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there was going to be a big problem, like, ‘Oh no, we’re going to have to be here for the rest of the semester.’ But they got it taken care of and they got us in earlier than we expected, so that was nice.”

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went, and residents of Rich Hall were still away from home. Harrison said he was told Wednesday was a possible date to return, then it turned into Thursday and some estimates were given that it could be as long as the next Wednesday before they would be able to return. But the next day, Harrison said “all of a sudden they put a sign up that said tomorrow you’re going back.”

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It may not have been Katrina, but after a week of living in temporary housing, residents of Rich Hall are home.

The explosion of the boiler in Rich Hall on Friday, Nov. 2, forced an extended evacuation of the building, requiring residents to relocate to either Richards Hall or Building B of the Living Learning Center. At

the time of evacuation, students were given 10 or 15 minutes to gather clothes, toiletries and anything else they could carry before they were taken to the temporary residences, said Nathan Harrison, junior double majoring in math education and deaf education. At the time, students were told to expect to be gone until at least Tuesday, Harrison said.

The Tuesday deadline was originally given as the earliest possible return date by USU Police Chief Steve Mecham, but Tuesday came and

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By LIZ WILSON staff writer

What’s your sweet tooth? Chances are, a pastry shop near you has it.

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Sports The San Jose State Spartans pull a 3-2 upset over the Aggies in the first round of the WAC Volleyball Tournament.

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Opinion “Though ASUSU has little power to do anything on their own – in legislative terms, the most they can do is pass resolutions – they have a lot of influence and some pretty good ideas.”

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Almanac Today in History: In 1941, Hitler’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, publishes in ‘Das Reich’ that “The Jews wanted the war, and now they have it,” thereby shifting the blame for the war on the Jews and rationalizing the terrible atrocities committed in carrying out what was termed the Final Solution.

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USU is offering a new program this year for young adults with developmental disabilities. The program, Project PEER, Post Secondary Education, Employment, and Research, involves students ages 18 through 22 who come from one of the four high schools in Cache Valley.

Formerly offered on the high school level, the program was moved to the USU campus in January, bringing with it about 20 students.

The Project PEER Web site states, “The Center for Persons with Disabilities houses the program on the USU campus to facilitate students’ participation in social, recreational, and employment opportunities with other students of the same age.”

One of the program’s teachers, Chris Bartlett, said the purpose of the program is “to help them gain the skills they need for employment.”

Now that the program is on campus, the students have access to equipment, facilities and other resources that were not available at the high school level, Bartlett said. The students now have access to things like the Assistive Technology Lab and wood shop where they can learn skills and develop their various interests, Bartlett said. Several students have used the wood-working facilities to make wood chests for the school to use. Other students have been able to

Project Peer helps young adults with developmental disablilites acquire skills needed for employment. Stevie Seber and Manuel Smiley, students in Project PEER, wrote and searched for jobs Thursday. NOELLE BERLAGE photo

develop their computer skills in programs such as PowerPoint, thanks to these high tech facilities Done said.

Some of the skills they learn and use on campus help them when they go to job training. During job training, these students perform various duties at many venues around campus. They do everything from

Cache Valley native helping Blue Bikes

By JORDAN COX staff writer

Sandwiched between the Fieldhouse and the Military Science building is a small establishment that few people know about–Aggie Blue Bikes.

This program, coordinated by Adam Christensen, has been running since September 2005. Since its formation, he said Aggie Blue Bikes has developed three main purposes: to rent out bikes to students at no cost, to help repair rented out “Blue Bikes” and to educate people on the economical and environmental advantages of using a bike.

It maintains itself through fundraisers like the one held Wednesday by Dan Austin. This fundraiser, part of the book tour for Austin’s newest book,“The Road Trip Pilgrim’s Guide,” screened the movie “Hybrid.Pedal,” directed by Austin.

In the Aggie Blue Bikes’ most recent fundraiser, Austin, who was raised in Cache Valley, spoke and promoted the book. This book discusses the experiences involved in a pilgrimage, he said.

“This is the essence of a pilgrimage, returning as a different person than the one who left,” Austin said.

In the book, Austin writes about the elements involved in a pilgrimage, such as choosing a destination or plotting the path. Austin’s book also gives tips like “Finding a Free Place to Camp” or “Scoring Free Eats.” He even shares some thoughts on police escorts and how to skip rocks. After such outdoor experiences as Austin’s book elaborates on, one may wonder how a man like Austin could end up in a

- See BLUE BIKES, page 3

working the cash register at the USU Bookstore to cleaning buses to busing tables at the Hub. Kerry Done, teacher in the program, said jobs like those help the program participants feel like they are making a difference.

“It’s a positive thing for them to feel like they’re contributing to soci-

ety,” Done said.

The students do not get paid for their job training, but the skills they learn are meant to be helpful in finding them employment in the future Bartlett said.

- See PEER, page 14

Richter7’s Tim Brown says PR isn’t all bad

By DEBRA HAWKINS staff writer

If public relations practitioners can learn to do their job correctly, the relationship between journalists and PR people can move past disagreement and they can begin to work together, said Tim Brown, executive vice president of Richter7 advertising and public relations agency, Wednesday at the semester’s Media and Society Lecture.

Brown has 24 years of experience working in the field of PR and has worked for such clients as Hard Rock Cafe, The Home Depot and Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.

Brown said the two fields of PR and journalism are interrelated and by working together, both professions can accomplish their jobs easier.

“PR people that have an agenda that are trying to feed journalists give PR people a bad name,” Brown said. “There is no reason why we can’t get along.”

Brown said in the field of PR, he tries to help clients understand that if they are forthright with the media, the media tend to be nicer than when they detect a cover

up.

“The problem is when there is bad you news, you run and hide,” he said. “We help clients understand that (the media) is going to report it anyway, why not let them get it from you?”

Brown said when companies find themselves in a crisis they try and just give BROwn the media bits of information at a time, which makes the crisis last longer.

“Essentially you want to provide all the information so you can get in and get out of the crisis as fast as possible,” he said.

Even though some clients come to PR firms when they have a crisis, Brown said PR mostly involves helping clients figure

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TOCOPILLA, Chile (AP) – Strong aftershocks from a powerful earthquake hit northern Chile on Thursday as the government erected a working military hospital and promised hundreds of other portable dwellings for 15,000 left homeless by the quake.

Government and army workers scrambled to distribute tons of food, water and medicine after the 7.7 magnitude quake struck near the desert village of Quillagua in the foothills of the Andes on Wednesday, killing at least two people and injuring more than The policy of The Utah Statesman is to cor150. rect any error made as soon as possible. If Major aftershocks shook the region you find something you would like clarified Thursday, including one of magnitude or find unfair, please contact the editor at 6.2 and another of magnitude 6.8, the 797-1762 or TSC 105.

U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of further damage or injuries.

The earthquake destroyed or damaged 4,000 houses and the local hospital, blocking roads, crushing cars and knocking out power across northern Chile, officials said.

This port city of 27,000 and the SANDY, Utah (AP) – Police say a 50-yearold Springville man was fatally shot outside a nearby mining town of Maria Elena were the hardest hit, and presidential Village Inn restaurant in Sandy. spokesman Ricardo Lagos Weber said The suspect fled the scene today in the both would be declared disaster areas victim’s Lincoln Navigator. The vehicle was to expedite aid delivery. later recovered.

Four Cabinet ministers were in the Police don’t believe the men were inside area coordinating recovery and aid Village Inn before the shooting. There’s no evidence that the victim was robbed. He was efforts. President Michelle Bachelet also flew there Thursday, meeting with identified as Kenneth Dolezsar. residents in a debris-strewn Tocopilla street when the strongest aftershock hit. Her bodyguards watched warily as power posts swung around her, but the president remained calm.

Residents shouted and held up signs PARK CITY, Utah (AP) – Park City demanding help, and Bachelet assured Mountain Resort says it won’t open the ski them that the government would issue season Friday because of a lack of snow. both credits and grants. She said it The resort hopes to open by would take a month to assess the damThanksgiving weekend. age.

Much colder air is expected Monday, “There is much fear and despair, and a chance of snow is predicted Monday and that is normal,” Bachelet told through Wednesday in the Park City area. them. “But people should organize and respond to emergency plans.”

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Layoffs possible with lack of funding

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday that unless Congress passes funding for the Iraq war within days, he will direct the Army and Marine Corps to begin developing plans to lay off employees and terminate contracts early next year.

Gates, who met with members of Congress on Wednesday, said that he does not have the money or the flexibility to move funding around to adequately cover the costs of the continuing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“There is a misperception that this department can continue funding our troops in the field for an indefinite period of time through accounting maneuvers, that we can shuffle money around the department. This is a serious misconception,” Gates told reporters at the Pentagon.

As a result, he said that he is faced with the undesirable task of preparing to cease operations at Army bases by mid-February, and lay off about 100,000 defense department employees and an equal number of civilian contractors. A month later, he said, similar moves would have to be made by the Marines.

Some members of Congress believe the Pentagon can switch enough money to cover the war accounts, Gates said

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Hugh Hefner has donated $2 million to the University of Southern California’s School of

Cinematic Arts.

The money will fund a central exhibition space in the new headquarters of the school and an archival repository for student films and historic documents, the university said.

Hefner The existing repository, which bears Hefner’s name, holds more than eight decades of student films, including some by George Lucas.

“I’ve always believed that following one’s dreams is very important,” Hefner said in a statement from USC. The 81-year-old Playboy founder has contributed millions of dollars to preserve films and fund cinema schools over the years. Hefner gave $100,000 to USC in 1992 to create a course, Censorship in Cinema, and in 1995 he donated $1.5 Residents of Tocopilla, Chile, sit near earthquake rubble outside their damaged million to endow the Hugh M. Hefner Chair for the Study of American Film. homes a day after a 7.7 quake hit Chile, Thursday. AP photo LOS ANGELES (AP) – Lindsay distributing water to residents as sup- Lohan was a jailbird for just 84 minutes The president was accompanied by ply was still cut off in most of the city. Thursday, becoming the latest celebrity four cabinet chiefs including Housing In Maria Elena, 1,200 homes were to serve less than a day for a drunken Minister Patricia Poblete, who said damaged — or 70 percent of the city’s driving offense. many structures cannot be saved. total, authorities said. Residents were Lohan, 21, turned herself in to the Firefighters and other workers began still without running water and elecLos Angeles County women’s detention demolishing the most severely damtricity late Wednesday. center in Lynwood at 10:30 a.m. She was aged homes.

Lagos Weber said about 170 people searched, fingerprinted and placed in a Dr. Cristian Castillo told The were taken to hospitals across the holding cell in the inmate reception area Associated Press that “80 percent of region, but that many of the injubut got to keep her street clothes, sherour hospital is useless.” ries were not serious. About 10 road iff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said.

Two women were killed in Tocopilla, workers who had been trapped near

“She was cooperative,” he said.

25 miles from the epicenter, when their Tocopilla when a section of a tunnel Lohan was released at 11:54 a.m. Her houses collapsed, authorities said. they were repairing collapsed were all original daylong sentence was reduced Hospital director Juan Urrutia said at rescued in good condition Thursday. because she met criteria that took into least 117 people were treated there for Hundreds of residents slept in account overcrowding at the lockup and injuries or panic. cars or tents in front of their houses.

In tiny Quillagua, with a population Schools were being used as shelters for the fact that her crime was nonviolent, Whitmore said.for most everybody in of around 100, one person suffered those left homeless by the quake. this position,” Whitmore said. minor injuries and 15 houses were But officials said many are refusing damaged. to go to shelters, fearing their homes Electricity was restored in large will be looted if left unattended. areas of Tocopilla. Army trucks were

Respitory bug has killed 10

ATLANTA (AP) – A mutated version of a common cold virus has caused 10 deaths in the last 18 months, U.S. health officials said Thursday.

Adenoviruses usually cause respiratory infections that aren’t considered lethal. But a new variant has caused at least 140 illnesses in New York, Oregon, Washington and Texas, according to a report issued Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

CDC officials don’t consider the mutation to be a cause for alarm for most people, and they’re not recommending any new precautions for the general public.

“It’s an uncommon infection,” said Dr. Larry Anderson, a CDC epidemiologist.

The illness made headlines in Texas earlier this year, when a so-called boot camp flu sickened hundreds at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. The most serious cases were blamed on the emerging virus and one 19-year-old trainee died.

