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The USU volleyball team keeps its streak alive by beating rival University of Utah in four games.

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Gregg E. Sapp, the third candidate vying for the Dean of Libraries position at USU, visits the campus.

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USU students saving the world, one exhibit at a time ‘Art Exhibit to Save the World’ raises funds for Boys and Girls Club

By ALISON BAUGH senior writer

Buy art, save the world.

While these two things may not seem to have anything in common, they are the slogan for one group who holds art exhibits, sells its work and donates the proceeds to charity.

The group’s most recent exhibit was held Monday night in the Sunburst Lounge.

“I wanted to start something to make up for the bad things I’ve done, to better society,” said Miles Hicks, one of the founders of Art Exhibit to Save the World.

Hicks said he worked at the Boys and Girls Club, saw its need for more funding and decided to hold a fundraiser, donating the proceeds to the club.

As an artist, Hicks decided an art exhibit was the way to go. The first exhibit was held a few months ago at the Blue Bird Café in Logan.

Hicks, junior in graphic design from Layton, recruited some of his friends who did painting and photography

Students admire artwork up for sale in the Sunburst Lounge Monday. Students’ paintings and photographs were on display for a fundraiser for the Boys and Girls Club. It was the second fundraiser of its kind, with more planned to be held bi- or tri-monthly. CAMERON PETERSON photo

and were willing to sell their work at the exhibit. They were able to raise about $200 for the Boys and Girls Club.

The exhibit this time took a different approach as Tron Arnold, sophomore English major, put it together as a service project for his

English class. Arnold said he does

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Top Chinese students head to USU Come six feet under to experience a day in the life of a headstone maker.

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Sports Believe it or not, basketball season is back in session with home games for the men’s and women’s teams tonight.

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Opinion “Let’s not turn into the southern Aggie fans in our conference, who are well known for their crude behavior.”

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Almanac Today in History: In 1926, the famous magician Harry Houdini dies in a Detroit hospital of peritonitis 12 days after being punched hard by a student in the stomach. Houdini claimed he could withstand any punch but this punch caught him off guard and ruptured his appendix.

By ALISON BAUGH senior writer

Three top Chinese students currently attend USU, where they have started working and doing research with the electrical engineering department as part of a new program by the Chinese government.

In an effort to become more globalized, the Chinese government began a five-year program to send about 5,000 students a year to top universities outside its country, said YangQuan Chen, assistant professor in the electrical engineering department.

USU is hosting three of these students this year, two for 12 months and one for 18.

Students are chosen from the top 50 universities in China who then identify a first-class university they want to attend and professors with whom they would like to work, Chen said. The focus of the China Scholarship Council is on the country’s future development of human resources and to maintain open communication with other countries, according to its Web site.

“It is an honor to have these students here,” Chen said, as there is a large number coming here for the first year and students have the opportunity to attend schools around the world.

Yan Li, Bin Wang and Ying Luo are all working with Chen in the electrical engineering department, each with their own focus – Li with fractional order of calculus, Wang in georesource and Luo with automation and motion control. The students

submitted proposals of the research they wanted to do before coming and had it approved through Chen. They praised the amount of time he has put into helping them find projects in areas they were working on that also fit into what the university was already doing.

“It is a value-added experience for both sides,” Chen said.

The students are working with many university students on research, and Chen said he sees it as a great way to involve them and have research done for free. They said they feed off of each other’s ideas and have had many new ideas since coming to USU. Luo proudly showed off his corner of the students’ room in the engineering lab building, full of computers and other electrical equipment.

“Everyone is diligent and hard-working,” Li said of the people on campus.

Li and Wang came to USU two months ago and Luo a month ago. Since then, they have been able to visit sites around Logan such as First Dam, the North Logan Pumpkin Walk and see the countryside.

Li was impressed with the irrigation systems used for crops around the valley.

“It’s interesting, I never saw (it) in China,” Li said.

Luo noted everyone has been very friendly, especially his roommates in Morgan Hall, who let him try new foods, with pizza being his favorite.

Hamburgers – Burger King hamburgers to be exact – are Li’s favorite new food. Both said they really enjoy cereal and milk for breakfast. Mostly they cook their own food and sometimes travel to Great

Three Chinese students have begun attending USU as part of a scholarship program funded by the Chinese government. photo COURTESY USU

China Market in Salt Lake City to get authentic Chinese food.

It is a busy time for these students, who are still completing their higher degrees or working on their dissertations, they said. Li and Luo said they feel pressure from work and learning the language.

“It’s intense every day,” Luo said.

Yet they also said its their pleasure to be here, working with Chen and university students and being ambassadors of sorts for their country. These relations are just one of the ways USU President Stan Albrecht has been forging connections with China. He and a delegation spent time in China last year signing agreements for research and academic exchange with Chinese universities -alison.baugh@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Mack adams, senior in graphic design, auditions for Guitars Unplugged Tuesday evening in the Taggart Student Center Auditorium as Ashley Griffiths, president of the Mortar Board, listens. Guitars Unplugged is sponsored by the Mortar Board and will be held Nov. 7 at 7 p.m. in the TSC Ballroom. Griffiths said 17 people have tried out so far, with last-minute tryouts being held from 6-8 p.m. Monday and Tuesday in the Auditorium. Those interested in the tryouts can contact the Mortar Board Activities Committee Chair, Beau England, at b.taggart.e@aggiemail.usu.edu. LIZ LAWYER photo

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Supreme court blocks Mississippi execution

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court halted an execution in Mississippi Tuesday, less than an hour before a convicted killer was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection.

The last-minute reprieve for Earl Wesley Berry is the third granted by the justices since they agreed late last month to decide a challenge to Kentucky’s lethal injection procedures.

Justices Samuel Alito and Antonin Scalia would have allowed the execution to go forward.

Berry was convicted of kidnapping a woman in 1987 and beating her to death before dumping her body in the woods. His execution was planned for 7 p.m. EDT. The Supreme Court has allowed only one execution to go forward since agreeing to hear the Kentucky case. Michael Richard was executed in Texas on Sept. 25, the same day the court said it would hear a lethal injection challenge from two death row inmates in Kentucky. State and lower federal courts have halted all other scheduled executions since then.

Berry asked for a delay at least until the court issues its decision in the Kentucky case.

He claims the mixture of deadly chemicals Mississippi uses will cause unnecessary pain, constituting cruel and unusual punishment.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Berry, sentenced to death in 1988, waited too long to challenge the constitutionality of the lethal injection procedure.

U.S. Navy helps crew take back ship from pirates NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – A U.S. Navy destroyer helped sailors who retook control of their vessel Tuesday in a deadly battle with pirates after the North Korean-flagged ship was hijacked in the piracy-plagued waters off Somalia, the American military said.

The Navy also confirmed that other American warships sank two pirate skiffs late Sunday after answering a distress call from a hijacked Japanese chemical tanker and said U.S. ships were still monitoring that vessel.

In Tuesday’s incident, a helicopter flew from the destroyer USS James E. Williams to investigate a phoned-in tip of a hijacked ship and demanded by radio that the pirates give up their weapons, the military said in a statement.

The crew of the Dai Hong Dan then overwhelmed the hijackers, leaving two pirates dead, according to preliminary reports, and five captured, the military said.

Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2007

Celebs&People

LAS VEGAS (AP) – No criminal charges will be filed in the well-publicized scuffle between Kid Rock and Tommy Lee at the MTV Video Music Awards, the Clark County district attorney said Tuesday.

“It’s worth noting that Tommy Lee requested no prosecution relating to the incident, and there Kid Rock were no injuries to either person,” said Dan Kulin, spokesman for Clark County District Attorney David Roger.

“The Clark County district attorney’s office will not pursue a battery charge against Robert James Ritchie, also known as Kid Rock, involving a confrontation with Tommy Lee on Sept. 9, 2007, at the Palms Hotel and Casino,” Roger said in a statePeople wait at a highway with their belongings after their houses were flooded due to rains caused by tropical storm Noel ment. in Lucas Diaz, west of Santo Domingo, Monday, Oct. 29.

Representatives for Kid Rock and Lee didn’t immediately respond Tuesday to requests for comment. Both are ex-husbands of Pamela Anderson, who was a presenter at the show.

Kid Rock, 36, wasn’t taken into custody, but was cited by police for misdemeanor battery after he was accused of slapping and punching the 45-year-old Motley Crue drummer.

Witnesses said that although Kid Rock threw the only blows that landed, Lee SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican tropical storm watch may be issued for appeared to have started the confrontation, agency spokesman Luis Luna Paulino Republic (AP) – Tropical Storm Noel said they had miscalculated the earlier southeast portions of the state if Noel which occurred in the audience. figure. brought heavy rain to the western shifts west or its wind field expands.

Kid Rock faces a misdemeanor battery Almost 12,000 people were driven Caribbean Tuesday as it pushed A watch means tropical storm condicharge stemming from an Oct. 21 arrest in tions are possible within 36 hours. from their homes and nearly 3,000 through Cuba and edged closer to Atlanta. He and five members of his entouhomes were destroyed, while collapsed Forecasters had already issued Florida. Floods and mudlides across rage were cited after a brawl with a male warnings for rough surf for much of bridges and swollen rivers have isothe region have killed at least 22 peocustomer at a Waffle House restaurant. ple. lated 36 towns, Luna said.

South Florida, including the Miami NEW YORK (AP) –Elvis Presley is still Forecasters projected the storm The dead included three people area, as waves were already pounding the King. would emerge over water Wednesday swept up by a fast-moving river in the region’s beaches. But they said Presley, who earned an estimated near Cuba’s Cayo Coco resort area and San Jose de Ocoa and three others the storm’s rains would likely miss $49 million in the past 12 months, has head northeast toward the Bahamas. buried in a mudslide in the port city of drought-stricken Georgia, Alabama reclaimed the No. 1 spot on Forbes.com’s They also said a tropical storm watch Haina, officials said. and other states in the Southeast. list of Top-Earning Dead Celebrities. He last might be issued for parts of southeast- In Haiti, about 2,000 people were In Cuba, the government said topped the list in 2005. ern Florida Tuesday. evacuated from homes from the south- about 1,000 homes had suffered dam- John Lennon ranks second with earnern coastal city of Jacmel. Hundreds age, 2,000 people had been evacuated ings of $44 million, followed by Charles The storm cut a destructive path also were evacuated in the capital, from low-lying areas, and schools were M. Schulz ($35 million), George Harrison across the island of Hispaniola, which Port-au-Prince, where the muddy closed for several thousand students. is shared by Haiti and the Dominican ($22 million), Albert Einstein ($18 million), Republic. water was so deep in some streets that Bahamian authorities closed most Andy Warhol ($15 million), Theodor Geisel At least six people died in Haiti, people swam in it. government offices, and lines formed (Dr. Seuss) ($13 million), Tupac Shakur including two women who were Rain was still pounding the two at grocery stores and gas stations in ($9 million), Marilyn Monroe ($7 million), washed away by flood waters near the countries Tuesday even as the center of Nassau, the capital. Rain from the Steve McQueen ($6 million), James Brown city of Gantier and a child found dead the storm moved away. outer bands of the storm forced tour- ($5 million), Bob Marley ($4 million) and ists to cover themselves in trash bags in a slum in the capital, U.N. officials At 5 p.m. EDT, Noel was centered James Dean ($3.5 million). said. or huddle for shelter in doorways of about 30 miles south-southwest of Officials in the neighboring the city’s colonial downtown.

Camaguey, Cuba, and it was moving toward the west at about 8 mph.

