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Romney to be rebranded

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4By Jeffrey Dahdah news editor

Utah State will announce a corporate sponsor and a subsequent name change for Romney Stadium, Doug Hoffman of USU athletics

media relations confirmed on Tuesday.

The announcement of who the sponsor is will come on April 11, the day of the spring football game.

Stan Albrecht, USU president, said in the student

advisory meeting Monday that Romney stadium will take a new name from a corporate sponsor. Student Advisory Council is a breakfast once a month attended by representatives from organizations across the

campus.

Casey Saxton, USUSA student advocate, was at the council and said Albrecht talked in the meeting about the challenges of taking on a sponsor.

“He said they’ve been in

deliberations for quite a while working out contracts ... and that there was a lot of details that had to be worked through — existing contracts, exclusivity rights as far as advertising,” Saxton said. “He seemed excited

about it, about the change.”

Dallin Laird, USUSA athletics vice president, said that announcing the sponsor at the spring game might help the event’s attendance.

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Sign language program gains popularity 4By Mandy Morgan staff writer

The growth of the deaf education and American Sign Language programs is a trend across the nation, and the deaf education program at Utah State University is no exception.

College student enrollment in all foreign language classes in the U.S. has decreased in recent years, besides ASL courses, according to a recently published study by the Modern Language Association.

“The new minors have been huge,” said Michelle Wilson, adviser for the communicative disorders and deaf education department.

“Because it’s a language minor, it adds other options for students.”

The number of students graduating from USU with the two minors in ASL and teaching for ASL is constantly increasing, said Freeman King, director of the deaf education program.

“American Sign Language itself is the third most popular world language that is taken in American universities,” King said. “I think that people, once they find out about the language, are attracted by it being a visual language ... and also, there’s been more publicity about the deaf culture, the deaf community through movies, through television series, the media itself.”

ASL classes have more recently been capped at 25 students each, though this is still too many, King said. The department hopes to hire a new faculty member in the next

Thakary Minson photo SARAH ROCHA (LEFT) AND JORDYN JENSEN (RIGHT) explain their experience of taking sign language courses.

year to help take on the increase of students wanting to take ASL courses, he said.

“Our program is to prepare teachers on the undergrad level,” said Curt Radford, an ASL lecturer in the deaf education program.

“We prepare teachers to teach.

Some of our students, they would rather go on with something else, and interpreting is one of them.”

Just like all other world languages, when students choose to study ASL in college, they are not always sure what they want to do with it

but take it because they are interested in the language, King said.

“People see (sign language) and they want to learn it,” Radford said.

“It opens up a conversation.”

Once students become comfortable a language, they then want to start meeting and interacting with the people who speak the language and learn their culture, he said.

“There is a direct parallel among languages, whether they be spoken or whether they be signed,” King said. “American Sign Language is exactly like any other language

except it’s not based on auditory, on listening. It’s a visual language, but it has all of the components of any other language.”

Though some think ASL is just English with hand signals, it has it’s own structure and is not connected to English or a visual representation of English.

King said language is a learning process for everyone. There is a difference between basic communication skills and being able to communicate deeply, and though no students are expected to be flu-

ent, even at graduation, they are headed in the right direction.

Interest in learning ASL began in high school for both Sarah Rocha, a sophomore majoring in physical therapy, and Jordyn Jensen, a freshman majoring in early childhood education. Both are currently in the beginning ASL course, but Jensen wants to minor in deaf education.

“It’s kind of mind-boggling,” Rocha said. “I’m speaking to you with my hands and you’re understanding me...And the culture, the way they interact with each other, it’s really interesting.”

Deaf culture is very different in the sense that the people are so open about everything and are very involved in the world around them, Jensen said.

“It’s so great to discover what is different and what’s the same just because of one small difference,” Jensen said.

Sign language is not only limited to hands, but involves facial expressions too. In order to communicate signers have to be animated.

“It’s a beautiful language,” Jensen said. “To watch two people sign to each other and because they’re going so fast, because they’re both fluent, it’s so amazing to watch.”

Silent Weekend, an annual event put on nationwide, will be celebrated April 17-18 by the USU ASL Club and can be registered for at desa. usu.edu/237.

— mandy.m.morgan@ aggiemail.usu.edu

Executive Council submits proposal for 2015-16 budget 4By Jeffrey Dahdah news editor

The USUSA Executive Council finalized its suggested budget for the 2015-16 EC. The recommendation will be presented to next year’s EC ,who will have the option to vote it in for the 201516 school year. The 2015-16 EC will have the chance to change the budget if they wish and will have an official amount when they do so.

The future EC will not know exactly how much they have until enrollment for next school year is set because their budget comes out of student fees.

The budget, which is funded by student fees was more than $938,000 this year and is expected to increase next year, due to an anticipated raise in student enrollment.

There were four changes to last year’s budget recommended for next year. Among

them is a $1,000 increase to the Aggie B.L.U.E. fund, $1,000 raise to the executive vice president’s budget, a $1,000 raise for the Aggie advocate budget and a $400 decrease for Executive Council budget.

The increase for the Aggie B.L.U.E. fund was because the event, which is a student leadership conference hosted

by USUSA at the beginning of the school year, usually goes over budget. Participants

usually pay a fee to get in to the event, which helps fund it, but the excess budget is usually subsidized by the USUSA president’s budget.

The recommended budget was $6,000 after the change.

The increase to executive vice president’s budget was to emphasize academic initiatives. It also came with a recommendation to next year’s EC to set aside $2,000 of the

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Proposed budget changes •$1,000 increase for Aggie Advocate budget •$1,000 increase for Aggie B.L.U.E. •$1,000 increase Executive Vice President budget •$400 decrease to Executive Council budget

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Tech & Money

Student Startups: 4By Ariell Allred staff writer

From insoles that can track your activity level to gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches delivered right to your door, Utah State University students are pushing forward to create jobs and solutions to better the lives of people across the globe.

“There is no such thing as someone walking down the street and getting hit by lightning with an idea,” said Spencer K. Bailey, a senior majoring in international business. “People that are entrepreneurs see the world differently than other people. They look at the world in terms of problems and solutions. Very few are inventors. Most are innovators.”

Bailey is one of many USU students who has created entrepreneurial opportunities. He comes from a background of entrepreneurs and has watched firsthand the financial ups and downs of his own family. He is currently working on several projects, one including running his own company called the SocialFund, a consulting strategy firm that counsels early startup companies coming out of venture capital incubators, such as Silicon Valley.

The company helps startups improving returns on investments.

Though there are many success stories, not every brilliant idea in the small business world will have what it needs to survive.

“The failure rate is about 50 percent,” said professor and Executive Director of Entrepreneur Programs at USU Michael Glauser.

“Half the new businesses don’t make it

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through the first few years, and over 10 years, about 70 percent of them shutdown.”

Glauser said USU’s entrepreneurship program teaches strategies that make the difference between success and failure.

“If you go through our program and learn the keys of success and what to do and not to do, we think your chances of success go up to 75 or 80 percent or more,” Glauser said. “You can’t just launch an idea. You have to launch a true business opportunity.”

This has been the case for Bailey.

“We don’t care about ideas. We care about opportunities,” Bailey said.

He said from what he’s learned through the entrepreneurship program, opportunities are defined by five things: Need: You have to ask people if there really is a need. Not just a few, but hundreds, and see if they’ll pay for it. Do research.

Experience: Are you really the person that can pull this off? Do you really have the resources to do that? You need experience or experience on your team.

Resources: Do you have the money, equipment, space, access to inventories and vendors?