“What really got people’s attention is these are healthy young adults landing in the hospital and, in some cases,

the ICU,” said Dr. John Su, an infectious diseases investigator with the CDC. There are more than 50 distinct types of adenoviruses tied to human illnesses. They are one cause of the common cold, and also trigger pneumonia and bronchitis. Severe illnesses are more likely in people with weaker immune systems.

Some adenoviruses have also been blamed for gastroenteritis, conjunctivitis and cystitis.

There are no good antiviral medications for adenoviruses. Patients usually are treated with aspirin, liquids and bed rest.

Some people who get infected by the new bug probably would not suffer symptoms, and some may just feel a common cold. Sick people should see a doctor if they suffer a high fever or have trouble breathing, Anderson said.

In the CDC report, the earliest case of the mutated virus was found in an infant girl in New York City, who died last year. The child seemed healthy right after birth, but then became dehydrated and lost appetite. She died 12 days after she was born.

Tests found that she been infected with a form of adenovirus, called Ad14, but with some little differences, Su said.

It’s not clear how the changes made it more lethal, said Linda Gooding, an Emory University researcher who specializes in adenoviruses.

Earlier this year, hundreds of trainees at Lackland became ill with respiratory infections. Tests showed a variety of adenoviruses in the trainees, but at least 106 — and probably more — had the mutated form of Ad14, including five who ended up in an intensive care unit In April, Oregon health officials learned of a cluster of cases at a Portland-area hospital. They ultimately counted 31 cases, including seven who died with severe pneumonia. The next month, Washington state officials reported four hospitalized patients had the same mutated virus. One, who also had AIDS, died.

The Ad14 form of adenovirus was first identified in 1955. In 1969, it was blamed for a rash of illnesses in military recruits stationed in Europe, but it’s been detected rarely since then.

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Individuals to be honored Blue Bikes: Fundraiser for bikes for diversity contributions -continued from page 1

By AMANDA MEARS staff writer

Five individuals will be presented with the USU Diversity Award for their dedication and contributions to diversity Friday in the Sunburst Lounge.

The award recognizes individuals on campus and in communities served by USU who have made significant contributions to affirmative action, equal opportunity and diversity.

“I didn’t do it to get an award or anything,” award recipient in the student category Ariel Rosario said of his work in diversity. “It’s just my personality. I like to be surrounded by different people.”

Rosario has received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and said he is currently working toward his master’s in business administration. Originally from the Dominican Republic, Rosario was nominated for the USU Diversity Award because of his interest in getting to know other people while supporting his Dominican background. In order to learn more about the American culture, Rosario requested that his roommate be American. Rosario also organized the Dominican Student Association at USU. Dr. John Ribera, associate professor in the communicative disorders and deaf education department, will be receiving the faculty award for his dedication to introducing students to cultural diversity and aiding those in need.

In order to provide health care to those in Mexico who can’t afford it, Ribera began taking audiology graduate students to administer hearing tests, do research and hand out hearing aids. Ribera said the idea to work with the residents of Mexico was first brought up by his daughter who lives in California and was interested in helping orphanages in Mexico.

He asked her if they had received hearing tests, and upon learning they had not, he got a group of students together and spent a day in

Mexico providing tests for free. Ribera said the best thing about it has been providing a muchneeded service and exposing students to a different culture.

“The people there don’t have access to health coverage, and so they’re very appreciative,” Ribera said. “They will spend eight hours in the waiting room and not comRibera plain.”

Ribera is also responsible for conducting an annual production of “Handel’s Messiah,” which is simultaneously performed in English, Spanish and sign language interpretation.

Ribera said he has always been involved in music and wanted to find a way to involve and unify the entire community.

“There are so many things that divide us,” Ribera said,”but there is more that unites us, and music is that bridge.”

The response so far has been overwhelmingly positive, Ribera said.

Hector Mendiola, an extension educator and director of Spanish Programs for Cache County Extension, will also be receiving an award in the faculty category for his work with Logan High School students and families.

Mendiola, a retired pediatrician from Mexico City, works with Mexican immigrants to help them learn English. Mendiola also introduced the Computer Assisted Language For Non-English Speakers program in order to help those who wanted to learn English.

Also being honored are Vice Provost Steven Hanks for his work with international and Study Abroad students, and Kelly Johnson, training coordinator at Swift Beef Corporation in Hyrum, for his efforts to support and assist families who were impacted by an immigration raid last December.

–amanda.m@aggiemail.usu.edu

People should be more appreciative of the outdoors and actively preserve their surroundings, author Roy Dale Webb said Thursday.

“I hope people take away an appreciation for things that are gone,” Webb said of his presentation at the Friends of the Merrill Cazier fall lecture.

The presentation featured slides of photographs from Webb the Green River before the Colorado River Storage Project began building dams in the ‘60s.

“The Colorado was viewed in those days as having no beneficial use,” Webb said.

“The water went to waste. It just went down the canyon, so you couldn’t use it to irrigate.

The idea was to build these dams and store the water.”

The construction of the dams were “also really tied up in the politics of the Colorado River Compact,” Webb said.

The Colorado River Compact was signed in Santa Fe in 1923 “and still affects us to this day,” Webb said, “because it allocated 7.5 of its 15 million acre feet a year of river

Dan Austin, Cache Valley native and author of “The Road Trip Pilgrim’s Guide,” signed books at a fund raiser. NOELLE BERLAGE photo

ers involved. metropolis. He said when he first In the movie, the representative moved to New York City, he didn’t for the Southern Utah Wilderness think he would stay there.

“Everyone says they will only be Alliance said, “Environmentalism isn’t one group ... It is all completethere for six months,” he said. But ly connected.” he said it made balance in his life.

The city, to him, made an alternate He said all parties and political sects are involved in the conservaside to the outdoors. tion of these natural locations. He “Hybrid.Pedal” displays the went on to stress that all people story of a bike tour that travels must help to save the environment. from Portland, Ore., to Salt Lake He encouraged everyone to get City. The movie showed that the involved in any way possible. purpose of “Hybrid.Pedal” is to Christensen said when they raise awareness about the conservation of such places as the slopes have more funds, they can provide and surrounding forests of Mount more tools, services, advice and Hood in Oregon or the Red Rock bikes to the students of USU all Forest in southern Utah. The purfree of charge. Christensen said pose of the tour is to help people to the lower basin states: Colorado, Arizona educate themselves and to get oth- See BLUE BIKES, page 14 and Nevada, and the rest went to the upper basin states: Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming.”

The Hoover Dam was the first to be built, -continued from page 1 after which Webb said the upper basin states wanted dams stored for them as well, “so it out what audience they are trying to reach. wouldn’t all go down to California.”

“There is a message a client wants to communicate,” Brown said.

Fourteen dam sites were selected in Green “We help them target an audience. If you can always make it an audiRiver in 1922, with “the mouth of Cart Creek ence-driven strategy, you win.” chosen for the site of the Flaming Gorge When it comes to helping clients, Brown said people often think PR Dam,” Webb said. people only write press releases to be sent to newspapers, but he said he “It was a beautiful, unique area,” Webb thinks it is much more than that. said of the lost canyons. “It’s just one of those “PR is writing brochures, scripts and speeches,” Brown said. “Most choices you make when you build those kind people think it is centered around publicity only. While it is a major part of projects, you lose that type of thing.” of the pie, it is not the only thing.”

Webb said he is an advocate of preserv Brown said he thinks one of the best things about being in PR is being ing natural beauty and that the loss of these able to be an insider. things could continue.

“You are in the inner circle,” Brown said. “You are thinkers, you are “The Bear River, it’s at risk. People are strategists, you are seeing the bigger picture.” still talking of building the Cutler Dam. Or Brown said although he loves being in the inner circle in companies, the idea of building a nuclear power plant the pay for PR people makes it worth it as well. down by Green River, that is going to put us “I have seven children, and they have all eaten today,” Brown said. “It all at risk,” he said. is a good-paying job.”

Webb said students wishing to get Brown said the pay makes the job easier but sometimes after clients involved with these and other environmental have received help from the PR firm, they don’t feel the need to pay later. issues could join the Sierra Club or write let- “After you perform the service, your value is way down there because ters to their congressmen. the service is already down,” Brown said.

“Say,’I want to see these things pre Brown said students who are looking to become PR professionals served,’” he said. “The more they get those need to write often, become aware of the world around them and, most kinds of things, the more they are going to of all, try to unlock their creativity. listen to constituents.

“I believe we were all creative at one time in our lives,” Brown said.

“There are younger generations to come. I “Primarily as kids, adults would shut us down. The first words we learn want them to see these things too. It’s nice to are ‘no’ and ‘Don’t touch.’ There are ways to uncover that creativity.” save what we have.”

–debrajoy.h@aggiemail.usu.edu –lindsay.anderson@aggiemail.usu.edu

Brown: PR work, relationships

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boiler. Jenson said the inspector arrived Monday, but it took until Friday, Nov. 9 – the day residents returned home – to install the new boiler. The wait could have been longer too, had housing decided to wait for the exact match of the boiler to be shipped from New York, Jenson said. But it was decided against and a boiler was shipped from California and quickly installed.

“We got the residents back in there, and I think everything’s in good shape,” Jenson said.

But the week away from home required residents to go with a little less.

Bryan said about 36 residents, including herself, were relocated to the third floor of Richards Hall, which was completely empty due to renovations that took place earlier in the year. With just 10 minutes to gather supplies from their rooms in Rich Hall, residents arrived at Richards Hall with very little, Bryan said, but over the course of the week, they were allowed to return to Rich Hall with an RA to pick up things that were needed. Harrison said residents weren’t allowed to return to Rich

Hall by themselves as all the outside locks were changed to maintain security.

Harrison, who was temporarily housed in the LLC, said his sister was relocated to Richards Hall, and only had a couple of sheets the first night and had to return to Rich Hall the next day to get her blankets.

Spencer Kettenring, freshman majoring in mechanical engineering, said he was visiting his family when he learned of the explosion and relocation and didn’t arrive in Logan until early Monday morning. He said when he got to Richards Hall, he found his roommates had brought his television over because there wasn’t one in the rooms already. He said even though the free food at the Marketplace was good, the housing conditions weren’t what he expected.

“I’ve been in Motel 6’s that were nicer,” he said. “The mattresses were kind of gross. (There were) too many of us for one bathroom. I was mostly fine because I had my laptop and free food.”

Bryan said she thought her stay in

Campus & Community

Museum showcasing Native Americans

USU hosting indoor Special Olympics

Rich Hall: After a week away from home, students return

Briefs The Saturday activity series continues at USU’s Museum of Anthropology. The weekly guests are invited to learn about Native American culture from the USU Native American Student Council.

Activities take place Saturday, Nov. 17.

Visitors will be treated to storytelling, food and lessons on Native culture.

USU students and members of the public are invited to drop in any time during the museum’s new 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday hours. Dancing will begin at noon.

The USU Museum of Anthropology is on the Utah State University campus in the south turret of the historic Old Main building, room 252. Free parking is available in the adjacent lot, south of the building.

For more information on this event, call museum coordinator Sara Lundberg at 7977545 or visit the museum Web site, www. usu.edu/anthro/museum/.

Author urges appreciation, preservation of outdoors

By LINDSAY ANDERSON staff writer

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Richards Hall wasn’t too bad, but she missed home.

“I think they were nice,” Bryan said of the rooms in Richards Hall. “They were clean. It was really nice being that close to campus for a while. But Rich Hall is home. It was nice to come home.”

Harrison said life in the LLC was enjoyable.

“The stay was great,” he said. “The rooms are really nice and furnished.

The place is really, really nice. I would even say excessively nice. For me, it wasn’t so bad.”

Harrison said one difficult part about being away from home was not having access to all his school supplies when he needed them and not being able to turn in homework because the boiler blew up.

“I went to one of my classes and didn’t have the papers I needed that day.

Thankfully, all my teachers were really great about compensating,” Harrison said. “Either they trusted me that I’d done my homework assignment or trusted me. All my teachers were accommodating. I know a lot of people had

trouble because it was a busy weekend for homework. A lot people were pretty rushed about it.”

Eating arrangements were provided for students at either the Junction or Marketplace free of charge, as well as free parking passes for the length of time students were away, Jenson said.

“I think that is a very strong commitment we have to take the very best care of students,” Jenson said. “We feel that this is their home away from home.

