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Secret grievances Hearing Board keeps election punishment decisions under wraps

BY TAVIN STUCKI news editor

Campaign grievances are nothing new to the Associated Students of Utah State University; 11 were filed in each of the last two student government elections.

What the Hearing Board at USU does with those grievances is a bit of a mystery to those outside the closed doors of the senate chambers.

There is no paper trail available to the public regarding Hearing Board election grievance meetings — a matter involv-� ing nearly $70,000 in public scholarship money at USU. “They make sure all details, everything that was said in the grievance meeting is all confidential,� said Doug Fiefia, who was elected ASUSU president despite a number of grievances filed against his campaign. “They shred all of the papers.�

Fiefia said he never personally saw any grievance notes shredded and was told not to publicly discuss the grievance pro-� cess.

Fiefia will be awarded $6,000 in his newly elected position. Between the stu-� dents elected to the various positions of

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ASUSU CANDIDATES were elected according to the election bylaws outlined in the ASUSU Constitution. An online primary election ballot is shown above on a computer screen, displaying candidates that students could have voted for. DELAYNE LOCKE photo

New wings joint gives variety to Logan sports, food scenes

BY CURTIS LUNDSTROM sports editor

With two professional sporting venues in the state and a limited budget, many stu-� dents face the challenge of being able to have a game-�day experience at the stadium.

Not anymore: Buffalo Wild Wings is mak-� ing sure of that.

The national chain opens its newest loca-� tion March 11 in Logan with one major goal in mind: to bring the “stadium experience� to the restaurant for “fans.� “We don’t have guests, we have fans,� said Josh Baumann, managing partner for the Logan location. “People that have never met each other high-�fiving and that high energy environment; it’s a place to hang out. People come back because of that. We bring the sta-� dium to the restaurant.�

As an added motive for the grand opening, Buffalo Wild Wings, nicknamed “B-�Dubs,� is giving away free wings for a year to the first 100 customers through the door the first day.

Baumann said he expects people will set up camp starting Sunday afternoon, and said there are plans to interact with and entertain those that spend the night. “We’ll have the parking lot shut down.

We’ll put porta potties out there and have people during the night doing games and giving stuff away,� Baumann said. “It’s a lot of fun. People have a pre-�party in the parking lot, just hanging out. We’ve got a lot of give-�

BUFFALO WILD WINGS EMPLOYEES receive training at the soon-to-open Logan location of the national restaurant chain. DELAYNE LOCKE photo

aways going on that first day.� “Our vendors are bringing a bunch of stuff to give out,� he said. “We’ve got a band com-� ing. It’ll be a hopping day all day.�

In addition to the giveaways, Baumann said there are plenty of activities to partici-� pate in. With 61 LED TVs ranging from 40

inches to 80 inches and a 12-�by-�6.5 foot pro-� jection screen, every game in every sport is covered.

The Buffalo Wild Wings chain has imple-� mented a new staff position, referred to as guest experience captains, something Baumann said is unique.

“They get to hang out with the guests and make sure they have a good time,� Baumann said. “We tested it in Texas and the company is going nationwide with it. They’re autho-� rized to talk smack and let you talk smack back. They’re here to create that environment for the guests and makes sure they have a good time.�

Ben Rivera, a native of College Station, Pa., and a New York Mets fan, couldn’t believe the job description. “I’d never heard of (GEC’s),� Rivera said. “Josh explained it to me and it was one of those moments that I was like ‘Really? I get paid to do that?’ It’s a ball.�

GEC’s are designated experts on each of the 16 signature sauces and 20 drafts of beer offered at the restaurant. They are respon-� sible for assisting with sauce samplings, controlling the TV’s and are the staff repre-� sentative on hand when customers attempt the “Blazin’ Challenge.� “Guests have to eat 12 of our hottest wings in under six minutes,� Baumann said. “You can’t take a drink, you can’t use ranch, you can’t use celery: It’s just the wings. You have to get all the meat off the bones in under six minutes.�

Those who accomplish the feat are reward-� ed with a free “Blazin’� T-�shirt and have their picture posted on the “Wall of Fame� displayed on a television near the front of the

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Zimmerman: 2013 election had high voter turnout despite no ballot incentive

BY JERA WOOD

Linda Zimmerman

staff writer

Despite a new giveaway rule concerning USU campaign-� ing, USU had a successful voter turnout for the 2013 final elections, according to Linda Zimmerman, Student Involvement and Leadership executive director. “This is one of our higher outcomes without an incentive on the ballot,� Zimmerman said.

2010 was the last voting year which did not have an incen-� tive on the ballot. A total of 3,580 ballots were cast for the 2010 final elections, while 3,890 ballots were cast for the 2013 final elections.

This was a surprise to Zimmerman. “We were concerned we would lose voters,� she said.

Zimmerman said the high voter turnout may be contrib-� uted to a new voting software used for the 2013 primary and final elections. “I was a little nervous about the voting turnout because of our new rule on giveaways, but I think the new software

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We had a good turnout for voters

this year, and I feel the students knew who they were voting for better.�

helped,� Zimmerman said.

The software allowed students to view candidate’s qualifi-� cations and platforms while voting. “We had a new voting software that we were able to roll out which was awesome,� Zimmerman said. “We can run numerous elections with this new software.�

There was a concern the voter turnout would be nega-�

tively affected as a result of the free giveaway rule and the drop in enrollment. “We know we dropped about 380 students from what we had last year,� Zimmerman said.

While the total number of enrolled students for the 2013 spring semester has not yet been verified, Zimmerman said this number is the projected loss.

This year, opposed to other years, candidates were per-� mitted to give campaign cards rather than coupons to students. This was done to encourage students to be better informed. “I think it worked,� Zimmerman said. “We had a good turn out for voters this year, and I feel the students knew who they were voting for better.�

Zimmerman said the new giveaway rule may have even helped increase the voter turnout because students were better informed.

There were 3,739 ballots cast from main campus USU stu-�

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ASUSU: Presidential voting open to all USU campuses for first time From page 1 dents and 151 ballots cast from Regional Campuses Distant Education students.

Kristin Johnson, Student Involvement and Leadership Staff Assistant, said RCDE can only vote for president.

President is the only posi-� tion that carries over to affect RCDE. All other posi-�

tions are independent to each campus.

Zimmerman said this is the first year in which only the position of the president was carried throughout all USU campuses. According to the 2012 final elections results, a change to the con-� stitution which would make RCDE and main campus VP’s and senators seperate

was placed on the ballot.

This change was put into place after receiving 4,147 “yes� votes and 698 “no� votes.

The final elections results were posted Thursday evening on the window of room 326 in the TSC. The results showed Doug Fiefia won 2,180 votes, 2,099 from main campus

students and 81 from RCDE students. His opponent Luke Ensign received 1,555 votes, 1,485 from main campus students and 70 from RCDE students. Fiefia also won the most votes for president in the primary elections despite having 30 votes deducted because of a grievance. “We were told that they

took 30 votes away from Doug for whatever com-� plaint was filed against him,� Zimmerman said.

She said the student involvement and leadership center does not find out what the grievances were.

All they do is carry out the consequences. A hearing board is set up for griev-� ances and decides what

the punishment should be.

This hearing board is kept separate from the student involvement and leadership center. “We definitely want a sep-� aration from the grievances and elections,� Zimmerman said. – jerawood@aggiemail.usu. edu

VOTING BUTTONS litter a table during the ASUSU elections last month. DELAYNE LOCKE photo

HEARING: Officials won’t release records From page 1

leadership in ASUSU, a combined $69,400 in scholarship and sti-� pend money will be awarded for the 2013-�14 school year, according to the official elections packet given to candidates.

Members of the Hearing Board — seven students drawn from a Hearing Board Pool selected by the ASUSU President — can also be called to serve on the Honor Board to hear issues of academic integrity violations and discipline ASUSU officers.

