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Campus guns

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What are University policies about weapons at Utah State?

Aggies take their third-straight road game

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Ice water in their veins

THE POLAR PLUNGE CHARITY SWIM featured many unique costumes. These jumpers dressed as fairies, but other plungers donned mermaid tails, life guard getup and

military uniforms at Hyrum State Park. Photo courtesy April Ashland

The science behind the salt

BY JANESSA ZEEMAN staff writer

CACHE HUMANE SOCIETY WORKER Kirsten Nelson plays with Russell, a black lab that was given to the shelter in January. JESSICA HINRICHS photo

Humane Society links canines with caring

BY JESSICA HINDRICHS staff writer

The Cache Humane Society is holding its third-� annual Links for Love fund-� raising event.

The price of each “link of love� bracelet is $1. The donor will get one bracelet to wear and one to put on the community chain.

Kirsten Nelson, the shel-� ter’s fundraising and com-� munity outreach coordina-� tor, said the goal is to be able to wrap all the links of the chain around the facil-� ity. “The first year we got 900 and that was almost all the way around the building,�

Nelson said. “I’m hoping this year we can get 900.

Optimistically, I think we can get about 1,000.�

Jodi DeVries, the society’s director and special events coordinator, said donations

from the event will go to helping take care of the 45 cats, 40 dogs and three rab-� bits currently in the shelter. “We are a nonprofit, so most of the money that comes into us is donation,�

DeVries said.

The shelter is also pri-� vately run, meaning it does not receive money from the government or public shel-� ter organizations. Money raised at the event will go toward basic care for the animals, including food, water and cleaning. “People don’t realize that we go through laundry like crazy — washing dishes, bleach, detergent, kitty lit-� ter,� DeVries said. “We go through tons and tons of kitty litter.�

Nelson said donations will provide an opportunity for animals to be adopted into a new home.

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USU students experienced a large amount of snowfall piling up on campus as January came to a close.

USU Facilities manages snow removal before and during snow storms by using a blend of different chemicals as ice melt.

This ice melt is made up of 85 per-� cent brine, or salt water, 10 percent beet juice derivative and 5 percent magnesium chloride, another form of salt.

The beet juice is used as a bonding agent to hold the active ingredients — magnesium chloride and brine solu-� tion — onto the sidewalk, preventing them from melting onto the sides and seeping underground. “The purpose of that is so when we go and scrape it off, it comes off easi-� er,� said Rob Reeder, director of land-� scape operations and maintenance. “It kind of creates a layer between the concrete and the snow or the ice to keep it from bonding to the concrete.�

The beet juice is what stains the

THE ICE MELT USED BY USU FACILITIES keeps students from slipping, but some have noticed an adverse odor. DELAYNE LOCKE photo

snow brown and makes it smell. It can pool up in depressions on the side-� walk when it melts. “It’s harmless,� Reeder said. “We found it doesn’t track into the build-� ings. We have more problems with the magnesium chloride and the salt that stick to your shoes when you go into

the building and when you pick up dirt.�

Cole Blakely, a senior in mechani-� cal engineering, said the salt smells distasteful but accepted the salt for its benefit of creating safe pathways. “Compared to ice-�induced cracked

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Aggie Bus wins top award

BY KYLEE GEISLER

Robert T. Behunin

staff writer

USU’s wirelessly charged electric bus won Innovation of the Year at the Governor’s Energy Summit in January. “This award is the state of Utah validating that Utah State University has created a cutting edge innovating technology,� said Robert T. Behunin, USU vice president of commercializa-� tion on regional development. “It will create a new landscape environment, and it will change how we look at mass transit.� “As we develop these technolo-� gies like inductive power transfer, it really is a validation that the external market, whether it be the political market or the commercial market, has

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his award is the state of Utah validating that Utah State University has created a cutting edge innovating technology.�

validated as what we do as something significant,� Behunin said.

Media interest about the Aggie Bus has gone international, from California to the Prague. The Aggie Bus was even featured on a jumbotron in Time Square.

The Aggie Bus is the world’s first

electric bus with wireless power trans-� fer technology joining a power level up to 25 kilowatts and 90 percent effi-� ciency.

There are two charging pads, one on the bus and another at the stop

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INNOVATION: Gov. Herbert tips hat to USU bus From page 1 location. The bus driver will drive up, visually see where the charging pad is and make sure there are no objects on top of the pad.

There is an alignment pro-� tocol and the system will let the driver know the bus is aligned. The driver will then press a button, to begin the charging process.

The power is still able to transfer with a misalign-� ment of up to six inches if the driver does not come to a completely on-�target stop.

The Wireless Power Transfer team and the USTAR Advanced Transportation Institute at USU developed this technol-� ogy. “It is always good to develop something that could potentially revolu-� tionize the world,� said Hunter Wu, director of USU’s Commercial Product Development.

The Aggie Bus can run about 45-�55 miles on a fully charged battery at top speed. There are no tailpipe emissions. “The bus does not pollute

cities and it is much easier to clean up one power plant than the 60,000 buses in America,� Wu said.

USU owns the intellectual property to the wireless power transfer. “We have a spinout company, WAVE, which has licensed this property,�

Behunin said.

WAVE, which stands for Wireless Advanced Vehicle Electrification, is taking the intellectual property to the market and getting con-� tracts with mass transit enti-� ties. The first commercial demonstration of the Aggie Bus will take place on the University of Utah’s campus through partnership with Utah Transit Authority and WAVE. It is a federally-� funded project through a $2.7 million TIGGER grant. “The Aggie Bus is more than a prototype,� Behunin said. “It is an actual work-� ing product, but we need to go to higher kilowatts of power. This bus won’t be on campus for some time, but I hope someday it will.� – kylee.geisler@aggiemail. usu.edu

STATE BIGWIGS PRESENT the Aggie Bus with the Innovation of the Year award. From left to right, Sen. Orrin Hatch, USU Vice President of commercialization and regional development Robert Behunin, research engineers Hadi Male and Alex Chu, Gov. Gary Herbert. Photo courtesy Kate Peterson

SALT: 2012-�13 snow season buried previous winter From page 1 tail bones, diarrhea pools are the lesser of two evils,�

Blakely said.

Blakely said he’s noticed some areas of campus where people have slid on the icy surface.

