews is just one of several done by Special Collections as part of Utah Speaks. Past collections include Mormon folklore, and future ideas include interviews with all kinds of people affecting land management in Utah, from farmers and land management specialists to snowmobilers and Bureau of Land Management employees.

“We’re especially proud of the Latino project,” Williams said. “There was lots of community involvement, and it’s the first that will be totally digital. It’s the most exciting oral history project I’ve been involved with.”

Women’s Center offers re-entry scholarships

The Utah Statesman: Downloading to latops since 1902.

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BLM inspector noted problems at Utah mine before cave-in WASHINGTON (AP) – At least three years before the deadly accident at Utah’s Crandall Canyon mine, a federal inspector noted serious structural problems and feared they could cause the roof to collapse, according to documents released Tuesday.

The warning came from the Bureau of Land Management, which allows mining on federal land. But the government’s Mine Safety and Health Administration didn’t know about those concerns before six men died Aug. 6, an official testified.

The BLM is part of the Interior Department, while MSHA is under the Labor Department.

“This is like the CIA not getting information from the FBI when we’re getting attacked by terrorists,” said Sen. Edward Kennedy, D–Mass., whose committee is investigating oversight of the mine

by MSHA. Six miners are entombed 1,500 feet below ground. Three rescuers were killed in a second collapse on Aug. 16.

About 30 family members attended the hearing by the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, sometimes wiping away tears or holding their heads in their hands. They declined to

talk to reporters.

Some family members are expected to testify at a House hearing on Wednesday.

Lawmakers have said they are skeptical that the government did everything it could to prevent the accident. They also have questioned why the BLM noticed the problems at Crandall Canyon, but not MSHA. Documents released by the committee show that in November 2004, a BLM inspector noted that pillars of coal holding up the mine’s roof were failing.

The inspector, Stephen Falk, said further mining by pulling out pillars would be “untenable” and “wishful thinking” in hopes of extending the mine’s life.

“Mining any of the coal in the pillars will result in hazardous mining conditions such as pillar bursts and roof falls,” Falk wrote.

Under questioning, Kevin Stricklin, MSHA’s administrator for coal–mine safety, said the report would have been helpful and could have shaped the agency’s decision to allow mining at Crandall Canyon.

Falk’s report was done for internal use only, Kennedy’s spokeswoman said.

Stricklin said that after the

Crandall Canyon accident, he decided to review plans for all deep coal mines that use the same technique.

Both cave–ins at Crandall Canyon are believed to have been caused by a “bump,” or spontaneous explosion from the mine roof, pillar or wall, caused by pressure from the mountain above.

A bump in March caused the operators to abandon the northern section of the mine. Critics have said MSHA should have seen it as a warning and closed the mine.

Instead, the agency allowed mining in the southern section.

Stricklin said his agency wasn’t aware of the extent of the damage caused by the March bump.

But Falk, the BLM inspector, saw it March 15 and described extensive damage to the coal wall, which had cut off an important entry.

Kennedy also presented Stricklin with another report, generated for the committee by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, an agency under the Department of Health and Human Services.

NIOSH said the operators wanted to remove too much coal in the southern section, leaving a higher risk of a cave–in.

Richardson: diplomacy needed in Iran WASHINGTON (AP) – Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson said Sunday it would be “enormously unwise” for the Bush administration to take military action against Iran before it gets out of Iraq.

“I believe it would be enormously unwise for the Bush administration to start another war before ending this tragic war we’re in today and it does sound like the administration is ramping up. You can just see it,” he said.

Richardson, also the governor New Mexico, pointed to a 76-22 vote in the Senate last week on a resolution urging the State Department to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization.

Hillary Rodham Clinton was the only Democratic senator who is running for president to vote for the measure. Richardson criticized her vote.

“Calling them names, labeling them terrorists, drawing up military options is just making the situation worse and inflaming the Muslim world,” he said.

U.S.-Iran tensions are running high over U.S. allegations that Iran is secretly trying to develop nuclear weapons and supplying Iraq’s Shiite militias with weapons that have killed U.S. troops. Iran denies both claims.

“Once again the administration seems to be preparing the American people for a ramp-up in action, and it would be, I believe, another disastrous foreign policy decision,” Richardson said.

Richardson, a former U.N. ambassador, said that

as president he would use his diplomatic experience to engage Muslim clerics, students, university professors and business leaders in Iran. He would leave Iranian President Ahmadinejad out of the loop, calling him “a minor player” in that nation’s politics.

NEW MEXICO GOV. BILL RICHARDSON, a Democratic presidential candidate, asks photographers if they have all they need before he leaves the airport en route to a fund-raiser Wednesday, Sept. 12, in Austin, Texas. AP photo

Music sharing trial focuses on electronic trail of bread crumbs DULUTH, Minn. (AP) – Was there a serial downloader lurking outside Jammie Thomas’ window?

Did someone else hook up a computer to her Internet connection?

Those are some of the questions her attorney has been raising in the nation’s first trial of someone accused of illegally sharing music online.

But Richard Gabriel, lead attorney for some of the nation’s largest record companies, sought to pick those ideas apart one by one by calling witnesses to document each step the record companies used to point the finger at Thomas.

Testimony in the civil case was to resume Wednesday in federal court in Duluth. The case could wrap up as early as Wednesday night or Thursday.

On the courthouse steps Tuesday, Thomas denied illegally downloading music. In court, attorney Brian Toder has said there’s no proof she shared music illegally.

Toder’s cross-examination has focused on raising doubt about whether the record companies can really prove it was Thomas who downloaded and shared the 1,702 songs, as the record companies allege she did in 2005.

He suggested in his questioning that someone other than Thomas — someone outside her window, or a neighbor — could have been responsible if she used a wireless router. That could have allowed anyone nearby to utilize her Internet connection, using the same address that led the record companies to Thomas.

The companies have backed up their claims with literally a wall of data — enlarging printouts of logs and dates and Internet addresses on a screen in front of jurors, with Gabriel zeroing in with a laser pointer to highlight the entries he says prove Thomas did what they say she did.

Mark Weaver of SafeNet Inc. testified about how his company, at the behest of the record companies, found 1,702 songs offered by a user of the Kazaa filesharing program under the name “tereastarr.”

Then defense attorneys put on David L. Edgar of Charter Communications, Thomas’ Internet provider.

He testified about how he and another investigator

independently matched the Internet address used by tereastarr to both Thomas’ account and an electronic address for the cable modem she leased from the company.

Doug Jacobson, a computer security expert and professor at Iowa State University, testified that Toder’s theory that someone else used a wireless router to download the songs linked to Thomas was farfetched. He said records subpoenaed from Charter don’t show the kind of Internet address used by such routers.

“There was no wireless router used in this case,” he said.

Thomas, a 30-year-old mother of two from Brainerd, is expected to testify during the trial.

“I do know that I didn’t do this, and the jury will hear that I did not do this,” she said Tuesday outside the courtroom.

Thomas’ computer hard drive will be a key to the case. She and her attorney say she replaced it at the suggestion of Best Buy Co. after she had some computer problems in 2005. The record companies say she was trying to cover her tracks after they sent her messages saying she was illegally distributing their files.

Music sales have slumped in recent years as more people have turned to file-sharing. The Recording Industry Association of America, which is not a party to the lawsuit, says record companies have brought more than 26,000 actions against people alleging they shared files in violation of copyrights.

The action against Thomas is the first to get to trial because most defendants have settled by paying a few thousand dollars.

Jennifer Pariser, head of litigation and antipiracy at Sony BMG, portrayed the trial as a fight for survival.

“It is imperative for Sony BMG to combat this problem,” Pariser testified Tuesday. “If we don’t, we have no business anymore.”

In response to a question from Toder about whether the industry was making millions off all the settlements, Pariser said the campaign has actually lost money.

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Student marathon runners share their stories

STUDENTS CAM LEE AND RYAN SHAW race to the finish of the Top of Utah Marathon September 15. Lee said running a marathon made him feel alive. He also said anyone can run a marathon even if the person is not a natural runner. photo courtesy Cam Lee

By BRITTNY GOODSELL JONES assistant features editor

Stairs are a curse. At least that’s what Cam Lee said after running the Top of Utah Marathon in September. “(After running), you want to live in a flat world,” he said. “It was intense.”

Lee, senior in business entrepreneurship, said running the marathon distance of 26.2 miles was a first for him. But the best part about it, he said, was how he felt afterward.

“I felt alive,” he said. “If there’s anything out there that makes you feel alive, it’s a marathon because it requires a lot, physically and mentally.”

According to the Web site www.marathonmar-

tin.com, six marathons are offered in Utah every year. These marathons take place in Park City, Salt Lake City, Logan, Ogden, Moab and St. George and generally run from March through October. There are also more than 240 marathons offered around the country, according to the Web site.

Marathon runners typically start training a few months before a race begins, Lee said, although training intensity and type differs for everyone.

Jeff Whyte, who ran the Top of Utah Marathon this year, said not all his training was physical.

Whyte said he tried meditation.

“I sat in my room a lot and thought about the finish line and envisioned reaching the end,” he said.

Running Tips Training for a marathon, or even a half marathon, can differ in intensity depending on the runner. According to an article found on http://runner’sworld. com, marathon runners should remember success is measured by finishing a marathon.

Bob Copper, author of “Run Your Best 26.2 Miler” gives a list of things to incorporate into marathon training: • Mileage buildup: Gradually increase mileage, and expect periods of improvement and stagnation.

• The long run: Usually three to five long runs in the middle of training should be sufficient.

• Speedwork: is the best way to improve aerobic capacity.

• Motivation: Find the resolve to run, make a commitment, and create a schedule.

• Cross training: Continue to exercise on off-running days to stay fit, such as by swimming laps and biking.

• Fueling up: Use proper nutrition and hydration, and always make sure fluids are available during a run even if they need to be stashed along the trail beforehand.

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Whyte, junior in international business, said he started training three months previous and wants to start training even sooner the next time around. He “trained too fast too hard,” he said, especially since he dealt with physical obstacles early on.

