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Concerto on campus allows Aggies to compete against one another

GAME OVER The highs, lows and in-betweens of the 2012-13 men’s basketball season.

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Blue Goes Green announces grants

LORI SCHAFER staff writer

USU’S KAYLA DINSDALE PRESENTS a proposal to allow each building of the LLC to partner with a high school participating in Together Everyone Achieves More.

Dinsdale’s request for $4,535 was denied. DELAYNE LOCKE photo

The Blue Goes Green grant board heard six pro-� posals on Thursday. All idea proposals were designed to make campus life more envi-� ronmentally friendly.

After deliberation from the board members, the grant recipients have been determined and the funds the grant had to offer have been awarded.

Adel Abdallah, a graduate student in environmental engineering with a focus on water resources, proposed the idea to get twelve auto-� matic water faucets installed in the school to replace old hand faucets. “The overall goal is to implement a project that will save water, money and energy and at the same time will help engineering students implement data as a real world problem,�

Abdallah said. “The engi-� neering students will be able to use this real data and work with professors to ana-� lyze it.�

Abdallah requested $5,900 for twelve new fau-� cets and was granted $3,710 for the installation of six new automatic water faucets.

The money will cover the labor and marketing costs. “They’re funding half of

the project,� Abdallah said. “I am excited that they’re giving me the funds to implement the project even on a smaller scope.�

The Psychological Mechanisms of Green Behavior group proposed the idea of looking at the psychological aspects of environmental behavior. “With our three different research methods, our ulti-� mate goal is to better under-� stand environmental behav-� ior to help the university and students to create more effective interventions,� said Brady DeHart, gradu-� ate student in experimental applied psychology. “We want to change environmen-� tal behavior.�

DeHart and the other members of this group will do studies to see if students unconsciously prefer natural or man-�made environments.

They will further look into how people are not always sensitive to the long-�term consequences their actions will hold on the environ-� ment. Following these steps, they will take pictures of Cache Valley to look into the air quality and work to increase the quality. “We weren’t awarded the requested amount, but it’s enough to achieve our research goals,� DeHart said. “This is a great oppor-�

tunity.�

DeHart’s group was awarded $1,145 for their research out of the $2,745 requested.

Matthew Stapp, who is in his second year at USU and is majoring in wildlife, proposed to have larger bike racks placed on the Aggie bus shuttles to help encour-� age people to ride their bikes in order to help improve the Valley’s air quality. “I’m really passionate about bikes. I think it is the solution to the world’s prob-� lems,� Stapp said. “You save money, get exercise, save the environment and have fun while doing it.�

With an overall goal to help have a positive impact on the air quality in Cache Valley, Stapp worked with Alden Erickson from the transportation department to request $2,836 for the larger bike racks. The entire amount was awarded to Stapp for the larger bike racks to be purchased. “It’s a positive way to con-� vince students to ride bikes more,� Stapp said. “There’s more room on buses and it gets them up the hill, which is the biggest obstacle.�

The fourth group awarded grant money was Aggie Village Compost. This

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Panel of women in STEM classes discuss change

BY LIS STEWART staff writer

A panel of women in science, technology, engi-� neering and mathemat-� ics fields chatted about the challenges faced by women in these fields as well as how far women have come Wednesday after showing the docu-� mentary “The Gender Chip Project� in the TSC Auditorium.

Chris Hailey, associ-� ate dean of the College of Engineering, said she was struck with the discussion

about confidence in the film. “There are probably people in this room who are struck with the confi-� dence question of ‘Am I in the right major?’� Hailey said, adding the key is to surround oneself with a support group of people who understand chal-� lenges.

Helen Wilson, a liberal arts senior who was in the audience, brought up the question of how to be suc-� cessful in a career-�driven field while balancing work and family.

Finding the right part-� ner and a relationship where each person’s aspi-� rations are understood is important, Hailey said.

She said she and her hus-� band have followed one another to different areas of the country because of jobs that suited their careers.

It was commitment to the marriage that drove her to make such choices, she said.

Kim Sullivan, an asso-� ciate professor in the

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TEACHING FELLOW DAVID WALLACE was awarded the American Industrial Hygiene Association Fellow 2013.

Fewer than 360 people nationally currently hold this elite title.

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‘GENDER CHIP PROJECT’ PANEL MEMBERS listen to questions from the audience during a film screening Wednesday. From left to right, Lanetta Sova, Kim Sullivan, Clare Vaterlaus and Bailey Swanson. CURTIS RIPPLINGER photo

USU prof. named nat’l fellow

BY ANDY PIERUCCI staff writer

USU principal lecturer David Wallace joined the ranks of the nation’s top professionals in his field as a 2013 American Industrial Hygiene Association Fellow.

Election as a fellow is bestowed on AIHA members by their peers in recognition of outstanding contri-� butions to the association and the profession. Fellows are full members of the AIHA in good standing for a minimum of 15 continuous years and have made recognized contribu-� tions to industrial hygiene or related disciplines either through research, leadership, publications, education or service to AIHA. Fewer than 360 individuals nationwide currently hold the title. “I’m surprised and humbled by this honor,� Wallace said. “It’s per-� sonally very gratifying to learn my efforts have had a positive impact on my profession.�

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t’s personally gratifying to learn my efforts have had a positive impact on my profession.�

Alan Savitzky, head of USU’s biology department, said Wallace has played a critical role in the success of the university’s highly-� respected public health program.

The program includes industrial hygiene, one of four such under-� graduate programs in the nation accredited by the Applied Science Accreditation Commission of the

Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology. “Dave’s election as an AIHA fel-� low provides further recognition of his contributions and the esteem in which he is held by his colleagues at the international level,� Savitzky said. “In addition to his accomplish-� ments as an industrial hygienist, he’s an exemplary teacher, advisor and mentor and his students have been the primary beneficiaries of his expertise.�

Nick Rice, who graduated from USU’s industrial hygiene program in 2000, said Wallace is loved and admired by his students. “Much of the success of Utah State University’s industrial hygiene program, their outstanding students and the program’s continuing rec-� ognition by ABET can be attributed to Dave’s tireless work,� said Rice, manager of Corporate Industrial Hygiene Services for Intermountain

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Thursday, March 28, 2013

USU blazes trails for women Aggie Center for Women and Gender nationally recognized

BY JERA WOOD staff writer

Three years ago, during the fall of 2010, Executive Vice President and Provost Raymond T. Coward merged several programs to create the Center for Women and Gender, an academic unit centered on enhancing pros-� pects for students at USU. The Center for Women and Gender received an award from the National Council for Research on Women on May 5, along with three other centers nationally. “The award, it was from the National Council for Research on Women,� said Ann M. Berghout Austin, FCHD director and profes-� sor. “The council is made up of universities but also of pretty high-�rolling cor-� porate members, quite a few Wall Street members, and what they like to do is to give awards to different centers of women around the country, and one of the awards they like to give is to the newest centers, if they feel that they are demon-� strating they are an up and coming center, so that was the name of our award, the Emerging Center Award.

They have the ability by vir-� tue of their charter to give this award every year but they don’t.�

Austin said the Emerging Center Award was not awarded last year. “They have a slate of awards that they can give every year, and they just invite applications for each one of the awards,� Austin said. “Then they go through their applications and they decide whether they’ve got some appropriate recipients for the awards or whether they don’t.�

Austin and her colleague Jamie Huber, the Center for Women and Gender program director, person-� ally traveled to New York City on March 4 to receive

the award at New York University the next day, where Austin said they were presented with a surprise. “There was an afternoon award celebration at New York University where we got the Center Award, and then they told us to stick around for a big celebration dinner they had on Wall Street that night, so we did,�

Austin said. “At the Wall Street celebration, there were probably about 700 people there. They acknowl-� edged our center and they had us stand up and that was really cool, and then they said, ‘OK we want to award 22 women with the Trailblazer Award for what they’ve done for women and girls,’ and I was one of them, and I was shocked. I mean I had no idea.�

Huber said Austin was very deserving of the 2013 Trailblazer Award and the entire experience was very rewarding and inspiring. “I think that both the awards are very well deserved and really high-� light the innovative work that the center is trying to bring to Utah State and that it’s comfortable with a lot of institutions nationwide or even exceeding where a lot of institutions nation-� wide are doing to receive that award, so I encourage students to kind of take advantage of the resources we have here and of our pro-�

Emily Snyder exercise science

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It gives the

student body an opportunity to see life in a different perspective.�

FCHD DIRECTOR ANN AUSTIN holds the trophies awarded her and the USU Center for Women and Gender by the National Council for Research on Women earlier this year.MICKELLE YEATES photos

gram,� she said.

Austin said she applied for the Emerging Center Award last fall after the National Council for Research on Women’s annu-� al meeting. “A couple of people on the board said, ‘You know we would like to invite you to submit an application for the Emerging Center Award, but we are also inviting other centers too, a couple of other new centers, so you know, just be aware of that,’�

Austin said. “So I submitted an application and we got it.�

USU’s Center for Women and Gender was the only center to receive the Emerging Center Award.

