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Not so fast:

Proposal to remove depth-ed courses still in question, despite unanimous vote from stater’s council

4By Mariah Noble editor-in-chief

A USUSA proposal to discontinue the twodepth course graduation requirement was supported with a unanimous vote at a stater’s council meeting Friday. However, making it a reality is still far off.

Norm Jones, the chair for the general education subcommittee, said the last time a proposal like this was implemented, the process took three years.

Summer 2016 is the earliest possible time a change like this could occur, but Jones said he didn’t expect many faculty members to support the resolution. Approval is necessary from faculty committees for it to pass, but they do not meet during the summer months.

Jones said there is one general education meeting left this school year, and although the student body president has a seat on the subcommittee, he “has not been participating” in the meetings. The procedure for getting a proposal of this nature approved begins with the general education subcommittee.

“The surprise about what (USUSA) did is that he could have come to the committee at any point and said this is a student concern,” Jones said. “And we would have responded to the concern, but it was never brought to us.”

Doug Fiefia, USUSA president and sponsor of the resolution, ECR 2015-03, said he is aware that it still has to go through the faculty committees to be approved but wanted to “go the student route and make sure students supported it” before presenting it to the faculty.

The resolution was approved by academic senate and executive council before moving on to the stater’s council, which consists of members of the 10 members of executive council along with 19 administrators.

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Only 12 of the 19 administrators attended the meeting, including USU President Stan Albrecht and Provost Noelle Cockette. All 12 administrators and eight students voted unanimously in support of the resolution, though the minutes of the meeting indicate there was a discussion before the voting took place.

Fiefia’s proposal expressed that the depth education requirement was “not fulfilling it’s original purpose” and “has become a barrier to graduation.” It also stated that “students are gravitating toward one course in all three depth course requirement areas,” referring to statistics that 33 percent of graduating

Students with children carry on with studies 4By Mandy Morgan senior writer

Each student’s situation and experience is different, whether living with roommates, parents or a spouse.

And then there are those going to school who also have kids at home.

“We just take what we can get,” said Pamela June, president of the Nontraditional Student Association board.

“It’s just the life of a nontraditional student. You have a lot of obligations.”

These students’ experiences are different from that of traditional students both on and off campus, whether they have younger children or teenagers at home.

June, a nontraditional student majoring in health education and promotion, was initially hesitant to get involved with the NTSA board due to her already full schedule. June has six children, with two of her daughters currently attending USU. Though nontraditional Photo courtesy of the Fields students are often extra RACHEL AND TYSON FIELD both attended USU busy, she advises others while having a child. Rachel graduated in Dec. 2013 and in the same situation to Tyson will graduate in May. become involved and find support on campus. said. “That’s been really cool here at NTSA holds social activities for stu- USU.” dents to bring their families and meet The average annual cost for full-time other nontraditional students, June said. care of an infant at a regulated child care There are also Facebook groups, a Canvas center in Cache Valley is $5,428, accordgroup and emails sent out to reach out to as many nontraditional students as possi- ing to the 2010 Child Care Fact Sheet.

It also states that 12 percent of an ble.

“That makes it easier to get tips, point- two-parent family’s median income is, ers, how other people make things work on average, used for infant care with 10 percent used for preschool age children. and balance,” June said.

One resource Rachel and Tyson Field “As students, we don’t have much use on campus as parents has been the money for babysitters, so we have to balfree babysitting service they can receive ance her schedule and mine,” Tyson said. through the Early Childcare program Tyson is majoring in health science and Mondays through Thursdays at 5-8 p.m. will be graduating in May. His wife grad “We use campus babysitting every so uated in December 2013 from USU, a few often if I have evening class and she has something, when we’re both busy,” Tyson jSee CHILDREN, Page 2

seniors took Arts Symposium, 40 percent took Natural Disasters and 50 percent took Family Finance. After this, the document said “students are registering for the ‘easiest’ course to fulfill the requirement.”

Fiefia said they also looked into the times courses were offered, how many courses were offered and requirements from other schools around the state, but Jones was not satisfied with the statistics provided in support of the change.

“The reasoning in that document left me a little puzzled because it doesn’t state what the purpose (of depth education) is. It just says the purpose isn’t fulfilled,” Jones said.

“And it takes a one-semester snapshot and gives you percentages without exploring why the percentages look the way they look.”

Brylee Munguia, a junior in exercise science, is currently enrolled in the Family Finance class. She said she would have taken the class regardless of whether or not it fulfilled a depth education requirement but didn’t feel it was an “easy” course.

“Family finance is great. I think every student should take it,” she said. “It’s so real life. ... I learned a lot of things I’m glad I know now because I feel like I’m a step ahead of

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University briefs Day of Silence USU is participating in the International Day of Silence on Friday, organized by L.I.F.E. Club.

Friday is a national day of action for students to “vow to take a form of silence to call attention to the silencing effect of anti-LGBT bullying and harassment in schools,” according to the Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network.

The campus community is invited to attend a screening of “The Laramie Project” at 11 a.m. in the International Lounge of the TSC. The film is an adaptation of a play which chronicles the kidnapping and murder of LGBT student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming.