Reeder said the beet juice solution doesn’t work as well as he’d like. “The ice melt does work, but it’s slow, so we chip and work,� Reeder said. “We’ll probably continue to adjust the formulas until we get the best possible effects we can.�

Facilities first began using beet juice last year, but the ratio of beet juice to magnesium chloride was too strong. This year, they have altered the mixture

and continue to work with it. “We use to use more of magnesium chloride, which gives us a better ice melting capability,� Reeder said. “But we found that as it percolates into the ground, it started to cause some damage to underground piping. It’s salt against steel.�

Facilities found mini-� mal corrosion in the pipes along the sides where the ice would run off the edges of the sidewalk and seep underground. They started trying new products three years ago as a preventa-� tive strategy to avoid high replacement costs for the underground pipes.

Beet juice doesn’t cause as much damage as some

harsher salt solutions, but the ratio of beet juice to magnesium chloride and brine, the active ingredi-� ents producing heat, can change. “This beet juice is the bonding agent that holds the active ingredients to keep them from running off of the sidewalk when it gets wet,� Reeder said. “So when it starts to pre-� cipitate, the water comes down and it would wash it off without this bonding agent.�

Reeder said some walk-� ways are salted more for safety. Areas with the most traffic are the first to be cleared of snow, such as sidewalks on the outer edges of campus and some inner routes.

Amber Judd, a sopho-� more majoring in art, usually travels the more-� cleared routes and doesn’t encounter difficulty tra-� versing campus. Her per-� spective is different when she walks on packed down snow. “I don’t like it at all. If it gets really cold, it just ices over,� Judd said. “I almost want powdered snow because you don’t slip on that as easily.�

Reeder said when the beet juice solution reaches a certain temperature it becomes ineffective, so his teams use zeolite powder. “It’s a natural product that stays on the surface,�

Reeder said. “It’s organic, so when it gets into the landscape, it’s beneficial to

the landscape and allows it to hold more moisture.�

For some students, inef-� fectively cleared walkways are dangerous.

Addie James, a sopho-� more majoring in art, said she walked home from a class one night after an ice storm and was slipping along her route. “There was no traction� she said.

For ice patches like this, Facilities uses a granular ice melt product coupled with zeolite. This ice melt penetrates through the ice while the zeolite creates traction. Once the ice melt penetrates through, the ice can be scraped off.

Through Feb. 8 in the 2012-�13 snow season, Reeder said Facilities used

12 tons of ice melt, 14 tons of zeolite powder and 10,000 gallons of beet juice salt mix.

During the 2011-�12 snow season, Reeder said they used eight tons of ice melt, six tons of zeolite and 5,000 gallons of beet juice salt mix.

Facilities uses various snow removal equipment on heavy snow days such as kubotas, Bobcat skid steers and plows. There are usually 20 people working to clear the snow on these days, some pushing snow away from entrances to areas where a plow can pick it up. – janemiche13@gmail.com Twitter: @JaneMiche13

HUMANE: Shelter sells links of love From page 1

BLACK LABRADOR RUSSELL has been housed at the Cache Humane Society since early January. JESSICA HINDRICHS photo

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“We take the ones that are rejected,� Nelson said. “We are the net. We are catching animals and giving them another chance.�

In the past 12 months the shel-� ter has facilitated the adoptions of 643 dogs and 475 cats. Nelson said without the shelter, animal control would be in charge of stray cats and dogs, many of which would be put down if not adopted.

The cost of care adds up quickly.

Some animals are adopted the day they are brought in. Others are held for eight to nine months at a time.

Russell is a dog who has been in the shelter’s care for almost two months. The two-�year-�old black Labrador retriever is a hunting dog. He is house trained and good with other dogs and children. For each week he is kept at the facility,

Robert T. Behunin USU vice president

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I don’t even understand how we run

sometimes. We’re all working really hard to keep this running.�

expenses include $7.50 for food and $10 for additional care. “I don’t even understand how we run sometimes,� Nelson said. “We’re all working really hard to keep this running.�

Nelson said she hopes the com-� munity will come together and donate to help each animal the shelter is trying to save. “If we could get every person in Cache Valley to donate $1 we could try to figure out how much money

we could bring in for our homeless pets,� Nelson said.

Links can be purchased online or at the shelter until Feb. 16, during the Links of Love Pet Date event. The final event will feature a pet psychic and a final reveal of how long the donation chain is, held from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Cache Humane Society at 2370 W. 200 North in Logan. – jhinrichs2002@gmail.com

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Building to get business-�casual look Briefs Campus & Community

Aggies move to No. 2 in fan poll

BY JESSICA HINRICHS staff writer

A project currently underway on the north side of the George S. Eccles Business Building, located on the south end of USU’s campus, will extend the steam tunnel system that runs 15 feet under the college’s side-� walks.

Construction on the lot will not end there.

Once completed, the steam tunnels will contribute to a planned 30,000-�square-� foot extension of the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business Building. The $42 million proj-� ect was approved on Jan. 16.

Business school leaders’ goals are to bring in new classrooms, study rooms and students to the department.

Joe Beck, an architect for the USU Facilities Department, said excavation for the four-�sto-� ry building will begin in May. “The building will wrap around the west and south side of the existing business build-� ing,� Beck said.

Building plans feature a cen-� tral courtyard that will provide natural lighting. The design will maintain the separation between modern and historic buildings on campus. Lund Hall, built in 1935, will be demolished in late September to accommodate this new extension.

Beck said the project has already been paid for. “A lot of funding comes from private donation to the Huntsman School of Business,�

THE BUSINESS BUILDING is undergoing construction to add a 30,000-square-foot extension to include study rooms, classrooms and an extension of the steam tunnel system that runs underneath.

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Beck said. “A portion of it is also coming from The State of Utah Division of Facilities and Construction Management.�

Dave Patel, an assistant dean for the Huntsman School of Business, said the extension is desperately needed for the amount of students enrolled in the department. “It was built for about 1,000 students and we’ve got 2,000,�

Patel said. “It’s been over capacity for two decades.�

Patel said the extension will include 20 classrooms and 22 study rooms. “It’s really about more adequate facilities for our students,� Patel said. “This is going to be a great new addi-� tion not only for the business school but for all students at USU.�

The steam tunnel extension presently under construction will provide steam for heating and chilled water for air con-�

ditioning for the new building.

This pipeline is being added onto a 1.2-�mile system that runs under USU’s campus and provides 260,000 pounds of steam each hour. Construction for this portion is intended to conclude in mid-�February. The business building extension is projected to be completed in the spring of 2015. – jhinrichs2002@gmail.com

Mardi Gras draws deaded crowd

The votes are in and the Utah State University has advanced to the semi-� final round of the Naismith Student Section of the Year Award contest.

