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Aggie families spend weekend on campus

By LINDSAY ANDERSON staff writer

Aggies and their families gathered last weekend to participate in USU’s first annual Parent and Family Weekend, sponsored by the new Office of Retention and First-Year Experience.

“This program is based on a lot of experience, mainly, that parents want to be involved,” said Aaron Andersen, associate director of Retention and FirstYear Experience, who headed this year’s Parent and Family Weekend.

“One of the things that we really saw a real need for was a comprehensive set of resources for parents. In this generation, parents want to be involved, and students want their parents involved,” he said. “We are aggressively saying, ‘Parents come, we have things to teach you.’”

Andersen said this would help students and parents enjoy campus, something critical to their future success.

“One thing that we thought would be really beneficial, which a lot of campuses do as a tradition, is some kind of parent and family weekend,” Andersen said. “It has two purposes: one, it’s a lot of fun.

We want parents and students to enjoy their time together. Two, there are some pedagogical purpose behind it, which are that we know that the first few weeks of a students’ college career are really critical in so many ways. Students in a lot of ways set the tone for their entire college experience during this time. They are mak-

ing decisions about what kind of student they are going to be, what they are going to study and how they are going to feel about the school.”

“If students know that mom and dad are coming up to spend a weekend somewhat in the near future, they are more likely to become a little more involved in learning the campus,” Andersen said. “So when mom and dad come up with brothers and sisters, they can say, ‘Well this is my home now, and I’m ready to show it off.’”

Rochelle Enderton, mother of USU student Melanie Enderton, was one of several parents who came to the event.

“I think this program is fantastic,” Rochelle Enderton said. “I think it’s very useful. I hope it’s permanent.”

Parent and Family Weekend lasted from Friday to Sunday and included 20 various activities, such as the Richmond Haunted Mansion, a brunch and a walking tour of historic downtown Logan.

“What we have tried to do is make it very variable,” Andersen said. “We have said, ‘Here are a whole bunch of things going on this weekend. Pick and choose which you would like.’ We have left it up to the parents and families to decide together with their students what they want to do.”

The Parent and Family Weekend Brunch was the opportunity to “get everyone together at least once and give everyone a welcome,” Andersen said.

More than 300 people came to

- See WEEKEND, page 3

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Sports The USU hockey team plays to a draw against Long Beach State.

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Two in hospital after standoff

a Logan City Police Officer examines the crime scene Sunday after a 90minute standoff between Merlin DeMars and police. DeMars attacked his sister and upon police arrival, threatened them with a hatchet and a knife. DEBRA HAWKINS photo

A 34-year-old Logan man was in a 90-minute standoff with police Sunday afternoon after he assaulted his sister, sending her to Logan Regional Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Merlin DeMars attacked his sister, Debbie DeMars, 35, in their house at 233 S. 300 East, in the Island. When police arrived at the scene, Merlin DeMars threatened officers with a hatchet and a knife, said Logan Police Officer Eric Collins.

Police shot Merlin DeMars with bean bags and Tasered him twice before he retreated into the house. Collins said police tried to open negotiations with Merlin DeMars, but he refused to cooperate. After an hour and a half, the SWAT team forced their way into the house and arrested him.

USU researcher running for Providence city council

By ARIE KIRK news editor

Opinion “We cannot incarcerate our way to a ‘drug-free society.’”

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Merlin DeMars was sent to the hospital as well. He will be charged with assault of his sister and aggravated assault on the officers.

Debbie DeMars was bleeding when she was taken to the hospital, but her injuries were not serious enough to be considered life-threatening.

Collins said Merlin DeMars is known to have been suicidal lately and has had problems with drug and alcohol abuse.

“We have had issues with him before, mostly drug and alcohol related,” Collins said. “Nothing like this.”

Relatives of the DeMarses were on the scene Sunday afternoon. Merlin and Debbie DeMars’ sister, Linda DeMars, 39, said she was just glad things turned out OK. “Things are much better now,” she said. “We’re grateful for how things turned out.”

–elizabeth.lawyer@aggiemail.usu.edu

By LIZ LAWYER assistant news editor

three children clap along with the Spirit Squad as they perform for students and their families during Aggie Family Day on the Quad.

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It has been a dirty campaign in Providence, and after being compared to Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shiekh Mohammed and having her past falsified by critics, city council candidate Linda Goetze said she is ready for people to focus on issues that really matter.

Goetze, a senior research scientist and economist at USU for the Center for Persons with Disabilities, said she wishes everyone would concentrate on the problems currently facing the residents of Providence and not create trouble for them and the city council candidates.

“I don’t want any more personal

attacks,” she said. “I want to stick to the issues of traffic, water and what the community is going to look like. I don’t want personal criticism, and I don’t want to waste time. I try to keep lighthearted, but sometimes it hurts.”

Even with the campaign slogan “She Listens,” Goetze hopes people can ignore the talk generated by her critics and those of other city council candidates. As she has been canvassing the neighborhoods of Providence, Goetze said it seems some voters have been able to put the criticism aside and seriously talk about issues including the city’s growth, water, public safety and traffic.

- See GOETZE, page 4

Center plants tulips to raise awareness

By AMANDA MEARS staff writer

Students and community members gathered Saturday to plant pink tulips in front of the new Logan Regional Cancer Center located at 600 E. 1400 North, as part of Plant A Pink Tulip Day. “While the pink tulip bulbs are planted in the fall, they will bloom in the spring, representing part of a cycle that can teach patience, endurance and renewal,” said Patricia Stevens, director of the USU Women’s Center.

Plant A Pink Tulip Day began nine years ago to honor those whose lives have been touched by breast cancer, Stevens said. The idea began when former Women’s Center Director Janet Osborne heard the story of a woman diagnosed with breast cancer whose last wish was to be remembered through planting pink tulips, Stevens said. By planting the tulips, Stevens said they hope to remember victims and raise awareness of breast cancer.

“It’s neat to drive through the area and see all the tulips,” said Logan resident Nancy Sassano, who has been a part of Plant A

- See TULIPS, page 13

People planted pink tulips Saturday at what will soon be the Logan Regional Cancer Center. The Women’s Center sponsored the event to raise awareness of breast cancer. NOELLE BERLAGE photo

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Hearings to touch on limits of terror policy

WASHINGTON (AP) – As the chief federal trial judge in Manhattan, Michael Mukasey approved secret warrants allowing government roundups of Muslims in the days after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Six years later, the man President Bush wants to be attorney general acknowledged that the law authorizing those warrants “has its perils” in terrorism cases and urged Congress to “fix a strained and mismatched legal system.”

Mukasey’s caution about the material witness law probably will please Democrats who control the Senate Judiciary Committee.

At confirmation hearings set to begin Wednesday, they plan to press the retired federal judge about the Bush administration’s terrorist detention policy.

The committee chairman, Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, long has criticized the government’s use of the warrants.

They allowed the FBI to detain, without charges, an estimated 70 people, all but one of whom was a Muslim.

Rice warns Israel not to disrupt process TEL AVIV (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice played down expectations for breakthroughs as she opened a critical round of Mideast shuttle diplomacy here Sunday and warned Israel against moves that might erode confidence in the process.

As she flew into the region from Russia, Rice said she hoped to help narrow gaps between the Israelis and Palestinians, who are trying to forge an outline of an eventual peace deal in a joint statement to be presented at a U.S.-hosted international conference next month.

But she said she did not believe her visit would produce that statement or bring it to a point where invitations for the conference, expected to held in Annapolis, Md., in late November, could be issued.

“I don’t expect out of these meetings that there will be any particular outcome in the sense of breakthroughs on the document,” she told reporters aboard her plane.

“I would just warn in advance not to expect that because this is really a work in progress,” she said.

Two of many trucks burn in the truck lanes of the southbound Interstate 5 in the Newhall Pass between Santa Clarita and Los Angeles early Saturday morning, Oct. 13. Rain slick roads caused several of the trucks to overturn. AP Photo

Fiery pileup in freeway tunnel kills at least 2, injures several SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) – A latenight crash in a Southern California freeway tunnel quickly turned into a fiery, chain-reaction pileup that mangled several trucks, killed at least two people and shut down the key northsouth route as the wreckage burned into Saturday.

The crash late the night before involved five to six big rigs and several passenger cars and sent people fleeing for their lives from the flaming tunnel.

At least five of the trucks burst into flames, and the fire spread to the other vehicles. Ten people were injured.

“It looked like a bomb went off,” said Los Angeles County firefighter Scott Clark, one of about 300 firefighters who battled the blaze through the night.

Firefighters began hauling debris out of the tunnel Saturday. Officials hope to reopen the southbound lanes of Interstate 5 by Tuesday morning, but they have been hampered by small lingering fires and concern about how many repairs will have to be made for the tunnel to be safe for the public.

“One of the things hampering us is the continuing fire,” said Will Kempton,

director of the California Department of Transportation. “Our goal is to get the roadway open as quickly as possible.”

The bodies of two crash victims were found in the tunnel Saturday, said California Highway Patrol Officer David Porter. He couldn’t immediately say whether one of them was a trucker listed as missing.

Firefighters could find more bodies as they explored the charred tunnel. They hope to finish the search by Sunday morning, said Deputy Fire Chief John Tripp.

The pileup in the southbound truck tunnel of Interstate 5 began about 11 p.m. Friday when two big rigs collided on the rain-slickened highway about 30 miles north of downtown Los Angeles.

As crashes continued throughout the 550-foot-long tunnel, five tractor-trailers burst into flames, and the fire quickly spread.

“There was an accident in front of me.

I come to a stop and then they just start hitting me, one right after another,” trucker Tony Brazil told reporters at the crash site.

“A couple drivers come over the top of the truck and (said), ‘Get out of here, let’s get out of here,’ so I got my wallet and my phone and I was able to squeeze between that truck there and the wall,” Brazil said.

The cause of the crash is being investigated.

The pileup snarled traffic for miles in all directions as motorists had to navigate neighborhood streets and mountain roads to get around the wreck. It took an hour to travel 100 yards on one street just down the hill from the crash.

Interstate 5 is a key route connecting Southern and Northern California, as well as a major commuter link between Los Angeles and its northern suburbs.

The affected stretch of freeway carries about 225,000 vehicles a day, and there are likely to be huge traffic jams in the area if it is still closed when people return to work Monday.

At the crash site Saturday, the charred skeletons of a few big rigs peeked out of the tunnel’s south end. At least one was carrying produce. A pile of scorched truck debris protruded from a tunnel wall.

Pets seized from housing project, hurled off bridge to their deaths SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) – Animal control workers seized dozens of dogs and cats from housing projects in the town of Barceloneta and hurled them from a bridge to their deaths, authorities and witnesses said Friday.

“This is an irresponsible, and shameful act,” he told The Associated Press.

Fontanez said the city hired Animal Control Solution to clear three housing projects of pets after warning residents about a no-pet policy. He said the city paid $60 for every animal recovered and another $100 for each trip to a shelter in the San Juan suburb of Carolina.