Walk a Mile Clad in heels, f lipflops and the like, men marched a mile on campus Wednesday to support Walk a Mile in Her Shoes.

Hosted by the Sexual Assault & Anti-Violence Information Office, the fundraiser served as a venue for men to take a public stand against gender violence and to promote public awareness of sexual assault. All donations will go to the SAAVI office and its mission to raise awareness and advocate for survivors of sexual violence.

Transportation master plan An open house will be held for information on the Transportation Master Plan on Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Taggart Student Center.

University employees

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MEN AT USU PARTICIPATED in the annual ‘Walk a Mile in Her Shoes’ event on Wednesday in the TSC. The event, hosted by the office of Sexual Assault and AntiViolence Information, is intended to raise awareness for gender violence and is a fundraiser for SAAVI.

have been working on this master plan to improve university transportation for several years with several goals, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improving methods of non-vehicular transportation and improving current infrastructure.

The plan is funded through USUSA, the Division of Student Services and USU Facilities.

End of Year Bash funding The USUSA executive council voted to enact a change in how the money is used from the End of Year Bash. Currently the money made by the event goes into something called the “capital and support budget,” which can be used

by USUSA in various situations, such as helping club sporting teams go to playoffs. The new legislation

will have the money raised by the End of Year Bash go into a separate fund for the following year’s bash.

This is designed to help bring better and more wellknown artists for the annual concert. This year’s end of year bash will take place on Saturday and will feature the artists “Nico and Vinz” and “MTKO.”

Author, professor presents

The USU Arabic Club hosted Dr. Asaad Al-Saleh, a professor at the University of Utah and author of the novel, ‘Voices of the Arab Spring: Personal Stories of the Arab Revolutions.’

The speach was intended to raise awareness about Arab culture at USU. His book is about individual experiences of Arab citizens in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria and Yemen during the Arab Spring.

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Tech & Money

As university costs rise, more food pantries sprout on campus 4By Mara Rose Williams The Kansas City Star

Just before fall classes this year, Tyler Huddleston found out a friend wasn’t coming back to Emporia State University because he couldn’t afford to eat.

It was an eye-opening moment for Huddleston, the school’s student body president.

He was part of a student committee that opened a food pantry last month in a corner room of the Student Union.

Emporia is among the latest colleges in Kansas and Missouri to start a food pantry for cash-strapped students.

Washburn University in Topeka also opened a pantry last month, Pittsburg State opened one in October and the University of Missouri-Kansas City student activities office is working on opening a food pantry in March.

Other schools, including the University of Kansas and the University of Missouri, began stocking pantries for students, staff and faculty a year or more ago.

It’s a growing national trend as campus communities reach out to help students survive the ever-increasing costs of higher education.

Emporia State’s Center for Student Involvement surveyed students to determine whether a pantry was needed. Among students who responded, 42 percent said they had skipped meals because they didn’t have enough money.

“I was surprised at the breadth of the problem,” Huddleston said. “I

didn’t realize how many students were affected by this.”

Most students are secretive about not having money for food, he said. He talked to some, especially those living off campus, who cut out meals so they could afford books and rent.

Feeding America, a nationwide network that feeds more than 46 million people through food pantries, soup kitchens and shelters, said in its 2014 report on hunger that 1 in 10 hungry U.S. adults is a student. Two million are attending school full time, and 1 million go part time.

“I just don’t think as college students we like to call ourselves ‘food insecure,’ “ Huddleston said. “I think there is this stigma about revealing that you need help and college students don’t want to ask for help.”

The U.S. Department of Agriculture defines food insecurity as “limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways.”

The Kansas Food Bank says 13 percent of Kansans 18 to 29 years old are food insecure. Missouri food bank officials did not have comparable numbers but said 25 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds in the state live below the federal poverty line.

Food insecurity on campus “is clearly a concern,” said Elaine Waxman, spokeswoman for Feeding America. She said her agency has seen an increase in calls from colleges and universities inquiring about starting a campus food pantry.

“It is definitely not just an Emporia

File photo THE LOGAN CITY FOOD PANTRY is available for Cache Valley residents in need, but not USU students.

State problem; it is a national problem,” Huddleston said. And one, he said, that goes back to the cost of college.

According to the College Board, the average price tag on tuition and fees for students attending a four-year public school in their home state is $8,893 a year. At private schools, it’s $30,094. That doesn’t include housing or food.

The national push to make college more accessible to a more economically and socially diverse population has opened higher education doors to

more students. But once financial aid and scholarships get them in the door, some students run into unexpected expenses such as transportation or child care that can tap out an already strained budget.

At some schools, hunger affects a large percentage of the student body.

Western Oregon University in 2011 reported that 59 percent of its students were food insecure. That same year, City University of New York said more than a third of the university system’s 250,000 undergraduates went without enough food at some time.

Snow can’t put damper Children on Aggie Bull Run From Page 1

months before their baby girl was born.

“It’s a little hard for scheduling, but it’s doable,” Tyson said. “With school projects, students only have certain times they can meet, and then I can’t meet when others need to, but we’ve worked it out. ... If we want to go on a date, that’s kind of tough.”

