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Something to be thankful for

Tides predicted to peak shortly after Thanksgiving could wash balls of oil off beaches and spread them to other places previously unaffected.

Campus News Evaida Santana was crowned Ms. International and Jean Carlos was named Mr. International at USU. Page 3

Features Squeezing apples to make cider is all part of ‘making fall.’

Page 13 AND THEN THERE WAS ONE. USU won their first game of the season against New Mexico State 35-17. New Mexico’s Kenneth Buckley (81) drags USU’s Joshua Taylor a few yards before he is tackled. AP photo For complete coverage, see page 4.

Students seeking textbook tax break

Sports

By M. RUSSELL staff writer

The USU Aggies beat the NMSU Aggies to win their first football game of the season.

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Utah college students are backing a bill to cut sales tax on textbook sales, which will go before lawmakers during the 2008 session.

The Coalition of Higher Education for Affordable Textbooks and Rep. Greg Hughes, R-Draper, pitched their idea to Capitol Hill Nov. 14, seeking to exempt sales tax on textbook sales.

According to the Coalition of Higher Education for Affordable Textbooks, the proposal is asking for

Opinion “For the sake of all the great men of God and all the great men of science, both of you cease this pointless bickering ... There are far more productive ways to spend your time.”

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Almanac Today in History: In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, which, in 272 words, explained why the Union had to win the Civil War.

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a $4.7 million tax break, with $3.1 million coming from the state’s general fund and another $1.6 million from local and county governments and other taxing entities in the state.

Janette Monson, USU Bookstore textbook manager, said, “Each would have to prove and verify that each book bought by a student is in fact for a class that the student is signed up for. This would inevitably create a lot more paperwork, but it would be a tax break for the students.”

Monson said she has seen information about the proposal but hasn’t gotten involved on behalf of the USU

Bookstore.

“It really needs to be lobbied by someone other than the Bookstore, but this is something ASUSU could definitely support,” Monson said.

More than a dozen other states have been successful with the initiative, and this is the first time in Utah that students have joined in the cause to support the bill, said University of Utah Student Body President Spencer Pearson.

Amy Engh, student member of the state’s Board of Regents, said the hope behind the bill is that with money saved from increasing textbook costs,

which could amount to $90 a year per student, students could take additional courses each semester and finish a degree sooner than expected.

Books and supplies account for 26 percent of the total cost of attending a four-year public institution and 75 percent at two-year schools, according to a study by the U.S. Office of Accountability.

Even through the various programs, such as buy-back options, book rentals, and used books,

- See TEXTBOOKS, page 3

Dominican Republic students sweep USU diversity pageant

By JORDAN COX staff writer

USU celebrated its diversity last week with events including several film screenings of foreign movies, a student presentation on “Countries and Cultures” and the Mr. and Ms. International Pageant.

The Mr. and Ms. International Pageant is one of two major events held by the International Student Council, said Edward Reeves, faculty adviser for the ISC. The pageant was held Friday in the TSC Ballroom, and Reeves said its focus was on cultural diversity.

The contestants, he said, were judged on five criteria: a talent or performance, dress and attire, the short video introduction that each contestant prepared, an application and an impromptu question round.

The pageant hosted 11 student contestants from seven different countries who danced, sang and played instruments – all of which showed some of the cultural roots of their individual nationalities.

Ms. Thailand, Chalita Srilabda, did a martial arts display that involved kicking her male assistant, and Mr. Japan, Ryuchi Yamamoto, performed a vocal piece.

After all of the talents were displayed, a questionand-answer round occurred. Ms. Ethiopia, Beyene Yondanos, was asked what she would show a friend visiting her country.

“Everything, everything they wanted to see,” she said.

- See PAGEANT, page 3

Unable to stop kissing, sophomore Nicholas Hansen and girlfriend Caroline Berry, senior, did sit-ups during the True Aggie Kissing Decathlon Friday. Hansen and Berry took second place. Participants were disqualified if they stopped kissing. CAMERON PETERSON photo

A new kind of exercise

By ARIE KIRK news editor

Push-ups, sit-ups, jump rope and relay races may not seem all that challenging, but try doing these activities while kissing, and the situation gets much harder.

During the True Aggie Kissing Decathlon Friday, five competing couples had to sprint; run through tires; complete a three-legged race, a ring toss, a chicken fight; play football and basketball; jump rope; and do push-ups and sit-ups while locking lips with a partner.

The couples, competing for passes to Beaver Mountain, received points for each activity. If their lips stopped touching at any point during or between challenges, couples lost points and were disqualified from the challenge.

Lance Brown, Campus Recreation chair and coordinator of the event, continually reminded couples throughout the event that they could not stop kissing.

“You have got to lock your lips. At no point can you unlock your lips,” he said.

- See KISSING, page 3

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World&Nation

Monday, Nov. 19, 2007

Today’sIssue

Celebs&People

LOS ANGELES (AP)– A slew of topselling artists headed into Sunday’s 2007 American Music Awards with multiple chances to win.

Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, Linkin Park and Daughtry each had three nominations, while Akon, Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts, Bone Thugs-NFergie Harmony, Young Jeezy, T.I. and Carrie Underwood had The policy of The Utah Statesman is to cortwo nods each. rect any error made as soon as possible. If

They were the center of a full roster you find something you would like clarified of celebrity performers, including Mary or find unfair, please contact the editor at J. Blige, Alicia Keys, Queen Latifah, 797-1762 or TSC 105.

Chris Brown, Celine Dion, Duran Duran, Sugarland, Maroon 5, Lenny Kravitz and Rihanna.

The list of presenters was just as stellar, with Christina Applegate, James Blunt, Blair Underwood, Tony Hawk, Tropical Cyclone sidr hit the coast of Bangladesh Thursday killing at leat 1,723 people. The storm was the deadliest Snoop Dogg, Slash, Gene Simmons storm to hit the country in a decade. Sidr destroyed tens of thousands of homes in southwest Bangladesh and ruined needed crops. and Usher among those set to hand out AP photo trophies in 20 categories.

DRAPER, Utah (AP) – More than 25 per After two weeks of writer-strikecent of jobs at Utah State Prison are unfilled, imposed reruns of his late-night talk putting loads of overtime on employees and show, Jimmy Kimmel was to return even forcing the warden to wear a uniform to to live TV as host of the three-hour cerkeep watch on inmates. emony, which was to be broadcast live “We’re on the verge of crisis,” says Tom on ABC from the new Nokia Theatre in Patterson, state Department of Corrections downtown Los Angeles. The show’s basic executive director. “We have to fill those script was written before the strike began spots. I worry about how long we can go at last week, but there were no writers to this rate. It frightens me.” provide Kimmel with his trademark Officials blame low pay for the inability DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) Associated Press. medical teams were working in the quips about current events. to attract and keep prison officers.

Bodies were found among muddy affected area.

Screaming fans cheered arriving stars, Pay is as much as $5 lower per hour than –Hundreds of thousands of survivors were stuck Saturday behind roads paddy fields and along river channels, An estimated 2.7 million people including Fergie, Blunt and Underwood, in county jails. Starting pay at the prison is said Bishnu Prashad Chakravorty, a were affected and 773,000 houses were before the show. $13.73 an hour. Jails in Salt Lake, Davis and blocked by fallen trees, iron roofs and thick sludge as rescue workers fought to local journalist who visited the hard-hit damaged, according to the Ministry of A dozen video screens on towers Weber counties start at just under $15.50 reach towns along Bangladesh’s coast coastal area of Bagerhat.

Disaster Management. Roughly 250,000 played songs by nominees, amplifying an hour, while Utah County pays $16.58 an that were ravaged by a powerful cyclone “Advance warnings from the weather head of cattle and poultry perished, and the energy outside the new venue, which hour. that killed at least 1,723 people. office helped us take shelter, but still, crops were destroyed on nearly 77,450 has about 7,000 seats and is part of the There were 156 vacancies last week at a

Tropical Cyclone Sidr, the deadliest the damage is colossal,” said Abu Hanif, acres of land. new L.A. Live development. prison housing 5,600 inmates. storm to hit the country in a decade, 60, a Bagerhat resident.

But the full picture of the devastation “I saw it at rehearsal,” presenter Josh Warden Steven Turley recently took the destroyed tens of thousands of homes in The government has allocated $5.2 remained unclear as the storm wreaked Groban said of the theater. “It’s amazunprecedented step of asking every officer southwest Bangladesh on Thursday and million in emergency aid for rebuilding havoc on the country’s electricity and ing. It’s a nice alternative to an arena.” to take one overtime shift during each pay ruined much-needed crops just before houses in the cyclone-affected areas, a telephone lines, affecting even areas that period. harvest season in this impoverished, government statement said. were spared a direct hit.

As many as 300 employees are working The German government offered Sidr spawned a 4-foot storm surge 12 to 16 hours a day. Turley will put on a uni- low-lying South Asian country.

More than a million coastal villagers $731,345 while the European Union that swept through low-lying areas and form for an eight-hour shift on the holiday. were forced to evacuate to government released $2.2 million in relief aid.

The some offshore islands, leaving them “If I’m asking my staff to work Top Ten Signs George W. Bush Is shelters.

World Food Program was rushing food under water, said Nahid Sultana, an offi- Depressed– Thanksgiving, then I have to do it myself,” he The official death toll rose to 1,723 cial of the Ministry of Food and Disaster to the country. said.

Management. and authorities feared the figure could Bangladesh’s interim government 10–Speaks wistfully of the days when his CARE’s Anwar said many surviving rise further as the country works to head, Fakhruddin Ahmed, visited approval rating was 33% recover. families were living under makeshift some of the affected areas Friday and The government scrambled Saturday Saturday and assured cyclone victims of tents or sheds made out of the remnants 9–Barely musters a smile when catching to join international agencies and local of their straw and bamboo homes, while Cheney torture detainees government assistance.

BERYL, Utah (AP)–Authorities arrested a officials in the rescue mission, deploymany others had to go back to the offi Bangladesh President Iajuddin man for failing to register as a sex offender ing military helicopters, thousands of cial shelters.

Ahmed, meanwhile, was expected to and then returned to his property for a 8–Smug, arrogant smirk replaced by visit some of the worst-hit areas in comshocking discovery: The bodies of two men troops and naval ships. smug, arrogant frown missing for weeks were buried under a shed. Rescuers trying to get food and water ing days.