Beginning with a total of 158 partici-� pating institutions, the contest now enters the semifinal round with only 16 institutions eligible to take home the top prize. As one of the top col-� lege basketball student sections in the country, the University is asking for fan support to help win the prestigious title. Aggiefans will now have a say in determining the most deserving stu-� dent section by voting for the Naismith Student Section of the Year Award.

By visiting www.facebook.com/ ILoveCollegeHoops, Utah State fans can vote for the HURD as the top student section in college basketball.

Semifinal round voting, which has been reset to zero for the 16 semifi-� nalists, is open now through Feb. 22, 2013. Fans can vote once per day.

The top eight recipients from the semifinal round of public votes will be sent to the Naismith Awards Board of Selectors for a final vote. The Naismith Awards Board of Selectors will review criteria such as the student section’s name and attendance, the total fan vote, as well as photos, video, and a write-�up submitted by the nominating school which will aid in determine the winning student section. Complete details on the selection process can be found at facebook.com/ilovecolleg-� ehoops.

The winning student section gets bragging rights, while the winning institution will receive $10,000 to be used in its general scholarship fund.

The Naismith Student Section of the Year Award, which is pre-� sented through a partnership of The Collegiate Licensing Company (CLC), an affiliate of IMG College, and the Atlanta Tipoff Club, administrators of the Naismith Awards, is dedicated to celebrating fans that love college hoops and provide support to their college basketball team with devotion and pas-� sion.

Common Hour presentations Aggies with The Times will feature Dr. Charlie Huenemann, Associate Dean of CHaSS and Professor of Philosophy on Wednesday, February 13 at 11:30-�

12:30 in the Merrill-�Cazier Library, Room 101. Aggies with The Times will respectfully explore issues of social justice, diversity, and global visions as these variables are repre-� sented within selected Times arti-� cles. Underlying all discussions will be two considering factors: who is benefiting and who is not relative to the articles being discussed.

Pizza will be provided. This event is sponsored by: Center for Women and Gender, Global Engagement, and Access and Diversity.

BLACKJACK AND POKER TABLES were one of the many attractions at ASUSU’s Mardi Gras celebration in the Taggart Student Center on Saturday. Other entertainment included a reptile area, tattoo parlor and dance party. MICKELLE YEATES photo

BY TMERA BRADLEY news senior writer

The Taggart Student Center was decked out in an array of purple, green and gold Saturday as ASUSU hosted its annual Mardi Gras dance.

Hundreds of students wearing glitter and beads filled the building where various activi-� ties were presented throughout the evening.

The ballroom was turned into a full casino where stu-� dents could play for prizes at tables with craps, blackjack, poker and other card games. “The best part is by far the gambling,� said freshman Devin McGarry. “I sucked at it but it was great. I went all in, lost all my chips, but I love it to death.�

Besides the casino, the night held a variety of other activi-� ties. Airbrush tattoo artists sprayed students with tempo-� rary ink and USU’s Full Circle dance company performed routines throughout the night in the International Lounge.

A showcase of reptiles was displayed outside the ballroom where students could hold snakes live snakes lizards. “I wasn’t really scared until the snake was actually in

my hands,� said senior Katie Carter. She said she had never held a reptile before then. “It started moving around and I could feel its muscles. It kinda freaked me out.�

ASUSU Programming VP Chaise Warr said they took a similar approach to Mardi Gras as they did to the Howl.

Instead of spending all the money on one thing, Warr said they tried to have different activities the students could do. He said their main focus was making sure they listened to the volunteers and other students who helped plan the event. “Then it becomes their activity and it’s more round-� ed,� Warr said. “We’re getting ideas from different groups of people.�

Warr said the committee planned the night with the students in mind. “A lot of credit goes to the volunteers,� Warr said.

Hannah Blackburn, student activities director, said they decided not to have tarot card readings this year because it’s been at three-�straight events

previous to Mardi Gras, including the Howl. She said it’s hard to accommodate a lot of students in the lines because the readings take a lot of time. “We decided to go with the airbrush tattoos and oxygen bar as the novelties,�

Blackburn said.

The oxygen bar was a popu-� lar attraction that night as stu-� dents lined up to breathe the air through plastic hoses. “It’s just like breathing air that’s flavored,� said graduate student Nick Foust.

Foust said he tried all of the flavors and he didn’t feel any effect from it, such as an energy boost. “That was my first time and it was pretty good,� Foust said.

Blackburn said the atten-� dance level was about the same as Mardi Gras 2012, but about 200 more presale tickets were sold. She said the estimated budget for this year was about $18,000. “Everyone loves having the element of Mardi Gras,�

Blackburn said.

She said the event began

as a tradition called Casino Night and was always held the Saturday before Fat Tuesday.

It then turned into the Mardi Gras theme it has now, com-� bining a variety of activities with the dance and gambling.

The USU Police Department issued three citations that night, all for underage drink-� ing on campus, said Sgt. Travis Dunn. Another incident ended with a male being taken to the hospital in an ambulance after being injured on the dance floor. “Basically he got hit on the head and felt like passing out,�

Dunn said.

Despite the injury, the dance in the Fieldhouse was one of the most popular attractions that night. Junior Anastasia Roundy said it was her favorite event and she loves DJ Marcus Wing. “I really just came here to dance,� said Roundy, an exer-� cise science major. “It’s just kind of a break.� – tmera.bradley@aggiemail. usu.edu Twitter: @tmerabradley

See Mardi Gras photo spread, page 14

Hubbard family scholarship open The Hubbard Family Scholarship is open to all students attending Utah State University. Preference will be given to students who have demonstrated interest and ability in the field of creative writing (in memory of Grant Hubbard Redford and Gwennie Hubbard Redford) and to students who have demonstrated interest in, and commitment to, the protection of the Earth’s ecosystems.

These are full scholarships covering tuition and fees.

Applications available online at https://chass.usu.edu/htm/study/ scholarships-�and-�fellowships/schol-� arships/.

Please turn in applications no later than Friday, February 15, 2013 to the CHaSS Dean’s Office, Old Main 338. For questions, please contact the CHaSS Dean’s Office at 435-�797-�1195 or email at chass@usu.edu.