Customers: Is there some-

Ryan Costanzo photo TANNER RANDAL (LEFT) AND FRANCO ARELLANO (RIGHT) run a gourmet grilled cheese company that delivers grilled cheese sandwiches to customers’ door.

one to pay you for this service right now?

Model: How are you going to tie all of the pieces together to be sustainable and make money?

Bailey said true Tanner Randal e nt r e p r e n e u r s part owner of granny’s take the initiative gormet grilled cheese and use this system. If entrepreneurs have everything required in this model, “then that’s an opportunity. Go. Run with that opportunity and grow it,” Bailey said.

T o inspire entrepreneurial ventures, the Clark Center for

I think there’s a lot of money to be made in grilled cheese. The first week I had to take off all of work because there were times when we were extremely busy.

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Budget

Entrepreneurship at USU is holding a competition that began March 3 and will end April 8. Twenty student teams were given support, $100 and mentoring before setting off to create their own product. The winning team will receive a $3,000 cash award to invest in their business.

Tanner Randall, a junior majoring in business administration, and his group are competing with his team in hopes of expanding Granny’s Gourmet Grilled Cheese. They make and deliver grilled cheese sandwiches Monday-Friday from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. through orders made online at grannysgrilledcheese. com.

“I think there’s a lot of money to be made in grilled

cheese,” Randall said. “The first week I had to take off all of work because there were times when we were extremely busy.”

The sandwiches are named after the team’s grandmothers and feature ingredients such as ham and pineapple or bacon and apple, to compliment the different cheeses. If the business goes well and wins the competition, the team hopes to grow Granny’s Gourmet long-term and eventually franchise out to different areas.

“I really like working for myself,” Randall said.

“Having a boss gets old for me. I find that starting a business, especially in the beginning phase, is extremely enjoyable.”

Opportunity Quest is part

of the Utah Entrepreneur Series, which are competitions that prepare students to compete on a state-wide level for cash prizes and access to executives that help them fund new business ventures. Li Ma, a USU entrepreneur and marketing MBA student, won $2,000 in January for a fitness insole idea called STEP. “This insole can check your calorie burn and includes a vibration function that would remind you to do your exercises,” Ma said, comparing it to the Fitbit device, which also measures calorie burn, heart rate and whether or not you’re running or walking based on arm movements.

However, Ma said her

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Tweets of the Week

From Page 1 $5,571 budget for academic initiatives.

The $1,000 increase recommended for the Aggie advocate budget making the new recommended budget for the position $5,596. The reasoning behind this is that this office’s budget is consistently one of the tighter budgets.

The $400 decrease to the EC budget is because of the removal of the Senate Pro Temp position. The Pro Temp is a college senator voted on by the other senators to represent them on the EC. The Pro Temp receives $400 each year to take on the added respon-

Aggies open their own businesses

@UtahStatesman: BREAKING: Romney Stadium will announce a corporate sponsor and a subsequent name change on April 11th. #usu #aggielife

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USUSA REPRESENTATIVES give Aggie Ice Cream to Utah Legislatures in Salt Lake City a few times a year. The cost for the lobbying trips comes out of the Aggie advocate budget.

sibilities. With the removal of the Pro Temp voted on by students, the $400 was taken out to make the

recommended EC budget $72,562.

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USU students study abroad 4By Mandy Morgan Senior writer

Students in all majors and with any budget have the option at Utah State University to study abroad at universities across the globe, with programs offered through the Office of Global Engagement.

“We really encourage anyone, even if it’s just been in the back of your mind, to come make an appointment and look at our website online,” said Robin Shutinya, study abroad assistant.

There are programs for students are single or married, whether they want to study abroad for two weeks or for a year.

“Our office can be really flexible in finding a program that works for a student,” Shutinya said. “I think it’s great for people to come in ... just come in and find out because I think we really can modify a lot of things because we want the students to make sure they get what they need.”

There are four different ways to study abroad — through exchanges with students from USU’s partner institutions, through the ISEP program, through faculty-led summer programs or through affiliated third-party providers, said Katie Davidson, a study abroad advisor.

With the first two options the cost of the programs are based on USU tuition and fees, while the latter two depend on those running the program.

“I also tell people when thinking about cost to look at what all is included because sometimes there may be extra excursions that somebody wants to go on anyway and it’s already planned for them, or they don’t want it already planned for them,” Davidson said. “There are a lot of things to look at and consider.”

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UTAH STATE STUDENTS VISITED SWITZERLAND for a study abroad during the summer semester of 2014.

Most scholarships and financial aid can be applied to the study abroad and exchange programs, a benefit that Katie Kasparian, who graduated in 2013 from USU with a degree in English, took advantage of during her study abroad experience.

“With the cost of the program plus housing over there, it equaled about what I would have paid at USU,” Kasparian said.

“Plus I could use financial aid and scholarships to help pay. In my case I mainly ended up paying

Startup From Page 2 insole design would give a more accurate reading because it includes a pressure sensor that will better be able to measure movements.

“It exactly calculates your steps,” she said.

The insole isn’t only designed for active adults but also “for the busy office workers,” Ma said, ” and it “will remind them to get up and get a drink, to move” through the vibration device.

She is also working on creating a convertible high heel for women. The design would allow on-the-go women to adjust their heels into a flat shoe by using a retractable or detachable heel. Then, when they want to go into a meeting or are inside and no longer rushed, they can change their shoe back into a heel, avoiding the

Nation & World

In brief

Manhattan, NY Trevor Noah, recently selected to host “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central, faced controversy with sources stating the comedian has a history of posting racially-insensitive jokes on social media.

Some claim Noah tweeted about fat women, Jews and Asians in an offensive manner.

Noah, a 31-year-old comedian from South Africa, joined the Daily Show team in 2014.

for the plane ticket and living expenses while there.”

Cost and course options are some of the biggest factors students worry about when deciding whether to do study abroad.

“When I was thinking of study abroad, I thought you paid like $20,000 a semester or something,” said Savvy Jensen, a study abroad peer adviser. “I didn’t realize you were paying the same that you would have paid here, and it was actually really affordable.”

impractical and often painful side of stylish high heels.

“We believe you’re going to have to more innovative and entrepreneurial in your career than ever before,” Glauser said. “(Entrepreneurship ) is the way you lead organizations. You need the skills of entrepreneurship to be successful in any career, and one of the main emphases of the business school is to teach that to any student that is interested.”

There are 15 consultants available through the Clark Center for Entrepreneurship to help students starting their own businesses. The USU entrepreneurship club, which meets every Tuesday at 6 p.m. in the Engineering Building, Room 106, also reaches out to students of all majors to give them the tools to be successful in their product and business ventures.

Many students will come in and say they don’t think they can study abroad because of the major they have and the limited options they believe it creates, Jensen said.

“Sometimes, because people have a little bit more obscure major they think there’s not a lot of options for them,” Jensen said.

“Come talk to us. There could be options for that major that you don’t know about, or also there could be options for a lot of generals.”

With hundreds of universities to choose from, Jensen said the options for accommodations, school courses and extra travel are endless — there is a place for everyone.

“My recommendation to people is always: don’t be afraid of the weird countries,” Jensen said.

For Alisha Day, seeing an advertisement on campus for the study abroad program was what kick-started something she had

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Mental health speaker visits USU ALEXIS JONES (Left), FOUNDER OF ‘I Am That Girl,’ spoke in the Taggart Student Center Ballroom on Tuesday. She spoke about mental health for USU’s first ever ‘Mental Health is No Joke’ week. Jones was on Survivor: Micronesia, a host on the red carpet, an author, and producer of Lizzie Velasquez new documentary called ‘A Brave Heart.’

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— ariell.allred@aggiemail.usu.edu Washington D.C.

