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Today is Monday, Dec. 3, 2007 Breaking News The USU women’s basketball team downs Eastern Washington 74-55 to tally the first win of the season.
Campus News Nights of Lights starts tonight in celebration of the Christmas season. Page 3
Features Take a peak at what’s inside the refrigerators of USU students. Page 7
Sports Jaycee Carroll leads the Aggies past Santa Clara. Page 9
Opinion “If a (no-test policy) exists, it should be enforced. Sure, the letter of the law allows for loopholes, but the whole idea behind this policy is the spirit of the law.” Page 12
Almanac Today in History: In 1967, the first successful human heart transplant is received by 53-year-old Lewis Washkansky in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Hazel Page-Spackman returned to the Hub after 16 years to bake and sell her famous goods. Page-Spackman started her work at USU in the 1970s when her work evolved to become Hazel’s. Upon her return, Page-Spackman was most surprised by the technological advances. CAMERON PETERSON photo
Hazel returns after 16 years By ALISON BAUGH senior writer
After a 16-year retirement, Hazel Page-Spackman decided to return to her job of baking and selling bread in Hazel’s in the Hub, at least for a few days. Page-Spackman began working at the Sweet Shop in 1973 or 1974, she said. At that time, the store was located where the Copy Center is in the Taggart Student Center. After she had been working there for a few years, Page-Spackman said her boss wanted to add a healthier option to that of candy, ice cream and popcorn. “I said, ‘I can make a good cinnamon raisin bread,’” Page-Spackman said. The store began to sell bread, mixing it five loaves at a time and cooking it in four regular size ovens, Page-Spackman said. A slice sold for 25 cents, but Page-Spackman said she doesn’t think they were as thick as they are now. The bread became such a popular item, a night baker was hired so there would be enough fresh bread in the mornings. When the current Hub was built, the bread store was moved, and the university obtained the rights to the name Hazel’s and it has stuck, Page-
Spackman said. She worked at the Hub until her retirement in 1991. Page-Spackman has remained as popular as her bread, and Dining Services decided to bring her back and give her a token of their appreciation for all she had done, said Alan Andersen, executive director for Dining Services. Andersen; Linda Jacobsen, Quadside Cafe manager; and Amber Schoenfeld, Hub manager, worked to bring Page-Spackman back to work for three days last week, Monday, Thursday and Friday from 9 a.m. to noon. Page-Spackman immediately noticed some changes and said everything was so modern. She told her coworkers they didn’t know how to make bread with all the technology to mix and bake such large batches at one time. “They have a bread slicer, we used to do it all with a little knife,” Page-Spackman said. Despite the changes, PageSpackman still served bread and to many of her old customers who are still working at USU and made a special trip to visit. A crowd of friends and family members gathered in the Hub Friday morning to recognize Page-Spackman and her contributions to the university. “This is all about giving her recognition,” Jacobsen said.
Page-Spackman had no idea there would be a ceremony and was in the back working when USU President Stan Albrecht arrived to present her with a plaque of gratitude. She was pulled to the front, where Albrecht gave her a plaque and jokingly said they might call her if the mornings got really busy. “This is the first time in my life I am at a loss for words,” Page-
Spackman said with tears in her eyes as she accepted the plaque. The break lasted long enough for a few hugs and pictures, and then Page-Spackman was back to work where she told her family members she was shocked. Page-Spackman has seven chil-
- See HAZEL’s, page 4
USU President Stan Albrecht presents Hazel Page-Spackman an award in appreciation for her many years of service to USU and her continuing business. CAMERON PETERSON photo
Students raise money to Visiting musicians help victims back home perform symposium Students from the Dominican Republic collaborated with campus food services to hold a fundraiser for those affected by Hurricane Noel that tore through the Dominican Republic in late October. Students from the Dominican Republic worked together to hold this fundraiser. “All the labor was done by the students who helped in all stages of it’s production,” said Aldo Gomera, junior majoring in management and information systems. “The food was donated by the USU Food Services and prepared by students from a menu selected by the Domincan Student Association (DSA) executive council with suggestions by students from the Dominican Republic.” Jose Camilo, senior in economics and finance and the president of the DSA, said, “Being here we feel helpless, being here and not being able to help there. We plan to buy
By JORDAN COX staff writer
By RANAE BANGERTER staff writer
food and anything they need.” The donated funds are meant to help those most affected and will be sent to the Dominican Republic as soon as possible. Students attending the dinner said they enjoyed the evening of authentic Dominican food. Auriner Castillo, freshman in international business, said, “We miss the food, this is my favorite food I have had here. I feel like home right now.” The entertainment included performances by Jean Carlos, freshman in computer engineering, and Evaida Santana, freshman in international business, who both performed music and dance numbers. The hurricane itself can only be described as ghastly, students said. “The storm hit the Domincan Republic in late October,” Gomera said. “Communications were down for two days and electricity was out
Fifty-four top musicians from high schools in Idaho, Wyoming and Utah came to the Kent Concert Hall this weekend for two days of musical practice and performance at the Tri-State High School Band Symposium. The visiting musicians performed music they had seen for the first time on Friday. USU’s Director of Bands Thomas Rohrer said the symposium is a recruiting opportunity as well as educational. “When I was in high school, I wish I had something like this to go to,” said Nathan Ward, USU band secretary. This is the second of the tri-state band symposiums, the first of which was in January. Since August, the USU Band Council had been planning for this event, including sending the invitations to the high schools, choosing students from the nominations and inviting guest conductor Rob McWilliams. In the mailer, the band council encouraged direc-
- See FUNDRAISER, page 4
- See BANDS, page 5
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Lawmakers to consider tax break for veterans SALT LAKE CITY (AP)– When state lawmakers reconvene in January they’ll consider bills designed to give a tax break for retired military members, require equal housing and employment opportunities for veterans and give a day off for schools in recognition of Veterans Day. Rep. Carl Wimmer, R-Herriman, visited Riverton High School after a history teacher invited him to meet with students about why schools don’t take a day off in honor of Veterans Day. Wimmer was a little suspicious at first. “OK, here’s a group of kids who just want another day off from school,” he thought. But Wimmer said he realized that about two-thirds of the students had family members or close friends who had served in Iraq or Afghanistan. “That’s when I realized this student population has been touched by war more so than any student population in decades,” he said. Rep. Steven Mascaro, R-West Jordan, said he’d like to see a tax exemption given for retirement income earned by former military members. Mascaro said he isn’t sure yet what the fiscal impact of his bill would be. “Big soft spot for veterans — and this is just a way of saying, ‘Thanks,” he said.
$1,000 bonus on its way to some school districts SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – The Legislature’s $1,000 bonus for public school teachers is on its way in several school districts. But some teachers are still getting less than $1,000 because of miscalculations when the law went through the 2007 Legislature. Lawmakers have promised to fund the full amount when they reconvene in January. While the bonus is taxable, many are still grateful. “Hopefully, that will help them through the Christmas season,” said Mark Mickelsen, spokesman for the Utah Education Association. “Most (districts) are trying to give the maximum they can give based on the funding they’ve received. ... I think in those districts that decided to be more cautious, we’re hoping the legislators, when they meet, are going to restore that to the districts. I think there is a lot of good intent on the Hill to do that.” Lawmakers last winter promised teachers, principals, counselors and media specialists $1,000 bonuses and $2,500 raises this school year. They also wanted to give a $360 bonus to bus drivers, secretaries and other school workers.
Celebs&People LONDON (AP) – Actress Mia Farrow launched a fund to support survivors of the fighting in Sudan’s Darfur region Sunday, and said that the jailing of a British teacher in the African nation showed the cruelty of its leadership. “This is the first genocide of the 21st century and the one genocide that is ongoing as we speak,” said Farrow, a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF who has vis- FARROW ited Darfur seven times since 2004. “We have a regime that launched a military campaign on an unarmed population for no other reason than that they are not Arab.” At a news conference at a London hotel, Farrow said the imprisonment of British teacher Gillian Gibbons for allowing her students in Sudan to name a teddy bear Muhammad “demonstrates the palpable insanity and cruelty of that An Amtrak train hit a stationary freight train in Chicago, despite a signal inidicating another train on the track. AP photo regime.” Farrow said she hopes the international media coverage of Gibbons’ ordeal will open the eyes of the West to what is happening in Sudan. “One white woman in peril with a CHICAGO (AP) – An Amtrak train Chicago from Grand Rapids, Mich., Sumwalt declined to assess blame teddy bear has captured more media was going about 25 mph over the speed or say human error caused Friday’s walked away without major injuries attention than the past three years of limit — despite a signal indicating accident, and he did not say why the from the impact, which catapulted our brothers and sisters in the Darfur another train was on the same track engineer might have been speeding. people from their seats. region,” she said. — moments before it hit a stationary “Part of our investigation is to figure The accident sent 71 people to hos- At least 200,000 people have died and freight train, injuring dozens of people, out why that signal (indicating the 15 pitals. Three people — one Amtrak 2.5 million been forced from their homes federal officials said Sunday. mph limit) was not obeyed,” Sumwalt crew member and two passengers in four years of fighting between the said. — were hospitalized overnight and The Amtrak train’s engineer told Sudanese government and local rebels in investigators he realized the speed limit Federal authorities on Sunday released Saturday. Darfur. was 15 mph in that stretch of track but wrapped up two days of investigations, A police surveillance camera The international community spends accelerated to 40 mph anyway, National which included interviews with crew recorded the accident, and the NTSB over $1 billion a year to alleviate sufTransportation Safety Board Vice members and reviews of data from will review the footage, Sumwalt said. fering in Darfur, yet world powers have Chairman Robert Sumwalt told report- event recorders, as they tried to deterInvestigators didn’t plan to make that proved reluctant to send troops or costly ers. mine why two trains ended up on the footage immediately available to the equipment like helicopters to protect same track. media, he said. The speed limit on that portion of civilians and aid workers, who face growtrack, which is usually 79 mph, had Investigators will try to reconstruct The accident caused $1.3 million in ing threats and lack of access. been reduced to 15 mph by a red and the crash and may dismantle the locodamage, federal authorities said. Most Money donated to the newly created yellow “restricting signal,” indicating motive to figure out what went wrong, damage to the passenger train was Fund4Darfur will be used to help survianother train was on the track, the offi- Sumwalt said. concentrated at its engine, where two vors of the conflict and refugees, Farrow cial said. The analysis will likely take months. of the five Amtrak crew members were, said. “We’re not here to point fingers,” authorities said. Moments after accelerating, the engineer noticed the freight train ahead Sumwalt said. “We’re here to find out The train’s three double-decker pasand applied his emergency brakes; the what happened so we can keep it from senger cars remained upright. passenger train then skidded about happening again. ... This is the very The Norfolk Southern freight train 400 to 500 feet and slammed into the beginning of this investigation.” was traveling from Elizabeth, N.J., to Top Ten Ways The Knicks Can Improve freight train at about 35 mph, Sumwalt Most of the 187 passengers on Chicago, and neither of two workers Their Image – said. board the Pere Marquette traveling to aboard was hurt. 10–Donate one dollar to charity for every punch thrown this season
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MOSCOW (AP) – Vladimir Putin’s party won a crushing victory in parliamentary elections Sunday, paving the way for the authoritarian leader to remain in control even after he steps down as president. The vote followed a tense Kremlin campaign that relied on a combination of persuasion and intimidation to ensure victory for the United Russia party and for Putin, who has used a flood of oil revenues to move his country onto a more assertive position on the global stage. “The vote affirmed the main idea: that Vladimir Putin is the national leader, that the people support his course, and this course will continue,” party leader and parliament speaker Boris Gryzlov said after exit polls were announced. Several opposition leaders accused the Kremlin of rigging the vote, and the Bush administration called for a probe into voting irregularities. Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov called
the election “the most irresponsible and dirty” in the post-Soviet era. With ballots from 64.4 percent of precincts counted, United Russia was leading with 62.8 percent, while the Communists trailed with 11.7 percent, the Central Election Commission said. The Kremlin portrayed the election as a plebiscite on Putin’s nearly eight years as president — with the promise that a major victory would allow him somehow to remain leader after his second term ends next year. Putin is constitutionally prohibited from running for a third consecutive term, but he clearly wants to stay in power. A movement has sprung up in recent weeks to urge him to become a “national leader,” though what duties and powers that would entail are unclear. Pollsters said United Russia’s performance would give it an overwhelming majority of 306 seats in the 450-seat State Duma, or lower house. The Communists would have 57 seats.