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Carrying on campus

An examination of the concealed weapons policies on USU’s campus

BY KELLICE BRADLEY AND CALE PATTERSON

staff writer and features senior writer In a time where public shootings are frequent and the inappropriate use of firearms is becoming a topic of every-� day conversation, the use of concealed weapons can affect many on campus. “You need a permit to carry on cam-� pus — concealed or open carry, either one,� said Sgt. Joseph Huish of the USU police department. “The national his-� tory of firearms on campuses in recent years makes it so people are pretty anxious whenever a gun appears.�

Huish said many carry firearms out of self-�defense, but carrying a firearm in order to aid in emergency situations can put them at risk. “A lot of people carry a firearm so they can be of use to fellow citizens or even the police if something goes down or if there’s an active shooter on campus. The problem with that is when police arrive on the scene, all they see is a guy with a gun,� he said. “It becomes a dangerous environment

for anybody with a gun when police arrive and they don’t know who’s who.

They try to be a help to the situation and they put themselves at risk.�

Mark Warren, a senior majoring in law and constitutional studies, has been a concealed weapons permit holder for more than a year and six months and said he he carries a con-� cealed weapon every day he is on cam-� pus. “Virginia Tech is a major reason behind why I carry on campus, because of that shooting and because I think that campus is a likely place for a shooting to occur, although I hope it doesn’t,� he said. “I think that universi-� ties create a high-�stress environment which can lead to a bad situation, so I just do it for my personal safety.�

Huish said despite the risk, con-� cealed weapons permit holders have been of help in gunman situations. “People with concealed weapons permits have, not on this campus but in places in the country, been a help to an active gunman kind of thing,� he said. “They’ve protected lives and

property.�

Huish said USU hasn’t had many issues with students carrying firearms on campus but advised them to keep them well concealed. “Typically the issues aren’t conceal-� ing it properly,� he said. “Our advice to people who have permits and do carry on campus is that they keep it well concealed so it doesn’t disrupt what’s going on on campus.� “There was one time where I was wearing a shirt that didn’t fit so well and it pulled out a little bit and a girl did respond badly toward that,�

Warren said. “She did not like the fact that I had a gun on campus. I got a lec-� ture from her, but other than that I’ve always had it completely concealed.

Whether it’s in my bag or on my per-� son, it’s always concealed.�

Huish said the need isn’t great in most cases to carry a concealed weapon, but there are cases in which it could be justified. “There could have someone that’s harassing them,� he said. “Sometimes

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Students stay safe at night

BY MICHAEL DRESSMAN staff writer

In a city well known for safety, not all students expect to have to have rea-� sons to seek protection when walking home on a dark night. Despite this, USU Police encourages students to take safety measures, and campus offers resources to protect students as well. “I haven’t really heard of anyone that’s been hurt on campus. I come up here sometimes to study at night and I’ve never had any problems,� said Junior Alex Torgeson, a biological engineering major. “I don’t know why it’s safe, it just seems safe. It feels like home to me.�

Many students and faculty call Logan home, and enjoy a safe environ-� ment. “We had one rape reported to us last year and two sexual assaults reported to us,� said Sgt. Travis Dunn of the USU Police Department.

Dunn said Logan is one of the safest cities in the country. “Over the last six years the city of Logan has been in the safest metropol-� itan cities in the nation,� Dunn said. “The biggest issue is where people think it is safe, they don’t take the measures to secure their own property and protect themselves.�

Some of Logan’s safety issues deal more with the victimization of women. “Any kind of sexual assault is any

girl’s biggest fear,� said freshman Kaelee Stewart, a nursing student studying online at BYU-�Idaho, but living in Logan. “To be alone and cornered, that is just so frightening to me.�

Many students are not aware of the systems available on campus to protect students. “I don’t know if anyone really takes the time to find out about it,� Torgeson said. “I guess it just seems like it’s so safe. Why take the time to do so?�

In reality, there are many different systems available to promote and pro-� tect student safety. “We have 28 emergency phones scat-� tered throughout campus,� Dunn said. “You press the button and are immedi-� ately connected with 911.�

In addition, an option is also avail-� able for students who feel unsafe to contact campus police and request an escort. “We can’t take them all across the city, but if someone is feeling unsafe, we can get them to that secure spot,�

Dunn said.

There are classes that teach self-� defense. One of these is designed specifically for women — the Rape Aggression Defense or RAD class teaches self-�defense techniques to women that can be used in real-�life situations. The classes are taught by RAD-�certified instructors and USU campus police officers.

Self-�defense classes are not the only way students can protect themselves.

There are multiple precautions that can be taken to prevent the possibili-� ties of dangerous circumstances aris-� ing. “I try not to walk at night, and if I do, I’m usually with my husband,�

Stewart said. “I am a runner, and when I do run outside on campus, I always have pepper spray.�

There are precautions that can be taken before even leaving the house. “My friends always know where I am and they know relatively when I’m supposed to get home, so I guess that’s a precaution,� Torgeson said. “I also park pretty close to where I’m going. I always carry my cell phone with me if I ever need to call anybody.�

Dunn advised students to be aware of their surroundings while traveling at night. “Know where you’re going to be, who you’re going to be with,� Dunn said. “You’ve got to take some responsibility for yourself, try to be safe. You need to be with friends. You need to be with groups of individuals. Know where you’re going before you start.�

Additional information regarding self-�defense classes or precautionary advice can be found on the USU Police Department webpage. – michaeldressman@aggiemail.usu.edu

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CARRY: Students seek safety in arms From page 4

RAD IS A LADIES-ONLY COURSE taught to help women become trained in selfdefense. The class is open to females of all ages. Photo courtesy of the RAD Systems of Self Defense

Rape defense aids students

BY HAILEE HOUSLEY staff writer

For women wanting to create a safer future for themselves, USU offers the RAD program. “It’s an acronym for Rape Aggression Defense,� said Sgt. Joseph Huish, a USU police officer who has been part of the program for over ten years. “Typically it’s a self defense course for woman only.�

Sometimes girls are put into situa-� tions they are not sure how to handle, and this class can help prepare them for this. “I have not been in an intense situ-� ation,� said Ashley Hall, a freshman majoring in interior design. “There are times I’ve felt super uncomfortable and wished I knew more about how to handle it if something escalated.�

Some feel it is important to have classes to keep girls informed and ready for potentially dangerous situations. “I haven’t because I took karate, but I think it is important to have the class,� said Tina Greening, a junior majoring in

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the kids that have taken it safer. But more than just being safer, I think that they feel more confident. They feel less at risk when they are out and about�.

psychology. “Whether we like to admit it or not, the world is full of people that prey on the defenseless, even in Cache Valley.�

The class is held twice weekly with both classroom and demonstration sec-� tions. Certified police officers teach safety techniques. In the gym, they teach the girls the more physical aspect of safety. “I tell people we teach girls how to fight dirty,� Huish said. “We teach them how to punch and kick, how to gouge eyes — whatever it takes to get away from a would be attacker.�

According to Huish, about 50 percent of the class is talking about ways to avoid problems, how to be safer and how to find the things to look for in a poten-� tial abductor. These are taught in the classroom part of the class. “We find that most of the time you can avoid the situations that would

lead to the necessity of having to fight your way out of a bad situation,� Huish said. “In the classroom we teach them things to look out for, kind of red flags for people that might become assailants to them, things to make them safer, to make their homes safer. When they are traveling in their car and then just inter-� action out on dates, or when they are out by themselves late at night things that they can do.�

Small class sizes ensure each student gets the attention needed to learn how to protect herself. “We put a cap on the class of thirty just so we don’t have more than we can work closely with and mentor, so each semester we do thirty students,� Huish said. “In times past we have done two classes, so we have had as many as sixty students a semester.�

Building the confidence for women is one reason some students feel like it is good to have RAD. “Even if it is just for their confidence, feeling like they could know how to handle situation if it came up,� Hall said.

To be able to offer more classes, the campus police has been working on set-� ting up an extra class for those unable to take the credited class currently offered. “We are kind of looking to do some-� thing that we haven’t done in a while,�

Huish said. “That is to do an evening class for other people who could even be none students, or students who can’t free up their schedule enough to take our credited class through the PE department, and it’s a seven week course where we just meet one day a week for two hours.�

These classes could start as soon as March. The class is designed to empower the women who take it with feeling more confident and safe in life. “I’m sure that it keeps the kids that have taken it safer,� Huish said. “But more than just being safer, I think that they feel more confident. They feel less at risk when they are out and about.�

Sergeant Huish said former students often come to him with experiences of having used the skills learned in his course. “I had a girl come up to me at the last Aggie basketball game introduced herself as a former student,� said Huish. “I’m not sure how long ago she took it, but I think over the break she had been in Paris, France and somebody had tried to rob them. The way she described it, she was a beast and got all of her stuff back.�

Despite occurrences of women imple-� menting physical skills learned, many former students choose to keep them-� selves safe in preventative ways. “There are a few stories of success, but for the most part the girls are a little bit wiser and more careful than the average lady so they don’t get into one of those situations,� Huish said. – haileehousley@aggiemail.com

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they are carrying large amounts of money with a job they may have and feel they need to. I think the average student probably doesn’t have a great need, but that’s not something that’s determined by the police department.

I’m sure there are some that feel their need is pretty legiti-� mate.�

Dex Taylor, a fire-� arm instructor with the Department of Public Safety, travels around Utah teach-� ing classes to anyone who is interested in holding a con-� cealed firearms permit. He compared the same advan-� tages to carrying a concealed weapon to that of police officers. “Even though they use it primarily to enforce the law, the real reason is to be able to have self protection either for themselves or for somebody else,� he said.

When asked who should consider getting a permit, Taylor said, “Anybody who’s going to use a firearm, whether it’s for hunting, whether it’s for self-�protec-� tion, even if you think you’re just going to be around firearms, it would be a good idea.�

Taylor said many college-� aged people may be intimi-� dated by the prospect of tak-� ing his class. “I think that many times especially young people or often times women are intim-� idated by a class because they have never fired a gun before,� he said. “They feel like they need to go ahead and learn how before they come in and take this class, which is not true.�

Taylor said many who have taken his class benefitted from doing so. “I’ve had a lot of feedback from people who have either protected themselves or their families’ lives by using a fire-� arm,� he said.

Some students choose to get permits in order to provide safety and protec-� tion for themselves and their families. “I’ll be carrying

SOME LICENSED STUDENTS CHOOSE TO CARRY concealed weapons under permit. USU police say this can be a benefit, depending on the circumstance.

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frequently. That’s what I got the permit for,� said Brandon Mullen, a sophomore major-� ing in mechanical engineer-� ing. “Obviously there are times that I shouldn’t be and there are places that I shouldn’t have a gun. The federal law doesn’t even allow people with a concealed weapons permit to carry in a school zone, but Utah law allows it. On campus I may not carry as much because I don’t want to make people uncomfortable, because when someone has a gun on them you can tell unless they have a big coat or very loose cloth-� ing.�

Students like Mullen have more peace of mind when they have a concealed weapon on their person or in their household. `“I feel safer having a gun, my wife feels safer — it’s a security thing,� Mullen said. “Do I think anything is going to happen that I need a gun?

No, and hopefully I’ll never need to use it. But if a situa-� tion does come up, then I’ll be glad I got it. I feel guns are a tool just like a jack, welder, or saw. These, if used wrong, can and will kill a person, but if a tool is used for its pur-� pose in the correct manner then people don’t get hurt.�

Warren said people hear more about the negative aspects of gun ownership, and this leads to more fear and less understanding. “I feel like as long as people are ignorant about the issue and only hear the one side of criminals having guns and not the other side of responsible citizens having guns, there is going to be fear inside of certain people,� he said. “But I feel that is an issue of ignorance and not an actual safety issue.� – kellice.b@aggiemail.usu.edu – calewp@gmail.com

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VS. Gun control policies Should carrying firearms be allowed on Utah State’s campus?

BY BRIANNE PALMER staff writer

College is the time where young adults can run amuck and embrace their primal beings, reminding us all that “you only live once.� From harassing basketball teams with the face of Justin Bieber to flying down Old Main Hill in grocery carts, it is clear that maturity is somewhat lacking on campus. These are the citizens we are entrusting with lethal weapons?

According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, this lack of maturity is partially due to the undeveloped prefrontal cortex of the brain, fully developed at the age of 25, responsible for impulse control or “good judgment� — an important quality when handling a lethal weapon and often deficient in the college atmosphere.

The average age of a USU student is 22.3 years old, meaning the majority of students on campus are strutting around with undeveloped brains and uncontrolled impulses with the ability to carry a gun, proving more menacing than the face of Bieber.

We cannot counteract the general biology of the population, therefore such weapons should not be allowed in an area occupied by students with these reckless impulses.

Such adolescent folly doesn’t appear in the mandatory criminal history and background checks in order to purchase a gun in the state of Utah, nor does the law mention a psychological test to predict the stability and competence of the gun holder allowing unskilled and unprepared gun owners to wander our streets and sled down Old Main armed

See CONTROL, Page 6

BY STEVE KENT editor in chief

What would happen if USU students were allowed to carry firearms? They already are. Look around you. The bedlam you see — students holding the door open for others, people saying sorry after they bump into you in a crowded hallway — this chaos is underscored by the fact that some students are carrying firearms.