Eric Olsen, associate vice presi-� dent for student services, said he doesn’t see a difference in between the two types of hearings in terms of how accessible they should be to the public eye. “Just the nature of what they’re doing in my mind falls under how we handle other grievances at the university,� Olsen said. “Whether it’s an employee grievance or an academic citing grievance, all of those things are closed and pri-� vate. The outcomes are not, and in this case, the outcome — a disqualification — is public. But how (the Hearing Board) got to that, currently we do not believe is public.�

Krysten Deschamps oversees the Hearing Board as part of her responsibilities as student conduct coordinator and assessment specialist. Deschamps said she trains the Hearing Board members to make sanction deci-� sions based on the ASUSU elec-� tions bylaws. “The bylaws do not state if X violation occurs, then Y sanction will be applied,� Deschamps said. “The Hearing Board has discre-� tion to determine if a violation

was committed, and if so, what the sanction will be.�

During this year’s elections, the Hearing Board fined Science Senator candidate Kellie Erickson $50 after a grievance was filed against her for campaigning in a campus classroom. “It was because I stood up in class and said ‘Hey, elections are going on, you can read platforms and bios online, but I can’t really say much more than that so you guys should all vote,’� Erickson said. “I thought I was being pretty neutral when I did it, but I was found to have broken an election rule by campaigning in the class-� room.�

Erickson ran against Zach Anderson, who said two grievanc-� es were filed against his campaign to become Science Senator. One grievance was filed because one of Anderson’s advisers sent an email that said Anderson was running and encouraged students to vote.

The second was for announcing his candidacy much like Erickson said she did. Erickson was dis-� qualified from the race. “When the opportunity pre-� sented itself to get up in front of a classroom, I didn’t think twice about it,� Anderson said. “I thought (the Hearing Board would) be a little more under-� standing, but they weren’t. They obviously disqualified me. I thought at most I’d have a few votes taken away because it was an honest human mistake, but they treated it much more seriously than I had.�

Fiefia however, was elected ASUSU President despite a num-� ber of grievances filed against his campaign — he said he thought there were four or five.

“I lost 30 votes in one of them and I couldn’t use an electronic device during one of the days of campaigning,� Fiefia said. “Other ones were dismissed and that was the only one I was penalized for.�

Luke Ensign, who ran against Fiefia, said his campaign filed a single grievance against Fiefia early in the race because of con-� cerns about handing out fliers off campus. “We just raised that concern that we had to the grievance board and they explained to us that there was just a miscom-� munication,� Ensign said. “We didn’t worry about it too much.

We didn’t really bother after that, once we kind of understood what he had been told.�

Olsen and Deschamps each said they could not disclose any details about specific Hearing Board meetings involving elections grievances.

Olsen said he did not want to disclose anything he legally isn’t allowed to and is waiting on legal advice from the Utah Attorney General’s office before releasing any new information. “At this point, until the attorney general’s office tells us different, it’s a closed meeting and a private meeting,� Olsen said. “The details of that meeting are not public record or public knowledge.�

Deschamps said she would be open to the idea of opening the meetings to the public eye. “I would argue that people deserve to know,� Deschamps said. – tavin.stucki@aggiemail.usu.edu Twitter: @StuckiAggies

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Artwork features historic explorer “Art Meets History,� a Utah Arts and Museums Traveling Exhibition Program exhibit, will be on view at Utah State University’s Merrill-�

Cazier Library’s Lower Level Gallery starting March 1.

Sponsored by USU’s University Libraries, the exhibition features 22 sepia drawings created by Utah artist William Dean Fausett that retrace the historic exploration of the West undertaken by Civil War Major John Wesley Powell in 1869.

The Powell Expedition has become one of the most important events of exploration in the West.

Filled with hardships and peril, the expedition accomplished what was perceived to be impossible.

USU aviation tech honors women

BUFFALO WILD WINGS houses 61 LED TVs ranging from 40 inches to 80 inches and a 12-by-6.5 foot projection screen shown above. DELAYNE LOCKE photo

WINGS: Restaurant trains 115 new employees for opening From page 1 restaurant. Baumann said in the five years he’s been an employee for Buffalo Wild Wings, the fast-� est he’s seen anyone accomplish the task is 42 seconds.

Other activities available include the trivia challenge, in which customers are given an electronic box to answer ques-� tions posted on TVs throughout the restaurant, and a new feature — the Big Shot challenge.

An app available on smart phones transforms advertise-� ments on tables into a basketball shooting challenge, allowing par-� ticipants to score as many points as they can during their visits throughout the NCAA tourna-� ment. The top performers at each location are rewarded with gift cards, and the top score nation-� ally will win a trip to the NCAA Final Four in Atlanta, Georgia.

With the grand opening less than a week away, regional train-� ing manager Natasha Bronzini is putting the 115 newly hired employees through the gauntlet. “It’s just what we do. It’s a pas-� sion, it’s believing in a brand.

We have a staff that motivates us and keeps us going. This staff is unbelievable. Their energy and passion pumps us up,� Bronzini said. “That’s what we want our staff and our team to be about.

That’s all we ask our teams to do, love sports and love what you do.

When you do that, the rest hap-�

BUFFALO WILD WINGS employees receive training, above.

Empty chairs line the bar while restaurant doors remain closed, right. DELAYNE LOCKE photo

pens naturally. We bleed black and yellow.�

Baumann and Bronzini have arranged “friends and family� and “VIP� nights Thursday, Friday and Saturday to put the new employees to the test and get them ready for opening day, all in an effort to create the gameday experience for fans. “When you’re in a stadium, the energy is just unbelievable: The

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towels are swinging and people are pumped up,� Bronzini said. “That’s what it is every day when you walk in this building.�

Doors open Monday at 9:30 a.m., with business hours set for 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. Monday to Saturday and 11 a.m. to midnight on Sundays. – curtislundstrom@gmail.com Twitter: @CurtisLundstrom

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The Utah State University Aviation Technology Program will celebrate Women of Aviation Worldwide Week with a Fly It Forward event for women interested in aviation from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 9.

Women of Aviation Worldwide Week is an annual, international week of awareness and outreach cel-� ebrating all women of aviation and their contribution to the betterment of the air and space industry.

USU Aviation will offer women and girls the opportunity to fly in one of USU’s Diamond Aircraft planes for 30 minutes at a discounted rate. The cost will be $40 per individual or $50 per aircraft. The aircraft rate allows approximately three individuals to fly in the aircraft. This flight oppor-� tunity is available for females only.

Free, guided tours will also be available for those who want to learn about the professional pilot and maintenance management degree options at USU. Visitors will experi-� ence the USU facilities at the Logan-�

Cache airport including the hangars, flight simulator lab and maintenance facilities. “We welcome future women of aviation as they visit our facilities to explore their opportunities,� said Sean Heiner, chief flight instruc-� tor. “We have seen an increased enrollment in women entering our programs and hope that trend con-� tinues.�

Currently women are earning their degrees in both the professional pilot and the maintenance management programs at USU. Throughout the week, their achievements will be highlighted on the aviation website found at aviation.usu.edu.

For more information about the Fly It Forward event or USU Aviation, visit aviation.usu.edu.

Speaker examines holocaust reaction The systematic, state-�sponsored extermination of about six million Jews across Europe by the Nazi regime remains among the most evil crimes of humanity. The Utah State University Religious Studies Program presents “Responses to the Holocaust: Religious, Cultural and Personal,� a four-�part symposium with presentations in March and April. It features scholars of the Holocaust and a survivor of the Nazi concentration camps.

The Religious Studies Program presents a Thursday evenings Spring series titled Responses to the Holocaust: Religious, Cultural, and Personal. On Thursday, March 7, Dr. Emil Kerenji will present “Jewish Responses to the Holocaust: From Spiritual and Religious Practices to Armed Resistance.� It will be held in Old Main, room 121 at 6:30 PM. Dr. Kerenji’s lecture will consider the wide spectrum of contemporary Jewish understandings of the Nazi persecution. This event is free and open to the public.