Raids were conducted on Monday and Wednesday, and residents told TV reporters they saw the animal control workers inject the animals. When they asked what they were giving them, they said they were told it was a sedative for the drive to the shelter.

“They came as if it were a drug raid,” said Alma Febus, an animal welfare activist. “They took away dogs, cats and whatever animal they could find.”

But instead of being taken to a shelter, the pets and strays were thrown 50 feet from a bridge in the neighboring town of Vega Baja, according to Fontanez, witnesses and activists, apparently

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“Many were already dead when they threw them, but others were alive,” said Jose Manuel Rivera, who lives next to the bridge.

“Some of the animals managed to climb to the highway even though they were all battered, but about 50 animals remained there, dead.”

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NEW YORK (AP) – Fresh off his directorial debut, Ben Affleck says he’s found his calling.

“In the beginning part of wanting to be a director was just a natural extension of acting,” said Affleck, whose movie “Gone Baby Gone” opens Friday. “But now this feels like what I am, or what I want to be, it’s so satisfying and exhilarating.

Affleck BEN AFFLECK co-wrote the script and directed “Gone Baby Gone,” a crime thriller set and filmed in Boston about the search for an abducted 4-yearold girl.

He told the newspaper he included as many locals as he could in the film, people plucked off the street or discovered in bars, even for speaking roles.

One woman was cast as a beer-drinking smart-mouth after approaching him and saying, “I should be in your movie.”

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Jimmy Kimmel is going bicoastal.

The host of ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” will fill in for a vacationing Regis Philbin on “Live with Regis and Kelly” in New York while still hosting his namesake show from Los Angeles.

During the week of Oct. 22, Kimmel will fly back and forth across the country daily, co-hosting with Kelly Ripa in New York each morning and taping his own show in Los Angeles each night.

That’s two cross-country flights a day for five days.

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Inside look: Salaries at Utah State Briefs Top 20 moneymakers at USU

By DAVID BAKER assistant sports editor

All quotes from Provost Ray Coward Issue: tuition going to salaries “It’s a predetermined amount set by the state. A 75/25 split between the state (75) and student tuition (25). The state decides what the raise is and university has to find a way to come up with the money – this is Tier 1 tuition. Tier 1 is consistent throughout the state. Tier 1 is driven by faculty salaries.”

Issue: athletic salaries v. academic salaries “That always raises eyebrows ... It is always controversial. There are folks who believe you shouldn’t pay coaches that much. There are others that believe Coach Guy or Coach Morrill could leave tomorrow and get a higher salary other places.”

Issue: USU compared to national salaries “The devil’s in the details.

The percentage is less for new faculty than it is for faculty who have been here a longer period of time. So, when we bring in a new faculty member, for example, we are paying very competitive salaries because we have to do that, frankly, to get the best people.”

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Stewart Morrill

Men’s Basketball Coach

$327,699

Stan Albrecht

President

$270,100

Brent Guy

Men’s Football Coach

$226,044

Raymond Coward

Executive VP, Provost

$207,998

David York

Director, Advanced Nutrition

$193,406

Brent Miller

Research VP

$186,608

Harvard Hinton

Engineering Dean

$185,007

Fred Hunsaker

VP Business and Finance

$182,108

Noelle Muggli-Cockett

VP Cooperative Extension

$181,252

Ned Weinshenker

VP Strategic Ventures and Economic Development

$178,450

Douglas Anderson

Business Dean

$173,000

Randall Spetman

Athletic Director

$172,111

Moses Jeppesen

VP Information Technology

$171, 449

Byard Wood

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Head

$165,015

Jeffrey Doyle

Accountancy Associate Professor

$165,000

James Macmahon

Biology Director

$163,897

Richard Jenson

Head of Accountancy

$162,936

Mary Hubbard

Science Dean

$160,000

Frank Peterson

VP University Advancement

$160,000

Nat Frazer

Natural Resources Dean

$159,500

Issue: Salary’s importance “There is research out there that suggests that it is not the only, or even the highest, priority. But it is an issue. What you have to do to be competitive is to have a salary which is sufficient. It doesn’t have to be exactly the same as our competitors, but it has to be sufficient so that an individual can look at the other amenities that come from being a faculty member at Utah State.”

Issue: payment “It’s important to understand that not everyone at Utah State is underpaid ... I’m not trying to suggest that there isn’t a problem. I’m just suggesting it isn’t a problem for everyone.”

Information compiled from www.utahsright.com

Issue: competitive salaries “It is critical, because the key to our success as a university are our faculty. You cannot have a great university unless you have a great faculty. And we aspire to be a great university, so it’s important that we get the highest quality faculty.”

“We’ve had to bite that bullet because the alternative is not acceptable. The alternative is to recruit under-qualified faculty or not to replace the faculty at all, and neither of those are reasonable alternatives for our university.”

Aggies rock for a cause Weekend: Families enjoy USU -continued from page 1

By LIZ LAWYER assistant news editor

In true hippie style, Friday’s Reduce, Reuse and Rock Concert was casual and relaxed, and everyone bashed on “The Man.” This is the second year the concert has been held, though this may have been the first time “The Man” was represented by a pinata shaped like the devil.

“I think Satan was a big hit,” said Patrick Clark, junior in music. Clark played bass for the band Viewers Like You at Friday’s concert.

Students smashed the candy-filled Lucifer representing those who create too much waste in between subtler messages to recycle waste and save the planet.

Isaac Anderson, a USU student who is not currently enrolled, told the audience he made $140 by recycling discarded copper scraps from a construction site.

“I’m pretty stoked about that,” he told the audience amid congratulatory applause and whistles.

Viewers Like You sang a song about recycling and the familiar blue recycling bins.

Morgan “Mo Eddie” Edwards and Ry Morse crooned, “Recycle,” and “Stop global warming,” in between verses during their set, drawing cheers from the crowd.

The concert, put on by Aggie Recyclers, drew about 100 audience members and included a raffle give-away of USU paraphernalia and discontinued “Recycle or Die” T-shirts made famous by Sean “Diddy” Combs.

Ashley Workman, senior in international and environmental studies and director of Aggie Recyclers, said the money gathered from admissions would go toward awareness education on campus. One of the projects the club is working on is raising funds for outdoor recy-

cling bins, she said.

Workman said club members hoped to make the concert a yearly event.

Edwards, senior in art, said she feels recycling is a good cause to fight for, but there are other, better ways to save the planet people should focus on.

“I feel like recycling is great, but reducing and reusing are better,” she said. “Recycling still uses materials and energy, so basically people should just buy less stuff and share with people.”

Anderson said recycling is something he thinks pretty much everyone can feel good about.

“I think it’s a great thing,” he said. “I don’t see how anyone could disagree.”

–elizabeth.lawyer@aggiemail.usu.edu

Saturday’s brunch.

“We are pleased as punch,” Andersen said.

“We would love to get to the point, and I mean this quite literally, where we are talking about thousands of people,” he said. “We would love for every student to be welcoming their parents. We are thrilled with the turnout, that the response has been what it has been.

“The programs that we have established for this office are going to stay. This trend of parental involvement is not going anywhere, and we think that’s great. We would love to show parents how they can be a good resource for their college student. There are things that they can really be helpful with. We are committed to these programs.”

–lindsay.anderson@aggiemail.usu.edu

PoliceBlotter

Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007

• USU Police received a report of a stray kitten at Aggie Village that had been taken into custody by a resident there. USU Police responded and transported the kitten to Cache Meadows Animal Shelter.

outstanding parking tickets and a booting of his vehicle.

• USU Police are investigating a theft of an expensive cowboy hat out of an apartment in the Living & Learning Center C.

• USU Police responded to the Natural Resources Building where an individual was reported as being lost. Upon arrival, police found that the individual had already made contact with his friend who responded to the building and took the lost individual into his custody.

• Logan City Police responded to the area of 700 E. 800 North on a report of a burglary of a residence.

A male individual had opened the complainant’s door and was staring at her. The male ran off, and the complainant called an hour after the male had taken off. This case will be forwarded to investigations.

Thursday, Oct. 11, 2007

Friday, Oct. 12, 2007

• USU and Logan City Police responded to the Romney Football Stadium on a report of a fight in progress. When officers arrived, they found that following an altercation on the field two men fought each other after the game. Police are still investigating.

• USU Police recieved a report of an individual who may be driving while intoxicated. USU Police were unable to locate the individual. An attempt to locate was sent out to all surrounding agencies.

Police are investigating.

• USU Police met with a student concerning his finding and using a USU parking permit. The student was charged with wrongful appropriation and also was required to pay the Parking Office for

The Whittier Community Center, 290 N. 400 East, will host a Meet the Candidates Night for the Logan Municipal Council on Wednesday, Oct. 17 from 7 to 9 p.m. For additional information call 435-753-9008, or e-mail info@ whittiercenter.org. Bring your families to participate in the political process.

Candidates will answer written questions from the audience. A reception will follow the event. This event is sponsored by: USU Charter Credit Union, Cache Chamber of Commerce, Cache/ Rich Association of Realtors, CAPSA, OPTIONS for Independence, and the Whittier Community Center.

Candidates participating in the event: Seat 1, Val Ewell and Laraine Swenson, Seat 2, Herm Olsen and Steven Taylor, Seat 3, Jay Monson and Joseph Needham.

USU Jazz Ensembles open season this week USU’s two premier jazz bands — the USU Jazz Orchestra and the Jazz Ensemble — open the school year with the first concert of the 2007-08 season Wednesday, Oct. 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Manon Caine Russell Kathryn Caine Wanlass Performance Hall (approximately 1090 E. 675 North) on campus.

Tickets are available at the door the night of the performance. General admission tickets are $5, and USU students with current ID are admitted free.

The first concert of the year offers an opportunity to hear the student members of the USU jazz groups perform in the USU Performance Hall, noted for its fine acoustics, said Jon Gudmundson, director of the jazz program in USU’s department of music. He also directs the Jazz Orchestra.

Fellow faculty member Todd Fallis directs the Jazz Ensemble.

The program includes a number of jazz standards as well as contemporary works, including two Bob Mintzer compositions, “Computer,” from his big band album “Incredible Journey,” and “Acha,” from his recent “Latin From Manhattan” CD.

Governor appoints two district court judges

Families enjoyed inflatable slides, rock climbing and educational activities during Aggie Family Day on the Quad during this past weekend. CAMERON PETERSON photo

Isaac Anderson performed at the Reduce, Reuse and Rock Concert, Friday night.

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Meet the Candidates Night on Wednesday

• USU Police responded to the Biotechnology Center and Agricultural Science Parking Lot for a reported vehicle accident. Police found an electric cart leaning into the bumper of a truck. Both parties were present. No visible damage to truck or

Contact USU Police at 797-1939 for non-emergencies.

Anonymous reporting line: 797-5000 EMERGENCY NUMBER: 911 the cart.

Saturday, Oct. 13, 2007 • Logan City Police responded to an anonymous caller requesting an officer to check a residence in Logan for possible child neglect. The caller stated that there were several small children in the home and there was no food and the apartment was filthy. An officer contacted the individuals in the apartment and found no evidence of child neglect.