Last December, the Utah Department of Safety reported more than 400,000 valid state concealed-carry permits. Even if you can’t think of a friend who carries a firearm on campus, chances are good that an acquaintance or someone you see in the hall is carrying.

Should we panic? No. The majority of gun owners are responsible, careful citizens. Some anti-gun crusaders paint every gun owner as an adolescent with a cowboy complex, but in my experience, the

opposite is true.

Multiple times over the past few years, I’ve had discussion about gun safety with friends, coworkers and even relatives and learned that my conversation partner was carrying a concealed weapon right then.

If we weren’t talking specifically about gun safety, I never would have known they were carrying. They didn’t wear silver revolvers on their hips, they didn’t wave their guns in the air. They were humble — they knew they carried a device designed to take lives, and they treated it with the kind of respect you never see in Hollywood.

These gun owners are obviously not the type of person a gun-free campus is meant to keep out. Far too many tragedies occur when mentally unstable people — through legal or illegal means — take weapons to crowded areas, but time has proven

See FREEDOM, Page 6

Memoirs of Lis: What I’ve learned in dating

By Lis Stewart Online exclusive

There’s a drought and then there’s the flood.

I didn’t date in high school. Well, unless you count those two games of spin the bottle and junior prom — but I don’t. I call those the drought years. I figured I was going to be a savvy single journalist until I was 26, suddenly fall in love, get married, have a family and squeeze in a Pulitzer Prize somewhere in between writing my first screenplay and taking the kids to soccer practice.

I still look forward to the Pulitzer, screenplay and soccer practice, but my plan of staying single all through college so I could become a world travel-� ing journalist didn’t work out the way I planned.

However, I am so glad I didn’t because of every-� thing I’ve learned along the rocky road of heart-� break and heartbreaking. Welcome to the flood years.

Suddenly in my freshman year, I got a boy-� friend. Don’t ask me how, because I really don’t know. One crazy Percocet-�tripped-�out-�first-�date to the Sherlock Holmes movie — two words: wis-� dom teeth — and I had this adorable guy — we’ll call him Marvin — taking me out every weekend.

And it was great, except for the parts that weren’t.

We dated nine months, talked about marriage and then Marvin dumped me. I cried, Facebook stalked him everyday for a month, listened to sad music and then I was back to swinging single and partying at frat parties with my girlfriends.

Here’s my advice for getting dumped: Don’t look back, but still look back. Confusing? Of course.

Let me explain.

Continue reading at UtahStatesman.com

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Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013

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USU Police offer training for attacks in the workplace

THE USU POLICE DEPARTMENT OFFERS workplace violence and active shooter training sessions. Group presentations can be scheduled by contacting the campus police. DELAYNE LOCKE photo illustration

BY ERIC JUNGBLUT copy editor

Sgt. Travis Dunn of the USU Campus Police Department sat at the head of the classroom on the third floor of the Taggart Student Center. He played a video on the room’s projector screen for the members of the Academic Resources Center who were attending one of the officer’s workplace violence/ active shooter presentations.

The video Dunn showed was of a workplace hostage situation at a meet-� ing of a Florida school board in 2010.

Clay Duke, upset about his wife’s ter-� mination from an elementary school, held six members of the school board at gunpoint. Duke opened fire at the district superintendent at point-�blank range and was then shot at by a secu-� rity guard. Duke was wounded and fell to the ground where he killed himself with a shot to the head from his own gun.

No member of the school board was injured: Duke’s first shot hit a stack of papers on the desk in front of him, missing the superintendent. Should an event like this happen in an office on the USU campus, Dunn said to be ready to move at a moment’s notice. “What we’re trying to do is to teach, to train, to have the mindset so people can take care of this themselves, to get themselves out of the line of danger,�

Dunn said.

USU’s Department of Public Safety offers workplace violence/active shooter training to groups and offices at the university. The 30 to 60-�minute presentation teaches attendees what to look for and how to react to hostile or violent situations in a work area, according to the DPS’s website.

Dunn said the DPS has been holding the training seminars since he started working for the campus police more than four years ago. “With the recent incidents through-� out the country, there’s been a need or a want for this presentation,� Dunn said. “We’re getting a lot more requests this year for this particular type of pre-� sentation.�

After Dunn played the video of the Florida school board shooting, he showed another video called “Shots Fired: Guidance for Surviving an Active Shooter Situation� from the Center for Personal Protection and Safety.

The video presented a situation where a former employee enters a

workplace with a gun. It explains what to do based on the shape and size of the office and how easily an exit can be reached.

The video taught lessons such as analyzing a work environment to decide the best course of action, not assuming another person is calling 911 and how to react when police arrive on scene.

Dunn said if the people in atten-� dance were to take anything away from the presentation, it would be the “three outs:� get out, hide out and take out.

Get out means to exit the building as quickly as possible if it can be done safely, Dunn said. This should be done only if a person is out of the line of sight of the shooter.

If getting out is not an option, the next best thing to do is hide out in a room with a door and blockade the entrance while staying out of any potential line of sight for the shooter.

The take out option means to attempt to subdue the shooter, but only if possible. “My first reaction would be hide out,� said Debi Jensen, learning spe-� cialist and instructor for the Academic Resources Center who was in atten-� dance at the presentation. “I think if we heard the shots, they would be so close that we wouldn’t have time to get out, so we would have to hide out or we’d have to take out.�

Dunn gave advice on how to handle a take out situation. He said using thick textbooks or electronics as shields gives better protection against bullets than nothing at all. He also suggested improvising weapons from objects around a hideout location. “You have to have a him or me mind-� set,� Dunn said.

Jensen said she was glad she went to the presentation. “I think it’s important,� she said. “I think it’s really important to be pre-� pared and to even have some practice and some drills, just like fire drills.

Hopefully we’ll never have a fire but we have fire drills, so maybe we should have some drills about this. It freaks you out, but maybe it’s important to do.�

Workplace violence/active shooter presentations can be scheduled for a group by contacting the USU Police Department.

–ej.jungblut@gmail.com Twitter: @TheJungleButt

FREEDOM: Gun-�free zones aren’t From page 6 that if dangerous people want to smuggle guns into crowded areas, a “gun-free zone� sign won’t stop them.

The Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech and Aurora, Colo. shootings all happened in gun-free zones. Nearly all campus shootings do.