Two other pro-Kremlin parties — the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party and populist Just Russia — also appeared to have made it into parliament, with 8.8 percent and 8 percent, respectively. One Liberal Democratic Party deputy will be Andrei Lugovoi, a former KGB officer and chief suspect in the poisoning death of Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in London last year. Russia has refused to hand Lugovoi over to Britain, and the Duma seat provides him with immunity from prosecution. No other parties passed the 7 percent threshold for gaining seats in the legislature. Both opposition liberal parties were shut out, predicted to win no more than 2 or 3 percent of the vote each. Many Russians complained Sunday about being pressured to cast their ballots, with teachers, doctors and others saying they had been ordered by their bosses to vote at their workplaces.
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ISC hosting benefit cookout for victims
DURING A PING PONG TOURNAMENT at the Institute Friday, Doug Ball, sophomore in physics, and Amy Egan, senior in English, competed for the title. Hundreds were in attendance to watch and compete. NOELLE BERLAGE photo
Youth group sponsoring Nights of Lights Second annual celebration begins tonight at Cache County Fairgrounds By KEITH WILSON staff writer
The Alliance for Youth, an afterschool program providing children with fundamental activities, is sponsoring its second annual Nights of Lights celebration. The festivities will include an array of holiday lights, window displays, wagon rides, performances by local organizations, a visit from Santa Claus and crafts. Nights of Lights, scheduled to begin Dec. 3 with the tree-lighting ceremony, will continue through Dec. 15 at the Cache County Fairgrounds in Logan. This local event is a fundraiser for after-school programs administered by the Alliance for Youth. Cheryl Empey, Nights of Lights chairwoman, said she wants to make this a regular Cache Valley event. “We want everyone to come and participate,” Empey said. “This exclusive occasion offers Cache Valley the chance to enjoy the holiday festivities locally and supports a good cause.” The Alliance for Youth activities are from 3 to 6 p.m. The organization, Empey said, grew from the Century Community Learning Center Grant, and its partners include the Logan City School District, Cache County School District, Logan Parks and Recreation, Boys and Girls Club of Cache Valley, USU Financial Aid and the Cache County 4-H. “These programs are operated by staff and volunteers, attracting more than a thousand students to extended day services,” Empey said. Jamie Wardle, junior studying public relations and a volunteer at the event, said she is excited for the community to come together for a good cause. “We hope for it to become like a
Christmastime cruise-in.” Empey said the proceeds from the Nights of Lights will benefit the Alliance for Youth programs. “Cache Valley’s after-school programs have been in the top four after-school programs in the nation,” Empey said, “and with continued local support, they hope to keep that kind of quality programming.” Vendors, entertainers and organizations planned for attendance at the two-week event are the USU hockey team, USU ballroom dance
team, Mount Logan Middle School Glee Club, the USU clogging team, Todd and Friends Music, Lewiston Elementary Choir, Spring Creek Choir, South Cache Choir, Cache Community Band, Glenn Brandt Western Music, Krystalee, the Abbot Singers and many others, Empey said. The final performance Saturday night, she said, will be the KSM Rockin: Holiday Festival. The USU Hockey team will be signing autographs Dec. 5, a craft fair will be held Saturdays, and Santa will be
stopping in for a visit from 2 to 7 p.m. “This is a community-owned event that is growing each year,” Empey said. “The Nights of Lights has something for everyone to enjoy.” There is still room for sponsors, craft vendors, performers and volunteers. For additional information about Nights of Lights or if interested in participating, go to www.foryouth.org or contact Empey cheryl.empey@usu. edu or 752-6263. –keithwilson@cc.usu.edu
Connie McCaughey decorates a tree for the U.S. Forest Service. The tree will be on display at Nights of Lights. Cheryl Empey, Nights of Lights chair, right, staples an angel to one of the displays as she prepares for the second annual event. Nights of Lights is sponsored by the Alliance for Youth, an afterschool program. The event is held at the Cache County Fairgrounds through Dec. 15. DEBRA HAWKINS photos
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Friday, Nov. 30, 2007
• USU Police responded to Industrial Science on a report of an alarm sounding. This alarm was a fire sprinkler alarm and was caused be a broken sprinkler head in the basement of this building. The water to this line was shut off and the alarm was reset.
• An employee at parking reported opening a parking ticket envelope with sexually harassing statements on the check and on an attached note. Investigation is continuing.
Thursday, Nov. 29, 2007 • A USU employee called to report the theft of two sets of keys from the Harris Athletic Center. Police are investigating. • Logan City Police responded to the report of a traffic accident in the area of 100 W. Center St. Upon arrival, the officer observed that one vehicle had ran into the rear of another vehicle. The driver of one of the vehicles was arrested for possession of a controlled substance, DUI, negligent collision and no insurance. • USU Police and the fire department responded to the USU Trailer Court for a CO2 detector that was activated. The house was clear and a battery was replaced in the detector.
• Logan City officers made a traffic stop. Upon contacting the occupants of the vehicle, the odor of an alcoholic beverage was detected. The driver was investigated for DUI. The 19-year-old passenger was contacted and while investigating the possible underage drinking, the passenger ran from the police. The driver was arrested for a warrant and the passenger is wanted for several criminal charges. • Logan City Police responded to the area of 200 W. 1000 North on a report of blood in the middle of the road with a hat sitting on top of it. Police found no evidence of blood or the hat anywhere in the area. Saturday, Dec. 1, 2007 • Logan City officers responded to the area of 1400 E. Lynnwood Ave in Logan on a noise problem complaint. Officers arrived and contacted a group
Contact USU Police at 797-1939 for non-emergencies. Anonymous reporting line: 797-5000 EMERGENCY NUMBER: 911 of individuals who were throwing snowballs at each other. The individuals were informed of the complaint. The individuals had been drinking and one of the individuals was under the age of 21. Also, a female was arrested on an FTA warrant. • Logan City Police received the report of a burglary in the area of 500 S. Main Street. An officer responded to the incident address and photographed and gathered information. This case will remain active for further investigation. Sunday, Dec. 2, 2007 • A Logan City officer made contact with the complainant by telephone following the report of harassment. The complainant reported that she was receiving unwanted text messages from an individual. It was determined that the text messages were not threatening. The individual stated that he would not contact the complainant anymore. • Logan City Police received a report of a domestic dispute in progress involving a physical altercation where alcohol was involved. -Compiled by Arie Kirk
The International Student Council (ISC) are hosting a cook out for the cyclone affected people in Bangladesh. It is on Tuesday, Dec. 4 on Taggart Student Center Patio from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The ISC is cooking vegetable biryani (a mix of basmati rice, mix vegetables and spices), choley gravy (a mix of garbanzo and spices), tandoori chicken and raita– all foods cooked in Bangladesh and India. All the money raised from this cook out will go to those poor people who lost their family, relatives and everything. So far, 3,256 people died in Bangladesh. According to Red Cross the total number of people who died might reach up to 10,000. The Bangladesh Government has to feed millions of poor who got affected from this cyclone at least three months. This year there were also two floods in Bangladesh. The ISC and USU students would like to donate and help those poor people who got affected by cyclone. The ISC would like to invite students to come and enjoy the delicious food and help the cyclone affected people in Bangladesh. The ISC will collect cash or check from donors. If anybody interested to donate money please contact the ISC President Syed Sayem at 512-0433 or e-mail: isc@cc.usu.edu
USU grant recipients featured in exhibition
The Utah Arts Council will feature the work of the 2007 individual artists grant awardees in a brand new exhibition opening at the Rio Gallery on Friday, Dec. 7 called the 2007 Individual Artist Showcase. The exhibition will highlight the work of nineteen artists including Kathe Lison, Paisley Rekdal, Heidi Hart, Lily Havey, Nathaniel Olson, Philip Bimstein, Joel Rosenberg, Paul OCampo, Marc Inman, Hank Liese, Chris Simon, Chadwick Tolley, Amy Jorgensen, Corey Strange, Trevor Bazil, Jake Gilson, K. Stevenson, Suzanne Kanatsiz, and Eileen Doktorski. The exhibited artwork draws from the fields of literature, dance, music, media and/or visual arts. Utah Arts Council Individual Artist Services Coordinator Katie Woslager commented, “After talking with the artists and hearing their stories, I was completely taken aback. There is so much going on here - beyond what you would expect. A woman paired her short stories of her family’s unbelievable experiences in a U.S.-Japanese internment camp during World War II with beautifully painted watercolors. A social work professor at the University of Utah created a documentary based on the life of an artist living with AIDS. It’s very inspiring to see what has been created.” The artists were awarded a grant through the Utah Arts Council Artist Endowment Fund for their individual participation in the arts and professional development. Grants ranged in size from $500 to $2000. Award decisions were made from a pool of more than 80 applicants on the basis of project, experience, and artistic merit by panels composed of specialists in each genre. The exhibition at the Rio Gallery opens Dec. 7 with a special public opening reception featuring performances by grant awardees from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The exhibition at the Rio Gallery at the Rio Grande Depot will be open to the public for free until Jan. 5, 2008.