During training, he said he attended physical therapy because his patella is prone to inflammation. So for the race, Whyte said he wore black bands on his knees to help prevent the inflammation. However, the pain he experienced while running the marathon was completely new. By the time Whyte reached mile 21, he said he just collapsed due to the pain in his knees, which was unrelated to any patella inflamma-

- See RUNNING, page 8

Water Weight

By TONNIE DIXON staff writer

Few USU students know that the health, physical education and recreation department offers

hydrostatic measuring, a procedure used to measure a person’s body fat percentage under water.

“In terms of the method for underwater weighing, it does what we call a two-component model,”

USU STUDENTS CAN get their body fat measured at the HPER for $25. Phil Blaney, HPER wellness lab director, said it’s a better method than weighing oneself on a scale. PATRICK ODEN photo

said Dale Wagner, assistant professor of the HPER department.

“What we are trying to do is separate the body into two parts. It’s either fat weight or fat-free weight.

Fat free weight is everything that is not fat such as bones, skin, blood and muscle.

“Water has a density of about one, and the density of fat is less than that. The density of fat is less, so it floats. The density of fat-free mass is greater, so it sinks.”

Some people think hydrostatic weighing measures body fat, said Phil Blaney, HPER wellness lab director. However, he said it measures body volume, which is then put into a series of mathematic equations that calculate a person’s body fat percentage.

Blaney said there are benefits to understanding this concept.

“It’s important that people understand what those numbers mean. Otherwise they could really be unhealthy,” Blaney said.

Weighing oneself on a scale is a common procedure but is truly not the best method, he said.

“Weight is really not what people should be looking at,” Blaney said. “It’s just what’s easy. A lot of people will starve themselves, and your body will actually produce fat not get rid of it. Instead, you lose muscle because your body is taking your muscle, breaking it down and building fat because fat is a much more efficient way of storing energy.”

- See BODY FAT, page 7

EXPECTANT mothers can exercise so long as they are careful. Dr. Jeanne Falk, from the Logan Budge Clinic, said women should not feel like they have to make drastic changes to their exercise regiment. DEBRA HAWKINS photo

Staying fit while packing for two

By DEBRA HAWKINS staff writer

Eating for two may be a nice perk, but staying fit for two is just another part of the job of being a new mother.

Dr. Jeanne Falk, obstetrician/gynecologist at the Logan Budge Clinic, located at 1350 N. 500 East, said maintaining a healthy lifestyle is important before, during and after pregnancy. One misunderstanding many women have about pregnancy is that the baby needs a lot of constant care, Falk said, but the baby tends to take care of itself. It’s the mother that needs to take special care of her health, she said.

“Babies are like parasites,” Falk said. “They take what they need from the mother, and she needs make sure she is getting enough for herself.”

Falk said pregnant women should not feel like they have to make drastic changes to their exercise regiment. Rather, women should stick to the exercise programs they were engaged in before becoming pregnant. Falk said one of her patients is on the track team and is still able to run.

“Use the same guidelines as if you weren’t pregnant,” Falk said. “Exercising a minimum of three times a week for 30 minutes is better for overall fitness.”

- See STAYING FIT, page 8

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Speak Up

I’ll start exercising after my pizza I

hate mirrors. Pictures too.

It’s not because I’m scared to look in the mirror one day and find I love myself – check – it’s because both mirrors and pictures are incessant reminders of just how out of shape I am.

I know I’m out of shape in much the same way students procrastinate their homework. They know they should do it and it would be good for them, but still it doesn’t motivate them to open a book.

My motivation to exercise is on about the same level, and whenever I look into a mirror, a version of me strangely resembling a bloated Picasso painting stares me full on in the face. My head looks normal, but my stomach is disproportional and my butt, well, I don’t even want to go into that.

So, motivated – against my better judgment – to do something about it, I often fall into these fits of exercise hysteria. It must be funny to someone watching me do this.

I run into my bedroom, pull on my basketball shorts and a T-shirt and immediately drop to the floor to do 50 push-ups.

You know how in the Bible it talks about the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak? I’m pretty sure that scripture came about off a vision of watching me exercise. I always go into it with a lot of energy and passion, convinced that if I can do enough push-ups and sit-ups in the next 20 minutes, I can somehow make the Picasso-me go back to the way I was before. The problem is, I have a motto I like to stick to and it gets in the way: If it hurts, don’t do it.

After 10 push-ups, my body starts yelling at my brain. Sometimes I can even hear the conversation.

Body: “Are you done fooling yourself yet? You do this every time and nothing gets accomplished except you feeling miserable about yourself, and then you go out and buy a cheeseburger to console yourself. Oh, and by the way, this really hurts so if you could knock it off, I’d sure appreciate it.”

Brain: “No, must not listen. I have to keep exercising. Push-ups are good, 10, 11 … 12 … OK, so who’s up for a McDonald’s run?”

After wriggling on the floor for 10 or 15 minutes, I usually start to feel pretty good about myself. My muscles hurt, which I’ve heard is a good sign, and while I’m slightly out of breath, I feel really energized. I rush back to the mirror to take a gander, and immediately I’m crushed. I look exactly the same except now I have sweat dripping down my face and I’m 15 minutes older.

Hardly worth the effort.

I don’t know why I expect myself to suddenly be more fit, but I do. I’m not alone in this either. It seems to be a trend our society has fallen into. We turn on the TV and watch all these gorgeous women with tightly toned bodies and men with biceps the size of a Mack truck and think to ourselves, “Gee, I wish I looked like that.”

But after the image moves off the beautiful stars and we get back to reality, we realize those people probably have expensive personal trainers that have magical powers to instantly make celebrities in peak physical condition, and we suddenly feel better about ourselves. Wait, you mean only I think that?

Most people seem to think they don’t have the resources and time to devote to becoming fit like celebrities. But then many of those same stars have to come along and make life complicated again by appearing on the next TV commercial.

Suddenly a very ripped Billy Blanks appears on the screen, looking like he could wrestle an alligator with his bare hands and win. He gives a winsome smile and talks about how fit he is and how he has developed a new fitness program just for you. He slowly walks across the screen, pausing every few seconds to flex, while listing his famous clientele and tells you that you too can be just like Carmen Electra, Wayne Gretzky or Shaquille O’Neal.

I don’t know about you, but the last time I looked, Shaq looked strong enough to crush an oil barrel on his forehead.

With marketing like this, who wouldn’t be instantly hooked on this? Blanks’ new fitness program is the 58th installment of Tae Bo: Getting Fit for Fatties. All you have to do is pick up the phone, order the tape and work out to the video a certain amount of times each week, and you’ll transform into a lean, mean, fat-grilling machine. Oh wait, I think that’s a different infomercial.

But after watching the video a maximum of five times and never being able to successfully complete a workout with the intensity and excitement of Blanks, you give up and look for something else. Luckily there are tons of options out there.

If you’ve ever walked down the fitness aisle of a sporting goods store, you’ve seen the wide variety of exercise equipment. If you’re like me, you’ve also purchased half the stuff.

I go through exercise equipment phases faster than just about anybody alive. I think it all started back in high school when I decided to buy a weight bench. Once that got old, I moved through the thigh master, the oversized elastic bands, the speedometer on the bike, the ab roller and even a weighted jump rope.

One by one these methods fail, and I never end up losing weight. In fact, the one successful time I lost weight in my life came not as a result of exercise but careful dieting as I cut all excess sugar out of my diet.

In nine months I lost 45 pounds. Maybe it’s because of that experience that I’m no fan of exercise. Or maybe it’s because it hurts.

Either way, the bottom line with exercising is it takes time. Celebrities look really good because they eat very little and exercise a lot. There has to be a time commitment involved, and right now my biggest commitment is with the slice of pizza I’m about to eat.

Seth Hawkins is a junior in public relations. If you see a fat kid running down the street, rest assured it’s not him because he doesn’t believe in running. Comments and questions can be sent to him at seth.h@aggiemail. usu.edu.

“A lot of these games are designed to give you a workout. It just depends largely on what game you are playing and the design of the game.”

Eric Budd, Smithfield

dance dance revolution allows students to exercise without going outside or to the gym. People playing Nintendo Wii games also can be interactive and studies show they may lose weight and burn extra calories. TYLER LARSON photo

Students exercise with Nintendo

By COURTNIE PACKER senior writer

With today’s video game technology, players are getting workouts in front of TVs at home.

Games such as Dance Dance Revolution and Guitar Hero are designed to get people off the couch and losing calories. The Nintendo Wii, which reached the market last winter, allows gamers to interactively play bowling, tennis and other sports with motion-censored remote controllers.

Shawn Bonones, freshman majoring in electrical engineering, said he plays video games every day.

“I use to play DDR all the time at my work,” he said. “It can be very tiring.”

The object of DDR is basic.

Gamers follow lighted arrows on the screen and move their feet to corresponding colors on electronic dance pads.

“I have been sore after playing DDR,” Bonones said.

“I tried it on expert and I couldn’t. It was like I was having a seizure on the board.”

According to arcade-history.com, many consumers of DDR have reported a significant change in their weight and stamina. Some gamers who play on a regular basis have reported weight losses of up to 10 to 15 pounds, according to the Web site.

In one study done by the Web site, one player reported losing a drastic 95 pounds after playing on a daily basis.

Researchers argued, however, that cases of such drastic weight loss have involved significantly overweight individuals who involved DDR in their weight loss plan, along with diet and other exercise programs.

Arcade-history.com also reported that with so many drastic results involving weight loss, many schools are now implementing DDR into physical education activities.

Even Norway has registered DDR as an official sport, according to the Web site.

Studies show that playing Wii can also help gamers burn calories. One study out of Liverpool John Moores University in the United

Kingdom states using Wii controllers burns 40 percent more calories than using other game console controllers provided with Xbox, PlayStation 2 and GameCube.

Gamers burned up to 1,800 more calories over 12 1/2 hours of gaming per week.

Eric Budd of Smithfield said, “I like the Wii bowling because it is fun to see yourself progress.”

However, according to the Web site teachingtechnology. com, exercise levels generated by the Wii compare poorly to a comparable amount of outdoor play. Gamers who spend 12 1/2 hours a week biking burn around 4,500 calories, while walking burns 1,950 and playing basketball can burn around 3,400 calories.

Budd said he can feel the effects of active video games though.