We want students to feel safe and that they’re well taken care of.”

Harrison said he feels he was treated very fairly by USU Housing.

“I think it shows that they really do take care of their students,” he said. “A lot of people were really grumpy about things. They put us up, they gave us three free meals a day and gave us free parking passes for the time we were there. I think they really went the extra mile to try to make this as comfortable as possible and get us back in as fast as possible too.”

–seth.h@aggiemail.usu.edu

USU will host the Special Olympics Indoor Games on Nov. 17 at the George Nelson Fieldhouse. More than 200 athletes will compete in aquatics, basketball, and power lifting beginning at 9 a.m. Contestants, coaches, and fans will travel from all over the state. The athletes will contend for a chance to advance to world Special Olympic events.

The Val R. Christensen Service Center needs more than 250 volunteers to help time and measure events, organize Olympic village activities, hand out awards, and set up equipment. Volunteers are also invited to attend a dance with the athletes directly after the competition.

According to the USU Special Olympics Team athletes with cerebral palsy, Down’s syndrome, muscular dystrophy, and other mental and physical disabilities have competed at USU since the early 1980s. These athletes and volunteers compete under the Special Olympics Oath “Let me win. But if I cannot, let me be brave in the attempt.”

After a contestant fell during a race, team member Steve Mathis said, “One girl with Down’s syndrome bent down to kiss him and linked arms and walked to the finish line with him.”

“These athletes truly demonstrate the true meaning of competition and sportsmanship,” Alex Hatch of the games organizing committee said, “Our volunteers always express how much they love helping out.”

The event is one of three yearly Special Olympic events hosted by the university.

There are also spring and fall competitions.

The Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition to more than 2.25 million people with disabilities in more than 160 countries. For more information contact Cameron Salony at (801) 814-5337 or c.salony@aggiemail.usu.edu.

Utah’s population close to 2.7 million Utah’s population reached 2,699,554 persons in 2007, according to the Utah Population Estimates Committee. This 3.2 percent increase from 2006 represents a record increase of 84,425 persons, approximately the population of Ogden, Utah.

“Based on record annual growth of 84,500 people, Utah’s population increased by 20 people during our 2 hour meeting,” said Michael Mower, State Planning Coordinator and Chair of the Utah Population Estimates Committee. “Also, since this is a July 1 estimate, I expect that we’ve already passed the 2.7 million mark. This kind of growth emphasizes the importance of strategic planning for Utah’s future.”

Utah’s growth in 2007 continued the trend of large number of births compared to relatively few deaths. The State’s record natural increase was 40,173, which is the number of births minus deaths. Utah once again saw record number of births of 53,953. In addition, Utah also had a record number of deaths of 13,780. The record high number of births continued a trend of yearly record births that started in 1997, was broken briefly in 2005, and resumed in 2006.

The Committee also estimated net inmigration to Utah to be 44,252 in 2007. The number of immigrants to Utah surpassed the record amount of 40,647 in 2006 and represents 52.4 percent of Utah’s population growth. Utah continues to rank as one the fastest growing states in the nation in employment growth and continues to have a low unemployment rate.

The most rapid regional growth rates occurred in counties on or adjacent to the Wasatch Front and in the southwest corner of the State. The populations in Utah, Washington, Wasatch, Morgan, Summit, and Tooele counties are all expanding rapidly.

-Compiled from staff and media reports

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The beard: Shaping A little something for your America since the cooling of the Earth

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ince it’s almost Thanksgiving – yes, Thanksgiving, not Christmas – take down the blow–up Santas and icicle lights – I feel compelled to let everyone in on what I’m thankful for this year.

Most people can probably guess what the first couple are.

They’ve been staples since my preteen days: Beer, female nudity and “Saved by the Bell” reruns – in no specific order.

This year’s list also includes: • “Guitar Hero” – there is finally a Metallica and a DragonForce song on the third one.

• The invention of TV on DVD, so I can watch all the canceled TV, from “Alf” to “Arrested Development” to “Freaks and Geeks,” that I can stomach.

• The support and comfort of boxer briefs.

• Little things, like koozies, text message flirting, pity laughter, pity hookups, pity in general and the ability to walk.

• Michael Vick, O.J. Simpson, “A Shot at Love” and “Cavemen” for being so awesomely stupid and giving me so much fodder this year.

• Oh yeah, and family, friends, health, life, sunny days and other fluffy things.

• And, most of all, beards.

Go ahead, scratch your head.

Now that you’re done scratching, let me tell you not so briefly about the importance of beards in the history of the world.

It all starts out something like this: On the first seven days, God grew a sick–ass beard. Then he stroked his long, thick beard while he created the world, the animals, plants, water, beer, sex, people – wait, people come before sex – people, then sex, the sky, metal guitar playing and the Internet. No, he created Al Gore, who then created the Internet, global warming and Man–Bear–Pig. Damn.

Come to think of it, my whole order is probably off. That’s not important. What’s important is that while creating, God had a righteous beard that would put ZZ Top to shame.

I promise I’ll get off religion in a second, but Jesus had a beard too. You can even see it in the nativity scene. God even gave Santa Claus a beard.

Aristotle, Galileo and other smart people had beards back in the day, too. But so did violent people like King Leonidas. This sets up this dichotomy that still exists in beards today. They can be worn by coffee–shop intellectuals and art history professors, but are still as acceptable for construction workers, bikers and thrash metalists.

Taking a jump forward in history, we arrive at the colonization of America.

I’m sure John Smith had a beard, although Disney failed to give him one in their animated farce, “Pocahontas.” In my version, everyone would have had beards, even Pocahontas. The Pilgrims had beards, as well – how appropriate for the time of year.

History shows the Founding Fathers as clean–shaven aristocrats.

I don’t buy it. They all had beards. How could they not after being locked in conferences for weeks on end talking about Constitutions and Declarations of Independence?

Out West, you bet your sweet ass all our greatest American heroes had beards. Pecos Bill, sure. Johnny Appleseed, sure. But the best beard of all was a certain lumberjack, the immortal Paul Bunyan.

Bunyan had a beard that was responsible for the deforestation of much of the North American continent, and – due to its ability to hold bacteria and germs – was also probably responsible for the spread of many of the diseases that plagued Native Americans in early Manifest Destiny times. I also attribute to Bunyan’s beard the creation of the Grand Canyon, Puget Sound, both the Bay and Golden Gate Bridge, Disneyland and Arches National Park.

Plus he hung out with a huge blue ox, which I’m sure was initially attracted to Paul because of his manly, steel–wool–like beard.

Could have been the flannel, too, though.

Unlike many great Americans, some of our presidents didn’t have beards. What a travesty. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, all sans beard.

But starting with Honest Abe – whose beard single–handedly punched slavery in its evil face and united the country – we had a great run of awesome presidential beards. Grant? Hayes? Garfield?

Yes, all bearded and ready to break a bottle over a table and stab a foreign diplomat right in the throat.

Sadly, shortly after a great run of manliness in the White House, we experienced our last bearded Commander in Chief – Benjamin Harrison. After Harrison, who, based on his beard, was a very underrated president, we see only mustaches and baby smooth skin.

Since our presidents let America down, we’ve had to turn to pop culture for the life–giving force that is beard.

Of course, the cause has been most forcefully taken up by metal. Even today, metal sports some of the most potentially harmful beards ever to walk the Earth. These beards, had they been around in prehistoric time, would have caused the dinosaurs to go extinct. Instead, manly facial hair like that of Zakk Wylde, members of Mastodon and Killswitch Engage – to name a few – works to rid our modern world of such scourge as Carlos Mencia comedy routines, a new reality TV show called “Remaking the Band: Hanson,” cancer, restrictions on Sunday beer sales and girls who think skirts should tickle their ankles.

Geeks have even gotten in on the bearded thing. Look at Peter Jackson, the director of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. He has a beard. It’s sort of ugly and off–putting – actually, that’s just Pete, not necessarily the beard’s fault – but still a beard.

The take–home lesson after all this lecturing is: Next time you see a man with a beard, congratulate him on his patriotism, thank him for carrying on a tradition that has brought prosperity to our country. Don’t hide your children or clutch the cannister of bear mace in your purse because you’re worried about your safety.

What if that man is actually Jesus? Yeah, if you remember from above, he had a beard.

And above all, ask yourself, what would Paul Bunyan do?

Dave Baker is a senior majoring in print journalism. Comments and questions can be sent to da.bake@aggiemail.usu.edu.

By Brittny Goodsell Jones • Photos by Debra Hawkins Looking to gain a few pounds? Eat more sweets. But at least make sure the sweets are worth it. Cache Valley offers a few tasty pastries whose flavors, presentation, and baked goodness may be worth the consequences. So get educated.

Marilyn Small, pantry lead at Deseret Book, said the chocolate cream cake is her favorite at the Lion House pantry, located inside Deseret Book. The cake has three layers of chocolates, two layers of cream and chocolate fudge icing on top.

“It is to die for,” Small said.

Another pastry that sells well at the Lion House are the orange rolls. In fact, Small said she can’t even keep them in. The butter is combined with an orange zest and baked into the roll. Orange icing is also put on top.

Deseret Book is located at 1309 N. Main Unit 104 in Logan.

Deseret Book Christi Hunsaker, sophomore in technical theater, works at Sweetly Divine pastries in Logan and said her favorite pastry sold there is the Swan.

“I like it because it’s flashy,” she said.

The Swan is made out of the same dough as an eclair and is like a creme puff filled with custard, whipped cream and fruit.

And the pastry is actually formed and created into the shape of a swan. For the Thanksgiving holiday, the swan is transformed into a turkey with turkey tail feathers placed on the back of the creme puff.

Hunsaker said although there is not one best thing at Sweetly Divine, the almond cookie with hazelnut filling is the best thing to get if the customer is a nut person. They are filled with a light filling and dipped in white chocolate.

Hunsaker also said a customer really can’t go wrong with any Sweetly Divine pastry because everything is delicious. Sweetly Divine pastries is located at 1309 N. Main Suite 90 in Logan.

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Cafe Ibis

Cafe Ibis kitchen manager Amy Brown said the most popular pastry there is the croissants. Although there are about two dozen of different croissant flavors baked per day, Brown said they sell pretty quickly. Another favorite pastry is the traditional buttermilk English scone. The scone has an almond flavoring along with an almond glaze. Fruit, like cherries and apricots, are sometimes backed into the scone.

Brandon DeSpain, Cafe Ibis worker, said the Maple Waffles are his favorite because of their “gooey deliciousness.” This treat looks like a miniature, circular waffle that has syrup baked inside. This is a traditional treat imported from Holland.

Alonso Espinoza, owner of Rita’s Bakery, said choosing a favorite pastry from his store is almost impossible.

“There are so many I like,” he said.

One pastry, called a donas, is shaped like a doughnut without the hole and is filled with vanilla pudding. For those people who may not want a sugar overload, Espinoza said to try the Coucha Blanca. This pastry is made out of doughnut dough and has a flavor of vanilla.

Rita’s Bakery is located at 25 W. 300 North in Logan.

Rita’s Bakery Crumb Brothers

The cinnamon pull-apart is the most popular item at Crumb Brothers, said employee Leslie McKinlay. In fact, it is so popular that McKinlay said they were sold out for the day, even though it wasn’t even noon. McKinlay, senior in community health education, said another favorite Crumb Brother’s pastry is the apple puff turnover.

“It’s an autumn delight,” she said.

Filled with apples, cinnamon, cloves, ginger and sugar, this pastry is made out of puff pastry dough and is frosted with powdered sugar.

Crumb Brothers Artisan Bread is located at 291 S. 300 West in Logan.

-brittny.jo@aggiemail.usu.edu

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“Lions for Lambs” teaches us not to be sheep It is explained in the movie that “lions for lambs” is a term used to describe how unsympathetic politicians (the lambs) send brave, stalwart young soldiers (the lions) to their deaths on the battlefield. But, after watching the movie, an argument can be made for the opposite. The lions, whose roars are far worse than their bites, are the politicians who are essentially devouring the soldiers sent on what the movie shows as a fool’s errand.

“Lions for Lambs” is an interesting look into the current political situation we find ourselves in.