Nature Center looking for volunteers to help
The Stokes Nature Center is participating in Project Feeder Watch, an annual survey of winter feeder birds run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the National Audubon Society, Bird Studies Canada and the Canadian Nature Federation. The objective of Project Feeder Watch is to engage and educate students and teachers, volunteers, visitors and community members in identifying local feeder birds and observing bird behavior. Ultimately, long-term monitoring of Stokes Nature Center bird feeders will give visitors and participants a better understanding and appreciation of the dynamics of our local bird populations as well as allowing them to actively participate in the collection and sharing of scientific data. Their counts will be added to the database of North American feeder bird populations, designed to help researchers determine population fluctuations of North American birds. Volunteers are needed to make the watch a success. Individuals or groups with an interest in birds are encouraged to volunteer. Monitoring will take place indoors at Stokes Nature Center. Stokes Nature Center located in Logan Canyon, one mile east of Logan, Utah, on HWY 89. For more information on how to volunteer, please contact Stokes Nature Center at 755-3239 or email nature@ logannature.org.
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Missing pilot’s family receives closure SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – The family of a Utah Air Force pilot missing in Vietnam since 1968 says it finally has closure now that his remains have been identified. Maj. Robert Woods of Salt Lake City was flying a reconnaissance mission during the Vietnam War when his aircraft crashed on June 26, 1968. His remains were discovered in a mountainous region of Vietnam.
A funeral with full military honors for Woods is scheduled to take place at Arlington National Cemetery next April. “I think what has touched us the most is that the Air Force never gave up. Never,” Woods’ adopted daughter, Lana Woods Taylor, 64, told the Deseret Morning News on the phone from her home in Arizona. On June 26, 1968, Woods, born in Roosevelt, was listed as
missing in action. An immediate search was unsuccessful for the remains of Woods and Capt. Johnnie C. Cornelius of Arizona, who was on the plane Woods was flying when it was shot down. One of his seven siblings, sister Ardeth Woods Matthews, 75, said that on July 1, 1968, Woods was supposed to quit flying and take a
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in the cities.” Camilo said, “Everyone is affected by the hurricane.” Mariez Rodriguez, masters student in structural engineering, said, “All the rivers overflowed and many bridges were broken down.” “The Hurricane Noel killed 84
people and created 67,000 refugees,” said Katherine Pion, first year graduate student in business administration. Representing the students, Pion said, “We especially want to thank USU Dining Services, Alan Andersen, Lindsey Jensen, Don Donaldson, all of the depart-
ments at USU and especially the marketing department for their incredible support, and a very special thanks to Dominican community in Logan, and especially Mrs. Iris. Thanks also to all of the students in the DSA.” –jordan.cox@aggiemail.usu.edu
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dren and many grandchildren, four whom currently attend USU and another four of whom have graduated from USU. Her daughters said they have all learned to bake bread, but since their mom does it, they don’t. One daughter, Sonja Larsen,
said she had to get the recipe from a friend while her parents were serving an LDS mission, because she’d usually just let her mom make it. Page-Spackman said she doesn’t eat as much bread as she used to due to health issues,
but she said her baking hasn’t decreased. She makes white and wheat bread, but she said the cinnamon raisin is still the top. –alison.baugh@aggiemail.usu. edu
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Watch a live feed of the event in the Sunburst Lounge in the Taggart Student Center.
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more active role on the ground in Vietnam as a flight commander. His wife, Maud Woods, held out hope until she died 11 years ago that her husband was still alive. She passed that hope on to her three biological children still living at home in Germany, where Woods was stationed when he went to Vietnam. Woods’ wife sought out MIA reports and photos, hoping she would find good
news. It never came. “It was very difficult for my brother and sisters, because they were still at home – so, they believed, too,” Taylor said. “My sisters and brother were living in limbo.” It took time for Matthews to come to her own conclusion. “As the years go by, you know darn well he isn’t here, he’s not alive,” she said.
Matthews, who now lives in Arizona, and Woods and their six siblings grew up on a farm in Myton in Duchesne County. Earlier this year, Woods’ burial site was excavated. By May, a final report on the whereabouts of Woods and Cornelius was complete. Matthews described feeling relieved when Taylor called her with the news three months ago
that Woods had been found and identified. Taylor said her late mother, who never remarried, didn’t want a memorial service held for her husband until she had proof he had been killed and wasn’t just missing. “We didn’t have closure, of course,” Taylor said. “Now we’re going to have it.”
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THe Utah Jazz Orchestra was one of several musical groups performing at the Tri-State High School Band Symposium. Bands from three states, Utah, Wyoming and Idaho, played in the Kent Concert Hall. CAMERON PETERSON photo
tors from the regions to choose their top five students based on their experience and talent. The nominees were typed into a database to organize them by instrument and decide who would be the best choice based on descriptions from the directors. McWilliams, director of bands at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, chose the music for the students to perform. “You never quite know what the students are going to be
capable of so you guess a little bit, but I felt like I picked the right choices,” McWilliams said. After the performance, he commended the high school band directors for teaching them enough to get to this point. “It was very enjoyable,” he said. “I was very impressed with the students in terms of their attention and their focus, and they worked really hard and really responded to things I was asking them to do.”
New to the event this year was a sampler from the different band ensembles before the tri-state band took the stage. The one-hour sampler included the Wind Orchestra, Jazz Combo, Flute Choir, Clarinet Choir, Jazz Orchestra, percussion duet, Caine Saxophone Ensemble and Trombone Ensemble, and the Wind Orchestra and the Symphonic Band combined for the final number, “Godzilla Eats Las Vegas.” The final performance had
a PowerPoint display with pictures and captions to tell the story of Godzilla. All the musical numbers were songs the ensembles performed earlier in the semester. After the sampler, the TriState band took the stage to perform five arrangements, four of which were chosen by McWilliams, and the other was conducted and chosen by Rohrer. –ranae.bang@aggiemail.usu. edu
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How USU used to be This photo of the art barn was taken in the 1940s. During the late 1950s, when there was a great deal of reconstruction on campus, the barn was not moved, as had been suggested, because it was deemed, “too stationary and sentimental to be transported.” Photo courtesy of USU Archives
The Animal Science Building Photo courtesy of USU Archives
OLd MAIN HALL TODAy after a snowstorm. Afton Tew, director of the International Student Office from 1987 to 1999, said the TSC used to be the place where everyone hung out with their friends. Now, she said it gets empty pretty fast in the day. DEBRA HAWKINS photo
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The bowling alley, dances every other week, pool tables and smoking in the Taggart Student Center all used to be a part of student life, but over the decades some things have changed and some have remained the same. Afton Tew, director of the International Student Office from 1987 to 1999, said the TSC used to be the place where everyone hung out with their friends, but nowadays it is empty pretty fast in the day. “They have had to change the building to accommodate the students,” Tew said. “There is no place to play anymore, maybe (administrators) decided kids don’t like to play anymore. That is just too bad because the students need to take a break sometimes.”
Tew said the International Student Council used to hold dances that were open to anyone. They held the dances in the area where the computer lab is now to get the students more involved with the international students. “Kids like to dance,” Tew said. “Young people all over the world dance exactly the same. We have people with lots of different cultures who come to USU, but put them on the dance floor and they are all the same.” Tew said the dances were very popular and gave students the chance to spend time with other students and relax. But the dances were eventually stopped because the school thought too many dances were being held. “I was surprised when they limited the number of dances we could have,” Tew said. “Why couldn’t they allow more? It was so much fun.” Shannan Ballam, an English instructor who received her
bachelor’s and master’s degrees from USU, said one of the things she misses about the TSC are the areas were students could hang out and play games. “There used to be the Bullpen,” Ballam said. “It had pool tables and all kinds of old video games and pinball machines. They were a lot of fun.” Before the Bullpen, there was a bowling alley in the TSC, Tew said. She said she thinks it was eventually taken out because students weren’t using it anymore. “There was a bowling alley downstairs where the food service is,” Tew said. It was a good bowling alley. We had a lot of parties down there at the bowling alley. The bowling alley was really popular in its day.” Reid Furniss, an undergraduate journalism adviser who
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Dispatcher life full of multitasking and chaos By RANAE BANGERTER staff writer
The headset police scanner is loud in her ear with an officer calling for additional help on a traffic stop and two of the 25 911-lines are ringing as well. Shelley Peterson must decide which is most important. She knows the 911 call should be answered first. Multitasking is a required talent for all who are working in the Logan City Police Department’s Communications Division. “911, what is the address of your emergency?” Peterson says calmly into the telephone, not knowing what kind of situation to expect. She sits at a desk with five monitors staring back into her face; types into the main computer, which contacts the officers; and quickly types the contact information of the incident. In the office are three to four other
dispatchers who, along with 20 other dispatchers, switch between eight-hour shifts that are split into day shifts, swing shifts and graveyard shifts, 24 hours a day and 365 days a year. “We have to be able to multitask and do several things at a time,” Peterson said. A few of those things include answering multiple phone lines, talking to a victim or on the radio, updating the ambulance crew and giving medical instructions. “There’s definitely a lot that’s going on. Sometimes it’s slow, and sometimes it’s really chaotic,” she said. Peterson and her coworkers wear uniforms all week long but are able to dress down on weekends. The dispatchers are required to be emergency medical
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Shelley Peterson takes an emergency call and turns to her monitors to contact the officers concerning the incident information. TYLER LARSON photo
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Shelley Peterson, dispatcher at Logan city police department’s communications division, said dispatchers are required to be emergency medical dispatchers certified. The certification includes a three-day class and trainings on things like CPR, childbirth and choking. TLYER LARSON photo
dispatchers certified. The certification includes a three-day class and subsequent training on things such as CPR, childbirth and choking, she said. Peterson said a smaller percentage of their calls are actual true emergencies, where they instruct them on what they should or should not do. In 2006, the 911 center received an average of 616 calls per day and 111 incidents per day. For the entire year, they processed 225,000 phone calls and created 41,631 incident reports. Peterson said it’s not uncommon to get prank calls. She shared an example of kids calling in and saying, “Someone is beating me up.” “You can hear them laughing and you can tell that they are not really being beat up,” Peterson said. Dispatchers have also found out many other incidents were bogus reports that never happened, she said. “The shift that you’re working depends on what kind of calls you get sometimes,” she said. She said there is no preparation for the worst calls. “You don’t know they’re coming. There’s no forewarning,” she said. For herself, Peterson said her hardest calls are seizures and suicides. “A lot of the seizure victims are young babies that have a fever and they end up luckily being OK, but a lot of times it’s very stressful because the parent’s don’t understand what’s going on,” Peterson said. “They’re very traumatic, and there’s not a lot you can do for them while they are seizing.” Law enforcement runs in Peterson’s family, as both her father and her grandfather were sheriff’s deputies, which she said helps with dealing with difficult calls.