“One night I played 10 to 15 games of bowling on the Wii, and the next morning my shoulder was really sore,” he said. “A lot of these games are designed to give you a workout. It just depends largely on what game you are playing and the design of the game.”

Guitar Hero, which is not as physically intense as DDR or interactive Wii games, allows players to act like they are playing electric guitar to a wide soundtrack of music.

According to Harmonix Music Systems, which developed Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero’s game play is similar to other music and rhythm video games because player must play scrolling notes to complete a song.

“Guitar Hero is challenging,” said Ryan Lamoreaux, freshman studying electrical engineering. “Everyone wants to be able to play the guitar, but hardly anyone can.”

“I’ve always wanted to be able to play the guitar, but I have always been too lazy to learn,” Bonones said. “Guitar Hero gives kind of the same idea as learning how to.”

-cournie.packer@aggiemail. usu.edu

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There are several on-campus options for students who want to exercise instead of sitting around. PATRICK ODEN photo illustration

USU offers programs for students to stay fit

By KIMBERLY HINCKLEY staff writer

When students are juggling work, school and play, it may be difficult for them to find time to take care of themselves physically. However, according to the USU Campus Recreation Web site, Campus Recreation offers intramural sports, the Outdoor Recreation Center, club sports, the Fun, Fit, Forever program, the Health, Physical Education and Recreation building and the Fieldhouse.

Shelly Bybee, Fieldhouse manager and Fun, Fit, Forever program coordinator, said there are benefits to students who exercise.

“It makes students happier and gives them motivation to be a better student,” she said.

Bybee also said exercise helps reduce stress level tremendously.

Adam Clark, undeclared freshman, said exercise helps him think clearly especially when he is frustrated. Medterms.com said this is because exercise releases endorphins, which are moodelevating chemicals.

Jessica Pedersen, freshman majoring in computer science, said exercise has a particular benefit for her because it helps control her diabetes. “(Exercise) helps keeps blood sugar in control and helps my mood,” Pedersen said.

Pederson and Clark both said when they don’t exercise they feel less motivated to do school work. Clark said that it also improves his work

ethic.

Bybee said simple things that can be done to help with fitness are participating in campus programs and walking instead of taking the bus.

Clark said on days he can’t get to the Fieldhouse, he does push-ups and sit-ups before class. Bybee said students should be exercising three to five times a week at least and that regular exercise helps get into a routine that can be helpful later in life.

There are ways to help motivate students to exercise, Bybee said.

“Around peers is a good atmosphere,” she said.

Pedersen said she invites people to run on a treadmill with her at the same time.

Campus Recreation offers many ways to be fit on campus.

Bybee said the Fun, Fit, Forever program is a free fitness program to all current students. Fun, Fit, Forever offers classes to all students with a valid student ID card. These classes include hip hop, jazzercise, step and kick boxing aerobics, yoga and water aerobics. A schedule is available on the Campus Recreation Web site, www.usu. edu/camprec/.

Campus Recreation also hosts the ORC, which has day and weekend trips and offers equipment rental. Other ways to get exercise on campus are at the Fieldhouse, which offers a rock climbing room, treadmills, an indoor track and other fitness equipment.

-kimberly.a.h@aggiemail.usu.edu

Body fat: HPER has hydrostatic tank

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“It’s best to test your progress percentage-wise, but it’s not really practical unless you are a student at USU. Then it’s fairly practical,” Blaney said.

The HPER has a tank for hydrostatic weighing, and it’s used by practicum students completing their masters in corporate wellness and other physical education courses.

All USU students can use the tank, but since it costs money to fill the tank, Blaney said it is best to have a group come in at the same time.

“We try to do it once each semester for anybody that wants to do it for $7,” Blaney said. “If people want to do it other than the scheduled time, it is $25 unless

they can get a group of 10 or more.

Basically it needs to be worth our time. But if a group wants to do it, we’ll work with them.”

“It’s a really good opportunity for students,” said Dayna Barrett, graduate assistant of the employee wellness center. “Generally if somebody were to go do this somewhere else, they would charge them 50 bucks to do it one time.”

“I hate to use the word ‘gold standard,’” Wagner said. “A lot of people say underwater weighing is the gold standard. In body composition, there’s no such thing as a ‘gold standard.’ But for the methods that we have, it’s near the top. It’s one of the better ways to estimate body fat. If everything

is done correctly, then it will give you a pretty accurate estimate.”

Blaney said participants are encouraged to wear only a swimsuit during testing because the weight of layers of clothing or coverups may skew the results. Towels are provided by the HPER. Participants are given a printout at the end of their composition test on what is normal and what one should be looking at.

If there are a lot of requests toward the end of fall semester, Barrett said they may offer another day open for students to sign up for $7.

Students may contact Blaney at phil.blaney@usu.edu for more information.

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tion.

“My friends held me up for about 100 yards because pain was so bad,” he said. “On my iPod, I had synchronized these songs. The ‘Rocky’ theme song came on at a crucial point, and the ‘Chariots of Fire’ song ending was for the end, with my arms in the air. But (instead) I was hobbling and crying because the pain was so bad.”

Even running to the bus stop now hurts his knees, he said.

Lee said a common feeling experienced by marathon runners during a race is hitting “the wall,” or the time when a runner realizes the energy

depletes and the pain really hits home.

“I hit a wall at mile 18,” Lee said. “The pain shut down my energy, everything was gone. If it wasn’t for the people on the side of the streets, the cops, the old ladies ... I had to feed off their energy. I felt like I was in a parade.”

Lee, who ran with his friend Ryan Shaw, said the last few blocks of the race were the most intense. Since he had trained with Shaw, Lee said they had a tradition of racing each other as soon as they hit the last few blocks of their run. So once the last block came into view, both

students started to race against each other.

“Instincts came in and we ran,” Lee said. “I beat him by nine seconds. Some people might have grabbed hands at the finish line, but our competitive sides came out.”

And receiving a Top of Utah medal and shirt wasn’t the only thing Lee said he was excited about.

“You get roommate pride if you beat your roommate by nine seconds,” he said. “I can use that for the rest of my life.”

Shaw, senior in business information systems, said he is not a runner but wanted to run

a marathon so he could check it off of the list of things to do in his lifetime. Having previously run the Salt Lake City Marathon, Shaw said it helped prepare him for what a marathon physically demands from the runner. But feeling sick during the marathon was not in the game plan.

“Cam passed me early on because I was sick, so the last 10 miles I was just trying to catch up to him,” Shaw said.

If a runner needs a break or needs to use a restroom, outhouses are usually set up by

water stations every few miles.

But not all the runners use the outhouses, Shaw said.

“This is gross, but we’re up in the nice neighborhoods (during the Salt Lake City Marathon) and this lady decides to run right on the people’s lawn and took a dump on their front lawn,” Shaw said. “Another girl was squatting so we were thinking maybe she had to pee, but no, she was taking a dump.”

Lee said if runners consider themselves truly intense, they sometimes end up going in their pants.

Jeff whyte cools off after the Top of Utah Marathon, September 15. He said imagining the finish line kept him motivated while training. photo courtesy Jeff Whyte

Potty humor aside, marathon running and training can be demanding on the body. Whyte said he tried to find a running specialist to help tell him how he could improve his running form. While there, he said he was videotaped running barefoot and running with shoes while a program analyzed his running pattern as well as the placement of his feet and legs as they hit the ground. Afterward, the specialist from Logan Regional Hospital gave recommendations about the type of shoes that would work best for him according to his step placement, he said.

Lee said anyone can run a marathon even if running has never been a strong point. And getting the first one out of the way is the obstacle, he said.

“Just do it,” he said. “If you’re thinking about it, just go out and do it and then you can train harder and better for the next one.”

Whyte said he will run a marathon again and hopes to beat his time.

“I’m addicted now,” Whyte said. “It’s an incredible experience. You’re part of a big family when you’re running. You all have the same goal. They’re not aspiring to be number one. We just want to finish.”

The next Utah marathon, the St. Geroge Marathon, takes place Oct. 6 and is capped at 6,800 runners, according to its Web site.

-brittny.jo@aggiemail.usu.edu

Staying fit: Pregnant women can work out -continued from page 5 Ashley Clawson, who is 32 weeks pregnant, said when she became pregnant, she had some concerns about an exercise program. She said her doctor told her to continue to exercise but not overdue it. “(Doctors) recommend that you don’t start a rigorous exercise program when pregnant,” Clawson said. “If you are pretty fit, they say you can kind of keep going, slowly decreasing. If you feel tired (while exercising), take a break. If you feel thirsty, take a drink.”

Clawson said early in her pregnancy it was difficult to motivate herself to exercise because she was so ill with morning sickness.

“I had so much morning sickness, the most exercise I got was from the couch to the bathroom,” she said. “I used to try walking, but it just about killed me over.”

Weeks later, she said exercising can still be a challenge.

“Going to the gym, half the battle is getting my butt in the car and actually get to the gym,” she said.

While it may be difficult to get out and exercise, Falk said

there are many standard physical activities that women can still do during pregnancy that aren’t too trying.

Falk said some good activities include swimming, low-impact activities like yoga and biking, which can be especially beneficial late in the pregnancy because “it is not hard on the tummy.”

“Listen to your body,” Falk said. “If you are winded, then your baby is winded too. You should never get out of breath.

Stop if you feel pain or heavy contractions. If you don’t feel like exercising, don’t.”

While many exercises are beneficial, Falk said there are some that should be avoided. Activities that bare the risk of falling or that require balance should not be attempted, she said. Laying flat on the back, doing abdominal exercises like sit-ups or crunches is highly discouraged, Falk said.

Some of the most prohibited activities include downhill skiing, contact sports like hockey and soccer, and scuba diving, Falk said.

According to a brochure produced by The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, “Exercise During Pregnancy,” there are plenty of fitness options available to pregnant women that are good for their health, including walking, running, strength training and aerobics. The brochure states, “Aerobics is a good way to keep your heart and lungs strong,” which is important to supplying the mother and baby with the energy she needs.

Exercise increases the oxygen and blood flow to the muscle groups that are being worked and away from the baby, so mothers should be careful about overdoing it, the brochure states.