Aid organizations feared that food The identities still were being confirmed to people stranded by flooding strug7–Barely laughs anymore during “Happy through autopsies Sunday, “but we’re fairly gled to clear roads that were so bad they shortages and contaminated water could Days” reruns said they’ll have to return on bicycles. lead to widespread problems if people confident” they are the men, Iron County “We will try again tomorrow on remain stranded.

Sheriff Mark Gower said.

6–Falls asleep during intelligence briefbicycles, and hire local country boats,” Television images showed crowds With help from police dogs, the bodies were ings ... actually, he always did that M. Shakil Anwar of CARE said from the of people scrambling beneath military unearthed Saturday night, Gower said. helicopters as troops dropped food Chad Grijalva and Derek Davis, both 34, city of Khulna.

5–No longer pretends he quit drinking packages through open hatches. haven’t been seen since Oct. 24. They lived in Along the coast, 150 mph winds a neighboring county, Washington, here in flung small ferries ashore like toy boats, At least 1.5 million coastal villag4–Sits in the Oval Office listening to ers had fled to shelters where they cutting off migrant fishing communisouthwestern Utah.

Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide” over and Gower said his deputies had no idea that ties who live on and around hundreds of were given emergency rations, said over a routine arrest would turn into a homicide tiny islands across the area’s web of river senior government official Ali Imam channels.

Majumder in Dhaka. investigation.

3–When Rumsfeld left yesterday, Bush Many of the evacuees who managed Many parts of Dhaka, the biggest city On Friday, they drove to the home of pleaded, “Take me with you” in this poor, desperately crowded nation Martin Nelson to arrest him on a charge of to return home Saturday found their of 150 million people, remained without failing to register as a sex offender when he straw and bamboo huts had been flat2–At lunch with speaker-to-be Nancy tened by the storm. power or water Saturday. The storm lived in Washington County.

Pelosi, he hardly touched his fish sticks “We survived, but what we need now killed at least four people in Dhaka.

After the arrest, they obtained a search More than 4,000 people were warrant to return to the property to gather is help to rebuild our homes,” Chand A family prepares food in their dam- 1–Asked Bubba if he still had the big Miah, a resident of Maran Char, a small injured, military spokesman Lt. Col. evidence that he failed to register in Iron chick’s phone number aged home in southwest Bangladesh. AP island in Khulna district, told The Moyeenullah Chowdhury said. Army County, too.

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Students help construct ramp for family Briefs

By ALISON BAUGH senior writer

After 25 years of use, the wheelchair ramp in front of a Wellsville family’s home was falling apart. But thanks to USU students, they now have a new ramp.

George and Connie Casselman have a history of helping out children in need, having had around 300 foster children in their home over their life and providing respite care, said Jake Dinsdale, one of the students who worked on the project.

George Casselman said they have eight biological children and three adopted disabled children, and they have had legal guardianship for five foster children and 29 grandchildren. While

their biological children have grown and moved out, their three adopted children still live at home.

Shane, one of their adopted children, is considered a “total care” case. Shane has cerebral palsy, can’t walk, talk or feed himself, has severe hearing problems and is legally blind.

Shane became part of the Casselman family in 1985 after George and Connie saw a TV show where children were introduced in an effort to find adoptive parents, Dinsdale said. The Casselmans were interested and were able to adopt Shane, who at first could be picked up in his chair and carried inside. As time passed, they were no longer able to carry Shane, so a neighbor built a ramp for the wheelchair, Dinsdale said. Casselman

had to fix the ramp a few times and said it was definitely in need of repair.

“It’s heaven sent, perfect timing,” Casselman said. “We needed to do something, and then we got this phone call.”

The group of 11 students is doing the project as part of their management class and heard about it through the Bear River Activity and Skill Center, Dinsdale said. Dinsdale met with the family to hear their background, and then measurements were made for the ramp.

Group member Katie Christensen, interior design major, made the blueprints for the ramp to fit the Americans with Disabilities Act standards.

Donations were obtained from the community, including building supplies, money and thank-you space in the news-

Kissing: Couples smooch for a win

paper, Dinsdale said. After the donations were made, each student had to raise $30 to cover the rest of the expenses.

Last Wednesday, the students laid cement to complete the walkway, Christensen said. Saturday, the group gathered again to take out the old ramp and install the new one.

“My favorite part was taking out the old ramp and seeing how bad it was, knowing it would be worth it. There were three layers of moldy plywood,” Christensen said.

Casselman pitched in to help the students with the project and said he and his wife are so grateful and thankful for the work the students have done to make it easier for them to take Shane places.

–alison.baugh@aggiemail.usu.edu

Textbooks: Looking for break -continued from page 1

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Monson said students are still asked to pay exceptionally high prices for books. Monson also mentioned book prices are not flexible and are largely set by publishing costs.

The proposal was first mentioned at the Utah Student Association meeting in May. Since then, students have gathered support from all nine public state institutions as well as endorsements from student body presidents at Brigham Young University, LDS Business College and Westminster College, Engh said.

“I would like to see this bill passed solely because it is a savings for the students,” Monson said on behalf of the Bookstore.

“Providing a textbook tax break would be highly beneficial for USU students.”

USU College of Agriculture Sen. Lisa Woodworth said, “This bill is a positive step toward making a post-secondary education more affordable for everyone. Books are overpriced and tuition increases every semester, so every little bit can help.”

The students would welcome it and be excited about the proposed bill, Woodworth said.

“Anything that can increase the opportunity for students to learn and attain a formal education is great,” she said.

ASUSU President Peter McChesney was unavailable to comment on USU’s involvement in the bill.

–m.l.r@aggiemail.usu.edu

Pageant: Winners announced -continued from page 1 Once the competition was over, judges announced the winners.

Ms. Dominican Republic, Evaida Santana, was crowned as the new Ms. International for 2007.

Mr. Domincan Republic, Jean Carlos, was awarded Mr. International 2007.

Santana, international business major, said she wanted to show that “We (her culture) always have fun, and we want the other cultures to have fun with us.”

Carlos said he wanted to give thanks “first to God, thank family, and thanks all Dominicans that are, ever since I have been here (in the U.S.), they have supported me. They have all had a part in this.”

Carlos is majoring in computer engineering and said he wants to help his family in the Dominican Republic and then help underprivileged kids throughout the world.

–jordan.cox@aggiemail.usu.edu Couples participating in Friday’s decathlon had to continue kissing while jump roping. If partners stopped kissing at any time, even between activities, they lost points. CAMERON PETERSON photo

After five events, however, Brown said he started to feel bad for the participants so he gave them a brief halftime, instructing them to wipe their faces and lips off so they could return ready to kiss.

After nearly an hour, Brad Schultz, first year master’s student in accounting, and Camille Hillstrom, sophomore in radiology, took first place.

The couple, who have been dating several months, said it was hardest to continue kissing while jump roping. Even though the activities were challenging, Schultz and Hillstrom said they really enjoyed it.

“It was fun. I’m good to go. I’m ready for another hour,” Schultz said. “I guess it helped that we’ve been in training for seven months.”

The competition was neck and neck, but the couple credited their slim victory to their strategy of love and never letting go.

Couple Nicholas Hansen, sophomore in graphic

design, and Caroline Berry, senior in family consumer science, came in second.

By the end of the competition, Berry said her face and lips were numb and raw. Being shorter than Hansen, she also said she had a stiff neck.

Brown coordinated the decathlon as part of a series of nontraditional intramural sports competitions he is organizing. He said the activities are designed to get the entire student body involved.

“I want to cater to all different aspects of campus, not just for athletes,” he said.

With the True Aggie Kissing Decathlon, Brown said he wanted to cater to couples, offering an activity that would attract participants and an audience.

“I wanted to create activities that would be awkward, hard to do and fun to look at,” he said.

Aside from offering an activity for everyone, Brown said the decathlon is an old USU tradition he is hoping to bring back permanently.

Evaida Santana and Jean Carlos, both of the Dominican –arie.k@aggiemail.usu.edu Republic, are Ms. and Mr. International. NOELLE BERLAGE photo

PoliceBlotter

Friday, Nov. 16, 2007

• A complainant came to the Logan Police Department to speak to an officer about a vehicle his ex-wife received during their divorce. The exwife has reported the vehicle stolen but still wants the complainant to pay for it. An officer informed the complainant that it was a civil issue.

• A complainant reported that he had several charges on his credit report that he had not known about. An officer provided a theft identity packet for the complainant and explained the necessary documents to the complainant. The case will remain active pending return of the information packet and needed information.

• Logan City Police were dispatched to a utility problem near 300 N. 400 East. A water pipe inside the residence burst. The maintenance man for the building was contacted and the water was turned off until a plumber could repair the pipe.

Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007 • Logan City Police were dispatched to a traffic

hazard incident near 1175 N. 400 East. A box of nails was dropped on the road at the incident address. Police and the complainant cleaned the nails up.

• There was a reported theft of $175 from a purse in the area of 300 E. 1150 N. The theft occurred when a party goer was left alone in the room were the complainant had left her purse. The complainant is getting the information of the suspect.

Follow up will continue.

• A Logan City police officer made contact with the complainant by telephone following the report of a traffic offense. The complainant stated that a vehicle had passed her vehicle at a high rate of speed. The complainant stated that she wanted the incident documented but did not want the officer to attempt to contact the driver of the other vehicle.

• An officer responded to a delayed report of a simple assault in the area of 200 N. 400 East. The complainant stated that another individual had attempted to punch him. The complainant stated that he did not want to purse charges.

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

Anonymous reporting line: 797-5000 EMERGENCY NUMBER: 911 Sunday, Nov. 18, 2007 • A Logan City police officer contacted a complainant who lives in the area of 400 E. 400 North, who said her new chihuahua had run away. The complainant said it is a two-year-old male, with long legs, and fawn in color and he is not wearing a collar. The dog has a micro chip registered to the previous owner, and his name is Angel. The dog was last seen running west from the area of 200 E. 400 North.

• A Logan City officer responded to 381 E. 400 North on a suspicious incident. The complainant believed that someone had been in her house; however, on further investigation, it is believed that she has misplaced her key. There was no evidence that the residence had been entered illegally.

• Officers responded to a citizen dispute. No criminal offences had transpired, however information concerning an alledged assault that occured last night was obtained.

-Compiled by Arie Kirk

Campus & Community

USU professor named Carnegie prof of year The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education have named USU Professor Lyle McNeal the 2007 Utah Professor of the Year. McNeal was selected from more than 300 top professors in the United States.