• Logan City Police responded to a complainant called to report a suspicious male knocking on doors and asking to use the phone. The complainant believed the individual was intoxicated.

Officers located the individual, who was arrested for minor in possession of alcohol.

Sunday, Oct. 14, 2007 • Logan City Police contacted a complainant by telephone regarding a theft complaint. The complainant stated that she had left her purse at a relatives home and now $90 in cash is missing from her purse.

-Compiled by Arie Kirk

Utah Governor Jon Huntsman announced today the appointment of Kevin J. Fife to serve as a judge on the Utah First District Court and David M. Connors to serve as a judge on the Utah Second District Court. Upon confirmation by the Utah State Senate, Fife will replace Judge Gordon J. Low and Connors will replace Judge Darwin C. Hansen.

“Kevin’s wealth of legal experience and knowledge will make him an excellent Judge for the First District Court and he will serve the State of Utah admirably,” Governor Huntsman said. “I am grateful for his willingness to serve the public and share hos talent and expertise.”

Fife is currently practicing with Olson and Hoggan, P.C. in Logan, Utah. He received his Jurist Doctorate degree from the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law, where he was a William H. Leary Scholar.

“It is an honor to be selected by Governor Huntsman to fill this vacancy from such a large pool of qualified candidates,” said Fife. “At the same time, I am humbled by the opportunity and look forward to serving the citizens of the First District Court and the State of Utah.”

Connors is a partner in the litigation department of Chapman and Cutler LLP in Salt Lake City, Utah. He received his Jurist Doctorate degree from Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School and graduated magna cum laude.

“David’s background in civil litigation with a prominent law firm, along with his public service as mayor and city councilman, will bring diverse perspective to the Second District bench,” Governor Huntsman said. “I appreciate his continued commitment to serving the people of our State.”

“I am honored to serve in the Second District Court and appreciate the confidence of Governor Huntsman,” Connors said. “I look forward to working with the other great judges on the bench.”

-Compiled from staff and media reports

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Dean of libraries candidate visits

By LIZ LAWYER assistant news editor

The first of three finalists for the position of dean of libraries at USU visited the campus Thursday and Friday.

Anne Langley came to USU for interviews and a 90-minute open forum Thursday during which she was available to answer questions.

According to the Provost’s Office’s Web site, the dean of libraries “will provide dynamic and visionary leadership of the Merrill-Cazier Library.” The position is one of academic leadership, and the individual chosen will have the rank of librarian, which is equivalent to the rank of professor, according to the Provost’s Office’s Web site. The dean will report to the Executive Vice President and Provost Ray Coward and will

“represent the informational needs of constituents to the university.”

Langley is currently coordinator of public services assessment and chemistry librarian at Duke University, where she is also an adjunct professor of chemistry. She has been at Duke for nearly a decade and has also held library positions at North Carolina State University and at the University of Tennessee.

Langley got her undergraduate degree in English and creative writing, with a minor in German at Georgia State University, and holds a master’s degree in library science from the University of Tennessee.

She has served as a consultant for information science and library projects and as an expert witness in chemical patent court cases. She is the chair of the science, technology and medicine collections working group of

the Triangle Research Libraries Network and has published two books and several articles.

The other two candidates for dean of libraries are Richard Clement of the University of Kansas and Gregg Sapp of the State University Langley of New York at Albany.

Clement’s open forum is Tuesday, Oct. 23, at 4 p.m. in the Merrill-Cazier Library Room 101.

Sapp’s open forum is Tuesday, Oct. 30, at 4 p.m., also in the library Room 101.

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If elected, Goetze, a 24-year resident of Providence, said she would like to see better control of the area’s growth. She said with 40 percent of all homes in Providence built in the last six years, the city council must seriously consider the effects of such rapid growth “The city needs to just take a breath to determine the effects of such fast growth and how to handle the growth rate,” Goetze said.

She said GOETZE the effects are great, including the city’s budget, water, infrastructure, transportation and public safety.

The inhabitants for every new house that is built increase traffic 10 to 15 trips a day, Goetze said. As a result of more congestion, drivers choose to travel on

back roads that are not built to support such traffic.

She said she has been attending city council and planning commission meetings in Providence for more than 20 years and would like to see other citizens doing more of the same.

She also said as a council member, she wants to make it easier for Providence residents to participate in council activities and offer their suggestions.

To fill out an application to suggest a city ordinance, there is a $50 fee. Goetze said this fee must be lowered or completely eliminated. She said such a large fee prevents many citizens from making their voices heard and participating in the political process. She said she wants that to change.

While Goetze has many ideas for the city, she said it is important to ask for citizen input and then act upon it. She said she realizes the challenge in getting everyone what they want, but she said she believes compro-

mises can be made.

“Making life better in some cases is really easy and in some cases it is really hard because someone wants one thing and someone else wants another. It is that overlap that is so hard,” she said.

Goetze said her work at USU as an economist and researcher would prove to be invaluable as a member of the city council.

As a member of the Providence Heritage Committee, she has had experience drafting ordinances and getting them passed which, she said, will also be beneficial to her as a council member.

Goetze said she is not nervous about the upcoming election, believing her work experience and past involvement with Providence issues give her an edge.

There are three open seats on the Providence City Council with six candidates on the ballot.

The General Election is Tuesday, Nov. 6.

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Evelyn Funda

Professor Profile

By BRITTNY GOODSELL JONES assistant features editor

Associate professor in the English department, Evelyn Funda, said she wants her mother’s courage.

Her mother, Ántonia, escaped from the communist regime in 1949 at age 23 by crossing the Czech border into Austria while hiding in a false-bottomed wine barrel, Funda said. Communists, who she said had just swept Nazis out of Czechoslovakia, tried their hand at liberating the country until some Czech people realized the communists were just as bad as the Nazis.

While working as a nanny, Antonia realized the family she was working for was involved with the underground, which aimed to help dissidents escape from the communist regime, Funda said. She soon became involved and eventually had to leave the country to ensure her safety.

But one of the only ways she could do that, Funda said, was by wine barrel when the country exported grapes.

“This is like Napa Valley, Czech style,” she said. “This is real wine country, so a lot of grapes are transported to wineries and there was a false-bottomed barrel, so she escaped across the border into Austria.”

Consequently, Funda said her mother has kind of become a motto or theme to live by and remember.

“I’m a coward in lots of ways,” Funda said with a smile.

“And that’s one of the regrets I have, that I didn’t do the things that I wished I’d done. I didn’t sort of push myself.

And my mother, there was a sense of courage about her that I really admire.

This decision changed the rest of Ántonia’s life. She left without saying goodbye to her parents, Funda said, and didn’t ever see them alive again. Ántonia didn’t see her village again until 1993 when she went back with Funda’s father, she said.

“You know, to face that kind of uncertainty, and she just did it,” Funda said. “It wasn’t as if she had a choice of course because what they knew at that point was the

authorities were on to them and they were going to escape. “(My mother) had visited her brother like a week before she left. And he was the only one that knew she was planning to escape. She had a boyfriend and so she had gone to her older brother and said I want to to stay because I love this man, and he said I don’t think you can do it.

“So she left everything.”

Funda, who teaches in the English and American studies department, said something her students don’t know about her is that her mother and father’s story is being compiled into a creative nonfiction book written by Funda herself. The book, which is not yet completed, came about after her family farm land in Idaho was sold, she said. The book delves into the metaphor of her family’s experience being compared to weeds.

“Weeds are particularly adapted to survive harsh conditions,” she said. “I kind of was interested in the idea of their resiliency.”

“Wild Oats,” which is a weed often found on road sides, is a title chapter in Funda’s book that talks about Ántonia and her immigration experience from her home country of Czechoslovakia to a small town in Idaho. Each chapter is named after a different kind of weed, she said.

Funda, who is “100 percent Czech,” said she compares a wild oat to her mother. When the awn (an appendage) of a wild oat is wet, Funda said it begins to unfurl or twist itself around its body since its position is at an angle. It’s an evolutionary thing, Funda said, that says this weed is amazingly adapted to survive.

“The reason I put (wild oats) in the book is because I’m really interested in the idea of the wild oats almost consciously making a choice to embed itself in the landscape,” she said. “So I kind of saw this as a metaphor for my mother who had been this refuge, I mean she literally had a refuge card, and I was interested in that idea of someEVELYN FUNDA HAS TAUGHT AT USU since 1995 and said her job is rewarding body who escaped, who was a refuge, of a very conscious

- See FUNDA, page 8

because of the classroom experience. She said she enjoys seeing students be engaged in what she is teaching them. “That’s a high,” she said. NOELLE BERLAGE photo

Student wants to be a doctor and write book on skin cancer Caught on Campus

Vanesa Webb Peru Sophomore Premed

thing that has to do with skin and things like that. So I really like that.

US: What is your favorite candy bar?

VW: Hershey’s or Milky Way. I really love them.

By TONNIE DIXON staff writer

US: Who is the most important person to you?

US: What brings you to USU?

VW: It’s kind of hard to say that because I think my husband and my baby mean the world for me.

I mean my parents are the best.

My grandparents, you know what I mean, and I could go on, but my husband and my baby are there!

VW: Well, because it’s the only university in Utah pretty much, well in this part of Utah. My dad came here, so he told me it’ll be better if you get a bilingual education and everything because I was studying genetics in my country.

So yeah, he pretty much made me stay. So I stayed and it was good.

I’m so happy with it.

US: How many people are in your family?

VW: Well in my family, my husband and my baby. But in here, it’s my dad, my mom and my two brothers.

US: What is one of your favorite hobbies or talents?

VW: I love to play soccer, and I love to dance and listen to music, and whatever I’m up to, whatever my mood tells me to do.

US: If you could write a book about any topic, what would it be about?

VW: Skin cancer. I want to be a dermatologist, so I love every-

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US: What would you do if you were given a million dollars?

VW: I want to go to Africa. And I’m just gonna put a whole charity place ‘cause I’m really a fan of Mother Teresa because I think she was a really important person, you know what I mean? Not just in the Catholic Church, but everywhere. Like a person, ‘cause she helps a lot of people that it really needs, so if I do give some to anybody, even if it’s just a $100,000, I’m just gonna give away. Because I learned that you come here without nothing, and you’re gonna leave this earth without nothing either, so I’m just gonna give my money to everyone else.

US: What is one of your favorite TV shows?

VW: It depends. In Spanish, some of my soap operas. I’m still looking at my soap operas. I love

VANESA WEB, SOPHOMORE FROM PERU, SAID she if she had a million dollars, she would give it away. NOELLE BERLAGE photo

Discovery Channel. I love “E.R.,” “CSI.” I love those kind of shows though.

US: How would you describe yourself in three words?

VW: Um, I don’t give up easily. I don’t know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but I always have stuck to it, to whatever I think is worth it to go for it. I always keep hope no matter how dark it can get. You know what I mean?