The two other centers awarded received the Diversity Award and the Research Award. “I have great respect for the role that the CWG has assumed on our campus,�

Coward said. “Their actions and initiatives have been important to stimulating robust discussions among faculty, staff and students

about critical issues that confront our society regard-� ing women and gender. This national award recognized the progress that the center has achieved on our cam-� pus and stipulates that the center is a national leader in these matters. I believe that our entire campus should be proud of this recognition and what it represents.�

Emily Snyder, a junior studying exercise science who has been a student assistant at the center for three years, said the Center for Women and Gender’s impact reaches beyond USU’s campus and student body. “We have a lot of gra-� cious donors who help fund different scholarships and grants and I think with their involvement, it does benefit the community as well,�

Snyder said.

Snyder said one of the ways the center does benefit students is an assortment of activities, including lecture series, film series and other events. “It gives the student body

an opportunity to see life in a different perspective,� she said.

Such an event will occur on April 4 in the TSC Auditorium featuring Emily May at 6 p.m. “My expectation is that the center will continue to assume a critical role on our campus in championing

stimulation, rigorous debate and discussion of the most important obstacles in our society that can impede women from achieving their full potential,� Coward said. – jerawood@aggiemail.usu. edu

PANEL: Women talk of a formerly man’s world From page 1

ENGINEERING PROFESSOR CHRIS HAILEY speaks during Wednesday’s panel. CURTIS RIPPLINGER photo

department of biology, said women in STEM fields need to remember they don’t have to meet all their expectations at once, including motherhood. “You don’t have to have children in your early 20s,� Sullivan said. “Most people that I know in my field had kids in their early 30s.

You don’t have to do it all at once.�

Women who actively work to be hireable should be able to get the jobs they want, said panelist Clare Vaterlaus, who originally started out as a computer science major before turning to communication studies.

Vaterlaus, who now works for Eschelon Telecom Inc. in Idaho Falls, Idaho, said her background in computer science has helped her get jobs. She started out as a computer science major, but things changed when she got to her third com-�

puter science class and was the only female of 45 students. “The first day I was there the boys said, ‘Are you here to find your husband?’� she said.

From the attitude of the students to the professor, she decided to move to another major.

Another topic brought up was how these women in STEM fields approach being a minority in their field.

Panelist Lanetta Sova, a junior in electrical engineering, said it is a little lonely being a woman in a STEM field because she often does not know how to relate to other females, such as those majoring in fields like elementary education. “Sometimes I wish they would want to talk about the things I am doing,� Sova said.

An audience member asked the panel what the hardest thing was about competing in a male-�oriented

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Hailey said while working on a site in Hawaii several years ago, there was only a men’s restroom.

Every time she wanted to go, she had to put a sign on the outside door. Since then, things have changed for the better, except for when women become bitter, she said.

She calls it “death by a thousand papercuts.� People will unintention-� ally make degrading comments about a woman’s position in STEM fields, but women don’t have to let it make them bitter, Hailey said. “It’s been a long, uphill battle,�

Hailey said. “I think we’ve come a long way, but again, to avoid the death by a thousand papercuts.� – la.stewart@aggiemail.usu.edu Twitter: @CarpetComm

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GREEN: Some proposals denied by grant board From page 1 group’s project will have compost bins at Aggie Village married and family housing to better use the waste campus produces and use it for community gardens.

Crista Sorenson, who could not be contacted for an interview, UHTXHVWHG IRU WZR FRPSRVW bins to pilot her proposal with the potential to expand more through-� out campus in the future. +HU UHTXHVW ZDV DZDUGHG DORQJ with an additional $170 to pay for signage at the designated area, totaling a grant of $720 for her proj-� ect.

The final two proposals, Campus to Community Sustainability Competition — centered around the LLC — and the Organic Farm Hoop House have both been denied funds at this time.

The LLC proposal was to have each building matched up with a high school Together Everyone Achieves More club. Working with the high schools, the groups would participate in competitions focused around sustainability with prizes awarded each month. Kayla Dinsdale who made this proposal, UHTXHVWHG “We would like to encourage WKH //& WR DFTXLUH PRUH IXQGLQJ through housing and incorporate sustainable prizes into the com-�

petition,� said Stephanie Tomlin, program coordinator and Blue Goes Green grant board member. “We want to encourage them to do a smaller ‘pilot’ program to better understand scope and participation levels.�

The Organic Farm Hoop House proposal was to build a hoop house for the club’s farm, allowing them to plant produce earlier in the year so there would be a longer crop sea-� son to provide for the students and FRPPXQLW\ 7KLV JURXS UHTXHVWHG $2,558.

The board encouraged the mem-� bers of the Organic Farm Hoop House project to find some funds through other outlets.

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Between the four groups, the Blue Goes Green board has awarded a total of $8,411 of their allotted $10,270 they had available to them.

The remaining $1,859 will be held for next semester’s Blue Goes Green grant funds. – lori_schafer@yahoo.com

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USU spotlights student musicians

USU’S TIMOTHY LEDNA speaks at the Blue Goes Green grant board hearing Thursday. The board gave $8,411 to various projects to improve campus. DELAYNE LOCKE photo

FELLOW: USU lecturer helps make work safe From page 1

USU LECTURER DAVID WALLACE points to a map of the Mount Naomi Wilderness, where he enjoys hiking and experiencing the outdoors. DELAYNE LOCKE photo

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Healthcare in Salt Lake City.

Wallace, who was named 2012 Safety Professional of the Year by the Utah Chapter of the American Society of Safety Engineers, said industrial hygiene is a component of workplace safety that deals specifically with protecting workers from health hazards. “Industrial safety is a critical contributor to public health,� he said. “Healthy workers HTXDO KHDOWK\ EXVLQHVV (YHU\ ZRUNSODFH no matter what kind of work is involved, has characteristics that can affect employee health.�

Wallace graduated from USU in 1975.

He began his career in industrial safety and hygiene in 1985 after ten years of work experience in industrial process control and development in. He worked in the chemical and metallurgical fields and as a consultant before becoming an instructor at the University of Utah in 1991, where he also obtained a master’s degree in public health.

Wallace joined USU’s biology depart-� ment in 1999 as a lecturer in the public health program. He is currently the aca-� demic advisor for students majoring in public health. Wallace also teaches EPA-� approved asbestos courses. “We are all really proud of Dave,�

Savitsky said. “His tireless efforts have made an impact, and now he is being rec-� ognized for his work in a big way.�

Wallace will be formally recognized as an AIHA fellow during the annual American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exposition, May 18-�23, 2013, in Montreal, Canada. More than 5,000 indus-� trial hygiene and safety professionals are expected to attend the conference. – andypierucci@gmail.com

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

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The Utah State University Symphony Orchestra is celebrating the winners of a student competition in “Concerto Evening� Thursday, March 28, in the Kent Concert Hall, located in the Chase Fine Arts Center on USU’s Logan campus. “For this concert, we celebrate the talent and accomplishments of our winners,� said Sergio Bernal, associate professor and director of orchestra in the Caine College of the Arts. “These soloists represent the wonderful teaching offered by the instructors here and the Symphony Orchestra is excited to accompany them.�

This concert highlights four stu-� dents who won the concerto compe-� tition held annually in December.

The winners this year are Marianna Cardon, French horn; Sara Mason, piano; Nathan Southwick, violin; and Clifford Tam, clarinet. “Winning the competition is a huge honor, especially considering the incredible amount of talent that was showcased at both the prelimi-� nary and final rounds,� said Nathan Southwick, a senior studying violin performance. “To perform Mozart’s ‘Fifth Violin Concerto in A Major, K. 219,’ a fun and eminent work, with friends and colleagues is an incred-� ible opportunity and I’m looking forward to it.�

Tickets for “Concerto Evening� are $10 adults, $8 seniors and youth, $5 USU faculty and staff and free for USU students with valid ID. For tick-� ets and more information, visit the Caine College of the Arts Box Office in room 139-�B of the Chase Fine Arts Center, call 435-�797-�8022 or see the college’s Production Services website (arts.usu.edu).

Sen. Mike Lee to speak in Logan United States Senator Mike Lee will be the featured speaker at the USU College Republicans upcom-� ing edition of “Pizza and Politics� on Friday. The event will take place at 4 p.m. in room 101 of USU’s Engineering Building.

All interested students and com-� munity members are invited to attend the event where free pizza will be served. Senator Lee will be speaking for a portion of the meet-�

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Pair of business teams make finals Two teams of students from the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business have been selected as finalists in an information systems competition that started with 82 teams from top universities from around the world.

The Utah State University stu-� dents will be going to Bentonville, Ark., to participate in the 2013 Walmart IT Summit and AIS Student Chapter Leadership Conference April 18 – 20. The Association of Information Systems, the organization that is hosting the competition, is a professional group for individu-� als and organizations that lead the research, teaching, practice and study of information systems worldwide.

There were 82 teams from 17 universities that entered the contest and just six teams in each of four different categories made it to the finals. Only five universities, count-� ing USU, managed to get more than one team to the championships.