The story is told through three separate story lines which are loosely connected together through flashbacks. Robert Redford (“Spy Game”) plays a college professor trying to cure the world one apathetic college student at a time. Tom Cruise (“Minority Report”) plays a youthful, pompous Republican senator who’s engaged in a battle of wits with a seasoned television reporter played by Meryl Streep (“The Devil Wears

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Streep gives another great performance as a television reporter who realizes real news has given way to celebrity pop-culture junk.

She’s given an exclusive Cruise’s character to Aaron Peck by tell the nation about the Movie Critic “new military strategy” for Afghanistan. She doesn’t buy the crap the senator is shoveling, and neither do we. The character of the senator is a borderline sarcastic look at how our Grade Apoliticians act today – all “Lions for Lambs” talk, and no actual plan.

“Lions for Lambs” ing to implement a “new tackles some big issues military strategy.” in American politics, and The film doesn’t feel it doesn’t try to hide the like a political lecture at all. issues and what politicians On the contrary, it really need to change their ways. feels like the conversations If you can’t get these characters have are past the actual real-life polithe exact same conversa- tics of the actors, then you tions that passionate people shouldn’t go see this movie. across this nation are having. People will be calling it a The scenes with Redford “liberal propaganda tool” and the wayward student for years to come. But, if are the most engaging. I you can actually see past could see myself as that stu- those labels, you’ll find that dent, wondering why every- there is a lot to, not so much thing in our nation is so learn, but rather think about screwed up, but not really after this film is over. wanting to do much about -aaron.peck@aggiemail.usu. it. edu Prada”). The final story focuses on two young soldiers who were once pupils of Redford’s character who are now in Afghanistan try-

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Friday, Nov. 16 •Mr. & Mrs. International Pageant, TSC Ballroom, 6 p.m., $3 •Stargazing Party, American West Heritage Center, 4025 S. Hwy 89-91, Wellsville, 9 p.m., Free •Chinese Cookout, 10 a.m., TSC Patio •USU Opera, Caine Lyric Theatre, Friday and Saturday 7:30 p.m., Saturday 1 p.m. $10 •Cultural Showcase and Diversity Award Presentation, TSC Sunburst Lounge, 2:30-4:30 p.m.

•Superhero Dance, TSC, 9 p.m. to midnight •Weavings of War: Fabrics of Memory, AVA Gallery, 53 W. 100 South, Friday 1 p.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Oct. 5 through Nov. 27 •”Wait Until Dark,” Heritage Community Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, $8, www. heritagetheatreutah.com Saturday, Nov. 17 •Big Band Swing Dancing, Elite Hall, 98 W. Main, Hyrum, dancing at 7 p.m., lessons at 8 p.m., $1 for lessons, $3 for dancing •Tellabration! Worldwide Native American Storytelling Event, American West Heritage Center, 4025 S. Hwy 89-91, Wellsville, 7 p.m., $4-$5 •Run to South America 5K Run, Willow Park, 419 W. 700 South., 10 a.m., $10 •Hope for the Holidays Concert, Copper Mill Restaurant, 7 p.m., Free •Sham Rock, Benefit Concert for Prevent Child Abuse America, TSC Sunburst Lounge, 6 p.m., $5 •Alternative Gifts Market, First Presbyterian Church Gymnasium, 12 S. 200 West, 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

•Turkey Trot 5K Holiday Run, Smithfield Recreation Center, 315 E. 600 South, Smithfield, 10 a.m., $6-$14 •UMTA State Piano Competition Winners Concert, University of Utah Libby Gardner Recital Hall, Salt Lake City, 7 p.m., Free •Utah Special Olympics Indoor Games, HPER and Field House, 9 a.m. to early evening, http://www.sout.org/

USU students say although dutch oven cooking takes a lot of time and patience, it’s worth it to be able to eat potatoes, cobler and anything else cooked in the ovens afterward. CAMERON PETERSON photo

Students say Dutch ovens make for great outdoor meals

By KEITH WILSON staff writer

If Benihana is a bit too fast and too furious for students’ style of cooking, Dutch oven cooking is a style that they might enjoy because it is a lot slower, closer to home and still has a unique taste that you can’t find at Benihana.

“Dutch oven cooking is very popular in Utah,” said Mary Kerkseik, art education grad student. “It seems like Dutch ovens

have been around forever.”

Lisa Paxton, USU English lecturer said, “My dad is the one who introduced Dutch oven cooking to me. He cooked anything in our family’s Dutch oven: eggs, stew, pizza and even rice.

My favorite was buttery Dutch oven cobbler and Dutch oven potatoes.”

Megan Hawkins, senior studying economics had similar favorites and has attempted roast, pineapple upside down cake,

baked beans and cordon bleu.

“I was a river guide down in Moab, and we would cook all kinds of dishes for our customers, everyone’s favorite was always the cobbler and potatoes,” Hawkins said.

According to the International Dutch Oven Society (IDOS) Web site, 11 out of 18 final contestants from the 2007 World

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International talent sweeps USU

By BRITTNY GOODSELL JONES assistant features editor

The Mr. and Ms. International Pageant 2007 is being held Nov. 16 in the Taggart Student Center Ballroom. USU’s International Student Council is hosting the event. This pageant, part of Diversity Week, is one way to promote cultural awareness and diversity, as well as to showcase the accomplishments of certain international students. The contestants come from at least seven different countries including Armenia, China, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, India, Japan and Thailand.

Syed Sayem, president of ISC, said it is important for USU students to attend the pageant because the purpose of the pageant is to celebrate the cultural richness of the international community on campus.

“Most international students come to USU to study the technical sciences such as engineering or computer science,” he said in an e-mail. “It will be amazing to audience members to see how artistically and musically talented these students actually are.”

The pageant, which has been in existence at USU for more than 25 years, showcases native costumes and music that Sayem said are beautiful

and unusual. He said the contestants will be judged on their talent presentations, video interviews and a question on world affairs and customs.

“This is a highlight of International Education Week and a must-see for anyone interested in foreign cultures,” he said.

The ISC organizes this event every year, Sayem said.

According to its Web site, the ISC is made up of people from the four corners of the world who work together “to enhance the quality of USU campus.”

Pageant tickets can be bought in front of the USU Bookstore and at the Ticket Office in TSC Room 212.

-brittny.jo@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Championship Dutch Oven Cook-Off were from Utah. A similar competition called The Old West Dutch Oven Cook Off is held every year in Orem, Utah.

“Dutch oven cooking is intense, like camping,” said Morgan Perry, sophomore studying agriculture education.

“Dutch oven cooking takes too much time.”

Kerksiek said Dutch oven cooking can be as easy or difficult as people want it. But if they’ve never used a Dutch oven before, Hawkins suggests to “make sure that you season your Dutch oven, keep it in a dry place so it doesn’t rust, allow it to dry after you wash it, and don’t use soap. “You have to treat Dutch ovens like boyfriends take care of them and they’ll take care of you.”

Adam Garling, senior studying exercise science, said he had a bad experience once when he attempted to go up the canyon

with some friends to make Dutch oven cobbler when they didn’t have much time.

“We ended up trying to start the fire with wet wood, a can of starting fluid, a crappy lighter and a phone book. We ended up just taking the cobbler home and cooking it on the stove.”

He recommended being prepared and “to take your time, because Dutch oven food is worth it.”

Camp Chef, a company in Cache Valley is also one of the supporters of outdoor cooking, with a belief and mission that “good food doesn’t have to be sacrificed when cooking outdoors.”

“No matter if you’re into Dutch ovens or not, its really good food and everyone should give it a shot,” said Janessa King, freshman studying speech pathology.

“Eat more D.O. food!”

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From ‘Scratch Beginnings,’ some invaluable life lessons

By JOSH SHAFFER McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

Monday, Nov. 19th 7:30pm Manon Caine Russell Kathryn Caine Wanlass Performance Hall

Admission: $5, Free to USU students with ID

RALEIGH, N.C. – Adam Shepard hopped a train out of Raleigh, N.C., with $25 in his pocket, carrying only a tent, a sleeping bag and a young man’s optimism.

He set out to prove that anyone willing to work hard and save money could make a happy life – the old bootstraps motto.

Just 23, Shepard set a goal: find a job in a brand-new city, get a furnished apartment, a car and $2,500 in savings within a year.

He did it in six months.

Shepard said he believes his experience with homelessness and low-pay labor presents a countercharge to the idea that American society stacks the deck against the poor.

He concedes that he has none of the mental illness or addiction that fuel homelessness. He hasn’t suffered from abuse, sickness or the hundreds of other forms that hard luck can take. He always knew that as a healthy, white, well-spoken college graduate, he enjoyed advantages that can help shed poverty.

But Shepard spent 70 days sleeping on the floor of a homeless shelter, and he estimates that 40 percent of the people sleeping alongside were mentally ill. Probably half fit the stereotype of old, bearded men with whiskey on their breath.

The other half, Shepard said, were young men like him. When he came back to Raleigh, N.C., last summer, he wrote a book with them in mind.

In the book, he presents two contrasting low-wage workers he met along the way: one who saves money and survives on Rice-a-Roni dinners; and the other who squanders money on lottery tickets and beer.

“If you’re making $8 an hour you’ve got one of two choices,” he said. “You can cry `Life is tough’ or you can say, `Man, in two years, I’m not going to be doing this.’”

Tall and good-looking with a mop of brown hair, Shepard studied business and Spanish at Merrimack College in Massachusetts.

His experiment in poverty drew from reading “Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting By in America,” the 2001 best-seller that chronicles life on povertylevel wages.

In the book, journalist Barbara Ehrenreich takes a string of low-paying jobs: waitress, house cleaner, hotel maid, Wal-Mart clerk.

She describes working for $6 and change an hour, being forced to take personality tests to land menial jobs, and she concludes that the working poor keep enduring their misery out of generosity and sacrifice.

The premise didn’t ring true for Shepard. In the summer of 2006, he pulled the name Charleston, S.C., out of a hat and headed there by train.

It’s unwise to generalize about the poor, said Jeanne Tedrow, director of Raleigh’s Passage Home, which finds mentors and housing for lowincome families.

Poverty springs from many sources, and people land on the streets for dozens of reasons – something as quick and unforeseen as a layoff, or as permanent as a prison record or mental sickness.

“Every person has his own story,” Tedrow said. “There are good people who are poor and there are mean people who are poor.”

The National Coalition for the Homeless in Washington, D.C., released a fact sheet last summer that breaks down common traits.

Their studies showed 22 percent of homeless mothers had taken to the streets to avoid domestic abuse; 16 percent of single adults suffered from severe mental illness; those addicted to drugs and alcohol ranged between a third and two-thirds.

As many as one-quarter were homeless despite having jobs, the study said.

Shepard’s youth and good health are important factors, Tedrow said, making it easier to be a go-getter.

“In the general population,” she said, “whether you’re affluent or not, there’s always going to be people who are more ambitious, more able.”

Shepard took his first job as a day laborer, picking up garbage, working on construction sites and hanging baby clothes in a new store.

He made about $6 an hour, but once taxes were subtracted – plus $2.50 in transportation fees, plus a $1 check fee – his hourly pay came closer to $4.

After a few weeks, he started filling out job applications using the shelter as his permanent address. Shepard left out his college education and contacts, and got no bites from employers.

It wasn’t until he took the advice of a veteran homeless man and started asking for jobs in person that Shepard found work. At a moving company, he offered to work for free – a strategy that got him hired on the spot, pay included.

He bought a battered truck for $1,000 and moved into a duplex with a fellow mover.

That roommate became Shepard’s bad example. He ate fast food, played the lottery incessantly and borrowed Shepard’s truck for hours at a time. They had a fistfight over his borrowing habits, and Shepard lost badly.

In contrast, the roommate’s cousin lived next-door and also worked for the moving company. He and Shepard cooked meals at home, packages of chicken and boxes of Rice-aRoni.

All three of them were roughly the same age. They played cards and watched television at night, though Shepard spent at least 30 minutes a day writing in his journal.

Shepard broke a toe on the job and developed an ulcer while in Charleston, but he kept himself motivated.

“Some people wake up and say `Life sucks,’” he said. “I woke up and said in a year, two years, three years, I’m not going to be doing this.”

By January, he had met his goal, but Shepard stayed in Charleston until May of this year. Back in Raleigh, he took a job as a skycap for Southwest Airlines, writing his book, “Scratch Beginnings,” on the side.

Shepard doesn’t want to glorify his own success. After a year, his mover friend bought a house with his savings, cherishing it even more because it came from paltry wages.