Dominican Republic, meanwhile, Carl Smith, Bahamian disaster Top 10 Colorado Rockies Excuses— Maximum sustained winds were revised the death toll there downcoordinator, said the archipelago’s ward to 16. The National Emergency down to 40 mph, down from 60 mph power authority was considering tem10: “Even we’ve never heard of most of earlier. porarily shutting down the electrical Commission reported Monday that our players” Florida was just outside the storm’s system in various islands as a precauat least 20 had died as a result of the tionary measure. storm in that country, but on Tuesday, expected path, but forecasters said a 9: “Didn’t want game 5 to preempt ‘House’”

Storm hits Dom. Rep., may hit south Florida

LateNiteHumor

Man pleads guilty to 5 murders

HENDERSON, Texas (AP) – A convicted burglar pleaded guilty Monday to the deaths of five people who were abducted from a fast-food restaurant in one of Texas’ most notorious and longest-unsolved mass murder cases.

Romeo Pinkerton, 49, admitted to the deaths as part of a plea bargain offered by the Texas Attorney General’s Office.

In exchange for the plea, Pinkerton received a life sentence for each of the five deaths.

Judge J. Clay Gossett said in a brief news release that the families of the victims approved the plea bargain.

“Romeo Pinkerton’s admission of guilt ends decades of uncertainty for the families of five innocent victims,” state Attorney General Greg Abbott said in a release.

“This guilty plea will not bring back the lives lost in 1983, but today marks a critical milestone on the path to justice,” Abbott said.

Pinkerton and his cousin, Darnell Hartsfield, were accused of abducting the victims during a holdup of a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Kilgore on Sept. 23, 1983.

The victims were found dead the next morning along a remote oilfield road about 15 miles away in rural Rusk County.

Four of the victims worked at the KFC in Kilgore, about 115 miles east of Dallas. The fifth was a friend of one of the employees.

If convicted at trial, Pinkerton faced a possible death sentence.

Hartsfield is expected to stand trial on the same charges sometime next year. He has pleaded not guilty. Hartsfield has been in a Texas prison since 1995 on a 40-year sentence on delivery of a controlled substance and engaging in organized criminal activity convictions.

David Maxwell, 23, said he never knew his father, who was murdered, but felt a sense of relief mixed with sadness.

“We’re glad we’re finally moving on and hopefully this will help us all finish moving on,” he said in a story for Tuesday’s Morning Telegraph. “Knowing kind of what happened, maybe I can move past that. I think a lot of the anger comes from the fact that there was nothing for so long.”

8: “Relax, there’s still a lot of baseball to be played” 7: “The curse of the Bambino?”

6: “At that altitude, the beer really knocks you on your ass” 5: No number 5 –writer preparing to go on strike 4: “Turns out our ‘flaxseed oil’ really was flaxseed oil” 3: “O.J. stole the equipment!”

2: “Manager distracted by Joe Torre walking around his resume” 1: “Forget us, someone want to explain the Jets?”

StatesmanCampus News

Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2007

Final dean candidate visits USU

By LIZ LAWYER assistant news editor

The third and final candidate for USU’s Dean of Libraries is on campus for a two-day visit, and an open forum in the Merrill-Cazier Library yesterday.

Gregg E. Sapp of the University of Albany in the State University of New York System spoke to a group made up mostly of library employees and administrators Tuesday.

Sapp is head of the Science Library at the University of Albany. He has degrees from Western Washington University, University of Washington - Seattle and Montana State University. In addition to his time at Albany, he has held librarian positions at the University of Miami, Montana State and Idaho State University.

He is the author of four books and several professional articles.

Sapp said one of the first things he would do as Dean of Libraries at USU would be to look at the Merrill-Cazier Library’s situation in the grand scheme of things.

“One of the first things I would do is look at this library in context of the world of

libraries and what they need to do,” he said.

Today is Sapp’s second day on campus.

The other two candidates, Anne E. Langley and Richard W. Clement, visited the campus and Sapp held their open forums in the weeks proceeding Sapp’s visit.

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.”

-elizabeth.lawyer@aggiemail.usu.edu

Painter next guest in USU’s visiting artist program

Painter Hung Liu will be visiting campus Nov. 5. Her paintings depict historical images, usually from photographs taken of Chinese subjects by foreigners, she said. photo COURTESY USU

By USU MEDIA RELATIONS

Painter Hung Liu is the next guest to visit USU’s campus as part of the Department of Art’s Visiting Artist Program. Liu will present a public lecture Monday, Nov. 5, at 7 p.m. in the Performance Hall on campus.

USU art department programs are as part of the Caine School of the Arts, based in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.

The artist was born in Chang Chun, China, in 1948, and she was sent to the countryside of “proletarian reeducation” for four years during the Cultural Revolution. After earning a graduate degree and teaching at the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing, she was accepted into the graduate program in visual arts at the University of California, San Diego. She then waited four years for the Chinese government to issue her a passport. She finally arrived in the United States in 1984 and earned a master’s of fine art degree in 1986. Since 1990, Liu has taught in the art department at Mills College in California, where

she is a full professor.

In addition to her evening lecture, Liu will meet with students in critiques Monday, Nov. 5, and present a workshop Tuesday, Nov. 6, from 9 a.m.-noon in Fine Arts Visual 209.

All events are free and open to the public.

“I paint from historical photographs, usually those taken of Chinese subjects by foreigners,” Liu said. “These include 19th century images of Chinese female “types” — prostitutes, child street acrobats, war refugees and women laboring at such tasks as pulling a boat upriver, operating an industrial-scale loom and walking in circles (like mules) behind the handle of a millstone grinder.”

As a painter, Liu said she is interested in subjecting the documentary authority of historical photographs to the more reflective process of painting.

“I want to both preserve and destroy the image,” she said. “Much of the meaning of my painting comes from the way the washes and drips dissolve the photo-based images, opening them to a slower kind of looking, suggesting, perhaps, the cultural and personal narratives fixed in the photographic instant.”

Liu is a two-time recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Painting Fellowship (1989 and 1991). She has received a Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art Award (1992), a Eureka Fellowship (1993) and a Joan Mitchell Painting Fellowship (1998). In 2000, she received the Outstanding Alumna Award from the University of California, San Diego.

Liu has exhibited widely throughout the United States and Asia. She is represented in New York by the Nancy Hoffman Gallery, in Miami by the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery and in San Francisco by the Rena Bransten Gallery.

The Visiting Artist Program is funded by a grant from the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation. Additional funding is provided by the Utah Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Utah Arts Council, with funding from the state of Utah, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

USU Extension hosts Utah 4-H Teen Leadership Training

By USU MEDIA RELATIONS

USU Extension hosts the 2008 Utah 4-H Teen Leadership Training Conference Oct. 28-30. The conference is open to 9th through12th graders from around the state and is coordinated by the state 4-H ambassadors.

John Paul Murphy, 4-H youth development specialist with USU Extension, has worked with Teen Leadership Training for more than 20 years.

“It is such a treat for me to work with amazing youth from around the state,” Murphy said. “What’s even more exciting is to see participants walk away with tools to continue building their leadership skills in high school, college and throughout their lives.”

Registration begins at 6 p.m. on Oct. 28. Sunday night activities include a patriotic program with a flag ceremony by the Army ROTC Color Guard and a service project coordinated by the Utah National Guard Kids Teen Council.

Participants will assemble “Hero Packs” that will be sent to children with deployed parents in the National Guard.

On Tuesday, Don Olson, Salt Lake City attorney and former state ambassador, will deliver the keynote address. Workshops and breakout sessions will be held throughout the day Monday and Tuesday.

Utah 4-H is active in every county serving urban and rural Utah youth with programs in robotics, leadership, GPS, legislature and more. Its action-oriented, educational program for youth and volunteer leaders is sponsored by USU Cooperative Extension Service. There are more than eight million 4-H members nationally with 98,269 youths participating in Utah in 2006. For more information, visit www.Utah4H.org.

Los Angeles County fire that consumed 21 homes started by boy with matches SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) – A boy playing with matches started a fire in north Los Angeles County that consumed more than 38,000 acres and destroyed 21 homes last week, authorities said Tuesday.

The boy, whose name and age were not released, was interviewed a day after the Buckweed Fire was sparked Oct. 21, said sheriff’s Sgt. Diane Hecht.

“He admitted to playing with matches and accidentally starting the fire,” said Hecht said in a statement.

The boy was released to his parents, and the case will be be presented to the district attorney’s office, Hecht said. She said she didn’t know whether he was arrested or cited by detectives.

The 60-square-mile fire began in an area near Agua Dulce and quickly spread by fierce desert winds. It was among more than a dozen major wildfires that killed 14 people, destroyed some 2,100 homes, and blackened 809 square miles from Los Angeles to the Mexican border.

Authorities arrested five people for arson during that period, but none have been linked to any of the major blazes.

They said an arsonist also set a destructive wildfire in Orange County that blackened 28,500 acres and destroyed 16 homes. Investigators believe the blaze was deliberately set because they found two ignition points within a short distance – a common sign of arson.

Authorities were seeking the driver of a white Ford F-150 pickup truck spotted in a canyon area around the time the fire broke out. They said they wanted to talk to the driver, but stopped short of calling the person a suspect.

Officials offered a $285,000 reward to anyone with information that will lead to an arrest and conviction.

Firefighters had surrounded all but four of the blazes late Tuesday, and the remaining ones were more than 90 percent contained.

Art: Student artists sell their work to raise money for kids

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photography and had been happy to join Hicks and fellow founder Chuck Sheya at the last exhibit.

“I thought it was a great idea,” Arnold said. “I’d always wanted to do service like this, but I never knew how.”

More artists were featured at the second exhibit with paintings and photographs featuring subjects from portraits to landscapes to the devil. Student Dani Babbel said the paintings of the devil were her favorite because they were quirky and fun.

The artists set a minimum bidding price on their pieces to cover the cost of materials with the rest being donated. Hicks said he wants to keep the donations going to local charities, and this time the money will go to Camp Hobé, a week-long summer camp for children with cancer and their siblings.

Many of the volunteers who work at the camp are also USU students. Paul Larsen, senior in Spanish, spends his summers as the kids’ program director for Camp Hobé. Students are able to come and spend a week away from treatments and can be kids again, Larsen said. Their siblings also have a chance to learn more about cancer and interact with others who are in similar situations.

“Kids come out and we party all week,” Larsen said.

As the program is nonprofit, its funding comes through grants and donations, Larsen said. They are always accepting applications for volunteers and any donations.

Hicks first heard about the camp through a fellow student and thought it sounded like a great organization for their group to donate to.

“We hope to generate enough momentum that other organizations in need can call or come to us, we don’t have to search for them,” Hicks said.

The 11 artists featured at the exhibit were Hicks,

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Best Singer Search coming to USU Wed. Utah’s answer to American Idol, Kurt Bestor’s Best Singer Search, is coming to USU in the Sunburst Lounge. Bestor, the popular composer and pianist will be in Lounge on Wednesday, Oct. 31, from 12 - 2 p.m, auditioning singers who hope to win the coveted competition.

Singers will be competing for the grand prize which includes singing on stage at the 19th Annual Kurt Bestor Christmas Concert, attending a professional studio session with Bestor to record a piece specially arranged

by Bestor himself, and receiving a trip to LA, including flight and hotel, to meet a record executive.

“We’re excited to have Kurt Bestor come to Logan. We’ve got a lot of really talented students here who are eager to audition for him,” says Megan Smith, student and activities director at the Taggart Student Center.

There will be no pre-registration. A singer wishing to compete will have to sign up on site, receive a number, and wait for that number to be called. Once that number is called, the singer will have a mere 60 seconds to get ready to perform. This will be strictly firstcome, first-served.

According to Kevin Raleigh, Bestor’s Los Angeles-based agent, “We are primarily judging vocal talent and stage presence. Once we have that, we can do a lot with that person.”

Hopefuls will have up to two minutes each in which to sing a number of their choice, a cappella, using the microphone and sound system provided. No musical accompaniment will be allowed.

Bestor himself likes the idea of people having to perform with a bit of pressure.

“When your number is called, you’d better be ready to knock our socks off,” he chuckles.

“I’ve been in some pressure situations myself, and for some reason, that’s usually when I do my best.”

All those auditioning will receive a free Kurt Bestor CD, while supplies last. The auditions will be open to the general public.