When the baby was born, communication with professors about the situation was important, and they worked well with his situation, Tyson said.

Another help with babysitting is trading off with other student-parents, since they are sur-

Michigan State University was one of the first four-year schools to open a student-run food pantry on its campus. A year ago, the university was getting so many calls from other campuses asking how to start a food pantry that it launched the College and University Food Bank Alliance.

At last count, about 100 universities connected with the alliance and opened campus pantries. Officials with the food bank alliance said they had heard of about 30 more schools unaffiliated with the alliance that have opened pantries.

rounded by other students in the same situation living in Aggie Village, Tyson said.

Though professors were understanding as she finished school, school life isn’t very accommodating in general for pregnancy, Rachel said.

“It was hard to schedule doctor appointments and things around school,” Rachel said. “I had enough time after school ended to prepare for her to come, but if I had been really sick, I might have had to postpone things.”

More information and tips for students with children can be found through the Care About Childcare program at USU at careaboutchildcare.usu.edu. Information about NTSA can be found at usu.edu/accesscenter/nontraditional/ ntsa.cfm.

— mandy.m.morgan@aggiemail.usu.edu

Tweets of the Week Kylee Larsen photos USUSA HOSTED ITS ANNUAL ‘Aggie Bull Run’ on Wednesday. The annual run was held in the bus circle outside of the TSC. The race would pit two chariot teams against each other with one person riding and two people either pushing or pulling the device. This year’s race had the added obstacle of a downpour of snow.

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When disaster strikes USU emergency management coordinator handles the tough stuff 4By Manda Perkins asst. senior editor

When the university community was threatened via an anonymous email last October in reaction to feminist video game critic Anita Sarkeesian’s upcoming presentation, some Utah State University employees went into crisis mode, preparing for what could happen next.

Judy Crockett was one of those employees.

And although Sarkeesian cancelled her talk and university life went back to normal, Crockett continued planning for a potential crisis. As USU’s emergency manager coordinator, it’s her full-time job to facilitate the planning, coordination and training to handle any crisis USU could experience, from snow storms to fires to active shooters.

Crockett’s plans operate using a universal incident management system, put in place by the federal government after the Sept.

11 terrorist attack in New York City. She’s been in this position for almost nine years, working with multiple campus offices, Logan City Police, the fire department, Bear River Health Department and more, to ensure that, should a crisis occur, the USU community would be safe.

“It’s my job to keep that in place up here and train everyone who’s going to respond in any capacity on what that system is.”

The Utah Statesman sat down with Crockett this week and asked her about what it’s like to managing emergency planning for a university.

Utah Statesman: How

Manda Perkins photo JUDY CROCKETT’S JOB is to facilitate the planning, coordination and training to handle any crisis that may happen at Utah State University.

long has this been a position at USU? Judy Crockett: It was a part-time position for many years, held by Sgt. Lynn Wright, who started the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program at USU. All of it came about after, during the Iraq War (when) we got a bomb threat up here and we decided to evacuate campus. There wasn’t a plan or anything in place and so after we did that we started the wheels rolling. When Lynn retired, a (university) vice president at the time said, ‘We need to have a full-time emergency manager.’ I was over at dispatch at the time, but

they had been sending me to training and preparing me because they knew Lynn was close to retiring.

US: What are some of the potential crises you’ve prepared for?

JC: Earthquakes, active shooters ... there’s a lot of training that’s being going into that lately. But as far as response, we organize the same way on all incidents, so we use an all-hazard approach. If it’s an earth quake, we’re going to use the incident command system. If it’s a fire, we still use that. It organizes the same way, and then we expand and retract from it depending on what the incident is.

US: How many USU employees are CERT certified?

JC: We have 200. ... It varies because people quit (or) retire so there’s a lot of fluctuation. ... We have an emergency management committee that meets quarterly and it includes people from (a wide range of offices and departments). It’s a good variety that covers all aspects at the university.

And we’re getting more and more (volunteers) all the time. ... It’s coming around.

I’m really, really pleased.

US: What goes into emergency planning on a university scale?

JC: It’s a lot of coordina-

tion with different entities, and it takes a lot of people to coordinate and prepare the university. It’s not just me. ... We have to get together and get to know each other and understand that this is a system that has to work. ... Everybody seems to understand that this is important. Sometimes it’s a little hard to find time for it ... so if we can keep our training to an hour here and there, that’s not so hard to find time for.

US: What would you like students to know about your job?

JC: I want people to understand that we’re really trying to make this a safe

campus, but if something does happen, we are going to be on top of it, and we will take care of it the best we can.

Crockett and her team are facilitating the Great Utah “ShakeOut” Earthquake Drill on Thursday. A mock-crisis command center will be set up on The Quad from 10 a.m. to noon. For more information about USU Emergency Management visit dps.usu. edu/emergency.

Note: Some responses have been shortened, edited in the interest of length.

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Student life

Mark Bell photo TAKING A BREAK FROM THEIR LIFE OF CRIME, Katie Francis (left) and Zedrick Evans (right) perform as Bonnie and Clyde, respectively, in the musical ‘Bonnie and Clyde.’