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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Military isn't a man's world

BY HAILEE HOUSLEY staff writer

Finding a way to pay for college can be a difficult task, but some women are finding the military can be a rewarding way to pay for tuition and add meaning to their lives. “My school is 100 percent paid for,� said Kymbrie Cooper, an 18-�year-�old soon-�to-�be freshman. “The Army pays for everything. They also give me extra money a month to go to school.

It’s awesome.�

Priorities changed from money to pride for Cooper after joining the military. “It’s not about money anymore, it really isn’t,� Cooper said. “It’s the pride I feel in that uniform. It’s the fact that I know this is what I’m sup-� posed to be doing.�

Those changes of priority came the further into training Cooper went. “At first it was about school and just to have a plan,� Cooper said. “The more I got into it, the more it just fell into place for me. When I got to basic training, I realized this was just the most important thing to me. It’s not about school anymore. It’s about the pride. It’s about the fact that I’m a part of something bigger than myself.�

In March, the U.S. military announced women could serve in combat roles. This change can open up more opportunities for female stu-� dents who are enlisted. “As far as the policies on women, you’re always going to have those men who are sexist,� Cooper said. “But as far as the Army is concerned any-� more, women are just as good as men.

They are highly respected.�

There has been controversy on the subject, Cooper said.

“We know what we are getting into basically,� Cooper said. “Some people do have horrid experiences in the military, but I like to think that it bet-� ters most people.�

From Cooper’s military experience, she said she has not had to deal with anything negative on the subject. “I haven’t run into any trouble with sexist stuff,� Cooper said. “The Army is all about respect. We all go through the same stuff. We are treated equal.�

Knowing how to handle yourself if you are not respected is important in the military, she said. “Women are respected in the mili-� tary, and if we happen to come across those people who don’t respect them, most of us know how to handle our-� selves,� Cooper said.

Some men feel women receiving more equal rights in the military is a good thing, but do not feel it is needed. “It’s cool that we are letting women fight,� said Tate Jenkins, a member of the National Guard. “But I don’t think that they need to be there.�

Others feel there is no difference between men and women in combat. “I think it is important to know that females do just as much as males,� said Shelby Weeks, a fresh-� man and military logistics specialist. “There’s really no difference. They are just as important.�

Because of the equality between men and women, there are many rea-� sons why women would want to join the military, Weeks said. “I feel like women can do just as much if not more than men,� Weeks said. “I joined to better myself, for college and to serve.�

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KYMBRIE COOPER JOINED the military last year.

She plans to start school at USU next fall. Photo courtesy Kymbrie Cooper

Songwriter finds music can be a powerful tool

BY STEVE KENT editor in chief

For singer-�songwriter Sarah Olsen, music is more than a hobby or a major: It helps her make sense of life. Olsen, a senior in USU’s music therapy program, said music can be a powerful tool in examining and deal-� ing with emotions. “Music can bring unconscious material to a conscious state, so you can work through a situation by writ-� ing a song about it,� Olsen said.

Olson said writing music has been a therapeutic process for her. Most of the songs she performs were inspired by events in her life and written as she worked them out. “A lot of times I don’t know what I’m writing about until I’m done, and then I’m like, ‘Whoa, this huge prob-� lem in my life was just solved,’� Olsen said.

This therapeutic approach to song-� writing may have saved her future in music. Olsen said she had experiences

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Students provide pointers for spring dating

BY CARLI SORENSON staff writer

As the weather warms, USU students emerge from winter hibernation prepared to enjoy the spring. One way to do this is by going on dates.

Not having to bundle up and walk in fear of snow-� storms means there are so many more options for those weekend evenings on the dating scene.

Students and teachers across campus were asked about spring date ideas, and these are their sug-� gestions.

Go Rock Climbing “At the Rock Haus on Fridays, you can go for a cheaper price on a date and you just go rock climbing.

They have everything you need there and it’s so much fun, then afterwards just make dinner or something like that.� – Chante Brock, undeclared freshman

Have a picnic and play in a river “There’s a rope swing that goes over the river by where the farmers market is, (Merlin Olsen Park, 100 S. 200 East) so we swung over and had a picnic and played in the river.� – Arianna and Scott Wutherich, senior majoring in FCHD and a junior majoring in human movement science

Take a trip down memory lane and read your favor-� ite children’s books “Go to the library in Hyrum and have your date choose their three favorite children’s books and then you choose your three favorites, then go over and sit in front of the fireplace and read each other your favorite stories.� – Lynn Hopkins, teacher at the Logan Institute of Religion

Take a Hike “I think most the stuff we’ve done around here are just hikes and stuff. Crimson Trail is a favorite. That is up Logan Canyon. We’ve hiked the Wind Caves. The Wind Caves are fun.� – Bentley Anderson, senior majoring in Spanish

Visit Deseret Industries for an outfit to go mini golfing in “We went to the DI and picked out clothes for my date. I got her a full transformer outfit. It was Optimus Prime. Then we went mini golfing in it.�

– Chris Reid, freshman major-� ing in aviation

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THE USU ITALIAN CLUB meets once a week. They split into two groups — those who are fluent in the language and those who are learning. STEVE KENT graphic

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Although there are no Italian classes offered at USU, there is an organization on campus dedicated to the language. Italian club offers a chance for both students and members of the community to learn more about the language and its culture.

The Italian club started meeting about four weeks ago when some friends decided to get together to practice speaking the language. “Apparently it existed several years ago and it died, and so we just brought it back,� said Scott Heninger, a junior majoring in psy-� chology.

Many members of the club served missions in Italy for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-� day Saints, including Heninger. “Since then I’ve really wanted to find a way to practice it more,�

Heninger said. “You forget it over time, and especially here in Utah, there aren’t very many opportuni-� ties to practice.�

Heninger is the president of the club. He convinced several other people who served missions in Italy to help him give the organi-� zation the reboot. Like Heninger, they want to be able to continue using Italian rather than lose the skill because they aren’t speaking it often enough. “I just want to keep up my skills and keep improving,� said Jonathan McGarry, a USU alumnus who graduated in English and is applying for the MBA program.

for those who already speak Italian. “The original idea was that it could be a good place for people to refresh their Italian,� Heninger said. “I mean, like a good place just to hang out and have conversa-� tion.�

The plan changed when they realized they could include people who haven’t yet learned Italian. “This last time there were ten people there, and three or four of them didn’t speak any Italian at all,� Heninger said. “They just wanted to learn, so now we’re split into two groups.�

When the club meets, those who speak Italian separate from those who are are beginning to learn.

They practice conversing in Italian while a f luent speaker teaches those who do not know the lan-� guage. “A lot of people want to learn Italian just because it’s Italian,� said Michael Winward, a freshman majoring in wildlife sciences.

Practicing the language isn’t the only activity the club participates in. “We want to do a movie night sometime,� Heninger said. “We want it to be a fun thing and a great way to practice.�

The club will also have various cooking nights where they make authentic Italian food. “Several of us have actually been there, so we know some real things that we can do,� Heninger said.

McGarry said if they can get enough interest, they may be able

Italian for credit. “I know there are a lot of stu-� dents in music who have to take some sort of language classes,�

McGarry said. “I think we could get a lot of interest and I think that we could get classes offered on campus.�

The members have big plans for their club, but they are still not sure exactly where it will go. “We’re kind of still adapting, trying to figure out how we’ll do it because we’re brand new,�

Heninger said.

They hope to bring people together to experience the Italian language and culture. “Italian is the most beautiful language in the world,� Heninger said. “It’s super fun to speak and it’s a good time. It’s fun kind of people who come, and anyone can learn.�

McGarry said the Italian club is an opportunity on campus for peo-� ple who are interested in learning Italian, learning about the culture, the language. He said those inter-� ested may help to promote Italian on campus can get involved.