Those who are not interested in competing are encouraged to view the auditions at no charge.

In addition, Logan performers will have the chance to audition in Salt Lake City, and Provo. From all the performers statewide, three finalists will be chosen. Those three will have the opportunity to compete in the grand competition on KSL-TV’s Studio Five, between 11 a.m. and noon, on Nov. 28. The winner will then be announced on that show.

For more information, please call contest press agent Pam Baumeister at 801-898-8458.

Ongoing contest updates are also available at kurtbestor.com.

Controversial play performs at USU

The national tour of the play “N*GGER WETB*CK CH*NK,” a show about respect, will be performed at USU Nov. 6 at 7:30 p.m. in the Kent Concert Hall.

It is a performance that looks at words, peels away their meanings and examines who has the license to use them, said Keri Mecham, USU associate director of Student Involvement and Leadership Center.

The conversation this acclaimed and controversial production will likely spawn regarding language and respect will continue into the following week during USU’s Diversity Week, said Moises Diaz, director of Multicultural Student Services.

Tickets for the production are now on sale and can be purchased at the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum or the Taggart Student Center ticket offices. Some language in the performance may not be suitable for children under 13.

Already performed at more than 70 university and college campuses nationwide, the production, with the subtitle “Three Hateful Words: A Dialogue on Language and Respect,” will make three other stops in Utah, including Ogden, Salt Lake City and Park City.

Poet Natasha Sajé to visit USU, read work

PAUL LARSEN AND EMILY BOTT contributed art to be sold at the ‘Art Exhibit to Save the World’ held in the Taggart Student Center Sunburst Lounge Monday. The money raised at the exhibit went toward Camp Hobé, a summer camp for children with cancer. CAMERON PETERSON photo

Arnold, Sheya, Lisa Holbrook, Candice Green, Susie Motola, Anne Wallen, Mellissa Bowman, Jackson Olsen, Derrick Wall and Nick Hansen. Members of

the group said they plan to hold the exhibits bi- or trimonthly and bring in some ceramics at the next show.

-alison.baugh@aggiemail.usu.edu

Award-winning poet Natasha Sajé will read from her work at 12:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 7, in the USU Haight Alumni Center.

The event is part of the USU Department of English Speakers Series.

Sajé’s first book of poems, “Red Sajé Under the Skin,” was chosen from more than 900 manuscripts in 1994 to win the Agnes Lynch Starrett prize and was later awarded the Towson State Prize in Literature. Her second collection of poems, “Bend,” was published by Tupelo Press in January 2004.

-Compiled from staff and media reports

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Voucher referendum spending tops $7 mil SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Supporters of the nation’s broadest private school voucher program have spent more than $3.8 million to ensure the program survives a Nov. 6 vote while the nation’s teachers’ unions have poured in more than $3.2 million to kill it.

Financial disclosure reports released late Tuesday show the National Education Association has donated more than $3.15 million to fight Utah’s private school voucher program. If approved by voters, Utah’s program would give parents $500 to $3,000 per child, depending on income, to use on tuition at a private school.

Unlike other voucher programs, even affluent families in well-performing districts would qualify.

People on both sides of the issue believe that if voters approve the voucher program, similar programs will quickly spread to other states. That has made Utah the central front in the fight over public aid for private schools.

Most of the debate over vouchers has occurred in repeated television commercials. On Tuesday, it became clear who has been paying for those advertisements.

On the pro-voucher side, Overstock.com founder and chief

executive officer Patrick Byrne has donated more than $1.5 million to persuade voters to keep the voucher program. His relatives donated another $1.2 million.

Other large donors to the pro-voucher group Parents for Choice in Education include the conservative Indianapolisbased Milton & Rose Friedman Foundation with $231,000 and the Washington, D.C. based Advocates for School Choice with $350,000.

“Our donations come from people who are passionate about allowing all children to receive the best education possible,” Parents for Choice in Education board member Robyn Bagley said in a prepared statement.

On the opposite side, about a dozen state affiliates joined the NEA in making donations.

The largest donation by a state affiliate was by the California Education Association with $50,000. Other states, including Illinois, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio, donated $5,000 each to fighting the voucher effort.

Voucher proponents have criticized the anti-voucher movement for using money donated by teachers unions and have attempted to link teachers unions to liberal groups such as Moveon.org and U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., in television

commercials. Utah is one of the nation’s most conservative states, although many Republicans also oppose vouchers. That includes Kim Burningham, chairman of the state school board.

In a debate Tuesday, former Utah Education Association Pat Rusk didn’t shy away from the fact that the anti-voucher movement has received millions of dollars from teachers unions.

She said most donations were in small amounts and it shows that teachers across the country care about education everywhere.

Utahns for Public Schools had more than 2,000 donors who contributed $200 or less. Parents for Choice in Education had about 60 donors total.

Utah has the nation’s largest class sizes and spends less per student than any other state.

Rusk and voucher opponents believe the state should spend the money on public schools rather than private ones. The program will cost about $9 million in its first year, but that cost would grow. Most students already enrolled in private schools aren’t eligible for the vouchers. By the program’s 13th year, when all students are eligible, vouchers would cost Utah at least $43 million more than the state would save by not having to pay for students who leave for private schools.

Judge unseals some documents in Warren Jeffs prosecution ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) – A judge has unsealed 16 documents filed prior to polygamous-sect leader Warren Jeffs’ September trial on felony charges of accomplice rape.

Fifth District Judge James Shumate released the documents Tuesday, one week before a scheduled hearing to address public records requests from media outlets and a southern Utah private investigator seeking access to the information.

The filings released Tuesday date as far back as Nov. 1, 2006 and address a range of issues, including protecting the identity of the case’s key witness, a 21year-old woman who went public during the trial.

Other documents address Jeffs’ request for unsupervised contact with his personal physician last winter, after he was rushed from the jail for treatment at a St. George hospital.

The documents show that Jeffs lost 30 pounds, was dehydrated and suffering from sleep deprivation while in jail.

The files also included a July motion from the defense that seeks to keep private certain conversations between the incarcerated Jeffs and his family and

friends. The conversations were recorded by jail officials at the Purgatory Correctional Facility, where Jeffs is still being held as he awaits sentencing.

Attorneys argued the statements are irrelevant to the criminal charges against Jeffs, who was convicted of two first degree felony counts of rape as an accomplice for his role in the marriage of a 14-year-old follower to her 19-year-old cousin.

The recorded conversations are part of the court record, but were not released Tuesday.

Shumate earlier ruled the conversations might prejudice a jury pool against Jeffs if detailed in media accounts before trial.

Jeffs, 51, is head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a faith that practices polygamy on the Utah-Arizona border.

Sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 20. He faces up to life in prison on both counts.

Charges are also pending in federal and Arizona courts.

Commissioner predicts malt drinks will move out of grocery stores GARDEN CITY, Utah (AP) – A Utah liquor commissioner predicts flavored malt beverages soon will be shifted to state-run stores from grocery stores.

“This is not a moral decision. It’s not a decision to protect youth,” Bobbie Coray said.

“In Utah, the law is that if you have distilled spirits or wine, it must be sold in the liquor stores. What they have done with these alco-pops is taken the beer out and replaced it with distilled spirits,” she said.

In September, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission told staff to prepare a regulation that allows only state liquor stores to stock the drinks. Coray predicts it will come up in November.

Attorney General Mark Shurtleff has called for a crackdown, saying the drinks are being consumed by minors.

“I don’t think it’s going to keep young people from drinking it,” said Coray, former head of the Cache Chamber of Commerce. “I don’t think it has anything to do with morals. Now we’re going to get bombarded by people who say we’re taking their rights away.”

The Flavored Malt Beverage Coalition has said restricting sales to state liquor stores won’t solve the problem of underage drinking.

In an interview with The Herald Journal of Logan, Coray said the liquor commission is very political — but “not Democrat and Republican political.”

“There’s a great divide in Utah between Mormons and people who are not Mormon,” said Coray, who belongs to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and prefers Perrier with a twist of lime.

“The commissioners are scared to death to say anything for fear they will be blasted,” she said. “The staff is afraid of the commissioners because we’re the only board that can fire and hire staff in the state.”

Coray has called for a public hearing on state liquor laws.

“I want to take away that fear. I want people to discuss that,” she said.

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Urban legends plentiful in Logan

By AMANDA MEARS staff writer

They’re spooky and they happened right here in Logan.

Urban legends are the things nightmares, not to mention countless horror movies, are made of, and Logan has plenty of its own.

In the Fife Folklore Archives, located on the bottom floor of the Merrill-Cazier Library, lie numerous tales collected by folklore students that tell the stories of crying grave markers, hidden tunnels and a haunted nunnery.

One of the most popular urban legends around campus is the story of a statue in the Logan Cemetery. The story goes that after Cache Valley resident Mrs. Crosquist lost all her children, she spent most of her life tending their graves. Eventually she passed away and her husband erected a memorial of her likeness over the graves of her children so she could continue her watch over them.

Supposedly, on moonless nights, people can reach out to the statue’s face and feel the tears running down.

Like many urban legends, however, there is more than one variation of this story. Some of the stories found in the archive collections state the tears are actually blood and if someone circles around the grave marker three times chanting “weep woman weep,” ghostly cries can be heard coming from the

grave.

Another well-known site of urban legends is St. Anne’s Retreat, located eight miles up Logan Canyon. As the legend goes, the haunted nunnery was opened in the ‘50s by a group of Catholic nuns and used as a vacation home and a summer camp. Some of the documents found in the Fife Folklore Archives claim one of the nuns was impregnated and to keep it a secret, she drowned her baby in the pool after its birth.

Other legends say the retreat was used as a secret abortion clinic for unwed mothers. Either way, what is left is the story of a woman dressed in black who wanders the grounds weeping as an infant cries in the background.

If that doesn’t induce chills, a real-life occurrence at the retreat might.

In October of 1997, The Herald Journal ran an article about a group of teens who had decided they wanted to see the ghost for themselves. They snuck into the nunnery, where they were caught by three watchmen on duty. Since they were trespassing, the watchmen confronted the teens, chased them to an empty swimming pool, tied up and threatened with shotguns until the police arrived.

Whether it’s due to overactive imaginations or the spooky walk across campus after late-night study sessions, there are plenty of on-campus urban legends to go around as well.

Addie Davis, a USU graduate, said before the old library on the USU campus

was demolished, she and her friends used to hear stories about a woman in old-fashioned clothing who roamed the premises.

“I had heard a bunch of stories where people saw a lady on the top floor late at night,” Davis said, “but we never saw her until one night when I was studying. She was dressed in old clothes and floating around.”

While most students hope to never run into ghosts, there are some who go looking for them.

According to several urban legend accounts found in the Fife Folklore Archives, exploring the old tunnel system that lies beneath the school has become a draw for adventurous students. People say they have seen lights flash on and off as well as voices and strange growling noises.

Other urban legends around town that are in the archives include ghostly sightings at the Caine Lyric Theater and a ghost seen at Logan Regional Hospital.

Although these tales were far less documented than the others, many people report seeing the ghost of a child in the Lyric Theater after hours.

For those looking to spice up their Halloween, there are plenty of hot spots to be found. However, students should be aware of possible danger and avoid breaking any laws. After all, it’s all fun and games until someone gets chased down and tied up in an empty swimming pool.

-amanda.m@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Sigma Nu Provides Happy Halloween

By AMANDA MEARS staff writer

Members of the Sigma Nu fraternity pitched in Tuesday to host the annual Halloween party for the Best Buddies program, which pairs volunteers and handicapped community members for monthly activities.

“Best Buddies doesn’t really have a place to host events, so we like to offer accommodations,” said Jason Ward, president and service chair of Sigma Nu. Ward said Sigma Nu has been involved with the Best Buddies program for several years and hosts various events throughout the year. Currently, Ward said, they are trying to plan a Christmas party for the buddies.

Ward said the fraternity is happy to provide “everything but the people” in order to host this event, and the payoff is in seeing how happy the party makes members of Best Buddies.