McNeal is a professor in the department of animal, dairy veterinary sciences in the College of Agriculture. USU is home to eight of the last 13 Carnegie Professors of the Year in Utah.

A public ceremony to honor McNeal as Utah’s Carnegie Professor of the Year is Thursday, Nov. 29, from 3-5 p.m. in USU’s Haight Alumni Center, at approximately 600 N. 800 East on campus. The McNeal public is invited.

Former USU Carnegie Professors of the Year are: Bonnie Glass-Coffin, anthropology; Jan Sojka, physics; David Lancy, anthropology; Mark Damen, history; Sonia Manuel-Dupont, English; Ted Alsop, geography and earth resources; and Frances Titchener, history.

The U.S. Professors of the Year Award Program was created in 1981 to increase awareness of the importance of undergraduate instruction at all types of higher education institutions.

The program recognizes faculty members for their achievement as undergraduate professors.

Both national and state winners are chosen on the basis of their extraordinary dedication to undergraduate teaching, determined by excellence in the following four areas: impact on and involvement with undergraduate students; scholarly approach to teaching and learning; contributions to undergraduate education in the institution, community and profession; and support from colleagues and current and former undergraduate students.

Grad students present ‘Origins’ exhibition Graduate students at USU present the group exhibit “Origins” Nov. 19-30 on the USU campus. The exhibit displays the work of the school’s emerging artists in the Tippetts Exhibition Hall of the Chase Fine Arts Center (approximately 1110 E. 610 North, Logan).

Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

A variety of media are represented in the exhibit, including ceramics, painting, photography and sculpture. The exhibition is free and open to all.

A closing reception, with refreshments, is Nov. 30 from 6-8:30 p.m. All are invited.

Museum offering bugs for Thanksgiving

The Saturday activity series continues at USU’s Museum of Anthropology. This week guests are invited to learn about how insects are eaten in various cultures throughout the world.

Activities take place Saturday, Nov. 24.

Visitors will learn about “entomophagy,” the practice of eating insects as food.

Willing participants will also be able to try a few edible insects of their own.

Flavored crickets, larvae, chocolate covered ants and toffee covered insects will be offered.

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.

“Eating insects is a common way that some cultures get protein,” said museum intern Shannyn Saxton. “However, it is taboo in other cultures, including our own. We thought we’d give people a chance to skip the leftover turkey and try the other white meat.”

The USU Museum of Anthropology is on the USU 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 797-7545 or visit the museum Web site www.usu.edu/anthro/museum/.

-Compiled from staff and media reports

MondaySports

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Johnson wins 2nd-straight cup title

HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — Totally calm and cool, Jimmie Johnson left the prerace drivers’ meeting Sunday afternoon flashing the peace sign at people wishing him luck.

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Two straight championships.

Johnson became the first driver to win consecutive championships since Jeff Gordon in 1997 and ‘98, wrapping up the title by finishing a trouble-free seventh in the season finale at HomesteadMiami Speedway. Matt Kenseth won the race.

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USU picks up a victory over NMSU, Savor the smell of victory S breaking a 16-game winless streak

By SAMMY HISLOP sports editor

“Sometimes you just get sick and tired of being sick and tired.”

Those were the words heard over the radio by USU football head coach Brent Guy after his team snapped a 16-game losing streak Saturday with a 35-17 road victory over the New Mexico State Aggies.

“These guys have been through a lot,” said Guy, who now has five wins as USU’s head coach. “After we got the crap beat out of us by Boise and got embarrassed last week ... (we) came out here and were determined.”

Utah State, who also stopped a 13game road skid, is now 1-10 overall and 16 in Western Athletic Conference games.

NMSU fell to 4-8 and 1-6 and have lost four straight.

The 35 points were the most scored by USU in a win under Guy. The game’s turning point came with 11:33 left in the fourth quarter. After NMSU completed an eight-play, 74-yard drive to cut Utah State’s lead to four, USU wide receiver/return specialist Kevin Robinson took the ensuing kick return back 82 yards for a touchdown, putting the navy blue Aggies up, 28-17.

NMSU’s next drive began at ts own 20-yard line but was cut short on the ninth play as a Chase Holbrook pass was intercepted by USU junior cornerback Marquise Charles with 8:33 remaining.

USU’s offense was fruitless, but a Leon Jackson III punt pinned NMSU inside its own one-yard line.

In three plays, the hosts gained only five yards and punted to Robinson, who worked his magic enough for a 35-yard return to put USU 14 yards away from

another touchdown.

It took seven plays before Utah State senior tight end Jimmy Bohm rushed for a two-yard score to put NMSU away for good.

“To tell you the truth, I forgot what this felt like,” USU junior tight end Rob Myers said of winning. “This is awesome.

Everybody is just so pumped up.”

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“These guys have been through a lot. After we got the crap beat out of us by Boise and got embarrassed last week ... (we) came out here and were determined.”

Brent Guy, USU head football coach With two sisters and a cousin at the game, Myers had a career-high day, catching four passes for 117 yards and two touchdowns.

Five minutes into the third quarter and trailing 10-7, Jackson found Myers for a 26-yard touchdown pass to cap off a nineplay, 67-yard drive.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter it was the same thing — but this time a 24-yard reception to a wide-open Myers.

That drive also began with a 37-yard completion to the Houston, Texas, native.

“I’ll tell you what man, you actually play a lot harder when you’ve got family in the stands,” Myers said. “We put those (plays) in specifically for me because we knew the middle of the field was going to be open. Our o-line blocked their butts

off. Everything came together. It was awesome.”

Guy added, “You have to plant a seed to be successful. We have to plant a winning seed. In the fourth quarter when it was getting tight, I reminded them of that — get this so you don’t have to answer about this losing streak anymore.”

NMSU ended with 455 yards of total offense — 100 more than USU had — but two Holbrook second-half interceptions offset that.

Holbrook, New Mexico State’s all-time leading passer, completed 42-of-58 passes for 367 yards and was never sacked.

Jackson, on the other hand, was only 14-of-20 for 189 yards for two touchdowns and was sacked three times. “(Holbrook) had more yards, but we won the game and that’s the bottom line,” Guy said.

Utah State freshman tailbacks Derrvin Speight and Curtis Marsh combined for 145 yards on the ground. Marsh scored on a seven-yard run in the first quarter.

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Even with all the turmoil the program has been going through for the past two seasons, Guy said a score of supporters are still behind him and the program.

Saturday’s victory wasn’t just for the players, he said, but for those supporters as well.

“It’s really special to all those people who have called over these past 15 weeks who are very good friends of mine,” Guy said. “I can’t name them all. They have called me, left messages, sent me e-mails (telling us to) keep going and we’re in the right direction and we’re going to get a win.”

-samuel.hislop@aggiemail.usu.edu

ome people are never going to be pleased.

This is what I relearned after listening to a portion of Saturday’s post-game call-in show after the football team notched its first victory in more than 13 months.

Many of you who listen to the games by radio are familiar with “Aggie Call,” conducted after every football and basketball game on KVNU (610 AM).

This is essentially what happens: During football season, the same people call in and express their disappointment and outrage over what happened in the game; during the men’s basketball season, it is generally the opposite because of the large amount of victories by the team.

Saturday afternoon followed the pattern. One disgruntled caller—a man—stood by his impatient opinion that he still doesn’t like a Brent Guy-coached team and never will. Guy is too conservative and lacking in creativity, the man said. He thinks that, though USU might be able to beat New Mexico State, with the same effort they can’t compete with Boise State, Brigham Young University, Utah, etc.

He’s absolutely right. Obviously the Aggies can’t compete with teams like Boise State, BYU or Utah. How does one know this?

The Aggies haven’t beat any of those teams since 1997. Duh. OK. I understand the point completely, though I wonder what football expertise that man carries with him besides a loud mouth.

For goodness sake, after a 16game losing streak, why not relax and enjoy it? Is there really any harm in this? The Aggies played great football—perhaps their best of the season—and, for once, were able to enjoy the flight back home.

Isn’t it OK to enjoy the good things in life? It is.

Only thing that bothered me about the game was that it didn’t happen at Romney Stadium.

I don’t care what Utah State’s record is right now. I don’t care if NMSU had some key players injured or that they’re on a fourgame losing streak and going downhill.

I care Utah State won. Every Aggie football fan should. Not only that, but it was more than a win that barely occurred—as was the case in last season’s 13-12 victory over Fresno State. Saturday the Aggies showed us they can play four quarters of solid football. The 35 points they put up were the most points scored in a victory under Guy. This is all good news. It’s at least a start. It’s step one to building a winning program. Such types are not built by pessimists like the man who called in. Thank goodness he’s not on the coaching staff.

Now Utah State has a golden opportunity to finish out the year on a two-game winning streak and top last season’s victory total of one. The Idaho Vandals are like the Aggies—1-10 and just got destroyed by Boise State, 58-14.

I’m confident this game will be close.

The Aggies have the momentum, and they will finish the season 2-10.

S a m m y Hislop is a junior majoring in public relations.

He can be reached at samuel.hislop @ag g ie mail.usu.edu

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turnovers, including a game high of four by recorded six rebounds and was one of only senior point guard Kris Clark. three Utah State players to not turn the ball over.

“They just geared up physically and basically took us out of everything we were trying Utah State finished the game by shooting Different game, same story. to do,” Morrill said. “They caused us to turn a season-low 36.2 percent from the field and Turnovers. the ball over, or we caused ourself to turn the allowed UC Irvine to shoot 47.3 percent. The Playing the final game of their California ball over.”

Anteaters made 8-of-21 3-pointers and all 10 road trip, Utah State turned the ball over UC Irvine, who the Aggies used to comof their free throw attempts. pete against when they were in the Big West 18 times on its way to a 70-51 defeat to the The Aggies looked to have the game in Conference, recorded 13 steals and outUniversity of California-Irvine Anteaters. control when they used a 13-0 run to take a rebounded Utah State 31-30. Morrill said he “It’s really tough as a coach to watch us 22-12 lead in the middle part of the first half. make the same mistakes over and over,” head tried to prepare his team for the challenge of Then everything fell apart. coach Stew Morrill said in a post-game radio playing at Irvine.