Having started with $25, Shepard knows the feeling.

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What can you do when gym isn’t that dandy?

By LINDA SHRIEVES The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)

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Cutting the cords can save you big money

By SANYIKA CALLOWAY BOYCE Young Money magazine (MCT)

Cell phone or landline?

Traditional banking or Internet banking? Find out why going wireless may be your best bet.

Because of my busy travel and speaking schedule I work from home, and I’ve gotten pretty efficient with the mobile office concept, or so I’d thought.

I recently added a new member to my rapidly expanding team, she’s young, bright and fresh out of college; within a week she taught me a thing or two about mobility and efficiency which caused me to look at how services that were once wired have gone wireless and what that means for consumers overall.

For the most part they make life easier, but there are a few drawbacks to consider too.

Here’s a snapshot of services that now come with no strings attached–well, sort of.

CELL PHONES VS. LANDLINES Until recently, it never occurred to me that most people always call me on my cell phone instead of my landline even when they know I’m at home–which is admittedly rare. But before I rushed to join the more than seven million people in this country that use only cellular phones (according to Travis Larson of Cellular Telecommunications Association), I put on the brakes to consider what it would mean to cut the cord completely. Here’s a bit of food for thought: Landlines: Provide a level of guaranteed service stability and unless there is some severe weather you won’t get lots of dropped calls and “void sound

pockets.”

Cell phones: Most wireless plans provide more bang for your buck; cell phones come with caller ID, voicemail and call forwarding standard, these are must have features that will cost you additional money with a landline.

Landlines: In cases of emergency, calls to 911 can be tracked to a specific address, often leading to life-saving rescues. With cell phones emergency calls are dispatched based on your coordinates, which could be within a one-mile radius of where you actually are. This makes it especially difficult to pinpoint your location if you’re calling from a residence or inside an apartment building.

Cell phones: You just upgraded to the Razor three months ago so do you really need the new iPhone? Cell phones have become fashion accessories, but changing your phone as often as you change shirts is dangerous to the environment. If you’ve just got to have the newest phone, be sure to dispose of the old one properly. Go to earth911.org to find out how.

BRICK ‘N MORTAR BRANCHES VS. INTERNET BANKS Another cord-cutting trend is in banking. No longer do you need to find a bank in your college town or switch banks when you move to a new apartment.

Banks have taken their businesses offline and the days of waiting in line for a teller are over.

Less than 10 years ago online banks such ING Direct and EverBank came on the scene to give consumers another choice besides brick `n’ mortar branches. Despite the fact that they paid higher rates on deposits (upwards of 4 percent) they had many hurdles to overcome

such as ease of deposits and

withdrawals.

With time and technology these online banks have risen above the challenges to offer not only some of the best interest rates for savings accounts, but also no minimum balance, interest-bearing checking accounts with check writing ability and ATM cards that work in virtually any machine.

Plus, they’ll even reimburse the charge assessed by some ATMs when you use another bank’s card.

You’ll still have to mail in deposits (using prepaid envelopes) but with more of us banking online anyway you might be better served by booting your branch and making a beeline to the Internet bank at a computer near you.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Fitness professionals hear the same excuse many times: “I’d love to get in better shape, but I’m not a gym person.”

So, for people who don’t like conventional exercise programs, what else is there? The answer is simple: plenty.

At community centers, church gymnasiums, martial arts centers and the YMCA, there are many options for the sort of person who feels overwhelmed by walking into a gym.

“I read over and over about the latest exercise or fitness regimen and how it is the most effective exercise you can do,” says Janet Rankin, who has been teaching Jazzercise classes in Orlando for more than 20 years. “But the most effective exercise is the one that you’ll do.”

The key, say fitness experts, is finding an activity you like and sticking to it.

That’s easy to say but sometimes harder to do.

Myke Eggers, for instance, has dabbled in different exercise routines: yoga, weight training, running. He has joined gyms.

“I found some of them boring, or they weren’t very structured,” says Eggers, 28, of Ocoee.

Nothing struck a chord in him.

That is, not until he started a 10-week program at an Orlando martial arts center. The program, called Ultimate Bodyshaping Course, requires commitment.

Classes are held six days a week for one hour each day. Three days are devoted to kickboxing.

The other three days are focused on strength and conditioning classes, conducted with resistance bands and free weights.

The first week, says Eggers, seemed to stretch forever. But Eggers bonded with the other students in the class. And he quickly noticed the changes in his body.

After five weeks, he has lost 11 pounds and six inches from his waistline – and is planning to sign up for a kung-fu class and a tai-chi course when his 10-week UBC program ends.

“Exercise isn’t always fun for people,” says instructor George Kee, who began teaching the UBC program at his Wah Lum Kung Fu studio in September. “If it was, everybody would be in shape.”

To keep students coming back, Kee gently prods and encourages – and tries to make the class members feel like family.

But the best motivation, Kee says, comes from results. And the intensive UBC program, which costs $350 for 10 weeks, provides

quick results.

“It’s a big kick in the pants for them. It’s a big jump start,” says Kee. If your idea of fun isn’t kickboxing, look around.

In Janet Rankin’s Jazzercise Lite classes at the Renaissance Center for Seniors at Curry Ford Community Park, the students are primarily women – many of whom don’t feel comfortable at a traditional gym.

“People who love dance love Jazzercise,” says Rankin. “That’s why it has traditionally drawn in women.”

Dancing has long held appeal for a small group of people. And after “Dancing With the Stars” became a television hit, dance classes – from salsa to ballroom dance classes – are hot.

But the latest buzz revolves

around “zumba,” a class that combines Latin dances with traditional exercise moves, such as lunges and squats. At the National Training Center, a fitness center in Clermont, zumba instructor Sally Tiley has been astounded by the reaction to the class.

“I’ve taught step aerobics; I’ve taught Pilates; I’ve taught regular floor aerobics, and I’ve never seen anything like this,” says Tiley.

“The reaction is unbelievable.

The classes are huge – sometimes as many as 50 students in a class.”

She warns newcomers who feel clumsy to stick with it for three classes. But hardly anyone, she says, drops out. “That’s because it’s so much fun,” says Tiley. “It feels like a party.”

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One and done for Ag spikers In only the second five-game match of the season for USU, the third-seeded Aggies lost to a No. 6 seed Spartans’ team they had beat The Utah State Aggie volleyball en in their previous team, fresh off of a two matches. sweep of then-No.10 The games Hawaii in Honolulu, the Aggies lost in five games won – Game SJSU 3 to San Jose State in 1 and 3 the quarterfinals USU 2 – weren’t of the Western close contests. The Athletic Conference six-point margin in USU’s Game 1 Volleyball Tournament, Thursday win was the same as the combined night.

By DAVID BAKER assistant sports editor

GameOver

DuBose, Fowles TouchBase honored by WAC AggieSchedules Football

By USU ATHLETICS

Utah State had four volleyball players earn all-WAC honors, while head coach Grayson DuBose was named Dubose the league’s Coach of the Year, it was announced by the conference office

scores of the three SJSU wins, 30-28 in games 2 and 4 and 17-15 in the final game. Game 3 was even more lopsided, with Utah State winning 30-19 to take a 2-1 lead into Game 4.

Game 5 came right down to the wire.

Utah State reeled off five straight points in the final game to tie the score at 14. After being

- See DONE, page 9

on Wednesday. The four players honored by the WAC were Chelsea Fowles, Amanda Nielson, Melissa Osteroh and Danielle Taylor.

DuBose becomes the first coach in Utah State history fowles to earn Coach of the Year honors, while the four athletes are the most since 2001 for USU.

Cal Poly lights up Ags The game was tied 36-36 early in

By SAMMY HISLOP the second half, but a Thomas layup sports editor then put the Mustangs up. They never trailed after that and had their Aggie forward Stephen next 18 points come from 3-pointers.

DuCharme tied his career-high with For the game Cal Poly shot 48 percent 22 points, but USU defensive lapses and a barrage of 3-pointers by the Cal from beyond the arc.

The Aggies, who were the prePoly Mustangs boosted the hosts to season favorite to win the Western an 83-69 victory Thursday Athletic night.

Conference, “Defensively we were entered gone,” DuCharme said in a game post-game radio interview.

Cal Poly 83 Thursday’s with a 15-1 “We were in space, some of record against USU 69 us.” the Mustangs of Cal Poly had four playthe Big West Conference. ers score in double figures. Leading “They were lighting us up,” said them were Titus Shelton and Lorenzo DuCharme, who also pulled down Keeler, both of whom had 19 points.

10 rebounds.

“It’s hard to pull out on Dawin Whiten had 17 points and top when you have a team shooting Chaz Thomas had 14 points for the like that.

Defensively we’ve got to Mustangs. Cal Poly improved to 2-2 come together.” on the season. USU is also 2-2.

Jaycee Carroll had 18 points In the second half, the Mustangs and was the only Aggie other than converted 7-of-12 3-pointers to help DuCharme in double figures. them outscore the Aggies 52-31.

GameOver

USU’S modou niang looks to score against MontanaWestern last week in the Spectrum. Niang had two points Thursday night in the Aggies’ 83-69 loss. TYLER LARSON photo

USU guard Desmond Stephens scored six, while Pooh Williams, DeUndrae Spraggins, Tai Wesley and Modou Niang each put in four points.

The Aggies held a one-point lead at the half thanks to a DuCharme bucket with three second remaining before the break.

The team is still coming together, DuCharme said.

“Give it some time,” DuCharme said. “We weren’t holding up strong enough (on defense). I don’t know what to say. Defensively we broke down too easily. We’re working hard, don’t get me wrong.

“I just think sometimes maybe we’re working too hard. Some of the guys are out there scared to make a mistake and defensively we just lose it. We’ve got to help the new guys get with it.”

The Aggies are at UC Irvine Saturday night.

-samuel.hislop@agggiemail.usu.edu

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Trying to salvage the season

By SAMMY HISLOP sports editor

Technically, in order to consider the 2007 season an improvement from what happened in 2006, the USU football team must win two games.

Last season the Aggies ended at 1-11. Right now they are 0-10 with two games remaining.

Well, things aren’t looking so bad. With a combined record of 5-16, the New Mexico State Aggies (Saturday at noon in Las Cruces, N.M.) and the Idaho Vandals (Nov. 24 at 1:30 p.m. in Moscow, Idaho) are the only two things to prevent the Aggies from a two-win season.

Saturday’s game at NMSU will be televised on Altitude (Comcast Channel 61). The NMSU Aggies are 1-5 in Western Athletic Conference games and are the only conference team to give up more points to Boise State – 58 – than USU did last week. “(NMSU has) won more games than we have, but they’re a lot like us,” USU Head Coach Brent Guy said. “They played Boise about like we played Boise and ended up the final like we did.

They played Nevada to a field-goal game, about like we did.”

Since defeating the Vandals at home Oct. 20, 45-31, NMSU is on a three-game losing streak.

That includes a 51-17 loss at San Jose State last week.

“That shocked me,” Guy said. “I thought it would be a lot closer game than it was. They had three interceptions and San Jose State played very well in the first half and got a pretty extended lead and made some big plays on them. I was surprised to see that score. I think (NMSU is) pretty banged up with quite a few injuries right now, but they still have (Chase) Holbrook in there at quarterback. As long as he’s in there, their offense moves the football and scores some points. They just threw some interceptions that hurt them last week.”

Holbrook is second in the WAC in passing yards per game (317.6) and total offense (314.9).

With 318 passing yards versus San Jose State, Holbrook became the school’s all-time leader in passing yards.

The key absence for NMSU is wide receiver

Chris Williams. He is the team’s leading receiver, averaging seven receptions and 96 yards each game. NMSU was without him in last week’s loss.

NMSU Head Coach Hal Mumme said he is very aware of the problems Utah State has but isn’t planning on spotting USU any sympathy points.

“Yeah, they really want a win,” Mummy acknowledged. “I have been in that situation, I know how they feel, (but) we have to take care of business. We have to have good practices, and we will start that today.”

Meanwhile, it’s difficult to tell how USU is feeling about this Saturday’s match-up with the southern Aggies.

“I think if we do what we’re coached to do every play and play hard and just match the other team’s intensity, I think we can move the ball on anybody,” Aggie junior wide receiver Otis Nelson said.

Guy said the crux of the game will be for his team to keep Holbrook and the NMSU offense off the field and to score more points than them.