“They get really excited, and I like that,” Ward said.

Grant Barney, who is an alumnus of Sigma Nu, said he came by just to volunteer and help out with the party because he also enjoys the excitement that is shared by the buddies.

“It’s always a lot of fun,” Barney said, “and it’s just a way for them to get out of the house. Everyone looks forward to it every year.”

The party was hopping as buddies of all ages participated in a bean bag toss, pumpkin decorating and bobbing for doughnuts.

“Bobbing for doughnuts is one to watch,” Ward said. tex jenkins attended the Best Buddies Halloween party Tuesday dressed as a witch. Best Buddies pairs volunteers with mentally challenged people. DEBRA HAWKINS photo

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Scream like a girl to get the girl P

sst, don’t tell anyone, but I scream like a girl.

There, I got it off my chest. I can go back to feeling like a man again.

Seeing as it’s Halloween, I find it fitting to recount my fear of practically everything.

From the time I was a small child I have been terrified of just about everything. Some people say they have had the fear of God put in them. I think my mother instilled the fear of fear in me. I am afraid of so many things it’s gotten to the point it’s not funny anymore.

The Easter bunny, Bozo the Clown, artichokes and Furbys are just a shortlist of my paranoia. But even though I am afraid of so many things, including the dark – which creeps me out since I am writing this in the dark with a flashlight and a paring knife – I have worked hard to master my fears. Mostly by running away from them.

In an effort to come off conqueror of my many fears, I decided long ago my only recourse was to watch scary movies.

Now don’t laugh, but for the longest time the scariest movie in the world to me was “FernGully.” Sure the crazy chicken-loving bat was fun, but as soon as Hexxus – the spirit of all that is evil, which strangely looked like oil – was released, I would duck under my covers in fear and shame.

Looking back on that movie, I realize what I was really terrified of was the knock-youover-the-head environmentalist message that I’m pretty sure was developed by the Green Party in conjunction with the Democrats.

I graduated to more intense films, finally arriving at “The Ring.” I know many consider this movie to not be scary at all, but when I grew up with a fear of telephones and psycho half-dead little girls, all this did was aggravate those fears. The worst part was after sobbing inside for two hours, as soon as I got in the car to go home, my cell phone rang. I half considered killing myself then and there to avoid seeing that girl that needs a haircut in a big way.

Over time I eventually overcame my fear of scary movies

because I realized what they were: a ploy for Valentine’s Day. Yeah, Tim Burton had it all wrong. Halloween’s not the nightmare before Christmas, it’s the nightmare before Valentine’s Day. Let me explain.

Scary movies fall under the genre of horror, which I don’t get. What can be more horrifying than just surviving midterms, watching a go-nowhere War on Terror on TV and knowing the Logan snow is on its way? A psycho man with a chainsaw pales in comparison to that.

Horror films are an interesting genre. The protagonist is typically a woman. I’ve often wondered why that is.

Are women really that prone to drive down a street alone on rainy nights deep in the backwoods of some southern state? Are women so curious that when they know the bad guy is just behind the door that they really have to open it just to make sure and get so many cuts on their face it would take Fergie’s plastic surgeon to get them healed again?

My guess is no. In general I’d say women are much more cautious than men and wouldn’t put themselves in those situations. Except for the occasional Freddie Kruger.

What can you do about that?

In reality, horror films aren’t made for male vampire/Goth types. They were made for women. It’s true, and males are the innocent bystanders that get sucked into it.

Say a new movie preview is released for a horror film.

A man looks at it and thinks, “Hmm, that looks interesting.

I could take this girl I know and she will hold tight to me through the whole movie.

Sounds exciting.” A woman sees the same preview and thinks, “There is no way on earth I’m going to that,” at least until she’s asked out on a date to see it, and all inhibitions are gone. But it’s OK because it’s all part of a giant Valentine’s Day conspiracy.

See, women go to the scary movie with the guy and hold tight to him through all the scary parts. Because the touch barrier is broken, things can move forward more quickly and the couple can start dat-

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ing more seriously. Things progress and before you know it, the couple’s getting married – just in time for Valentine’s Day. It’s no coincidence Valentine’s Day is strategically placed four months after Halloween. It’s the perfect amount of time to hook up and be romantically involved when Christmas and Valentine’s Day roll around – the two biggest gift giving holidays of the year.

I’m not saying women do this on purpose because they’re gift grubbing. Nope, it’s all the candy manufacturers doing. Their two biggest holidays are Halloween and Valentine’s Day. Long ago they convened in a large meeting to determine the best way to maximize profit. Their solution? Transform Halloween from a large Celtic observance into a chance to get candy and vandalize the property of others. But it had to be scary or else it wouldn’t setup the more important holiday of Valentine’s Day. So this conspiracy is the whole reason we have Halloween. I’m sad about it too. I wish it really was a day where it’s socially acceptable to dress up like Jack Sparrow and walk around yelling pirate phrases, but it’s not.

I guess if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em, so instead of worrying about carving jacko-lanterns and knocking doors for snack size candy bars, I’m going to wait until the day after Halloween and buy up all the reduced-price candy for Valentine’s Day and hope my wife doesn’t realize the difference between an orange and a red wrapper. Now that’s love.

Seth Hawkins is a junior majoring in public relations. If you see him running around campus in a Power Ranger outfit in February, it’s because he’s celebrating Halloween when he thinks it should be.

Comments and questions can be sent to him at seth.h@ aggiemail.usu. edu

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Phobias come in all forms

By COURTNIE PACKER senior writer

It is not uncommon to find a student with one or more fears.

For many students, their fears may be as small as a case of bibliophobia, fear of books; deciophobia, fear of making decisions; or they could even be as scary as pentheraphobia, the fear of someone’s own mother-in-law.

A phobia is a fear with unfortunate consequences, said Carol Collier, a counselor at the Bear River Mental Clinic.

“A phobia is something that you are afraid of,” Collier said. “If you have a phobia, it causes you to avoid whatever it is that you are afraid of. A phobia can cause many consequences in someone’s

everyday social, home, and work life.”

Phobophobia is the fear of being diagnosed with a phobia. Erin Gersley, author of the article, “Phobia’s: Causes and Treatments,” said the feeling to avoid a phobia is only the beginning to what a fear can actually do to an individual.

“Phobia’s can interfere with your ability to work, socialize and go about a daily routine,” Gersley wrote. “People who have a phobia are often so overwhelmed by their anxiety that they avoid the feared objects or situations. For most people, the simple pleasures of life are stripped from them.”

Phobias are frequently compared to anxiety disorders or panic attacks, according to the

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Gersley defined many symptoms of a phobia as feelings of panic, dread, horror or terror.

Rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath, trembling and an overwhelming desire to flee from the situation are also defined symptoms, the article stated.

People are unable to calm themselves when confronted by a phobic object,” Gersley wrote.

“Among many of them, even imagining a phobic object or situation can trigger great anxiety.”

Phobias are classified into three classes: agoraphobia, social phobia and specific phobia, the article stated.

Gersley defined agoraphobia as “the intense fear of being in a situation from which immediate escape is not possible or in which help would not be available if the person should become overwhelmed by anxiety.”

Collier said agoraphobia is what often puts the pressure on many people to make them stay in their homes and be alone.

“This is almost a social fear,” she said. “People feel safer in their homes, so they remain at home.

This is the fear of not being in control. People are afraid that something might happen to them, so they basically will lock themselves up.”

Social phobia is the fear of being in front of others, Collier said. Negative social experiences such as being rejected by peers or suffering some type of embarrassment in public can all result in some type of social phobia.

Gersley said this type of phobia may be related to low selfesteem, lack of assertiveness and feeling inferior.

“Many people with social phobias are so sensitive to the scrutiny of others that they avoid eating or drinking in public, using public restrooms or signing a check in the presence of another,” Gersley said.

Collier agreed, saying a social phobia will disrupt a normal life.

“Social phobia will cause you to do things that a normal individual wouldn’t,” she said. “It’s the feeling that all eyes are on you, and that causes panic for many people.”

Specific phobia is the leftover category for any phobia other than a social phobia or agoraphobia, according to the article. There are four categories of specific phobias: situational, fear of natural environment, animal, and bloodinjection-injury phobia. Gersley reported that there are more than 350 different types of phobias in these four categories alone. They can range from sitophobia, the fear of eating, to vestiphobia, the fear of clothing.

The National Institute of Mental Health reported that approximately 4 to 5 percent of the U.S population has one or more clinically significant phobia in a given year. It is estimated that approximately 6.3 million adult Americans are twice as affected by specific phobias, and these phobias are twice as common in women as they are in men, according to the institute.

Collier said even though phobias differ from person to person, many people have many similar fears.

“The most common phobia is arachnophobia, the fear of spiders,” she said. “There is also aerophobia, the fear of flying, claustrophobia, the fear of being trapped in small confined spaces, and even emetophobia, the fear of vomit.”

Collier said if people have phobias, they are not alone.

“You name it,” she said.

“Someone else is also afraid of it.”

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Most people think about getting tombstones in the spring, when the snow melts, and around Memorial Day, said Bodily.

Madsen has owned the business for 35 years and has seen the business change from being individualized to now having many mortuaries offering monuments as part of the funeral package.

Only four monument businesses are in Cache Valley, and all but Madsen’s are connected with a funeral home.

“Thirty years ago it was almost unheard of that a funeral home would sell a monument unless ... it was a small town,” Madsen said.

The business has evolved, he said, and funeral directors could see there was money to be made, so they also include monuments in their funeral packages.

The difference between Madsen’s business and the others is all of Madsen’s work is done locally in Logan in his shop on Center Street, he said.

“Each stone is made here,” Bodily said. “It has our craftsmanship on it. It isn’t someone else’s craftsmanship. We sit down with the customers, and from start to finish, it’s what they would like to have.”

Bodily said they have different patterns and styles so every headstone isn’t “cookie cutter.”

“We actually try to personalize them to whatever the person has passed on and liked to do,” Bodily said.

They have 10 different designs, four lettering styles and three sizes. Madsen said he’s always told his sons if they can imagine it, they can make it.

Ninety percent of the business’ stone comes from out of state, including Georgia, South

Dakota, Texas, Minnesota, North Dakota and Canada, Bodily said.

They don’t keep stones on stock because of the prices, Bodily said. He added that everything in the business can be expensive, even the sand that is used for the sandblaster.

For the sandblaster to cut out the designs perfectly, the designs are stuck onto the granite stones and then cut out with an X-acto knife. Next, little pieces of sand are pumped into an air compressor and shot onto the granite.

It takes 100 pounds of sand per square inch of granite to carve out the designs, Bodily said.

The bags of sand cost $1.80 a pound, and to save money, the company recycles the sand “until it all blows away to dust,” Madsen’s wife, Cassie Madsen, said.

“We’ve had stones where the shipping has cost more than the stone has,” Bodily said.

Along with monuments, Logan Memorials also designs porcelain photos and does special cleanings and repairs of monuments, and Madsen and Bodily said they will travel all over to place tombstones.

Bodily said they have flown to California, Colorado and Hawaii to place tombstones.

“It’s a heck of a business trip,” Bodily said.

As their job deals a lot with the dead, Bodily said he likes to assist others in their times of loss.

“It’s nice to be able to help someone get closure on something as sad as a death,” Bodily said. “Our goal is to help them to be as happy as they can with the passing of someone that’s close to them.”

-ranae.bang@aggiemail.usu.

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Sports “I don’t like to mention that we might lose. If people start saying we are going to lose it jinxes us.”

- Megan Darrington, sophomore in public relations “I’ve got so many superstitions about sports. I have to do the same pre-game routine. If I don’t do the same routine and I lose, I blame it on not following the routine.”

- Jase McCormick, freshman in pre-dental

School

“If you are going to play good, you have to play mad.”

- Brandon Larsen, undeclared freshman

“I am superstitious about marking answers. I can’t mark more than three answers that are the same in a row because I am sure it wouldn’t work that way.”