“Some sources will tell you that you shouldn’t get you heart rate up above a certain number.

I don’t follow that, because if you weren’t in very good shape before you were pregnant, your resting heart rate might be close to that already,” Falk said. “Don’t ever work out harder than you can maintain a conversation. You need to be able to chit chat while you are exercising.”

Falk said women need to listen to their bodies to know when to stop, especially when it comes to small pains that could be easily shrugged off. The uterus, for instance, is a muscle and contracts with the other muscles during fitness activities, Falk said. Small contractions are fine, but if the contractions start to hurt, the mother needs to stop, she said.

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said some of the warning signs of overexercising include vaginal bleeding, dizziness, shortness of breath, headaches and decreased fetal movement.

Even with some of the dangers involved in exercising, Falk said exercising is important to avoiding pregnancy problems. She said women should be exercising before becoming pregnant as well, as obesity can cause complications during pregnancy that are hazardous to mother and baby alike.

“There are lots of pregnancy complications that are coming about because of obesity,” she said. “If we had a more fit population, we would have a more fit pregnancy population.”

-debrajoy.h@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Hooked on success

It only took Gregg Gensel one race to take the cross country bait – hook, line and sinker.

“I’m not saying this because I’m bragging, because I’m not that good of a runner, but I won my first race and so basically, I was hooked,” USU’s head track and field and cross country coach said. “It’s like golf, you take one good swing and 18 holes of bad swings, and that one good swing, if it comes at the right time, you’re going to keep coming back.

“That’s the same thing with running. If you have early success, you’re going to want to reproduce that success.”

But if it wasn’t for an assistant basketball coach at his military high school in Europe, he may never have found cross country.

Maybe he would have been a football player, as that’s the sport running stole Gensel away from.

“I didn’t really know what (cross country) was, but I liked (the assistant coach), and I didn’t really like the team concept of getting whooped every day in football,” he said. “And I’m not saying I couldn’t take it ... but I was just drawn to this. And it turned out being my lifelong goal rather than just a short“It’s like golf, you take one term thing.” good swing and 18 holes of Utah State should be very thankful bad swings, and that one running turned into good swing if it comes at a lifelong goal for the right time, you’re going Gensel.

During his tenure to keep coming back. as coach – 19 years ” as the men’s coach Gregg Gensel, USU Track & Field and 14 as the womand Cross Country Head Coach en’s – the Aggies have won a total of 19 conference championships, including last year’s sweep of the Western Athletic Conference Championships in cross country and a win in men’s outdoor track, 130 conference individual champions and 28 runners picked as All-Americans.

Personally, he is a 17-time conference Coach of the Year. Just last year, Gensel was named the Mountain Region Men’s Track Coach of the Year, and he won his second consecutive WAC Cross Country Coach of the Year.

Individual awards aren’t what motivates Gensel. He doesn’t even take credit for them.

“It’s a team effort,” he said. “It’s not because I’m some great guru or something like that. I would have to point to all my coaches and all of my athletes as the reason I get those awards.”

What does motivate Gensel is success, but it’s a different kind of success than the championships he’s brought to USU. “Student athletes, when they succeed in the classroom, when they

By DAVID BAKER assistant sports editor

TouchBase USU holding walk-on tryouts

By USU ATHLETICS

LOGAN, Utah —­ Utah State’s men’s basketball team is looking to add a player to its 2007-08 roster and will be holding walk-on tryouts on Thursday, Oct. 11 at 6 p.m. in the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum.

Anyone interested must be a full-time student and must bring their own equipment to the tryouts.

For more information contact the Utah State Basketball Office at (435)797-3133 or e-mail Lance Beckert, Director of Basketball Operations, at lance.beckert@usu.edu.

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Oct. 3, 2007

UNC Punter gets 7 years

Gregg Gensel, USU track and cross country head coach, talks to a reporter before practice on Monday. Gensel has been a coach at USU for 26 years. His career started after he ran for the Aggies. As a head coach, he has brought 19 conference championships to Logan. Gensel’s 2007 cross country team has a chance to improve on that number when they host the Western Athletic Conference Championship, Saturday, Oct. 27. TYLER LARSON photo

GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — Former Northern Colorado backup punter Mitch Cozad was sentenced to seven years in prison Tuesday for stabbing a rival in what prosecutors said was a brutal attempt to take over the starter’s role.

“Clearly, this was deliberate to hurt him, and you succeeded,” Weld County District Judge Marcelo Kopcow told Cozad as he announced the sentence.

“The goal is to not ruin your life,” Kopcow said. “I would like you to succeed in your life.”

Prosecutors said Cozad ambushed starting punter Rafael Mendoza on the night of Sept. 11, 2006. Mendoza was left with a deep gash in his kicking leg but later returned to the team.

Cozad was convicted in August of second-degree assault but acquitted of the more serious charge of attempted firstdegree murder.

A busy Thursday for the Aggie women Aggie spikers to play the tough No. 24- USU women’s soccer to face challenge ranked Southern Aggies in the Spectrum in ranked BYU Cougar team in Provo

By G. CHRISTOPHER TERRY staff writer

After two straight weekends spent on the road, Head Coach Grayson DuBose’s Aggie volleyball team returns to the Spectrum Thursday night to battle 24th–ranked New Mexico State University.

The match begins at 7 p.m.

Although the Aggies have an 8-7 overall record, they have been on fire since Western Athletic Conference play began, running out to a 5-1 league record, with the lone loss coming against the other Aggies in four games in Las Cruces, N.M. The two key players for USU are senior oppositeside hitter Amanda Nielson, who averages 4.69 kills and 2.21 digs per game, and Melissa Osterloh, who averages 3.4 kills, 2.85 digs and .65 blocks per game.

DuBose’s team has played 13 of its first 15 matches on the road, due in large part to a tough early-season slate against top-ranked competition at tournaments. Beating the highly regarded New Mags would serve notice to the rest of the WAC that the Aggies are for real. Over the last eight years, USU is 61-26 in the Spectrum, including 14-4 at home against WAC opponents.

The New Mexico State game is a chance for the Aggies to make a real statement and reverse a bad recent record against ranked opponents. USU is 8-45 over the last eight years, including 14 straight losses to ranked teams. The last time USU beat a ranked team at home was way back in 2001, when it took them five games to get by Pacific.

The USU players will have to stop or at least slow down junior opposite-side hitter Lindsey Yon, who Amanda Nielson (33) serves during an earlier home match. She will be important when USU takes on NMSU Thursday night. PATRICK ODEN photo

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and they both have a strong tradition of making

By SETH R. HAWKINS the NCAA Tournament, and our goal is to make editor in chief that tournament.”

Coming off a 1-0 win over Montana, After falling 1-0 in overtime to Brigham Thursday, Sept. 27, USU boasts a healthy squad Young University at home last season, the and an improved offensive attack that will be USU women’s soccer team looks for revenge much needed against BYU goalkeeper Erika Thursday, when it takes on the Cougars in Provo Woodbury. The Cougars took on Montana at 7 p.m. two days after the Aggies and beat them 2-1 at Since its opening season in 1996, the Aggies home. While the win itself may not be impressive, the fact that the small Big Sky have played BYU four times Grizzlies team tallied the second and have lost every meeting. goal against Woodbury all season BYU barely squeaked its way is. That marks two straight games out of Logan with a win last season after a cold, snowy and •BYU is undefeated Woodbury has allowed a goal, the only two of the season. scoreless regulation. Playing at 8-0-2 on the So what does this mean for the on the road for the fourth Aggies? time against the Cougars, the season Aggies are looking to win a •The Cougars have Even though every game is different, USU blanked Montana, while game that has more implicaonly allow two tions than another tally in the the Cougars let the low-scoring goals all season. win column. team slip in a score. But one game BYU is currently ranked No. •USU hasn’t ever doesn’t mean much when consider23 in the NSCAA/Adidas Top beaten BYU in four ing BYU has yet to add a number to their loss column.

25 Poll and No. 17 in Soccer The Cougars haven’t had an Buzz Magazine’s Top 30 Poll. meetings. easy go at the season either, play The Cougars are deserving of their high ranking, as they maintain an unde- ing then-ranked No. 18 Colorado on the road feated record at 8-0-2 and, until last week, were and having to spar with three challenging the only team in the nation that hadn’t been Big West teams. Add to this, games against scored on. big name schools like Michigan State, Kansas The Aggies are looking to remedy that. and Wisconsin, and BYU is as legitimate as its “It’s a big weekend for us because BYU and record claims.

Utah are two high-quality teams in a highly Getting past the Cougar defense will prove no respected conference,” Head Coach Heather small task. Woodbury boasts impressive numbers with a .951 save percentage, eight shutouts Cairns said in a press release. “The team is excited to play opponents that are of such a high caliber that BYU and Utah are. They will be the - See SOCCER, page 11 toughest opponents that we’ve faced this year,

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ill somebody please put an end to the ghastly nightmare that the USU football program is suffering through?

Seriously.

Somebody?

Anybody?

Might I suggest it be the team itself.

Well, more specifically, the coaches.

Oddly enough, I’m still behind this team in its rummage around for something seemingly so simple as a victory.

That’s because I’ve been behind them from the time I was in diapers. But the difficulty in defending them and the sweat they put into each letdown is getting old—especially with the incredibly conservative play-calling in the fourth quarter against the University of Utah.

It was bewildering to see the Aggies, though down three touchdowns with 6:27 remaining in the game, go with what looked more like a lazy-summer-day offense than one resembling the words “hurry up.” Maybe that’s too harsh. I don’t really know since I’m not a grown man who has dedicated his life to coaching the sport of football. But you can be the judge.

The Aggies’ second-to-last drive began with a four-yard run by Aaron Lesue, followed by a Lesue one-yard gain, followed by a short side pass to Lesue for a one-yard loss. Only on the proceeding do-or-die, fourth-and-six was when a critical nine-yard pass was made, this time to tight end Rob Myers.

Next play? Leon Jackson lost two yards on a scramble. Then Derrvin Speight made that up with a three-yard rush.

And, finally, after nearly four minutes had disappeared from the game clock, Jackson threw a 10-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Otis Nelson. The twopoint conversion was cashed in to make it only a two-touchdown/two-point conversion deficit.