Members of both teams said they are excited for the opportunity to go to the convention hoping it will open up job opportunities for them.

ClarifyCorrect The policy of The Utah Statesman is to correct any error made as soon as possible. If you find something you would like clar-� ified or find in error, please contact the editor at 797-�1742, statesman@ aggiemail.usu.edu or come in to TSC 105.

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A&EDiversions A  competitive  concerto

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Every year the the music department in the Caine College of the Arts hosts a competi-� tion where registered music students are invited to perform a solo piece, traditionally called a concerto. The winners of this competi-� tion are then invited to perform with the USU Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Sergio Bernal, associate professor and director of the orchestra. This year four soloists have been chosen to appear in the “Concerto Evening� con-� cert on Thursday, March 28. “You never know from year to year how the program will fit together because it is built around who wins,� Bernal said.

The winners are chosen from a pool of 20 finalists in a preliminary selection process. When a student submits an application to audition, it must be approved by their studio instructor who must make certain the student can play the music of the piece accurately and f lu-� ently.

The winners of this year’s competition are Nathan Southwick play-� ing a violin concerto

by Mozart, Marianna Cordan playing a french horn concerto by Strauss, Sara Mason playing a piano concerto by MacDowell and Clifford Tam playing a clarinet

piece by Debussy. In addi-� tion to the four pieces, Bernal said he has chosen two other pieces which will complement the con-� certos well. “The program works out in that the first three pieces come from a Germanic background,�

Bernal said. “We have the Strauss french horn concerto and the Mozart violin concerto, so then I decided to open with Beethoven’s overture to ‘Egmont.’ I think it ties nicely.�

Bernal said the second half of the program will consist of Debussy, an impressionistic work and MacDowell, an American composer who admired European culture. Even though the MacDowell piano concerto is not really an impressionistic work in itself, he said it has elements of French music.

The opportunity to play these pieces which feature soloists offer an unique learning experi-� ence for not only the soloist but also for the members of the orchestra, he said. “I think that the best orchestras in the world are ones that can accom-� pany well,� Bernal said. “You see that a lot with opera. Some of the great-� est orchestras are opera orchestras. If you have the skill to accompany well, then you have the skill to work well as an orches-� tra. Because in a piece you have many soloists, there isn’t just one soloist

for the whole piece, but you have a lot of small solos here and there, so it becomes a lot like cham-� ber music.�

By nature, chamber music is a product of col-� laboration by different artists to produce a piece true to its genre. Nathan Southwick said working with the featured soloist is where the collaboration comes in. “The collaboration pro-� cess is extremely engag-� ing,� said Southwick, a senior studying violin performance. “You prepare for an insane amount of time, and put-� ting your one part with an entire symphony of players is quite difficult.�

For Bernal, the process of working with a soloist on a piece where a single part is featured offers a unique musical experi-� ence. “It’s like the protago-� nist in a movie or a play,�

Bernal said. “You have the soloist and you have the ensemble and how you go back and forth, from one to the other. That is what creates what the piece is about.�

Bernal said concerto work for soloists is a combination of two main elements, The first ele-� ment being skill. A solo-� ist plays music considered to be difficult and which can leave an audience with a sense of admira-� tion, he said.

The second element is spontaneity. Composers would write a soloist line of music to give the

impression it was impro-� vised. There are also sec-� tions of a concerto called a cadenza which can be written by a composer, or a soloist can improvise the cadenza themselves. “Playing as a soloist with a symphony orches-� tra is a totally different animal,� said Clifford Tam, a freshman study-� ing clarinet performance. “Instead of blending your instrument tone to match other sections and ulti-� mately, the entire orches-� tra, your tone needs to soar over the orchestra.�

The four soloist chosen for this year’s concert represent the strengths of the music department, and are products of the guidance of their instruc-� tors. Individually, each of

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Students create 'flash marketing' business model

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Some business students hope to succeed in their eventual careers and have little real-�world experience before graduating.

Three students from the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business have experienced success in business long before their degrees at USU are finished.

After Kevin Schmidt, a senior majoring in entrepreneurship, and two other students came up with an idea which allowed companies to market and advertise in a college demographic without limits from the university, the Flash Marketing Group or “iwannashirt� was born.

Schmidt and his partners Jarom Heaps, a managerial eco-� nomics and finance major, and Jeff Nelson, who majors in accounting, thought their varied educational disciplines would be beneficial in a business venture.

Schmidt is the company’s chief executive officer, Nelson the chief financial officer and Heaps the chief operating officer.

Using business logo-�bearing t-�shirts, games and prizes, Schmidt said they are are able to market ideas and products to college students rapidly and effectively. “We give out thousands of free shirts on a campus and then have all the students wear them on the same day — that is what we call the flash,� Schmidt said. “Then we play games with the students like, ‘where is Waldo?’ This is where we have a different color shirt and the students have to find that shirt so they can win a prize. We are a new and exciting way to market.�

The Flash Marketing Group held its first campaign in October for Firehouse Pizzeria. Schmidt said the campaign’s success showed the effectiveness of their approach to advertis-� ing, bringing the Flash Marketing Group more sales than they had projected to date. “It made it a breakthrough,� Heaps said. “At first it was just an idea, but because we were able to go out and sell it to Firehouse, for us it was the biggest game change and the fact that we knew it was a service that business wanted and were willing to pay for.

It really changed our own personal views of the idea. At first we just thought it was a great idea and maybe it would work, but once it worked, we knew we could scale it.�

The Flash Marketing Group’s success was furthered after taking on a campaign for the business school and continues to grow rapidly, Schmidt said. “It has seen lots more growth than we thought,� he said. “We took on the campaign for the Huntsman School’s MBA program

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Animation adds variety to Logan Film Festival Sam McConkie Short ainmation set Grade: B

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Review Animation is a truly wonderful medium.

Unfortunately, it’s often overlooked because it carries the stigma of being just for kids. Some fail to realize just how much filmmakers can accomplish with it as opposed to liveaction. Characters and sets can be convincingly overthe-top, and the stylization provides for some unique films. Not to mention, voice work can be much easier to implement than dealing with bad actors.

On top of these advantages, abstract concepts and sophistication often go hand in hand with line art and designs. Look no further than more mature fare such as “Akira” and “Ghost in the Shell” to see my point.

Imagine my delight and surprise when I noticed this year’s Logan Film Festival had a set of animated shorts playing on a Saturday afternoon. Each short brought something new to the table with enthralling designs, clever ideas and a genuine dose of heart. I laughed and got my heartstrings pulled in the span of an hour. Not too shabby.

It should be noted, however, that some of the shorts were clearly better than others, but even the less effective ones still

weren’t a complete waste of time. On the contrary: Everything in this set of animated shorts, good or bad, serves a purpose and showcases the potential the animators and voice actors possess.

The first in the series is a Taiwanese entry called “Old Angel.” A scrawny, bunny-like angel ventures into a forest and discovers an obese, lazy angel who has forgotten how to fly. With gentle persuasion and coaxing, the little angel eventually teaches the worn out angel how to fly again, out of the trees and into the sunset. The song playing in the background matches the onscreen action with beautiful accompanying lyrics, and the style looks akin to a JRPG game on modern video game systems. Surreal and deliberate, this is a good start.

“I’ll be Your Mirror,” another Taiwanese short, came next. With no plot, the imagery is contained within a set of presumably religious writings.

Spectacular to look at for sure, but not much else.

“Love” is a story about a romance involving buttons. Though not bad, it doesn’t leave much of an impression. The animation technique doesn’t distinguish itself a lot. To be fair, it was the shortest of the bunch at two minutes in length.

“King Tigermore in Strawberry Fields” is as bizarre as the title implies.

Two children play chess and one of the pieces gains life and morphs into a tiger.

The tiger then takes the little boy at the chess table on a ride as classical music plays in the background, almost like a segment

Parkour easier than it sounds

BY JEANNINE STEIN Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — Most of us traverse the environment by walking. Not Michael “Frosti” Zernow — he prefers to vault, flip and catapult his way from A to B. The Santa Monica, Calif.-based professional parkour athlete and instructor has 10-plus years of experience, and it shows: The man defies gravity when in motion.

Parkour is a discipline developed in France that involves smoothly navigating over and around obstacles like walls, stairs and trees with jumps, climbs and acrobat-like moves.

Once you’ve got the skills, parkour (also called freerunning) is a blast you can do almost anywhere.

Here’s an easy, explosive move — called a tic-tac — to get you started.

Why you should try this: Because it’s fun. A tic-tac is usually done to jump over an obstacle and can help you climb higher. It instills body control, essential for parkour. The major muscles of the legs and core get a workout since they keep the body stable as it flies through the air.

What to do: Pick a spot on a wall, sturdy tree or lamppost that is at a comfortable and achievable height. Take a short running start and step onto the spot with the leg that’s closest, putting your weight into it. Then push off with the same leg, like a billiard ball ricocheting off the side of a pool table.

Extend the other leg out for the landing, but don’t just settle for any random landing spot — pick a specific place on the ground, and turn to face it to help guide your body there.

Land on the balls of the feet, with knees bent.