Sometimes it’s good and sometimes it’s really stupid to see. You know what I mean, like, ‘I’m hoping this. I’m hoping this.’ And just

live on hopes, but I love to go for it. Whatever seems impossible to everybody else, oh I’m gonna be there to just say, “No, I’m gonna go this way.” So ya, I’m way stubborn.

US: What are your plans for the future?

VW: For my future? If God allows me to keep living, I’m gonna be a dermatologist. I’m planning on having one more baby. Probably my husband will disagree with

- See CAUGHT, page 8

I wasn’t saved by the bell

elevision lies.

I’m sure this doesn’t come as some grand revelation. Anybody who’s watched CNN or FOXNews for more than 10 minutes can figure that out. But there are some topics that should not be lied about. One of these is school.

Having been in school for nearly my entire life – depressing, isn’t it? – I’m somewhat of an expert on school. This doesn’t necessarily mean I’m always a good student, but I’ve learned how the game of school works. Really, it’s a game. The teachers try to force you to do things against your will and you try to find a way to either get out of it or procrastinate it. Sadly, teachers always seem to hold the trump card, and there’s no “get out of jail free” card with homework or tests.

This is unfortunate because the way I learned about the game of school was likely the same way all of you did – through television. And it was all a lie.

Since I can remember, there have always been shows on TV about school: “Magic School Bus,” “Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper,” “Doug,” “Recess,” “Boy Meets World” and the all-time school classic, “Saved by the Bell.”

As a young child, these shows left deep impressions on me, so much to the point that I can still sing the opening song to “Saved by the Bell”: “When I wake up in the morning and the alarm lets out a warning, I don’t think I’ll ever make it on time. By the time I got my books, I give myself a look, I’m at the corner just in time to see the bus slide by …”

“Saved by the Bell” taught me a lot of important things

about school. I learned I could goof off all I wanted and get into trouble on a daily basis but it would be OK because I would have a large group of politically correct, ethnically diverse friends who would bail me out of the principal’s office and steal his toupe.

Growing up, I wanted to be like Zack. He was charming, witty, mischievous and most of all, he was always trying to hook up with the beautiful Kelly Kapowski. She was easily the most gorgeous teenage girl on television. Who wouldn’t want a girl who was a cheerleader, played volleyball, was on swim team and could make your heart melt every time she smiled? Sigh.

As much as I wanted to be like Zack, the only character I could really relate to was Screech. Although I don’t have a white-man fro, I was quite similar to Screech in junior high. I wore those crazy elastic waistband pants with bizarre patterns on them, frequently carried pens, pencils and an occasional calculator in my pocket and squeaked all the time. It was a sad time in my life.

Going into junior high, I was terrified for what awaited me based on Screech’s experiences. As I walked down the hallway, I was jitterier than an Enron executive with the Feds after him. I kept waiting for a Hulk Hogan-sized football player to shove me inside my locker (I was particularly scared of this because I was pretty sure I couldn’t fit inside my locker without breaking multiple bones) and keep me in there for hours before reappearing after school was out to meet me at the flag pole

- See LIES, page 7

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Spring rolls, he said, are a deep fried Thai appetizer containing a combination of chopped vegetables and noodles wrapped and deep fried.

Jansuwan’s favorite dish, he said, is tom yum goong because it tastes spicy but gives him a fresh and energetic feeling. Tom yum goong is a soup made with shrimp, lime, shallots and tamarind. It is one of the most famous dishes in Thai cuisine, Jansuwan said.

Jasmine rice, a signature rice of Thailand, will be served with all of the dishes, he said.

“We think (the cookout) will be a good opportunity for USU students and staff since Thai food is tasty, healthy and a bit spicy,” Jansuwan said.

Thai food is unique and not very simliar to American cuisine, Jansuwan said.

“Thai food is spicy with a secret natural ingredient,” Januswan said.”American foods are adapted and adjusted for American flavor.”

Members of the TSA come together not only to cook and eat but to share company and culture, Jansuwan said.

The TSA consists of 20 permanent members and 10 associated members or spouses THAI FOOD WILL BE AVAILABLE on the TSC patio Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.. of permanent members, and the TSA does DEBRA HAWKINS photo illustration many things together, Jansuwan said. Most of Jansuwan said he hope students will taste the the TSA members are Buddhist, so the group

By BREEA HEINER Thai culture in each dish, they said. Thailand staff writer is the “land of smile” and is known for friendli- sometimes travels to a Buddhist temple in Layton, Jansuwan said. ness, kind greetings and hospitality, Jansuwan The USU TSA, Jansuwan said, also has sports Thai food culture meets USU. said.

The Thai Students Association will be hold- Pad Thai, spring rolls, green curry, tom yum competitions with the TSA from the University of Utah during the month of October. The ing a Thai cookout on the Taggart Student goong, and jasmine rice will all be served, he Center patio Tuesday, Oct. 16, from 10 a.m. to said. Each has specific ingredients and specific TSA will also celebrate Chulalongkorn Day on Oct. 23, a Thailand national holiday, which is 2 p.m. tastes, Jansuwan said. the birthday of a former king of Thailand who Sarawut Jansuwan, TSA president and a Pad Thai contains stir-fried noodles with improved education, transportation and milithird-year doctorate student in transportation eggs, tamiarind juice, red chili pepper and any tary in Thailand. engineering, said students will not want to combination of bean sprouts and tofus gar-breea.lee.h@aggiemail.usu.edu miss the cookout. nished with crushed peanuts.

Left-handers use scissors, baseball mitts, and desks designed for right-handed people. Some USU students say this is an inconvenience. DEBRA HAWKINS photo

Being left-handed in a right-hander’s world

By RANAE BANGERTER staff writer

Baseball mitts, scissors and even classroom desks can be an inconvenience to the nearly 25 percent of the population who are left-handed.

“Things are just made for right-handers,” Bret Spencer, left-handed sophomore in electrical engineering, said. “When writing with a pencil, my fingers get covered in graphite.”

Smearing lead or ink on assignments is just one of the common things left-handed people face every day. In college classes, only a few desks are made for left-handed people, and the rest cater to those who are right-handed.

“The right-handed desks are really hard to write on. You have to twist and contort your body to fit the desk when you’re writing,” Chelsi Woodcox, left-handed senior in elementary education, said.

“It’s just really uncomfortable.”

The left-handed desks at USU are mostly located on the aisles Brit Shepherd, senior in broadcast journalism, said she is used to sitting in a right-hander’s desk but finds a left-hander’s desk much better.

Junior in special education Kami Hogge said she doesn’t feel discriminated against but remembers when she was learning cursive in third grade and her right-handed teacher was trying to show her how to write.

“I remember it was dang tough. I mean, I think cursive is tough for anyone to learn, but when your teacher doesn’t even quite understand how to do it, it’s kind of hard to get that instruction from her,” Hogge said.

Now Hogge said she is going to be a teacher and finds it difficult at times to direct lessons to all of her students. She said she recently had to adapt a lesson written for a right-handed teacher.

“I guess it affects your teaching,” Hogge said. “I hadn’t really thought about that.”

Beyond the classroom, everyday activities for students, like eating with friends, can be difficult.

Although Hogge said she has never asked to sit on the edge of the table while on a date, she said, “If I have a choice, I’d rather sit with my left elbow on

a corner so I’m not bumping into someone.”

She said three out of five in her family are lefthanded, and they adjusted the way they sit for Sunday dinner so they don’t bump elbows.

Some other everyday tools can be difficult for left-handed people to use, such as a can opener or a computer mouse.

Most people think the computer is versatile between right and left-handed people, but Woodcox disagrees. She said it would have been helpful to have a left-handed mouse, especially for art projects.

“If you want to paint something on the computer, it would be a lot easier if it was for the left hand,” she said.

Although there are constant negatives for lefthanders, some students said there are also pros to being left-handed.

Shepherd said she is a dancer and her dance group generally all did right splits in their routines.

“I kind of am glad now because I can do both sides (in splits) instead of just one,” Shepherd said.

Woodcox said being left-handed gave her high school sports teams an edge.

“No one else was good at the left-hand (basketball shots), and that would throw the other team off a little bit,” Woodcox said. “In soccer they needed someone with a really strong left kick, and so I got to be a left wing starting varsity my freshman year.

Many myths about left-handed people have been passed through the generations, Woodcox said, and some are false.

Woodcox’s grandpa is left handed and “in the olden days they thought being left-handed was evil,” she said. “They forced him to write with his right hand, but he does everything else with his left.”

Another myth is that left-handed people have a shorter lifespan and are more likely to get certain diseases, according to the article The Left-handed Advantage by ABC news in 2005.

“I’ve heard that we’re smarter because we use a different side of our brains,” Hogge said. “And I hope that that’s somewhat true because I could really use it going into midterms.”

-ranae.bang@cc.usu.edu

Monday, Oct. 15, 2007

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How much do students really need them?

WHY HAVE A LAPTOP?

“Our generation has been forced to use technology and have access to it. You cannot survive in our society today without being updated in technology. It is pretty much impossible.�

-Jessica Hansen, sophomore in social work “I have a laptop because of its portability. It is nice to be able to take my computer everywhere with me.�

-Tom Williams, freshman in mechanical engineering “I brought a computer to help me do all my homework. It’s been nice to have it so close by so I can check out Blackboard and other things.�

-B.J. Sanders, freshman in premed “My dad bought me a laptop because it helps me a lot with my homework. But I think it is also nice because it helps me stay in touch with all my friends through things like Facebook and MySpace.�

-Chelsea Babbitt, undeclared freshman “I mainly use my laptop to do my homework, play video games or to get on Facebook. My laptop just seems to make things more convenient.�

-Cam Weston, freshman in electrical engineering WITH MORE THAN 11 COMPUTER LABS ON CAMPUS, WHY HAVE YOUR OWN COMPUTER? “Students are just lazy. Why go all the way to a library when you have one right in your room?�

-Sanders “I do a lot of writing and e-mails, and it is just easier to have one close by. I focus better when I am by myself and can’t get distracted. Plus the hours of the computer labs don’t seem to fit my schedule. I usually have to do my homework and other assignments late at night, and it’s easier to do it on my own time.�

-Hansen “Students want their own computer to

JON DUCE, UNDECLARED freshman, buckles down and STUDIES in the library with his laptop. DEBRA HAWKINS photo

put their own stuff on like music. They can’t personalize with the school’s computers.�

- Mike Alder, undeclared freshman “It’s nice to have your computer personalized to you. Besides, you cannot take the lab computers with you to your classes to take notes on.�

-Williams “Going to the computer labs especially won’t be fun in the winter. Going to do homework through the snow just isn’t worth it. You could get frostbite.�

-Sanders ARE PEOPLE WITH THEIR OWN COMPUTERS SPOILED? “I will admit that I am the youngest, so I do get a lot of things. But I explained to my parents why I needed a computer, and they realized it was important and that it would make school better and easier for me.�

-Bethany Law, sophomore in elementary education

“With my computer, I only get it for the year and then I have to give it back to my parents. But many computers are cheap.