USU recovered the onside kick and started its final drive from its own 40.

Now, remember, at this time only 2:33 was still on the game clock.

The Aggies’ first play? A Speight rush for only one yard. The game clock continued to get shorter. On the second play, the call is for another Speight rush—this time, again, for one yard. In the meantime, the time was still ticking. Jackson took the ball himself on the next play for five yards, after which the Aggies called their final timeout.

USU returned to the field to face a fourth-and-three with 1:53 left. Jackson scurried for four yards to keep the drive

alive while game time was slowly getting buried in the snow. Then came the really big play, the one that should have been called long, long ago: a 31-yard pass completion to Aggie moneyman Kevin Robinson, a huge play that put the Aggies 18 yards away from the end zone, but a tad late, wouldn’t you say?

What followed was the unsurprising demise the program has gone through for who knows how long. Jackson’s next pass went for Robinson at the far right corner of the end zone, but it was well defended by the Utes. Jackson then scrambled again for five yards. On the final fourth-and-five, the call was a short pass to Speight that lost four yards and cemented the fifth loss of the season.

The loss after loss after loss after loss doesn’t get any easier. Amazingly, it feels worse and worse, darker and darker each time.

Next week at No. 16 Hawaii, the Aggies should spread the field on offense, throw some long passes to Robinson and others to at least make it exciting. An electrifying loss is better than a boring one.

We’ll see the real mettle of this team Oct. 20 at Romney Stadium vs. the Nevada Wolf Pack. By that time, the Aggies will have been routed by 16thranked Hawaii and been through a bye week of rest. So far Utah State has fought to the end of games and seemingly not given up, which is noble. But at 0-6, will the Aggies display some form of giveup-itis?

“It’s starting to get to me a little bit, but I can’t focus on that,” Robinson said Monday. “I’ve got to focus on a new game every time I go out there and just do my best every game. I can’t go around thinking about the last game and how we lost it, or how we lost the game before that. I’ve just got to realize that a new game is a new game and hopefully I can do something better this time so that we can get a win.”

Let’s all hope so. After all, there will still be six games to go—three of them at home.

Sammy Hislop is a junior majoring in public relations. Let him know your thoughts on Aggie football at samuel.hislop@ aggiemail.usu. edu

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hits .250 and averages 4.39 kills a game for the New Mags. She leads a team that is 4-1 on the road thus far hits .272 and holds its opposition to .166. Three starters for NMSU are back from a team that was 33-4 overall and 14-2 in the WAC last year.

Saturday night, also at 7 p.m., USU will try to extend what will hopefully be a four-game winning streak at that point.

Louisiana Tech will be the opponent in that game. The Bulldogs have a 1-5 record and just got their first WAC win, beating Boise State in five games. The Lady Techsters have already met the Aggies in Ruston, where

they lost largely due to their inability to put the brakes on Nielson’s powerful hitting.

Nielson led USU to a season-high .360 hitting percentage against La. Tech.

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1. Biggest upset in college football this weekend?

The whole weekend was upsetting, but the worst had to be the Oklahoma Sooners dropping the ball against Colorado. I feel bad, not because this will probably cost the Sooners a trip to the national championship game, but for the way it cheapens the Aggies’ 54-3 loss to OU earlier this year. It’s OK to lose that bad to a team that plays for the national title. It’s like losing your girlfriend to Brad Pitt — you actually feel a sense of pride. It’s not OK to lose to a team that lost to the Crispin Glover of the Big 12.

The biggest upset of the weekend has to be the Florida Gators. Auburn went into the swamp and tamed the mighty and powerful Gators. The late Steve Irwin, also known as the crocodile hunter, would be proud. Florida was not supposed to lose to Auburn – maybe Louisiana State University, but not Auburn.

You cannot afford to lose to a team with two losses.

Luckily for Florida, the loss came early enough in the season that if they win out they still have time to crawl back up near the top.

2. The best 4-0 team in the NFL? I will hate myself more and more with every word I add to this answer after this: It’s the Patriots. Cheating or not, they are damn good. Bill Belichek won’t make it on the cover of any fashion magazines, and he looks like he would smell similar to the Beto’s bathroom on a busy Saturday night, but he’s a good coach. I’ll go to hell for that statement. It must be true, though. I will keep praying every night for their demise, but they are the Superman of the NFL right now.

The Packers are a fairytale story, Patriots are cheaters, and the Cowboys, well, they’re the Cowboys. The best team in the NFL so far is the Indianapolis Colts.

Every team that they have played thus far into the season, with the exception of the lowly Saints, has a winning record. Defensively they have been going crazy, and the offense is the same well-oiled machine that has been chewing up the rest of the league for years.

3. Does hockey season really start tonight?

I thought they were still on strike or something. I’ve never claimed, and never will claim, to be a hockey fan.

Hockey is great. But it’s like a supermodel, which is another thing I’ve tried to get in touch with — until that restraining order and the short jail stint for coincidentally bumping into Heidi Klum on a few occasions — but have never quite been able to get into. I should like hockey. I was born to like it. I’m a man. I like beer. I like to watch people fight.

There’s the possibility for extreme violence — skates as weapons? I just don’t get it.

Until late last week, I had no idea the NHL still existed, let alone the fact they start playing games tonight. I was watching the sports ticker on ESPN, as I usually do with most of my free time, to get fantasy updates, and my football scores were interrupted with some small blurb about hockey. I looked on ESPN.com and found they actually have a page devoted to hockey.

This is the least they could do since no one can watch their games, unless you subscribe to a very specific TV package that happens to carry some obscure channel called Versus.

4. More impressive: Mets’ decline or Rockies’ surge?

The Rockies. For about the last decade plus, that team has been like a bad TV show no one watches, but their network is too afraid to cancel. Maybe that’s why I wasn’t watching when they suddenly turned into a can’t-miss comedy like “Arrested Development” — except I don’t think the Rockies will get canceled prematurely. The Rocks literally were a can’t-miss team in the last 15 games of the season, only losing one in that stretch. The National League needs to watch out.

The New York Mets blew a seven-game lead with 17 games left – no team has ever done that. As a Mets fan, you are hating life right now. The Yankees are playing well, and the beloved Mets are done. Whenever the Chicago Cubs are still playing and you’re not, that’s not a good thing. To make matters worse for Mets fans, the New York Jets of the NFL are winless and won’t even have a chance to blow a big lead.

5. Rant It’s really hard being a fan sometimes, especially when your the kind of fan I am. I have enough love to hate the head coach and the starting quarterback of my favorite team. People don’t understand this supposed contradiction. But it’s OK to hate your favorite team, or at least parts of it. In fact, that’s what it really means to be a fan.

If you don’t hate, you aren’t emotionally invested. I would bulldoze Mike Shannahan’s house or kick Jay Cutler’s dog — not out of spite, but out of love.

Basketball season is here, with only 28 more days until the Aggies and the Jazz start playing. Am I the only one marking off days on my calendar? On Wednesday, Oct. 31, we should get school off. That day should be made a holiday. In fact, all Aggie game days should be declared holidays. How is anyone supposed to get anything done on game day? The schedule is a good one for the Aggies, and they have key players returning and a lot of newcomers who have huge potential.

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MLB playoffs begin tonight Matt Holliday and the streaking Colorado Rockies are in — from out of nowhere. With all four playoff pairings finally set, now it’s on with October!

A postseason full of surprising entries starts Wednesday afternoon in Philadelphia, where the NL East champions host Colorado in the first playoff game for the Fightin’ Phils since 1993.

A few hours later, the first AL division series gets underway with Josh Beckett and the Boston Red Sox hosting John Lackey and the Los Angeles Angels at Fenway Park in a matchup of Cy Young contenders.

The final game of the day is a desert duel between aces out in Arizona, where sinkerball specialist Brandon Webb opposes Carlos Zambrano of the Chicago Cubs.

“I don’t want to be pumped up,” said Zambrano, prone to emotional outbursts.

“I just want to be calm and let the moment come, let the game come and pitch my game.

I don’t want to be too excited. Sometimes when you are too excited, you’re trying to do too much, that’s when the problem comes, when you don’t have control of yourself.”

The other best-of-five series starts Thursday night when the wild-card New York Yankees are in Cleveland to face C.C. Sabathia and the Indians. All eyes will be on Alex Rodriguez to see if he can put an end to his playoff failures after a huge regular season.

“Don’t ask him about it,” teammate Derek Jeter told the assembled media mob at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday. “Just leave him alone and let him play.”

The young Rockies came from way off the pace, going 14-1 down the stretch and rallying against career saves leader Trevor

Hoffman in the bottom of the 13th inning to beat San Diego 9-8 late Monday night in a wild-card tiebreaker.

Many who stayed awake long enough to see it are still wondering if Holliday ever touched the plate on that headfirst dive for the winning run. No matter, the call was safe.

Now, a team known as Todd Helton and the Toddlers not long ago is all grown up and on the big stage. And their matchup with the Phillies could be an all-out slugfest.

The two highest-scoring teams in the National League will be taking their hacks in two of the most hitter-friendly ballparks in baseball: Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Park and Coors Field in Colorado.

“Regardless of where you play, you still have to get it and hit it,” said Phillies bopper Ryan Howard, last year’s NL MVP. “Sometimes the wind may be blowing in at a field that’s considered to play large and if you hit in the air, it might go out. You still have to hit it. You still have to put a good swing on it for it to go.”

Pitchers, beware.

Especially Jeff Francis, Colorado’s top starter. The 17-game winner was tattooed in two starts against the Phillies this year, going 0-1 with a 15.12 ERA. He allowed 14 earned runs, 20 hits and five walks in 8 1-3 innings.

He’ll pitch the opener against fellow lefty Cole Hamels. The series also pits two of the top candidates for NL MVP: Holliday and Philadelphia shortstop Jimmy Rollins.

“If you worry about the fences instead of getting people out, you definitely aren’t going to have a good game,” Phillies closer Brett Myers said. “I don’t think any ballpark

is an issue about anything. Yeah, they’re hitter-friendly, so they say, but if you go out and think about that, you’re just going to choke.”

Runs could be much harder to come by in Boston with a pair of big-game pitchers on the mound.