-Nicole Boehme, senior in biology

“If you have a DTR before the relationship or you meet the parents too early, it kills the relationship.”

- Jodie Burton, undeclared junior

General superstitions

“You can’t mark too many of the same answers in a row.

I’m pretty sure a teacher wouldn’t have made A the answer to every questions on the test. I think B or C is the mostly likely answer.”

- Ambrie Darley, senior in accounting

“You have to do everything twice. If you lock the doors you always have to go back and check.”

-Nick Manning, freshman in guitar education “If you buy a burial lot when you are still young, you are just asking for it.”

- Kellen Jones, sophomore in history

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JENNA HATCH, JUNIOR IN SPECIAL EDUCATION, and Maria Potter, sophomore in special eduation, hang out at the Best Buddies Halloween party with Tex and Dale Jenkins. DEBRA HAWKINS photo

This was the first year participating in the Best Buddies Halloween party for freshman Sigma Nu candidate Michael Karbakhsh, who said he liked it a lot because it’s good to help out with the community.

Crystal Degen, junior majoring in public relations, attended the party with her best buddy, Amy Shupe, and said the community service aspect is what first attracted her to the Best Buddies program. Degen said she and her buddy hang out weekly and go to activities like the Halloween party one a month.

“I like playing games and the candy,” Shupe said of the party.

For many of the buddies, the Halloween party offered a chance to let loose and have fun.

“My favorite part is having fun and being a Hulk-a-maniac,” said best buddy Brandon Fredrickson, who was dressed as the Hulk and busted out in an impromptu dance to “Thriller,” much to the delight of the other buddies.

Fredrickson’s buddy, Brad Larkin, said it’s his first year participating in the Best Buddies program, but he has loved it so far.

“It’s fun hanging out with these guys, they’re all smiles,” said Larkin, senior majoring in

entrepreneurship.

By the time the crowd started to thin out, the musical chairs had turned into a dance floor and bobbing for doughnuts had turned into bobbing for ho-ho’s, but the buddies were not quite

ready to say goodbye. Consoled by the promise of another party next year, giant cookies, cowboys and ghosts eventually trickled out the door smiling.

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The emotions of the rivalry led the Aggies “After the second game we went into to give the Utes 16 points on nine hitting our room, the one thing (DuBose) said errors, one blocking error and six service

By USU ATHLETICS is, ‘Anything that you can do to win this errors. third game, I’ll be happy,’” freshman set Even with all the errors, Utah State was ter Chelsea Fowles said. “So I think we just Utah State All-American still able to crawl it’s way back into the game, USU sophomore outside hitter jessalyn payne (4) high fives teamJaycee Carroll continues to getting within three before a rash of service mate Rebecca Anderson during last Saturday’s victory over Fresno State. The Aggies beat receive national attention this See WIN, page 13 errors gave Utah the game at 30-25. intra-state rival University of Utah for the first time since 2003. PATRICK ODEN photo fall and was recently named to the preseason watch list for the 2007-08 Naismith Trophy presented by AT&T, the Atlanta asketball pening ight Tipoff Club announced. Last week, Carroll was named one of 50 preseason candidates for the 2007-08 John R. Wood Award.

The Naismith Trophy watch list, which consists of 50 players, was compiled by the Atlanta Tipoff Club’s Board of Selector’s, which based its preseason criteria on player performances from last season and expectations for the 2007-08 season. There were 17 seniors and 17 juniors on the preseason Conference last season after being cholist, along with 16 sophomores.

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By SAM BRYNER sen to conclude in ninth place.

The list does not include year the two teams will face off.

EA staff writer senior writer This year the preseason media and incoming freshmen, although Sports not only won the game last year coaches polls placed USU in the seventh those student-athletes will be 67-60, they also prevailed two years USU women’s basketball is gearing Utah State will begin its 103rd seaposition. considered in the first vote in ago in the 2005-06 exhibition season up to play its first exhibition game son of basketball against EA Sports This season opener against the Utah January, 2008. The Naismith opener.

Wednesday versus the Utah Pride in the Pride will give the Aggies a chance to on Wednesday at 7:05 p.m. in the Trophy is the most prestigious Utah State returns three starters Spectrum.

Spectrum. show off their skills against experinational award presented from last years 23-12 team: seniors Tip off is 5 p.m., followed by the The game is the first of two exhienced basketball players. Utah Pride is annually to college basketball’s Jaycee Carroll, Kris Clark and Stephen men’s game at 7 p.m. bition games the Aggies will play made up of former college players from player of the year.

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The Aggies won last year’s game verthis week. The second game will be schools all over the state.

In addition to the returning starters sus the Pride in a 78-66 win. In its third Saturday against Laval University. letterwinner Nick Hammer, a senior, year of Western Athletic Conference Although the actual players are difreturns to the team as well. The new See WOMEN, page 11 competition, Aggie Head Coach Reagan ferent, Utah State is familiar with EA players consist of three returning Pebley said the team is eager redshirts, five freshman, to see who will step up in and three junior college Wednesday’s game. transfers.

“I know Utah Pride is good, EA Sports is a traveling they’re not a team to look team that is compiled of past, for sure,” Pebley said.

By USU ATHLETICS ex-college players, most of “Our goal in exhibition games whom were all-conference is, obviously, we want to win Utah State University players when they played. every time we go out there, announced Tuesday its men’s Some even have experibut it’s to give people experibasketball games that will be ence playing pro ball in ence.” televised during the 2007-08 Europe.

Pebley welcomes eight season. KJZZ-TV will broadcast The talent and experinew players from all over the six games during the year with ence of this team could world. Five freshman, two the option to carry more, while be one of the reasons for juniors and a junior transfer ESPN will broadcast four games their success against the round out the list. Senior and Fox Sports Net Utah and Aggies.

With that skill, point guard Taylor Richards The Mtn. will carry one game EA Sports certainly gets leads the nine returning letter each. the attention of head winners back to the court.

Utah State’s first appearance basketball coach Stew Richards brings with her a on KJZZ will be on Saturday, Morrill.

USU career assists record of Nov. 10 when it plays at Weber “They should get your 296. Even though she’s excited State at 7 p.m. KJZZ will also attention,” Morrill said. to continue into the season, carry both of Utah State’s home “You know, we’ve lost 12 Richards knows how quick games in the Gossner Foods games in nine years here. the first game will arrive.

Holiday Classic on Dec. 20-21 Yet these guys have come “We don’t have a lot of prep as the Aggies face Utah Valley in here and beat us three time,” Richards said. “But on Thursday night and either times I think, in exhibithat’s always nice because you Furman or Northern Arizona tion.” get rewarded for having two on Friday night.

Carroll has lost to EA weeks of practice.”

KJZZ will also broadcast Sports twice and says he The program is entering its Utah State home games against does not want it to hapfifth year after being reinstatHawaii on Thursday, Jan. 3, pen a third time. ed for the 2003-2004 season.

Idaho on Saturday, Jan. 19 and “I don’t want to lose to Due to low funding the Nevada on Saturday, Feb. 2, them again, “ Carroll said. university discontinued the with all three of those games “Just for personal, not program in 1987. beginning at 7 p.m.

USU guard taylor richards (11) drives USU’s Pooh williams (5) shoots over teammate The team finished sixth Utah State will have at least on a Louisiana Tech opponent last year in the Spectrum.

DeUndrae Spraggins (11) Friday as Brayden Bell (21) and - See MEN, page 11 in the Western Athletic four games televised by ESPN. STATESMAN file photo Nick Hammer look on. CAMERON PETERSON photo

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The Blue and the White Sports Debate

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

David Baker is a senior majoring in print journalsim.

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“Utah Pride is a bunch of players that have gone to the Sweet 16, as well as players that have gone to the NCAA tournaments,” Pebley said. “There are kids on that team that have done what we’re trying to do, and they’re talented. We’ve got to prepare.”

The Pride’s eight-player roster includes former USU player Ashley Rutledge, who gradu-

ated from Utah State in 2006.

Rutledge left a mark at USU. She is tied for fourth in career 3-pointers made (53), fifth in 3pointers attempted (167) , and third in 3-pointer percentage (.317).

The Pride roster also includes two of current Aggie forward Lindsey Shipley’s sisters.

Following the season opener,

the Aggies will be facing the College of Idaho for their second and final exhibition game on Nov. 3. Regular season play begins on Nov. 9 when the University of Pacific visits Logan.

Aggie games can be heard on KLGN (1390 AM) in Logan, as well as at utahstateaggies.com.

-erin.wadsworth@aggiemail. usu.edu

Men: Trying to avoid third loss to EA 1. Patriots or Colts?

Every week I’m forced to choose between two grave evils facing our world. Why the pressure?

Can’t there be a good guy? Previously, I’ve said sports decisions like this one are analogous to politics, but this is more like picking a way to die. This will be painful and ultimately find me marooned in some deep level of hell with awful people like Mussolini and Bono. But would I rather be burned at the stake, roasted over a fire fueled by the flaming passion beautiful women and sportscasters have for Tom Brady, or is it better to be crushed to death by a cascade of raw Peyton Manning commercial footage? Crushing seems faster. I’ll go with the Colts.

Simply put, both of these teams have been dominating so far this season, as both have 8-0 records. And both have record-setting quarterbacks leading their teams up and down the field. So how do you pick a winner of this game? Is it whoever has home-field advantage?

In this case, that would mean Indy. Maybe you can look at the opposition that each team has faced and say that the winner will be the team who has faced the toughest competition? I really can’t decide who will win this game. They are so similar in all areas of their games that a winner is tough to pick. But I will follow my gut feeling and say that the Patriots win.

2. Surprised by Boston in the World Series?

Well, I don’t know how many people actually read this consistently—my guess is three that aren’t related to me —but last week I picked the Rockies to win in a sweep. So was I surprised? Is Star Jones kind of hot now that she isn’t Al Roker’s doppelganger? Not a good analogy. Those are off today, sorry. Of course I was surprised—not about my lack of wit—but my lack of perception regarding the World Series. My Rockies were hot coming in, and they cooled off really quickly. But I still maintain the beer method is the only way to make picks. That mishap was no reflection on the technique.

No. Coming into the series Boston had better pitching, hitting and more experience. The Rockies were trying to ride a wave of what up to the point of the World Series was a fairy-tale story. Well, I guess in this fairy tale, the clock struck 12 and the magic that was the Colorado Rockies ended along with any sort of chance of hanging with the Red Sox. Boston will probably be back in the series within the next couple of years, if not next year. As for the Rockies, I don’t expect to see them still playing come late October next year.

3. Early favorite for NBA Title?

My beer prediction method would lead me straight to the Milwaukee Bucks—Pabst Brewing Company is located there, what can I say? I think I’m going to have to go with a different means of picking, since to be honest—because the Blue and White Sports Debate is a safe place, a no-judgment zone. I don’t start caring about the NBA until May. Sadly, the beer method only works when my heart is in it, and until late January or early February, the NFL has my heart. So, the pick will have to be based on pure instinct, some basketball Spidey sense. I’ll go with the Boston Celtics. They will beat the Jazz in a series that features the kidnapping of the Jazz’s best player.

Oh yes, basketball is upon us and it is time for my crowning of the next World Champion in the NBA. For those of you that know me, this will come as no surprise. I pick this team every year. Call it a homer pick. Call it crazy. Call it whatever you want. Not only will I pick this team this year, but chances are I’ll pick them every year for the rest of my life. Anyway, on with the business. The 2007-08 NBA champions will be ... drum roll please ... the San Antonio Spurs. No just kidding. I believe the Utah Jazz will go all the way this year.

4. Yankees rant I’m sure everyone is sick of hearing about the Yankees. I am. I’d rather hear another story about Kid Rock beating down a fellow trailer park dweller in front of a Waffle House. That’s not really a lie, I love that story. But one thing about this whole Yankees thing is Joe Torre comes out looking awesome. For the last couple years, the talk is always about the Yanks keeping Torre on.