U.S. senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey was charged with 14 counts of corruption. Menendez has been accused of using his

Paris, France Three people are dead after an avalanche Wednesday in the French Alps, officials in the HautesAlpes prosecutor’s office said. Seven people remain unaccounted for.

One person was evacuated in serious condition to a hospital in Grenoble, France.

The avalanche, which happened around 3 p.m. in Ecrins National

influence to benefit a longtime friend and Florida eye doctor.

The charges include conspiracy and making false statements and eight counts of bribery.

Menendez has resigned as the top demo-

Park, occurred about 75 miles away from where the Germanwings Flight 9525 went down last week.

crat on the Foreign Relations Committee but said he plans to fight allegations.

Some members of the media, including the Star and Ledger, have asked the senator to resign his seat.

Damascus, Syria Islamic State militants have entered a Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus, officials say.

Confrontations erupted between militants and groups inside the camp and IS seized control of large parts of the camp.

The United Nations estimates there are nearly 18,000 Palestinian refugees inside the camp.

Officials say this is the group’s first major attack near the Syrian capital.

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Campus PD offers safe way home 4By Sidney Brocious staff writer

Utah State University is ranked seventh in the nation for safest colleges and universities, according to a recent USA Today article.

But Logan isn’t immune to all crime.

In a rating of USU’s crime rates by College Factual, burglary contributes to 75 percent of reported crime, sexual assault contributes to 18 percent and motor vehicle theft contributes to 6 percent.

Resources are available for students who feel unsafe at USU. Twenty-nine emergency phones are placed around campus to quickly contact campus police. But according to the USU Police Department, cell phones are used more often than the emergency phones.

To raise awareness of campus police services, the USU police department has reached out to students through SOAR and the connections program.

Officers give presentations, handing out carabiners which include a phone number students can use to call when they need assistance.

Officer Travis Dunn said a frequent-

ly-used service is the police escort.

Dunn said the service isn’t taken advantage of in a negative way by students who just want a “free car ride.”

Whether it is from the library to a parking lot or from the campus loop bus stop to the building their class is in, students who feel uncomfortable walking alone at night or at any time can access this service anytime by calling 435-797-1939.

“This number will take you directly to our office here (at the police department),” Dunn said. From there the police will send an escort.

These services are there to make sure that for whatever reason, security is accessible for anyone to use, Dunn said.

Although USU is a generally safe campus, there are times when people are uncomfortable walking home late at night and would like an escort to safely reach their destination.

Campus police believe these escorts in addition to the emergency phones and the availability of the campus police to assist in emergencies have been effective in creating a trust for current students.

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— sidneybrocious@hotmail.com

Abroad

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From Page 3 always wanted to do.

Day, who graduated from USU in May 2014 with a degree in family and consumer sciences education, studied historic clothing for four weeks in England, Prague and Italy. Day traveled and studied with a group of students and two professors in May of 2013, taking classes in the morning, wherever the group was staying at the time.

“There was a plan for each day made by our professors but also a lot of freedom to explore things each individual was interested in,” Day wrote in an email to the Statesman. “I gained a lot of independence and confidence from it.”

Both Kasparian and Day advise students who choose

to study abroad to plan some of their own travel and to study the country they plan to live in.

There is also the option of learning or developing another language while studying abroad.

“I know there are a lot of students who speak another language here and so if they’re wanting to further that, that can be an option as well,” Davidson said. “Or for someone who is really interested in learning a second language but doesn’t have any background in it, there are intensive language programs too.”

For students who are nervous about a foreign language where they go, courses at many institutions are in English, even if the people of the country speak another language, Shutinya said.

— mandy.m.morgan@ aggiemail.usu.edu

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Student life 4By Monica Delatorre staff writer

In the spirit of the second-to-last True Aggie Night of the semester, some True and non-True Aggies are considering the pros and cons of kissing strangers.

Freshman in biology Aileen MacLachlan said she kissed a stranger before.

“To be honest, it was fine,” MacLachlan said.

“It was on the ‘A,’ and I became friends with him later so it wasn’t weird. I didn’t feel a spark or anything like I might have had if it was a guy that I had known.”

MacLachlan also said the idea of kissing someone new generates the excitement and rush associated with doing something crazy. She said she doesn’t expect much to come from a relationship that starts out with just the physical attachments.

“It works for some people, but I think it works better to start by getting to know each other and then working up to the kiss,” MacLachlan said.

Lois De-Cordova, a junior in mathematics, said if she were to kiss someone random, that person would have to be attractive and have great hygiene.

“If I look at someone and they don’t look clean, there is no way I am going to kiss them,” De-Cordova said.

Music performance freshman Ashley Bradley agreed.

“You can really like someone, but if they don’t know how to work their

Aggies kiss and tell Kelsie Lott photo illustration

lips, it just won’t work,” Bradley said. “He can’t be slobbery. There has to enough of a fight and a relax. It’s all about the dynamics.”

Bradley Ferraro, a freshman studying computer engineering, heard about the True Aggie tradition when he first became an Aggie. He said he was excited to find out more, but he knew that kissing strangers could become difficult for a number of reasons.

“It’s important that you understand not to, you know, slobber on their faces. But I think that the difference between an OK

kisser and good kisser: the reaction between two people,” Ferraro said. “At first you can be like, ‘Hey, let’s kiss,’ and then you can think, ‘Wow, I don’t like you.’”

Ferraro said if he were to get approached by a girl on True Aggie Night, he would like it best if she came up to him and struck up a conversation.

“I would have talked to her for quite a while and made sure she was a cool person,” Ferraro said. “I think that she could get away with approaching me differently if she was funny about it.”

Bradley shared similar

views. been like, ’Hey what’s “He would have to make your name? How have you me think he was worth it,” been?’ I’m not just someshe said. “I’m not just a one to kiss.” pair of lips.”

Stephen Berkheiser, a De-Cordova said she hasn’t had Ashley Bradley much luck Student with striking up conversations at True Aggie Night.

“None of the guys at True Aggie Night have approached me nicely,” she said.

“None of them have

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You can really like someone, but if they don’t know how to work their lips, it just won’t work.

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freshman in history, said that if he were to kiss someone he didn’t know, a relationship would not form immediately, if at all.

“It’s not like you kiss and then, ‘Oh shoot, I love you,’” Berkheiser said.

“You could definitely get feelings for someone after kissing them, but you would just have to get to know them first.”

He said he has failed in an attempt to kiss someone.

“Once I was going to kiss one of my friends, Dylan, who was getting in my face. I go to kiss him and my hat meets the bill of his hat. Boom. Denied,” Berkheiser said.

Luc Hardin, a freshman in mechanical engineering, said he would want to know a girl before kissing her.

“It’s not my behavior to kiss a stranger,” he said.

“It would have to be someone I wanted to kiss, and she would want to kiss me too.”

For Hardin, True Aggie Night seems anticlimactic.

“I don’t want to wait until midnight to see other people kissing,” he said. “It seems unnecessary to wait for 40 minutes to stand on something just to kiss someone.”

However, Bradley sees it as an important university tradition.

“True Aggie Night is a way of trying to get the whole student body together. It’s just a fun shindig,” Bradley said. “Utah State has so much school spirit. You would think more people would come.”

— monica.a.delatorre@ gmail.com

Llama drama crashes campus

Landon Pozernick photos FARLEY THE LLAMA BASKS IN THE SUN while Mariah Andreasen (left) and Aaron Bytendorp (right) pat his fuzzy neck. Bytendorp and Farley visited campus Tuesday to advertise for Cotopaxi’s Questival, a 24-hour outdoor race to be held April 10-11 in Salt Lake City. Participants compete to win international trips, sportswear, cash and other prizes. The Salt Lake City race is one of more than 30 events taking place around the country. The winning teams from each race can compete for a trip around the world in a race across seven countries, from Belize to Panama. Some of the challenges for the Salt Lake City race include hiking Ensign Peak, jumping in the Great Salt Lake fully-clothed, donating a bag of canned food items to a local food bank and taking a picture at the Utah State Capitol.