Bonnie and Clyde steal Logan stage 4By Miranda Lorenc senior writer

Two lovers on the road, robbing banks and running from the law; the infamous outlaw couple, Bonnie and Clyde, was brought to life by the Utah State University the Department of Theatre Arts at the Caine Lyric Theater on Tuesday.

“World famous outlaws, set to music,” said Jared Rounds, a USU alumni, describing the show. “Small town

kids on the run, trying to make their way through the country and just not quite getting the hang of it.”

Written by Ivan Menchell, Don Black, and Frank Wildhorn, the new musical first premiered in 2009 and follows the lives of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow as they meet, fall in love and become the folk legends they are today.

“It’s probably on a more intimate level as far as following how they met, their back story, their love life,

Three things Marvel’s reboot means for you Many of you are only familiar with Marvel through the movies or series such as “Daredevil,” but for those of you who are interested in the comics, a major change is happening this summer. The big news is that Marvel is rebooting large parts of the comic universe, a move that only DC has done thus far, and not well I should add. While I support Marvel’s old way of doing a moving timeline, there are a few changes you can expect.

1. We get both Spider-Men In 2000, Marvel created the “ultimate universe,” a fresh take on all your classic heroes, showing sides of them we have never seen before. One result of this was a new Spider-Man named Miles Morale.

Morale had a slightly different power set than Peter Parker, and most visibly not the same cookie-cutter mold that we see in most classic heroes (a white male with dead parents). Well, the ultimate universe is ending and most signs point to the possibility of seeing Morale in the main universe, where we will

and not so much about what they’re known for, which is crime and murder,” said Justin Turpin, a junior in theater and a member of the ensemble. “So I think it was a really nice take on showing the humanity even behind criminals.”

Set during the Great Depression, the musical not only describes the adventures of Bonnie and Clyde, but also takes a look at the time period itself and the hardships people faced with scarcity of money, food and

jobs.

What made the couple’s story so popular, Turpin said, was that anybody making their way in the world during that time was an incredible thing.

“Just anybody who was succeeding was doing it right, whether they were doing it the wrong way (or not),” he said.

Allyson Hankins — a junior playing the role of Clyde’s sister-in-law, Blanche Barrow — said one of the

aspects that made Bonnie and Clyde folk heroes was the love the two held for each other, and the fact they never gave up on each other even if that meant death in the end.

“They were one of the first couple crime groups, so I mean they were together, they were a love story within an organized crime gang,” Turpin said.

To prepare for their roles, Turpin

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Students voice USU stereotypes

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be seeing Parker as well.

For fans of both Spideys, this is exciting. Maybe Parker will mentor Morale, and just maybe we’ll see Morale in an upcoming marvel movie or TV show.

2. They are retooling classic stories Comic books are confusing to say the least, and sometimes they drag. But every once in a while, you’ll get an amazing story or event that will make you fall back in love with the genre. Marvel is taking these classic stories, like “Planet Hulk,” and rewriting them so they’ll be different. Then they’re rereleasing them to the public. I value these clas-

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Kelsie Bell photo illustration STUDENTS OF DIVERSE MAJORS often share similar interests, which can result in percieved stereotypes.

4By Whitney Lewis staff writer

“I probably sound awful,” said Harrison Cooper, a junior double-majoring in philosophy and global communication, as she explained one of the stereotypes she perceived at Utah State University.

Cooper was one of several students who explained the stereotypes they observed with other majors and within their own degree programs.

While Cooper said she does not believe it is good to generalize in any situation, she did

share some of the stereotypes she has seen.

“I think when I hear someone is a certain major, I do think that they probably have certain qualities that a lot of other people studying something similar have,” Cooper said.

According to simplypsychology.org, stereotyping is an “over generalized belief about a particular group or class of people.”

The site also explained that stereotyping allows people to draw on past experiences to respond quickly to situations,

which can be a good. The disadvantage of stereotyping is that it inhibits people from seeing the differences between individual people.

For example, Cooper described her perception of students of one particular major.

“I think a lot of engineering students are going to be really smart, but I think the only thing they really care about is getting a good job,” she said.

Kaden Clark, an undeclared sophomore, agreed that engineering students were the smart people who were always “hustling around.”

Clark also thought the College of Natural Resource’s majors fell into a certain group.

“I don’t want to say, like, hippy-ish, but they all seem to be wearing Chacos,” Clark said.

Stereotypes that Cooper saw within her own college, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, were specific to anthropology majors and her own major, philosophy.

“I think a lot of anthropology students come off as hip

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Student Life

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‘Blanket Brigade’ bundles community

4By Alyssa Hawkins senior writer

Calling for all thimbles, yarn and Berninas – the Blanket Brigade is ready for work.

The first annual Blanket Brigade event, held by AmeriCorps Volunteers in Service to America on Monday, brought Utah State University students and Cache Valley community members together to provide service for locals in need.

The service project focused on making blankets and quilts for poverty-stricken community members. The event, which started up around 9 a.m., didn’t end until close to 3 p.m.

“The end goal was 200 blankets, but I’ve lost count of how many we actually have finished already,” said Meganleigh Ward, an Americorps VISTA supervisor who helped coordinate the event. “I want to say we’ve already got over 50 finished and those are fleece and quilts.”