Italian club meets every Monday from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Old Main 006. “It doesn’t matter what your level is of the language — everyone’s welcome,� said Winward. “It’s a romance language, which means it’s full of love, and we love every-� one that wants to know more about it.�

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What do an old Western movie, No-shave November, Brad Pitt and Mustache March all have in common?

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Now, I’m a fan of the first two weeks in no-shave November. I like men with a little scruff, but as the month continues, I lose all sense of appreciation for facial hair and count the days until the beards come off.

The same goes for Mustache March, except I have no appreciation for mustaches.

However, no matter what I say, the men on USU campus will still grow out their facial hair. Whether it’s a show of manhood or for a good cause, let’s remember a few guidelines for growing out the hair above your upper lip.

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‘Argo’ is among the year’s finest films Sam McConkie “Argo” Grade: A-

Movie

Review

Say what you will about Ben Affleck’s acting abilities or political opinions: The man can write and direct with the very best of them. He doesn’t resort to superfluous and gaudy filming techniques and he wisely allows the material onscreen to speak for itself.

Crafted with good sensibilities in drama and pacing, “Argo” recently took home the coveted best picture Oscar along with best editing and writing.

So does “Argo” deserve the accolades it has been receiving? Oh yes. Without question. I actually felt, for the first time in a few years, the Academy has finally gotten it right with the top award. It gives me hope yet they will continue to make smart decisions and not cave in to hype.

The year is 1979.

Turmoil and repeated political struggles have plagued Iran and its international significance. The unpopular and recently deposed Shah has been granted asylum in the United States for treatment of his severe

health problems. This sparks the Iranian hostage crisis, an event where dozens of angry citizens, who were in favor of the Iranian Revolution, stormed the U.S. Embassy at Tehran and detained hundreds of innocent civilians.

Unbeknownst to the revolutionaries, six Americans escape the embassy and take shelter in the Canadian ambassador’s home. With no clear escape route or hope for freedom, all seems lost for these individuals until the CIA becomes aware of their dilemma.

Exfiltration specialist Tony Mendez, played

by Ben Affleck, furiously searches for a solution to bring these people home.

He then conceives an idea along with his supervisor Jack O’Donnell, played by Bryan Cranston, of faking Canadian film production identities for the escaped Americans after acquiring a science-fiction script called “Argo.”

The two get into contact with makeup artist John Chambers, played by John Goodman, and eventually link up with director Lester Siegel, played

by Alan Arkin, to build the production crew cover.

Tony then meets up with the escaped Americans in Tehran and orders them to learn their new identities back to front in order to have a chance to make it through the heavily guard-

“ARGO” WON BEST MOTION PICTURE of the year, along with two other awards, at the Academy Awards in Feburary. MCT photo

ed airport.

Lester Siegel wryly sums it up best at one point in the film: “We did suicide missions in the Army that had better odds than this.”

One of many aspects “Argo” deserves high praise for is the spellbinding and smart screenplay by Chris Terrio. Some of the dialogue for these characters, particularly for Goodman and Arkin’s characters, had me laughing heartily. The script also sold the seriousness of the situation these characters are in: If they don’t execute the plan to perfection, innocent people would lose their lives

to bloodthirsty revolutionaries. When a script can spur as much fun and suspense the way it does here, you’re in good hands as an audience member.

Yet this wonderful screenplay wouldn’t amount to much if it didn’t have the dramatic talent to complement it. The typically flat and uninspired performance Affleck usually gives is nowhere to be found in “Argo.” He plays a troubled family man and injects real soul and angst into the role, providing palpability he usually lacks. He interacts with his son over the phone and

tries to be a good parent regardless of the strain his marriage has endured, and that’s actually quite refreshing to see.

Arkin and Goodman balance out some of the pessimism with lively and engaging portrayals of Hollywood big-shots. Both men give off jaded, cynical and blunt personas that showcase just how often they have worked on awful movie productions.

Ben Affleck should be proud of what he has accomplished with “Argo.”

He delivers a solid performance in conjunction with the rest of the cast and he

tells a complex and riveting story to boot. Plus, he does all of this without sliding toward pretentiousness or character cliches. Nicely done.

This film earned its best picture Oscar easily and it comes highly recommended. Yes, even for the Affleck haters.

Horrified the princess may be in danger, the king organizes a rescue party led by Elmont (Ewan McGregor) and his partner Crawe (Eddie Marsan).

The group slowly ascends the beanstalk, where they run into a few things they weren’t expecting: giants and adventure.

Obviously this film is derived from the story of “Jack and the Beanstalk,” but there are enough differences between the original tale, other movies and this movie to make the experience entertaining.

The story was familiar, so the plot felt simple and predictable. Some of the aspects of the classic tale were altered for clever reasons. The script writers and the director took care to show parallels between Jack and Isabelle.

The climax shortchanged the audience. It seemed to build quite well, but it was over too quickly.

The movie was fun, but I wasn’t blown away.

The stunning Tomlinson brings a great level of beauty to the film, but she’s not used to her full potential.

The story isn’t about the princess, per se, but it’s difficult to really care about her character. She’s a young rising actress, with past experience in “The Illusionist” and “Alice in Wonderland,” and she’s in five other movies in 2013. Her acting career will be an interesting one to watch.

While not his best job ever, McGregor seemed to have fun with “Jack the Giant Slayer.” He wasn’t as good a leader as he was in “Star Wars: Attack of the Clones,” nor was he as ridiculously funny as he was in “Down with Love,” and he didn’t seem to step up his game as he did for “The Impossible.”

Bremner has never had a big shot in the spotlight, and although he played a

ridiculous villain in “Around the World in 80 Days,” his goofiness in “Jack the Giant Slayer” was too over-thetop to be funny and not crazy enough to be evil, so he quickly became annoying. Perhaps he will blow us away in the future, but I’m not holding my breath.

Nighy was something else as the leader of the giants. His distinct voice was a nice feature to the film, but his giant couldn’t match his full set of skills. He showed more strength in “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End,” “Underworld” and “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.”

Warwick Davis makes a great cameo. He briefly returns to the fantasy film world after a two year sabbatical from movies like the “Harry Potter” movies and “Willow.” It was fun to see him telling stories again.

Composer John Ottman brought strength, stability

and support to the entire movie with his music. He’s composed the music for all but one of Singer’s feature films, in addition to his work for “Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer,” “The Losers” and “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.”

His music was perfect for the movie. It’s grand and sweeping with undertones of something epic.

It also had elements of thunderous drums at key scenes, perfect for a film of giant proportions.

“Jack the Giant Slayer” isn’t the best movie around, but it’s a fun film that will work as a date movie if fantasy is your thing.

– 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.

‘Beanstalk’ doesn’t always follow classic tale Spencer Palmer “Jack the Giant Slayer” Grade: B-

Movie

Review

The legends are true; giants are real. At least in “Jack and the Giant Slayer.”

In the kingdom of Cloister, an orphaned young man named Jack (Nicholas Hoult) is charged by his uncle (Christopher Fairbank) to sell his horse and cart in the city.

Jack runs into a monk (Simon Lowe) who offers to buy the horse but gives Jack special beans as collateral with the promise that Jack will be well paid if he delivers the beans to an abbey. The monk gives careful instructions to not

allow the beans to get wet.

Jack returns to his uncle, who is highly disappointed and takes some of Jack’s parent’s belongings to sell.

Jack remains at the cottage.

Meanwhile, Princess Isabelle (Eleanor Tomlinson) runs away from the castle to go on an adventure and escape the confines of her betrothal to Roderick, (Stanley Tucci) right-hand man of King Brahmwell (Ian McShane.)

A heavy rainstorm slows down the princess and she takes shelter in Jack’s cottage.

As Jack and Isabelle talk, water seeps through the thatched roof and down into the floorboards where one of the beans accidently fell. A monstrous beanstalk blasts through the cottage and takes the princess with it. Jack is left unconscious on the ground.