It’s not like you can’t go out and get one of your own.�

-Sanders “It is not that hard to get a job and buy one. You can get a decent one at a fairly good price.�

-Weston “Having a computer is not being spoiled; it is more like a necessity. You do not need the high-tech, newest computer to survive.�

- Babbitt “When I got my computer, my parents told me I had to work it off to them. That way it was more of a deal, and I was not just handed over a brand-new computer.�

-Hansen -courtnie.packer@aggiemail.usu.edu

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and beat the ever-living daylights out of me, followed by a healthy swirly.

I was amazed when none of this happened. I couldn’t believe a TV show would lie to me like that. But I still held out hope for a gang of friends to show up at lunch with some plan to set off the fire alarm in hopes the cheerleaders would scramble out of the gym and I would get to see the Kelly of the school. Again, I was disappointed when my only friends were a bunch of science nerds who I spent my lunch hour with sitting in the library reading fantasy novels, and the cheerleaders were the ones who shoved me in my locker.

Even though my school experience was nothing like “Saved by the Bell,� I still loved the show. Looking back though, I wonder why. Nothing was realistic about it. Even the school looked way too clean to be a real high school. There was nothing real about any of those school television shows.

I never got to ride on a magic school bus, although there are plenty of places I would like to go in a magic

school bus, like going back in time to see Frodo throw the ring of power into Mt. Doom.

There was nothing magic about the school bus I rode except for the fact he never got us killed. I think my bus driver was a relative of Otto on “The Simpsons.�

The only thing on TV remotely resembling my school experience was Ms. Finster, the recess monitor from “Recess.� The recess monitor at my school must have been part of the Gestapo in a previous life because she had eyes in the back of her head. She knew what every student was up to. No matter how sneaky I thought I was when I tried to scale the chain link fence to freedom, she would be there with her little red fanny pack to catch me.

Similar or not, TV shows about school falsely shaped my perception of school. I’m not so upset that I was lied to as I am about spending so much time watching these shows.

Think about it. I go to school for most of the day, then come home and watch TV shows

about school. Something’s sick and wrong about that.

I think it was part of Nancy Reagan’s lesser-known policy, the “Just say yes� to school program, taking up valuable airtime to rot my brain with pro-school programs.

I may have fallen for the school-is-so - cool-it’s- on-T V trap, but I hope future generations don’t. If so, we’re going to have a whole bunch of kids expecting their peers to spontaneously burst into song and dance and be part of the drama club when they reach high school.

Seth Hawkins is a junior majoring in public relations. He hopes people won’t think less of him for watching reruns of “Saved by the Bell� on Friday nights.

Comment s and questions can be sent to him at seth. h@aggiemail. u s u . edu

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Funda: From Czechoslovakia to Utah

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FUNDA SAID HER BOOK FOCUSES around the sale of her parents’ family farm land. In one of the chapters, she compares wild oats to her mother and writes how both make a choice to embed themselves in the landscape they are in. NOELLE BERLAGE photo

effort of making yourself at home in a new place. So that’s why the wild oats.”

Funda, who received her doctorate degree from University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said she started to teach college once she entered her doctorate program.

Her first teaching job, however,

was three years prior at a high school in Yuma, Ariz., Funda said. Through that experience, Funda said she realized she didn’t really like teaching high school.

“The question was, how in the hell do we get out of Yuma, Ariz.?” she said. “And the answer was grad school.”

Funda said she came to do what she does almost “serendipitously” since she had never previously vowed she wanted to be a university professor.

“It was escape,” Funda said. “It was escape out of a town I didn’t like.”

Once she got in the midst of teaching and researching, Funda said she realized she really liked it. And since 1995, Funda has been at USU as a professor.

Melissa Davis, USU graduate in literary studies, said Funda is a successful teacher.

Although Davis said she has never had Funda as a professor, she approached Funda to serve on her thesis committee. Funda spent a lot of time, Davis said, reading through drafts and meeting with Davis and other committee members.

“One of the most striking things about Dr. Funda is that she earnestly cares about students,” Davis said. “I was really impressed at her generosity and willingness to help me out, but the experience made it very clear that she immerses herself in teaching and genuinely wants students to succeed.”

Funda said her job is rewarding because of the classroom experience. With her students, Funda said there is usually a moment when they either reluctantly admit something is pretty interesting, or they get a spark in their eyes that makes her realize, she said, they are really engaged about what she is teaching them.

“That’s a high,” she said. “I can’t tell ya how many times I can be having just a crappy day and I go into the class and I come out 50 minutes later feeling great. It’s wonderful.”

-brittny.jo@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Caught: Would donate million bucks

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me, but just one more. And when in fours years, I’m gonna be a doctor. When I’m 50 and 60, just totally retire and just go everywhere else, just go on medical missions and see all that. ‘Cause I think I’ve lived enough after 50 years just to help everybody else that needs it.

US: What is your favorite type of music?

VW: It depends. I love classical music when I kind of need that moment to get back with myself

to kind of have a relaxed time. But I really like salsa, merengue. I’m a Latina so I love those kind of sorts of music. I’m trying to get into my husband’s music, but it kind of takes me a while. It’s cool, I’ll listen to English music anytime, but I love the soft rock and I’m really into ages. Like, I like the ‘50s. I like the ‘60s. Ya know, Fleetwood Mac like Doobie Brothers. You know what I mean. My dad is like, “OK, you’re my daughter,” ‘cause I get that from my dad. But I really like the old music. I think it has more meaning.

US: Do you play any instruments?

VW: No, well I used to play piano and flauta (flute). I don’t know how to say it in English, but that was when I was like 10 years old and I couldn’t stand up and say, “You know what, Mom? I don’t play this anymore.” But after that, no. Now I regret, you know, that I don’t have an instrument that I can play, but I’m pretty sure I’m gonna put that on my babies. So I usually don’t play anything.

-t.dixon@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Pats top ‘Boys IRVING, Texas (AP) — Tom Brady threw a careerhigh five touchdown passes, with Donte Stallworth taking the final one 69 yards to break open a tight game in the fourth quarter as the New England Patriots won 48-27 on Sunday in a rare battle of teams with 5-0 records.

The Patriots (6-0) started strong and finished stronger, their sixth straight blowout win and their highest point total this season. New England also gave up its most points of the season and trailed in the second half for the first time this year.

Brady was sacked three times, as many as he’d been all season.

Experience in big games hadto be part of the difference. Consider what the Patriots did on their final five drives after the Cowboys went ahead 24-21 early in the third quarter: touchdown, field goal, touchdown, field goal, touchdown.

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Utah State’s women’s volleyball team dropped a three-game match (30-22, 30-27, 30-23) at Nevada Saturday night in Western Athletic Conference action. USU falls to 9-9 on the season and 6-3 in the WAC, while UNR improves to 9-7 overall and 6-3 in league play.

Sophomore middle blocker Danielle Taylor led Utah State with nine kills and six blocks, while senior outside hitter Monarisa Ale added seven kills, eight digs and five blocks.

Kylie Harrington led Nevada with 14 kills and seven digs, while Teal Ericson had 14 kills and three blocks.

Neither team played well offensively in game one as both clubs managed just nine kills. However, Nevada notched the eightpoint win as it committed six fewer errors (13-7) and out-hit USU .065 to -.100. In game two, the Wolf Pack recorded five more kills (17-12) to notch the three-point win as it hit .140. Nevada then closed out the match by hitting a robust .364 (21-5-44) in game three to record the sweep.

Overall, Utah State hit .067 (35-27-119) as compared to a .203 (47-23-118) hitting percentage for Nevada. The Wolf Pack also had 13 more digs (51-38) and eight fewer service errors (12-4) in the match.

Utah State’s women’s volleyball team continues Western Athletic Conference play Monday night as it hosts 12th-ranked Hawai’i at 7 p.m. in the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum.

“It’s always interesting playing Hawai’i and they are traditionally one of the best teams in the country,” said USU head coach Grayson DuBose. “We’re going to try and make sure we serve well and control the ball, because that will give us the best opportunity of competing. It’s going to be a good match for us to gauge and see where we are against one of the best teams in the country.”

Hawai’i is 15-3 on the season and in first-place in the WAC with a 9-0 league record following a three-game win at Idaho Saturday night. The Rainbow Wahine, who are ranked 12th in the latest AVCA coaches poll, are led by junior outside hitter Jamie Houston who is hitting .238 and averaging 5.31 kills and 2.45 digs per game. As a team, Hawai’i is hitting .222 on the season as compared to a .182 hitting percentage for its opponents.

Utah State is 7-33 all-time against Hawai’i, which includes a 4-10 home record.

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Ags drop close one on last-second confusion

By SETH R. HAWKINS editor in chief

The final seconds of the USU-Boise State showdown came down to a clock, a call, a corner kick and a whole lot of confusion.

The end result was a bitter 2-1 defeat at home, Sunday.

As the clock wound down, the USU soccer squad rallied to attempt to overcome their 2-1 deficit and even things up to send the game into overtime.

Junior defender Alyssa Lowry charged down the right side of the field before

getting tangled up with a Boise State defender and sending the ball out, resulting in a corner kick. The Boise State defender was slow to get up, and the referee signaled for the clock to stop with three seconds remaining, a confusing call to both the USU and Bronco sidelines.

Somehow between the time when the Boise State player returned to her feet and the ball was sent to the corner, the clock had moved to 1.4 seconds before being stalled again. USU defender Lindsey Smart took the corner kick, lofting a well-placed ball to junior midfielder Lacey Christenson, who headed

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By G. CHRISTOPHER TERRY blocked, but after a few tense moments, the referees staff writer ruled that Mitrano’s pad nudged the puck over the

goal line, triggering a wild celebration in the now This one couldn’t have started much worse for packed Eccles Arena. freshman goalie Dan Cornelius.

Six seconds later, Arsenault’s line struck again, While the crowd was still filing into the Eccles Ice right off the face-off. McFadden fired a pass across the Arena, Cornelius and the Aggie defense gave up a slot, and Arsenault tipped the puck in to tie the score goal to Jason Stelling. That goal was followed by a and really get the crowd going. quick roughing penalty on Paul Reinhardt and a Jason From that point on the game became a question of Hastings power-play goal that put USU in a hole just which goalie would blink first. Cornelius was determined it wouldn’t be him and did his best impression three minutes in. of Malcolm McDowell in “A Clockwork Orange,” “It’s part of being a player,” Cornelius said of his which is to say he was wide-eyed. Corny performance after giving up the two was good for 39 saves as he shut Long quick goals. “You have to be able to Beach out through two periods and overget over those things, put it behind time. you and just play the game.”

USU 3 Asked to grade his performance, USU was only down 2-0 for one Long Beach 3 Cornelius said, “I would say maybe a B minute before Ryan Osterheldt got plus. If it wasn’t for those first three, four assists from his linemates Jeremy minutes it would have been great. I feel like I let the Madigan and Will Winsa and used a backhand turn team down in those first three minutes.” to score on Long Beach’s Frank Mitrano.

Early in the third period, USU’s top line was broken Long Beach was not done. up when Arsenault, charging hard in the offensive With 30 seconds to go in the first, Mike Weber got zone, crashed into the boards with Long Beach’s Jason to Cornelius again for a 3-1 lead going into intermission.