Beckett was the World Series MVP for Florida in 2003 after pitching a shutout at Yankee Stadium on three days’ rest to clinch the title.

Lackey was a rookie when he won Game 7 of the 2002 Series for the Angels.

Don’t expect either one to crumble under the pressure.

“He’s been in these big games just like I have, and done extremely well,” Lackey said.

“I mean, throwing a shutout to win a World Series, it doesn’t get much better than that.

He’s obviously got great stuff and it’s going to be a great challenge for us. I’m going to have to pitch well to give our guys a chance.”

Three key players will be missing in that series: Tim Wakefield, Gary Matthews Jr. and Bartolo Colon.

The Red Sox left Wakefield off the firstround roster because of the knuckleballer’s ailing back. The Angels scratched Matthews because of an injured left knee, and Colon won’t pitch for Los Angeles after feeling pain in his right elbow during Tuesday’s workout.

“We all know Wake. He bleeds for us,” Boston manager Terry Francona said. “But he understands this is the right thing to do.

We were going to possibly put him in a situation that was not fair to him or the team.”

Matthews, who has never been in the playoffs since breaking into the majors in 1999, will be replaced in center field by Reggie Willits, and on the Angels’ roster by Erick Aybar.

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and a .19 goals against average, putting her in league with the best goalkeepers in the nation.

The BYU offense is no less formidable.

Katie Larkin, who scored the game-winning goal against the Aggies last season, leads the Cougars with eight goals and one assist on the

season. The Cougars are something of a onewoman show, as the only other scorer on the team, Kassidy Christensen, has three goals.

Shutting Larkin and Christensen down will be an important key to win the game, but the Aggies will still have to beware of Becca Riddle, who is knocking on the scoring door with 22 shots.

Unlike the Cougars, the Aggies have plenty of scoring options as five players have scored this season, including one defender. Senior forward Dana Peart continues to lead the USU attack with five goals and one assist. She boasts a .553 shot on goal percentage and is the clear Western Athletic Conference leader in shots with 38. Freshman forward Lauren Hansen and senior midfielder Abby Hunt both have two goals to aid in the attack.

In net for USU is junior goalkeeper Ali Griffin who has a .778 save percentage, 1.24 goals against average and 35 saves on the season, just four shy of BYU’s Woodbury. sOphomore defender lindsey smart battles for the -seth.h@aggiemail.usu.edu ball in a Sept. 14, match against Oregon. Smart, last year’s Western Athletic Conference Freshman of the Year, will try to contain an undefeated BYU team on the road Thursday. DEBRA HAWKINS photo

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succeed on the field, in track, or cross country, or throwing, whatever it may be, I’m excited,” he said. “And that’s also the beauty of coaching track and field and cross country; it’s an individual team sport, so you don’t have to win to have success. You see the improvement of the athletes and you’re instantly gratified ... If they improve, that’s success.”

For Gensel, it really is all about his athletes.

But with a nickname like Papa G, maybe kids is a more appropriate term to describe the relationship he has with his runners.

Stacie Dorius has been under Gensel’s tutalidge for three full years now and is heading into her senior season in cross country. Through it all, she said Gensel has always been approachable and someone she could go to with anything – running related or not.

According to Dorius, Gensel’s also got a soft heart and isn’t too hard on the runners, but he let’s them know if they’ve screwed up.

Junior runner Seth Wold said Gensel is “just one of the guys” and agrees he has a good relationship with his runners.

Like any family, things aren’t always rosy.

Dorius admits she has had minor run-ins with her coach a few times. And dealing with his runners can also be a frustrating part of Gensel’s job.

“It’s like raising teenagers,” Gensel said. “They think they know best. I have a lot of experience

and I like to share that with them, but they don’t always listen. So what I have to do is find the happy medium where they listen enough to keep them on the right track to become better at what they do.”

Another part of dealing with student athletes is helping runners be successful on the track and in the classroom, something very important to Gensel.

“The thing I want is for the athlete to have individual success,” he said. “And if it means they can’t come to practice because they have a class or a lab to go to, so be it. We’ll just switch when practice is ... This isn’t a win-at-all-costs attitude.”

Many of Gensel’s runners have been able to balance athletic and academic successes. He has had 288 academic all-conference selections as a head coach.

And as long as that success continues, expect to keep seeing Gensel at Aggie track and cross country meets.

“I’m happy doing what I’m doing,” he said.

“And the reason I’m happy is the kids are finding success on a daily basis, weekly basis, yearly basis. Whatever that success is, that’s what keeps me coming back. When they stop having that success, then I’ll stop being happy about it probably, and it won’t take long after that before I’ll say, ‘This is probably not what I want to be doing.’”

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’m proud to be an American, where at least I know it’s OK to be fat.

This is a land where it’s perfectly acceptable to eat a 10,000 calorie hamburger with a name that is really just a combination of a killer movie and a smoked meat. It’s the Baconator, and it wants your freedom.

That’s really less of an exaggeration than you may think.

If a person was to eat an average of, say five Baconators a week, after a while they would probably lose the freedom to be able to say “Trim Spa, baby” without it being ironic, not breathe hard while bending over to tie their shoes, wear tube tops or leather pants, fit out the front door, be compared to less whale-like creatures, safely jump on a trampoline with small children and many other simple — but important — things in life.

But maybe it’s not just the extremely poor, gluttonous eating habits.

America’s bulging waistline may have something to do with another of the seven deadly sins — sloth.

Exercise is key to weight loss. And more than that, it’s the key to a healthier, longer life.

People who think exercise is a walk to get the second bucket of extra-crispy fried chicken from the fridge, don’t exactly raise the average life expectancy.

It’s not that hard to get real exercise in, is it? Has anyone walked up Old Main Hill lately? That feels kind of like exercise.

Walking instead of driving, or taking the bus, before it turns into the Arctic Circle — the cold place, not the fast food joint — outside is just one of literally thousands of ways to get exercise in a day.

You can frolic to and fro across the Quad doing an interpretive ribbon dance about the strife you feel over Britney Spears losing custody of her kids.

You could row around in extremely small circles in the fountain, if the fountain was in commission.

You can become a lumberjack and grow a beard.

The beard has little to do with exercise, but everything to do with lumberjacking.

You can start a mosh pit at your next family home evening — moshing is probably a full body workout.

We don’t recommend this, but you can go around picking fights with random transients because boxing is good exercise.

You can do what everyone else does, go to the Fieldhouse and look at yourself in the mirror for an hour. Although, just putting on a sleeveless shirt isn’t really exercise.

Or just be a kid — run around, play ball or run from cops. Our kid years are waning.

What you do isn’t really important, it’s just the doing that matters.

Multiple-choice Mitt quite the character

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fter exhausting his campaign funds in Iowa and the early primary states, Mitt Romney returned to his cash cow over the weekend — Utah. Of the roughly 700 people who attended the “Rally for Romney” fundraiser at the Salt Palace Convention Center, about 30 were from USU. These 30 supporters alone raised at least $70,000, according to The Herald Journal.

While Mitt Romney’s Mormonism may be his greatest asset with Utahns, it is proving to be an obstacle on the road to the White House. Polls consistently show that more than a quarter of Americans would not vote for a Mormon as President. The evangelical Republican base is most wary of Mormonism’s strange doctrines and perceived secrecy. Evangelicals insist that Mormons belong to a cult and are not Christians. Despite even their shared values, they will be reluctant to vote for him.

Romney will have to deftly downplay his faith to neutralize this opposition and win the nomination.

It’s not fair that Romney be singled out for his religion, because who can honestly say his beliefs are notably sillier than any other candidate’s? For example, in the second Republican presidential debate, candidates were asked if they believed in evolution. Rep. Tancredo of Colorado, Sen. Brownback of Kansas and former governor Huckabee of Arkansas answered in the negative for religious reasons. Such an answer would disqualify you from the show “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?”, and yet it wins votes in the Republican primaries. So if Romney’s Mormonism is to be on trial, so too should the irrational faiths of every candidate from both parties.

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The main objective of the Open Education forum is to make education free for everyone by encouraging professors and educators to make their teaching materials accessible through the Internet, which should indeed be free of cost. This concept seems to be promising to bridge the gaps between students who can afford to go to school or a university and those who cannot. It is a plat-

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Since this was a conference advocating free education for all, it was an irony that students who were interested in learning more about the Open Education forum, by being a part of the conference here on campus, were being charged a lot (from a student stand) in order to register for the conference. I believe that a conference on open education or free education should also be open and free of cost for interested individuals.

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Explaining the Constitution Party

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lbert Einstein has been quoted to state that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly while expecting different results. Perhaps this should be applied when one considers politics. When Americans aren’t satisfied with the policies of one party, we turn to the other for relief. When that doesn’t work, voters look, once again, to the first party for solutions. Perhaps it is time to change our thinking a little and try a different approach.

There is another choice. That choice is the Constitution Party. Because of its commitment to fundamental principles, this party has grown to become the third largest in the nation.

The Constitution Party believes in the principles upon which this nation was founded. It affirms that our creator, not the government, is the source of man’s unalienable rights. Among these rights are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The rights to protect, own, use and exchange property are inseparable from these rights.

Government was instituted to secure these unalienable rights. In order to secure those rights, government must promote equal justice, preserve domestic tranquility and maintain a strong national defense. History has proven that, if unchecked, government will begin to usurp power and threaten the very liberty and rights it was instituted to protect. In order to prevent such tyranny, it is essential to bind the

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government with the Constitution, dividing and limiting its powers.

These principles are at the core of the Constitution Party’s stand on how our government should function.

The Constitution Party believes in bringing the civil government closer to the people. It believes this will result in a government that is more responsible, responsive and accountable.

It is for this purpose that the national government was given a defined list of enumerated powers and all remaining powers were retained by the states.

Because of this, only the functions of the federal government that have been authorized by the Constitution should be continued. All other powers and programs should be returned to the control of the states. The party also opposes any regionalization of governments, because this will remove the power to make decisions from the people and the officials directly elected by them.

The growing national debt has become a major threat to the security of our nation. It places an ever-growing burden on our future.

The Constitution Party calls for the elimination of this debt. This can be done by dramatically reducing government spending, and by paying

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interest as it accrues.