How much to do: Begin with one to two tic-tacs at a time, making sure you work both sides of the body. As you get stronger and more confident, add more.

from “Fantasia.” Though the style left something to be desired, the characters were fun to look at.

“Tailed,” the most heartfelt short by far, conveys the story of a ghost who hasn’t left his house in many decades. His daily routine consists of scaring the paperboy and examining the objects in the house. A puppy dog shows up and disrupts this routine, but the ghost slowly warms up to the presence of the dog and even teams up with it to scare the unfortunate paperboy.

The computer animation worked nicely for this one, and surprisingly the sentimental ending didn’t bother me much, either.

“Green Acres,” though extremely simplistic, had me laughing start to finish. A determined tortoise is trying to penetrate a fortress of an obsessive gunman, who has the only water hole for miles around. The gunman is so paranoid he even shoots a little bug that comes near.

Slapstick and comedic timing perfectly mesh in this short, and the unexpected outcome of the tortoise versus the man thoroughly delights.

“Light Me Up” had a professional touch the other shorts seemed to lack but it often relegated itself to puns and a couple of cheap jokes. It combines live action and animation to pretty good effect, similarly to an episode of “Spongebob Squarepants.”

The Wattsons, a family of light bulbs, get into an argument. Should Louie strive to inherit the family business from his mother and father or cross the street to work in a theater as a spot-

light? Some of the jokes are uproarious, but others elicit groans.

“My Home” closes out the short set. It’s an Oneida Native American story about a turtle who must convince a beaver to live in harmony with the land and not dam up the turtle’s home for personal gain. This one starts slow,

but once it picks up steam, it’s rather enjoyable and the lesson it provides is especially good for children. The computer animation works well overall and the few laughs it has certainly helps.

Some of these shorts are available to watch on w w w.loganfilmfestival. com and the rest should

make it to YouTube pretty soon.

– Sam McConkie is a senior in the technical and professional writing program at USU. He is a keen writer and has been a dedicated gamer for years. Sam can be reached at sambonemcconkie@gmail.com

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Don’t buy the lie of 24-hours drive-thrus Kendall Pack

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Sometimes we try to convince ourselves that 24-hour Mexican food is healthy. We tell ourselves they use fresher ingredients than the burger place down the street and the homemade grease is much healthier than the massproduced kind. We tell ourselves this lie at 3 a.m. and get in our cars to go get some cheesy potatoes, deep fried and covered in guacamole and sour cream. But sometimes we can’t avoid the absolute truth: We could be making better decisions if we want to live to see 50.

I was recently forced to accept reality on such a night. I’m preparing to graduate and, having performed 10 push-ups earlier in the day and needing now to finish a 10-page paper I had yet to start by morning, I felt I owed it to myself to eat at least one burrito. I got in my Pontiac Bonneville — the height of early ‘90s luxury — and headed west.

The car immediately dinged, the “check gages� light coming on as the needle showed below empty. Now came the dilemma. Do I fill up the car or do I go grab my food? Even though

the restaurant is open 24 hours, there are only short spans of time when I can convince myself it’s a wise option to eat there. I was afraid getting gas would lead to a moment of clarity at the pump, one that would force me to turn around and go home.

Rather than make this move, I headed for the restaurant, fully intending to hit the gas station on the way back. But intentions can’t fill an empty tank.

Intentions can’t make a car’s gas mileage increase.

No, all intentions can do is bring the intender into a deeper sense of the heroic self, the self that, yes, will be able to eat a burrito at 3 a.m. with no consequences.

But there at the drivethru, I was forced to open my eyes and see the dreadful reality of my existence.

After ordering my food, I attempted to pull forward.

The car shuddered and shut down. I turned the key, but the car refused to start. Though it should have been, this was not my moment of realization.

Instead of accepting reality, I put on my hazard lights, apologetically waved to the car behind me, and ran up to the window. I shouted in, getting the attention of one of the employees. Once he neared me, rather than asking for his help to move my car, I first handed him some cash to pay for my food.

Styrofoam boxes in hand,

I looked back at the car and realized this was my life now. I was holding latenight burritos and cheesy potatoes and my car was dead in front of the dull, dirty menu sign.

All the times I spent shaking my head at the potheads in front of me in line or the trio of drunk women trying so hard to flirt with my friend or the master’s students trying to make it through one more paper, those times turned back on me now. This was my reality, the one where a couple employees from a 24-hour joint help me push my car to an empty parking lot where I sit in the driver’s seat and eat my food, afraid that, if I first go look for gas, the potatoes might get cold and soggy, and no one likes that. At 3 a.m.

I accepted my life had become what it was always meant to be. As a senior, it’s strange to realize only now, three years on from entering college, that all this time I’ve fueled my essays on grease and meat. Now, through the hazy gloom of morning inversion, I saw clearly my own nothingness. I’d become an academic.

– Kendall Pack is a senior majoring in literary studies.

He is the director of workshops at Logan Out Loud Comedy Theatre. He can be contacted at kendallpack@gmail.com.

Music: Concerto is annual event From page 4 the soloists bring different characteris-� tics to each of their pieces. “Having the opportunity to solo with the orchestra as a sophomore has opened my eyes to the possibilities of performance,� said Mason, a piano per-� formance major. “This has given me the desire to learn more about performing so that I can become a better perform-� er.�

Southwick said his experience has

been eye-�opening. “I think that the opportunity to per-� form with a symphony that I have been engaged with for almost four years is particularly special,� Southwick said. “Playing a concerto with a symphony instead of a piano reduction brings performance to a whole new level that is absolutely addictive. I hope to be able to play with many more symphonies in the future.� – kiel.reid@aggiemail.usu.edu

FLASH: Student-�run business finds success From page 4

and that helped us get even more exposure, and we got calls from some big corporations and starting working with some big clients.�

Schmidt is no stranger to the business world and successfully started a business called Red-�E Cart, a taxi service which oper-� ated on USU’s campus. Schmidt sold Red-�E Cart after a year and-�a-�half and started the Flash Marketing Group the next year.

Schmidt said his education at USU has benefited him greatly in the business world and being able to take those skills and apply them outside of the classroom has helped him even more. “Because I had started and ran my first business before get-� ting into my entrepreneur major, I had learned a lot, but then being able to see how the things taught in class could be applied helped even more,� he said. “Education played a big role.� “I feel like owe part of my success to my learning and my undergraduate studies,� Heaps said.

Heaps said success is measured by more than profit. “I think the most rewarding thing is to be able to create some-� thing and see it grow,� he said. “The true success, for me, isn’t being able to make a little profit — that’s nice, but to own some-� thing and be able to create it and have it do what we want to.� – calewp@gmail.com

KEVIN SCHMIDT AND JAROM HEAPS pose at an event their company hosted for the Huntsman School of Business. Photo courtesy of Kevin Schmidt

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Aggies close book on 2012-13 season

BY CURTIS LUNDSTROM sports editor

Despite its 14th-â&#x20AC;?consec-â&#x20AC;? utive season with more than 20 wins, the Utah State menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball team failed to reach the postseason. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The situation was such that I think we made the right call,â&#x20AC;? USU head coach Stew Morrill said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With it being a little uncertain whether we would get (a CIT invite) or not and with all our injuries, plus the fact that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d played in the CIT the year before, there were no second thoughts. The deci-â&#x20AC;? sion made sense. It was a joint decision.â&#x20AC;?

It was certainly a unique and memorable season for the Aggies.

After a 14-â&#x20AC;?1 start, Aggie faithful had high hopes despite early season departures and the still-â&#x20AC;? lingering heartbreak of Brady Jardineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shortened career.

But in the blink of an eye, it all changed.

Danny Bergerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heart stopping started it all in December, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a long road for the Aggies, but from start to finish USU basketball showed just how far heart and will can carry a team. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I remember having such a great feeling after these guys had adjusted and went to Idaho and won,â&#x20AC;? Morrill said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had had the tough losses against Arlington and LA Tech and were trying to figure ourselves out a little bit. It would have been real easy to just say â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Well, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to be able to win any games,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; but there was just a good feel-â&#x20AC;? ing.â&#x20AC;?

Adjust the Aggies did.

After losing Berger, USU didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t skip a beat over the course of December to mid-â&#x20AC;?January, reeling off 10 straight wins, including a tournament victory in the World Vision Challenge sponsored by Gossner Food.

Then came the season-â&#x20AC;? ending injuries to Preston Medlin and Kyisean Reed on the road at New Mexico State.

A four-â&#x20AC;?game losing streak followed, but again the Aggies righted the ship with three straight conference road wins to breathe hope and life into a grave situation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They had a real good feeling about it and winning those three on the road,â&#x20AC;? Morrill said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Under the circumstances, New Mexico State was a great win. We rallied at BYU, but close only counts in horseshoes. I was very proud of the group we had left and our situation.â&#x20AC;?

Utah State pushed for-â&#x20AC;? ward, reaching the 20-â&#x20AC;?win plateau for the 14th con-â&#x20AC;? secutive season despite the adversity â&#x20AC;&#x201D; becoming one of six teams in the country to accomplish the feat.