Springtime is perfect and so is Kendrick Lamar Scott E Hall

Music review

Isn’t the weather gorgeous these days? Jiminy Christmas, I am loving this weather. You can feel the sunshine hit the skin of your arms, blossoms are blooming everywhere and the very vernal air outside is filled with the hormones of crazy college students. It’s pure joy.

10/10 But I digress. I’m a music reviewer. I don’t write weather reports. I critique music. March 2015 presented a slew of albums from

great artists. I’ll provide everything you need to know.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor, “Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress” — Some fans won’t like this album because it shies in comparison from their recent work. Sure, it’s shorter and slower than other Godspeed projects, but the volume is still there.

Instead of focusing on grandiosity, this album is centered on some legitimately weird sounds. 8/10

Death Grips, “Jenny Death” — Experimental rap project Death Grips have recorded some of the most abrasive, low-budget, futuristic music of the last five years.

“Jenny Death” is disc two of their now-released double album “The Powers That B.” Disc one was released in June 2014, and I didn’t enjoy it. “Jenny Death” comes through powerfully, sounding more like a Nine Inch Nails and John Bonham collaboration than a rap album.

I’d give the entire double album 7.5, but for “Jenny Death” itself: 8.5/10

Sufjan Stevens, “Carrie & Lowell” — Sufjan Stevens changed both the indie folk world and my life with his 2005 album “Illinois.” Some folks are saying his new album is his best. No, it isn’t, but I do love it. All the songs are solely acoustic. The lyrics are heartbreakingly person-

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Boyfriends and boundaries

Kelsie Lott photo illustration FRIENDSHIPS BETWEEN SINGLE PEOPLE AND PEOPLE IN RELATIONSHIPS are easy to maintain for some, but can cause uncomfortable situations for others.

Students define the lines between having friends of the opposite sex while in relationships 4By Whitney Lewis staff writer

When in a relationship, crossing the “line” with a friend of the opposite sex can be catastrophic, leading to loss of trust or, worse, loss of the relationship.

The definition of this “line” varies from relationship to relationship.

Sarah Hyatt, a sophomore majoring in management information systems, said she is often in group projects with only herself and a man who is not her husband.

Being one of the few women in the MIS major, Hyatt gets paired one-onone with a guy often.

She described these situations as awkward, especially with her husband jokingly yelling, “Don’t get kissed,” as she walks out the door.

“I’ll get assigned to work just me and another guy,

and it’s like, it shouldn’t of something (where) we be weird, but it almost have a mutual trust that is weird just because I’m the other person is going married, and if that guy’s to hold to that,” Kapp said. not, it’s awkward,” Hyatt “For example, I probably said. wouldn’t study in a closed In her relationship, the room with somebody else line never really needed unless there was a third to be discussed Hyatt said person, just out of rebecause, other than in spect.” group projects, she and Kapp also makes the her husband avoid any point that most people potentially-inappropriate know where the line is, and situations by having friends that are married Gary Moore couples.

Divorced Student Josh Kapp, a junior majoring in mechanical engineering, said he and his wife have also made staying clear of the line easy, simply due to the trust they share.

“It’s not something my wife and I talk about. It’s more

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because of that mutual respect in a relationship, the line isn’t crossed, referring to the Jiminy Cricket, or conscience telling someone the “line” is getting closer.

Debra Macleod, a couples’ mediator and relationship author expert, reinforces Kapp’s idea. She gave this scenario: “I know my wife is always texting or on Facebook with her personal trainer. Now she locks her cell phone and has changed her online passwords. If I ask her who she’s talking to, she freaks out and says I’m being paranoid, jealous and controlling.”

Macleod then said, “... the spouse (in above scenario) who is having the opposite-sex friendship knows full-well that the behaviour is as shady as hell.

But instead of respecting their spouse’s feelings, they continue to indulge in the ego-boost or thrill of it

all.”

Gary Moore, a senior studying professional and technical writing, faced a different kind of “line” in his first marriage.

The “line” for him constricted him to the point where he changed how he interacted with people.

Moore said he couldn’t have conversations with other women without his first wife feeling threatened.

“As a consequence, I actually became very introverted,” Moore said. “I wouldn’t talk to anyone.

It was easier for me to say, ‘Alright, I’ll just not talk to anyone.’”

Though Moore’s “line” was potentially difficult, he said he respected it.

“Even if the person is insecure, and you don’t feel (their boundaries are) valid, you still have to respect it,” he said.

Carolyn Lyle, a freshman majoring in English educa-

tion, had to redefine the line from her previous relationship to what it meant with the person she is currently dating.

Lyle said she is in a serious relationship right now with a guy who is sensitive to who she hangs out with and who she texts.

In her previous relationship though, when she had guy friends and interacted with them, it was never a problem.

For Lyle, the line changed when her partner changed.

Moore said respecting spouses and partners is important.

“Always act as if your spouse is right there with you,” Moore said. “If you would not feel comfortable with your spouse there, regarding your conversation, behavior or anything like that, then don’t do it. Flat out.”

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Aggies ready for fight against Cougars 4By Ben Fordham staff writer

‘Playing for the seniors’

The Utah State men’s lacrosse team is on track for a historic season.

With four games left in the season, the Aggies are 7-3 and one win away from tying their win total from last season — the most successful season in program history.

Following an impressive weekend in Colorado, where USU picked up a convincing 21-4 win over Regis on Friday, as well as a 16-4 trumping of the Colorado School of Mines on Saturday, the Aggies are confidently looking forward to their match-up with a 9-1 Brigham Young team at home Thursday.

“This is Utah State and everyone loves to hate BYU,” said head coach John Atwood.

“The impact this game has is pride and experience. BYU is a four-time defending national championship team, so this game will show us where we need to improve and help us prepare for the playoffs.”

USU and BYU have met six times dating back to 2006, and the Cougars have had the upper-hand in each contest.

Annie Hall photo “BYU is a consistent team with great coachA USU LACROSSE TEAM MEMBER jumps and takes a shot during practice on es, so it would mean a lot to beat them,” said Wednesday. USU will play BYU at home on Thursday and Utah on April 22. junior attack Blade Garlow. “They’re our rival,

and we feel like we can compete with any team we match up with.”

The Aggies are currently riding a four-game winning streak and are looking forward to the challenge. Utah State is ranked No. 1 in its conference and 17 in the nation.

BYU has won nine straight games since coming up short by one goal to San Diego State in their first game of the season. The Cougars most recent victory was a 24-1 beat down of Washington State in Provo on Saturday.

BYU has been dominant this season but can’t afford to overlook the Aggies in a rivalry game with winning streaks on the line for both teams.

“We definitely sense a greater level of competitiveness with in-state teams,” said BYU freshman midfielder Walker Ward. “We have the opportunity to play in-state teams each year, and we have personal connections with in-state students as well as alumni.”

Thursday’s match-up begins at 5:30 p.m. and could be the most competitive showing in the history of either of the two programs.

“We have a higher caliber of players,” Garlow said. “We have a chip on our shoulder.”

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USU tennis motivated by upperclassmen

4By Kalen Taylor sports editor

Sunday’s match against No. 44 New Mexico will be the last time two Utah State men’s tennis players take to the court.