Ward is involved with Public School Partnership, which is hosted at Utah State University and sponsored by AmeriCorps VISTA National Service Program. Through the Val R. Christensen Service Center, the two groups were able to organize the event that would help members of the Cache Valley community.

The blankets made at the brigade were donated to the Bear River Association

Kylee Larsen photo illustration

of Governments Heat Program, which has over 2,000 recipients in Cache Valley.

Ward said these individuals are unable to afford heating and other essential utilities.

The goal of VISTA is to take on 10 percent of the overall population and make blankets for those families.

“I have been measuring fabric by hand all day,” Ward said. “It looked like a fabric factory in our office.”

Ward and her 22 VISTA members have each taken upon themselves through a contract to live at the poverty level for one full year.

Marvel From Page 4 sic stories and am all for rereleasing them for those who weren’t around when they were released, but rewriting classic stories seems a little like revisionist history to me.

3. We might lose some characters and storylines that were recently created What I love about Marvel is that it has been bold lately with its decisions not only taking characters in new directions (Tony Stark reverts

Ward, who has a psychology degree, has been living this lifestyle for two years now.

“It’s the most freeing thing for me, personally, because I don’t need much to survive, and you let go of that and understand that there are other people, like the people I work with,” Ward said. “All of us are in it for the families. All of us are in it to alleviate these people from poverty and show them that they have support, show them that there are people who do really care.”

back into an arrogant playboy) to new characters (the new female Thor who has outsold the old issues by 20 percent). It has done this tastefully without isolating the fan base. I fear that we will lose new great characters such as Ms. Marvel, a young Muslim-American teenager from New Jersey, or “The Runaways,” a Joss Whedon comic that explores teenagers learning their parents are not so perfect.

I am not saying change is bad, and I think some good will come out of this, but the old saying of “throwing out the baby with the bath water” comes to mind. All we can do is hope that Marvel doesn’t go the way of DC and end up in endless cycles of re-booting

For program coordinator Krista Gurko, one of the most rewarding aspects of this event has been seeing the community step in to assist in the work. America First Credit Union donated $1,000 for the event, and other local groups such as 4-H and the Bernina store have made donations as well.

“We are learning about assets in our community and then empowering people to work together and to support each other,” Gurko said.

The event brought to-

gether both students and community members, all working together to make blankets for those in need.

Among the volunteers was undeclared freshman Makenzie Skewes. For her, this event was a way to volunteer her time while sneaking in some extra credit.

“One of my classes has extra credit in it, but my roommate was like, ‘Hey come help,’ and so I came,” Skewes said.

Zach Green, a junior studying nutrition, went to test his hand at sewing.

Green, a member of Alpha

Tao Omega, stressed the importance that service work can have on a community.

“It’s always good to do service. I mean, that’s one of the things that we focus on in ATO is just leaving an imprint on the university and the community and just giving back,” Green said. “We’ve received a lot from Logan and Utah State, and it’s always good to give back and make things better.”

For students who are interested in getting more involved with similar service opportunities, Gurko said AmeriCorps has many summer jobs available to students.

“We have summer positions that are open for students, and by getting involved, people learn about those who they might not have otherwise,” Gurko said.

Students can also learn more about AmeriCorps VISTA by visiting its Facebook page, where many of the community’s impact stories are featured.

By getting involved and providing service, Ward said that not only can their organization expand, but the community will have a positive impact and grow closer as a result.

“It’s not the financial gain,” she said. “It’s people with strong hearts wanting to make it stronger.”

— alyssa.hawkins@ aggiemail.usu.edu Twitter: @_alyssahawkins

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Mark Bell photo BONNIE AND CLYDE, portrayed by Katie Francis (left) and Zedrick Evans (right), perform in the musical.

Musical From Page 4 said they all researched the mannerisms, language and clothing styles of the 1930s.

Hankins said she created a Pinterest page and added things she found that connected to her to the time period to help her get into her character.

She had also found a book written by Blanche Barrow to use in her preparation.

“She actually wrote a book about her times as Blanche Barrow and how they were in

the gang,” Hankins said. “She wrote about how they were on the run and her time in jail.”

The work and preparation that went into putting on the production paid off; Rounds said it was a good show with strong performances.

“Bonnie and Clyde” runs April 14-18 at the Caine Lyric Theatre at 7:30 p.m. each night with a 2 p.m. matinee on Saturday. Tickets prices range from $10-$18 and are free for students with USU ID cards.

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Sports Second-year coach gets four-year extension 4By Kalen Taylor sports editor

In her second season as USU gymnastics coach, Nadalie Walsh led the Aggies to their second-straight NCAA regional appearance.

Walsh was rewarded for her hard work with a contract extension through the 2018-2019 season.

“I’m very thankful and excited,” Walsh said of the contract extension. “I was a little surprised because my prior schools didn’t do contracts, so it’s nice to have some security and to feel like having the faith and belief that Scott Barnes believes in me and what we’re doing with the program, so that makes me pretty happy.”

Utah State University vice president and head athletic director Scott Barnes said that Walsh has done a good job of leading the team.