The next day, the king and his men question Jack about what happened.

– Spencer Palmer is a graduate student working toward an MBA with a recent bachelor’s in mechanical engineering. Email him at spencer. palmer@aggiemail.usu.edu or visit his website, themovieknight.wordpress.com.

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1EVO ,STOMRW Put the team on my back

Online and nonphysician diagnoses can sometimes be a little misleading. I once had a chest rash I checked out with WebMD before going to the doctor. The verdict: AIDS. Try explaining to your dad how you contracted that one at age 14. It ended up being just a bacterial infection.

But for the following case study, I believe I and thousands of Americans like me, have been positively tested for disease.

Though crippling at times, it comes from extended periods of jubilation spent on a couch during one month of the year. Yes, March Madness fever is real. And for those who have it, it’s now peak season.

There are many reasons March is the best month of the year. The death grip of winter loosens its hold and the snow starts to melt away, giving hope.

Spring break, shorts, my birthday coupled with John Stockton’s: All are great things, but none are better than the best weeks of the entire sports calendar all crammed into one month.

So how can you test yourself for addiction?

First, check for the following symptoms. Do you watch YouTube clips the entire year, thinking how much one shot changed the world? Do you incessantly draw out brackets for meaningless activities, then challenge others to fill one out? Do buzzerbeaters and upsets make you chest bump your closest neighbor? You’re inching toward disease.

Next, name check recognition. When I say 16, do you say “sweet�? Who does a 5-seed match with?

Can you say Krzyzewski?

Do you want to be saying Krzyzewski at the end of the month? What’s a Cinderella? Can you put a Tar Heel, Jayhawk, and Hoosier in their respective locations?

Is your first thought for Gordon Hayward a half-court shot to win the championship? If it’s his being your favorite player on the Jazz instead, you’re definitely a woman from Utah who probably bases her tourney selections off of each team’s mascot.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that: Your bracket probably beats mine.

Speaking of brackets, will you be able to name the 68 teams in the field this year but can’t remember the first law of thermodynamics? Will you study your selections more than for your accounting midterm? Luckily, grades aren’t given out for pick percentages.

If you’ve passed all of the above, you can make your diagnosis official.

And congratulations! It’s a badge of honor. March Madness is everything that’s right about America: underdogs, passion, lastsecond miracles, unity

See HOPKINS, Page 9

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USU ready to skate into nationals

BY SEAN O’SULLIVAN staff writer

Some students view spring break as an oppor-� tunity to travel to an exotic location and let loose for a week. Utah State’s hockey team, how-� ever, will be on a busi-� ness trip to St. Louis for the American Collegiate Hockey Association’s National Tournament from March 15-�19.

Utah State skated out of the west region as the number-�one seed, earn-� ing an automatic berth in the national tourna-� ment without having to compete at the regional tournament. “It’s pretty awesome,� said USU captain Brian Gibbons. “It’s the first

time that USU has done that, and it’s hockey his-� tory. It’s an honor to be a part of this team and be number one all year.�

The Aggies were domi-� nant in the west region, recording 10-�1 record against the three other teams coming out of the west: Weber State, Colorado State and Arizona State. The Aggies only lost to Colorado State on the road.

One reason for USU’s success against the other top teams in their regions has been their attention to team defense. “The team has been pretty talented ever since I’ve been here, but this year’s a little different,� said senior forward Matt Hamilton. “We kind of revamped the way we

play the game. Instead of our run-�and-�gun offense we usually have, we started thinking about defense a little more.�

Utah State allowed 1.9 goals per game while scoring 5.5 goals per game clip. “You have to play defense to win champion-� ships,� Hamilton said. “If the other team can’t score, you should be pretty successful.�

Skipping the regional tournament has many benefits for a team that played a physical style of hockey all season long. “You get a little bit of time off to heal injuries and stuff like that,�

Hamilton said. “You get a little more practice time in. You get to prepare for playoff hockey. There’s

nothing in your way except for game one at nationals. It’s a good feel-� ing that you get to focus on the start of the tour-� nament instead of having to go through regionals.�

One down side to skip-� ping regionals is the team won’t have played a competitive hockey game in about a month. But in order to counter the long down time, the team stayed active. “Just kind do what you’ve been doing the whole year,� said goalten-� der Bryce Scherschel. “A lot of guys aren’t going to change anything up. It’s not like guys are going to start suddenly working out, including myself. I’ve kind of been in the gym all season. Just stay on the ice, stay in the gym

and stay sharp.�

Utah State will face New Hampshire, Bowling Green and tournament-� host St. Louis in pool play. The winner of each of the four pools moves on to the knockout round.

New Hampshire is 17-�6-�2 on the year, and are the No. 2-�ranked team coming out of the northeast region.

Bowling Green earned a record of 19-�8-�1 and came out of its regional tournament as a 5-�seed.

St. Louis earned an auto-� matic bid to the national tournament by hosting it.

The Billikens finished the season with a record of 22-�11 and ended up tenth in the central region.

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SPORTS FEATURES

Freshman athletes: Making the jump

BY JEFF DAHDAH staff writer

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Transitioning from high school to college can be a big deal. Freshmen learn to adjust to being on their own, hav-� ing free time and managing more difficult classes, to name a few differences.

Athletes have to deal with these and a host of other differ-� ences both on and off the court. “I could just coast in high school,� said freshman basket-� ball player Marcel Davis. “Now the game speed and inten-� sity is so much higher.� “Every player on every team was the best on their high school team,� said freshman lacrosse player Colin Maxfield.

It can be much more difficult to play in college then high school. It almost has to be easy for athletes in high school to be able to excel at the next level. Collegiate sports are faster, hits are harder and the overall margin for error is lower.

In addition to having to be an athletic specimen, these guys and girls have to be able to handle stress, time and mental strain. “It’s like a full-�time job,� said freshman football player Nico Bronzati. “It may sound cliche, but there’s no days off.�

USU athletes have to be full-�time athletes and full-�time students, even in the offseason. Year-�round athletes at Utah State are expected to maintain good grades and maintain their physical level. “The system here is more complex, much harder to grasp then our system in high school,� Davis said.

Not all adjustments are unpleasant, however. Some are rewarding to the players. “Everything’s a competition,� Bronzati said. “The com-� petition made me better, mentally and physically. I have learned a lot about my character from the changes.� “The skill level is also a good thing,� Maxfield said. “People couldn’t pass and catch like they do here.�

Playing sports at this level makes the athletes better and make them gel together. Statistically, athletes have better grades and succeed more in college.

There is some nostalgia for many of these athletes for their high school games. “I miss the high school rivalries and having friends and

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USU GOALTENDER BRYCE SCHERSCHEL makes a save during a game against the University of Utah on senior night at the Eccles Ice Center. CURTIS RIPPLINGER photo

HOCKEY: USU reaching new heights On paper, this could be viewed as the easiest pool the Aggies have been in the last three years, but anything can happen in playoff hockey. “It’s pretty exciting,� said defenseman Ty Johns.

“I feel like we have a very solid chance this year.

Hopefully we can get it done.�

The national tourna-� ment has been streamed online in the past. Utah State hockey will post more information about

watching the games on the team Facebook and Twitter accounts when information becomes available. – sean.osullivan@aggi-� email.usu.edu Twitter: @seansy89

HOPKINS: Madness is a reality From page 8 in the classroom since everyone is watching instead of working — the list continues. The constant action of the NCAA tournament jam-packed into one month is an unbeat-

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You can only imagine me dreaming all this while filling out my bracket in Mexico for the past two years. With all of the parity in the league right now, this

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The casual sports fan likes things to happen in a flash. They can briefly pay attention and get excited, then go back to what they deem more important.