UC Irvine went on a 23-3 interview. “We just lose the ball, down in the “I tried to explain to this run to close out the half and group what were in for, but low post, we just lose the ball.” take a 10-point lead, 35-25, until you can experience For the game, Utah State had more turninto the break. During that overs than they did assists – 18 to 12 to it you don’t really know,” the Anteaters made five 3“Its really tough as run, be exact. Of the 12 Aggie players who saw Morrill said. “And Irvine, pointers and scored points off a coach to watch playing time, nine committed at least one they took the game to us.” turnovers. For the entire game, us make the same UC Irvine scored 24 points off turnover, while five players recorded multiple With two straight losses to past Big West foes, mistakes over and of Aggie turnovers. specifically a game like “They got a lot of points in Saturday night against the over” transition, off of turnovers, Anteaters, where the Aggies and easy baskets off of put were simply outplayed and Stew Morrill, USU men’s backs,” Morrill said. out-physicalled, Morrill said seeing the lead grow head basketball coach After doubt is starting to go to to 14 in the second half, Utah the heads of some players.

State cut the deficit down “We got a lot of doubt right now in indito six with 11:35 left to play. UC Irvine vidual ability. We got guys that are better responded with a 13-point run of its own to than they are playing,” Morrill said. “It’s a put the game away. The lead would eventually balloon to 25 with the final deficit being challenge to try and get ourselves right mentally. We got to gear up a little bit and believe 19 points. we can play.”

UC Irvine was led by forward Kevin Freshman Tyler Newbold, who saw his first Bland, who scored 15 points, grabbed eight action at the small forward position Saturday rebounds and stole the ball five times. night, said he knows the Aggies have to The road gets no easier for Utah State, as understand the physical nature of the game they will play a home game against Austin and fight back with some toughness of their Peay on Tuesday night. Austin Peay returns own. five starters from a team last year that won “We need to toughen up with the ball and 21 games, including the regular season Ohio to clear some space and know that it’s going Valley Conference Championship. to be physical,” Newbold said. “It’s college Newbold said he knows Utah State only basketball and that’s what it is. We need to has one direction to go, and that is up. keep our heads on straight and be physical “The only way that we can go is up. We’ve back.” gotten beaten pretty bad here on the road senior guard Jaycee Carroll (20) Jaycee Carroll was the only Aggie to reach and we need to stay positive,” he said. “It’s goes up for a shot over a Montana-Western double digits in scoring as he scored 21 still early in the year. We got a lot of games defender Monday, Nov. 12, at the Spectrum. points on 7-of-14 shooting, including 4-of-7 to play.”

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figures with her 16-point game. Also, only one Pilot was able to reach double digits on the afternoon, sophomore The University of Portland guard Kendra Morris with 14 Pilots pushed the Aggies to 0-3 points. with a 68-55 win in Portland, With 15 minutes remaining Ore., on Sunday. in the second half, the lady Leading the entire game, Pilots soared to a 21-point the Pilots brought their season lead. They came through the record to 3-0. Rebounding was half with an 11-point deficit, the only advantage the Aggies and despite multiple efforts, took during the game. Despite the Aggies could not reduce decent rebounding, 39 to the their lagging score.

Pilots’ 38, the team was not “I think we’re really flat, able to stay mentally strong honestly,” Pebley said. “It’s a throughout the game, head toughness thing. Champions coach Raegan Pebley said in a find a way, and those people post-game radio interview. are pretty special. I think we “I feel like have that on this is going our team. We to be a process just have to, as a for this team coaching staff, USU 55 to develop that teach them how and grow in our Portland 68 to draw that out mental toughof themselves.” ness,” Pebley said. “So that no As far as leadership within matter what we see, whether the team on and off the floor, we’re playing against a really the Aggies are in need of the physical team like we did player who will step up, Pebley tonight, we’re going to be said. Richards is one teammate confident and still be able to the ladies look to for the push execute what we do.” and support they need, she Freshman guard Amber added.

White offered two jumpers in The leadership comes from a the first five minutes of the combination of many qualities game to tie the score twice. a player must embody, Pebley White concluded with her four said. It’s a positive outlook points in 21 minutes of play. and the ability to influence The Aggies were unable to gain that make up the type of team a lead and headed to the locker leader needed, she said. room at the midpoint, trailing “Taylor is somebody who 29-21. is doing her best to lead this The Pilots’ forceful play team through her productivwas difficult for the Aggies to ity,” Pebley said. “But we need keep up with, Pebley said. This that somebody who is going nature of play paired with the to be a vocal leader for this Aggies’ lack of clarity to knock team and can show them the down shots posed a problem way and put this team on their throughout the game, she said. back. It’s a spark, it’s a defen “It doesn’t matter what play sive presence, it’s decision we draw, what situation we making on the offensive end. create for ourselves, you’ve got It’s not just playing hard.” to be able to handle the aggres- USU finished with a field siveness,” Pebley said. “You goal percentage of 35, hitting have to be able to handle being only 21 of 60 shot attempts. able to finish some shots.”

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UsU Center Jenny Gross (12) scrambles for a ball in a one-point Aggie loss against the University of Pacific at home, Nov. 9. Gross had seven points against Portland State and three at Portland. DEBRA HAWKINS photo

Another one-point loss Friday at Portland State

By ERIN WADSWORTH staff writer

Free throws defeated the Aggies for the second time in a row as they fell to Portland State University 61-59 Friday.

With three seconds left in the second half and the score tied at 59, sophomore forward Delaney Conway stepped up to the line.

The Vikings had fought their way back from a 13-point Aggie lead with 11 minutes left to play.

The Vikings employed their zone defense against the Aggies, a skill the team does not show often, head coach Raegan Pebley said in a post-game radio interview.

USU was prepared to counter zone defense, and Pebley said she knew

there was a possibility the Vikings would use this tactic.

“It’s something that we work on and have all season,” Pebley said.

“We know we’re vulnerable to zone defenses with how good we run our man offense.”

Even though the Aggies opened the game leading, the Vikings pulled off a starting 15-6 run. USU grabbed the lead back for a while, but halftime came with a Viking 31-27 lead.

USU worked its way back into the game with a fire-starting 19-8 run to reach a 52-39 advantage.

It was then that the Vikings took hold, and the rest is history.

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Carr to announce his retirement from UM

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Michigan coach Lloyd Carr will retire Monday after 13 seasons, ending an era marked by highs of winning a national championship and five Big Ten titles and lows of losing to Ohio State and Appalachian State.

Carr told The Associated Press of his decision Sunday by phone, saying he wouldn’t comment further until a Monday morning news conference at the school.

The 62-year-old coach informed his players and staff of his retirement Sunday during a team meeting at Schembechler Hall.

“It’s a hard thing to deal with,” safety Jamar Adams said. “We’re like a family, and when the head of your family is leaving, it’s hard.”

The news comes a day after Michigan lost to Ohio State for the fourth straight year, ending a trying season for Carr and the Wolverines that started with an embarrassing loss to second-tier Appalachian State.

It was a move many expected last winter when he altered his contract, paving the way for this to be his last season on the sideline, and later made sure the school gave all of his assistants unprecedented, two-year deals.

Carr is 121-40 with a .752 winning percentage, ranking him seventh among active coaches just behind Florida State’s Bobby Bowden and ahead of South Carolina’s Steve Spurrier before he retired.

But in a what-have-you-done-lately environment, Carr will be remembered by some for the way his team closed seasons toward the end of his career and how it opened 2007.

The four consecutive losses to Ohio State, matched Michigan’s longest losing streak in the storied series, and Carr became the first coach in school history to lose six times in seven years in the rivalry.

The Jim Tressel-led Buckeyes beat the Wolverines 14-3, Saturday, dropping Carr to 6-7 overall in the matchup that matters most.

“Lloyd Carr is one of the true gentlemen of college football,” Tressel said Sunday.

“His legacy is extraordinary and his leadership in the coaching profession is greatly appreciated. He made a difference in collegiate athletics.”

Carr led the Wolverines to the 1997 national championship and five Big Ten titles. He won .779 percent of his conference games, trailing the success rate of just two coaches that were in the Big Ten for at least a decade: Michigan’s Bo Schembechler and Fielding Yost. Against top-10 teams, Carr was 17-9.

Michigan has lost its last four bowl games, including three Rose Bowls, the longest postseason skid since Schembechler dropped seven straight in the 1970s.

The Wolverines were ranked No. 5 before this season started with voters who thought returning stars on offense would make up for inexperienced players on defense and special teams.

Then, they began the season by losing to Appalachian State, becoming the first ranked team to lose to a team from the Football Championship Subdivision, formerly Division I-AA. That led to an unprecedented fall out of the poll.

Michigan followed up that embarrassment by losing to Oregon 39-7 at home, its worst loss since 1968.

The Wolverines did rally, however, with eight straight wins and had a chance to win the Big Ten title outright and earn a spot in the Rose Bowl in the regular-season finale against Ohio State. With the loss to the Buckeyes, Michigan is likely to end up in the Outback Bowl or the Alamo Bowl.

Carr’s career was a lot like the 2007 season: Relatively rough at the start; great in the middle; lackluster toward the end.

The longtime assistant was elevated to interim coach on May 16, 1995, after Gary Moeller resigned following a drunken confrontation with police. Michigan dropped the interim tag toward the end of his first season.

The Wolverines lost four games in each of Carr’s first two seasons, then went 120 and won the national championship a decade ago accomplishing a feat the late Schembechler didn’t.

Michigan won Big Ten titles in 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003 and 2004 under Carr.

The Wolverines were 7-5 two years ago, their worst season in two decades, and bounced back in 2006 with 11 wins and a third trip to the Rose Bowl in four years.

Carr was born July 30, 1945, in Hawkins County, Tenn. He graduated from Northern Michigan and began his coaching career at Nativity High School in Detroit.

After a few more stops, Schembechler hired him in 1980 as defensive backs coach and promoted him to defensive coordinator in 1987. He held that job through the 1994 season.

People have been talking about his possible successor for months, if not years.

LSU coach Les Miles seems to be at the top of the list because he played for Schembechler at Michigan, where he met his wife and later became an assistant there under Schembechler.

Even though Miles appears to be in a great situation leading the top-ranked Tigers in a talent-rich area of the country, the school was concerned enough about him bolting for Michigan that it put a specific clause in his contract to make it an expensive move.

In the “termination by coach” section of his deal, Michigan is the only other school mentioned. It states that Miles will not seek or accept employment as Michigan’s coach. If Miles does leave LSU to coach the Wolverines, he must pay LSU $1.25 million.