The Constitution Party holds its candidates to a high standard of character and moral conduct, because its leaders realize that a candidate can not be trusted in his public life if he can not be trusted in his personal life.

The party feels it is essential for Congress to be obedient to the Constitution and accountable to the people. The party believes Congressional pensions should be eliminated.

In accordance with its dedication to life and liberty, the party is opposed to any efforts to conscript citizens into the armed forces.

The party supports voluntary Reserve Officer Training Corps training in the nation’s universities, college and schools. The party is also an advocate of a strong national defense, with a strong, state-of-the-art military.

The party believes America should live at peace with other nations and should not interfere in their internal affairs.

As the family is central to our society, the Constitution Party believes parents have the fundamental role in the nurturing and education of their children. These responsibilities should not be assumed by government agencies without either due process of law or legal consent of parents.

Parents should be allowed to determine the manner in which their children’s education is to be provided.

The Constitution Party is strongly opposed to government sponsorship and promotion of any form of gambling.

The party also strongly supports the right of the people to keep and bear arms, as this

is inherent in the right of individuals to defend themselves and their families.

According to the party, healthcare providers should be accountable to the patients they serve. They should not be accountable to politicians and insurance bureaucrats. If the government increases its control in this area, the outcome will be higher costs and poorer results.

The party also declares that all branches of government must cease their attacks on the religious liberties of the people and the states. Any form of taxation on churches and other religious organizations is clearly unconstitutional and will result in government control of those institutions.

According to the party, the federal income tax is unconstitutional and should be ended.

The Internal Revenue Service should be abolished.

The Constitution Party promotes ways of funding the activities of the federal government that are consistent with

the Constitution. This will be possible if the federal government is reduced to the powers and programs defined in the Constitution.

This is only a short summary of the Constitution Party’s platform. As can be seen, this party has defined plans to combat the problems our nation faces and proves that these problems can be solved within the bounds set by our Constitution. The Constitution Party provides a new choice for America.

Colby Lyons is a senior majoring in law and constitutional studies.

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date’s religion is an ideology from which a voter might draw valid, reasonable expectations about how that candidate will act or make decisions. Refusing to vote for a person based on their religious ideology need not be worse than refusing to vote for them based on their political ideology—provided, of course, that one has an accurate, fair, and reasonable understanding of that ideology.”

For me, however, Romney’s religious beliefs are a secondary concern to my political objections. He’s running the most craven and contrived campaign of this election season.

Aside from empty platitudes and the obligatory criticism of the war’s handling, he has been deafeningly silent on Iraq. Like his faith, the occupation is another issue he wants to avoid—he doesn’t even list it as an issue on his campaign Web site. I’m afraid he’s too busy saber-rattling against Iran and extolling the virtues of torture.

And in an amusing political irony, Utah Republicans are supporting a flip floppin’ Massachusetts patrician for president. Romney has conveniently tailored his opinions to the office he’s seeking—the same cardinal sin Sen. John Kerry was accused of committing.

Running in Massachusetts for a Senate seat in 1994 and the governorship in 2002, Romney billed himself as a moderately liberal candidate. He vowed his judicial picks would uphold abortion rights. He claimed to be a greater advocate for gay rights than Ted Kennedy.

“All people should be allowed to participate in the

Boy Scouts regardless of their sexual orientation,” he said, and gays should serve “openly and honestly in our nation’s military.”

He pledged to fight abstinence-only sex education.

He took measures to combat global warming. And he supported tough gun control laws, like the Brady Bill.

But now, having to woo the radical right, Romney is casting himself as the conservative candidate. He will appoint justices bent on overturning Roe v. Wade. He opposes both civil unions and same-sex marriage, even favoring a constitutional amendment to ban the latter. He no longer sweats global warming, dismissing it as a “radical” idea. And he is seeking the endorsement of a skeptical National Rifle Association, of which he’s only been a member for a year. In a pathetic effort to assuage the concerns of gun rights activists, he told them he was an avid and lifelong hunter. Turns out, as Romney was later forced to admit, he has only hunted twice in his life—shooting rabbits and quail as a kid—and doesn’t even own a gun. What kind of man can’t even be honest about his hobbies?

With his integrity, I half expect “multiple-choice Mitt” to change religions as well.

Jon Adams is a junior majoring in political science.

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No more Rebels at Dixie State College ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) – Dixie State College will drop its Rebels nickname if a proposal to align itself with the University of Utah is approved.

The Dixie Rebel is linked with the Confederate flag and is an emotionally charged nickname, said Vicki Wilson, Dixie State College trustee.

“We don’t want the past to limit the future,” Wilson said.

Dixie State College wants to be under the umbrella of the University of Utah and become the University of Utah at St. George. Trustees at both schools would have to approve the change.

As part of its petition to the University

of Utah, Dixie State said it would drop the nickname. Another name has not been chosen. The school’s mascot still would be a red hawk.

“As this institution grows and evolves, the idea of investment becomes critical,” Dixie State President Lee Caldwell said in a statement Tuesday.

“That (Confederate) path has obscured and confused the true pioneer heritage of this institution. It is our hope to return this institution back to its original heritage,” he said.

But some affiliated with the school are not happy with losing their identity.

Jennifer Shakespeare, president of the

Associated Students of Dixie State College, held back tears, saying she felt the board was asking students to give up too much too soon.

Some Dixie State College students held signs saying “We’re here for Dixie” and “Dixie Stays or U goes” while singing the Dixie fight song.

Student Holland Olsen of Gunnison said his parents attended Dixie State and his grandmother was named “Miss Dixie.” Olsen is concerned about the name change.

“I like the programs the university offers as long as it remains Dixie. Dixie — that’s what is in my heart,” Olsen said.

Amish remember anniversary of school shooting in private

NICKEL MINES, Pa. (AP) _ Amish families kept to their homes Tuesday as they privately marked the anniversary of a schoolhouse attack that killed five girls a year ago.

In keeping with Amish custom, no public observances were held for Tuesday’s anniversary. A day earlier, local Amish families gathered to sing hymns, pray and share a meal in remembrance.

“They just don’t wish to play out their personal stories in the public limelight,” said Herman Bontrager, a spokesman for a committee formed to distribute donations that poured in after the attack. “And that has to do with the desire to live a quiet and peaceable life, not making a show of themselves to avoid pride.”

West Nickel Mines Amish School, the scene of a gunman’s massacre that left five girls

dead and five others wounded one year ago, has long since been razed and replaced with overgrown pasture, in part to prevent it from being treated as some sort of shrine or becoming a morbid tourist attraction.

Tuesday was an especially quiet day in the placid Lancaster County countryside.

The roads in and around Nickel Mines were empty and Bontrager said some families chose not to work. There were no classes at the new Amish school that replaced the site of the attack.

“On the one hand, today is like another day, but I do know anniversaries are stark reminders,” Bontrager said. “What I hear mostly is their deep concern to shelter the children from the in-your-face questioning and visibility.”

About a mile away, at the fire hall in Georgetown, emer-

gency workers assembled to mark the anniversary privately.

On Monday, the Amish invited state police troopers and some neighbors to join them in prayer, singing of hymns, a meal of barbecued chicken and a sunny afternoon of watching a ball game.

Officials from Virginia Tech were also invited to attend.

Four months after the massacre at that school, members of the Amish community traveled to Blacksburg, Va., to pass along a comfort quilt.

A year ago, milk truck driver Charlie Roberts, 32, the son of a police officer and father of three young children, suddenly commandeered the one-room schoolhouse in Pennsylvania Dutch farm country.

Roberts, who had no criminal or mental-illness history, apparently was tormented by the death of his infant daughter

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Student Jobs For more information, See TSC 106, USU Student Employment On campus Jobs: C115-03 Purchasing Assistant BOE C041-02 Food Service Worker $5.15/hr C208-96 Tutor $7.25/hr C204-07 Engineering Graduate Assistant BOE C274-91 Applied Music Instructor Negotiable C209-06 Police Reserve 10.00 C262-07 Orchard Worker $7.00-$8.00/hour C240-06 4-h Volunteer Development Assistant $7.50 C377-02 Skyroom Server $3/hr + tips C270-07 Undergraduate Research Assistant $7.50 per hour C291-07 Math Lab Assistant-unitah Basin Or Logan $10/hr C293-07 Lysimeter Technician $125 per month C251-07 Teaching Assistant 8 C314-07 Agriculture Intern $7.00/hr C315-07 Math Tutor $7 C429-96 Mowing $6.50/hr C331-07 Fisheries Technician $8-$10, DOE C322-07 Registered Dietician based on edu & experience C440-06 Skyroom Kitchen Cook 7.00 C280-06 Water Conservation Intern $11/ hr+mileage C336-07 Aquatic Technician $8.50-12.00 BOE C396-05 Lab Accounting Assistant BOE C263-95 Model (art Classes) $8 draped, $10 undraped C017-93 Photographer BOE C018-93 Writer BOE C349-07 Wildlife Technician C364-07 Water Conservation Coordinator $11 per/hr C361-07 Water Check Field Worker $8 per/ Hr C368-07 Grader $8.00/hr C377-07 Media Prep Lab Aide C327-06 Painter Laborer $7/hr C379-07 Sports/recreation Hospitality Entry Posi $3.50/hr C081-06 Ropes Course Facilitator 6.50-7.50 BOE C383-07 Agricultural Research Assistant $7.50 per hour C395-07 Restoration Ecology Technician $10.00/hr C361-06 Lab Technican $15/hr

Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2007 C412-07 Grassland Ecology Field Assistant $9-10 per hour C288-07 Field Technician DOE + room and board C419-07 Farm Laborer $7.00 - negotiable C442-07 Intern-family And Consumer Science Educ. $8/hour C441-07 Weber County Fcs Intern $8/hour C446-07 Lab Assistant 8.00 C445-07 Lab Technician 10.00 C335-97 Biological Technician $8/hr C180-06 Biological Engineer based on experience C054-07 Coder $8.00 C174-06 Research Assistant $8/hour C473-07 Mechanic Helper 8.00 OR DOE C312-07 Undergraduate Research Assistant (summer $8/hour C404-06 Usu Dining Services Employee 6.00/hr or BOE C197-05 Research Technician C484-07 Field Researcher $10/hr C498-07 Skyroom Server/busser C133-02 Junction Worker $5.15/hr or BOE C560-05 Hub Server $6/hr C296-05 American Sign Lanugage Interpreter C519-07 Day Training Aide $6.50 C005-04 Research Assistant $1500/month C523-07 Molecular Lab Technician C393-07 Sign Language Assistant For Classroom based on experience C024-08 Laboratory Technician C078-92 Night And Weekend $6.00/hr C014-93 Grader $6.00/hr C437-04 Catering Server $5.15/hr + tips C264-01 Electrical Engineer - Soph, Junior $8-10/hr. BOE C397-05 Lab Technician $7.50/hr.