That’s why season-ending conference basketball tournaments have become so famous. Sports media can flip one shot across the screen in March and everyone forgets what the teams went through the rest of the year. Coaches across the nation, however, have repeatedly bashed the news for forgetting the rest of the year, and I join with them in declaring the regular season conference championship much more important.

Think about it: three games in three nights, sometimes on one team’s home floor, going at it in a crapshoot to determine a champion. Though the tourneys are highly entertaining and I love them, true championships are won in January and February through conference slugfests.

A perfect example for years were our very own Utah State Aggies. The team won four regular season titles in a row.

Success? Only twice did they win the conference tournament. That in no way diminishes what they had already done.

Though in a year like this one, we would end up forgetting the struggles we’ve had if they manage to make a run to the NCAA tournament.

So it comes down to if you care about the actual games or only the glorified moments. True fans know how much a regular season title means.

Winning the regular season conference title is important for records and pride, but for players and fans, at this point in the season, that matters little.

Right now, for the players, coaches and fans, all they care about the postseason, and that’s what the conference tournament is for.

For the mid-major teams like our beloved Aggies, this could potentially mean a birth to the big dance. This is the same case with countless teams across the nation. Teams like Grambling State have a shot to play their way into the NCAA tournament in the next week and half, without being close to winning their conference tournament. Meanwhile, teams like Louisiana Tech are probably going to win their regular season conference title, but they won’t reach the dance without a win in their conference tournament.

Even for the big teams who will make it either way, the conference tournament will do more for their seed then winning their regular season title. Duke and Miami are vying for a No. 1-seed right now, same with the four teams atop the Big Ten. The conference tournaments influence the seeding more than final conference standings and influence the dance overall by determining who gets in. The conference tournaments are what make college basketball beautiful, because right now all but nine teams have the chance to win the championship.

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tomorrow as to whether he goes or not. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sports editor know. It depends on how he feels and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll go from there. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been an interesting at.â&#x20AC;? season for the Utah State For the Bobcats, junior menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball team. forward Joel Wright With 28 games down, leads the way with 17.3 only two remain, both points per game and 6.5 at home in the Dee Glen rebounds, both team Smith Spectrum. highs. Texas State also First up is the 9-â&#x20AC;?20 gets 11.4 points per game Bobcats of Texas State from senior Matt Staff.

University on Thursday, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an odd combina-â&#x20AC;? followed by UTSA on tion of being a post guy, Saturday. but just as much a face-â&#x20AC;?up â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a long time guy as a back-â&#x20AC;?to-â&#x20AC;?the-â&#x20AC;? since weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve played these basket guy,â&#x20AC;? Morrill said. two teams,â&#x20AC;? USU head â&#x20AC;&#x153;He kind of can do both coach Stew Morrill said. pretty dang effectively. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a lot of Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an explosive player. water under the bridge Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the whole show. and a lot of things have The Staff kid is very happened. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m watching impressive as a post guy our first two games with Texas State and UTSA, Â&#x2021;:HGGLQJ ,QYLWDWLRQV in that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so active.â&#x20AC;?

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But Â&#x2021; 'LVVHUWDWLRQV for the Aggies, ing better than Davis,â&#x20AC;? theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re more worried Morrill said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;His shoot-â&#x20AC;? about themselves and ing percentages are much whether or not theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have junior guard Spencer higher. Both of them are guys that can knock down Butterfield in the lineup perimeter shots. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re or remain at seven play-â&#x20AC;? very capable of scoring a ers. bunch on you.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our situation is such When the two teams where we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even met Dec. 31, 2012, USU know for sure who weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re came away with an 81-â&#x20AC;?57 going to be playing with blowout win behind tomorrow night,â&#x20AC;? Morrill a barrage of 3-â&#x20AC;?point-â&#x20AC;? said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Spencer has not practiced. He will be very ers. Preston Medlin, brief today. He wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be in Jarred Shaw and Spencer Butterfield combined for any live situations. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll 56 of USUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s points while just see where weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at

the defense limited the Bobcats to 37.3 percent shooting from the field.

But that was two long months ago, and Morrill said the Aggies arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tak-â&#x20AC;? ing the Bobcats lightly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Texas State is danger-â&#x20AC;? ous,â&#x20AC;? Morrill said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our ability to defend them is really important. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a premiere player in Joel Wright. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got some guys that can really shoot the ball. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re very aggressive in how they play the game. They press you, they pressure you, things weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen quite a bit of. Our ability to handle all of that will be a big factor.â&#x20AC;?

This will be just the sec-â&#x20AC;? ond meeting between the two teams all-â&#x20AC;?time, with USU emerging victorious earlier this season.

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The Utah State University softball team is trying to stay positive and move forward with the rest of the season after five straight losses at the San Diego Classic. The losses put the Aggies at a 0-â&#x20AC;?20 on the season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It can be very difficult to stay positive, but they are doing a good job about learn-â&#x20AC;? ing how to fail forward and learning how to see the game for what it is and not create excuses,â&#x20AC;? USU head coach Carissa Kalaba said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Right now they are kind of taking it in the teeth a little bit. We still have conference. We still have a lot of our season left.â&#x20AC;?

Even though the Aggies did lose all five games in San Diego, they were more closely contested than the previous tournaments this season.

Every game of the tourna-â&#x20AC;? ment the Aggies played in was decided by less than three

runs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re playing great compe-â&#x20AC;? tition and the girls are staying positive and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing a really good job in regards to handling failing forward,â&#x20AC;?

Kalaba said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are seeing success, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not at the right times.â&#x20AC;?

According to Kalaba, the team has been able to create opportunities consistently, but it has not been able to execute those opportunities when the time is right. This has cost the Aggies some games. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In softball and baseball you have got to learn how to be prepared and seize your opportunity. If theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not pre-â&#x20AC;? pared then your pitch comes across the plate, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got lit-â&#x20AC;? erally three-â&#x20AC;?tenths of a second to make that choice,â&#x20AC;? Kalaba said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part of the game.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part of failing forward.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what makes softball and baseball such a mental game.â&#x20AC;?

The Aggies will head to Ogden to play a double-â&#x20AC;?

header against Weber State on Wednesday. They will play five more game the following week in Boise, Idaho at the SpringHill Suites Invitational before their home opener against the University of Utah on March 20. After that, WAC play begins.

Even with all the losses, Kalaba said the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goals havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t changed and they have plans to win. She said she hopes the team can learn from what has happened and use it to improve. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hopefully the team takes all the knowledge that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned from the first four tournaments and puts it into perspective and uses it in the WAC,â&#x20AC;? Kalaba said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the best key is taking what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned and actually using it later on versus just scrubbing it and pretending like itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not there.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; rmhenline@gmail.com Twitter: @MitchHenline

FRESHMAN: Not an easy transition From page 8 family there at every game,â&#x20AC;? Davis said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I miss my teammates and having every game close,â&#x20AC;? Maxfield said.

Regardless of any difficulties of the transition or any longing for high school sports, none of these players would trade their college athletic experience. The transi-â&#x20AC;? tion for athletes at USU is difficult and time

consuming for the most part, but they find ways to excel, both athletically and academ-â&#x20AC;? ically. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As ready as you think you are, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not until you experience it every day,â&#x20AC;? Bronzati said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t grasp it until youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re here, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m better for it.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; dahdahjm@gmail.com Twitter: @dahdahjeff

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Election grievances need to be public The records of any group overseeing elections should be open and available to the voting constituency â&#x20AC;&#x201D; even if the candidates are students.

The ASUSU Hearing Board oversees grievances filed against candidates during ASUSU elections. The board also hears issues relating to ASUSU officer misconduct, and members of the board also serve on An Editorial Opinion the Honor Board, which overhears issues of student academic misconduct. The Hearing Board is important because it addresses what specific campaign rules certain candidates have broken or violated and decides punishments for candidates who break these rules, among other things. Because ASUSU spends and allocates public funds â&#x20AC;&#x201D; student fees and taxes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Hearing Board meetings and minutes should be open to the public.

Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the thing, though: Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not.

ASUSU officers receive a combined $70,000 in scholarships and are in charge of how student fees are allocated. This makes them public figures, akin to any other elected official in a state or national legislature. If a student faces an issue of misconduct, they have every right to keep it a private matter: They are private citizens and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need their dirty laundry aired.

However, the moment a student announces their candidacy, they step into the role of public figures. Because they are the ones spending the publicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s money, what they do and why they are facing a grievance hearing should be publicly accessible information. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s called transparency, and it is important to a free and democratic society â&#x20AC;&#x201D; yet Hearing Board meetings show little in terms of transparency.

The public needs to know what candidates did to warrant a grievance hearing. Did they give out coupons when they werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t supposed to? Did they campaign in the wrong place?

Were they buying votes? If election grievance meetings are closed, the board canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be held accountable. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to stop them from discriminating against a candidate? A candidate can appeal the boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision, but a candidate may well get discouraged and give up the fight.

Open meetings and records would help protect the hearing board, as well. If a candidate accused the board of discrimination, it would be his word against theirs, unless the board could prove proper procedures were taken.

We are lucky to attend a university where students can get so involved in how their money is spent, but far too often, we take it for granted.

Speak up on this issue: Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our school and our student fees, and we deserve to know what our elected officials, who use that money, are up to.

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There arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t more black men in jail than college What does the line â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are more black men in jail than in collegeâ&#x20AC;?

A look at what have in common with the others are saying Jheri curl? Answer: They were invented by white men (Jheri Redding and Vincent Schiraldi, respectively) and adopted enthusiastically by black people, and they left a nasty stain on the shoulders of millions of black men.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been more than 20 years since the Jheri curl faded away into infamy, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m proud to say that even in the 1980s, I never sported a curl. Unfortunately, I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say the same about the line â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are more black men in jail than in college.â&#x20AC;?

About six years ago I wrote, â&#x20AC;&#x153;In 2000, the Justice Policy Institute (JPI) found evidence that more black men are in prison than in college,â&#x20AC;? in my first â&#x20AC;&#x153;Breaking Barriersâ&#x20AC;? report. At the time, I did not question the veracity of this statement. The statement fit well among other stats that I used to establish the need for more solution-focused research on black male achievement.

I was in good company. The same year, at a 2007 NAACP forum, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have more work to do when more young black men languish in prison than attend colleges and universities across America.â&#x20AC;?

Both President Obama and I brought our own unique style to the line. I was deferential and academic, while President Obama was passionate and eloquent.

In contrast, many people, like Charles Barkley, are reckless and aloof when they use the line. Recently he told Bob Costas, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You know, we as black people always, we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have respect for one another. You know, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve

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ForumLetters Evolution, God not incompatible To the editor: I have been following the debate started by Wintersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most recent opinion piece column â&#x20AC;&#x153;Debating the Ultimate Question.â&#x20AC;? I will start by saying that I fully agree with him in that there is a God and that he did play a hand in the creation of this world.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not to say that I throw out evolutionism altogether it simple means that as I look at the beauty this world offers us and the wonders and secrets the our universe hides I cannot imagine it happening simple by chance as most would put it. On the

other hand I also believe that God would not have created us simply for his enjoyment, He would have created us to learn and to prosper throughout life.

For me this is where evolution come in. to use an analogy of which I apologize in advance for if it offends. If I was God I would have created the world in such a way as to follow rules and laws, of which I would have followed those laws in the creation of that world.

And to take it one step further, say I created beings of thought which we human beings clearly are, I would have made those being capable of discerning those laws.

It is my belief that evo-

Sports Senior Writer Mark Hopkins lution and creationism are not mutually exclusive ideas, that is not to say that humans evolved from something else for we have something different than all being on this planet, that being that ability for ingenuity. But is it possible that creatures have evolved to survive in the changing world, for the birds to change their beak shape and size for better hunting for tigers to form sharp claws used for tearing, the evidence has presented itself on numerous occasions.

It is my belief that we have been created by God though evolution has its role in the laws that govern our world.

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Lincolnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s views on Mormonism Peter Daines

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It is not unusual to think of Abraham Lincoln as a hero. For all that he overstepped the bounds of his constitutional authority more than any other man in the history of the Presidency, the feats he accomplished and the good he managed to do erase it from our memory.

And great feats he truly did accomplish. Lincoln oversaw our fledgling nation as it teetered near complete collapse. He pulled us away from the precipice exerting extraordinary and utterly unprecedented extra-constitutional powers, and yet managed to preserve the proper functionality of the constitution for peacetime prosperity.

He actually held an election â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which he thought he was going to lose â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in the midst of the Civil War.

Indeed, there is much to respect in the history of Abraham Lincoln. But what you may not be aware of is that in the middle of everything that Lincoln was doing, the Mormons in Utah were never far from his mind.

Lincolnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taking notice of Utah begins with the famed Lincoln-Douglas debates.

At the time, the admittance of new states to the Union was highly controversial as it could upset the balance between slave and free state representation in the Senate. Stephen Douglas was not an avid supporter of slavery, but neither was he willing to tread on Southern statesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; toes. In the end, his justification for refusing to condemn slavery boiled down to a stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right to institutionalize its own moral ethic.

Lincoln quickly jumped in with the Utah card. If states should choose their own moral ethic, then why not let Utah into the Union as a polygamist state?

As much as we like to think that we helped Lincoln win a debate, Lincoln was no friend of polygamy. You may have heard that the Republican

Party was founded in opposition to the grave moral wrong of slavery. Actually, the Republican Party was founded in opposition to â&#x20AC;&#x153;the twin relics of barbarism,â&#x20AC;? referring to both slavery and polygamy. In 1862, the Republican-dominated congress passed the AntiBigamy Act of 1862, and Lincoln quickly signed it into law. But Lincoln never tried to enforce that law.

Rather than imposing his will on the Utah Territory, then being governed by the theocratic pseudostate of Deseret headed

by Brigham Young, Lincoln instead sought knowledge. The New York Times reports that on November 18th, 1861, Lincoln â&#x20AC;&#x153;asked the Library of Congress to send him a pile of books about Mormonismâ&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;?

These books included â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Book of Mormonâ&#x20AC;? in its 1831 edition, and three other early studies of Mormons. Then, Lincoln decided to do â&#x20AC;Ś nothing.

He let the Mormons be.

They sent the telegraph and railroad through Utah, and Brigham Young famously remarked, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Utah has not

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LINCOLN: The Prez and Utah From page 11 seceded, but is firm for the Constitution and laws of our once happy country.â&#x20AC;?

Today, we recognize and remember Lincoln for his courageous and strategic inaction as he deftly maneuvered a trying political battlefield, and struggled to reunite a nation in chaos.

We remember him for his firm resolve to fulfill the oath he took upon entering office to â&#x20AC;&#x153;preserve, protect

and defend the constitution of the United States.â&#x20AC;? We remember him for firmly rejecting out of hand the idea of being monarch even as he held the powers of a monarch in his hand and had ample opportunity and motive to hold onto them. And finally, we remember Lincoln because almost 150 years after his death, Utah is a firmly loyal state of the Union.

Did Lincoln really read the Book of Mormon?

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Maybe. He certainly had means and motive. But we can never know for certain as long as we live. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll just have to ask him in Paradise.

â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Peter Daines is a senior in the political science department. He has been involved in the leadership of multicultural and diversity clubs such as the Latino Student Union and Love is for Everyone. Send comments and questions to pdaines33@gmail.com.

COLLEGE: Stereotype outdated From page 11 got more black men in prison than we do in college, and crime in our neighborhoods is running rampant.â&#x20AC;? In full context, Barkley was using the line to justify the need for armed defense against black men.

However, just as a Jheri curl would be wrong no matter how you dressed it up today, the line â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are more black men in jail than in collegeâ&#x20AC;? is wrong no matter how you contextualize, qualify or articulate it.