One last injury hiccup to Spencer Butterfield put a scare in Aggie Nation,

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Golfers head for California Cal Poly University will host match play on Thursday and Friday, March 28-â&#x20AC;?29.

The Aggies will face mem-â&#x20AC;? bers of Cal Poly, Weber State, CSU Bakersfield, Fresno State, Seattle and Northern Colorado.

Kris Sayer, Tanner Higham, Zach Waxler, Seokwon Jeon and Reed Platke will represent USU, starting against Weber State in the first round.

Track starts outdoor in Texas, Cali.

The Utah State track and field team begins its 2013 outdoor season with three different meets Wednesday-â&#x20AC;?

Saturday.

USU will send repre-â&#x20AC;? sentatives to the Texas Relays in Austin, Texas, the Stanford Invitational in Stanford, Calif. and the UVU Collegiate Inivitational in Orem.

The USU men finished third in the WAC in indoor, with the women seventh.

Football to hold first scrimmage The Utah State football team continues its spring season with its first scrim-â&#x20AC;? mage at 3:15 p.m. on Thursday.

The Aggies have held five practices and will simulate six different game situations during the scrimmage.

Spring practices will con-â&#x20AC;? clude with the annual blue-â&#x20AC;? white scrimmage on April 20 at 2 p.m.

Both scrimmages are open to the public.

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UC Santa Barbara downs Aggies

BY USU MEDIA RELATIONS Utah State menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tennis fell to UC Santa Barbara, 6-â&#x20AC;?1, in a match played in Boise, Idaho, on Wednesday. With the loss, USU is now 5-â&#x20AC;?8 on the season.

Sophomore Sean Levesque was the only Aggie to win a singles match as he defeated Alexander Gryaznov at the No. 5 spot in straight sets (7-â&#x20AC;?5, 6-â&#x20AC;?0). Levesque also posted USUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only doubles win along with junior partner Fredrik Peterson as they defeated Benjamin Recknagel and Axel Bouillin, 8-â&#x20AC;?3.

In other singles matches, senior Sven Poslusny lost to Benjamin Recknagel at the No. 1 spot in straight sets (6-â&#x20AC;?1, 6-â&#x20AC;?2). At the No. 2 spot, junior Fredrik Peterson was defeated

by Mbonisi Ndimande in straight sets (6-â&#x20AC;?3, 6-â&#x20AC;?3). At the No. 3 spot, sophomore Matt Sweet fell to Axel Bouillin in straight sets (7-â&#x20AC;?5, 6-â&#x20AC;?4).

At the No. 4 spot, sophomore Marcus Fritz was defeated by Ziad Sultan in straight sets,

(6-â&#x20AC;?2, 6-â&#x20AC;?1). And at the No. 6 spot, sophomore Curran Wearmouth was defeated by Andrew Riminton in straight sets (6-â&#x20AC;?2, 6-â&#x20AC;?3).

In doubles action, Poslusny and Sweet fell to Mbonisi Ndimande and Ziad Sultan at the first position, 8-â&#x20AC;?5. At the third doubles position, Fritz and junior partner Andrew Whiting were defeated by Andrew Riminton and Miles Seemann, 8-â&#x20AC;?3.

The Aggies will remain in Boise and play Boise State on Thursday, March 28 at 1 p.m.

Fans can also follow USU Athletics, includ-â&#x20AC;? ing both USU tennis teams, at http://twitter. com/USUAthletics or on Facebook athttp:// facebook.com/USUAthletics.

UC Santa Barbara 6, Utah State 1 Singles 1. Benjamin Recknagel (UCSB) def. Sven Poslusny (USU), 6-â&#x20AC;?1, 6-â&#x20AC;?2

2. Mbonisi Ndimande (UCSB) def. Fredrik Peterson (USU), 6-â&#x20AC;?3, 6-â&#x20AC;?3 3. Axel Bouillin (UCSB) def. Matt Sweet (USU), 7-â&#x20AC;?5, 6-â&#x20AC;?4 4. Ziad Sultan (UCSB) def. Marcus Fritz (USU), 6-â&#x20AC;?2, 6-â&#x20AC;?1 5. Sean Levesque (USU) def. Alexander Gryaznov (UCSB), 7-â&#x20AC;?5, 6-â&#x20AC;?0 6. Andrew Riminton (UCSB) def. Curran Wearmouth (USU), 6-â&#x20AC;?2, 6-â&#x20AC;?3 Doubles 1. Mbonisi Ndimande/Ziad Sultan (UCSB) def. Sven Poslusny/Matt Sweet (USU), 8-â&#x20AC;?5 2. Fredrik Peterson/Sean Levesque (USU) def. Benjamin Recknagel/Axel Bouillin (UCSB), 8-â&#x20AC;?3 3. Andrew Riminton/Miles Seemann (UCSB) def. Marcus Fritz/Andrew Whiting (USU), 8-â&#x20AC;?3

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Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s over: Heat winning streak ends at 27

BY SHANDEL RICHARDSON

Sun Sentinel (MCT) CHICAGO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; This was expected all along.

The Miami Heat had fin-â&#x20AC;? ished their recent pushover portion of the schedule. If they were going to continue challenging history, they would have to get past the meat part of the obstacle.

And this time, an early hole was just too much to overcome.

The Heat ran out of comebacks in their attempt to break one of the leagueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oldest records. They fell just short, losing, 101-â&#x20AC;?97, to the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday night. It ended the Heatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 27-â&#x20AC;?game winning streak, leaving them six shy of the 1971-â&#x20AC;?72 Los Angeles Lakers mark of 33.

It was the Heatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first loss since Feb. 1, and their second to the Bulls this season. It came against a Chicago team that hardly resembled the one the Heat faced in the Eastern Conference Finals two years ago or captured the No. 1 seed last season.

It is a makeshift lineup, without three core players, that will be remembered for ending the second-â&#x20AC;?longest win streak in league history.

Luol Deng led four Bulls players in double-â&#x20AC;?figures with 28 points. LeBron James scored a game-â&#x20AC;?high 32 points for the Heat. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playing on either side,â&#x20AC;?

Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The last two years when these two teams come together, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be very competitive.â&#x20AC;?

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As they have in situations as such all season â&#x20AC;&#x201D; facing an undermanned team â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the Heat struggled at the start. It was no different than when they played the Cleveland Cavaliers with-â&#x20AC;? out Kyrie Irving and Dion Waiters or the Orlando Magic minus Nikola Vucevic and Arron Affalo.

The Heat once again fell behind by double-â&#x20AC;?digits, trailing by as many as 13 in the first half. They were down 55-â&#x20AC;?46 at half before the â&#x20AC;&#x153;onâ&#x20AC;? switch was finally pressed.

That came in the form of starting the third quarter with James scoring four straight points on breakaway dunks. It was just the push

the Heat needed to begin yet another comeback. This marked the eighth time during the streak they were forced to rally after trailing by at least 10 points.

Dangling their chance at history had become com-â&#x20AC;? monplace, especially during the last few weeks. Each time, the Heat had it kept going, usually with a spurt of nearly flawless basketball in a short stretch.

It appeared they were headed that direction again.

Down 57-â&#x20AC;?50, they went on a 9-â&#x20AC;?1 run to grab their first lead that came courtesy of a Shane Battier 3-â&#x20AC;?pointer.

Even when the Bulls threatened to get the United Center crowd of 23,014 back into it, the Heat had an answer on every occasion.

Chicago regained a bit of control in impressive fashion when guard Jimmy Butler was on the receiving end of an alley-â&#x20AC;?oop pass from Luol

Deng that put it ahead 64-â&#x20AC;?61 with 2:25 left.

Butler caught the pass while jumping over Heat center Chris Bosh. The play added to the recent history of highlight-â&#x20AC;?worthy dunks in the series, dating to James soaring above John Lucas III last year and Taj Gibson posterizing Wade in the 2011 playoffs.

It provided perfect oppor-â&#x20AC;? tunity to sway momentum.

Instead, the Heat doused the mood with another wide open Battier 3-â&#x20AC;?pointer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have some of the best 3-â&#x20AC;?point shooters in this league,â&#x20AC;? Spoelstra said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When the ball is moving freely, those guys knock down open shots ... We shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to take con-â&#x20AC;? tested shots if we have poise.â&#x20AC;?

The Bulls kept the pressure on by building a seven-â&#x20AC;?point lead on Kirk Hinrichâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s short jumper that made it 80-â&#x20AC;?73 with 6:37 left.

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From page 7 but the resiliency again showed after the Aggies overcame a 19-â&#x20AC;?point first half deficit in the first round of the WAC tour-â&#x20AC;? nament before suffering defeat in the final minutes.

Now, with the season complete and the lockers empty, Morrill and the players can look forward to starting a fresh chapter as the Aggies jump from the WAC to the Mountain West conference in 2013. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Until weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve played in that league, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think we know exactly how our talent level stacks up,â&#x20AC;?

Morrill said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You always gain a greater respect for the coaching in a league when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a part of it. I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll learn as we go.â&#x20AC;?