Other candidates might include Carolina Panthers assistant Mike Trgovac, who played for the Wolverines and joined their coaching staff in 1984 as a graduate assistant; Kirk Ferentz of Iowa, where University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman was before coming to Ann Arbor; and NFL head coaches Bobby Petrino in Atlanta and Tampa Bay’s Jon Gruden.

Cleveland Browns running back Jamal Lewis (31) stiff-arms his way past Baltimore Ravens safety Ed Reed (20) during the fourth quarter in Baltimore. The Browns won 33-30 in overtime. AP photo

Four close games Sunday BALTIMORE (AP) — No one could have imagined Cleveland would end up winning the way it did in overtime Sunday.

Phil Dawson’s tying 51-yard field goal at the end of regulation hit the upright, then tapped the crossbar before bouncing back onto the field. As the stadium emptied and the Ravens pumped their fists in the air, several of the Browns insisted Dawson’s kick hit the curved center support behind the crossbar, making the field goal good.

They were right. After a long discussion, the officials ruled the kick went through the uprights and called the teams back onto the field.

The Browns took the kickoff in overtime and drove 43 yards in nine plays before Dawson kicked a 33-yard field goal to give Cleveland (6-4) a 33-30 win and a rare season sweep of the Ravens.

Baltimore (4-6) rallied from a 13-point deficit for a 30-27 lead on a 47-yard field goal by Matt Stover with 26 seconds left in regulation. But Derek Anderson drove the Browns into position for Dawson’s redemptive attempt.

One week earlier, Dawson missed a 52-yarder that would have forced overtime against Pittsburgh. This time, he made the kick — even if the officials needed almost five minutes to confirm that it went through.

Ravens QB Kyle Boller was sacked six times and committed three turnovers. But he went 22-for-41 for 279 yards, passing Vinny Testaverde as the Ravens’ career leader in passing yardage.

Brodney Pool had a 100-yard interception return for a touchdown for Cleveland. Derek Anderson went 24-for-38 for 274 yards and a touchdown. Another former Raven, Jamal Lewis, ran for 92 yards and a touchdown.

Owens caught touchdown passes of 4, 31, 46 and 52 yards, marking the first four-TD game of his career, to get the Cowboys to 9-1 for the first time since 1983. They’ve won four straight since losing to New England, this being the third in a row against division foes.

It wasn’t as easy as it sounds, though. The Redskins (5-5) answered T.O.’s fourth TD with a touchdown, then forced the Cowboys to punt. Jason Campbell had Washington 19 yards from a go-ahead TD, but ruined it with an interception thrown right into the belly of Dallas’ Terence Newman with 1:39 left.

Owens’ last three scores came in a span of 11 plays and were his only catches of the second half. He finished with eight grabs for 173 yards, his fourth straight 100-yard game. His four TDs also tied a club record accomplished only once, by Bob Hayes in 1970.

Jets 19, Steelers 16, OT

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — The Jets left the field winners for the first time in almost two months. With thousands of Pittsburgh fans in Giants Stadium waving their yellow Steelers towels, Mike Nugent kicked a 38-yard field goal 5:03 into overtime.

The kick broke a six-game losing streak for the Jets (28), who stormed the field after the victory and celebrated in a huge circle around Nugent.

Thomas Jones had 117 yards on 30 carries, becoming the first running back in 35 games to reach 100 yards against the top-ranked Steelers defense. Leon Washington set up the win by returning a punt 26 yards to the Steelers 26.

Colts 13, Chiefs 10

Michigan head coach Lloyd Carr walks off the Michigan Stadium field after a college football game with Ohio State, Saturday, Nov. 17, in Ann Arbor, Mich. Ohio State won 143. AP photo

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Booed by the crowd after missing his first two field goals against Kansas City and the subject of criticism all week after missing a chip shot that would have beaten San Diego a week earlier, Adam Vinatieri made a 24-yard field goal with 4 seconds left.

The win ended Indy’s two-game losing streak and kept the Colts (8-2) atop the AFC South.

Kansas City (4-6) lost its third straight game in Brodie Croyle’s first career start.

Vinatieri was booed mildly when he tried a 49-yard field goal, a chorus that grew louder when he missed it to the right. The boobirds were even louder after Vinatieri pulled a 38-yarder wide left.

But when the Colts really needed Vinatieri, he connected on a 27-yarder just before halftime, which drew mocking cheers, and then brought the crowd to its feet with the winner.

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Ags avenge last week’s loss to SJSU

was better, and he did,” John said. “He was being a positive leader. It was a feel-good weekend pretty much.”

Arsenault said he didn’t say anything to Scarborough after scoring the game-winner, but Utah State ran through a weak Division-III he did send a message to the crowd: “Half the Santa Clara team, 11-0, in a game Greg Finatti people replying on that hockey101 are fans or said the Ags shouldn’t have even been playing. former players. I just looked up to the crowd and “We should have played San Jose both nights,” told them to hush with the old finger to the lip.”

Finatti said. “If you play a Division-III team, you Both Finatti and John said they were worried just start playing down to their level and it gives that playing against a weak D-III squad the night you bad habits going into the next game.” before facing San Jose State would lead to the Finatti’s issues with the scheduling notwithAggies getting lazy, but it didn’t happen. standing, it was a night of firsts for the Aggies “Honestly, usually it’s tougher to play a bad and a chance to put another game in the win team the night before because it’s hard to stay column. Defenseman Eric Hickenlooper and focused, but this weekend was different than forward Jonah Nelson both scored the first goals most because we played our systems well both of their USU careers, while freshman goaltender Dan Cornelius got his first shutout while wearing nights,” John said.

Ryan Osterheldt and Matt Ferris provided Aggie colors. the other two goals for USU as head coach Jerry “It was awesome,” Cornelius said. “I don’t get Crossley shuffled his lines: Freshman sensation many shutouts, so it’s nice to get one finally.

Ben Tikka moved back to defense, “I have no luck. Something where he played in juniors, and stupid will always happen with a Walter Voisard moved up to play on couple of minutes left. It was good Tikka’s line with Arsenault and Jay to get the first one out of the way.”

McFadden.

Ben Tikka and Will Winsa led USU 11 “Tikka and Maci played pretty the USU attack with three points apiece. Both players had two goals Santa Clara 0 well together,” Finatti said.

As usual, when USU beats a top and one assist.

USU 4 team, Finatti’s presence between Team captain Scotty John said for being an obviously inferior San Jose 3 the goalposts was the deciding factor. Stop if this sounds familiar: Division-III team, Santa Clara was Finatti had nearly double the numawfully chippy. ber of saves as the opposing goalie.

“They weren’t very good, obviously, as the “It’s better because you get in the zone,” Finatti score suggests,” John said. “Two of their kids said. “You’re not waiting five minutes without got kicked out for trying to fight. One of them facing a shot. I’m used to it after three years punched me in the face like five times. I had my cage on and he was wearing his gloves, but it was here.”

Arsenault said San Jose’s claim to play in the still annoying that I couldn’t do anything or else “loudest barn in the West” is false advertising.

I’d get kicked out for the next game.”

“It’s definitely not true,” Arsenault said. “I’d Cornelius said it was a good team effort that say our barn is four if not five times louder. They allowed him to get the goose egg on the scorehave nothing compared to what we have. board.

“We watched their game Friday night against “There were a couple of two-on-ones and twoSac State, and their fans are just brutal. They’re on-zeros,” he said. “But the defense also bailed not the loudest fans in the West, that’s for sure.” me out a couple of times.”

When asked if USU saved its season with this win at San Jose, Finatti said, “It put us in a good REVENGE position to keep going. If we lost that game, we had no chance. Now it’s a realistic chance we can The Aggies avenged a bitter week-old loss by be successful this year. I was pretty pleased that stunning the Spartans in their own backyard, our team actually came out and played. It was 4-3. Kent Arsenault settled a personal score with nice to beat them in their place. Give everybody Spartan wing Sean Scarborough by showing something to think about.” him up with two goals and one assist, includ Up next for the Aggies is a date down south ing the game-winning goal in the third period. with their bitter rivals, the Brigham Young Scarborough did not score in the game.

University Icecats, last seen slinking off the ice Greg Finatti, who started in goal and had an after John’s overtime game-winner in the Ec. John impressive 45 saves to lead USU to victory, said said his team is revitalized after making a statethe Arsenault-Scarborough beef started when some San Jose boosters dissed Arsenault for scor- ment against the Spartans, and getting motivated for BYU won’t be a problem. ing most of his points against weak teams in an “It’s always easy to be mad,” John said. “We online chat room. have to play in Provo, and that makes me really “San Jose always talks s--- on hockey101.com mad. It’s that place. I walk into a malt shoppe about how Scarborough from their team scores after the game with a beard and people are stargoals in big games and he should be on the alling at me.”

ACHA select team instead of Kent, so it was nice -graham.terry@aggiemail.usu.edu for him to shut them up,” Finatti said.

“Kent played like a guy that wanted to prove he

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Utah State Guard Taylor Richards drives past a University of Pacific defender Friday, Nov. 9, at the Spectrum. In the Aggies’ two losses this weekend, Richards had 12 points on Friday night at Portland State to lead the team. She also had 16 points and lead the Aggies again in their loss to the University of Portland Sunday night. .

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handled the first half,” Pebley said.

“In the second half, we carried that over. We just saw what teams did last year, they just got tired of adjusting to our man offense and they went zone. Our kids had a hard time scoring against it.”

Viking sophomore guard Claire Faucher topped the team’s scoring with 17 points, along with teammate junior guard Kelsey Kahle’s 14 points. The lady Vikings concluded their win with a 39.3 shooting percentage.

Tumbling to 0-2 on the season, the Aggies look to become more solid, Pebley said. With a one-point loss to the University of the Pacific and this two-point loss, the Aggies will be using the games as a learning tool, she said.

“Our kids are showing that they can rise to the talent level that they have to play against,” Pebley said.

“We’ve just got to be smart and really be able to close up these wins.”

Senior Aggie guard Taylor Richards brought home 12 points for the team’s 33.3 field goal percentage. Junior guard Danyelle Snelgro banked 11 points, added to senior center Jenny Gross’ seven points and 11 rebounds.

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The Pilots banked a 42.2 field goal percentage.

Pulling off five points in the last two minutes of the game, the Pilots sealed the Aggies’ fate. Sophomore center Nicole Johnson put up USU’s last two points. Her free throws in the final seconds of the game brought the Aggies to the final score.

“I felt like up until the last five minutes we were doing a good job defensively,” Pebley said. “Our issues were on the offensive end for the most part of the game. We struggled with that. There was a lack of decision making, a lack of execution.”