Today there are approximately 600,000 more black men in college than in jail, and the best research evidence suggests that the line was never true to begin with.

More than 10 years ago, the Justice Policy Institute released the report â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cellblocks or Classrooms.â&#x20AC;? While the report should have been a wake-up call to policymakers, one line resonated and echoed more than any other: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nearly a third more African-American men are incarcerated than in higher education.â&#x20AC;?

JPI has yet to acknowledge that today the enrollment of black males in college is drastically different from when it published â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cellblocks or Classrooms.â&#x20AC;? If we replicated JPIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s analysis by downloading enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statisticsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Integrated Post Secondary Education Data System (IPEDS), we would find a 108.5 percent jump in black male college enrollment from 2001 to 2011. The raw numbers show that enrollment of black males increased from 693,044 in 2001 to 1,445,194 in 2011.

In September 2012, in response to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s screening of the film â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hoodwinked,â&#x20AC;? directed by Janks Morton, JPI issued a press release titled, â&#x20AC;&#x153;JPI Stands by Data in 2002 on Education and Incarceration.â&#x20AC;?

However, if one examines the IPEDS data from 2001 to 2011, it is clear that many colleges and universities were not reporting JPIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s data 10 years ago.

In 2011, 4,503 colleges and universities across the United States reported having at least one black male student.

In 2001, only 2,734 colleges and univer-

sities reported having at least one black male student, with more than 1,000 not reporting any data at all. When perusing the IPEDS list of colleges with significant black male populations today but none reported in 2001, I noticed several historically black colleges and universities, including Bowie State University, and my own alma mater, Temple University.

Ironically, I was enrolled at Temple as a doctoral candidate in 2001.

As a researcher who uses large data sets, I understand the inherent margin of error associated with such analysis.

However, I do think that JPI shows arrogance and imprudence when it â&#x20AC;&#x153;stands byâ&#x20AC;? its original findings today. The increase in black male college enrollment over the past 10 years is due to three primary factors: 1. IPEDS more precisely tracking enrollment (artificial gains), 2. social advancements (authentic gains) and 3. the rise of community and forprofit colleges (authentic gains).

Importantly, black male representation in higher education is proportional to black male representation in the adult population. However, lack of adequate guidance and academic rigor in high schools has resulted in black males being underrepresented at competitive universities like Rutgers and overrepresented at community colleges and online universities.

Consider this: If all 1,127,170 black males who were enrolled in undergraduate programs in 2010 eventually graduated, the total number of black males with college degrees would increase by 71 percent, nearly achieving parity with white males. However, we will not sufficiently support black male college students -- nor college-bound students -- if we simply keep perpetuating the myth that juxtaposes their needs with those of black males in the criminal-justice system. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Ivory A. Toldson is a tenured associate professor at Howard University, senior research analyst for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Negro Education and contributing education editor for The Root. He can be contacted at itoldson@ howard.edu.

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Almanac Today in History: On this day in 1876, 29-â&#x20AC;?year-â&#x20AC;?old Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revo-â&#x20AC;? lutionary new invention â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the telephone.

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Annual Spring Book Sale, Library 9 a.m.

Healthy Relationships Workshop, TSC 310 10-â&#x20AC;?11:30 a.m.

Healthy Sexuality Workshop (5), TSC 310 12-â&#x20AC;?1:30 p.m.

Group Meditation, TSC 335 12-â&#x20AC;?1 p.m.

Stress Management and Wellness Workshop, TSC 310 1:30-â&#x20AC;?3 p.m.

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

Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Basketball vs. Texas State, Spectrum 7:05-â&#x20AC;?9 p.m.

Keep Kim Home (Logan Out Loud), TSC Auditorium 7:30-â&#x20AC;?9 p.m.

Politics of the Golden Rule, ESLC 3-â&#x20AC;?4 p.m.

FridayMarch 8 Drops Show as W on Transcript Classes Added by Petition Only (Charged $100 Late-â&#x20AC;?Add fee per class) Last Day To Drop Classes (W transcript) P/D+/D/F option Spring Break: Rock Climbing in St. George, All Day Annual Spring Book Sale, Library 9 a.m.

Founders Day, Performance Hall 7-â&#x20AC;?9 p.m.

SaturdayMarch 9 Classes Added by Petition Only (Charged $100 Late-â&#x20AC;?Add fee per class) No Dropping of Classes Permitted Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Basketball vs. UTSA, Spectrum 7:05-â&#x20AC;?9 p.m.

SundayMarch 10 Classes Added by Petition Only (Charged $100 Late-â&#x20AC;?Add fee per class) No Dropping of Classes Permitted Italian Club, Old Main 006 5:30-â&#x20AC;?6:30 p.m.

MondayMarch 11 Classes Added by Petition Only (Charged $100 Late-â&#x20AC;?Add fee per class) No Dropping of Classes Permitted Spring Break (No Classes)

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Leaping Leprechauns: Wee folk snuck into Aggie Ice Cream and turned the Blue Mint green. Visit and see Clover Craze for yourself â&#x20AC;&#x201D; try a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pint Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Luckâ&#x20AC;? shake or make your own deliciousness.

Also, remember we are open late for all home mensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; basketball games. Thursday and Saturday we will be open until 10 p.m.

Dr. John C. Nelson will be discuss-â&#x20AC;? ing the potential effects of PPACA (Obamacare) on the future practice of medicine on Mar. 7. Dr. Nelson is the past president of the AMA, Past President of the Utah Medical Assn, and Salt Lake County Medical Society. He was also rec-â&#x20AC;? ognized as the USU 2003 Alumnus of the Year. He is the current Medical Director and a senior adviser for Leavitt Partners, a Salt Lake-â&#x20AC;?based health consulting group.

The â&#x20AC;&#x153;C. Arden Pope Clear the Airâ&#x20AC;? con-â&#x20AC;? test for USU students offers cash prizes for the best ideas for reducing air pol-â&#x20AC;? lution plus a poster contest. Deadline is 5 p.m. Friday, March 8. To learn more check out: http://pinterest.com/susan-â&#x20AC;? nejanecke/group-â&#x20AC;?air-â&#x20AC;?pollution-â&#x20AC;?in-â&#x20AC;?north-â&#x20AC;? ern-â&#x20AC;?utah-â&#x20AC;?data-â&#x20AC;?and-â&#x20AC;?idea/. For more info contact jean.lown@usu.edu or at 435-â&#x20AC;?797-â&#x20AC;?

1569 The annual spring Jazz concert is on Mar. 14 and 19, featuring the various combo groups made up of jazz students.

Students have an opportunity to solo in this concert, showcasing their improvi-â&#x20AC;? sation skills. The performance is at 7:30 p.m. in the Performance Hall. Tickets are $10 general admission, $8 seniors and youth, $5 USU faculty and staff and free for USU students with ID. The Fly Fishing Film Tour is an annual festival showcasing the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finest out-â&#x20AC;? door film. The event will take place Mar. 15 in the USU Taggart Student Center at 7 p.m. All ticket sales to benefit local stream conservation efforts. Tickets online at flyfilmtour.com or at Round Rocks Fly Fishing (530 S. Main St. Logan).

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Getting the Most Out of Your Sleep Workshop: Learn how to deal with sleep problems as well as how to manage your sleep to get the most rest from the time you have. The workshop is Mar. 18 from 5-â&#x20AC;?6 p.m. in TSC 310. Please call 435-â&#x20AC;?797-â&#x20AC;?1012to reserve a seat.

Effective Coping Workshop: This work-â&#x20AC;? shop is designed to help students cope more effectively with the challenges of college life while they prepare for counseling. The workshop is Mar. 20 from 1:30-â&#x20AC;?2:30 p.m. in TSC 310 B. Please call 435-â&#x20AC;?797-â&#x20AC;?1012 to reserve a seat.

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