Joe said screw that. I don’t want to come back and deal with it anymore. You guys can’t fire me, I quit. You go Joe. And may be going to L.A. Good for him. Some sun and bikinis will be perfect medicine.

I strongly dislike the Yankees. I dislike the fact they try to buy championships. I dislike the fact that they are in the news every day for one thing or the other. Their season has been over for quite some time now, but from the time that they got eliminated from the playoffs until now they have been taking up valuable minutes on SportsCenter. Can we please move on now? They have a new manager and they decided that ARod would not be back. Please do not talk about them any more. Move onto topics that people care about, like the NFL or bowling.

5. NFL Midseason MVP? I was going to come out and pick someone ridiculous. Maybe the equipment manager for the Houston Texans—his name is Jay Bruentti, if you were wondering. But after the Monday night game, my MVP is none other than the inventor of the printing press and publisher of the book, “How to Burn the Broncos’ Secondary,” the ageless one, Johann Brett Favre Gutenberg. Favre burned the best pair of corners in the league in Champ Baily and Dre Bly, once each—with Bly’s toasting sealing the game for the Packers. Also, Favre is still putting up numbers and carrying an offense with little or no running game to a 6-1 record.

It’s Tom Brady, right? Or if not Brady than Peyton Manning has to be the No. 2 candidate. Maybe.

But I am going to suggest the mid-season MVP be someone who truly is the most valuable player to his team. Derek Anderson of the Cleveland Browns is having a fine season and up to this point he has led the Browns to a winning record.

Anyone who can do that deserves the MVP. He is playing so well that Cleveland fans are forgetting about rookie quarterback Brady Quinn. As for Quinn, he should get comfortable on the bench because unless Anderson goes down with an injury that is where he’ll be.

6. Rant I want to take this time to apologize to all those teams I’ve jinxed with my picks lately. I feel I singlehandedly cost the Rockies the World Series. I feel like Virginia Tech’s last-second loss to Boston College was all my doing. It goes back a long time, too. I picked Ryan Leaf to be my impact rookie when he was drafted in 1998. Look what happened to him. I ruined the man’s career. The Buffalo Bills’ four-straight Super Bowl losses, all me. This goes deeper than sports, though. I picked Metallica to win the first metal Grammy in 1989 and they lost Jethro Tull. I picked Jimi Hendrix over Eric Clapton in the late ‘60’s London guitar scene. Now Hendrix is dead. I’m not only a jinx, I may be a murderer.

Sports fans listen up. We are entering what I consider to be the best time of year for sports.

The NFL is in full swing. College football is going strong now that the BCS standings are out. That is enough to keep me happy, but on top of that we have basketball season starting. The NBA began last night and college ball tonight. With the frenzy of exciting sports to watch, one must ask themselves: “How do I juggle school, work, and a demanding sports schedule?” I don’t know the answer to that. I wish I did and am open for suggestions. All I know is that life as a sports fan couldn’t be any better right now.

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wanting to get beat by the same team three times in a row.”

Senior point guard Kris Clark knows that EA Sports will be tough and the game will no means be easy just because it is an exhibition game.

He knows that their team is made up of past college stars.

“It kind of makes it difficult, because they do have guys coming in of that caliber, but that can only be good for you,” Clark said.

One thing the players are looking forward to is that they get to stop beating up on each other and putting forth some aggression against another team.

“Were ready to get going, were ready to stop playing against ourselves,” Carroll said.

Morrill said he knows the players are ready to get out and play, but he wishes they had more time to prepare.

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They have only been officially practicing since October 11—20 days ago.

“If you ask the kids, it’s time,” Morrill said. “If you ask me I’d say I’d like three more weeks of practice. You play more games, you have less time as a coach, but that’s how it is these days.”

The starting lineup for the Aggies is not set yet and Carroll said the team will know when just before the game when Morrill post the lineups on the team board.

One thing for certain is that many players are sure to see playing time since it is an exhibition game.

“We’ll play 10, 11, 12 guys and try and get those guys minutes,” Morrill said. “That’s what we’ve done the last few times we’ve played these guys.

You lose a little bit of your flow and continuity, but that’s why they call it an exhibition game,

you need to get some guys some time.”

Although a lot of the team will see action on the court, not everyone will play.

Morrill said those players who are available to play will see time. Players that the team most likely will redshirt probably won’t play much at all, if any, he said “We’ll try and play the guys that are available for play,” Morrill said. “We’re looking at some guys that were quite sure they’ll redshirt. Obviously there is no point in getting them ready, if they’re going to red shirt.”

From last year the Aggies have lost seven letterman, including starters Chaz Spicer and Durral Peterson. Spicer was named to the WAC all-tournament team.

-sam.bryner@aggiemail.usu. edu

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Little resigns from Dodgers

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Grady Little is out, whatever the reason.

That sure seems to pave the way for Joe Torre to become the Los Angeles Dodgers’ next manager.

Little resigned on Tuesday with a year remaining on his contract in a move he said he considered for some time. First, he called it “a mutual resignation.”

Later, he said it was his choice to leave.

“I’ve got my own personal reasons. There’s a lot of belief I’ve been dealt an injustice here.

That couldn’t be further from the truth,” Little said on a conference call. “My plans? To play with my grandkids.”

When asked if reports that the Dodgers were speaking with Torre influenced his decision, Little replied firmly: “No.”

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Torre and his former bench coach with the New York Yankees, Don Mattingly, have discussed the possibility of joining the Dodgers together, according to a person with knowledge of those talks. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the manager’s job was still open in Los Angeles.

“We haven’t hired anybody,” Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti said. “We’re talking to some people, that’s all I’m going to tell you. We’ll talk about where we go from here at a later date.”

The New York Post reported on its Web site Tuesday night that Torre had agreed in principle to a $14.5 million, three-year contract with the Dodgers, but a baseball official with knowledge of the search said no deal was immi-

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Torre’s agent, Maury Gostfrand, declined comment.

Colletti said he had a sense the 57-year-old Little was leaning toward stepping down, so he recently discussed the job with potential replacements.

One of those candidates, Colletti acknowledged, was Joe Girardi, hired by the Yankees as Torre’s successor earlier Tuesday.

Colletti refused to put a timetable on picking Little’s successor. The GM stressed that Little would have kept his job for next season had he decided to come back.

“This is a difficult day for many of us,” Colletti said. “Grady is a man I’m very fond of. Our friendship and relationship I expect to last as long as we’re here on earth.”

The 67-year-old Torre managed the Yankees to four World Series championships and 12 playoff appearances in as many

seasons before turning down a one-year, $5 million offer for next season with an additional $3 million in incentives on Oct. 18.

Torre, who completed a threeyear, $19.2 million contract this year, ranks eighth on baseball’s career list with 2,067 victories and has won a record 76 postseason games.

The Dodgers entered this season as the clear-cut favorite to win the NL West and had the league’s best record in mid-July.

But they dropped 11 of their last 14 games to fade out of contention, finishing at 82-80.

Clubhouse unrest surfaced between veterans and young players during the season’s final two weeks, when the Dodgers lost seven straight games to the Colorado Rockies.

Little said he told Colletti at season’s end that he wasn’t certain he wanted to come back.

“I told him I needed to go home, drive across the country, do some serious thinking,” Little said Tuesday.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS MANAGER GRADY LITTLE looks on as his team bats against Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Jeff Francis in the third inning of a baseball game in Denver, in this July 28, file photo. AP photo

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hat does it feel like to have the entire student section of the Spectrum screaming a fierce chant of “Ugly Duckling!” right at you each time you have possession of the basketball? I’m not entirely sure. I hope I never have to find out. However, this type of heckling was directed to former Boise State Broncos point guard Colby Karl this past January in the Spectrum.

Scenes like this have been frequent of late in the Spectrum by masses of fans generally made up of students.

Many will say it’s all part of the game.

Ironically, it’s true. It’s also the problem. There is a distinct line between giving somebody a hard time for the way they shoot their free throws and throwing daggers of personal insult for their looks or even their race. These no doubt pierce them worse than anything else could. There is a clear distinction between cruelty and class—the latter of which is lacking in some Aggie fans.

Did you know before the game against USU in the Spectrum, Karl found out he had cancerous lymph nodes? He decided to wait until the end of the season to tell his teammates.

According to Boise State’s athletic department Web site, Karl underwent a seven-hour surgery on April 2 of this year to remove the cancerous lymph nodes. It was his second operation in 13 months. Karl was diagnosed with papillary carcinoma, a form of treatable cancer, in January 2006, and had his thyroid removed three months later.

Also, the Web site states, he underwent chemotherapy to kill off any remaining cells, but the cancer returned.

“He’s feeling better,” an AP story dated April 27 stated. “He’s slowly getting back into basketball shape and the 3-inch scar below his chin from where

the doctors performed the operation is starting to fade. ‘I’m not in the shape I have been in the past,’ Karl said. ‘But I’m feeling good and that’s big.’”

Wow. What a great definition of toughness and endurance Karl is.

Luckily, things are coming together for him. He graduated in May with a degree in mass communications and was signed by the Los Angeles Lakers over the summer.

One can only imagine the impression George Karl, who was seated behind the Boise State bench, took from that game. He is Colby’s father and current coach of the NBA’s Denver Nuggets.

This incident is unfortunate, but not uncommon, at the Spectrum. It’s a problem just about everywhere sports are taken seriously. It would seem as though this is a virtually uncontrollable thing. Really, how much power can you really have at putting a stop to what thousands of fans yell?

Some have tried, though in vain.

Reggie Theus, who was the glamorous and well-dressed head coach of the New Mexico State Aggies until joining the Sacramento Kings over the summer, started the “Bigger Man Project” at New Mexico State in his two years there. The point of it was to get fans to stop a profane chant when opponents shot free throws. One Web site reported that instead of stopping, the chant was still repeated, but with a minor difference: The profane word was said in Spanish.

Given these facts, it is surprising there has been no public rebuke from USU leadership or the athletic department. Isn’t this a responsibility leaders are entrusted with? Let’s assume the reason nothing has been done by the

university or the athletic department is because they know nothing about it—though that’s hard to believe for anybody who was at the game with ears to hear.

Over the years, the Spectrum has easily proven to be the gold standard of home-court advantage among Utah’s colleges. The university of Utah’s Huntsman Center, BYU’s Marriott Center and Weber State’s Dee Events Center are each boring, pathetic and, in the case of Weber State’s home, purple. The atmosphere of these venues is generally changed for the better when the Aggies visit. The Spectrum also is among the loudest college basketball venues in the United States.

Why is this? Sure, the team is talented, but the fans at times have literally carried them to victory. After being outplayed for most the game and finally beating the Broncos in that January game, an amazed Aggie Head Coach Stew Morrill credited “Spectrum Magic” as the catalyst for the win. He made the same comment after USU took down the ninth-ranked Nevada Wolf Pack later on in the season.

Case in point: Contrary to popular belief, it is possible to be loud and proud without being rude and crude. May it be so this season in the Spectrum.

Sammy Hislop is a junior majoring in public relations. He can be reached at samuel.hislop@aggiemail. usu.edu

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This is the fifth in a seven-part series featuring USU’s four redshirt returners and three new junior college transfers.

Today: Junior College transfer DeUndrae Spraggins

Military-disciplined man

By SAM BRYNER senior writer

Energy, hard work and fun: These are just a few words that describe Aggie basketball junior college transfer DeUndrae Spraggins. The 6-foot-3, 180-pound forward from Paris Junior College comes to Utah State with a history of discipline and toughness.

Spraggins’ father introduced him to the game of basketball at a young age in East St. Louis, Ill., where, growing up, he said he had the chance to play against many great players—two of which are current NBA stars Darius Miles and Larry Hughes.

After high school, Spraggins felt he needed discipline in his life. He joined the Air Force for four years as a mechanic, serving from 2001 to 2005 at Nellis Air Force base in Nevada.