With Kyisean Reed as the only graduating senior, the Aggies focus is on rest and rehabilitation. Morrill said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be surprised if Berger wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t given a med-â&#x20AC;? ical redshirt by the NCAA at the end of postseason tournaments. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great chance. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not deter-â&#x20AC;? mined until the end of the year when the NCAA looks at it. I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe it wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happen,â&#x20AC;? Morrill said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The guy had a major heart attack for goodness sake. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d think heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d get a medical redshirt. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of doubt about that, but it hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been confirmed yet.â&#x20AC;?

Spencer Butterfield will undergo off-â&#x20AC;?season sur-â&#x20AC;? gery to repair his hip, but Morrill said Medlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is healing well, as is Marcel

GUARD SPENCER BUTTERFIELD attempts to shoot over a pair of UT-Arlington defenders during the WAC tournament in Las Vegas. DELAYNE LOCKE photo

Davisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ankle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Preston is getting his range of motion back.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not rushing that thing at all since thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no immediacy while weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not playing,â&#x20AC;? Morrill said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got some guys heal-â&#x20AC;? ing up. Marcel has had ankle issues that are just a matter of getting some time off. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not look-â&#x20AC;? ing at a surgery situation there.â&#x20AC;?

Sean Harris is another player thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s had his share of injuries, but Morrill said the Aggies are looking forward to having all the players back in full health.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re optimistic and excited about the Mountain West. We are well aware that it is a big step,â&#x20AC;? Morrill said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find out if weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got the talent level and the coach-â&#x20AC;? ing level and all that to compete in that league.

Obviously thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s some-â&#x20AC;? thing that our guys are excited about. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have a great off-â&#x20AC;?season and get through our inju-â&#x20AC;? ries.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; curtislundstrom@gmail. com Twitter: @CurtisLundstrom

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The greatest unkown 16 reasons to love the Sweet 16 rivalry in sports

BY DAVE HYDE

Sun Sentinel (MCT)

Mark Hopkins Put the team on my back

In March, we all focus in on one thing and one thing only in sports: the Madness. And that’s not a bad thing by any means.

In fact, it’s the most glorious thing this side of heaven. And it better exist in heaven too.

But this year, snuck in between all the amazingness and glory of the NCAA tournament, the U.S. and Mexico decided to slip in a World Cup Qualifying match Tuesday.

For those who didn’t know about it, you’re pretty normal. For those who didn’t, you know this truly is the greatest unknown rivalry in sports.

We’re talking the level of Red Sox/Yankees, Utah State/BYU or even Harry Potter/Voldemort. We’re talking about the dirtiest those pairs have gotten, and just then throwing in racism, politics and the worldwide stakes. The hatred can then boil over in some nasty, nasty ways.

The x-factor of the entire scheme has to be infamous Estadio Azteca, the house of horrors for

any opposing team but especially American soccer, which has never won a game of importance there. Possibly the largest cement structure on the planet, Azteca has rows upon rows of steep columns of seats that seemingly stacked one upon the other. The 105,000 available seats are filled to capacity with fanatic Mexicans every time the U.S. dares go in there.

Michigan football’s Big House has a comparable attendance, but even that isn’t close to the amount of attention and noise every fan gives the game at Azteca.

Heavy drum beats, annoying whistles and chants are constantly reverberating inside Azteca like a concrete death chamber. While watching Tuesday, I noticed a certain not-sokind word yelled by the entire crowd every time the U.S. had a goal kick, and the first five rows were blocked off presumably for security purposes.

Typical sportsmanship rules that are enforced across the U.S. don’t even exist down there, as beer, urine and any other available object is thrown at will onto the field. And they say we’re borderline at the Spectrum.

The high altitude, heat and smothering smog that beats Cache Valley’s inversion soundly only add to the effect. All of

this makes Tuesday’s 0-0 tie an impressive feat.

Though the Mexican pressure kept coming and the U.S. team reminded me of every 15-seed not named Florida Gulf Coast for a bit, the young Americans pulled off only their second tie ever in Azteca.

Though 0-0 may sound a bit dull, the passion and intensity of the players and fans made for a fantastic 90 minute affair.

So yes, we all know that America doesn’t “care as much about soccer as the rest of the world.” Here in the U.S., I’ve decided we either a) know our national team is going to win, such as basketball, so we only care when they actually lose, or b) think they’ll lose for sure so we don’t care, such as soccer.

But the heated games with our border rival make me beg to differ with the American people. This truly is a fantastic rivalry that bears looking into in the future, even if it gets played in March.

– Mark is an obsessive Aggie fan who moonlights as an almost unbiased Statesman writer. He is majoring in business administration and preparing for medical school.

Comment at m.hop@ aggiemail.usu.edu or his blog, www.spectrumagic. blogspot.com.

State your case: Will Florida Gulf Coast reach the Final Four?

NEW CHALLENGER

BY CONNOR COMEAU

Every fairy tale comes to an end at some point.

As much as I’d love the #DunkCity train to roll into the Elite Eight, I don’t see it happening.

Here’s why: The Eagles have won the hearts of America with their fast-paced, high-flying offense, soaring past Georgetown and San Diego State.

But if there’s any aspect of the SEC that translates from football to basketball, it’s defense.

The Gator chomp is appropriate with Florida’s defense. The Gators rank third nationally in points allowed per game, behind Western Illinois and Stephen F. Austin.

They force nearly 15 turnovers per game, which FGCU’s fast-paced style will play right into. A rushed offense usually results in more turnovers.

Perhaps more importantly though, the Gators can match the Eagles energy when playing above the rim. They’re much bigger and taller than San Diego State was with three guys standing at least 6-foot-7.

And no disrespect to Georgetown or FGCU, the Eagles took the Hoyas by surprise in the first round.

The Gators have plenty of warning going into their matchup with the Eagles.

They know they’re up against America’s sweetheart, but don’t expect them to let that deter them from their goal of winning their third title in the last eight years.

Besides, when was the last time you saw an eagle fight with an gator on the National Geographic channel and win?

Cinderella. That nickname is synonymous with many teams that have played in past tournaments, such as the 2006 George Mason Patriots, the 2010 Butler Bulldogs and the 2011 VCU Rams. This year, it’s the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles.

They have been the most impressive team in the tournament, even earning the nickname “Dunk City”.

Before the tournament, nobody knew who the Eagles were. Now, they are the first 15-seed ever to make the Sweet 16.

They have been very impressive as of late, beating both 2-seed Georgetown and 7-seed San Diego State by double digits — but go back even further to the Atlantic Sun conference championship.

The Eagles went to Mercer University and beat them by 13 on their own court. The Eagles have definitely shown they can win in big games, both in the regular season and in the tournament.

The tournament is all about the team with the most momentum, and Florida Gulf Coast is the hottest team coming in.

But now they are going to Texas to play their big brother, the Florida Gators. The Gators have had a great run in the SEC this year, getting as high as No. 3 in the national rankings, but this year they have dropped some easily winnable games.

Combine heavy momentum with having nothing to lose and the Eagles are a very dangerous team, so much so that they are one of my picks to actually make it to the Final Four in Atlanta.

All other teams need to watch out, because the Eagles are flying high.

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SYRACUSE FORWARD C.J. FAIR appears during a shoot around at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. Chuck Myers/MCT photo

Meanwhile, older teams like Miami are thriving. The planets have aligned again.

7. John Calipari is home.

This is satisfying to no end.

Does anyone represent what’s wrong with college sports more than Calipari?

Left Massachusetts before NCAA sanctions hit. Left Memphis before NCAA sanctions hit. Went to Kentucky and used the absurd one-‐and-‐done rule to win.

8. The Upset Lives. The best team always wins the NBA’s best-‐of-‐five and -‐seven formats. The beauty of the NCAA is how a lesser opponent can shoot a bet-‐ ter team out of the gym for one game. Low seeds like Florida Gulf Coast (15), LaSalle (13), Oregon (12) and Wichita State (9) are alive.

9. We don’t have to think about the Marlins.

Normally at this time of year, Opening Day would come into view. On Wednesday, Forbes listed the Marlins’ worth at $520 million, meaning life is good for Jeffrey Loria, who bought the team 11 years ago for a reported $158 mil-‐ lion. Thank goodness we don’t have to think about this.

10. Mike Krzyzewski vs. Tom Izzo. It’s popular for some reason to hate on Duke and Krzyzewski. All he’s done is win with class (mostly) for decades and help the larger basketball community by coaching events like the Olympics.

In Michigan State’s Izzo, he matches up against a similar story of a coach who does so much right. This is a matchup to admire.

11. Mock Brackets. Here’s

one: I lined up the cool-‐ est alums, a few matchups would be: Miami’s Sylvester Stallone vs. Marquette’s Chris Farley and Ohio State’s Roy Lichtenstein vs.

Arizona’s Kristen Wiig.

12. Dwyane Wade’s Dilemma. OK, it’s not a big dilemma. But it does pres-‐ ent some of the incestuous issues of the tournament.

He’s become a ‘BFF’ with the Miami players, who now play his Marquette team (he’s rooting for Marquette, of course). Next round?