USU returns to the Spectrum Nov. 24 to host Utah Valley.

A four-game travel schedule begins on Nov. 28, when the Aggies travel to Pocatello, Idaho, to face Idaho State University.

“We’re going to have to come out and really find some answers with our offense and keep building on our defense, and try and bounce back from these tough losses,” Pebley said.

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They can control the outcome of grades, how little of a social life you will have on a given weekend or how many hours you will spend agonizing over a paper you don’t really care about in the library.

But do they really hold all the power?

While the control over the grades may seem like a near unapproachable source of power, we need to remember as students that we have considerable power of our own.

Each semester at about this time, teacher evaluations are administered. Those magical sheets of paper with the rating scales and bubbles that are near impossible to fill in without spilling outside the lines, become something of a nuisance in the class.

Deciding the difference between excellent and very good, and fair and poor, may seem a waste of time and paper.

But stop a minute before filling out that first bubble and think about what you are actually doing. You hold in your hands the future grade of your teacher.

Really, you do. Teacher evaluations are taken very seriously by the university and by the professors. To one degree or another, these teacher evaluations influence a teacher’s standing at the university.

So, if you’ve been complaining about how unfair a teacher was all semester long, make that same argument on the teacher evaluation on the back page, one of the most neglected areas of the paper. Sure, the bubble scores give some information, but teachers really do read the back of the evaluations for student comments. Yeah, it takes some time to write a few sentences but perhaps those few sentences can help the teacher improve on their teaching style and make the class better for future generations of students.

Contrary to popular belief, most teachers really do care about their class and the quality of education they are providing for their students. This is their profession. They understand you are paying their salary and generally want to make classes worth your while.

But if they never receive feedback, there is no way to know exactly how to make things better.

Things don’t have to be all negative either. If a teacher has done a particularly good job, let them know it. Teachers often have a thankless job and a little thanks can go a long way.

Teacher evaluations are valuable for both teachers and students. By being truthful and complete on the teacher evaluations, the overall quality of the classes and teaching can improve. It only takes a few minutes, and hey, it provides a chance to take a break from listening to the teacher all the time. Give them a chance to listen to you.

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ForumLetters Conflict not so black and white To the editor: So, in a no holds-bar fight, you know a steel cage death match where two people enter and only one leaves, who would win, religion or science? Personally I would have to say religion, it seems to have had most of the muscle and political clout in world history, but unfortunately we will never know for sure because there is no mystical duel between religion and science as many people believe there is today.

The truth is that this argument is promulgated by the two extremes: the antagonizing scientist and the religious fanatic. The former supports science as the sole source of truth, and the latter supports their own misconstrued ideas of God as absolute reality.

The truth is that science and religion have worked together to further our knowledge of the universe and to broaden our understanding of God and the way He works.

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figurative speech and that it would be better to say seven separate periods of time.

Science and faith aren’t in a showdown.

For those who are religious, science is one more way to better understand the Bible, and to further cultivate knowledge of the way in which God operates. If you, as a religious person, decide to neglect science because it scares you, you are blinding yourself to an important tool in your pursuit of spiritual wisdom. Thus, to say that faith and science are at odds with each other in a legendary clash of might, is quite imprudent. The objective individual will find that the argument isn’t black and white as portrayed by the extremists but rather reality is a colorful combination of both sides. For once you can have your cake and eat it too.

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Cease the bickering To the editor: For some time now, there have been children squabbling over the debate of science vs. religion. I say enough is enough. It is time for both of you to shut up, close your mouths and open your minds.

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riday’s meeting in Washington, D.C., between President Bush and yet another new Japanese prime minister -- the third in five years, if you’re counting -- is certain to underscore the peculiar tensions burdening an alliance that once seemed so essential to long-term U.S. strategy in What others are saying about issues. Asia.

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t’s no wonder we have a seemingly unquenchable thirst for celebrity photos and gossip: it’s one of the few times each day you can feel really sure about your convictions.

“Yeah, that Paris Hilton really is a dumb rich brat, that’s for sure. We don’t need no science or mathematics to prove that.

Pass the chips,” we collectively say.

Despite the media’s penchant for presenting both sides of a hundred-sided issue, most other issues make your brain hurt and are decidedly gray. Nothing has more shades of gray than energy. It’s rife with questions and run-on sentences.

Sending people down into coal mines is really dangerous, but strip mining is really ugly. Burning coal pollutes, but it makes us more energy independent than oil, although nuclear power might be clean and independent, but a small mistake might kill more people than coal mining and couldn’t we get robots to do this kind of work since we already have them

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Your beliefs are philosophy, a field of thought meant to study that which science cannot. Morality, the nature of man, the meaning of life, these are the things that philosophy – and most especially religion – are meant to contemplate. It cannot argue against science because it is a field unrelated to science. Neither should any attempt be made to mix the two together.

You on the side of science: So, because this religion you call science is all shiny and new, it makes you more enlightened than those who hold to the traditional ways? Fah! None described science better than Isaac Asimov, who said, “I stand on a beach before a vast sea of truth, pick up a grain of sand and say, ‘Oh, look!

How neat!’” Science is an imperfect method of seeing the universe, because it relies on the limited understanding of the human mind. We are but the sub-atomic particles composing a mote of dust, which orbits an infinitesimal dot of light in a vast sea of blackness and chaos and you believe because you’ve latched onto an obscure fact or two you know everything?

What ego! Each generation believed itself to be more enlightened than the last and each generation was proved to be unenlightened by the

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tempting to blame the usual absence of strong Japanese leadership for the friction, another key factor should be recognized: the Bush foreign policy team’s tendency to bully global allies. Finally, a Japan that for years felt it had no choice but to follow Washington’s dictates is chafing at the demands of a U.S. administration that fails to recognize the constraints facing

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In our increasingly complex society of special interest groups, there seems to be a large number of groups that have special protection. While it may be kosher to say something about one group – such as lawyers – it is completely out of line to say things about other groups.

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Despite international outcry, world’s electronic waste still ends up in China GUIYU, China (AP) – The air smells acrid from the squat gas burners that sit outside homes, melting wires to recover copper and cooking computer mother-

boards to release gold. Migrant workers in filthy clothes smash picture tubes by hand to recover glass and electronic parts, releasing as much as 6.5 pounds of lead

A WORKER PROCESSES electronic trash in Guiyu, China, March 16, 2006. AP photo

dust.

For five years, environmentalists and the media have highlighted the danger to Chinese workers who dismantle much of the world’s junked electronics. Yet a visit to this southeastern Chinese town regarded as the heartland of “e-waste” disposal shows little has improved. In fact, the problem is growing worse because of China’s own contribution.

China now produces more than 1 million tons of e-waste each year, said Jamie Choi, a toxics campaigner with Greenpeace China in Beijing. That adds up to roughly 5 million television sets, 4 million fridges, 5 million washing machines, 10 million mobile phones and 5 million personal computers, according to Choi.

“Most e-waste in China comes from overseas, but the amount of

domestic e-waste is on the rise,” he said.

This ugly business is driven by pure economics. For the West, where safety rules drive up the cost of disposal, it’s as much as 10 times cheaper to export the waste to developing countries. In China, poor migrants from the countryside willingly endure the health risks to earn a few yuan, exploited by profit-hungry entrepreneurs.

International agreements and European regulations have made a dent in the export of old electronics to China, but loopholes — and sometimes bribes — allow many to skirt the requirements. And only a sliver of the electronics sold get returned to manufacturers such as Dell and Hewlett Packard for safe recycling.

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a country still grappling with the task of becoming a “normal nation.”

We Americans like to believe that Japan remains our closest of friends. The U.S. security treaty with Tokyo is, as former Ambassador to Japan Mike Mansfield said, the United States’ “most important bilateral relationship in the world, bar none.”

We depend on Japan not only to buy our Treasury bills and supply us with Toyota hybrids but also to be our land base to contain the potential ambitions of China.

Yet if our alliance is so robust, why did the Japanese military earlier this month end its mission in the Indian Ocean refueling ships in the U.S.-led campaign to stabilize Afghanistan? And if the Japanese government is vital to the efforts to dismantle North Korea’s nuclear production facilities, why do Washington and Tokyo disagree on whether North Korea ought to be dropped from the U.S. State Department’s list of nations that sponsor terrorism? Finally, if Japan really is our closest ally in the Pacific, why have Tokyo and Washington argued for more than a decade on crucial financial and deployment issues regarding U.S. forces in Okinawa?

The Bush team came to Washington committed to reversing what it saw as the marginalization of Japan’s importance under President Clinton. But just as the gamble in Iraq damaged the U.S.’ relationship with France and Germany , it has also soured the relationship with Japan . Although it’s easy to blame Tokyo for dragging its feet when Washington needs a larger multinational commitment to bat-

tle terrorism, it is also clear that the administration bungled things by not investing the energy to understand how its actions would play out in Japan.

The Bush administration seemed to convince itself that Japan was like Tony Blair’s Britain: an island nation with a booming economy, shared values and a defense force that could be easily deployed to help U.S. troops. Bush also seemed to feel that a close personal friendship with former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi would somehow transform nagging policy differences.

Such faulty analogies obscure the fact that Japan is governed by a constitution written by the U.S. at the end of World War II, a document that forever renounces the right to wage war. And despite Japan’s vast material wealth, its people see themselves as isolated residents of a small island nation nervous about being too deeply engaged in global politics.

For more than 50 years, the Japanese have been content to develop industrial muscle while leaving their defense in U.S. hands. That puts the Japanese woefully out of practice when it comes to strategic thinking about long-term foreign policy interests, and for decades Washington’s geopolitical strategists liked it that way.

So when the U.S. demanded “boots on the ground” by a “coalition of the willing” to support the Iraq invasion, Japan found itself in an uncomfortable spot.

A vast majority of Japanese didn’t want to be involved in armed conflict – even in a limited role. The pacifist constitution was another barrier. And the Bush administration’s failure to win U.N. backing for the war just as Tokyo was seeking

a permanent seat on the Security Council mortally damaged that longtime Japanese goal – Tokyo’s most important foreign policy objective.

Despite its dependency on Middle Eastern oil, Japan never really felt the Iraq war was its fight. Instead, the domestic debate was framed indirectly: If Japan didn’t support its closest ally in a time of war, who would defend Japan if North Korea launched more missiles over its territory?