“Sometimes people will get into this field and not really realize what stuff you will hear and see,” Peterson said. “But growing up around it, I think you understand what’s going on before you get into the business.” When she’s home, she said she is able to share her stories of the day and relate with her husband Jake Peterson, a sheriff for Cache County. The couple have been married for seven years, and she said it helps having someone to talk to. “It’s good to know sometimes that if there’s a really stressful call, I think he probably understands. And dealing with a stressful situation, I understand when he’s been out dealing with something,” she said. Peterson said she lets some of the calls she gets just pass by, but with others, she said she wonders what happened to the victims, especially on medical-related calls. “Sometimes you only hear the first part and you wonder what happened with this or what happened with that,” Peterson said. Finding out what happened to certain victims depends on their location, she said. “It’s just split. Sometimes we find out or sometimes ask around to find out, and sometimes we never do,” Peterson said. If the dispatchers see the officers who went on the call and talk to them, or if they look up the file, the dispatchers may hear about certain victims, but generally they don’t do that, she said. “Even though we can’t prepare for emergencies, it’s kind of a fun job. No two days are alike, and it’s always something different,” Peterson said. “I like helping people, and it’s a good way to do that.” -Ranae.bang@aggiemail.usu.edu
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attended USU starting in the early ‘90s, said he feels that not only have the buildings like the TSC changed, but the students themselves have changed. “Students know that it costs more money to go to college, so they take it more seriously,” Furniss said. “They are doing education because they are interested, not because mama told them so.” Furniss said in the years since he has been a student, some parts of student life have really improved, making some aspects easier than they were before technology improved. “I remember having to go from place to place to get your student loans and pay your fees,” Furniss said. “It took you all freakin’ day to sign up for one semester, and by the time you got to the front of the line, some of the classes you needed were no longer available.” Ballam said she feels like a lot of the changes she has seen since she was a student really have made being a student easier. “When I first started undergrad, we rarely used e-mail,” Ballam said. “We were still listening to record players in class. We still used the old card catalog system. It was typical for professors to show slides on the old machines.” Furniss said although a lot of the technological changes the university has undergone have made the world of students easier, he really doesn’t think the government is helping students out as much as they used to. “When I got a Pell Grant, it payed for everything – tuition, books, and I even had some left over for a hamburger when I was done,” Furniss said. “Now, even if you get a Pell Grant,
you don’t even get to cover all of your tuition, much less your books. One student I know just got $1,900, but her tuition was $2,300. The government just is not as on top of it as it used to be.” Furniss said although the school has undergone many changes, some good and some bad, he thinks today’s students have it pretty good because the value of education is going up.
“We have a better library and the technology is better. Who ever thought wireless would come about?” Furniss said. “I think advisers are much better trained. The overall quality of resources have improved over the years as well. The overall quality of faculty and education students are receiving when they come to USU has improved, which is the most important.” -debrajoy.h@aggiemail.usu.edu
’ve ordered my cap and gown and sent out my announcements. It’s looking like I’m going to pass all my classes this semester, which will give me exactly 120 credits. So, as long as I finally take all six CIL exams this week, I’m graduating from college. It’s feeling a little surreal right now as I’m finally beginning to accept that on Dec. 15, my student career will officially be over. I’m excited to be done with homework, 10-page papers and multiple choice exams that I’ve spent the last four and half years cramming for. I’ve learned a lot in college. For example, matrix problems can actually make math fun and, thanks to my swing dance class, I’ve also learned to spin around upside-down with my legs hanging off a guy’s shoulder. Most of what I’ve learned in college didn’t come from books or studying for tests. In fact, most of the memories I will hold onto came late at night with friends or at times when professors left their subject for a moment and gave students some really good advice. So for my last column I want to raise a glass to the people who have meant the most in my life and pass along the things they’ve taught me, whether they know it or not. First of all, sometimes the best conversations with friends take place in a car at 2 a.m. on the way home from McDonald’s while sipping extra-large Diet Cokes. Also, Little Caesars can be a solution to any Friday night when there’s nothing else to do. Friends have taught me that we should surround ourselves with people who will make us better. A true friend respects what you believe and lets you make your own choices. They inspire you to live your values even if theirs are not the same. Along those same lines, don’t hold your friends’ pasts against them. Everyone has a history, but we should be looking at who people are right now, who they are trying to be and what they can become. We shouldn’t be blinded by their mistakes, because everyone makes mistakes. When it comes to any type of relationship, we should always be honest. There will be things we don’t want to say, but sometimes it’s necessary to tell the truth. Gaining trust from those around you will allow their power to become yours, and endless doors can open. Also, don’t mess around with what isn’t yours. This can mean your roommate’s Lucky Charms or your best friend’s boyfriend. If it’s not yours to begin with, don’t try to steal it. Kisses mean something. Don’t give them away to strangers. Nine out of 10 times, someone gets hurt when a kiss is noncommittal. Kiss as many people as you want, but make sure you like that person and care about their feelings and your own. And even though it may be easy sometimes, don’t make fun of your friends’ crushes. You never know what could happen with them. Gossiping is a waste of time and even though we are all guilty of it sometimes, it doesn’t do any good. Some of the best
things we can say are simply thank you and sorry. There are power in those words. I’ve learned that it’s never too late to change, and we are all able to make some difference for good. We can all try to leave people better than how we found them. When it comes to working in college, I’ve learned a lot of us are going to have crappy jobs, and we shouldn’t put others down because of their employment. I worked at Wal-Mart for three years and have never heard so many mean and degrading things about any other job I had. We’re in college. As long as the work is honest, it shouldn’t matter how your friends are making money. I’m just beginning to realize people shouldn’t hide their talents. You’ll never know how good you could be if you never display them. It’s too easy to shove them in the back of a closet and let them collect dust. And when you do let your inhibitions go and show what your talents are, take criticism for what it’s worth and move on. Try to make yourself better because of it, and don’t let it tear you down. Try to make every day count. Find out what the community has to offer from arts to sporting events. Get involved in activities because there is always something to do. Explore. Go on walks, float the canal, hike the mountains that we are surrounded by and have bonfires in them. When it comes to faith, have God in your life. I don’t care what religion you are or what you believe in. Believing in something bigger than yourself, bigger than society, bigger than this world and bigger than life will inspire you. Having faith in an afterlife will give you something to live for every day. If you can, travel. See places and meet people different than you. See the wonders this earth has to offer and try new foods there. Eating interesting meals in different states and countries can lead to some really great memories. Make sure you are happy by finding out who you are. Find out what you like and what you don’t, and then let yourself go. Sometimes everyone just needs to go for a long drive. At times, roll down the windows and let the world hear your music. Sing your heart out. Dance like nobody’s watching. When you need to, take time to be alone and sort out the things that are important to you. Decide where you are going in life, and never give up on your dreams. Never settle for something less than what you could be. Lastly, laugh every day.There are funny things happening all the time around us, and don’t be afraid to let that out. Manette Newbold is a senior majoring in print journalism. Comments and questions can be sent to manette.n@ aggiemail.usu.edu.
Attack of the student fridge By ALISA LYMAN staff writer
Pickles in a yogurt container, a month-old Arby’s sandwich and black bananas are just a few items that grace the shelves of USU students’ refrigerators and freezers. Amanda Price, sophomore majoring in exercise science, said it’s hard to keep a fridge clean and free of rotting food with six girls
in one apartment. “Probably the worst thing I’ve ever found is moldy tofu,” Price said. “It was all green and white and nasty.” Freshman psychology major Ian Thorley said he once found rotten spaghetti squash that had been left uncovered and smelled horrible. Both he and his roommates throw out rotten food as it appears, but “there has been no formal cleaning of the fridge yet,”
Thorley said, as he gestured to a three-week soda spill. Price said she and her roommates try to organize their fridge by giving a separate shelf to each roommate, which works most of the time. She shares milk and cooks meals with one of her roommates, but because the other
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A student shows frozen bananas stored in her freezer. One issue with students and food safety is not putting perishable food away. CAMERON PETERSON photo
girls have such different eating habits, sharing everything is impossible, she said. Price said she also tries to conserve space in other ways like putting pickles in a yogurt container because it takes less room than a big jar. Thorley said he and his roommates don’t have to worry so much about sharing food and conserving space. The six boys live mostly off frozen and microwavable foods, or foods their parents send from home, he said. Thorley said sometimes they organize food by size, but it “mostly just gets hucked in there.”
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for about a year, and so I have a fear of natural disasters. It’s pretty outrageous. Earthquakes. They’ve just bothered me since I learned about them in third grade. There’s nothing you can do. You just hope to be in the right place at the right time if that ever happens.