His college coach, Indiana’s Tom Creen, either plays his Miami or his Marquette (has to root for Creen, right?)

13. The Conference Power Game. All year, the Mountain West was touted as the top-‐rated conference thanks to its NCAA-‐best rat-‐ ing by Ratings Percentage Index, which factors in schedules and wins. No Mountain West team is alive. The Big Ten has four teams left. The Sweet 16 is the best rating of a confer-‐ ence around.

14. The Commercials.

Wade and his sons in a soap commercial is pretty cool.

The most over-‐played com-‐ mercial is the blind-‐date beer commercial. Once, it’s fine. But by this weekend, I’m looking forward to the next-‐chapter commercial: Marriage, kids, middle-‐age ... and beer replaced by a hard-‐liquor ad.

15. Indiana vs. Syracuse.

Meaning Keith Smart’s title-‐winning 1987 shot will be replayed as much as the blind-‐date commercial.

16. The chance of a Miami-‐Florida Gulf Coast rematch in the Final Four?

LAST WEEK'S WINNER

BY CURTIS LUNDSTROM sports editor

1. Florida vs. Florida Gulf Coast University. Florida is aristocracy. Florida Gulf Coast is in its second year of tournament eligibil-‐ ity. Florida won successive national championships.

Florida Gulf Coast lost suc-‐ cessive games to Lipscomb this season. Florida fans have requested 102,807 vanity license plates. FGCU fans: 1,378 license plates.

This is a dream matchup if you’re a college basket-‐ ball fan in this state — or became one this week.

2. Jim Larranaga. At 61, after 13 winning seasons at George Mason, with the chance to ride that job in to a nice sunset, he had the courage not just to take a new job but take over a struggling Miami program.

Two years later, he’s doing the Ali shuffle in the win-‐ ning locker room. Can a good story get any better?

3. Marquette student section. Duke’s students get all the national publicity for their in-‐game antics.

But Marquette’s students are famous for waving celebrity big-‐heads when opposing teams shoot foul shots. Alum Dwyane Wade’s head was one this year. Mike Tyson. Charles Barkley. Who’ll material-‐ ize Thursday night against Miami? Nevin Shapiro?

4.Tim Jr. did it the Hardaway. The son of the former Heat star desperate-‐ ly wanted to attend Miami.

Then-‐coach Frank Haith didn’t think Hardaway Jr. was good enough.

Hardaway is good enough to star at Michigan, where dad will watch him play Kansas. But here’s a thought to ponder: How good would Miami have been with Hardaway on this team?

5. The power of sports on display. A March ago, the on-‐campus bookstore at Florida Gulf Coast had 21,223 in sales of hats and apparel. This March, it’s $201,213, according to the university. And you wonder why college coaches make big money?

6. Age is served. A year ago, Kentucky won the title with a roster of one-‐ and-‐done freshmen to suggest the absurd way of the future. This year? Only one of the Rivals’ top 10 freshmen recruits is still in the tournament, Arizona center Kaleb Tarczewski.

staff writer

– connor.comeau@aggiemail.usu.edu Twitter: @Connor_Comeau

Since 1976, USU Honors students have selected a professor who has made a memorable impact on the university, inside and outside the classroom.

This year, the Utah State University Honors Program presents:

Dr. Phebe Jensen Professor of English

Dr. Jensen’s Last Lecture, “I’ll Drown My Book”: Shakespeare’s Last Lecture will illustrate the serious fun of Shakespeare, suggesting how to read his plays for pleasure, profit, and self-discovery, and arguing for the importance of the arts and humanities in undergraduate education.

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STEM valued, but all fields need women On Wednesday, the Gender Chip Project held a panel to get people thinking about what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like to be a young woman training in college for a career in the professions of science, math, engineering and technology.

At a time when STEM is the a huge buzzword in both government and education, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen an increasing amount of programming encouraging women to go into technical fields.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re facing the An Editorial Opinion music: Technology is where many jobs are. Women, and students in general, can make more money in these fields.

But, as the cliche goes, money isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t everything. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important, of course, but most will agree money itself does not make a person.

Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important is that a person can do something fulfilling, whether it be as a engineer or a historian.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re encouraging women to study STEM programs, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to remember we need female historians. Female family counselors. Female teachers. Instead of pushing women in a direction that the government says is best, why arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t we trusting them to find whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best for themselves? Open every door, certainly, but encouraging people to do what makes them happy should be the ultimate goal.

There may be fewer jobs in humanities or education than in computer science, but they are equal in importance. Classes in the humanities teach how people function and communicate. Curing cancer and designing bridges are necessary steps to creating a better world, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not worth much if the people doing them canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get their projects into the right hands.

Governor Gary Herbert has pushed the state to spend $20 million on STEM education this year, which could be matched by Utahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eight colleges and universities. This is an extraordinary amount of money, and while itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not necessarily misplaced, both USU and the governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s administration need to think seriously about whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s being encouraged. A female who wants to study English shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t waver on her decision to attend college because sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s having a harder time finding funding than a student going into a technological field. Though mild, this can be its own form of discrimination.

If this is truly a womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s world, women need to be everywhere â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not just in STEM.

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Infertility will end the gay marriage divide

WA S H I NG TON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Will the gay marriage debate ever end? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not just talking about the Natâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;l View political or legal fight. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m talking about the culture war. Supporters of samesex marriage liken it to interracial marriage, an idea that once seemed bizarre to most Americans but is now almost universally accepted.

Opponents of gay marriage liken it to abortion, which continues to divide and inflame the country. Which way will this battle go?

Until now, I thought it would rage on. Same-sex marriage is far more radical than interracial marriage. It challenges our basic understanding of the institution. You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect people to accept such a change overnight.

But now I see a way out. Tuesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Supreme Court hearing on Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California, has exposed the exit route. People who oppose gay marriage can come to accept it as moral, once they understand homosexuality as a kind of infertility.

The telltale exchange took place about half an hour into the hearing. Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan challenged a central premise of Proposition 8: that gay couples should be excluded from marriage because the purpose of marriage is procreation. Breyer and Kagan asked Charles Cooper, the lawyer defending Proposition 8, why, in that case, the law allows infertile heterosexual couples to marry. Cooper replied that â&#x20AC;&#x153;societyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interest in responsible procreation isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just with respect to the procreative capacities of the couple itself.â&#x20AC;? Every marriage, he noted, reinforces â&#x20AC;&#x153;the marital norm, which imposes the obligations of fidelity and monogamy.â&#x20AC;?

Cooper argued that when one partner is infertile, this norm deters the fertile partner from â&#x20AC;&#x153;irresponsible procreative conduct outside of that marriage.â&#x20AC;? But he and other defenders of Proposition 8 have invoked this idea more broadly.

Two months ago, 19 states filed an amicus brief reinforcing this point. The procreative â&#x20AC;&#x153;purpose of traditional marriage,â&#x20AC;? they wrote,â&#x20AC;? is not â&#x20AC;&#x153;undermined by marriages among the infertile, the elderly, or those who simply choose not

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ForumLetters Tell congress to rein in debt To the editor: When will the Federal government rein in their insatiable appetite for spending? In 2006, the national debt was $8 trillion. Currently, the debt is more than $16 trillion and counting. In a little more than six years, we have doubled our debt, yet politicians are still trying to convince the American people that this is somehow good for the economy. We cannot continue to spend money that we do not have. The government must learn to budget their money just like everyone else.

So what can be done to stop this out-of-control spending? We need to start with across the board cuts â&#x20AC;&#x201D; no program or entitlement is sacred.

The recent sequester was a start, but it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go far enough. President Obama repeatedly claimed that

the only way to cut 2.4 percent from the federal budget was to fire police officers, firefighters, teachers, and air traffic controllers and yet this week Secretary of State John Kerry announced heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s giving another $250 million in aid to Egypt. Does this make any sense? I thought we were broke.

The government has already approved 20 F-16 fighter jets along with 200 Abram tanks to Egypt at the cost of 1.3 billion taxpayer dollars. So why are we continuing to arm an enemy that will eventually turn on Israel? Orrin Hatch approved of this generous gift. Why not give a call to the esteemed senator and ask him to explain this nonsense.

The government simply doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand economics. The Federal Reserve is currently pumping $85 billion per month â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which is the third round of quantitative easing â&#x20AC;&#x201D; into the economy each month. Since they continue to print money out

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of thin air, inflation is starting to take its toll on our pocketbooks. The dollar will continue to be devalued until our economy collapses. Politicians who no longer support the best interests of this country must be voted out. I do not care if they are a Republican, Democrat or independent: We need real change. People that will say what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll do â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and then do what they say.

We must get serious about addressing this fiscal insanity. We can no longer be a low information voter; we must understand what is happening in Washington.

In conclusion, it is the responsibility of our elected officials to chart a new course of limited government and stop the bleeding. Now. Get involved.

Call or write your representative today. Our country is struggling and future generations will pay the price.

Kali Roche

Cars worsen air in Beijing

A decade ago, Beijing seemed like a cyclistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s paradise.