“Nadalie and her staff have done

a great job of cultivating an environment of success both on the floor of competition and in the classroom,” Barnes said. “She has clearly re-engerized our gymnastics student-athletes, and we are excited about the future of the program under her leadership.”

This season Utah State finished fourth in the Mountain Rim Gymnastics Conference and placed fifth at the NCAA Regional Championship.

“I’m so proud of the girls,” said Walsh after the regional performance. “We did not count any falls, which is the beginning of building a strong program. I’m so proud of them for being at this level and being able to go out there, stay focused and not be affected. Last year, we were a fish out of water a little bit, but this year not at all. It makes me confident in their ability to take the program even further next year.”

In her first year as coach, Walsh

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led Utah State to its best start to a season since 1999. Throughout the course of the year, Utah State reached the 196-point mark in three consecutive meets. Prior to that, the program had hit the 196-point plateau just 10 times.

After starting the 2013-2014 season with three-straight wins, Walsh coached Utah State to a fifth-place finish at the NCAA Regional Championships. It was the school’s first regional appearance since 2007. The Aggies placed fifth at the MRGC Championships in 2014 with a season-high score of 196.075, which was Utah State’s highest since 2003.

Utah State excelled academically under Walsh this season. Fifteen of the 22 gymnasts currently have a GPA of at least 3.2, and each one will be honored

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Kylee Larsen photo

NADALIE WALSH SMILES at a home meet during last season.

Walsh led Utah State to a fourth-place finish in the conference and a fifthplace finish at the NCAA Regional Championships.

USU preps for national title run 4By Thomas Sorenson staff writer

The Utah State baseball team is ready to make a second-consecutive run at the national championship.

The club won a national title in 2012 in addition to the victory last season.

“Every game we start feeling more and more confident about it,” said first baseman Riley Stauffer. “That is the goal right now.”

First-year head coach Brad Singer knew this team had the potential to be special before the season started.

“I told them at the beginning of the year, ‘If you guys come together as a team, you gel and mesh well with one another, you will make it to the World Series,’” Singer said. “I’m very confident in that statement.”

The team is coming off a weekend in which it swept Boise State — the No. 2 team in the conference — and extended its winning streak to 15 games. The team needs three more wins over the next six games to clinch the conference and guarantee a return trip to the regional tournament.

The winner of the regional tournament, held in Missoula, Montana, advances to the

Kylee Larsen photo TAYLOR STAUFFER CROSSES HOME PLATE to score a run as the Utah State dugout celebrates in the background. The Aggies won the national championship last season and are on a 15-game win streak and play three more this weekend.

World Series in Kentucky.

“When we go to regionals, it’s one of those things where we’ve got to step up our game and be ready to go,” said catcher Colton Anderson. “We can’t take it lightly.”

The team understands that it has a great chance to win the national title again if it

can make it through regionals, Singer said.

“I think they’re starting to realize that and starting to catch that vision that we’re trying to paint for them,” Singer said.

The players on the team are confident that they will repeat the process from last year.

“We know we can play with

them,” Anderson said. “We know we can beat those guys.”

Much of the confidence the team has in itself stems from its strong pitching staff.

“With our pitchers holding them like they do,” Stauffer said, “we’re always in a great

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Racquetball club ‘hits hard’ for a 12th-place finish at nationals 4By Tristan Paradise staff writer

Thakary Minson photo JOSH GREENWELL HITS THE BALL while working with Corrina Chapman on her swing. The Aggie racquetball club recently returned from nationals where the team competed against more than 50 schools and placed No. 12 overall.

The Utah State racquetball club team traveled to Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona on March 25 to compete with schools nationwide.

With more than 50 schools in participation, including college-eligible, globally-ranked professional players, the Aggies were able to place 12th overall.

“There was competition that was really easy and competition of professional level,” said Joe Nielson, a member of the Utah State racquetball team who will

be team president next year.

Racquetball president Josh Greenwell singled out Harlee Wolfley’s tournament performance.

“Everybody played really well,” Greenwell said. “But Harlee Wolfley probably played as best as I have seen her play.”

Wolfley led the women’s team to a break-out performance at nationals, helping them place 8th as a team despite having half the number of members compared to other teams.

Wolfley also placed 4th individually in her division and qualified as an All-American athlete.

Wolfley credits her coach for the successful season that she had.

“Hitting it hard,” Wolfley said. “It’s what my coach told me to do. ‘Hit it hard.’”

Although this is a simple yet effective strategy, it is clear that the team improved this season. The majority of the squad was beginner-intermediate level. It took hours of practice on the courts in their free time to improve.

“Personal and team success is all about the time you put in the courts,” Greenwell said. “It’s not just playing games but do

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Title From Page 6 position to win.”

Cody McGlocklin, one of the pitchers and third baseman on the team, agrees with Stauffer.

“In my opinion,” McGlocklin said, “we have probably one of the best pitching staffs in

Page 7 the nation.”

The coaching staff will continue to encourage the players to focus on the fundamentals, Singer said.

“If we play clean baseball, our pitchers will do their thing, our batters will do their thing and we’ll have the sparks that we need,” Singer said. “With the depth that this team has I’m pretty confident that we can make a deep run at it.”