Seniors Matt Sweet and Marcus Fritz will finish their careers at Utah State as winners. Both have watched the program transform from a perennial bottom-feeder to a top-ranked team in the Mountain West.

“The WAC was good,” Sweet said. “We were one of the lower teams in the WAC every year. Now were the top team or one of the top teams in the Mountain West. The change is night and day. It’s crazy. It’s been a roller coaster ride.”

According to second-year head coach Clancy Shields, Sweet and Fritz are part of the motivation and leadership that have helped bring the team to where it is today.

“The guys all love them,” Shields said.

“They care about them. When we talk about ‘playing for the seniors, this year

is about the seniors,’ the other guy’s eyes light up. That’s been their role. The guys want to play hard for them and send them away from Utah State with a really positive lasting memory.”

Fritz has played four years at Utah State and is originally from Stockholm, Sweeden. He said he has enjoyed his time at USU and is going to miss his teammates and Aggie family.

“We’re all like a big family on the team,” Fritz said. “It’s going to be hard not seeing these guys every day. It’s going to be weird not coming to practice and go to war with these guys. That’s what I’m going to miss the most.”

The team builds up a family feeling is by celebrating wins, early morning workouts and weekend football games. Sweet, who is from Salt Lake City, shares similar feelings about what he’s going to miss once he moves on from the university.

“I’m definitely going to miss all my teammates,” Sweet said.

“I’ve kinda got eight brothers out here. The day-in-day-out practicing and early morning sessions, everything we did, we did it together. I’m going to miss everything, but I’ve had a good time in my four years here. It’s gone fast.”

Shields said that both players are going to be missed, on and off the courts.

“We play football every weekend,” Shields said. “In the fall this year he (Sweet) laid out for every pass I threw him, even if it was 10-yards away. He’s the ultimate competitor. I can put him in any situation and he’s going to compete as hard as he can. I love that about him.”

As for Fritz, coach Shields said that he will miss the connection they have while Fritz competes.

“I’ve been on Marcus’ court almost the whole year,” Shields said. “I’m going to miss the connection we have when he plays. ... That’s a special connection for a coach, when a kid is playing with a lot of passion and they do something well and give you a fist pump. Nothing has been more special than when he wins a

point. He’s overjoyed, I’m overjoyed and there’s that bond that we’ve created.”

Both players are majoring in exercise science and plan to stay around in the fall to finish up school and help out with the team in any way they can.

In the current all-time standings at Utah State, Sweet is ranked No. 4 and Fritz is No. 5 in doubles wins with 44 and 36 wins respectively. Jakob Asplund is first all-time with 62 wins. In singles wins, Sweet is No. 7 with 38 wins and Fritz is No. 12 at 33 wins. Jason Trask is first in all-time singles wins and has 63.

“We’ve got to have a standard of excellence,” Shields said. “Those two seniors have set the bar high.

Now our freshman and sophomores, they look at that bar that’s being set and they want to knock it off, and

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LEFT: Matt Sweet hits a backhand shot.

Sweet is one of two seniors on the tennis team and is majoring in exercise science.

RIGHT: Marcus Fritz serves during a home match earlier in the year. Fritz is also a senior majoring in exercise science. Both plan on finishing up school in the fall and helping out the tennis team before moving on from Utah State and leaving the program behind.

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Going, going, gone is Garretson 4By Kalen Taylor staff writer

Kylee Larsen photo DARELL GARRETSON WINDS UP TO PASS while playing against BYU last season. Garretson was injured one game later against Colorado State and has now left the Utah State program.

Junior quarterback Darell Garretson will no longer be an Aggie.

Utah State athletics announced Tuesday that Garretson will not be back with the team. The announcement comes four days after he missed the team’s first spring scrimmage for what head coach Matt Wells called “personal reasons.”

In 2013 Garretson was a freshman. He came in and played for an injured Chuckie Keeton. Garretson started in seven games and helped USU achieve a 6-1 record including a 21-14 win over No. 24 Northern Illinois in the Poinsettia Bowl. He completed over 60 percent of his passes as a freshman and threw for nearly 1,500 yards and 10 touchdowns.

Last season, Garretson landed the starting role in a similar situation, a Keeton injury. He played in five games before injuring his wrist in a game against Colorado State and missing the rest of the season.

Garretson completed nearly 70 percent of his passes and threw for over 1,000 yards, eight touchdowns and only three interceptions.

Garretson played his best game last season against BYU. He completed 19-of25 passes for 321 yards and three touch-

Feeding the turtle:

downs as well as a rushing touchdown.

“We thank Darell for his contributions to Utah State football the past two years and wish him the best in the future,” said Wells.

Coming into spring football this season, there was a lot of competition at quarterback for the Aggies. Keeton received another year of eligibility from the NCAA after being granted a medical hardship.

Damion Hobbs, a transfer from Oregon, is eligible after redshirting last year, and Kent Myers started the final six games last season.

Myers helped lead the team to a 5-1 record as a starter including a bowl win over UTEP in the New Mexico Bowl. At the start of the year Myers asked to play wide receiver to get more playing time in spring football. Coach Wells said the staff will evaluate his position and progress during the summer.

DJ Nelson is also available for the Aggies after redshirting as a freshman last season. Tanner Curtis is another quarterback on the USU roster eligible to play after returning home from a mission last year.

— kalen.s.taylor@gmail.com Twitter: @kalen_taylor

How sports rituals can affect an athlete’s performance 4By Olivia Webb staff writer

Like Michael Jordan’s famous college basketball shorts or the red shirt Tiger Woods wears in the gold tournaments finals, some student athletes at Utah State have superstitions that they believe help them perform their best.

“It makes me feel calmer.

It makes it easier to focus on the right things when I’m on the court, I think,” said tennis player Sebastian Schneider. “When I’m comfortable with everything on the side, I just let go of that and I do the right things on court instead.”

Some players have good luck charms. Others perform certain rituals before or during a game, or refrain from doing certain things.

“There was a kid that would draw a turtle on the ground towards the end of every game if we were losing, and every time we got a hit,

he would feed it seeds and give it water,” said Colton Draney, a player on the baseball team. “That was one of the weirdest things I’ve ever seen. But it worked.”

Some rituals only last as long as a player or team continues winning. Players will wait to wash their jerseys, towels or even their underwear until they lose a game or match.

“I have to change it up when I lose,” Schneider said.

“So if I keep on winning, I try to keep everything the same.”

Different sports have different rituals and superstitions that are recognized universally by players. In tennis, for example, some players will step on the lines on the court or touch them with their racquet before each point. Baseball players know not to step on the baseline.

“A lot of teams don’t even talk to the pitcher if he’s doing really good because

Kylee Larsen photo THE USU MEN’S TENNIS TEAM prepares for battle by linking arms and chanting. Each team and sport has it’s own unique brand of pregame or in-game traditions to help them stay calm and perform.

that would be bad luck,” said baseball player Taylor Stauffer. “He sits in the bottom of the dugout, and you don’t say a thing to him.”

Whatever the routine may be, most athletes agree that it helps to keep them calm.

“I get really nervous at first,” Draney said. “After

(the ritual), I forget about it. It’s just at the start of games.”

Some teams have rituals and traditions that the entire

Kylee Larsen photo THE BASEBALL TEAM COMES OUT TO THE MOUND to celebrate with the pitcher after beating Montana. The baseball team has seen some of the most interesting superstitions, including feeding a fake turtle.

team observes. The volleyball team has a dance party in the locker room before each game. The gymnastics team has a tradition they call “pass the power.” After the routine, the first gymnast to perform will give a short pep talk to the next person who will perform. This continues through the lineup.