For that to happen, Guy said the offense needs to iron out its plethora of problems.

“We’re not getting better (at the running game),” Guy said. “That’s where it all fits together, and we can’t be one-dimensional. We want to be balanced. We’ve got to run the ball better to throw the ball better.”

The Vandals, like USU, are winless in the WAC, but they have won one game – 20-13 over California Polytechnic State University on Sept.

8. The only statistic in which the Vandals rank first in the WAC is in PAT attempts. They are 27-of-27.

Nov. 16, 2007

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Aggie women sign two for next season

By USU ATHLETICS

Utah State women’s basketball head coach Raegan Pebley annonced Wednesday that two players have signed national letters of intent to compete for the Aggies beginning in the 2008-09 season. The duo consists of Chelsea Burns and Zana Williams.

Burns, a 5-10 forward from Carlsbad, Calif., earned AllLeague-Second Team honors as a sophomore and a junior for La Jolla Country Day High School, after average 7.8 points and 4.8 rebounds per game and helping the Lady Torreys to their third straight Costal League championship. The four year varsity starter is a 2007-08 team captain and a McDonalds AllAmerican nominee.

“It’s an honor to sign an athlete from La Jolla Country Day High School,” Pebley said.

No. 2 Oregon falls to Arizona in Tuscon

usu sophomore quarterback jase mccormick pitches the ball as Boise State’s Sean Bingham pursues. CAMERON PETERSON photo

Meet the Challenge USU (0-10) @ New Mexico St. (4-7)

Television: Altitude (Comcast Channel 61)

COACHES NOT TO BLAME? Nelson said none of the blame for Saturday’s blunder against Boise State – or what has happened in any of the other nine games – should fall on the shoulders of the Aggie coaching staff.

“It’s definitely on us,” Nelson said. “Boise State might have been better than us, but they’re not 52 points better than us ... I don’t blame any of it on coaches. It’s all been players’ fault. Not

USU notes • The Aggies are on a 16-game losing streak dating back to a win over Fresno State last year.

• The Aggies have lost 12 of their past 17 games played in November.

• WR Kevin Robinson continues to lead the WAC in all-purpose yards per game with 197.3.

- See BATTLE, page 9

NMSU scored 28 first-quarter points in last year’s game at Romney Stadium, which they won, 42-20. USU leads the series 25-6.

Saturday, Nov. 17, Aggie Memorial Stadium, 12 p.m.

NMSU • QB Chase Holbrook is second in the WAC in passing yards per game (317.6) and total offense (314.9).

• WR Chris Williams is injured. He is NMSU’s leading receiver, averaging seven receptions and 96 yards per game.

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The curse of No. 2 claimed another victim.

Second-ranked Oregon lost Heisman Trophy candidate Dennis Dixon to a knee injury and never recovered in a 34-24 upset by Arizona on Thursday night.

Oregon (8-2, 5-2 Pac-10) became the fifth No. 2 team to lose since Oct. 6, following USC, California, South Florida and Boston College. The Ducks’ defeat could open the door for third-ranked Oklahoma in The Associated Press Top 25, and for No. 3 Kansas in the Bowl Championship Series standings.

Dixon, Oregon’s gifted starting quarterback, hurt his left knee in the first quarter, about 7 minutes after he ran 39 yards for a touchdown. Dixon crumpled to the turf without being touched and took Oregon’s national championship hopes with him.

“My foot got planted in the ground, and my knee went the other way,” Dixon told ESPN toward the end of the game.

Antoine Cason returned a punt 56 yards for a touchdown and an interception 42 yards for another score as the Wildcats shook up the national title race on a cool night in the desert.

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Kim leads, but the focus is in the middle

lorena ochoa of mexico takes a drop on the first hole during the first round round of the LPGA ADT Golf Championship. AP photo

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Lorena Ochoa was in the lead and hitting her stride Thursday at the ADT Championship until a shocking finish to her round. She hit two balls into the water on the 17th hole for a quadruple bogey that sent her tumbling down the leaderboard.

“I was worried I was going to run out of balls,” she said with a laugh.

That would have been her only serious concern.

All that mattered on the first day of golf’s most peculiar tournament was not shooting themselves out of the 32-player event.

Christina Kim and Mi Hyun Kim will go in the books as co-leaders after both turned in bogey-free rounds of 5-under 67 on a breezy day at Trump International, one shot ahead of Juli Inkster and Paula Creamer.

Ochoa wound up with a 70 and was in

seventh place, five shots ahead of the projected cut.

The cut will be made to 16 players after Friday and the slate will be wiped clean, so it didn’t matter which Kim shot what as long as they finish in the top 16 going into the weekend. After Saturday, the cut will be made to eight players and their scores again erased, leading to an 18-hole shootout Sunday for $1 million, the richest prize in women’s golf.

Christina Kim, outspoken as ever, spoke for all eight players who managed to break par in the opening round.

“To be honest with you, my strategy from the beginning of the week was just try and beat 16 people for the first two days, and try and beat eight people on the third day, and then whatever happens on Sunday happens on Sunday,” she said.

“Right now, I’m sitting in a pretty good position.”

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By ERIN WADSWORTH staff writer

Aggie women’s basketball travels north to Portland, Ore., for its first road trip this weekend.

Head coach Raegan Pebley remains confident as the team sets off on its two-game journey. Last year the team played well on the road, especially going into Western Athletic Conference play, but they now look to advance to the next level, Pebley said.

“It’s definitely a goal of our team to do better on the road than we have in the past,” Pebley said. “When you play on the road, you’ve got to play really good, solid defense, and you’ve got to find a way to hit your shots, ‘cause you’re not going to get calls like you do at home.”

USU goes into its second

game with a 0-1 record, having lost to the University of the Pacific, 67-66, Nov. 9. Senior guard Taylor Richards topped the Aggies’ scoring with 18 points. But it was not enough to topple the Tigers.

Even though losing their opening game to the Pacific was difficult, many good decisions and strategies were executed, Pebley said. Working hard to end scoring dry spells and staying in the game, along with rebounding, kept the Aggies close to Pacific, she said. Yet, there are still aspects of the game to be tweaked.

“We’ve just got to become smarter,” Pebley said. “We’ve got to keep working on different, special situations. It’s early in the season and we’re going to get there, so I’m still very confident in our team.”

First up for the Aggies this

Done: Spartans upset Aggies -continued from page 8 tied up again at 15, a kill by the Spartan’s Brianna Amian and an attack error by USU junior outside hitter Melissa Osterloh ended the final game, the match and Utah State’s season.

As a team, Utah State hit well, recording 67 kills on .267 hitting. On defense, they had 16 total blocks and 62 digs. They had 10 aces, but 12 service errors as well.

In her last match as an Aggie, opposite side hitter Amanda Nielson had a team and matchhigh 27 kills on .318 hitting.

Fellow senior, outside hitter Monarisa Ale, recorded a doubledouble with 12 kills and 12 digs, while hitting .206.

Osterloh was the third Aggie with double-digit kills, recording 13 for a .167 hitting average and four aces. Sophomore middle blocker Danielle Taylor ended her season with a nine-kill performance. She also hit .353 and joined Osterloh with four service aces.

The loss also comes on the coattails of five Aggies receiving WAC honors.

DuBose, in only his second year in Logan, was named WAC

Coach of the Year – the first such award for a Utah State coach.

Setter Chelsea Fowles received WAC Freshman of the Year honors, becoming the third Aggie to do so. She ranked second in the WAC and 48th in the nation with 12.52 assists per game.

Nielson was named first-team all-WAC. She ranked third in the conference and 10th in the nation in kills per game, at 5.15.

Osterloh and Taylor were both second-team all-WAC, and, along with Fowles, could be the pillars of next year’s Aggie squad.

In other WAC Tournament action, No. 8 seed Boise State beat the ninth-seeded Lady Techsters of Louisiana Tech in five games for the right to get beaten by top-seeded Hawaii in the quarterfinals. BSU went on to get swept the Rainbow Wahine.

In the 4-5 match up, Nevada knocked off Idaho, 3-1, to move on to a semifinal match with Hawaii Friday at 5 p.m. San Jose State will take on the winner of No. 2 seed New Mexico State and No. 7 seed Fresno State at 7:30 p.m. Friday.

-da.bake@aggiemail.usu.edu

weekend are the 1-0 Portland State University Vikings.

Friday’s game will put USU toe to toe with last year’s Big Sky Conference first-team junior forward Kelsey Kahle. Averaging 18.5 points a game makes her the Viking’s principle returning offensive player.

Along with first-year head coach Sherri Murrell, the Vikings have been chosen to finish sixth in the Big Sky Conference in the preseason coach’s poll. This game is the first between these teams.

Sunday’s game brings USU to the University of Portland, where the lady Pilots make their home. Victorious over Washington State University by 30 points in their season opener, the Pilots boast senior center Rachel Warren, who banked 11 points in the game.

Sophomore guard Laiken Dollente, who averaged 15.2 points last season, will be aiding Warren in their pursuit.

Under head coach Jim Sollars, the Pilots have made it to the NCAA Tournament four times in his 22 years. USU defeated the Pilots last season, 68-58.

Pebley said she isn’t worried

ROBINSON STILL LEADS THE WAC

about the short time the team has to prepare between games.

“It’s not an issue,” Pebley said.

“You just find a way to adapt and be successful.”

Traveling for the Aggies is just as structured as the time spent on the USU campus, Pebley said.

The team leaves as late as possible in order to get players to their classes. Returning quickly is also important for the same reason, she said.

“You just try and make it as smooth as possible,” Pebley said. “You rely on the returners to kind of help the kids along and tell them what to expect.

We treat it like a business trip.

There will be some down time, but not a lot.”

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-continued from page 8 Although only collecting 77 all-purpose yards versus the Broncos, Aggie wide receiver/ return specialist Kevin Robinson still leads the WAC and is fifth nationally in this category with 197.3 yards per game.

-samuel.hislop@aggiemail.usu. edu

•The Aggie women take on Portland St. Friday at 8 p.m. and Portland Sunday at 2 p.m.

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Bonds indicted on perjury, obstruction SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Barry Bonds, baseball’s home run king, was indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice Thursday and could go to prison instead of the Hall of Fame for telling a federal grand jury he did not knowingly use performance-enhancing drugs.

The indictment, culminating a four-year investigation into steroid use by elite athletes, charged Bonds with four counts of perjury and one of obstruction of justice. If convicted, he could be sentenced to a maximum of 30 years in prison.

Shortly after the indictment was handed up, Bonds’ personal trainer, Greg Anderson, was ordered released after spending most of the past year in prison for refusing to testify against his longtime friend.

“During the criminal investigation, evidence was obtained including positive tests for the presence of anabolic steroids and other performance enhancing substances for Bonds and other athletes,” the indictment said.

In August, when the 43-year-

old Bonds passed Hank Aaron to become the career home run leader, he flatly rejected any suggestion that the milestone was stained by steroids.

“This record is not tainted at all. At all. Period,” Bonds said.

But while San Franciscans cheered his every swing and fans elsewhere scorned every homer, a grand jury quietly worked behind closed doors to put the finishing touches on the longrumored indictment.

Bonds is by far the highest-profile figure caught up in the steroids probe, which also ensnared track star Marion Jones. She pleaded guilty in October to lying to federal investigators about using steroids and faces up to six months in prison.

Bonds finished the year with 762 homers, seven more than Aaron, and is currently a free agent. In 2001, he set the season record with 73 home runs.

Late in the season, the San Francisco Giants told the seventime National League MVP they didn’t want him back next year.

Bonds could not immediately be reached for comment. One of

his attorneys, John Burris, didn’t know of the indictment before being alerted by The Associated Press and said he would call Bonds to notify him.

“I’m surprised,” Burris said, “but there’s been an effort to get Barry for a long time. I’m curious what evidence they have now they didn’t have before.”

Bonds’ defense attorney, Mike Rains, declined comment because he hadn’t seen a copy of the indictment.

“However, it goes without saying that we look forward to rebutting these unsupported charges in court,” Rains said.

“We will no doubt have more specific comments in the very near future once we have had the opportunity to actually see this indictment that took so long to generate.”

Bonds is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in San Francisco on Dec. 7.

He has never been identified

by Major League Baseball as testing positive for steroids.