Utah State plays its final home series Friday and Saturday against Idaho State with games beginning at 6 p.m. and 12 p.m. respectively.

The regional tournament runs from May 7 to May 10 and the World Series is May 22 to May 28.

— thomas.sorenson@ aggiemail.usu.edu Twitter: @tomcat340

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Thakary Minson photo JOSH GREENWELL SERVES during practice. Greenwell was the club president this year and will be replaced next year by Jon Nielson.

Nationals From Page 6 ing drills and really focusing on skills you’re weak at.”

The feeling of being around professional-level competition will be beneficial the racquetball team’s learning, Nielson said.

“We got to watch them (globally-ranked players) play,” Nielson said. “Especially the final, we learned a lot from watching the really good guys play.”

Love From Page 6 football’s offseason is comparatively uneventful. In season we’re treated to weekly highlight reels of Antonio Brown ninja-kicking an opponent right in the face, Tom Brady’s teammates repeatedly leaving him hanging and Kam Chancellor putting the fear of God into Carolina’s field goal kicker by leaping over the entire O-line.

The offseason for football is important, but some people just keep treating it as if it’s still delivering that level of entertainment. As much as I enjoy Chip Kelly’s chaotic wheeling and dealing and the complete decimation of the 49ers’ roster, there are other things happening in sports.

Since when was watching Adam Shefter report on the latest team that may or may not be interested in Marcus Mariota preferable to watching actual sporting events — like baseball’s opening weekend?

“Well there’s like 200 baseball games and only one NFL draft,” you say — fair enough,

Greenwell, Nielson and Wolfley were all quick to point out the improvement and success of everyone on the team.

“Everybody really improved. I couldn’t pick out one person,” Wolfley said.

“We all did well enough to compete at nationals and get medals.”

Nielson and Greenwell agreed and said that while everyone improved personally, they also grew together as a team.

Looking forward to next year, Nielson will seek to further improve the

growth of this already rapidly-growing group.

He has been teaching the class Utah State offers for racquetball, gaining experience this past year so he will be ready to take the reigns as the new season approaches.

“It gave me a different perspective, and it amped my game up,” Nielson said.

“Now I feel like I haven’t played better racquetball than I do right now.”

there are tons of baseball games on from now until October. Maybe that’s why non-baseball fans have trouble converting. It’s not as easy to be a casual fan as it is in basketball or football.

Almost nobody watches every baseball game their team plays and nobody is really expected to. That means broader story lines, like who’s pitching well, who’s regularly slugging home runs and where your team stands in the playoff race molds the story arc of the season, even if you only catch one game in five. The MLB playoffs are some of the most intense games you’ll see in any sport but only if you’ve been following your team’s season and know what’s on the line.

There are also two months of NBA playoffs and the NHL postseason to keep up with just as baseball’s season begins, but that shouldn’t be much of a stumbling block. As previously stated, you don’t need to watch every baseball game, and the playoff race doesn’t heat up until summer anyway.

But once the NBA crowns its champion and the NHL playoffs come to a close, it’s like we treat baseball

as some sort of consolation prize. That’s sad. It’s not some filler sport to pass the time; it’s quite the opposite.

It stands alone from the other three major North American sports, almost as if the sports gods are saying “Look, it’s summer now. Everyone stop and pay attention to baseball for a little bit.”

So instead of spending your next six months analyzing draft picks and waiting for football season to arrive, consider tuning in and watching Nolan Arenado leap into the San Francisco crowd to snag a near-uncatchable foul ball, or Sonny Gray flirt with a no-hitter, or Mookie Betts steal two bases at once.

Just don’t root for the Yankees.

— tparadise@ aggiemail.usu.edu Twitter: @tristan0010

— Logan Jones is a junior majoring in journalism. He has no idea how Alex Rodriguez is allowed to show up to work in the morning, seeing as he’s been caught lying about his steroid usage twice now. Guess playing for the Yankees makes that sort of thing okay. Contact Logan at logantjones@aggiemail.usu. edu or on Twitter @Logantj.

Annie Hall photos SNOW FILLS UP MAVERIK STADIUM on Wednesday. Due to heavy snowfall the Aggies’ lacrosse team was forced to cancel its stadium game against the University of Utah. The game will be played Wednesday but will not be played in the stadium. Utah State has a doubleheader on Saturday on the Legacy Fields facing Wyoming first, then New Mexico. The first game starts at 3 p.m.

Coach From Page 6 at the Joe E. and Elma Whitesides Scholar-Athlete Awards Luncheon on Tuesday.

The luncheon recognizes student athletes who have a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or

greater. As a team, the Aggies have a GPA of 3.4. Walsh credits the culture of the team and university for the the success of the program.

“It’s really natural and easy here,” Walsh said. “It’s a really good quality of life and I’m super happy. My family is happy, and it’s easy to bring that into the gym. To do any sort of encouraging for any of the

girls, that goes a long way just investing in their lives beyond gymnastics. The whole culture here makes it easy to do well.”

With a new contract Walsh can now focus on preparing for the 2016 season next spring.