“Sometimes it’ll just like kind of pump-me-up,” said gymnast Breyanna Aufiero. “It’s kind of a tradition around here that we’ve just kind of been carrying on.”

When players don’t carry out their rituals or observe their superstitions, some feel nervous and unprepared for the game they’re playing or routine they’re doing.

“It definitely adds some stress,” said gymnast Michelle Yasukochi. “It adds an unknown element to the sport, which is already a whole bunch of variable factors anyways. Some players can put this stress out of their minds.”

— olivia.webb@ aggiemail.usu.edu Twitter: @oliviawebb77

Hold your Duryea judgement until after the season Logan Jones Nothin’ but net

Okay, so it wasn’t the flashiest hire in the world.

A familiar face in Utah State basketball since 2001, Tim Duryea was named head coach Monday morning, giving rise to unnecessary backlash and criticism from Aggie fans by about Monday afternoon.

I was amazed so many fans skipped the “cautiously optimistic” phase and decided almost immediately that Duryea was just a lazy option, reached after some other mystery coaches turned down the job.

I can understand the disappointment to a certain extent — after nearly two decades of Morrill running the show, people may have been hoping for some dynamic young-gun coach

to come to Logan ready to shake things up. Students and alumni alike are ready to reach that legendary “next level,” a phrase as useless as it is vague.

Perhaps it’s difficult to picture a man already so familiar to the program already taking this team to a conference title, an NCAA tournament berth, and — most importantly — success at the national level.

It shouldn’t be.

Duryea’s been working as an Aggie assistant for 14 years. That’s plenty of time for any coach worth his salt to move on to bigger and better things if he so chooses. Yet, instead of appreciating a guy who’s so obviously dedicated to USU athletics, some

fans wanted a completely blank slate to work with.

I guess they didn’t bother watching this past season.

A blank slate is exactly what Aggie fans had this year — and it was awesome. The Aggies were competitive, fun to watch and showed obvious improvement over the course of their conference schedule.

Of course with any hiring situation, money is always part of the decision-making process. Some will read that sentence and think of Duryea as some sort of consolation prize, which is a mistake. Duryea is a steal.

Why throw a monster contract

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USU softball loses to BYU 4By Logan Jones asst. sports editor

Annie Hall photo NEW AGGIE BASKETBALL COACH Tim Duryea accepts the position and addresses the public on Monday in the Estes Center.

Duryea From Page 8 at someone unfamiliar with our players to come in and change everything just as we’ve become competitive in the Mountain West? What exactly is Duryea’s floor? Middleof-the-road in the conference? Compare that to his ceiling, which is an NCAA tournament bid as early as next season.

Add that to the fact that Duryea knows the players, and the players

know him. They believe he’ll help this team get better, as does Scott Barnes. So if cohesion with the team, money and his track record as a coach dedicated to the program isn’t enough, what’s missing?

Critics will say it’s the big name. The guy that will get EPSN talking about us and students back in the stands. Not that even someone like that would escape criticism — there would still be those who would whine about paying too much for a coach when we had a more-than-capable replacement

available in Duryea.

There’s no pleasing everyone.

Whatever high hopes you may have for Aggie basketball next year, it’s likely that Duryea’s are even higher. Let’s hold off on passing judgement on a guy determined to bring USU success until we actually know what he’s capable of.

BYU’s first at bat resulted in the game’s first run — it was a sign of things to come Tuesday for Utah State softball.

The Aggies fell 13-2 in a five-inning blowout against the visiting Cougars on Tuesday, the only matchup between the in-state rivals this season.

“It’s a rivalry game,” said USU head coach Steve Johnson. “No matter who is on the mound, we have to show some fight and step up. That’s what we’ve talked about all year is that consistency, regardless of who the opponent is.”

The Cougars jumped out to a 6-0 lead before Aggie freshman catcher Brina Buttacavoli managed to score in the bottom of the third off of a Sarah Chow RBI. “We came out kind of weak in the beginning,” said Chow, who hit 2-of-3 in the game and brought in the Aggies’ only

scores. “The stronger we are at the beginning, the stronger we’ll be at the finish.”

Following a three-run BYU

— Logan Jones is a junior majoring in journalism. If you aren’t sold on Duryea’s abilities, send him your comments at logantjones@ aggiemail.usu.edu and tell him why, or tweet at @logantj.

Kyle Todechene photos ABOVE RIGHT: MEMBERS OF UTAH STATE SOFTBALL look on from the dugout. ABOVE: Noelle Johnson bats while playing against New Mexico.

Seniors

Fritz said. “To go down there and get that 4-3 win, it was an amazing feeling.

All of the hard work that we did, it felt like it was worth it.”

There are still five matches left in the season, and the Mountain West tournament that begins on April 22.

“Their legacy is going to live on,” Shields said. “We still have a lot of season left to play. Hopefully at the end of April we’ll be sniffing the dance, the NCAA tournament.”

Next season the Aggies will not have any senior players on the team but will depend on juniors and sophomores for leadership.

“I’m going to miss those

From Page 7 Kylee Larsen photo ROMNEY STADIUM will soon be getting a new name. The stadium has held its name since 1969 after former coach and athletic director Dick Romney.

Romney From Page 1 “Now that everybody that saw social media today and knows more or less what the announcement is, there is still the hype of who it is and what it’s going to do for Utah State Athletics,” he said.

Laird also said it is a positive step for the program.

“It is exciting. It shows the huge growth that Utah State Athletics has had, and it is always exciting when you get a new donor or any donor just to invest and sponsor and represent and put money into the university athletics and watch it grow,” Laird said.

The stadium will be under-

going renovations this year, including to it’s press box area above the west bleachers.

Romney Stadium was built in 1968 but was officially dedicated to all-time winningest coach and former athletic director Dick Romney in September of 1969.

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we encourage that.”

Despite all of their personal successes, the seniors have the same favorite memory from their time here: beating BYU for the first time in program history this season.

“Taking out the Cougars this year in our first match, that was a big one,” said Sweet about his favorite moment while being at USU. Fritz felt like the win was a reward for working hard.

“The best moment would probably be BYU this year,”

COMMON

home run in the fourth, coach Johnson substituted several defensive players into the game.

“We had ground ball after ground ball that we weren’t getting to,” Johnson said.

“That starting group didn’t have any energy. We have a great group of kids sitting on the bench. They sit and cheer for these guys every day, so I thought they deserved a chance. A couple of them came up and made some plays and put some runs across.”

Utah State has a chance to get back into the win column Saturday as it kicks off a threegame homestand against conference foe UNLV. Chow cited the team’s mindset as the biggest factor in getting back on track.

“We definitely need a better mentality,” Chow said. “Come ready to fight.”

— logantjones@ aggiemail.usu.edu Twitter: @logantj

guys a lot,” Shields said. “It will be weird not to have seniors next year. It’s something we say all the time is ‘We’re playing for the seniors.’ I’m going to have to find something else we’re playing for.

“If you ask everyone on the team, ‘Do you love these guys? Will you give your all for these guys?

Will you run through a brick wall for these guys?’ it’s an absolute yes. That’s really cool to have players on the team that guys love, that they’ll do anything for.”

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Opinion Forum letter: Graduation packets cost too much To the editor: I want to express my views on the astronomical price of the Graduating Package offered by the Campus Store. This letter is about why is it unjust and unreasonable and I am sure students across the campus will echo my thoughts as I am just going to say what everybody is thinking and feels sad about.

Graduation is an important part and milestone in anyone’s life, be it graduating with a bachelor’s degree or a graduate degree. It is the reward of hard work put in through 3 or more years. This hard work is not just the effort put in class and course material but also the struggle to accumulate finances to pay for school.