A gun-free campus is nothing more than a false sense of security. Unless you’re willing to wait in a line and walk through a

metal detector to enter campus, a change to firearm policy won’t make us more secure.

Rather than stick our heads in the sand by enacting a campus-wide gun ban, we should focus on a more effective preventive measure: education.

Faculty, staff and students should know the warning signs of an attack. A university course about firearm safety could benefit those who carry weapons — and

even those who object to firearms on campus — by dispelling myths and providing a mediated forum for civil discussion.

USU is — and should be — a place where people feel safe. The fact that some responsible, respectful members of our community choose to carry firearms for defense shouldn’t detract from that feeling of security. – steve.kent@aggiemail.usu.

CONTROL: Students not to be trusted From page 6

and dangerous.

Despite the crazed atmosphere encircling college towns, Logan is the fourth most secure place to live in the small town category in the United States, thus minimizing the need to carry firearms on campus and providing a safe haven for such youthful shenanigans.

Accord i ng to the National Crime Victimization Survey, less than one percent of the U.S. population has reportU *RRGV ‡ 5HVXPHV ed defensive gun use, or QJ ‡ 'LVVHUWDWLRQV DGU. It seems more likely to sled into the street at Done RIGHT! the bottom of Old Main Now. than to have to report a DGU in the sleepy town of Logan where the most frequent crime violations are dogs that bark obnoxiously.

Q ‡ We risk the safety of the area by allowing firearms on a campus crawling with the erratic adolescents.

This begs the question: Is it the responsible decision to allow such impulsive and immature students to control firearms? Can we sleep knowing that our society faces a greater threat than cardboard cutouts? Perhaps we are all allowing our prefrontal cortex to act rashly as

we permit those lacking fundamental “good judgment� to carry machines with the potential to harm the community that prides itself with its safe disposition, light-hearted fun and harmless harassing. – brianne.palmer@aggiemail.usu.edu

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A strong first half lifted the Utah State menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball team to a 63-â&#x20AC;?36 rout of San Jose State on Friday, fueled by a game-â&#x20AC;?high 22 points from junior Spencer Butterfield.

It was the fifth consecu-â&#x20AC;? tive double-â&#x20AC;?double for the California native, who was named WAC menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basket-â&#x20AC;? ball player of the week for his performance. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re enjoying playing basketball,â&#x20AC;? said head coach Stew Morrill. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re play-â&#x20AC;? ing really hard. You have to be pleased coming here and holding San Jose down.

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There was no stopping the Utah State womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball team Saturday.

The Aggies played like a team on a mission en route to a lopsided 87-â&#x20AC;?54 win over a short-â&#x20AC;?handed San Jose State squad, highlight-â&#x20AC;? ed by Devyn Christensenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s record breaking night. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got several things going for us right now,â&#x20AC;? head coach Jerry Finkbeiner said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on a win streak. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a little bit of swagger going on right now. Expectations are ones that come on the floor that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll play hard and play well, and Devynâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s night was icing on the cake. It was a good night when you throw all of the above together.â&#x20AC;?

Entering the game eight points behind Jerrie MacGahanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1,353 career points, it took Christensen all of four shots to break the record and become the all-â&#x20AC;?time scoring leader. At the 11:59 mark of the first half, the senior from Caldwell, Idaho drilled her third 3-â&#x20AC;?pointer from the corner to etch her name in the record books again.

Fittingly, it was Christensenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best friend and roommate, Pualei Furtado, who assisted her on the play. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just so happy for her and so proud of her,â&#x20AC;?

Furtado said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That was my favorite play of the whole game was to be able to pass the ball to her for her points to get that award and break the record.â&#x20AC;?

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Christensen, nicknamed the â&#x20AC;&#x153;White Mambaâ&#x20AC;? by fellow students, also holds the records for 3-â&#x20AC;?point attempts, free throw per-â&#x20AC;? centage and free throws made. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cool for me to be able to have that experi-â&#x20AC;? ence my senior year,â&#x20AC;?

Christensen said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was just a special moment, a culmination of a good four

years and a good deal all the way around.â&#x20AC;?

While Christensen scored a game-â&#x20AC;?high 17 points, it was a total team effort that allowed the Aggies to avenge their Jan. 12 loss to the Spartans. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wins in a row,â&#x20AC;?

Christensen said in response to which record was her favorite. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always the best one

because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a team one and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so fun. Individual records are cool to be able to be able to have your family be excited about and be remembered for, but ultimately it is a team game.â&#x20AC;?

Jennifer Schlott domi-â&#x20AC;? nated early with 11 first half points while dishing out four assists as the Aggies shot 50 percent

from the field en route to a 45-â&#x20AC;?19 halftime lead.

The Spartans shot just 20 percent from the field and 50 percent from the free throw line, led by Riana Byrd with 10 of the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 19 points.

It could have been a lot worse for the Spartans.

Despite 14 USU turn-â&#x20AC;? overs in the first 20 minutes, the Spartans managed just one point off those takeaways. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re holding the girls accountable one on one,â&#x20AC;?

Finkbeiner said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re playing in a way that our turnovers arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bad turn-â&#x20AC;? overs. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re turnovers trying to create things and not sloppy turnovers that give the opposing a fast-â&#x20AC;? break and easy buckets.â&#x20AC;?

After a 36-â&#x20AC;?point per-â&#x20AC;? formance the first time the teams met, the Aggies held SJSU freshman Emily Schill to six points on 2-â&#x20AC;?of-â&#x20AC;?

6 shooting. Byrd finished with a team-â&#x20AC;?high 17 points for the Spartans, who fell to 9-â&#x20AC;?14 overall and 6-â&#x20AC;?6 in WAC play.

The Aggies out-â&#x20AC;?rebound-â&#x20AC;? ed the Spartans 66-â&#x20AC;?36 on the night, holding SJSU to 26 percent from the field while forcing 19 turnovers.

Utah State improved to 13-â&#x20AC;?10 overall and remained atop the WAC standings with a 10-â&#x20AC;?2 record after sweeping its three-â&#x20AC;?game home-â&#x20AC;?stand. The Aggies hit the road for a pair of games, starting with a Valentines date against Denver on Thursday.

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HOCKEY

GOALTENDER BRYCE SCHERSCHEL makes a save as Brian Gibbons and Chris Videto defend during one of the Aggies’ two wins over Colorado State last week. With

two wins in three games over the weekend, Utah State secured the number one seed in the region and an automatic berth in the national tournament. SAMANTHA BEHL photo

BY SEAN O’SULLIVAN

for a total of eight minutes in the second period, USU managed to score the lone goal of the middle frame.