But this is not exactly the moment for Japan to engage in some dramatic reconsideration of national strategy and purpose. It is snarled in a raft of domestic challenges, including a longterm deflationary spiral, the stalling of its economic engine, a rapidly aging population and uncertainty about how to deal with China’s rise. The Bush team also hasn’t recognized other aspects of Japan’s consensus-bound culture. Strong leaders rarely dominate. Factional politics almost always trumps international policy.

And at 71, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda is unlikely to boldly remake Japanese politics.

The U.S. ought to recognize the limits to Japan’s support. As long as its trade surplus continues to pile up, Japan prefers its splendid isolation and checkbook diplomacy to the task of genuinely participating in global leadership.

Michael Zielenziger, special to the Los Angeles Times, is a former foreign correspondent based in Tokyo, and is the author of “Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation.”

Upwards of 90 percent ends up in dumps that observe no environmental standards, where shredders, open fires, acid baths and broilers are used to recover gold, silver, copper and other valuable metals while spewing toxic fumes and runoff into the nation’s skies and rivers.

Accurate figures about the shady and unregulated trade are hard to come by. However, experts agree that it is overwhelmingly a problem of the developing world. They estimate about 70 percent of the 20-50 million tons of electronic waste produced globally each year is dumped in China, with most of the rest going to India and poor African nations.

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, it is ten times cheaper to export e-waste than to dispose of it at home.

Imports slip into China despite a Chinese ban and Beijing’s ratification of the Basel Convention, an international agreement that outlaws the trade.

Industry monitor Ted Smith said one U.S. exporter told him all that was needed to get shipments past Chinese customs officials was a crisp $100 bill taped to the inside of each container.

“The central government is well aware of the problems but has been unable or unwilling to really address it,” said Smith, senior strategist with the California-based Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, which focuses on the electronics industry.

The European Union bans such exports, but Smith and others say smuggling is rife, largely due to the lack of measures to punish rule breakers. China, meanwhile, allows the import of plastic waste and scrap metal, which many recyclers use as an excuse to send old electronics there.

And though U.S. states increasingly require that electronics be sent to collection and recycling centers, even from those centers, American firms can send the e-waste abroad legally because Congress hasn’t ratified the Basel Convention.

The results are visible on the streets of Guiyu, where the e-waste industry employs an estimated 150,000 people. Shipping containers of computer parts, old video games, computer screens, cell phones and electronics of all kinds, from ancient to nearly new, are dumped onto the streets and sorted for dismantling and melting.

Conserve: Answers are hard -continued from page 8

building cars, and really, how many people die building cars?

Certainly we could conserve more but that only means we delay the point at which we run out because it is like we are on a ship adrift in the ocean and people will live a little longer if we conserve, but eventually we will run out and turn to cannibalism. Wind power is great but would it be as great if we had to line the Wellsville Mountains with 200-foot towers? Driving a Prius is also great, but it is still driving. Riding a bike is better for the environment, but is it more dangerous if you have to do it amongst cars. We really support farmers making money, but if they are growing corn for ethanol instead of food are they really farmers or are they miners? Ethanol production isn’t as efficient as oil but it is better for homeland security, but if we start using farmland to produce fuel, isn’t this going to drive up food prices and starve some people?

If we weren’t in an unpopular war in an oil-rich country, would anybody even care about ethanol? Commuting to work in a car is bad, but communing with nature in a car every weekend is okay. If I drive a big old truck 50 miles a week is that worse than driving a Prius 100 miles a week? Is it better to recycle all your newspapers or just to read them all on the Internet to begin with even though the Internet uses electricity and turns you into a pasty indoor zombie? The idea of a wood stove using renewable energy is admirable, but if everybody in the valley starts burning wood, we’ll all have to wear respirators. How far would you drive to see the last surviving black-footed ferret that we killed by driving so much in the first place?

It’s so hard to know what’s the right thing to do. I think I’ll just make fun of Britney Spears tomorrow.

Dennis Hinkamp works for USU Extension Communications and believes heart of Zenness is that if you are sure you have the solution, you probably have not thought about the problem long enough. Comments and questions can be sent to him at dennish@ext. usu.edu.

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If you believe your purpose is to use science to divest men of their foolish notions of religion, then you are not seekers of truth but hypocrites who seek to force your beliefs on others.

For the sake of all the great men of God and all the great men of science, both of you cease this pointless bickering.

Not only are such arguments completely invalid, but they do nothing to bring us any closer to a greater understanding of the universe we inhabit. There are far more productive ways to spend your time.

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A delicious lifestyle

By Courtnie Packer • Photos by Tyler Larson

Rich Weideman pushes apples onto a machine that rubs and dusts off any apple leaves.

After this, another worker will separate the bad apples from good ones. TYLER LARSON photo

By COURTNIE PACKER senior writer

Apples are not only a delicious treat for Rich and Janet Weideman. They have become more of a lifestyle.

Paradise Valley Orchard, owned by the Weidemans, is a local business set in the back country of Cache Valley. Rich Weideman, a stay-at-home father, said owning an orchard and producing quality cider was not his life’s ambition, but he happened to stumble across the opportunity.

“We were on our way to Porcupine Reservoir for vacation when we saw the small orchard and decided to stop for some cider,” Weideman said. “We noticed the orchard was for sale and stopped to pick up some contact information from a local Realtor. We headed back home, but after three terrible days at work, I knew it was time to leave. So we purchased the orchard and moved out west.”

Years later, both of the Weidemans said they are now enjoying life on their land surrounded by apple trees, chickens, a dog and a cider mill.

“I have always loved cider, but once we moved out here, we couldn’t find good cider anywhere,” Weideman said. “That’s where it all began.”

When first beginning such a large investment, all Weideman knew about cider and orchards was that he liked it, he said. He said it took him time, effort and motivation to learn how to run an independent business.

“I can read,” Weideman said. “I read and researched all that I could. I was selftaught, and I had to teach myself a lot too.”

Weideman said one of the most important tasks while producing cider is to grow the correct variety of apples.

“You need to know the taste of each apple if you want to make good cider,” he said.

Weideman’s orchard grows multiple kinds of apples, but his favorite includes the Crispin apple, Honeycrisp apple and the Jonathon.

“All the apples we grow are great for cider, but these three are just great allaround apples,” he said. “These are great for both eating and cider.”

After each apple is picked, it is aged for

Traci Fairborn Sorts through apples to be dry-cleaned. TYLER LARSON photo

a few days to help bring out the flavor of the specific apple, Weideman said.

The aging process involves storing each apple in plastic crates and moving them into a cold storage room. The room is neatly organized, but contains mountains of these plastic crates stacked around the room.

“When making the cider, we only use apples you would eat,” Weideman said.

“We will only use whole, sound fruit. If it is bruised or damaged in any way, we will throw it out.”

The apples advance through what is called the brusher and sorter. The brusher’s main duty is to remove the dust and dirt from the apples. The apples then proceed to the sorter, where the apples are sorted according to their size.

The apples are then elevated to the grinder, which grinds the apples into an applesauce-like mixture. The apples have finally reached the step Weideman believes is the key to making good cider.

“The slow press is what makes the good cider,” he said. “It is the key if you

Weideman said a slow press is what makes a good, quality cider. The slow press is what turns the applesauce mixture into juice. TYLER LARSON photo

- See CIDER, page 16

Growing the correct variety of apples is one of the most important tasks of producing cider. TYLER LARSON photo

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Student will shrivel up, die without iPod Caught on Campus

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Information compiled by Brittny Goodsell Jones • Photos by Debra Hawkins

Ruth Benson Stansbury Park, Utah Junior Finance major

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Utah Statesman: What is one of your pet peeves?

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Ruth Benson: The way people eat sometimes. Well, when they’re chewing and you can hear the food moving around in their mouth, it’s like, “Oh gosh dangit.”

So yeah, usually I can tell if I’m in a bad mood and all of a sudden all I can hear is people eating around me.

US: How else do you know you are in a bad mood?

Ruth Benson, junior in accounting and finance, said one of her worst classes was the class that convinced her to become part of her major. DEBRA HAWKINS photo

RB: I eat a lot of chocolate. I start craving chocolate.

US: What is one of the worst classes you took at USU?

US: What is one of your favorite foods?

RB: I didn’t like the teacher, but I loved the class. It is why I became a finance major. I took corporate finance, and the professor screws with your brain so it was the hardest class I have ever taken. I think on the final the highest score was 76 percent and the class average was in the 50s or something. But I still loved the material we were learning, so I figured if I could like it after that class, then I really should be a finance major.

RB: Almonds, I don’t know why.

I like just raw almonds. I usually have a huge bag of them in my pantry, and I eat them and they’re healthy for you. They’re like the miracle nut.

US: What did you do for Halloween?

RB: I had two exams that day, I had tax and managerial economics tests. I was burnt out and brain dead, so we went to a party and then we went and watched a movie.

US: What are you plans for Christmas?

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RB: I’m going home for the holidays. Every Christmas Eve we used to go to my dad’s side of my family and have a huge Christmas party. My dad’s side of the family is really, really funny because most of my cousins get drunk and they’re really funny when they get drunk.

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US: If you could describe yourself in three words what would they be?

RB: Nerdy, manic, friendly.

US: Favorite movie?

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US: What’s one of your complaints about the cell phone?

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RB: I have this thing that too much of anything is too much.

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US: How do you remain positive when bad things happen?

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RB: We were thinking about being kids or something, and my friend said we should try it. So we piled up a bunch of pillows and blankets at the bottom of the stairs and we were riding down them. And it was really funny because I kind of get retarded about it because I get excited, so I would lean forward and then fall out of the basket and roll down the stairs, which is scary because they are brick. This is in Morgan Hall. For some reason, I would jump out of the basket at the end.

Everyone would just land on their pillow and I would launch myself.

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- See CAUGHT, page 15

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ast week I had a rude awakening: I’m getting too old for punk concerts. Boys Like Girls performed at Weber State on Wednesday, and since they performed on a college campus, five of my friends and I obviously thought a lot of college kids would be there. We were wrong.

We were so wrong.

We entered the Dee Event Center, as children in junior high surrounded all sides of us. They were hyper, loud and kept bumping into us. I felt my dad coming out in me – he never understood teenagers. Even though I was in their place not very many years ago, I can tell I’m already losing touch with the acne-infested population who spend their lives on cell phones, waiting for the latest CDs of their favorite bands.