He said his commander at the base knew he could play basketball and told Spraggins if he could get a full-ride scholarship, he could get out of his military commitment.

“That was great for me because I needed the discipline,” Spraggins said.

“I was a bad little boy, and I needed that in my life. That’s another reason why I like the coach up here, (USU Head Coach Stew (Morrill). I need that discipline figure.”

Although some might consider Morrill a commander in his own right, Spraggins said he is happy to be in his current situation.

“Great coach, winning ways, fans

are great. Why wouldn’t you want to put yourself in this predicament?”

Spraggins said.

With the energy and work Spraggins is putting into practice, Aggie Assistant Coach Tim Duryea said Spraggins, along with fellow newcomer Gary Wilkinson, are putting themselves among the great practice players at Utah State.

“They are in the class of Jaycee Carroll, who is the best practice player I have ever been around,” Duryea said. “Their energy level every day is comparable to his, and that is a high compliment.”

Because of this work ethic, Duryea said Spraggins will be a candidate for a lot playing time at small forward.

“He’s in the mix,” Duryea said. “He’s going to be a hard guy to beat out just because he brings it every day. He’s very athletic, shoots the ball well.”

Spraggins described himself as a guy who is never going to quit and likes to have fun and play tough on both ends of the court.

“A lot of fun. Hard work. Never going to quit. A tough mentality,” Spraggins said. “I like to defend.”

Anyone who plays defense will certainly fit in well with the Utah State system, but Spraggins said it is his playmaking ability that might be his greatest attribute and contribution to this year’s team.

“Play maker, making plays, for myself, or for other people,” he said.

And his biggest weakness?

“Getting too anxious to make those plays,” Spraggins said.

Fast Stats • Expected to be one of the team’s standout defenders.

• Spent four years as a mechanic in the Air Force.

• As a sophomore at Paris Junior College averaged 11.3 points per game and 4.8 rebounds.

Some of that play-making ability and anxiousness showed in the team’s Blue and White scrimmage last Friday night.

The junior forward recorded five assists but had five turnovers to go along with them. He scored 10 points on two for four shooting, including two for two from 3-point range and five for five from the charity stripe.

“He may not understand everything he is doing yet, but he makes mistakes at a 100 percent, and I guess as a coach that is what you want,” Duryea said.

“You want a guy who you know they’re going to make mistakes, but you would rather have them make aggressive mistakes than have to prod them along all the time.”

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USU junior college transfer deundrae spraggins comes to USU after two years at Paris Junior College in Paris, Texas. As a sophomore there he averaged 11.3 points and 4.8 rebounds per game. He also earned third-team all-Texas Eastern Conference. Before his time there he was a mechanic in the Air Force for four years to discipline himself. He was stationed at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada from 2001 to 2005. TYLER LARSON photo

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BOSTON (AP) — When the Red Sox needed a closer — even for their World Series championship parade — Jonathan Papelbon was their man.

Papelbon donned a kilt and danced his trademark Irish jig to the roars of tens of thousands of fans Tuesday as the city cel-

ebrated Boston’s second World Series title in four years with a three-mile-long rolling rally from Fenway Park to City Hall Plaza.

“The fans connect to Papelbon because he cuts loose, he’s passionate,” said Red Sox fan Ryan McCarthy, who was carrying “Mobile Papelbon,” a giant

cardboard likeness with its legs on hinges to mimic his dance moves.

Players and their families boarded 20 amphibious, World War II-era duck boats outside the stadium for a journey through the city. Manny Ramirez grabbed a microphone and yelled

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focused everything on making sure we took that third game.”

Unlike recent Game 3 performances against Weber State, Utah Valley and Fresno State, the Aggies were able to come out strong in the third game. They continued their hot hitting, racking up another 21 kills with a .381 average.

But Game 3 wasn’t a runaway for USU. Utah also hit over .300 at .333, and fought hard in a game that saw 13 ties and five lead changes. Neither team was able to make any real gains, and it turned into a side-out fest. Strong hitting

by Nielson, Ale and junior outside hitter Melissa Osterloh pulled the Aggies to a 30-27 win.

“It’s so frustrating going into the third game after we’ve won some and not being able to pull it out, but being able to push through that was really good,” Fowles said.

With the first Game 3 win in over a week under its belt, Utah State looked to continue bucking trends.

In 2007, the Aggies hadn’t won a match after losing the first game—until Tuesday night.

A close, hard-fought Game 4, that very much resembled Game 3, gave USU the victory over instate rival Utah and pushed their season-best winning streak to six matches.

Nielson again led the Aggies with 25 kills while hitting .263.

Ale recorded a career-high 17 kills and a .353 hitting average. And Osterloh finished with 13 kills and 10 digs for her 11th doubledouble of the year. Middle blocker Danielle Taylor also added nine kills and a .571 hitting average.

It’s not surprising to see kill numbers like that from the main cogs in the Aggie offense. But it is a surprise to see Fowles record a career-high three kills against the Utes. All of them came on quick dumps over the net to fool Utah’s defense.

“I used to do that in high school a lot, and I don’t know, I saw the open court and took it,” she said.

She also added 61 assists—two

to fans along the route. “You guys are No. 1.” ‘’There’s a party at my house tonight.” ‘’We did it for you guys.” ‘’We’re gonna do it again next year.” ‘’You guys are the best fans in the whole world.”

Fans showed their love back for the team, chanting “MVP” to Mike Lowell and waving signs

with wedding proposals to rookie Jacoby Ellsbury.

The two-hour parade paused three times for Papelbon to dance on a flatbed truck, accompanied by the Dropkick Murphys, a Boston-based punk rock band with heavy Irish folk music influence.

Before the parade, the band presented Papelbon with his own kilt plus one for ace Josh Beckett and general manager Theo Epstein, who had promised to dance with him. They also made a kilt for slugger David Ortiz, whom they hoped to coax into the jig.

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short of tying her season high— and a big solo block that gave the Aggies game point in the fourth game. “(Fowles) always sets well and when she does other things like dig and block, it’s great,” Nielson said.

DuBose gives some of the credit for performances like Fowles’ to the players on the USU bench.

“I can’t say enough about our team, in general,” he said. “Those who don’t get in every single match, they do a wonderful job of preparing our starters to be suc-

cessful. It’s kind of cool, we have this nice team dynamic going.”

Utah State (15-10, 9-4 in the Western Athletic Conference) looks to keep things going when they travel to Orem Thursday to take on Utah Valley at 7 p.m.

The in-state match with the Wolverines will be the Aggies’ last nonconference match of the season. They finish with games against Idaho (Nov. 5) and Hawaii (Nov. 11) on the road, and are home against Nevada for senior night Nov. 8 at 7 p.m.

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ig Blue better be practicing his repelling and crowd surfing, because it’s that time of year again. The most wonderful time of the year, to be precise. No, there isn’t some sort of “Nightmare Before Christmas” mix-up, it’s the start of another Aggie basketball season. And just in time too.

After months of waiting after a heart-breaking loss to New Mexico State in the Western Athletic Conference championship game and an early exit from the National Invitation Tournament, the Aggies are back for another season of high-powered basketball.

This year has its unique challenges, returning only four players from last year’s team and featuring eight newcomers. But don’t think the new faces equal inexperience. These players are all top recruits with potential to make USU every bit the powerhouse it has been in previous years.

But more than anything, the return of Aggie basketball means a chance for USU students to pack the Spectrum. With this return to the semi-sacred shrine to USU’s crowning sport, there are certain rules of etiquette that need to be followed by students.

First off, arrive early to the basketball game. This isn’t come to class early – five minutes late – this is really early, at least a half hour early. This allows you to be in a good seat when the game starts and to be fully ready to cheer for your Aggies.

Secondly, when you are in the student section, you are only permitted to sit if you are injured or during a timeout. The rest of the time, it is proper etiquette to stand. While this may seem extreme, it’s nothing compared to the fans at Duke, where they never stop standing and moving during the game. If you decide to break this rule – shame on you – you forfeit your right to tell the students around you to sit down.

Next, when you come to the basketball game, come to be at the basketball game, not to do homework or chat on the cell phone to your romantic interest the whole time. The team is on the court playing their hearts out for your entertainment. They at least deserve your attention, not to mention the cheers.

Finally, don’t be complete jerks to the visiting teams.

While it’s part of the game to have a little bit of fun with the other team through cheers and a bit of heckling, it is not appropriate to be excessively vulgar or threaten the other team. Let’s not turn into the southern Aggie fans in our conference, who are well known for their crude behavior.

Oh, and don’t forget to have fun. Go Aggies.

Nothing is scarier than presidential race

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ow have you celebrated this Halloween season? Did you visit a corn maze or a haunted house? Did you rent your favorite horror film? Well, I’ve been doing something much scarier—following the presidential race. Here are my thoughts on the leading candidates: Rudy Giuliani is arguably the most frightening person running.

Everything about the man is downright creepy—from his awkward relationship with his young wife to his double life as a drag queen (and an ugly one at that). His foreign policy is especially terrifying.

Because Giuliani has no foreign policy experience, he will heavily rely on his advisers. Who, then, are these people?

Norman Podhoretz, the “Godfather of modern neoconservatism,” is one of Giuliani’s top advisers. Podhoretz recently met with President George W. Bush to argue for immediate military strikes against Iran. Michael Rubin, another adviser, agrees. Then there’s Daniel Pipes, a man boasting “a long and distinguished career of advocating war against every Arab and Muslim country in the world.” He has also pushed for the profiling of American Muslims in the U.S. government. And finally, Giuliani’s terrorism adviser—Thomas Joscelyn, who baselessly contends that Saddam Hussein was, and Iran is, connected to al-Qaida.

With these neocons at the helm, one can only imagine how reckless Giuliani’s foreign policy will be.

Giuliani is not the only New York politician I’m worried about.

In recent weeks, Hillary Clinton has solidified her front runner status with a staggering 31-point lead over Barrack Obama.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d prefer Clinton over any candidate in the Republican field, but I want her to earn the Democratic nomination, not assume it.

While Clinton is an intelligent and accomplished candidate, she fails my liberal litmus test. Of the Democratic candidates, she has been the most hawkish in her foreign policy approach.

She helped the Bush administration make the tenuous case for war against Iraq back in 2002, and she now echoes much of the administration’s rhetoric against Iran. She is also deeper in the pockets of corporate interests than any other candidate from either party.

Clinton needs to disavow the “Bush Doctrine” of preemptive war and divorce herself from corporate influence before she wins my vote. I’m personally hoping John Edwards makes an

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ForumLetters Keep basketball cheers positive To the editor: I’m anticipating another great year for basketball and I can’t wait to go to more games.

However, I hate going to the games and hearing rude and obnoxious chants and cheers.

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like “STU-PID! STU-PID!” or “YOU STILL SUCK! YOU STILL SUCK!” is a flashback to middle school. Whatever happened to positive cheers for our team rather than degrading the other team as well as our dignity?

You may ask why I care, or how I could get offended so easily. I care because there are a lot of things this university is trying to do to get money for us students, but if our cheers

at the basketball games offend those elderly (and more wealthy) USU alumna, I highly doubt they will be so generous. Old people tend to get offended easily.

So basketball fans, please do us a favor and show some respect for the other teams, the fans around you, and our university by keeping cheers positive this year.

Mike Larson

In defense of religion and the existence of God

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realize the topic I am addressing in this column is very sensitive and very personal.

However, I feel compelled to share what I know to be true. As I express my feelings about my creator, please understand I do not intend to criticize anyone or their religious beliefs.

Recently, questions have been raised regarding the existence of God. Many of these questions have been valid, and I would like to address them. I know God lives. He knows and loves each of us, for we are his children. I have had many experiences in my life that have convinced me of this simple, yet profound, truth.

My belief in God has been strengthened by the ways God has shown us he lives and cares about us. I would like to mention a few of these.

God has manifested himself throughout his creation. Everything from the vastness of space to the ordered intricacies of the atom testify of him. The majesty of the mountains, the depth of the ocean, the miracle of life and the power of love unite to declare that God does live.