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Food safety rules sometimes get pushed to the back when college students live together. “There are rules?” Thorley said. He said he knows about botchalism, but he doesn’t really worry about food poisoning unless he sees some sort of bulging can. Matt McGrath, undeclared freshman, said he agrees. “Generally, if it smells and looks fine, I’ll eat it,” he said. Price said she has a food handler’s permit, but she doesn’t stress about following sanitizing and temperature rules. Jackie Russell, her roommate, said she doesn’t notice those things too much. “Germs don’t exist in college,” said Russell, sophomore majoring in psychology. Both girls check expiration dates periodically, but Price said she usually keeps food like milk about a week longer or until it smells rotten. Jill Hicken, freshman majoring in physical education, said she doesn’t worry too much about getting a food-borne illness. “I just make sure I wash my hands, and I don’t let food sit out,” Hicken said. Brian Nummer, USU Extension food safety specialist, said studies have shown that because students are generally busier, younger and healthier than other people, they are more likely to ignore food safety rules. He said students don’t always notice when they have a food-borne illness, nor do they report it, which makes researching the effects of not following food safety rules difficult. However, Nummer said cases of diarrhea and the so-called 24hour stomach flu are both good indications that a person has eaten contaminated food. One issue with students and food safety is not putting perishable food away, he said. “Students will often buy a pizza one night, leave it sitting on the counter, and then eat the
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CT: We went dancing, like real ballroom dancing. He taught me how before and everything. It was a riot. It ended up being a four-hour date though. Two were learning the dancing and the other two were spent practicing the dancing. US: Is it a romantic thing for a guy to know how to dance? CT: I think it’s a nice thing if they do know how, kind of an added bonus. US: What was the worst date you’ve ever been on? CT: I think what happened was the boy I was going with was the friend of the guy I actually had a thing for, and he took us to some sort of a movie that was an independent movie. It just wasn’t a very good time, he was trying to hold my hand and pushing his advantage. It was just really uncomfortable. US: What music do you own that you’re ashamed of now? CT: It would have to be the Backstreet Boys. That was my first concert. I wasn’t that big of a fan, but after I went to the concert I felt obligated to be a really big fan. It was a birthday present from my mom. It’s probably on my iTunes but not on my iPod.
US: What TV shows can you not live without? CT: Easy question: “The Office,” “Scrubs,” “Bones,” and let’s go with “Criminal Intent: Law and Order.” US: What type of things did you do in junior high? CT: I did a lot of the plays and musicals in high school. I was pretty high strung in junior high. I think it’s just that time when you’re coming into your own and you don’t know what to do about it. US: If you could change one thing about USU, what would it be? CT: I’m not a big fan of winter. If we could relocate to California. You could add another letter on to make it make sense. US: Where would be the ideal place to relocate? CT: Malibu without the wildfires. I don’t know how much of Malibu is left. US: If you could be on a nuclear submarine with any three people, who would you choose?
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Aggies top Santa Clara “We tried to give it back By SAM BRYNER when we were up 11,” Morrill senior writer said. “We had some turnovers that gave them chances, and all of the sudden they were back In a game of runs, Utah State had the most important in the game.” one of the game, a 4-0 run to “I don’t think we ever close out the final minute of thought that we could let up the game and hold on for a 71a little bit and never thought 65 win against visiting Santa that we had it in the bag,” forClara University on Saturday ward Gary Wilkinson said. night in the Spectrum in front Five free throws by Utah of 9,345 fans. State would be the only points Utah State had an 8-0 run scored the rest of way by with 6:20 left in the game and either team as the Aggies (5-4) seemed to be on its way to an handed Santa Clara (5-2) their easy finish after second loss on two straight the season. 3-pointers by “We fought a Carroll ignited little bit tonight,” the crowd and senior guard USU 71 put the Aggies Jaycee Carroll up by 11, 66-55, Santa Clara 65 said. “When we with 3:40 left in got down before the game. in a couple of other games, it “It was a really physical, seemed like we gave up–we hard-fought game, it was slugdidn’t fight, we didn’t know ging rats out there. We just had where to look for answers. a couple of bursts that gave us Tonight and even against Iowa a chance to win,” head coach we got through these runs that Stew Morrill said. they made and through our Ignited by Carroll’s 3-pointbad mistakes and just kept ers and with the Spectrum playing basketball.” crowd buzzing, the only chalWith just more than two lenge that seemed to remain minutes left in the first half, for the Aggies on the night Utah State was down by eight would be the traversing of and the Santa Clara defense Logan’s slick, icy roads after a was causing Utah State fits. winter storm blanketed Cache “I think they really physiValley with snow during the called us, they caught us off game. guard,” Morrill said. “They Santa Clara had other ideas. just knocked the crap out of Seniors John Bryant and us and took us out of our cuts, Brody Angley benefited from and we had a real hard time the only two Aggie turnovers getting synchronized.” of the second half to go on a Utah State didn’t give up 10-1 run themselves to pull though, and he used a 6-2 run Santa Clara back to within two points at 67-65 with 55.9 sec- See WIN, page 10 onds left.
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Utah State splits with BYU on the ice The BYU Icecats outworked Utah State for a 4-2 win decided in the second period. The loss in the Peaks Ice Arena wasn’t the only bad news of the night for Aggie coach Jerry Crossley–Ryan Osterheldt’s separated shoulder forced Crossley to again shuffle the lines. The Aggies will be without the services of the aggressive Osterheldt until the second semester. Aaron Shimmel scored both goals for USU, proving once again that skating alongside sophomores Kent Arsenault and Jay McFadden is good for a player’s bottom line. Freshman Ben Tikka, who has been one half of USU’s best defensive pair along with Maciej Michalik since moving back, admitted that although he has played defense all his life, he would love to be playing forward with Arsenault and McFadden again. “They moved me up to first line with Kent and Jay and they got me the puck at the right time,” Shimmel said. “Unfortunately it wasn’t enough. The team could have stepped up a little more and maybe we would have won the game.” Dan Cornelius continued to split playing time at goalie with Greg Finatti and stopped 38 pucks but got another loss on his record. “We definitely played down to their level, maybe a bit lower,” Cornelius said. “I don’t want to sound cocky or anything, but they’re not a good team.” Brigham Young defenseman Gage Rasmussen opened the scoring in the first period with a power play goal assisted by his brother Case and center Brandon Holmes. USU just avoided going into the first intermission down 1-0 thanks to Shimmel,
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Aggie senior guard Jaycee Carroll (20) shoots a 3-pointer over a Santa Clara defender while teammate Kris Clark (10) watches on in a 71-65 Aggie win Saturday night in the Spectrum. Carroll led all Aggie scorers with 25 points on 4-of-7 shooting from behind the 3-point line. CAMERON PETERSON photo
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Dec. 3, 2007
who got assists from Arsenault and McFadden on his own power-play goal with 16 seconds to go. The Icecats were in business early in the second period again, with a goal from Ben Shugart and another power-play goal scored by Josh Burkart after Michalik was hauled off to the penalty box on a slashing rap. Shimmel combined with McFadden and Arsenault to get the Ags within 3-2, but then Arsenault was hit with a rarely called diving penalty, and BYU’s Jimmy Burkart converted the Icecat’s third man-advantage opportunity of the night. USU 6, BYU 2 The Aggies continued to play .500 hockey as they enter the backstretch of the first semester, evening up their record at 9-9-1 with a decisive 6-2 win in the packed Eccles Ice Arena on Saturday night. After going down 4-0, the Icecats got onto the scoreboard in the final minute of the second period when they pulled Ben Shapiro from the goal while already on the power play for a 6-on-4 situation. Ben Shugart tipped the puck past Greg Finatti, who finished with 42 saves and spent most of the third period flat on his back. The golden opportunity for BYU came when Robert Sutherland and Matt Ferris were both hit with penalties during the action surrounding Shugart’s goal. The dual penalties meant USU opened the third period playing 5-on-3 hockey. The Aggies had only just killed off that penalty, thanks to some solid work between the pipes by Finatti, when Michalik got popped for boarding and went away to give BYU another two-minute opportunity
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Schedule of interesting bowl games Dec. 20 Poinsettia Bowl at San Diego, Utah (8-4) vs. Navy (8-4), 9 p.m. (ESPN) Dec. 22 New Mexico Bowl at Albuquerque, New Mexico (84) vs. Nevada (6-6), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN) Dec. 22 Las Vegas Bowl, BYU (10-2) vs. UCLA (6-6), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Dec. 23 Hawaii Bowl at Honolulu, East Carolina (7-5) vs. Boise State (10-2), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Dec. 27 Holiday Bowl at San Diego, Arizona State (10-2) vs. Texas (9-3), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Dec. 30 Independence Bowl at Shreveport, La., Colorado (6-6) vs. Alabama (6-6), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Dec. 31 Humanitarian Bowl at Boise, Idaho, Fresno State (8-4) vs. Georgia Tech (7-5), 2 p.m. (ESPN2) Jan. 1 Outback Bowl at Tampa, Fla., Wisconsin (9-3) vs. Tennessee (9-4), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Jan. 1 Cotton Bowl at Dallas, Missouri (11-2) vs. Arkansas (8-4), 11:30 a.m. (FOX)
A 19-4 run in the first half sparked by senior guard Jamelah Brown helped the Aggie women’s basketball team defeat Eastern Washington, 74-55, Sunday afternoon at EWU’s Reese Court in Cheney, Wash, for USU’s first win of the season. Brown netted a seasonhigh 16 points in the game. The win snapped USU’s five game losing skid, improving to 1-5 overall. The victory is the first at Eastern Washington and was USU’s first trip to Cheney in the first match up between the two schools since 1982. The Aggies also picked up their largest winning margin since Dec. 10, 2005 when USU defeated Utah Valley, 7451. EWU lost for the fifth game in a row and the Eagles are now 1-6. The loss was Eastern Washington’s first to Utah State and the Eagles are now 21 against the Aggies.
Danyelle Snelgro lays the ball up during a game against Pacific on Nov. 9. DEBRA HAWKINS photo
Brown netted seven points in the first half and hit all of her three throws (5-of-5), as the Aggies were 16-of-17 for the game and marked a seasonhigh 94.1 percent from behind the charity stripe. Brown also added a game-high six rebounds to go along with two assists. Senior guard Taylor Richards tallied 14 points and had a season-high four assists, while junior guard Danyelle Snelgro netted 11 points to go along with four assists, one block and one steal. Sophomore center Nicole Johnson hit her first career three-pointer and had a careerhigh seven points as sophomore guard LeeAnn Palo tied her career-high with five points and two assists.