The Giants, the players’ union and even the White House called it a sad day for baseball.

barry bonds arrives at the San Francisco Federal Court House in this Dec. 4, 2003 file photo, to testify before a federal grand jury investigating the suspected distribution of illegal performance-enhancing drugs by two men closely associated with the San Francisco Giants star. AP photo

“This is a very sad day. For many years, Barry Bonds was an important member of our team and is one of the most talented baseball players of his era. These are serious charges. Now that the judicial process has begun, we look forward to this matter being resolved in a court of law,” the Giants said.

Union head Donald Fehr said he was “saddened” to learn of the indictment, but cautioned that “every defendant, including Barry Bonds, is entitled to

the presumption of innocence unless and until such time as he is proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”

In Washington, White House spokesman Tony Fratto said: “The president is very disappointed to hear this. As this case is now in the criminal justice system, we will refrain from any further specific comments about it. But clearly this is a sad day for baseball.”

Commissioner Bud Selig withheld judgment, saying, “I

take this indictment very seriously and will follow its progress closely.”

Bush, who once owned the Texas Rangers, called Bonds to congratulate him in August when the Giants’ outfielder broke the home run mark.

“You’ve always been a great hitter and you broke a great record,” Bush said at the time.

Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, who is investigating drug use in baseball, declined comment.

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The San Diego Padres ace was an unanimous winner of the NL Cy Young Award on Thursday after leading the league in wins, ERA and strikeouts — pitching’s version of a Triple Crown.

“It was just one of those seasons where kind of everything came together,” he said on a conference call.

Peavy received all 32 firstplace votes and finished with 160 points in balloting by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Arizona sinkerballer Brandon Webb, last year’s winner, was a distant runner-up with 94 points. He was listed second on 31 ballots and third on one.

“Obviously, I was elated.

This is as big as it gets as far as individual awards,” Peavy said.

“Truly amazing. A very humbling day when you think about all my peers that take the mound every fifth day.”

Peavy went 19-6 while topping the majors in ERA (2.54) and strikeouts (240) for the Padres, who came within one

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win of their third consecutive playoff berth. He joined Roger Clemens as the only starting pitchers to win a Cy Young Award without tossing a complete game.

Clemens did it once in each league: 2001 with the New York Yankees (AL) and 2004 with Houston (NL).

“I can definitely get better.

Our bullpen’s been so stinkin’ good around here it’s hard to get deep in these games,” Peavy said.

“I’ve got a long way to go to be who I want to be.”

It was the 12th time an NL pitcher has been an unanimous choice for the honor, the first since Arizona’s Randy Johnson in 2002. Peavy became the fourth San Diego pitcher to win the award, joining reliever Mark Davis (1989), Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry (1978) and lefty Randy Jones (1976).

Peavy had a chance to put the Padres in the postseason — and earn his 20th win — when he started the wild-card tiebreaker against Colorado. But the 26year-old right-hander was ineffective at Coors Field, giving up six runs and 10 hits in 6 1-3 innings.

The Rockies rallied for three runs against career saves leader Trevor Hoffman in the 13th and won 9-8, then charged all the way to the World Series.

“That was a tough way to go.

We were so close and had grinded it out for so long,” Peavy said.

“I really thought that this year’s team, if we got in the playoffs, could really make some noise.”

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SUSU has a tough job.

With limited authority and only a year in office, these students are expected to make students happy by providing them with parties, activities and speakers and also fighting the student body’s battles with administration.

Issues affecting students range from tuition and the price of textbooks, to booting, to availability of internships and study abroad programs. ASUSU members take on these problems and many more in an effort to find ways to make things better for students. Yet they depend on availability of funds and the willingness of administrators to cooperate with them, and can only hope some other officer in a couple years won’t undo what they spent a semester or two working on.

Though some of the things ASUSU does are not very visible, much of what goes on behind the scenes is important to students. They spend hours planning for events most students take for granted because they happen every year. They work with faculty, staff and administrators to push projects through, which only a portion of campus may ever appreciate.

This year, ASUSU has put on dozens of activities, shows and dances and has worked on other projects like filming a service movie, researching a proposal on same-day voter registration, trying to remove a state spending cap on higher education, re-working the university’s cheating policy to be more fair to students, and raising money to help victims of the California fires.

Though ASUSU has little power to do anything on their own – in legislative terms, the most they can do is pass resolutions – they have a lot of influence and some pretty good ideas. This year’s group of student leaders has been proactive and ambitious in working toward the goals they set for themselves.

They have shown they are taking their positions seriously.

Though the Statesman doesn’t report on every project and minute development in ASUSU, we want the student body to know their representatives are working for them.

We applaud the ASUSU officers for the work they have done so far this year. We hope the concrete goals and volume of progress that has marked this semester for ASUSU will continue into spring. Keep up the good work.

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ForumLetters Beliefs based on experiences To the editor: I have often been bothered by the idea that religious people believe, solely on faith, that they have no evidence, but they just accept things because they have faith. I don’t think that’s the way it is. I think that very few religious people, if asked why they believe in God, would say, faith. Instead, I think that most people who believe in God believe in him because of experiences they have had with him. Jon Adams asserted in a recent article that “...religion starts with a conclusion, like God exists. This conclusion was decided by authority – a holy book, religious leader, tradition – as opposed to observations and reason.”

I just don’t think that’s the way it is. My religion, and my beliefs, are empirical – they are based on experiences I have had. Adams insisting that religious people have no evidence is like Thomas Hardy’s deaf

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s New York backs down on driver’s licenses for illegal aliens, San Francisco rises up, offering new help for illegals.

The deliberate defiance of federal law, coming now from the West Coast, is a test for our nation and we should respond as one nation. Why? Because the basic principle of national responsibility for national problems – reaffirmed by, among other events, the Civil War – must prevail.

New York’s Democratic governor, Eliot Spitzer, backed down on his plan for issuing driver’s licenses to illegal aliens, ending two months of political hemorrhaging.

“Part of leadership is listening What others are to the public’s opposition,” he said saying about issues. sheepishly, finally acknowledging the three-quarters of New Yorkers who disapproved of his plan.

But even as Spitzer retreats, the “Sanctuary City” movement – in which local jurisdictions declare they will not cooperate with the federal government to enforce immigration laws – advances, even metastasizes. Eight of the 10 largest cities in the United States have become “sanctuaries,” including New York. Across the country, hundreds of localities are part of the “sanctuary movement,” formally or informally.

Now San Francisco has taken an even more outrageous step.

According to Wednesday’s San Francisco Chronicle, the city council has voted 10-1 to “issue municipal identification cards to city residents – regardless of whether they are in the country legally.” Since the mayor, Gavin Newsom, supports the measure, it’s certain to be enacted.

Yet public opinion, nationwide, is strongly against such action.

In August, a Rasmussen poll found that by a 2-1 ratio, the American people were even willing to cut off federal aid to “sanctuary cities.” Indeed, since the failure of the open-borders immigration “compromise” earlier this year, concern over illegal entry has reached critical political mass.

What was once a vague worry about disorder and bilingualism has crystallized into a specific realization: Our homeland security and national sovereignty are threatened by unknown intruders.

But the elites, of course, have been either clueless or actively

Nat’lVoice

- See ANIMALS, page 13

Arie Kirk

man in a concert hall, insisting animatedly that nothing is going on, that there is no music.

But Jon, just because you don’t hear it doesn’t mean we don’t.

Nathaniel Hardman

Religion exists with science To the editor: Religion and science don’t necessarily have to contradict.

In my opinion, a worldview that holds that to be true is narrow minded at best. Religion evolves in the same way as science to an extent. As more information becomes available, it adapts and revises what it now knows to be false. As was brought up, the LDS church is changing the introduction to the Book of Mormon because of DNA evidence disproving their original ideas. This is not, in my opinion, a valid argument against a religion, but quite the opposite, it is a sign of a strong, adaptable, and constantly growing religion. Furthermore, arguments against the bible are

Letters to the editor • A public forum not, to a large extent, an argument against religion. The bible (specifically the KJV) does not have to be taken as a literal text throughout, but as a collection of symbolic texts intended to grow faith, so to attack it by pointing out its fallacies as a literal history of events doesn’t hold any water.

As far as I can see, many arguments that have been published seem to argue for science, and yet base religion as a whole on things done or said by specific people of religion.

This is naïve, unscientific, and in any other context would be seen as such, however when used against religion it is somehow seen as a valid argument.

Because some people use religion for immoral reasons, or to justify their own opinions, it is not representative of religion as a whole. I would argue that it’s the reverse, religion as a whole is intended to enhance morality, and in the norm does a very good job. This is not to say that atheists can’t have morals, rather that religion does not

- See LETTER, page 12

Politics and sales are binding my budget

verything about living in this city is great.

The history, the free entertainment, the – WHAT?! Seventeen dollars for a haircut?

Perhaps, in true honor of some governmental programs, the liberal area of D.C. may be diverting funds from one sector to another. I may not be paying for what I think I’m paying for. Try reading that again, if you want.

A little background on subsidies will further our purposes: Subsidies can be a fairly helpful tool used in an attempt to keep certain markets running smoothly. Farmers are often supplemented with subsidies when the market demands less of their product. But the money needs to come from somewhere. Federal taxes pay for many subsidies. The money is rerouted from other areas of the economy that are doing well.

I’m beginning to think my entertainment joys in D.C. are really being paid for through my other bills.

Let’s take a look: Cheap rent: Around $600 to $700.

Taking a cab 12 blocks because we were lost: $18 The previously mentioned haircut: I can’t even bring myself to say it.

I never expected the city to cost less than living in the thriving metropolis of Logan, but I didn’t know where the costs were going to be, and things seem a little backward. Aside from student activities, there is plenty of entertainment in Logan, or near Logan, which seemed to attract my carefully budgeted money. Cost of living is cheap in our neck of the Beehive State, but you have to get creative to have fun. The reverse can only be true for the East Coast. Less than two months of my rent here will pay for my entire semester of housing in Logan. I may even have money left over to afford health insurance.

Compare my living costs here to the free symphony on the lawn or a tour of the White House. The museums alone deserve a lengthy discussion. Air and Space, American History, the Holocaust and more – all of those for free!

Something looks and feels backward here.

As a side note, we were interrupted by the Secret Service before the tour could begin.

I believe it was a visit from a dignitary, but we were promptly escorted off White House property for about 45 minutes. In all of this cost of living talk, it needs to be said: The cost of feeling like a security breach was happening at the White House while I was there – priceless.

I guess it could be worse on me financially.

At least I’m not living in my friend’s Manhattan two-bedroom apartment for $3,000 a month, right? That’s a pretty dark side for a ‘bright side,’ but I’ve got to do what I’ve got to do.

It’s not all that bad. Just like some politics, having connections can be pretty helpful.

Interns may not be the most connected of all people, but they get thrown a favor once in a while.

Maybe I should look at it from a sales perspective rather than political perspective.

Maybe the ‘free events’ – as impressive as they are – are just the attraction to get there.

Once I’m in, it’s like buying candy at the movie theater.

That’s the ticket, or rather, a lack of one. There’s no need to buy a ticket to see Dorothy’s original ruby slippers, but take one step outside the museum and you can pay out-of-the-park prices for an almost-ballpark hot dog.

The prices here are enough to make any intern click their heels and say, “There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home.

There’s no place like ...”

Jacob Fullmer is a junior studying political science and journalism, spending time in Washington, D.C., as an intern grateful to have more than your average stipend.

Questions or comments can be sent to him at j.fullmer@aggiemail.usu. edu.

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Illegal: Preserve the laws of the land

-continued from page 11

hostile to this reassertion of our border integrity.

This odd alliance of left-leaning multiculturalists and right-leaning business lobbyists has done its best to ignore, even scorn, legitimate popular apprehensions about unchecked inflow.

Happily, the Internet has changed the political power equation, enabling the grass roots to become grass fires. This columnist, for example, first got wind of the San Francisco story from an activist e-mailer, pointing to a posting at Lucianne.com, which helpfully cited a federal statute that’s being violated: Section 274 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, which forbids “bringing in or harboring” aliens and prescribes five years’ imprisonment for each offense.

Lawyers might pettifog their way through differing interpretations of immigration law, but it’s obvious that San Francisco is deliberately seeking to flout federal authority and national norms.

So now the question: What will happen next?

The Bush administration has little interest in immigration law enforcement; one of Spitzer’s

few enablers during his two-month crash-andburn was Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, who was happy to cooperate on the failed ID card plan. And top Democrats, kowtowing to their core George Soros/Daily Kos constituencies, seem equally blase about immigrant lawbreaking.