We, the students, have worked hard at a McDonald’s earning minimum wage, sweeping floors as a janitor, serving as waiters in a restaurant, cleaning dirty dishes of others, changing and washing bed sheets, etc. alongside school or during summers. After such hard work it requires to pay $67.99 and $82.99 for bachelor’s and master’s graduation packages, respectively, at the Campus Store, and the prices increase as we near the commencement program.

It is difficult to spend my hard-earned money on the “black gown” so that I can have memories of graduation ceremony, which I have earned and deserve. The above mentioned costs are unreasonable to ask from a person who is straight out of school and wants to relive those memories at the end of their college or grad school experience.

Let us think more practically. These dresses will never be worn again by any of us after the graduation ceremony.

There is no policy to even return these dresses, like there is for textbooks. Selling them is futile because the cap and the Stoll have year written on them. Even if selling is possible, people would not pay such an extravagant amount as we did. The cost of these dresses is equivalent to 8 hours of work for most students.

The other argument would be that if students are so flustered

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Death is a part of life Mariah Noble From the chief

Death is weird.

Aside from a friend’s suicide during my eighth-grade year, I didn’t have to deal with it much until college. That’s when I learned how aggressive cancer can be, and not just with people who are older. It’s been four years since Kimberly Nelson, a USU student younger than I was, died from cancer. It’s been just over a week since Tiffany Hester, another USU student even younger than Nelson was, followed the same path.

I wasn’t very close friends with either of these people. I met them because they wanted to be involved with Relay for Life at USU and I was the club president at the time. After they relapsed and couldn’t come to school anymore, I would randomly text them every once in a while asking how they were. When I found out Kim died, I was really upset and felt all kinds of guilt for not being a better friend, for not knowing sooner. When I found out about Tiffany, I remembered my experience with Kim. I’ve heard a lot of people talk about death lately. One of my professors discussed how a lot of times people who were complete jerks in life are put on a pedestal after death and the people who disliked them in life suddenly defend their good character. Perhaps it’s because of guilt or regret, or perhaps it’s just a coping mechanism. Another conversation I had was with a fellow editor, who told me no one should have to justify their reason for mourning, even if they didn’t know someone well or didn’t have a strong relationship with them. And for that matter no one should have to explain why they’re moving past a loss either.

I think she’s right. Everyone you come in contact with in life

has the potential to affect you. must go on. And of course I’m Sometimes we are legitimately going to be sad about it and miss moved by the stories of people the people I lose, and maybe who lived halfway across the my life will be put on pause for world. Sometimes we feel sympa- a while. But with time I’ll realize thy for a moment and move on that wallowing isn’t helping me unscathed. But acknowledging anymore and that there is more the effect someone had on you of my life to be lived. or that they were a part of your In general, we are too worried life for a time is not something about owing everyone an exyou need to feel ashamed of or planation. And though communication is the key to good relaawkward about.

Cancer sucks. Suicide sucks. tionships, we don’t owe anyone Car accidents suck. AIDS sucks. anything. If sharing helps us get a Thoughtlessness sucks. And a new point of view, awesome. If it whole lot of other things suck helps us branch out and develop too. But I can’t stop a car acci- deeper relationships, cool. But if dent. I can’t control what has it stresses us out and makes us happened in the past. I can’t feel pressured, then stop. Don’t change the fact that I didn’t call do it. someone the week before they Life is meant to be lived and died or that I never ended up put- endured and enjoyed. And death ting postage on a card I’d made is a part of life. for them. There are all kinds of —Mariah Noble is edithings I wish I would have done tor-in-chief of The Utah Statesbut I didn’t. That shouldn’t imman. Contact her at m.noble@ pede my ability to be sad that the aggiemail.usu.edu. opportunity is gone. It shouldn’t impede my ability to keep moving forward either.

This week someone told me a good indicator of when you’re ready to marry someone is whether or not you can imagine a life without them in 10 years.

If you can, you should let the relationship develop further before full-on commitment. If you can’t, you should marry them. I’ve thought about that quite a bit, and though I think I understand the logic, I’ve decided I disagree.

I believe differently because the fact of the matter is that I can imagine living life in 10 years without any the people I love most in this world. Of course Tim Dominick/The State/MCT photo I don’t want to A CONGREGATION LIGHTS CANDLES have to do that, as a sign of hope during a prayer vigil for the five but death hap- slain Jones children at Red Bank Baptist Church in pens and life Lexington, S.C., on Monday, Sept. 15, 2014.

Love horoscopes Aries: March 21 - April 19 Mercury, the planet of communication, is moving into your sign for a while. This will heighten and enhance your social life and your written and verbal interactions with people.

You’ll be drawn to settings where vibrant, intelligent, and interesting folks hang out.

Taurus: April 20 - May 20 It’s time to focus on improving your physical health. Powerhouse Mars will be in your sign, and you could finally be ready to start working out, joining a sports team, or figuring out another way to burn off those extra pounds.

Gemini: May 21 - June 21 A funky lunar eclipse is bringing those pent-up emotions to the surface. Maybe you still have feelings for a former flame, and you’re finally ready to admit it. Or perhaps you can no longer hide your feelings for that casual acquaintance or coworker.

Cancer: June 22 - July 22 You need to make sure that there is solid ground beneath your romantic relationship. If you have been on again, off again with somebody, that won’t cut it.

Mars is urging you to stand up for yourself and insist that you are respected and valued.

Leo: July 23 - Aug. 22 Playful Mercury is turning you into a total flirt. You’ll tease people right and left, hinting that maybe you’d like to get together. It doesn’t matter that you have a longtime honey who would be disappointed in you; you’re just in it for the fun right now.

Virgo: Aug. 23 - Sept. 22

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LA Times daily It’s time to redefine ‘diversity’ crossword

Across 1 Sweet Spanish wine 7 Work unit: Abbr.

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14 Place to surf 15 Washbowl partner 16 Protein-building molecule 17 Holy woman sculpted by Bernini 19 Battleship letters 20 Self-conscious question 21 Preceder of old age?

22 Peoria-to-Decatur dir.

25 It may call for lateral thinking 28 Iconic figure with an anchor tattoo 30 Tenochtitlán natives 31 Zenith 32 Chanted phrase 35 Van Gogh painting depicting peasants 41 Hostile advance 42 Toe loop kin 43 Not around much 46 Campaign ad urging 48 Many a sofa 52 Common animal in “The Far Side” comics

53 Participated in a poetry slam 54 Holey reef dweller 56 Give __: pay attention 57 Words spoken often this time of year, one of which is anagrammed four times in this puzzle 62 Whirlpool site 63 __ nitrate 64 Allow 65 Lush 66 In the wrong business?

67 Scone fruit Down 1 High pts.

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3 Island souvenir 4 Years in the Roman legion 5 Manages 6 It’s worn 7 Physics Nobelist of 1938 8 Typical “Divergent” reader 9 Guitar man Paul 10 Beach top 11 Banana blemish 12 How many artists work 13 Police weapons 18 Greek vowel 21 Gangster film sound effect

22 Cross words 23 Junior-to-be 24 Sport with double touches 26 Museum that awards the Turner Prize 27 Biblical scribe 29 No longer valid 32 “Nixon in China” tenor role 33 __ moment’s notice 34 Auction bid, often 36 Formerly 37 Half of seis 38 Board member, usually 39 Slots spot 40 Impede 43 Overachiever’s concern 44 Chintzy 45 Turkish peak 46 Thin layer 47 “Star Wars” surname 49 Best Angler and Best Jockey, e.g.