Jan. 1 Capital One Bowl at Orlando, Fla., Michigan (8-4) vs. Florida (9-3), 1 p.m. (ABC) Jan. 1 Gator Bowl at Jacksonville, Fla., Virginia (93) vs. Texas Tech (8-4), 1 p.m. (CBS) Jan. 1 Rose Bowl at Pasadena, Calif., Southern California (10-2) vs. Illinois (9-3), 5 p.m. (ABC) Jan. 1 Sugar Bowl at New Orleans, Hawaii (12-0) vs. Georgia (10-2), 8:30 p.m. (FOX) Jan. 2 Fiesta Bowl at Glendale, Ariz., West Virginia (10-2) vs. Oklahoma (11-2), 8 p.m. (FOX) Jan. 3 Orange Bowl at Miami, Kansas (11-1) vs. Virginia Tech (11-2), 8 p.m. (FOX) Jan. 7 BCS National Championship at New Orleans, Ohio State (11-1) vs. LSU (11-2), 8 p.m. (FOX)
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LSU and OSU for a National Title (AP) – LSU has a ticket to the title game. Everyone else has a pretty good gripe. The latest chapter in this crazy, unpredictable college football season was written Sunday when LSU won the sport’s version of the lottery, being picked to play Ohio State for the championship and leaving about a half-dozen other candidates with plenty to complain about. The Tigers (11-2), ranked second in the latest Associated Press poll, will be the first team to play in the BCS title game with two losses. No. 1 Ohio State goes into the game, Jan. 7 at the Superdome in New Orleans, at 11-1. Missouri and West Virginia, the teams that came into the weekend ranked 1 and 2, lost Saturday to blow their title chances, were left out of the BCS altogether. Why did LSU, which was seventh in the BCS standings heading into the final weekend, make the jump to No. 2 and into the big game, while Oklahoma, Southern California, Georgia and a number of others
were left behind? The 174 poll voters and handful of computer nerds whose calculations make up the BCS rankings probably all have their own reasons. Among the best is that LSU was rewarded for winning the Southeastern Conference, which is traditionally viewed as one of the toughest leagues in the nation. There’s also the argument coach Les Miles and athletic director Skip Bertman offered up Saturday night: The Tigers went undefeated in regulation this season — their two losses both coming in triple overtime. Paper-thin as that line of reasoning may sound, it’s as good as any in this topsy turvy season during which the top-ranked team lost four times, the second-ranked team lost six times since October and Nos. 1 and 2 lost on the same week three times in the last two months. The rest of the BCS games are filled with teams that had every bit as good an argument as LSU for a spot in the title game.
In the Sugar Bowl, Georgia will play Hawaii. The Bulldogs (10-2) were fourth and idle coming into the final weekend — behind Missouri, West Virginia and Ohio State — but didn’t automatically rise two spots the way coach Mark Richt thought they should. Hawaii (12-0), meanwhile, is the nation’s only undefeated team, but is penalized for playing a weak schedule in the Western Athletic Conference. The Fiesta Bowl will pit West Virginia (10-2) against Oklahoma (11-2). The Sooners beat top-ranked Missouri twice this season, including 38-17 on Saturday in the Big 12 title game. The Rose Bowl stuck with its traditional Big Ten-vs.-Pac-10 matchup, going with Southern California (10-2) against Illinois (9-3). USC, thought to be playing as well as anyone in the nation right now, was one of the two-loss teams that had a legitimate claim at the title game. A loss to 41-point underdog Stanford in October, however, probably doomed the Trojans.
Win: Aggies limit turnovers, with only two in second half -continued from page 9 to play basketball,” Morrill said. “They got a great feel for how to play, and thats a credit to them.” The Aggies started the second half the same way that they ended the first — with a run. Utah State started the second half with a 10-2 run to gain its first lead of the game and stretch that lead to four, 36-32, with 15 minutes left in the game. “Limit our turnovers, cause them to have turnovers, shoot a good percentage and execute our offense,” Wilkinson said. “I think we came out with the intensity to do that in the second half.” In the second half, Utah State committed only two turnovers, while forcing Santa Clara into six turnovers for the half and 14 overall. Wilkinson credits having a week of practice to the Aggies success in cutting down on turnovers. “We had a good week of practice, it was really tough and we worked on some things and I think that helped us to take a step forward,” Wilkinson said. “We are making some steps forward.” Morrill agrees with Wilkinson and said the practice time also enabled the Aggies to work on some things on the offensive end. “When you have some time to practice you can tinker a little bit and that helped us offensively,” Morrill said. “We added a couple of looks, Jaycee got open on a couple of things we added.” Carroll scored 25 points for Utah State on 9-of-16 shooting, including 4-of-7 from beyond the three-point line. Stephen DuCharme recorded 12 points and pulled down a team high 10 rebounds. Next up for Utah State is in-state rival University of Utah on Wednesday. The same Utah team that lost to Santa Clara at home earlier in the season 72-57. - sam.bryner@aggiemail.usu.edu Senior guard Kris Clark (10) dribbles around Santa Clara’s Brody Angley (5) Saturday night. Clark finished the game without a turnover and seven assists and five points in the win. CAMERON PETERSON photo
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Dropping 3-bombs The Aggies had a variety of players convert on 3pointers at key moments in the second half. It was a Jaycee Caroll 3-pointer a minute into the final half that gave the Aggies their first lead of the game at 31-30. Nine minutes later, Aggie guard Kris Clark drained a trey to give Utah State a seven-point lead—its biggest advantage at that point of the game. With just less than 10 minutes to go, the next USU 3-ball was from an unlikely candidate—6foot-9-inch forward Gary Wilkinson. His trey was an answer to a 3-pointer by Santa Clara guard Jonathan Gunderson. Two minutes after that, Utah State junior guard Desmond Stephens responded to another Gunderson 3-ball to give the Aggies a four-point lead. At the 4:17 mark, Clark, who ended the game with four assists and zero turnovers, found Carroll for another triple for an eight-point lead. The Broncos missed a field goal, and Clark led a fast break where he found Carroll on the left wing for yet another 3-pointer. It capped an 8-0 Utah State run and got the Spectrum rocking. “I’m really glad Kris Clark has basketball knowledge,” said Carroll, who was 4-of-7 from behind the line. “I probably should buy him a steak dinner ... It was just an overall good game by him.” After finishing the first half 1-of-5 from 3-point range, the Aggies ended the game 7-of-17. Carroll the best two-guard in the country? Bronco first-year head coach Kerry Keating liked what he saw from Carroll and his 25-point, oneturnover performance. “Jaycee Caroll made three plays in a row,” Keating said. “Twenty-four-year-old senior AllAmerican, and that is what we have to get to is to develop a level of toughness to have a player understand, especially when you’re at home, when it is time to make plays, you make plays.
“I told Jaycee after the game that I am going to start encouraging people to understand that he is the best two-guard in the country. He better play like it the rest of the season.” Santa Clara ‘savvy’ On the other side of the hall, Aggie Head Coach Stew Morrill threw a compliment Santa Clara’s way. With three players scoring in double figures and giving the Aggies a challenge in the rowdy spectrum, Morrill said he was nothing but impressed with the Broncos and their first-year head coach. “Their whole team has so much savvy,” Morrill said. “I really like their team. They knocked the crap out of us.” On the game, the Broncos shot 54 percent on field goals and 46 percent from 3-point range. Morrill liking the two-point guard look At certain times Saturday night, Morrill played two point guards on the floor at the same time. “It gives us a different look,” he said. “I like the potential of this lineup at times. We’re better on the break with two point guards out there. It makes some sense.” He said he will continue to do it, but not for the entire game. For the most part it was Stephens and Clark on the court at the same time. Morrill said Stephens, who tallied a season-high nine points, is making progress and ready to play more minutes. Morrill to Aggie fans: Keep it up The 9,345 Spectrum fans present Saturday were in top form. With the close games the Aggies have had, Morrill couldn’t be happier. “It’s nice to be home and have 9,000-plus fans helping you, jeering the officials, having a good time,” Morrill said. “We appreciate that.” The Aggies have now won 19 of their last 25 games decided by six or fewer points and improved their Spectrum record to 129-12 under Morrill. That includes a 61-4 mark against non-league opponents. -samuel.hislop@aggiemail.usu.edu
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HONOLULU (AP) — Colt Brennan threw a 5-yard touchdown pass to Ryan Grice-Mullen with 44 seconds left and No. 11 Hawaii overcame a 21-point to close the gap. Finatti, however, deficit to beat Washington 35-28 on baffled every BYU shooter and Saturday night to finish the regular his team passed the test. season 12-0 and virtually assure a BCS “We played pretty good,� berth. Finatti said. “We shortened up Brennan was near perfect with a our bench and came out and perHeisman Trophy night, throwing two formed just like we did against fourth-quarter touchdown passes. He San Jose State.� was 42-of-50, including 6-of-6 on the It was a balanced scoring effort winning 76-yard drive. for the Aggies, and more than He threw for 442 yards and five TDs one player used terms like ‘all with no interceptions. three periods’ or ‘all 60 minutes’ Grice-Mullen caught a slant pass from to describe the team’s encouragBrennan for the score that put the selling play. Nine players scored out crowd in a frenzy, chanting “BCS! points, led by McFadden’s four. BCS!� McFadden tied with Michalik Washington took over with 38 for the team lead in assists with seconds and drove all the way to the three and was named co-player Hawaii 4, but Jake Locker’s pass was of the game along with Finatti by intercepted by Ryan Mouton in the end the Valley Channel broadcasting zone, sealing the win and the Warriors’ crew. perfect season. William Winsa was the only Surrounded by fans, University of Hawaii Thousands of fans charged the field Aggie to score more than one quarterback Colt Brennan (15) walks off the field after and flashes sparkled in Hawaii’s bigHawaii beat the University of Washington at Aloha Stadium, Saturday, in goal. He beat Shapiro for the gest win in school history. Honolulu. Hawaii finished its regular season 12-0. AP photo first time in the second period while on the power play, then got his second by prowling in the slot area while McFadden and Shimmel cycled the puck behind the net, then one-timing it into the twine at a crazy angle to make it 6-1 late in the third. The loss the previous night “got everybody mad, so we just wanted to get them here and kick their ass,� Winsa said. After losses earlier in the year, Winsa has called out his teammates for not matching his own all-out effort, but this time he was pleased. “We showed that we’re not screwing around anymore,� he said. “We’re here to play this game, we’re here to win, we’re here to beat you, and we did. We kept that attitude the whole game. White line rules.� Team captain Scotty John had a big night statistically, with a goal and an assist, but gave up the second BYU goal with 2:57 remaining in the game when he attempted a backhand pass across the slot to Tikka that never arrived. The biscuit was not fired with the appropriate level of urgency, allowing a streaking Jason Griffiths to intercept it and beat a surprised Finatti to the post. However, his goal was a thing of beauty: an off-speed wrist shot from just inside the blue line that fluttered like a Major League change-up, and it was tumbling around behind Shapiro before he knew it. Fans exiting the game from the south bleachers got an unexpected bonus as time expired when Walter Voisard got involved with a skirmish with two BYU skaters. “I was skating into the sideboards to try and get the puck and dish to J-Mac so he could possibly get a goal right at the end of the game,� Voisard said. “I went to turn and a guy hit me into the boards from behind, just like I said BYU does all the time because they’re a cheap team. I wasn’t going to take it from them, so I turned around and socked him in the face.� Another Icecat skater arrived, and Voisard gamely traded gloved blows to the cage with both players until referees arrived to break things up. The small fight seemed inevitable after a third period in which both teams skated fast and hit hard while the BYU side was repeatedly frustrated by Finatti. Voisard had more words for the visitors: “I’m not a fan of BYU, I don’t like them. I think they’re a cheap team and they could play a little more sportsmanlike.�
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ne week. Take a deep breath and say it again. Now get back to those text books and try to cram an entire semester’s worth of knowledge into your brain in hopes that you can spew about 12 percent of it out on the day of your final. Though finals week is a mere seven days distant, at least we can take solace in the fact that we have this week to not have to worry about tests. It’s all because of the infamous “no-test week,” made infamous by the fact that it exists merely in principle, much like a campaign promise. The “no-test week” is a real event and can be found in the Spring 2008 course catalog, which defines the no-test days policy as “a five-day period designated as ‘no test’ days (preceding) final examinations. During this time, no major examinations will be given.” Unfortunately, this policy is not always followed. To those professors who do follow it, our thanks and appreciation go out to you. It sure makes life easier as a student. There are many professors, however, who feel this rule does not apply to them and seem to delight in squeezing in yet one more test before an even larger final. What good does this do to the teacher or the student? The student now has double the amount of studying to do, and instead of working on memorizing facts for the final, their attention must now be split for another test. It seems counter-productive to the objective of truly learning a subject. But many teachers know this irks students and avoid testing during this week. Instead, they tack on massive projects that most of their students either forgot about or didn’t do over Thanksgiving Break, or they bypass the policy by citing the “major examinations” clause. After all, a large planned quiz is definitely not the same thing as a major examination, right? If this policy exists, it should be enforced. Sure, the letter of the law allows for loopholes, but the whole idea behind this policy is the spirit of the law. The Academic Gestapo aren’t going to break into a teacher’s office and haul them off for giving a test. Punishments aren’t necessary. It’s simply a matter of courtesy to the student and teacher alike. An extra test means that much more to grade. And honestly, after an entire semester of class, there’s been plenty of time to divvy out as many exams as possible. Testing is an important way to gauge how well a student learned the subject matter and students deserve a chance to get in all the studying they can to demonstrate their competence in a subject. So, to reiterate the words of Pink Floyd, “Hey, teacher, leave us kids alone.”
Merry HanuKwanzaaMas Go placidly past the box stores and their ilk and remember there is peace in owning less. Be on good terms with all persons, Even those who send you holiday cards with no note Or worse yet, a 12-page family newsletter. Avoid loud and aggressive persons by not Watching commercial TV. If you compare yourself to those on screen You will become depressed and dismayed for you will always feel either guilt, lust or impoverished when assaulted by advertising. Don’t confuse your career with your life, no matter how many titles you have. Exercise caution with all e-mail attachments For the Internet is a web of deceit. But let this not blind you to the small, good things around you. Fox News misses most of this. Be yourself, but not in bed because that’s just too freaky. Especially do not feign admiration for your boss. For what are you if you lose your soul only to gain a two-percent merit raise. Listen to others but not on the cell phone while you are driving. Surrender your inner novel and set your sights on a couple really searing letters to the editor. Do not worry that somewhere, someplace someone is having more fun than you; these fears lead to Internet shopping. You are a speck in the universe Just like the trees and the stars.
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ForumLetters Diabetes shown in false light To the editor: To whom it may concern: As a reader of The Statesman, I was shocked at the inaccuracies that occurred in the article, “Living Well with Diabetes” that appeared in the Monday, Nov. 26 issue. I have family members and friends with diabetes, and I felt that this article portrayed false information through the picture as well as the text; inaccuracies appeared which obviously slipped through the editing process. Below are listed two of the many problems I found: 1) The picture does not portray the correct way to take an insulin shot. An insulin injection should only be taken in the back of the arm, in the stomach or in the thigh. 2) Last time I checked, men don’t menstruate. The writer lists some symptoms of diabetes which include having to go to the bathroom a lot, excessive thirst and the loss of menstruation. The writer also goes on to mention that the man she interviewed experi-
enced ALL of these symptoms. This leads me to believe that some men actually do menstruate . . . hmm, I had no idea. I must admit this article leaves a negative impression in my mind, and I question the competency of writers and editors who work for The Statesman. Kristal Shegrud
Inaccuracies in article To the editor: In response to the article “Living well with diabetes” in the Monday, November 26 issue of the Statesman, I feel that there was inaccurate information presented about diabetes. The picture that was printed with the article was offensive to me. There wasn’t a caption to explain what the picture was of. The impression I had was that it was a picture of someone with diabetes taking an insulin shot. This is very imprecise. By having Type 1 diabetes I am familiar with the areas insulin injections can be taken. These areas are the back of the upper arm, the abdomen and the thighs.
Letters to the editor • A public forum As I read this article I was frustrated that no other sources were used such as an endocrinologist, a diabetes educator or a dietitian. Also, another person with diabetes should have been used as a resource in order to bring more perspective and personal facts. The title was “Living well with diabetes” but that was only addressed in a few paragraphs. As a diabetic I must be in control of what I eat, how much insulin I take and also the amount of physical activity I do. Also, my physician and dietitian help me with controlling my diabetes. Another part of the article, which referred to diabetes “as a wasting disease” irritated me because this so called “wasting away” is due to not taking care of oneself. Just because I have diabetes does not mean that I will end up “wasting away”. I can and will live a normal life. All diabetics who take care of themselves and control their diabetes can live a normal life without complications. This article gave a distorted view of diabetes and misinformed many people
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ASHINGTON — Al Szekely and Dawn Henderson, an unlikely pair, are regulars at the tables in front of a Starbucks here. Dawn gets the coffee. Al provides the stories. Together, they haven’t yet solved the world’s problems, but they’re working on it. Or at least they were, until the Starbucks managers told Al he was no longer welcome at their establishment. Al’s a homeless man with wild, matted white hair, a long, scraggly beard, and a hand-lettered sign alerting us to the What others are fact that some saying about issues. creep stole his electric wheelchair, which is why Al is stuck in a manual chair, trundling along and aggravating the pain in his hips. Dawn is a part-time comedian who works as a sales manager in Rockville, Md. She spends an inordinate share of her life at Starbucks. “My record is eight hours, at the Glover Park store,” she said. She’s a regular at five Starbucks, including shops near home, the office and various other markers in her daily travels. Dawn collects people, a couple of whom happen to be homeless. So when she heard a Starbucks assistant manager and manager tell Al he had to leave the premises and would not be allowed back because the store didn’t want homeless people hanging around, Dawn was incensed. “As much money as I spend with this company, they’re not going to kick you out,” Dawn told Al. She told the managers that if they were going to send Al away, they needed to toss her out, too, because she’d been sitting there longer than Al. The situation got worse: Another homeless person, a woman who regularly spends hours at a time in the shop, was asked to leave and never return, Dawn said. Al complied with the stay-away request — “I’m not going to tempt fate, and I don’t need a fight,” he says — and so he gave a friend his mug to take into the Starbucks, buy his coffee and bring it out to him while he waited up the block. But
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the Starbucks workers recognized Al’s cup and refused to fill it. Dawn decided to escalate. She had the perfect tool. Dawn is one of those folks who chronicles her every move on her blog. “Anything you need to know about me, it’s on my blog,” she said. So Dawn posted an item detailing what she’d seen and heard. The store managers quickly started to feel the heat — from customers who knew that several homeless people hang out at the coffee place on Wisconsin Avenue NW without causing any trouble, and from Mandrake Sumners, an outreach worker for the Friendship Place service center for the homeless, a couple of blocks from the Starbucks. By last week, Starbucks was in damage-control mode. Dawn got calls from Seattle headquarters and from a regional manager, assuring her that the managers at the store here had erred and asking her to remove her blog posting. Starbucks would not allow the two store managers to talk with me. The coffee chain’s regional marketing manager, Carter Bentzel, said the company has no problem with homeless people as customers. “If the customers were told not to come back, we apologize for that,” she said. “The store manager recognizes that there was a miscommunication.” Bentzel said there is no limit on how long any customers may stay once they’ve made a purchase. To make amends, the store plans to increase its food and beverage donations to Friendship Place and other groups that help the homeless. But Dawn and Al remain perturbed. Dawn was outraged by the presumption that the Starbucks staff could discern who is homeless. “You have three people in there right now who are homeless and you don’t know it,” she told a manager. “And if you catch me on a bad Saturday, I’m going to look homeless. Are you throwing me out?” Al, meanwhile, doesn’t feel comfortable entering the store. He’ll sit outside and drink coffee if someone is buying, but he’d rather not go where
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who already have an unclear idea of what diabetes is, the different types and the facts about diabetes. I appreciate that this article was written to enlighten people about diabetes, but I had hoped that the information would be more accurate. I anticipate future articles that are accurate and well researched. Adora Alexander
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To the editor:
Something horrible happened on Tuesday. I spent time in the snow on Tuesday making the tallest snowman that I have ever seen in my life. It stood for about two hours before some girl came and knocked it down while I was standing 10 feet away in my apartment. Though I did get a rush of enjoyment bursting out of the door and chasing
her all the way to the towers, I couldn’t help but thinking: How old are we? Shouldn’t this kind of childish behavior be over before college? I’m all for a great practical joke, but destruction of property is just rude and unimaginative. I saw many a wrecked snowman around my building that day. Come on people, lets have some maturity and respect. If you need a funny joke, go roll a snowball in front of someone’s door. Nathan Searcy
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he’s not wanted. If you can get past the untamed, filthy look, Al will break every stereotype you’ve ever had about homeless people. He audits classes at Georgetown Law. He’s big on texting messages. He has a blog. He writes poetry. “I really don’t understand the prejudice against homeless people,” he said. Al, who is 60, and Dawn, 36, first met at the D.C. Armory back when it was being used as a collection point for donations to victims of Hurricane Katrina. Al was there to donate $14 he’d panhandled on the streets of Washington. “They needed it
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more than I did,” he said. Like public libraries, Starbucks can be a magnet for people who have nowhere else to go. Like librarians, Starbucks managers struggle to find legal and moral ways to distinguish between those who are just hanging out and those who are disturbing others. In this case, the managers went too far. They jumped on a loyal customer whom they woefully underestimated. So now they’re sorry. But here’s the part I can’t get over: Both Dawn and Al, for all their outrage, are fully committed to spending their time and money at Starbucks. Even the protest
action Dawn came up with adds to the company’s bottom line: “Every morning, my goal is to pick up at least two homeless people and bring them to Starbucks, give them money and tell them to `Go get yourself some coffee.’ “ “I like the product,” Al said. “If I can’t go in, here I am, outside, buying $6 or $8 of it, one coffee after another. I just don’t understand why they want to worsen my situation when I’ve already lost everything I own, except my pride.” These comments by Marc Fisher appeared in the Washington Post.