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Opinion The Board

Consistency matters Who you are online just as important as who you are in person You can’t be a jerk on the Internet and then expect people to like you in real life.

Social media, despite its setbacks, is vital in the modern professional world.

Even celebrities interact with fans they’d never come into contact with face-to-face. Twitter makes it possible to find people with similar interests and lingo. Having this tool at your fingertips is empowering because it can get you noticed by future employees, but it’s also dangerous.

For some, tendencies to over-criticize in a non-constructive way may outshine the talent you’ve worked so

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So for your sake and mine, please resist the urge to excessively nitpick, backbite and insult.

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Voice From Page 4 pies kind of, and I think a lot of philosophy majors come off as really deep airheads,” Cooper said.

Logan Carey, an undeclared freshman, even feels stereotyped by peers who have declared majors.

“Say you’re in a group of people where everyone knows their major, then you kind of feel you’re out of place in a sense,” Carey said.

Besides the stereotypes he feels against him, Carey saw gender stereotypes in the family, consumer and human development department as well as with the engineering college.

“If you think of a family life occupation, you think of women instead of men, but it’s also vice versa,” Carey said. “That’s what you normally see in engineering. It’s mainly men.”

This gender stereotype of women being underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) is actively being fought by President Barack Obama with his Educate to Innovate initiative. In 2015, the initiative included a White House Science Fair and a commitment of $240 million to help involve underrepresented groups in STEM subjects, according to whitehouse.gov.

“We’ve got half the population that is way underrepresented in those fields, and that means that we’ve got a whole bunch of talent … not being en-

Council From Page 1 people.”

She said she has taken other general education courses where she hasn’t felt challenged, but this class is different for her.

“I don’t think the students choose the easiest classes,” Jones said. “I’d like some data on that one.”

Jones said depth education courses were designed to make students “citizen scholars” who are able to think critically and communicate and to allow students to practice skills they’ve acquired outside their major.

But Fiefia said the requirement is not fulfilling that pur-

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couraged the way they need to,” President Obama said in a Google Plus hangout shortly after his 2013 State of the Union Address.

Carey also believes that stereotypes can hinder people from using their talents to pursue the degree they want.

“It hurts because it could discourage you from a certain occupation. You automatically eliminate that because that’s not what you ‘should’ do,” Carey said.

However, Clark feels that these stereotypes can potentially help.

“I feel like as long as you’re embracing it, and using it for the better, I’d say that it’s helping us,” Clark said.

Stereotyping doesn’t have to be negative. The first thought of Jeremy Clark, an undeclared freshman, was a positive stereotype he associated with the John M. Huntsman School of Business.

Clark sees the Hunstman scholars and the John M. Huntsman School of Business students as “super classy” and people who dress to impress.

Even though there can be stereotypes associated with the majors at Utah State University, Carey still feels the students of USU do a good job at coming together as one regardless of differences.

“I feel like USU is good at bringing everyone together. They have big programs and things where everyone can do something,” Carey said. “Even at the football games, you can see how we’re all together as one rooting for our team.”

pose.

“I believe this is a good move,” said Fiefia of approving the proposal. “We are trying to find the balance between efficiency and effectiveness. In no way is this change coming from students and from student government to graduate students earlier ... but it’s to touch the point of effectiveness.”

According to the minutes taken in the stater’s council meeting, the caution of looking at “efficiency and effectiveness” was brought up by Dean John Allen of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Fiefia said this change would likely impact CHaSS and the College of Science the most.

Although Jones agreed that “we can always do better,” he said the logistics of the institution haven’t been taken into

— whitlewis7@gmail.com account as much as they should with the proposal. Revoking one requirement and considering the addition of another to fulfill a similar purpose takes planning, and providing students with enough time slots and courses to meet requirements, as well as finding people to teach them, is a large task, he said.

“That’s why you don’t get a quick decision out of a university,” Jones said.

Jones is not in favor of the change suggested by the proposal.

“I guess my main concern is that we not say we should change the requirements because students are assumed to be misusing them and that the courses are assumed to be poor,” he said.

— m.noble@aggiemail.usu.edu

Forum letter: Porn in the name of art

To the editor:

I just wanted to write in to voice my sadness with regards to the neglect of our school to uphold its own code of conduct.

My major is housed in the Fine Arts building, and this morning as I was walking in the north east doors, I found myself greeted by an enormous photograph of a woman’s nipple staring out at me from the graduate showcase in Room 102. Why? This photograph is large enough to be seen easily from a vehicle in the Aggie ice cream intersection. I am intrigued by the fact that every computer lab on campus has abundant warnings posted against displaying inappropriate material, and that our own student code states that “Publishing or distributing libelous, slanderous, obscene or pornographic literature or materials,” is a violation of said code, and yet in the name of art highly-pornographic material can be displayed where anyone, students and visitors alike, can see it without even having to look for it.

Now I understand the importance of the human form in fine art and respect the artist’s artistic licence, but I do not believe that it is justification for imposing porn on all those entering and leaving and passing by the Fine Arts building. I would hope that in the future the school would have a little more tact in upholding its code, and that if such exhibits are to be shown, that they are done in a location where only those who desire to see it can do so. Thank you for your time.

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