Hastings. Arsenault went to the bench for a minute, In the second period, however, the Aggie side began but then was helped off the ice and taken to the hospital by team doctor Jim Davis to check on his concusto build confidence as the top line of Kent Arsenault, sion symptoms and possible internal injuries from the Jay McFadden and freshman Ben Tikka got in a groove. USU established a presence in the Long Beach butt of a stick. Arsenault was fine by Sunday afternoon, when he said he didn’t think Hastings should zone with Arsenault and Tikka cycling the puck and have been disqualified for the hit.

McFadden cutting down the middle.

Another reminder of the danger inherent in this Several excellent scoring chances for Utah State were denied by the 49er defense, but the Ags kept the - See TIE, page 10 pressure on, and with 14 minutes to go, Arsenault

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(seconds), and the next thing I look up and it’s one-point-something. And he lets us take the kick and the ball goes in the back of the net. Sometime in that time, the buzzer went off. He signaled the goal and then he takes the goal away. That’s what I saw.

I’ve never seen a referee take a goal away. I don’t know. And that’s where usually where a referee will take control of a game, in a situation like that.

“I think that’s why there was so much confusion because nobody was sure what he was thinking. Regardless, the score stands and we shouldn’t have let it get to that point. That’s what I’m most upset about.

We had the one-goal lead, and we let it slip away. We really weren’t mentally strong enough to want to finish off that game.”

The first half of the match was dominated by the Aggies, as they owned an 8-3 shot advantage and spent the majority of the time on the Boise State side, threatening to score. The sure hands of Bronco goalkeeper Jennifer Burns kept BSU alive in the first half.

Had USU scored a goal in the first half, as they were threatening to, Cairns said the game would have been “completely different because they were on their heels.”

“What I did tell the team is, ‘Have faith, have faith that it’s going to come.’ And I think for the most part we did and it came,” she said. “But then we weren’t mentally prepared to finish it off. So, certainly an early goal would have changed the game and made our lives easier.”

The second half was a different ball game for the Aggies.

Coming out with as much fire as was lacking in the first half, the Broncos kept the ball busy transversing the length of the field as both teams took turns at offensive attacks. Boise State seemed poised to score with two dangerous shots, but both missed the mark.

In the 72nd minute, the Aggies got the first points on the board off a free kick.

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a leg that can send the ball easily half the length of the field, lined up for the shot with fellow defender Smart. Porter pounded the ball, sending it sailing over the heads of all defenders and the goaltender to land solidly in the back of the net. The shot was taken from more than 30 yards out and was spot on, giving the Aggies a 1-0 advantage.

“I’ve definitely taken a lot of those kicks this year, and it’s great to finally reward my team for getting the fouls and get a good shot in,” Porter said. “My free kicks were pretty shaky today, but (Smart) came up to me and restored my confidence in myself to take it. She believed in me before I believed in myself, I Sophomore forward Erin Salmon dribguess. At least someone believed bles by a Boise State defender on Saturday at Gloria Bell Field. Salmon and other Aggies where forced to pick up the in me.” slack when leading scorer Dana Peart went out in the sec Not deterred by the score, Boise State cut the Aggie celebra- ond half. DEBRA HAWKINS photo tion short at the 73-minute mark team’s leading scorer, who left early in the as Emma Boyack squeezed past the USU half from a knee injury. Until the final defenders on the left side and took Aggie seconds, the Aggies couldn’t get anything goalkeeper Ali Griffin one on one. Faking Griffin out, causing her to slip, Boyack took going, and the rest is history.

“It’s coming down to mental toughness,” an easy shot from the six-yard box to even Cairns said of the loss. “This was actually the score.

Not wanting to be outdone, the Ags came a pretty well-executed game. I thought we played really well besides giving up goals back, spurred on by freshman forward Lauren Hansen, who penetrated the Bronco and scoring goals. That’s not going to get it done in WAC play, so we’ve got to be better defense and had three dangerously close on both ends of the ball. Both ends of the shots, but none of them went in.

Despite all the threatening by the Aggies, ball, it comes down to mental toughness, not letting that player get a shot off, not it was Boise State who put in the next goal letting that player get a step on you to be in the 86th minute. Boyack was deadly able to run by you. In the attacking end, again, giving an assist to Randi Baker, just toe-poking or redirecting, anything to who nailed a hard kick to the right corner put the ball on frame. It’s mental toughness of the net from 20 yards out on the left right now, and hopefully we learned a good side. Griffin tipped the ball, but the ball bounced backwards off her fingers and into lesson today. Again, it shouldn’t have come down to that play.” the net to give the Broncos the lead.

-seth.h@aggiemail.usu.edu The Aggies struggled to get anything going the rest of the game, struggling with the loss of senior forward Dana Peart, the

Tie: Ags get 2 in second to even score

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fast, violent game came later on in the third period, when USU’s Heath Grover went low on a Long Beach skater in the defensive zone and left him lying on the ice. Grover was disqualified for the hit, and the Long Beach player appeared to be alright after he was helped off.

The Grover penalty put USU in a sticky situation, playing one man down for five minutes in the third period of a tie game against a formidable opponent.

But the penalty kill unit was up to the task. The sluggish defense from the first period was a thing of the past, as penalty killers like Walter Voisard and Winsa sold out to block shots and keep the puck on the perimeter of USU’s zone. It helped that USU’s best penalty killer was between the pipes, denying several great Long Beach scoring opportunities, including a wide-open wraparound attempt that, by all rights, should have gone in. McFadden came to the rescue late in the penalty, making himself a pest on the forecheck and drawing an interference call which made the sides even.

Both teams were clearly exhausted by the time overtime arrived. Neither goalie was seriously threatened in the overtime period.

While USU was still clearly not firing on all cylinders, this game represented a clear upgrade in effort over last weekend’s 4-3 stinker of a loss to Utah Valley State College. The Aggies were more physical and took fewer penalties, which Cornelius attributed to some good coaching.

“(Coach) Jerry (Crossley) really got strict with us about taking stupid penalties,” Cornelius said, “and it paid off. Last game we were in the box the whole game and we lost. This game we tied, but it’s still better than a loss.”

New players like Tikka and Madigan also stepped up against Long Beach, providing much-needed aid to the scoring lines. Madigan created a couple of nice breakaways in the first period, which helped wake up his team even though his shots were stopped.

“I’m playing with Swede and Osty now. I love playing with those guys, they really push me to my best,” Madigan, an 18-year-old freshman from Ogden, said.

The addition of Tikka, a willing hitter and softhanded puck-handler, to Arsenault and McFadden’s line, helped spark the two-goal second period and had USU fans abuzz.

“I’m more of an offensive defenseman, and they need help up top so I came and played forward,” said Tikka, a freshman who played junior hockey in Fairbanks, Alaska. “Our line is doing pretty well so far. Hopefully Kent’s alright and we can get back together. I haven’t played hockey competitively since February last year when I aged out of juniors, so I’m hoping to get in better shape.”

Next up for the Ags is a three-game road trip to Colorado.

-graham.terry@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Aggies finish in the middle of the pack at Pre-Nationals Saturday

By JAKE IPSON staff writer

Junior Seth Wold and senior Amy Egan led USU’s cross country team to a 29th-place finish for the men and 27th place for the women at the prenationals in Terre Haute, Ind., Saturday.

“We are getting ready for the championships now, and we took a good step in preparing for the championships this weekend,” Head Coach Gregg Gensel said.

In the 40-team men’s race, Wold led the Aggies with a time of 24:06. He finished in 53rd out of 273 runners.

Freshman Nick Bolinder finished in 24:56, placing 142nd place. Sophomore Steve Strickland finished the race with a time of 25:03, putting him in 161st. Other notable Aggie finishes were freshman Chio Lopez, finishing 177th with a time of 25:16.

In 195th was sophomore Andrew Niccoli, who was clocked at 25:28. Just behind him was teammate and fellow sophomore Jason Holt, finishing with a time of 25:29, placing him in 197th place. At 25:32, freshman Jared Glenn placed 204th.

Josh McDougal of Liberty University won the race with a time of 22:56.4.

The men’s team finished with 728 points in a race won by the University of Texas-El Paso with 128 points, and the University of Colorado came in second with 155 points. Rounding out the top five for the men were North Carolina State with 182 points, Michigan with 208 and Notre Dame with 261 points.

Egan, who finished in 91st place out of 259 runners, had a time of 21:37. With a time of 22:05,

junior Allison Taylor placed 129th. Junior Caroline Berry, with a time of 22:17, placed 150th.

As for other Aggies, senior Stacie Dorius came in 158th, running the race in 22:22. Not far behind was freshman Alicia Holt with a time of 22:47.

Sophomore Erin Stratton came in 228th with a time of 23:28, and coming in 235th was freshman Kim Quinn at 23:45.

The overall winner of the race was Susan Kuijken of Florida State with a time of 19:55.5.

The women’s Aggie team finished with a total of 719 points in the 38-team race that Stanford University won with 102 points. Florida State finished second with 123 team points. Rounding out the top five, Michigan came in third with 178 team points, then Minnesota with 192 and Georgetown with 210.

The next time USU will be competing is Saturday, Oct. 27. That is when USU will hold the Western Athletic Conference Championships.

-jake.ipson@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Mixed results for men’s tennis at Utah Invitational Tourney

By JACKSON OLSEN staff writer

Freshman Jakob Asplund knocked off No. 6 seeded Sascha Kiehne of Weber State, 7-5, 6-1, in one of many highlights from the Utah Invitational Tournament last weekend.

Asplund’s upset, although unforeseen by many, didn’t surprise Head Coach Christian Wright. “(Asplund) is going to have a great year,” Wright said. “He’s a very balanced player and a solid addition to the team.”

The men’s tennis team, playing in its second tournament of the year, faced off with in-state rivals Brigham Young University, the University of Utah and Weber State in what ultimately ended up being a weekend of highs and lows for the Aggies.

Following his first-round win, Asplund fell to Thomas Schubert of BYU, 2-6, 0-6.

But Asplund wasn’t the only Aggie to chalk up a first-round victory.

Senior Jonas Tyden handily defeated Chris Williams of Weber State, 6-3, 6-2, before falling in the second round to the eventual tournament champion, Zach Ganger of Utah, 2-6, 0-6.

Ganger, a native of Jacksonville, Fla., was the No. 1 seed in the tournament and is currently ranked 30th in the nation in singles.

Sophomore Oscar Ericsson was the No. 7 seed heading into the tournament and rolled over Nick Plum of Weber State in the first round, 6-4, 6-1 He hung tough in the second round against Tom Young of BYU, who gave Ericsson a scare before falling, 7-5, 6-4.

“It was a tight match, but Oscar played great,” Wright said. “Overall, it was a very good tournament for him.”

Ericsson’s winning ways didn’t follow him into the quarterfinals, however, as he fell to Daniel Hwang of BYU, 2-6, 1-6.