True, there Natâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;l were no View dedicated bike lanes, but that was because twowheeled, man-powered vehicles owned the road. In what seemed like a scene from an environmentalistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (slightly socialist) fantasy, scores of bikers would wait patiently for the light to change, then embark en masse for their destinations. By contrast, biking around my hometown of Boston seemed faintly crazy â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an invitation to being sideswiped by one of our famously considerate drivers.

Today all that has been turned on its head. When I went to rent a bike upon my arrival in Beijing last week, people looked at me as though I were mad. As I tooled around the old neighborhoods near the Forbidden City, I was often the only nonmotorized thing in sight. There were bike lanes, all right, but they were populated only by motorbikers and the occasional fellow intrepid Westerner.

On the back streets, I saw a few older Chinese cyclists, wearing expressions of thorough disgust.

Meanwhile, Boston, like lots of other U.S. cities, has become a reasonable place to bicycle. I still wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t recommend it to the faint of heart, but as long as you bike defensively, you feel like a member of a forward-looking tribe of change agents.

The story of Chinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s transportation revolution is an allegory of unexpected consequences and perverse incentives.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also an invitation to think about what happens when markets take hold in an environment unaccustomed to them.

Start with the good news: As China has gotten rich, its people (at least in the cities) have gained access to goods that

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their grandparents never dreamed of.

Cars are an amazing invention, which is probably why they havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t changed much in the century since they began to be mass-produced. You can go farther, faster, drier and warmer in them than in any form of transport since the dawn of humanity. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more, you can go wherever you want â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a terrific aid to free choice and individualism.

Yet one effect of proliferating cars is that they worsen street pollution.

Exhaust is far from the only contributor to Beijingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now-legendary smog â&#x20AC;&#x201D; coal-burning steel plants and other factories on the urban periphery do their part â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but on the street, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the output of tailpipes burping their lowquality gasoline that hits you in the face.

After three hours on the road, my throat was burning with acrid smog. I felt like I had smoked a pack of cigarettes. And all this was on a day when the rate of particles smaller than 2.5 milligrams was only about 135 per million â&#x20AC;&#x201D; much lower than the 600 ppm that Beijing has reached in extreme conditions.

The bad air quality drives people into cars, which makes the air quality worse.

And once you have a car, you can drive to work from greater distances.

Commuter traffic not only kills the air but also clogs the roads. Traffic has gotten so bad that the municipality has instituted a â&#x20AC;&#x153;drive every other day onlyâ&#x20AC;? rule.

People who canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bike without choking, and are banned from driving, throng to the subways. Riding two of the main lines, 1 and 10, at rush hour, I found them clean and efficient. And, oh yes, more crowded than any train I have ever been on in any city on Earth. Etiquette hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t yet solved the â&#x20AC;&#x153;how many people can fit in this car?â&#x20AC;? problem. At one point, I saw several eager customers take a running start and fling themselves into the train like special-teams blockers heading down the football field. Or actually, I felt it. The impact rebounded

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BIKES: Laws needed when market chooses chaos From page 10 through the train to the point where I momentarily wondered if someone might be crushed.

Getting out wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t any better because no one wants to make way, knowing how hard it will be to remount. The Beijing subway will have to be drastically expanded, but I can easily imagine preferring to sit in traffic with glass and steel between me and my fellow humans.

That, of course, is the point: Driving is the optimal individual choice, given the conditions created by everyone elseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

individual choices. The market prefers cars. More market, more cars. And the effect of the free market in transport choices is a disaster in the making.

Everyone I saw in Beijing had a smartphone (they work in the subway!). And every English speaker I met had an application that provided two numbers: the U.S. Embassyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s estimate of the air quality, and the Chinese governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s counter-estimate.

Information is wonderful: the higher the number, the better advised you are to take a car and stay out of the air.

Regulating the trans-

portation market distorts individual choices. Bike lanes in Bostonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s narrow streets slow down cars that are already crawling.

They enrage the Boston driver because they constrain his God-given freedom to cut the line of traffic from the side like a modern Paul Revere evading British patrols on his way to Lexington.

They benefit the few on bikes, not the many who drive the market.

But market regulation is necessary where collective action leads to rational madness. China has made amazing progress by bringing the market

and its individual choice into daily life. It needs more experiments in that direction, and more individual freedom to go with it. But it also needs to notice where the free market must be managed.

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ThursdayMarch 28 FYI:

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Group Meditation, TSC 310 12-â&#x20AC;?1 p.m.

USU Yarncraft Guild, TSC Juniper Lounge 7-â&#x20AC;?9 p.m.

Jane Austenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Emma, Chase Fine Arts Center 7:30-â&#x20AC;?

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Symphony Orchestra Concerto Evening, Chase Fine Arts Center 7:30-â&#x20AC;?9:30 p.m.

FridayMarch 29 2nd Annual Empty Bowls to Fight Hunger in Cache Valley, BNR 11-â&#x20AC;?1 p.m.

Biology Seminar: Sarah Supp, Doctoral Dissertation Defense, Biology, BNR 202A 1 p.m.

Pizza & Politics with U.S. Senator Mike Lee, ENG 101 4-â&#x20AC;?5 p.m.

Science Unwrapped-â&#x20AC;?The Colorado: A River Run Through, ESLC Auditorium, 7-â&#x20AC;?8:30 p.m.

Jane Austenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Emma, Chase Fine Arts Center 7:30-â&#x20AC;?

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Thrift Shop Dance Party, Nelson Fieldhouse. 9 p.m.

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Fiesta Americas:ÂĄSabor Latino!, TSC 7 p.m.

Bachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s B Minor Mass, Performance Hall 7:30-â&#x20AC;?9:30 p.m.

MondayApril 1 Navigating a Crisis of Faith Workshop, TSC 2-â&#x20AC;?3:30 p.m.

Italian Club, Old Main Room 006 5:30-â&#x20AC;?6:30 p.m.

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TuesdayApril 2 Partners in Business Leadership Conference, Eccles Conference Center 8:30 a.m.

Senior BFA Exhibition 3, Chase Fine Arts Center 10-â&#x20AC;?4 p.m.

Department of English Lecture, Sky Women in the 21st Century, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art 4-â&#x20AC;?6 p.m.

Cafe Zupas Information Session, BUS 209 4:30-â&#x20AC;?6:30 p.m.

The Symphony Orchestra presents the winners of a concerto competition in December, accompanied by the symphony orchestra on Mar. 28 at 7:30 p.m. in the Kent Concert Hall. Winners are Marianna Cardon, French horn; Sara Mason, piano; Nathan Southwick, violin; and Clifford Tam, clarinet. The music of Richard Strauss, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Claude Debussy and Edward MacDowell will be performed.

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re invited to Pizza & Politics with U.S. Senator Mike Lee. Come for free pizza and with questions to ask the Senator on Mar. 29 at 4 p.m. in ENG 101.

The event is free and open to all inter-â&#x20AC;? ested students. Sponsored by the USU College Republicans. For more info go to www.republicans.usu.edu.

Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s affairs. She is perpetually try-â&#x20AC;? ing to unite those who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own feelings and her relationship with gentle Mr. Knightly. The show will run from Mar. 26-â&#x20AC;?30. Jane Austenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Emma will be performed at 2 p.m. on Mar. 30. All per-â&#x20AC;? formances are in the Morgan Theatre, of the Chase Fine Arts Center on USUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cam-â&#x20AC;? pus. Tickets are $13 adults, $10 seniors and youth, $8 USU faculty and staff, free for USU students with ID. The USU Music Department presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s B Minor in Massâ&#x20AC;? featuring Dr. Craig Jessop and the American Festival Chorus at 7:30 p.m. on Mar. 30 in the Performance Hall. Tickets for the event are $15 general admission, $10 seniors and youth, $5 USU faculty and staff and free for USU students with ID. Frank Belatti, a former CEO who helped turn around Popeyes Chicken and Biscuits, will deliver a keynote speech at an upcoming Partners In Business Leadership Conference at Utah State University on April 2-â&#x20AC;?3 at 8:30 a.m.

The Caine Chamber ensembles are performing the music of the renaissance, baroque and romantic eras peppered

with music from the 20th century for all to enjoy on Thursday, April 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the Performance Hall. This performance is free and open to the public.

This summer, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nunsenseâ&#x20AC;? comes to the Caine Lyric Theatre at 7:30 p.m. June 6 -â&#x20AC;? 8, July 6, 23, and Aug. 5. Come support the Sisters of Hoboken, whose cook, Sister Julia, Child of God (bless her heart), has acciden-â&#x20AC;? tally poisoned most of the convent. The survivors are putting on a musical variety show to raise money to bury the last four fro-â&#x20AC;? zen nuns of the 52 dead. Rated Intermediate for mild content.

The American West Heritage Center will hold its annual spring festival, Baby Animal Days, on April 4-â&#x20AC;?6. The event will feature baby bears from Bear World, brought to you by the USU Charter Credit Union. Tickets to Baby Animal Days are $8.00 for adults and $6.00 for children age 3-â&#x20AC;?11.

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