When we entered the doors to the building (after we were frisked for weapons and drugs) an old, ornery man taking tickets was practically yelling at all the kids who were bothering him.

He let us go right through. That was the first sign we knew we were going to be older than the rest of the audience.

Boys who were barely reaching puberty stood in lines for band T-shirts. When we sat down, girls no older than 9 years old stood behind us in

their seats with their moms. The girls in front of us had made T-shirts expressing their love for the band.

They were most likely dropped off in the parking lot because they didn’t have driver’s licenses. We were old. We were really old.

I had seen the old concert fanatics before and had made fun of them. At Warped Tour one year, men with 3-year-olds on their shoulders stood in the middle of a crowd of New Found Glory enthusiasts. If men are old enough to have beards, beer bellies and innocent little kids in the middle of mosh pits, they shouldn’t be there.

The old people are always easy to pick out in a crowd, and I never thought I would be one of them. Not now at least. Not yet. In spite of becoming elderly though, I’ve decided I’m going to hold on to my youth as long as I can and pick on the people older than me. This means I’ll still be OK going to concerts, at least from my perspective. I’m not old yet. I’ll show you old.

Ancient people are the ones who could be parents to the teenagers dressed in punk

- See OLD, page 15

CacheScene

Monday, Nov. 19, 2007

Angie’s offers free Thanksgiving dinner

By MANETTE NEWBOLD features editor

For about 20 years, Angie’s Restaurant in Logan has been giving locals a place where they can eat a traditional turkey dinner with all the trimmings on Thanksgiving Day. Owner Saboor Fahely, an immigrant from Afghanistan, said he moved to Logan 30 years ago as a college student and graduated from USU. He said he started working at Angie’s as a dishwasher and slowly moved up to a cook and into management.

“Coming here as an immigrant with frankly nothing and to be able to make a business, raise my family and live in this country are just some of the huge reasons to give back to this community that has taken care of my family all these years,” he said.

To give back to the valley, Fahely said Angie’s opens its doors once a year to give people a free Thanksgiving meal complete with pumpkin pie and a beverage. He also picks a charity every year and contributes money donated by members of the community. Fahely said the restaurant usually raises several thousands of dollars each year, by not only those who come to eat, but by those who want to help out and celebrate Thanksgiving elsewhere.

This year Fahley said donations will go toward Women for Women International, a four-star charity based out of Washington, D.C. The charity does a lot of work in Afghanistan, especially for women, he said, since the

For some, it is their worst nightmare. But for many, Black Friday is the highlight of the holiday season.

For many shoppers, Black Friday is all about their own personal perspective. Many individuals look at the day after Thanksgiving as a horror story of fighting, biting and dog piling to be the first to reach a mountain of merchandise. For others, it is a day of excitement as they roll out of bed and head for the store to hunt down the best deal of the season.

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country has been in war for 30 years and many of them have lost husbands and other family members. Food and medical supplies are provided by Women for Women, as well and job skills training. Afghan Women who have lived through very harsh conditions can learn to own their own businesses and obtain support and counseling through the charity, Fahely said.

Because the charity supports women from his native country, Fahely said it’s very personal to him.

“I’ve lived here for 30 years.

I’ll probably die here.” he said, “But a part of my heart and a part of my soul is still there. You can’t divorce yourself from where you’re born and raised.”

Fahely said a mixture of people come to the dinner each year.

Last year about 800 people came to the restaurant. Families came with children because the parents didn’t want to cook, and senior citizens who didn’t want to worry about driving anywhere went as well, Fahely said. Single people who didn’t have anywhere to go

years ago at a time when success and loss were indicated by colored marks. According to the Web site retailindustry.com, Black Friday was when retailers went from being unprofitable, or “in the red,” to being profitable, or “in the black.” This was during a time when accounting records were kept by hand and red ink indicated loss while black ink illustrated profit.

Jeff Merrell, an employee at Staples in his first year as an employee during the Black Friday rush, said he is anticipating chaos and disorder during the Black Friday excitement.

“I picture complete chaos with hundreds of people lined up at the door at unthinkable hours in the morning,” he said.

“I do not picture people necessarily fighting and beating each other up, just more competitiveness and greed.”

Competition is a common characteristic shown by many on Black Friday. Stories of individuals fighting and pushing to take a hold of a desired gift are frequently heard. Many people believe strategy is the key to mastering Black Friday.

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went to Angie’s. Others simply wanted to stop by and support the charity, he said.

“I want to send a special invitation to all international students too,” he said. “I came here in 1978 and didn’t have anywhere to go on the holiday. In 1979 a family invited me to dinner, and I learned about Thanksgiving for the first time. “ The dinner at Angie’s is 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. this Thursday. For questions or more information call 752-9252.

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A manager in Logan who asked not to be identified said some people enter stores days in advance and hide items they feel will be cheaper on Black Friday.

Others place items prior to Black Friday on layaway, only to retrieve them when they can get the Black Friday price Despite such a negative reputation, many individuals who have experienced Black Friday say it is not as bad as people seem to make it. Shane Haslam, store manager at Kmart, said Black Friday is bound to have its negative consequences but overall is a great holiday tradition.

“Black Friday will, of course, have its fighting,” Haslam said.

“However, it’s not as bad as people make it out to be. There will always be push and shove to get in the door, and there will always be the same items that people do fight over, but you have to expect that with so many people in a store at once.”

Jason Rees, store manager for Kohl’s, agreed.

“You just have to plan on it being crazy,” Rees said. “There will be wall-to-wall customers, but it will be a lot of fun with a lot of great deals. There is not as much fighting as you think.

Black Friday is a just a fun, holiday atmosphere.”

Black Friday starts early in the morning, a time that many feel to be unreasonable. Ashlee

Norman, employee at Wal-Mart, said her shift on Black Friday starts earlier than usual.

“I have to be there at 4 in the morning,” she said. “I am given an eight-hour shift, so it will be a long day of sales.”

Merrell said he also has to get up hours before his normal work day begins.

“My shift starts at 5 that morning, and I am there till 2 that afternoon,” he said. “It is definitely a lot longer shift than my usual.”

Rees said the best way to manage a crowd is proper employee staffing.

“We plan for this day months and months in advance,” Rees said. “We start talking about the holidays at the end of the summer.”

Many Web sites, such as theblackfriday.com, blackfriday.info and bfads.com, give consumers an idea of what to expect will be on sale at different stores.

Haslam said this year he expects the Black Friday ads will be geared toward electronics and other technology.

“But either way,” he said, “you can guarantee that this year’s Black Friday is going to be crazier than ever.”

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normal and just act like she is not reacting psychotically to everything you do. So he said, “Should I be more attentive?” And I said no because if you are nicer to her,

she’ll snap and think you’re thinking she’s a baby or something, but if you ignore her, she will freak out because she thinks you are ignoring her. You just have to act like

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They are the ones who still believe they fit in, even though everyone else clearly sees them as uncool. They may jump up and down and mosh with the best of them, but they are usually hairier, sweatier and creepier.

Old people bring lighters to shows to use during slow songs. They have not yet caught on to the concept of cell phone lights, which create some sort of technological starry scene while skinny musicians in skinny jeans wail on their guitars.

Elderly rockers went to Woodstock. They already had their concert days. It’s time for them to settle down with Billy Joel, Neil Diamond and Elton John gigs.

I don’t care if old people have every alternative band on their iPods and can name every member of every punk band in the country. If they also have mortgage payments, sport mullets or were

born before Jimmy Carter was president, they should not be putting spikes in their hair and wearing sweatbands on their arms. They also shouldn’t crowd surf or rush any stage.

I may be getting old, but I’m not that old. So see you at next year’s Warped Tour and until then, rock on.

Manette Newbold is a senior majoring in print journalism. She has promised herself that even if she’s 40 years old when Avril Lavigne comes to Salt Lake City, she’s dressing up in hot pink and will be in the front row. Comments and questions can be sent to manette.n@aggiemail.usu. edu.

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Cider: Orchard owners produce sweet cider and ‘sell fall’ in Cache Valley

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APPLES GET WASHED before they are put into a chopper.

Weideman said they sell an estimated 100 to 150 gallons of cider a week. TYLER LARSON photo

Left to right: rich weideman, scott howell and Bryan Olsen work a piece of machinery used to chop up the apples. The apples are then pressed for juice.

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The finished cider is stored in bottles that rest in crates until the cider is used. TYLER LARSON photo

Weideman operates the press that squeezes all the juice from the chopped apples. What is left is a pumice mold that looks like a doormat, he said.

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want quality cider.”

The slow press is what turns the applesauce mixture into juice.

The mixture is put into special cloths that are placed in between heavy white press boards. These boards are stacked 10 layers high and placed on the slow press, Weideman said. The slow press slowly raises these boards and compacts the boards together, squeezing the juice out of the thick mixture.

“Making a quality product is all about using simple machines in the correct order,” Weideman said. “The machines we use are similar to those you would see at the bigger companies. Their machines would just contain more steel and other features.”

An hour’s hard work for the Weidemans will make close to 100 gallons of cider, he said. Weideman, along with his three-person crew, jugs the freshly pressed cider by hand and stores the cider in

the cold storage, adjacent from the mountain high crates filled with apples.

“We usually will sell an estimated 100 to 150 gallons of cider a week,” Weideman said. “So we do this process quite frequently.”

Weideman’s crew consists of university and high school students who help out, not only in the process, but also in the clean-up.

“Cleanliness is one of the most important things to us,” he said.

“The cleanliness of the process and even of the apple is very crucial.

If the apple touches anything it is not supposed to, we will not use it. We will spend at least three hours cleaning up for a one-hour process.”

Paradise Valley Orchard has many outdoor features, from the picnic tables spread around the orchard to the opportunity for customers to pick their own apples off of the apples trees. However,

aside from these perks, Paradise Valley Orchard is also known for one distinguishing characteristic, Weideman said.

“We do not pasteurize our cider,” Weideman said. “We are one of the last cider mills that do not too.”

Weideman’s choice to avoid the pasteurizing process has consequently resulted in not being able to sell his product in stores.

Nevertheless, Weideman does not let that stop his business. He went straight to work to transform his old horse barn into a store, which he said is the perfect setting for the product.

“We basically sell fall,” Weideman said. “Aside from the cider, we have pick your own pumpkins and pick your own apples to mull cider and a favorite, maple apple sauce.”

Paradise Valley Orchard is located at 9971 S. Highway 165 in Paradise and is open from 1 to 6 p.m. seven days a week.