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Des Moines International Airport was closed for several hours after an airliner slid off the taxiway. No one was injured during the accident. Other Midwest airports, such as Chiacago’s O’Hare International, had hundreds of flights canceled due to storms over the weekend. AP photo
Snow storms hit Midwest DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Highways were still slippery in parts of the Midwest on Sunday as utility crews restored power knocked out by a snow and ice storm blamed for at least eight traffic deaths. A few light flurries lingered over Nebraska, Iowa and southeastern Minnesota as the core of the storm slid through the Northeast. Less than 3 inches of snow had fallen by midday in New Jersey, with little more than a dusting in other areas, but the National Weather Service said a foot of snow was possible in the mountains of northern New England, with up to 20 inches in northern Maine. With snowfall that light in New Jersey, and a changeover to rain expected later Sunday in places, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority salted its roads Sunday and didn’t bother to plow. “It’s not a bad way to start the season,” said Joe Orlando, a spokesman for the authority. “Compared to what’s happening in
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the Midwest, we’ve kind of got it easy right now.” Airlines at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport worked to move travelers stranded when hundreds of flights were canceled during the storm Saturday. Flights also were canceled Saturday at airports in Des Moines and Milwaukee as blowing snow reduced visibility. Des Moines International Airport was closed for several hours after an airliner slid off a taxiway. None of the 44 passengers was injured. A regional jet slid off pavement when it turned onto a taxiway after landing at Dane County Regional Airport in Madison, Wis., but no injuries were reported among the 25 passengers. The weather service had posted winter storm and ice warnings Saturday across parts of Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin, the eastern Dakotas, Illinois and northern Michigan. Nearly 8 inches of snow fell at Duluth, Minn., and Fargo, N.D., got more than 7. Driving was still hazardous Sunday in
much of Michigan as snow and ice coated roads, but planes were landing and taking off from Detroit Metropolitan Airport without delay Sunday, said spokesman Mike Conway. Utility companies in Illinois said the lights were back on for most people who lost electricity when ice weighed down power lines. About 14,000 customers were still waiting for service Sunday, down from nearly 140,000 that were blacked out Sunday, utilities said. Before the storm hit the Midwest, it dumped up to 2 feet of snow in the mountains of western Colorado. One member of the Purdue University ice hockey team was killed Saturday when a team van overturned on a slippery highway about 20 miles southwest of West Lafayette, Ind. school officials said. Seven others were injured. Elsewhere, the weather was blamed for three deaths in separate accidents in Wisconsin, and one each in North Dakota, Illinois, Michigan, and Colorado.
Caught: Being a snoop reveals Santa’s true nature at an early age -continued from page 8 me would come in and want to have someone who knows how to a run a submarine. Put Sean Connery. That is awesome. Or Alec Baldwin, “Hunt for Red October,” and because he makes me laugh, even though he’s kind of extreme. Love affair, Kevin Spacey.
CT: I want to go back to Vienna. I went there once. It was on a tour, and I hate tours with the bus and the guide. So have more free reign with a significant other I should say. That’s what makes vacations really great.
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don’t come in contact with a lot on these shows. It’s kind of fun to see. US: What was the best movie you’ve seen recently? CT: “Dan in Real Life.” It was so good. I really relate to his character. I just think that Steve Carrell is a phenomenal actor. He really sold it. US: When you die, what would you want to be said in your eulogy? CT: Part of me wants to die in one of those awesome ways that you just can’t forget. So, something about the awesome way I died. Nothing too boring I hope. US: If Hollywood were to make a movie of your life, who would the main characters be and who play them? CT: Me, I have to have one of those awesome lives that could be portrayed by Kate Winslet – really powerful, action-packed. Kevin Spacey would have to be in because I love him. Sean Connery, we’ll make him some mentor. Villain, let’s make it Alan Rickman, evil professor of anything to do with anthropology. US: Squeeze-Its or Kool-Aid Bursts? CT: Kool-Aid Bursts. They’re just delicious and action packed. US: What is the weirdest dream
you’ve ever had? CT: I’ve had a series of dreams with a small group of people, we’re the last people on Earth, everyone else has disappeared. No one is getting with the program. People are just messing around and not figuring out that we need to get on with things so we can survive. US: What do you want for Christmas? CT: Ideally, I would love a PlayStation 3. That’s not going to happen though. I have a slew of books. My mom decided that everything this year is going to be bought online. She doesn’t want to go shopping, which is great, so just a lot of books and movies and things that generally distract me from class. US: How old were you when you learned the truth about Santa? CT: Probably 6. I went looking for my presents. It was pretty easy to figure out from there. They were all sitting there and then miraculously were delivered by Santa. US: What was the best Christmas gift you’ve ever received? CT: I’d have to say my PlayStation 2. US: What would be your worst?
CT: I get sweaters every year from my mother that she’d wear. She wants me to be warm. -seth.h@aggiemail.usu.edu
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- USU String Academy open registration, all day, Chase Fine Arts Center. - Department of Music event: Percussion concert, 7:30 p.m., Kent Concert Hall. - Utah State Theatre prodcution: ‘Absurd Person Singular,’ 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Caine Lyric Theatre. - Jon M. Huntsman gift announcement, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., TSC Ballroom.
- USU String Academy open registration, all day, Chase Fine Arts Center. - Cache Valley Center for the Arts – Bar-J Wranglers, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Ellen Eccles Theatre. - Department of Music event: Flute and Voices Concert, 7:30 p.m., Performance Hall. - Utah State Theatre prodcution: ‘Absurd Person Singular,’ 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Caine Lyric Theatre.
- USU String Academy open registration, all day, Chase Fine Arts Center. - USU vs. Utah tip-off party, 6 to 7:30 p.m. - USU men’s basketball at Utah, 7:05 p.m. - Ecology Center seminar series, 6 to 7 p.m., Natural Resources building. - Department of Music Event: Youth Conservatory Christmas Concert, Performance Hall. - Cache Valley Center for the Arts – Bar-J Wranglers, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Ellen Eccles Theatre. - Jazz concert, 7:30 p.m., Kent Concert Hall. - ‘Absurd Person Singular,’ 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Caine Lyric Theatre.
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‘The Office’ party Come take a break from studying with Michael and Dwight. “The Office” Party-RBW 114 @ 7 p.m. this Wednesday. Treats and fun are promised!
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Study Abroad info Study Abroad info session: Can’t get into SPAN 1010? Study abroad in Chile this summer. Come to our info session on Monday, Dec. 3 in ESLC 053 from 2 – 3 p.m.
More to remember ... • Attention all Fall “07 Graduates: Celebrate your graduation with the Student Alumni Association, Dec. 4 at Alumni House, 6 to 8 p.m. Live band, Guitar Hero, food and prizes. Free for graduates, $5 for the public • Northern Utah’s Second Annual Nights of Lights Celebration, Dec. 3 through Dec. 15. Free family fun and entertainment at the Cache County Fairgrounds, 500 S. 500 West. Come support your community. www.foryouth.org • GRE/LSAT Prep Course will run Jan. 22-Feb. 28 every Tuesday and Thursday from 6-8 p.m. Contact Emma at emma.conger@usu.edu
or call 797-0462 or come to ECC 103 for registration information. • The Army and Air Force ROTC presents the Annual Military Ball, Dec. 7, at the USU LDS Institute. We would like to invite all Veterans for dancing, refreshments and a tribute to our POW’s and MIA’s 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.. • Ecology Center hosts Dr. Owen K. Davis, who will present two seminars as part of the Ecology Center Seminar Series, Wednesday, Dec. 5 from 6 to 7 p.m. and Thursday, Dec. 6 from 3 to 4 p.m. Held in the Natural Resources Building room 105. All are welcome to attend. • Operation Clean Teeth: Collecting dental floss, mouth wash and toothpaste to send to Iraq and Afghanistan. Donation boxes will be in the library and Business building, there will also be a table setup in TSC on Wednesday. • Charity Anywhere is looking for a group of service-motivated people to come to Mexico over Christmas Break, Dec. 26-Jan 3 to help those in need by building houses. Contact Bryce at bryce. jensen@aggiemail.usu.edu • TSC extended hours: Nov. 26-29 and Dec. 2-6. The TSC will remain open for 24 hours for these dates.
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