Fernando Gallegos, a senior transfer student

from Southeastern Oklahoma State University, lost early to Stephen Jacobs of Utah, 2-6, 3-6, but rebounded to record a win in the consolation bracket against Tyler Clonts of BYU. The match was a tight one, but Gallegos pulled through, defeating the Cougar, 6-3, 5-7 (10-8).

There were three players on the Aggie roster who went home without a win. Senior Mike Banks, who didn’t swing a racket in the month of September due to a fractured rib, lost to Young in the first round, 3-6, 1-6, before splitting sets in the second round with Plum. Banks lost the super-tiebreaker, which was held in place of a third set, 6-10.

Matt Searle, a sophomore in his first year with the team, lost to Evan Urbina of BYU, 2-6, 2-6 in the first round. Searle fell in the second to No. 8seeded Othman Ouariti of Utah, 1-6, 2-6.

Playing in his first season after returning home from an LDS mission to Germany, sophomore Alex Thatcher fell in two sets to Amit Maharaj of Utah, 2-6, 2-6. Thatcher made a run in the second round in his consolation match against Fabio Mancarelli of Weber State but came up short, losing 3-6, 4-6.

Despite losses and coming home trophyless, Wright said he was pleased with his team’s performance and saw this tournament as a learning experience and a chance for his players to iron out the kinks in their games before January when the regular season begins.

“This is the preaseason,” Wright said. “We’re pushing our guys to get our of their comfort zones and improve their games.”

This method of targeting weaknesses cost the Aggies some matches over the weekend, he said, but will make the team stronger and more prepared come springtime when they face nationally ranked conference rivals Boise State and Fresno State.

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earching utahsright.com, you can find your favorite professor’s salary, the amount of contributions your neighbor made to the Mitt Romney campaign, your girlfriend’s divorce records and the sex offender living right next door.

The information available to the public on this Web site may seem an infringement of privacy but much of it is pertinent to public safety. Try it. Enter your zip code on the Web site. Instantly, a detailed map of your neighborhood pops up showing the registered sex offenders in your area. While the site wasn’t created to inflict fear, the results of most searches are not comforting. However, knowledge is key to safety and even upon learning that the friendly neighbor down the street has a history of sexual assault, it is better to be in the know.

Spend a minute on utahsright.com and the shameful salaries given to public school teachers becomes obvious. Utahsright.com breaks salaries down to hourly and annual figures, and for educators, these numbers aren’t pretty either.

People can be well informed on just about everything with an interactive site like this. There are discussion forums where people can post their thoughts on district court charges, political contributions, public salaries, etc. The site generates the public involvement needed to ensure honest and fair government rule.

Unlike the days when information was only available through Freedom of Information Act, facts and figures like these are at anyone’s fingertips.

Information is instant. As long as the available facts are used for the good of society and the protection of lives, we can be grateful for unreserved publication of information. Citizens and the press are entrusted with a duty to act as true watchdogs.

The citizens of Utah are fortunate to have such access to information. The United States government should take some tips from this site and open more of its records to the country. In the last seven years, the U.S. has adopted a policy of maintaining absolute secrecy. And, as now realized by many, that is not always the best approach. No one can really know what the government it doing when its actions are kept so tightly in secrecy. Fortunately, Utahns can keep tabs on the state government and those in control. It is easier to trust in public officials when information is recorded and readily available to their constituents.

It really is too bad the Freedom of Information Act doesn’t apply to the President himself.

The zen of the car

Love them or hate them, automobiles have a revered place in our society.

They are held in such high regard that it’s surprising that we have not written them into scripture. To fill that void I humbly offer these aphorisms: Live your life as though you were a car with a broken fuel gauge; uncertain when the end will come, but careful to refill yourself at regular intervals.

We all eventually rust, which can be hidden, but not stopped, with a little putty and paint.

It’s not the age, it’s the mileage. Many young people are old in this respect and vice versa.

It’s best not to be the most attractive car in the lot lest you draw too much attention and be stolen, anesthetized and sold for parts on the black market.

Likewise the most attractive car in the showroom may fetch a high price but may not be the best value. New cars devalue faster than those of moderate age.

Having a loud engine draws much attention but it does not necessarily have anything to do with performance. Run your engine quietly and sneak up on people. If they dislike your quietness, sneak up on them and run them over the next time.

It does no good to carry a spare if that spare is flat. Likewise, your food storage will serve for naught if it is old and spoiled.

There is little difference between recycling and reincarnation.

You can find some good deals in the junk yard. You might as well shop there because we all end up there eventually.

When your life starts to skid, steer into it and pump the brakes rather than slamming on them lest you end up a total wreck.

There are windbags and airbags. Know the difference and choose more of the latter and fewer of the former.

Everyone needs a little help getting started in the morning and we all need to get jumped once in a while. It’s better if it’s by someone you know and love.

Some relationships are like the little spare tire. It is just meant to get you to a place where you can find a long-lasting replacement.

Ethanol is not chemically different than 200 proof grain alcohol. Try not to get drunk on either.

Drive not with distraction. Would you want your dentist talking on the cell phone and eating a burrito while he worked?

Driving fast gets you there sooner but often not as relaxed. It’s

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To the editor: What is it about us as people that makes us take offense?

Why do some comments offend us and others not? I can’t say that I have never been offended or I would be lying.

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thing about them? Assuming that someone is a member of a specific congregation can be offensive. Mentioning God to someone who doesn’t believe in God can be offensive. Would offering a glass of orange juice to someone who doesn’t drink orange juice be offensive? Where is the difference?

We have different beliefs.

We have different values.

That’s what sets us apart from each other as individuals. Why are certain beliefs and values offensive when they are dif-

ferent from somebody else’s beliefs and values? Is it the approach that’s offensive? Is it mentioning a specific topic that’s offensive? And why do these things offend us? It is respectful to acknowledge that other people believe differently and allow them to adhere to that belief system.

So why do we take offense when somebody asks us what we believe or when someone tries to share their beliefs? Fill me in.

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Five myths about crack cocaine Should judges have the discretion to depart from severe sentencing guidelines if they lead to unjust results? The Supreme Court wrestled with this question Oct. 2 during oral arguments in a crack-related case, Kimbrough v. United States.

The case had percolated up through the lower courts because the trial judge refused to impose a required sentence he found deeply unfair.

At the peak of the panic over crack cocaine in the mid-1980s, Congress passed a rash of laws requiring longer prison sentences. One such law created a 100-to-1 disparity between crack and cocaine offenses.

What others are saying about issues. You have to get caught with 500 grams of powder cocaine — but only 5 grams of crack cocaine — to get a mandatory minimum sentence of five years.

Crack is often used in impoverished inner cities, and police focus their surveillance efforts there. The result? Racially discriminatory sentencing that has packed prisons with African Americans. Many state and district court judges agree that the disparity is unfair, and only 13 of the 50 states still legally distinguish between crack and cocaine.

In fact, the 20-year-old crack laws are based on myths:

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1. Crack is different from cocaine.

When the crack scare began in the mid-1980s, politicians and the media outdid each other with horror stories about this new chemical boogeyman. They spoke as if crack were a completely different drug from cocaine, but that is a pharmacological fallacy. Crack is simply the base form of cocaine hydrochloride powder that is smoked.

Cocaine is crack snorted in powder form. The only difference is that smoking delivers more cocaine to the brain faster, just as vodka will get you drunk faster than wine. Smoking crack is merely an intense new way to ingest an old drug. Even the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse testified in 2006 that the “phar-

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macological effects of cocaine are the same, regardless of whether it is in the form of cocaine hydrochloride (powder) or crack cocaine.”

2. Crack is instantly and inevitably addicting.

Drug-control officials justified the new laws by claiming that crack was “the most addictive substance ever known.” Of course, this had been said of other drugs in earlier drug scares, beginning with the temperance crusade against alcohol. Still, experts and ex-addicts agree that crack cocaine produces a powerful rush and is easy to abuse; many users have binged on it compulsively and done themselves serious harm.

But the great majority of people who try crack do not continue to use it. For 20 years, the government’s National Survey on Drug Use and Health has found that about 80 percent of those who have ever tried crack had not used it in the past year. And a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that crack cocaine is not significantly more addictive than powder cocaine.

3. The “plague” of crack use spread quickly into all sectors of society.

This never happened. Whatever its allures, crack use never spread very far into suburban high schools, college campuses or the broad working and middle classes. Crack use remains concentrated among a small slice of the most vulnerable part of the population: marginalized poor people.

When this mode of ingesting cocaine first appeared among wealthy Wall Streeters, professional athletes, rock stars and Hollywood types, it was called freebasing. When some of them got into trouble doing it, treatment programs were expanded. But when the same practice began to appear in ghettos and barrios under the street name crack, it led to an imprisonment wave. In fact, its use among what was already depicted as a “dangerous class” is part of the reason that crack was seen as especially dangerous.

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called rush hour for a reason.

Seat covers, especially those that stretch, can hide a multitude of defects.

Life has many opportunities to set the emergency brake, but most often ignore them.

Be not mysterious. Use your turn signals.

Pass on the left, slower traffic on the right: I think this aptly describes our political system.

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Tulips: Community remembers cancer victims -continued from page 1 Pink Tulip Day for several years.

Despite the sprinkling of rain, about 40 people gathered to plant tulips to remember both survivors and victims of breast cancer.

“Even with the weather, people came,” Stevens said. “We had a great turnout.”

Mario Gonzalez, a senior majoring in civil engineering, said he went to support the cause and offer service.

“I like the outdoors, and I like service,” Gonzalez said.

April Ryce, president of the USU chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, said the group is always looking for service activities and has participated in Plant A Pink Tulip Day for the past two years.

“It represents something important and makes people aware,” said Heather Rich, senior majoring in social work who is also part of NASW. Stevens said this awareness is crucial, especially for college students.

“They sometimes think they are invincible,” Stevens said, “but

it can happen.”

Sally Russell, chair of the Women’s Center’s advisory board, urged everyone to get mammograms, citing one in eight women will develop breast cancer during her lifetime.

Russell also asked that the victims of breast cancer be remembered as the tulips were planted.

“If you have someone who has died of of cancer, think of them while you plant,” Russell said.

During the planting, Stevens asked everyone to join in a moment of silence for victims of breast cancer. It hit especially close to home for Sassano, she said.

“I had a close childhood friend who died of cancer, and it’s a beautiful way to remember them,” Sassano said.

Twelve hundred bulbs were originally donated for Plant A Pink Tulip Day by Wuthrich Greenhouse, but Stevens said due to a schedule mix-up, the bulbs did not arrive in time. Stevens said Wuthrich’s, which donates the bulbs every year, stepped in and donated an additional 200

bulbs for Saturday’s event. “(They) get our wonderful thanks,” Stevens said. “We didn’t get our shipment in time, so the man who owns it went out and bought the 200 bulbs himself.”

After the bulbs had been planted, Trish Martineau, staff assistant at the Women’s Center, urged everyone to come back and plant at the city offices located on 255 N. Main Street in approximately two weeks when the rest of the bulbs arrive.