C232-04 Part Time Lab Technician $300/ month C171-07 Lab Assistant starting: $7.00/hour C070-08 Accounting Intern $7.00 C074-08 Landscape Laborer $7-9 Hour DOE C075-08 Summer Academy Chaparones $170 lump sum C124-92 Speech Instructional Assistant $5.85/hr C087-08 Laboratory Assistant 7.00 per hour C250-04 Grader $5.62/hr C091-08 Part-time Esl Instructor $850 per credit hour C160-06 Substitute Teacher 50.00 Per Day C029-07 Computer Programmer $10-$14 per hour C101-08 Museum Tour Guide $6.00/hr C238-97 Clerk/secretary $5.15/hour C341-96 Moving Crew $8/hr C406-02 Software Tester BOE C191-07 Software Assistant BOE C059-97 Ushers And Ticket Takers $5.85 C128-08 Field Research Assistant $8.50 $10.00 / hour C023-01 Network And Systems Administrator Depends on experience C131-08 Genetics Tutor (biol 3060) 6.50 C135-08 Farm Worker 8.00 C129-08 Writing Tutor 6.50-7.00 C194-98 Undergrad Ta’s For Labs & Paper Graders $6.50/hr C130-08 Biology Tutor 1010, 1610 6.00-6.50 C107-07 Quality Assurance Assistant 6-8 C151-08 Housing Ambassador $8/hr C136-08 Dispatcher $8.00/hr DOE C152-08 Tutor For Wild 4880 (genetics) 6.50 C491-90 Housekeeper $5.85 C360-90 Security Officer C358-07 Education Graduate Assistant up to $11/hour C153-08 Preschool Classroom Assistant DOE 7-9.50 C012-93 Computer Consultant $6/hr C154-03 Stage Tech $6.00/hr C156-08 Family And Consumer Sciences Fall Intern $8.00 C154-08 Engineering Tutor For Cee & Ece Student 8.00/hr C259-06 Geomorphology Lab Assistant depends on experience C167-08 Family Support Aide BOE C280-90 Animal Caretaker 6.00/hr C117-08 Marketplace Worker $7.00 C170-08 Tutoring $7.00/hour C169-08 Tutors $8/hr C168-08 Custodial Assistant $8/hr C456-05 Parttime Custodian Begining$7.50/ hr BOE C173-06 Fine Arts Center Usher $6.00/hr C187-07 Mini Bus Driver $8.00 C182-08 Office Assistant/classroom Aide $6.50 per hour C181-08 Math 2210 Tutor $7.00 C180-08 Museum Preparator 10.00/hr

C176-08 Chem 1210 Tutor $7.00 C269-07 Laboratory Technician 7.00-7.50 C426-96 Landscaping Crew Helper $8/hr C135-91 Intramural Official $6 to $8 per game C185-08 Laboratory Technician 7.00-7.50 C171-95 Note Taker $5.15/hr C190-08 Fisheries Technician varies C192-08 Retail Sales $7.50 C274-01 Newspaper Courier NEG. C371-05 Machine Shop Assistant BOE C154-05 Preschool Tutor $8/hr C195-08 Enewsletter Writer negotiable C196-08 Office Assistant $8-10 DOE C198-08 Benchmarking Sys Admin Assistant Negotiable C495-07 Quadside Barista/server 6.50 C249-07 Electrical Engineering Assistant $9$13 (BOE) C015-03 Parking Custodian $5.85 C203-08 Assistant Webmaster - Vp For Research $7/hr+, depend on exp C204-08 Assistant System Administrator Vpr $7/hr+, depend on exp C205-08 Web Administrator 8/hr/or acc. to experienc C206-08 Laboratory Worker 8.00/hr C031-07 Laboratory Worker $8.00 C137-01 Statistician &database Assistant BOE C209-08 Project Assistant 8.00/hr C054-03 Event Coverage & Set-ups $7/hr C208-08 Orchestra Stage Manager 5.85 C186-05 Tutor 6-6:50 C199-08 Research Assistant negotiable C032-96 Delivery/pickup Person $8/hr C210-08 Ece 3620 Tutor 7.00 C657-91 Office Assistant $5.85hr C496-04 Office Assistant 7.50 C212-08 Accountant $7.25 per hour C211-08 Wild 3700 Tutor 7.00 C177-08 Research Assistant C145-02 Sound Technician $6.00/hr C166-07 Geology Research Assistant $89/hr C173-07 Lab Equipment Operator $8/hr C179-07 Student Systems Administrator 12/hr C181-07 Research Assistant C180-07 Research Assistant $15/hr C033-06 Late Evening Custodian (part Time) $6.00 per hour C202-07 Temporary Bindery Worker 7.50 Off-Campus jobs: 2143 Personal Assistant $8.00 / hour 0090 Handyman $7/hr 1047 Youth Counselor BOE 1246 Houseworker negotiable 1326 Aide Room & board plus stipend 1384 Technical Support/system Admin 15$+ after differential 1017 Cook $10/hr 1076 Assistant Manager $11-$13/hr BOE 1426 Sales/account Representative $50,000+ 1475 Live-in Nanny Full Time/permenant In Ca 400-450 a week 1499 Market Research Agent 6.50 to 8.25 1507 Web Designer - Html - Xhtml - Css Negotiable 1506 Personal Assistant For Elderly Woman negotiable 1504 Center Sales And Service Associate 8.50-10 1532 Crew Member see job description 1640 Nanny Based on Experience 1648 Clerk $10.09-12.36 ph 1644 Bookkeeper DOE 1642 Auditor DOE 1634 Sales Associate/ Management DOE 1643 Accountant DOE 1641 Engineering Aid $11.01 ph 1649 Machinist BOE 1821 Cosmotologist 1403 Lawn Care Technician 10 - 12 2023 Delivery Driver Starting $8/hr 1662 Babysitter $150 month 1694 Case Manager $8.22/hour (minimum) 0871 Electronic Assembler wage position w/benefits 1703 Application Engineer salaried w/ benefits 1707 Internet Services Marketing 15% of your sales revenue 1284 Roofer $8-$13/ hr. BOE 1709 House Keeper DOE 1733 Child Care Provider 6.00/hr 1727 Asst. Cheer Coach BOE 1746 Carwash Attendant 1766 Customer Care Operator $9 1848 Pizza Maker 6.15 1844 Aide $7

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Friday

- Alumni travel – Hawaii, 8 a.m.

- Clothesline Project, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., TSC International Lounge.

- Interior Design Visiting Designer Series Sustainability Leader: Penny Bonda, 9:30 to 10:20 a.m., Kent Concert Hall.

- Jason Lindsey, president of Overstock.com, 12:30 p.m., Business Building 215.

- STAB movie – Bourne Ultimatum, 7 p.m., TSC Ballroom.

- Finding Voice, full performance, 7 p.m., Eccles Conference Center Auditorium.

- College of Business Scholarship Banquet, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., TSC International Lounge.

- USU women’s soccer @ BYU, 7 p.m.

- USU women’s volleyball, 7 p.m., Spectrum.

- Salsa Club, 8:30 to 9:30 p.m., HPER.

- Sunrise Session, 7 to 9 a.m.

- Business Week closing social – Aggie Ice Cream, 11:05 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Business Building.

- College of Business presents Dine with Alumni, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., Skyroom Restaurant.

- USU Big Band Swing Club, 7 to 9:30 p.m., HPER. - Star party, 8 to 11:30 p.m., Quad.

Oct. 3

Oct. 4

Oct. 5

Flying McCoys • G&G Mccoy Brain Waves • B. Streeter

Star gazer delight Star Party on the Quad. Come see Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, and other celestial bodies.

Friday Oct. 5 from 8-11 p.m. on the Quad. Sponsored by Society of Physics Students.

Cooking classes

Kitchen kan-do cooking classes, sponsored by USU Student Health and Wellness and Lee’s Marketplace, every Wednesday at 5 p.m., Aggie Village Office (approximately 1200 E 1150 N) Food samples provided. To register call 797-1660. Oct.3: Pantry Possibilities.

Institute activities Friday, Oct. 5: Religion in Life with Jay Richards at 11:30 a.m., Cultural Hall.

Institute Friday Night Activity Oct. 5, “Fiesta Night!“. Dancing from 8-11 p.m. in the Cultural Hall.

Nature center

Parent-Tot Nature Hour, Friday Oct. 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 435-7553239 or visit www.logannature. org.

Nutrition study

Come be a part of a research study designed to understand nutrient differences between groups. This research study is being conducted on USU campus to fulfill a master’s thesis. If you are interested in participating and are within the ages of 18-65, contact Anne Banks via email at annewilson@cc.usu.edu. The study will be conducted over a two-week period. Those who complete the study will receive a free diet analysis and be entered in one of five drawings for a $20 gift certificate to Borders Bookstore.

More to remember ...

• India Student Association is celebrating Diwali, the Festival of Lights on Friday, Oct. 5 at 6 p.m. in the TSC Ballroom.

• Register for Institute at wise. ldsces.org • The USU Women’s Center Clothesline Project will take place Oct. 1–3 in the TSC

Pearls Before Swine • Steve Pastis

International Lounge, from 10 a.m. to 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 over 10 years. Shirt designing may be arranged by contacting the Women’s Center at (435) 797-1728. • The Alliance for the Varied Arts Downtown Gallery Walk. Friday, Oct. 5. from 6-9 p.m. Purchase the work of local artists and enjoy refreshments provided by many of the galleries. For more information call 753-2970.

• 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. to 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.