50 Ask (for), as a job 51 First car, for many 55 Actor Morales 57 Harrison role 58 Ovid’s “I love” 59 CNN launcher 60 Wearer of a “Y” sweatshirt 61 Stimpy’s chum

Horoscope From Page 10 You’re very focused on work and career, which is great. The moon is helping you advance and succeed. Just don’t neglect your significant other. Be sure to make room in your busy schedule to relax and unwind with your honey.

Libra: Sept. 23 - Oct. 23 Don’t reject new ideas or fresh approaches when it comes to love. Maybe your partner is tired of your usual routine and craves more spice in your relationship. Dare to be inventive. As an Air sign, creativity is your middle name.

Scorpio: Oct. 24 - Nov. 21 With Mars opposite your sign, your energy will be low. Don’t cram your schedule full of dates, work obligations, and family gatherings. You need some time to chill out and meditate about your life. Figure out what is really going on.

Sagittarius: Nov. 22 - Dec. 21 Don’t let other people influence your relationship too much. Sometimes you have a tendency to seek approval. Or you’re far too open about what is going on in your sex life with friends and family. Saturn is reminding you that it’s none of their business.

Capricorn: Dec. 22 - Jan.19 You won’t take no for an answer as Mercury inspires you to stand up for yourself. If you’re in a relationship that has abusive overtones, you’ll flush out any toxic energies. If you’re dealing with a nasty coworker, you’ll want to confront him or her.

Aquarius: Jan. 20 - Feb. 18 You’re an easy-going Air sign, and you’re not very happy around people who are close-minded or set in their ways. If your sweetheart’s family is very stubborn and only see things one way, Saturn might inspire you to move away from those interactions.

Pisces: Feb. 19 - March 20 Venus is putting you in a thoughtful mood. Maybe you should do some meditating. Talk things over with a therapist, minister, or spiritual counselor. Get your head together before you tackle challenging relationship matters.

— Jennifer Shepherd, the Lipstick Mystic®, is an astrologer and columnist with over 2 million readers.

For mystical fun and psychic insights visit www.lipstickmystic.com.

Of all the progress society has likely to survive. made in the modern era, some It was made very Levi of the most significant has been clear that diversity toward equality. is to be celebrat Movements like those for ed. Diversity, in women’s suffrage or the Civil this case, referred Rights Movement of the 1960s to the above-menhave been essential to forming tioned groups. the world we live in today. Now, The diversity more opportunities are afforded council’s campus to the historically disadvantaged climate survey also than ever before. Admittedly, focuses strongly there remains much progress to on these groups, be made – especially in foreign asking questions countries. However, our gains such as “Please until now should be recognized. rate your satis This being said, sometimes in faction with the our effort to do even better, to ethnic diversity of the student make the playing field just a lit- body/faculty/staff.” tle bit more level or to help atti- Let me be clear: Discrimitudes be even more positive, we nation is wrong. It should be end up doing the opposite. One fought in any way possible. I way I believe our society has recognize that belonging to one done this is through our current of the above-mentioned groups understanding of “diversity.” is a common reason for which Before you misunderstand someone may be discriminated me, let’s define diversity. Per against. However in this case, the Internet, it’s “a state of be- our method is entirely wrong. ing diverse; variety,” or “a range Defining diversity as belongof different things.” Logic would ing to one of these “groups” follow then, that diversity in a implies that something is inherstudent body would mean a va- ently different about you simply riety of types based on one of people, circumstance or a range of your life. To Levi Henrie of different me, a group sophomore kinds of peothat is truly diple. verse would in Federal clude students law – which with various life USU as a experiences, state instinot skin colors tution is — or any other subject to – factor. In some commonly cases, diverse recognizes life experiencage, genes may actually der, religion, reflect these p r e g n a n c y, factors. Howevrace, nationer, it would be al origin and stereotypical to disability as assert that it will protected groups. Utah State always be this way.

University has chosen to add Coach Yoast in “Remember sexual orientation to that list. In- the Titans” stated we should stitutions regarding diversity at “love the soul of a man and not USU, including “diversity train- the color of his skin.” Yet implying” for campus employees and ing that diverse skin colors, rethe diversity council’s campus ligions, ethnicities or sexual oriclimate survey, focus almost ex- entations should automatically clusively on these groups. be celebrated, talked about and, During my last experience in some cases, treated preferwith diversity training, a compar- entially flies in the face of this. ison was made between plant It widens the divide between genetics and diversity in society. minority groups and others by For those who may be unaware implying that if one thing about — as I was — if a plant’s genes you is different, everything else become too similar, it will often about you must also be differdie. However if different genes ent. Commonalities are thrown are introduced, it may be more by the wayside.

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Anyone who wants to come to USU should feel accepted, and we should pledge to be better about this.

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Grads From Page 10 about it, then why do they buy it every year? The simple explanation is that they succumb to these prices because these moments will not come again, and hence they don’t want to miss it but cherish them forever, and that is what the store takes advantage of.

Another reason is peer pressure. There might be some students whose parents might be buying for them, who do not care where the money comes from as long as it does. They might be able to get these dresses, but the people around them who do not have such luxury, in an attempt to not to look stingy or parsimonious, go out of their financial comfort zone to buy it. I might be completely off on this or even generalizing as far as a large student group is concerned, but I have seen it happening.

Let’s just get a perspective on how much is $75, the average of the above prices.

You can get 2 Lagoon Park’s tickets for $75, seven meals including two tacos, two chalupas and two apple empanadas costs for around $70, a 10-min game of laser tag at the Cache Valley Fun Park for 15 people would be

$75, 3 large portions of traditional wings at Buffalo Wild Wings in $60, four-weeks of half-day classes at Beaver ski resort costs you $75 — I can go on and on.

I think, to take advantage of students — for they know we are definitely going to buy the dress — is just unfair. If the colleges at USU pool in some money towards this account or the alumni donates some money, it would not be such a burden for students.

I want to make my commencement program memorable. I want to have my picture taken with me throwing the cap in the air. I want to make memories with friends who are graduating as well. I want to stand on the ‘A’ with my degree in my hand. These are the things I deserve to do.

These are my emotions and I would not like anybody to take advantage of it. I don’t want to be the guy who knows he is being cheated, but still not do anything about it and accept it like it is not a big deal.

If we as students keep accepting this, just because it is a one-time thing, though we have paid much for tuition, then the people who are selling will get the courage to ask any unreasonable price from us and we will have to pay for it.

— Rohan D. Shah

Ironically, it’s this sort of blanket-judgment — something that in sociology is called the “ultimate attribution error” — that divided us in Money the first place. talks You’ve all heard it: “They’re (a certain group), so they must be (a certain way).”

In the end, any attempt to utilize such logic, even if done with honorable intentions, will end up being divisive.

A convincing case could be made that many of America’s current problems between demographic groups could be attributed to a national obsession with categorizing ourselves this way. Consider the simultaneous rises of political correctness and group tension in recent years.

The last time America saw such a large volume of inter-group tension? The early ‘90s, a time most experts would consider to also be a time of heightened sensitivity. So, could inter-group tension be what we as a society make of it through our insistence on categorization? I think it’s worth a look.

Please understand, I believe those that are “diverse,” as our government has chosen to define it, must be protected from discrimination. So must everyone else. There should be a safeguard for any student who feels unsafe or threatened in any way.

Diversity should be welcomed.

Lack of diversity? I don’t object to that either.

Anyone who wants to come to USU should feel accepted, and we should pledge to be better about this. It’s upon reaching the point of celebrating a specific person, or taking normative action to have more of a certain kind of person here, based only on demographic group they belong to, that we’ve begun to divide ourselves.

Henrie

— Levi Henrie is a sophomore majoring in economics and international studies from St. George, Utah. He can be contacted at levi.henrie@aggiemail. usu.edu.

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