“Heck yeah, I’ll be here in two weeks,” said Jen Franchina, reentry student majoring in family consumer and human development who works at the Women’s Center. “It’s good to be involved in the community and remember those who have gone through (cancer).”

The USU gymnastics team also had forms available for anyone who wanted to purchase a T-shirt in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The T-shirts were $10, and for every one sold, $3 was donated to aiding cancer research.

–amanda.m@aggiemail.usu.edu

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4. Crack is the direct cause of violent crime.

Politicians repeatedly cited the association between crack and crime to justify Draconian laws. It is true that many crack abusers have committed crimes. At first, everyone assumed that this crack-crime link stemmed from the addict’s craving for crack’s potent high, but it turns out the chain of causality is more complex. Studies of New York police records funded by the Department of Justice showed that most “crackrelated homicides” had to do with the tinderbox context in which crack was sold: high unemployment, desperate poverty, hugely profitable illicit drug markets and easily available firearms. Crack is no longer in the media spotlight, but its use has persisted at nearly the prevalence of 20 years ago; meanwhile, violent crime has declined dramatically for a decade.

5. Harsh sentences for crack are necessary to deter “serious” and “major traffickers.”

This was what Congress claimed when it passed the laws, but it defined “serious” trafficking as five grams — less than one-sixth of

an ounce. U.S. Sentencing Commission figures have long shown that more than three-fourths of those snagged are merely users and low-level sellers caught with tiny amounts. And they are overwhelmingly African Americans. Perversely, small-time sellers serve up to five times longer in prison than the cocaine-powder dealers caught with the same weight, who may well have supplied them.

These laws have helped increase the number of drug offenders in U.S. prisons nearly ninefold, from about 50,000 when President Ronald Reagan took office in 1981 to more than 450,000 today. They have helped triple the prison population and given the United States the highest rate of incarceration in the world. This costs U.S. taxpayers billions each year, but it has never made much of a dent in our most serious drug problems.

We cannot incarcerate our way to a “drug-free society.”

Craig Reinarman is a professor of sociology at the University of California at Santa Cruz and coauthor of “Crack in America: Demon Drugs and Social Justice.”

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Members of the armed wing of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, pose as portraits of Kurdish jailed rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan are seen on the background in the Qandil mountains A Kurdish rebel commander warned Turkey it would encounter tough resistance and a dragged-out, Vietnam-style conflict, if it launched a large-scale offensive against the Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq. AP Photo

General warns of damage to U.S. ties if genocide resolution passes ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) – Turkey’s top general warned that ties with the U.S., already strained by attacks from rebels hiding in Iraq, will be irreversibly damaged if Congress passes a resolution that labels the World War I-era killings of Armenians a genocide.

Turkey, which is a major cargo hub for U.S. and allied military forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, has recalled its ambassador to Washington for consultations and warned that there might be a cut in the logistical support to the U.S. over the issue.

“If this resolution passed in the committee passes the House as well, our military ties with the U.S. will never be the same again,” Gen. Yasar Buyukanit told the daily Milliyet newspaper.

Despite the general’s strong words, it is not clear how far Turkey will go to express its dismay to Washington.

Turkey suspended its military ties with France last year after the French parliament’s lower house adopted a bill that that would have made it a crime to deny that the Armenian killings constituted a genocide.

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NATO’s only Muslim member when it comes to its relations with the U.S. The Turkish military, and especially the air force, is heavily dependent on the American defense industry, experts say.

Still, when Washington imposed an arms embargo against Turkey in 1975 due to a dispute over Cyprus, Turkey ended all its logistical support to U.S. troops and sharing of intelligence until the embargo was lifted, said Onur Oymen, the country’s former permanent representative to NATO. President Bush has said the resolution is the wrong response to the Armenian deaths, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the measure’s timing was important “because many of the survivors are very old.”

In an interview broadcast Sunday with ABC’s “This Week,” Pelosi noted that the resolution would make the U.S. the 24th country to label the killings a genocide.

Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, said the measure was “irresponsible.”

“Listen, there’s no question that the suffering of the Armenian people some 90 years ago was

extreme. But what happened 90 years ago ought to be a subject for historians to sort out, not politicians here in Washington,” he told “Fox News Sunday.”

About 70 percent of U.S. air cargo headed for Iraq goes through Turkey as does about one-third of the fuel used by the U.S. military there. Turkish truckers also carry water and other supplied to U.S. bases.

In addition, cargo planes fly supplies to U.S. soldiers in remote areas of Iraq from Incirlik, avoiding the use of Iraqi roads vulnerable to bomb attacks. U.S. officials say the arrangement helps reduce American casualties.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has “urged restraint” from Turkey and sent two officials to Ankara in an apparent attempt to ease fury over the measure, which could be voted on by the House by the end of the year.

At issue in the resolution is the killing of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks.

Many international historians contend the deaths amounted to genocide, but Turkey says the mass killings and deportations were not systematic and that many Turkish Muslims also died in the chaos of war.

The congressional resolution comes as the Turkish parliament debates authorizing a military campaign into northern Iraq to root out rebels who seek a unified, independent nation for Kurds in the region.

U.S. officials have urged Turkey not to send troops and appealed for a diplomatic solution with Iraq. The Kurdish region in northern Iraq is one of the country’s few relatively stable areas, and the Kurds here are also a longtime U.S. ally.

A Kurdish rebel commander on Saturday said Turkey would face a long and bloody conflict if it launched a large-scale offensive in northern Iraq.

Speaking to The Associated Press deep in the Qandil mountains straddling the Iraq-Turkish border, some 94 miles from the northern Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah, Murat Karayilan, head of the armed wing of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, warned that an eventual Turkish incursion would “make Turkey experience a Vietnam war.”

Turkey says the rebels use Iraqi Kurdish territory as a safe haven.

(AP) – Colleges and universities raked in money by the billions last year. But their investing success now has a price – a movement in Congress to force the wealthiest schools to spend more of their money to keep down tuition.

In recent weeks, a string of colleges and universities have announced enviable investment results. Leading the way was Yale, which earned 28 percent over the year ending June 30, increasing the school’s endowment to $22.5 billion overall.

Harvard, the world’s wealthiest university with $34.9 billion, beat the market again with a 23 percent return. There also were good returns for smaller schools such as Bowdoin (24.4 percent) and William & Mary (19.2 percent).

But while those numbers were coming out, some members of the Senate Finance Committee in Washington were wondering aloud why the rise in endowments isn’t stemming tuition increases. At a hearing last month, lawmakers batted around the idea of forcing at least some of the wealthier colleges to spend more savings on reducing costs.

“Senators, what would your constituents say if gasoline cost $9.15 a gallon?” Lynne Munson, an adjunct fellow at the Center for College Affordability and Productivity in Washington told the committee. “Or if the price of milk was over $15? That is how much those items would cost if their price had gone up at the same rate that tuition has since

1980.”

In the mid-1990s, a billiondollar endowment was a mark of the financial elite, a club with just 17 schools in its ranks. By last year, 62 colleges had hit the mark. Within a few years there will likely be 100.

Private foundations are required by law to spend at least 5 percent of their endowments each year on their missions, but public charities – a category that includes colleges – face no such requirement.

Holding colleges to the same standard is an idea that clearly interests Iowa Republican Sen. Charles Grassley, the minority leader of the Senate Finance Committee and Capitol Hill’s closest scrutinizer of nonprofits.

“It’d be good to see the very elite institutions, with the richest endowments, take the lead and create a ripple effect throughout higher education to make college more affordable for everyone,” he said in a statement. It’s unclear right now, both Republicans and Democrats say, whether the proposal will make it out of the committee, which is considering several ideas related to taxes and higher education.

In fact, colleges spent on average 4.6 percent from their endowments last year, according to the latest figures from National Association of College and University Business Officers.

But if the billionaire colleges alone spent the full 5 percent, that would mean an extra $1.5 billion available annually for financial aid, calculates Michael Dannenberg, director

Students walk in the campus at Wells College in Aurora, N.Y. In recent years the college and the town of Aurora have received lavish financial support from wealthy benefactor Pleasant Rowland, who made her money creating the American Girl doll. AP Photo

of education policy at the New America Foundation, a Washington think-tank. He says such a requirement would be fair, given that colleges are allowed to invest tax-free.

That perk has boosted many endowments by billions and carries an obligation to public service.

Higher education officials were angry they weren’t allowed to speak out against the proposal at a hearing last month, but submitted their own testimony last week, arguing they spend plenty on public service and that endowments aren’t simply savings accounts that can be tapped at any time for any reason.

Many endowment funds come with strings attached by donors on how they can be used.

Colleges also have to budget prudently, taking market swings into account, and they try to avoid big jumps in spending just because the market did well in a particular year. But by sticking to gradual adjustments, they can look stingy.

For instance, Yale is slated to get more than third of it’s annual budget — $843 million — from its endowment this year.

But because its investments did so well, that’s only about 3.7 percent of the endowment.

But the underlying issue is that the proposal would represent a major encroachment by Washington into university affairs. Colleges oppose government involvement in anything from how they teach to the criteria they use in admissions. They would not take kindly to Congress directing them precisely how to spend their own money.

“We don’t think as a general matter the federal government ought to be telling private philanthropic organizations, that have been around in some cases since before the federal government, how to spend their money,” said Terry Hartle, senior vice president of the American Council on Education, the main group representing colleges and universities in Washington.

Still, Hartle acknowledges colleges will have to take the complaints about colleges costs with which constituents are deluging lawmakers.

Students are found safe after not emerging from cave exploration AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A group of college students who didn’t emerge for more than a day from a cave they were exploring have been found safe, an emergency worker said Sunday.

The two women and one man were found in a 500-foot-long crawl space about the width of a sewer pipe, said Frank Urias, division commander of AustinTravis County emergency medical services. They are expected to be pulled from the cave in a few hours.

“The victims are uninjured, our crews are safe; it doesn’t get any better than this,” Urias said.

The three University of Texas students had gone into a narrow passage near Austin called Airman’s Cave on Saturday

morning and told friends to call for help if they weren’t back by midnight, said Austin Fire Department Lt. Matt Cox. Crews had said earlier that four students were missing but now say there were only three.

Cox said he believes the students were found by a group of citizen cave explorers who came to help rescuers. Officials had said 14 people were searching, five of them private citizens.

Jarvis Brown, whose 20-year-old son, Jeff, was among those in the cave, said his son had been cave exploring before.

“We’re very elated, for sure, and thankful that God protected them,” said Brown, of San Antonio.

The names of the other stu-

dents weren’t released.

Authorities didn’t have any details about what happened to the students but said it’s easy to become disoriented in the narrow, 12,000-foot-long cave.

The “keyhole” entrance to the cave, in a greenbelt area about five miles south of downtown, is less than 18 inches wide. Many places in the cave can be accessed only by crawling, authorities said.

During the search, rescuers found water bottles and cell phones apparently left behind by the students. Crews had left food, water and medical supplies throughout the cave.

Medical crews will evaluate the students after they leave the cave, officials said.

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