Our very existence on this earth shows that we and the earth on which we live were created by a divine hand. There are innumerable conditions that need to be just right for life to exist. These conditions could have not come about by accident.

A record has been kept regarding God’s dealings with mankind. This record is found in scriptures like the Bible. God has always spoken to his children through his prophets, as the scriptures testify. As has been recorded in the scriptures, the prophets have taught us that each of us can speak to God in prayer and receive answers and direction from him. This is a way we can know he exists.

Many have seen acts of cruelty or times of suffering as a reason to deny the existence of God. The reason cruelty and suffering abounds becomes clearer when we realize the purpose of our mortal lives. We have been sent to this earth to see if we will be faithful to commandments – directions from God to be

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happy – we have been given. We have been given the agency to decide to follow or reject God. There have been those who have chosen to disregard these commandments and harm others. God cannot force us to obedient to his commandments. We must obey him of our own free will.

We are here on this earth to grow and progress. Sometimes our greatest growth comes in times of suffering and affliction.

During these times, we can turn to God for strength and comfort. As we overcome these trials, we become stronger and draw closer to God. We also grow in our capacity to love, understand and serve others.

God’s ways and thoughts are not ours. We may not yet understand why he acts as he does. The mere fact that God does not act as we think he should does not disprove his existence, as some would contend. This just shows us a lack of our own understanding.

If we are to know for ourselves that God does exist, we must have faith. Faith is necessary in our quest to seek and understand God. Often we must rely on knowledge and understanding that cannot be proven with concrete facts, or by the senses. Those who seek to understand scientific truth must also act on faith. Magnetic and gravitational forces cannot be seen and touched, but they are real. So it is with spiritual truths. They cannot be seen or heard, but they can be felt deep within our hearts. Our faith must move us to obedience of God’s commandments. As we obey, our faith will be strengthened, and our knowledge will increase.

It is possible for every individual to know God does exist. Each of us can come to an understanding of God through diligently studying his word and striving to live by his commandments, which are found in the scriptures.

It takes constant, dedicated effort to understand and develop a relationship with God. The results of that effort and diligence will

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strengthen our knowledge of his existence.

As a result of our efforts to know God, we will come to know by feelings deeper and stronger than our physical senses that he truly lives. Our minds will be opened and our understanding will be widened. We will come to understand the meaning of our lives on this earth and will receive strength to bear the burdens that each of us have. We will gain greater perspective as we realize our mortal lives are but a small portion of our existence. We will come to realize we existed before our birth into this world and our lives will continue after death. Things we did not understand before will make sense as we begin to develop this eternal perspective.

As each of us understands our relationship to God and strives to keep his commandments, peace will begin to be established on the earth. Each of us will come to see each other as brothers and sisters and have a greater desire to serve each other. War will cease and poverty will be eliminated as we reach out to one another with love, as we have been

taught by God. Each of us will change as we realize we will be accountable before God for our conduct on this earth.

As we understand God, we will also come to understand the reality of unchanging moral truths. These truths come from God and can not be changed by man. Man may ignore or attempt to change them, but they are as real and binding as the laws of physics. As we live by these moral truths, our lives, families, nation and world will be healed.

God is real, and each of us can come to know this for ourselves if we are willing. We must first have the desire to believe.

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

Comments can be sent to him at c.lyons@aggiemail. usu.edu

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impressive showing in the early primaries and gives Clinton a run for her money (of which she has an obscene amount).

Others expect Obama to cut into Clinton’s lead, but I’m not so confident—his campaign has been underwhelming thus far. Obama’s “politics of hope” have rendered him unable to effectively attack Clinton. And as a result, his campaign has lost its momentum.

Monday marked my biggest disappointment with Obama. As part of his “Embrace the Change” concert tour, Obama included gospel singer Donnie McClurkin. Here’s the issue: McClurkin espouses a very anti-gay message.

He has called homosexuality a “curse” and accused gays of “trying to kill children.”

Given this history, it was a mistake to cede the stage to McClurkin at Monday’s concert.

Instead of singing, he used the opportunity to preach the evils of homosexuality and share his personal story of alleged deliverance from homosexuality by God. The religious and intolerant overtones of the concert were inappropriate for a presidential campaign. Obama is usually a powerful advocate for the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender community, but he let us down this time.

Like Obama, Fred Thompson has yet to live up to his hype. And he, too, is mired in a controversy over homosexuality. The Westboro Baptist Church, an anti-gay hate group masquerading as a church, recently released a quasi-endorsement of Thompson.

Westboro first achieved national notoriety

years ago in picketing the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a gay youth and victim of a vicious hate crime. Today, they celebrate soldiers’ deaths (and other tragedies) as divine retribution for America’s tolerance of homosexuality.

Thompson was hired for a mid-1980s sexual harassment case on the recommendation of Margie Phelps, daughter of Westboro founder Fred Phelps. It was through this case that several church members got to know Thompson.

In their press release, they applaud Thompson’s support for a constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage, but urge him to explicitly endorse their homophobic views—views with which he once agreed, they claim.

“We know what your position used to be on the homosexual question—and it was wonderful, and we saw eye to eye,” church members wrote.

If Thompson did, in fact, give their hateful beliefs any credence, he is unfit for public office.

Scary stuff, my friends. Scary stuff. Just be grateful you’ve been enjoying Halloween parties instead of putting up with political parties.

Happy Halloween.

Jon Adams is a junior majoring in political science.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – A giant solar wing ripped as it was being unfurled by astronauts aboard the international space station on Tuesday, creating another problem for NASA at the orbiting outpost.

The next shuttle flight could be delayed if this latest problem isn’t resolved quickly, said NASA’s space station program manager, Mike Suffredini. Atlantis is supposed to lift off in early December with a European laboratory.

“We don’t clearly know what we’re dealing with yet, and as soon as we know what we’re dealing with, then we can talk about what our next steps are,” Suffredini said.

The astronauts immediately halted the wing extension when they spotted the damage. By then, the solar panel was already extended 90 feet of its 115 feet. Space station commander Peggy Whitson said the sun angle prevented her and the others from seeing the 20-foot tear sooner.

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Parazynski also dealt with the other problem on the space station, inspecting one of two rotary joints that keep the station’s solar panels turned toward the sun.

Steel shavings were found during a spacewalk over the weekend in the joint on the right side of the station, and Parazynski was asked to look at the left joint for comparison.

Everything inside that joint was shiny and looked pristine.

Until NASA figures out what’s grinding inside the gears and fixes it, the right joint will remain in a parked position as much as possible, limiting power collection.

NASA plans to take a closer look at the malfunctioning joint during a spacewalk on Thursday, although that work might be upstaged by the solar wing trouble.

At Mission Control’s request, Whitson retracted the torn solar wing just a bit to ease tension on it. She said there appeared to be quite a lot of deformation to the entire area.

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“It’s just the way it goes,” Mission Control said consolingly.

The torn solar wing can still provide power.

NASA’s bigger concern is the structural problem posed by a partially deployed panel.

The damage was especially agonizing for the 10 space travelers because it came on the heels of an otherwise hugely successful day. Two of shuttle Discovery’s crew had just wrapped up a seven-hour spacewalk and were still reveling in the smooth extension of the first of two retracted solar wings on a newly installed beam.

During the spacewalk — the third of their mission — Scott Parazynski and Douglas Wheelock installed a massive beam holding a pair of solar wings, which were folded up like an accordion. It took three days to move the beam from one location on the space station to another 145 feet away and was considered one of the hardest construction jobs ever attempted in orbit.

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Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

- USU Photoguild Exhibit, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Twain Tippetts Exhibition Hall.

- Disability Resource Center open house, 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., University Inn. - USU women’s basketball vs.

Utah Pride, 5 p.m., Spectrum.

- USU mens’ basketball vs. EA Sports, 7:05 p.m., Spectrum.

- Utah State Theatre Production: ‘Urinetown,’ 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Morgan Theatre.

- USU College Republicans, 8 to 9 p.m., Merrill-Cazier Library.

- Bestor’s Best of Utah Singer Search, 12 to 3 p.m.

- USU Photoguild Exhibit, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Twain Tippetts Exhibition Hall.

- USU women’s volleyball, 7 p.m.

- Utah State Theatre Production: ‘Urinetown,’ 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Morgan Theatre.

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

- USU Photoguild Exhibit, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Twain Tippetts Exhibition Hall.

- USU Water Initiative CUAHSI Cyberseminar - Jay Famiglietti, UC Irvine, 1 to 2 p.m., Engineering Building.

- USU Big Band Swing CLub, 7 to 9:30 p.m., HPER. - Utah State Theatre Production: ‘Urinetown,’ 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Morgan Theatre.

- USU Chambers Singers, 7:30 p.m., Performance Hall.

- Wind Orchestra Concert, 7:30 p.m., Kent Concert Hall.

Oct. 31

Nov. 1

Nov. 2

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Hotdogs for Africa Today USU Dining Services will be selling Scotsmans and drinks for $1.50 on the TSC Patio from 12-2 p.m. and all the proceeds will go towards the Children of Ethiopia Education Fund.

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Campus Recreation would like to see if students would like to see a women’s-only swim time, starting in the spring of ‘08. Female lifeguard. What time would be the best: Friday at 3:30 - 4:45 p.m. or 7:30 - 9 p.m., and Saturday at 2 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. We would also like to see if there is interest in free swimming lessons on Saturday from 10 to 11 a.m., starting Spring semester 2008. Please E-mail bill. bauer@usu.edu or HPER 123 and sign up for the class

Flu shots available Flu shots available at the Student Health and Wellness Center for students. Hours 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. cost is $22.

Religion in Life

Friday, Nov. 2: Religion in Life with Wall Odd at 11:30 a.m. in the Institute Cultural Center. Wally Odd is the Executive Director of

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Counsel to parents Children under the age of 18 are allowed to use the university recreation facilities only accompanied by a parent or legal guardian that have a current USU ID.

DSA Blast-off

Dominican Student Association Blast-off 2 at NVO, Saturday, Nov. 3, 9 p.m. Hip-hop, salsa, meringue, regaeton, DJ Poppy $3 per person.

More to remember ...

• Fighting for a Chance, a USU student group, is hosting a benefit dinner to raise money for the micro-loan program. For $30 a plate, come learn more about this program and enjoy dinner at the CopperMill restaurant on Nov. 7, 7 p.m. Please RSVP by Nov. 3 to Wyatt Lamborn at w.lamborn@ aggiemail.usu.edu • Early voting, TSC Juniper Lounge, Thursday, Nov. 1 and Friday, Nov. 2, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

• How We Got The Bible. An intellectually challenging seminar Nov. 2, 7 p.m. and Nov. 3, 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Question and

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answer session after each presentation. Free to everyone. Old Main 225.

• Trick or Treating at Cache Valley Mall, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2 to 6 p.m. Glow-in-the-dark reminder bands to the first 500 people. Cup cake walk, crafts and lots of candy.

• Sabrina Romney will be giving a viola recital Friday, Nov. 2, 5 p.m., Tippets Art Gallery.

• SKI and SNOWBOARDING MOVIE. Free lift ticket to the “Canyon’s” ($76 Value) and subscription to “skiing” magazine for all paid attendees at Warren Miller’s “PLAYGROUND,” Kent Concert Hall, 8 p.m. Nov. 8 and 9. Advance tickets $14 and $17 at the door. Advance tickets at Al’s, USU ticket office, USU outdoor Recreation Center.

• The Study Abroad Office is opening up the photo contest to students who participated in a study abroad program with USU from the summer of 2006 until the fall of 2007. Entries must be submitted no later than 4:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 2 to the Study Abroad Office, TSC 313 797-0601.

• Jake White/Jon Schmidt in concert, Kent Concert Hall,7 p.m., Nov. 10. $10 in advance, $12 at the door. Tickets on sale Borders, 7870678, Lee’s of Logan, 755-5100.