But beneath the bipartisan crust of elite power consensus, a groundswell of public indignation has erupted. Ask Spitzer.

The American people, having struggled and bled to preserve their national unity for more than 200 years, naturally expect their leaders to preserve that union -- including uniform law enforcement on vital concerns – into the 21st century.

San Francisco is challenging that basic principle. So the nation must respond to that challenge, by electing leaders who will enforce the law, everywhere.

By James P. Pinkerton is a columnist for Newsday. His e-mail address is jim@jamesppinkerton.com.

Letter: Religion and reason are one

-continued from page 11

necessitate immorality as is seemingly implied by the arguers of reason vs. science.

Reason and religion can be one, as is seen often in such places as Sunstone, a forum for religious people (primarily LDS) to ask questions and discuss logically – and philosophically – aspects

of their religion. One cannot argue that fighting against religion is fighting for reason, as reason and religion can be one and the same.

Christopher Leitch

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Suspect charged with the murder of accomplices LAKEPORT, Calif. (AP) – Three young black men break into a white man’s home in rural Northern California. The homeowner shoots two of them to death — but it’s the surviving black man who is charged with murder.

In a case that has brought cries of racism from civil rights groups, Renato Hughes Jr., 22, was Hughes charged by prosecutors in this overwhelmingly white county under a rarely invoked legal doctrine that could make him responsible for the bloodshed. He is scheduled to go on trial Nov. 27.

“It was pandemonium” inside the house that night, District Attorney Jon Hopkins said. Hughes was responsible

for “setting the whole thing in motion by his actions and the actions of his accomplices.”

Prosecutors said homeowner Shannon Edmonds opened fire Dec. 7 after three young men rampaged through the Clearlake house demanding marijuana and brutally beat his stepson. Rashad Williams, 21, and Christian Foster, 22, were shot in the back. Hughes fled.

Hughes was charged with firstdegree murder under California’s Provocative Act doctrine, versions of which have been on the books in many states for generations but are rarely used. Hughes’ mother, San Francisco schoolteacher Judy Hughes, said she believes the group didn’t intend to rob the family, just buy marijuana. She called the case against her son a “legal lynching.”

“Only God knows what happened in that house,” she said. “But this I know: My son did not murder his childhood friends.”

Blue Bikes: A local’s pilgrimage -continued from page 3

these bikes are mostly for campus use, though they can be taken anywhere as long as they come back in one piece.

“College is kind of the perfect time to do (a pilgrimage),” Austin said.

But what does Aggie Blue Bikes do with such funds?

First, Christensen said, Aggie Blue Bikes will rent, free of charge, a bike to any student for up to a semester. It also will help maintain these bikes, and it even has a special tool board filled with the unique tools needed to service bikes. When people rent a bike, they go through an introduction to biking. The process, Christensen said, requires the viewing of a short movie on air quality.

When bikes need to be repaired, Christensen said employees will teach people and help them do it themselves.

Christensen said this allows people to “carry the skill with you into future life,” which, he said, is part of the purpose of the 91 bikes Aggie Blue Bikes owns.

In addition, Christensen said Aggie Blue Bikes also teaches three classes. Christensen first said there is a 101 class which is an intro to bikers.

Christensen said there are also classes

that involve the League of America Bicyclists. Christensen said the third type of classes are those involving the professional bikers. These include members of the League Cycling Instructors, who can provide insights into what being a biker entails.

However, he said there is even more to Aggie Blue Bikes. People who walk, he said, surely have nearly been killed by one of those bandits on a bicycle.

But Christensen said another goal of the Aggie Blue Bikes program is to eliminate such bikers. He said Aggie Blue Bikes provides safety information for those bikers who ride in the city.

Christensen also made reference to the USU walkway policy. The policy states five major guidelines for the use of a bike: Bikers must yield to pedestrians, give audible signs when passing a pedestrian, travel at a maximum of twice as fast as any pedestrians by whom they are traveling, not ride on roadside sidewalks and operate their bikes in a responsible manner. Christensen said spreading the knowledge of these policies is one of the objectives of the Aggie Blue Bike program.

–jordan.cox@aggiemail.usu.edu

Travelers wait for curbside check-in at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J. in this Nov. 21, 2006 file photo. Airline passenger traffic around the Thanksgiving holiday is forecasted to rise 4 percent from a year ago. AP photo

Bush attempts to cut air traffic over Thanksgiving

WASHINGTON (AP) – In a year of record delays, President Bush stepped forward Thursday to try to speed American air travelers to their Thanksgiving gatherings and back home on time.

Declaring that “business as usual is not good enough for American travelers,” Bush announced at the White House a series of detailed technical steps to reduce air traffic congestion and long delays that have left passengers stranded and turned holiday travel into “a season of dread for too many Americans.”

In the most innovative move, the Pentagon will allow commercial airliners to use two air corridors off the eastern seaboard that are normally restricted to

military flights. Supplementing the dozen air routes regularly used from Florida to New England, they will create “a Thanksgiving express lane” for commercial airliners from 4 p.m. EST Wednesday through Sunday — the busiest days of Thanksgiving travel.

Crowded airports, stranded passengers and delayed flights “carry some real costs for the country,” Bush said, “not just in the inconvenience they cause, but in the business they obstruct and family gatherings they cause people to miss.”

Bush’s moves were applauded by trade groups representing the airlines and airports but derided as ineffective by air traffic controllers who said their ranks have been thinned too much to handle the holiday

crush efficiently. The pilots union called some long-term steps too drastic.

On Capitol Hill, airline executives told the House aviation subcommittee they will reduce overbooking during the holidays and add ticketing staff. Airport association executives said they are finding places to sleep, including cots, and food and water for people who are stranded.

Bush acknowledged these short-term steps “do not cure the underlying problem: In certain parts of our country, the demand for air service exceeds the available supply.

As a result, airlines are scheduling more arrivals and departures than airports can possibly handle.”

PEER: Program hopes to help employ students -continued from page 1 Bartlett said one disadvantage the students face is the prejudice of potential employers.

“The perception is, ‘Oh, they can’t do that,’” Bartlett said. “We’d like them to be challenged. Let’s see how far they can really go.”

The students are taught how to apply for jobs, interviewing skills and how to be their own advocates, Done said.

“They may not work full time,” Bartlett said. “And they don’t have that college degree, but hopefully they have those skills and the experience to go out in the community and get that job.”

Even though the students are on campus, they do not take courses through the university. Both teachers agreed they would eventually like their students to be able to sit in on classes that spark their interests. Done wants her students to “participate as much as possible in the college experience. College is more than going to classes.”

Their classroom, located in the Center

for Persons with Disabilities, includes not only standard classroom materials but more unique elements such as a laundry facility.

Along with job training, the students learn skills to help them live on their own, such as banking, balancing check books, time telling, budgeting, nutrition and laundry.

Through Project PEER, the students can also learn to get their food handler’s permits.

Done and Bartlett said they also have hopes of more integration of USU students into the program.

“There are currently several students who work with Project PEER students to help supervise their job trainings,” Bartlett said.

Although the program is located on USU’s campus, it is funded by the Logan City and Cache County school districts. Those districts also provide the transportation for the students to and from campus.

With the move onto campus, Bartlett said there have been some big changes for the students and the teachers alike. Bartlett and

Done had both worked in different school districts before coming together on campus.

The students have also been put in a new environment that has affected their learning, both academic and social. The students can now interact with people their own age Bartlett said.

“The bar has been raised, and we expect a lot more from the students,” Done said, adding that “they look out to campus for examples.”

Both Done and Bartlett said they are pleased with the amount of support and resources that the USU campus has provided so far.

“A lot of people are willing to help,” Bartlett said. “The move to USU’s campus has been an overwhelming success and has aided in the growth of students.”

“It’s been wonderful to be accepted.

They’re just amazing people up here,” Done said.

–liz.w@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Friday

Saturday

Monday

- Techniques in animal cell culture and scale-up strategies training program, all day, Biotechnology building.

- USU women’s volleyball, 10 a.m.

- USU Water Initiative – CUAHSI cyberseminar: Advancing Hydrologic Predictablility, 1 to 2 p.m., Engineering building.

- Diversity award presentation, 4:15 to 4:30 p.m., TSC Sunburst Lounge.

- Mr. & Ms. International Pageant, 6 to 8:30 p.m., TSC. - USU Big Band Swing Club, 7 to 9:30 p.m., HPER. - USU Opera, 7:30 p.m., Caine Lyric Theatre.

- International dress day, diversity carnival, 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., TSC 2nd floor.

- USU women’s volleyball, 10 a.m.

- 4-H Aggie Adventure for Kids, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

- USU String Academy String Olympics, 10 to 11 a.m., Chase Fine Arts Center.

- Native American Celebrations, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Museum of Anthropology.

- USU football at New Mexico State, 12 p.m.

- USU Opera Performance, 1 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Caine Lyric Theatre.

- USU at UC Irvine tip-off party, 5 to 6:30 p.m.

- Elite Hall lessons and dancing, 7 to 11:30 p.m.

- UMTA Start Piano Competition Winners Concert, 7 to 11 p.m..

- Department of Music event: Guitar ensembles, 7:30 p.m., Performance Hall.

Nov. 16

Nov. 17

Nov. 19

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

Extended hours The TSC will be open from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Nov. 23. TSC Extended hours: Nov. 26-29 and Dec. 2-6. The TSC will remain open for 24 hours during these dates. UR extended hours, Dec. 2-6 and Dec. 9-13. The UR will be open until 1 a.m.

Folklore movie USU Folklore Society is sponsoring a movie night on Wednesday, Nov. 28 at 7 p.m. in room 114 of Ray B. West. The movie will be “Brothers Grimm,” Admission is free.

Popcorn and beverage provided

Floss collection

Operation Clean Teeth: Collecting dental floss, mouth wash and toothpaste to send to Iraq and Afghanistan. Donation boxes will be in the library and Business building. There will also be a table setup in TSC on Wednesday to collect items and spare change.

Museum activities USU Museum of Anthropology, in Old Main Room 252, will be hosting special activities from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Activities take place Saturday, Nov. 17. The guests are invited to learn about

Native American culture from the USU Native American Student Council. Visitors will be treated to storytelling, food, and lessons on Native culture. Remember we are also open Monday-Friday 105; admission is always free. Free parking is available south of Old Main only on Saturday.

Stokes Nature Center Parent Tot Nature Hour, Nov. 16, 10 to 11 a.m.

Stokes Nature Center invites all toddlers, ages 2-3, to explore animals, plants, and nature through music, crafts, and games. SNC is located in Logan Canyon, east of Logan, Utah, on HWY 89. To register, call 435-755-3239 or visit www.logannature.org

More to remember ...

• A peace vigil is held every Friday between 5 and 6 p.m. on the east side of Main Street between Center Street and 100 North, Logan.

This is a non-violent public event sponsored by Cache Valley Peace Works and has been on-going every Friday since September 2005. E-mail loganpeace@hotmail.com or call 755-5137 if you have questions • Thanksgiving Chess Tournament, Tuesday, Nov. 20 at

Pearls Before Swine • Steve Pastis

the USU Taggart Student Center.

Registration 3-4 p.m. Rounds 48:30 p.m. $8 pre-register $10 at the door. For more information see http://www.usu.edu/chess/pdf/ nov07.pdf • Charity Anywhere is looking for a group of service-motivated people to come to Mexico over Christmas Break, Dec. 26-Jan. 3, to help those in need by building houses. Contact Bryce at bryce. jensen@aggiemail.usu.edu • Turkey Shoot, Saturday, Nov. 17, $5 to register. Bring your own gun and shells we’ll provide the skeet. 10 a.m. registration shooting begins at 10:30. Grand prize is a vest. Take 1400 North west past 1000 West. Go past dead end, look for signs.

• Registration for Spring Semester 2008 is now open. Go online at WISE.ldsces.org to enroll. Click on Logan, Register for Classes and then click “CHANGE TERM“ and select Spring 2008.

• Friday, Nov. 16, Religion in Life with Brad Wilcox at 11:30 a.m. in the Cultural Hall.

Brother Wilcox is a former mission president of the Chile Santiago East Mission. He is an Associate Professor at BYU and also Teaches for EFY programs. Lunch for a Buck will follow.