Forward Dee Fontaine’s shot slipped past the CU goalie and was helped into the net by a Buffalo defender trying to sweep the puck away from the net.

Utah State gave up three unanswered goals in the third period including two in the final four minutes. As the game ended, Hepburn tried to start a fight with a Buffalo player, but was pulled away by the refs.

“What happened at the end of the game there with one of our players, I am very embar-‐ rassed by what went on there,” Eccles said.

Hepburn earned a disquali-‐ fication for the next game.

No. 1 USU headed for national tournament staff writer

Utah State’s club hockey team had three games this weekend to leave a final impression on the American Collegiate Hockey Association ranking voters. After winning two out of the three games, USU stayed atop of the rank-‐ ings to earn an automatic bid to the national tournament.

Utah State 5, Colorado State 0 Aggie goaltender Bryce Scherschel made 32 saves to earn the shutout while forwards Chris Videto and Cooper Limb each scored twice to beat the Rams on Thursday.

“It’s a goalie stat, but at the same time it’s a team effort that goes into it,” Scherschel said. “Like you saw in the second period, Ty Johns did a great job of blocking two

shots that might have gone in if it weren’t for him getting in the way.”

Scherschel managed to keep the shutout even though the Aggies took nine penal-‐ ties, giving the Rams plenty of chances to put the puck in the back of the net. In the end, the USU penalty kill prevailed.

This was Utah State’s third game against the No. 3-‐ranked Rams, and it was also its most dominating per-‐ formance.

“That was impressive,” said head coach Jon Eccles. “We knew what was riding on the line. It was a must-‐win game and to come out and win 5-‐0 was just — the boys played their hearts out.”

Forward Stu Hepburn opened the scoring for the Aggies less than eight min-‐ utes into the first period and Videto scored three minutes later to give USU a 2-‐0 edge heading into the second period.

Videto scored again less

than three minutes into the second period before Limb scored the final two goals for the Aggies, one with four min-‐ utes left in the second and the other four and a half minutes into the third.

Colorado University 3, Utah State 1 In a very closely contested game, the Aggies lost on a late goal in the third period on Friday.

The Aggies and Buffaloes traded chances early.

However, neither team wanted to be the first to make a mistake and allow the first goal.

Then Utah State started taking penalties — nine in the last two periods.

“It is so sad that we, as a team, implode like this,” Eccles said. “I’m very frus-‐ trated with the amount of penalties we took.”

Even though the Aggies were down a man four times

Utah State 6, Colorado State 3 Utah State came back on Saturday and showed why

it should remain the No. 1 seed in the West by defeating Colorado State for the second time in three nights by a score of 6-‐3.

“It’s right before the rank-‐ ings and we’re heading to nationals, so it was a huge game,” said forward Devin Holmes.

A loss might have pushed them out of the top two spots, which earn automatic bids to nationals and bypassing the regional tournament.

Matt Hamilton put the Aggies on the board with 11:16 left to play in the first period, deflecting a Ty Johns shot on the power play.

The two teams traded goals in the second period with freshman forward Ian Beckstrom notching USU’s goal.

Six total goals were scored in the third period and the Aggies scored four of them.

Gary Higgs scored less than two minutes into the third period and Limb scored less

than three minutes later to extend the lead to 4-‐1 for the Aggies.

The Rams got one back by scoring on a power play, but Videto answered by firing a slapshot past the goalie in transition. With less than a minute left, CSU scored to make the score 5-‐3 and then pulled their goalie, allowing Holmes to score the empty net goal.

“Everybody came to play,” Eccles said. “It was a different atmosphere inside the locker room before the game.”

In the final rankings on Sunday, USU held on to the number one spot and earned the trip to St. Louis to play in the ACHA National Tournament.

Utah State hosts the University of Utah Friday, Feb. 15 at 7 p.m.

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Helping Haiti: Skiing the Beav for a good cause

BY DANIELLE MANLEY staff writer

Several skiers and snowboarders lined up Saturday morning under the sun at Beaver Mountain to pay a com-‐ petitor fee and warm up before the competition began at 10:30 a.m.

Beaver Mountain and Directive Boardshop hosted its second-‐annual Rail Jam fundraiser Saturday for the nonprofit organization PROViDE. Directive Boardshop helped set up the event at Beaver’s Yurt, an area where they commonly hold rail jams and compe-‐ titions.

Kristopher Young, the founder and executive director of PROViDE — Participatory Response Offering Vitality in Devastated Environments — created the organiza-‐ tion specifically to send aid to disaster areas.

“We’re raising funds for a marginalized com-‐ munity in Haiti, so bring-‐ ing our community in Northern Utah together to have some fun and also to raise some funds, it just makes perfect sense,” Young said.

In addition to the competition, a Haitian barbeque provided spec-‐ tators and skiers and snowboarders with food.

A raffle drawing offered prizes from local spon-‐ sors such as Angie’s, Al’s, Sportsman, Skullcandy, Elements and Cafe Sabor.

“They come up, they compete, they get some delicious food and win some raffle prizes and are able to give back that way just by having a good time,” Young said.

Ty West is part of the park crew at Beaver and placed all the rails in the staging area as well as helped organize sponsors for the event.

West said there’s a lot of the local talent and an element of the Rail Jam includes drawing that tal-‐ ent to the competition.

Though they had a big-‐ ger competitor list than last year, fewer spectators showed up to watch the show, which Young thinks was due to the weather.

“Our competitor list is bigger, but I think less spectators,” Young said. “Last year it was a bluebird 35 degree day, perfect to be in the moun-‐ tains, so everybody has been stoked to enter and compete but not as many people just wanna hang out and watch when it’s a blizzard.”

Scott Rappleye, who attends USU and took first place in the advanced

snowboarding division, suggested improvements to be made for future Rail Jams.

“It was competitive,” Rappleye said. “The riders in it this year were prob-‐ ably the hardest I’ve been with, but the speed on the set-‐ups were super slow.

That was an issue with a lot of the guys.”

“A couple of the guys can’t throw down as hard as they usually do,” he said. “It’s hard to get a lot of speed.”

Of the two rail jams Beaver hosted last year, one had similar problems to the one Saturday, but the other one had optimal features.

“They had one here at this spot last year and the run in was about the same,” Rappleye said.

“You had to come in from the catch rack and carve in so it still wasn’t that good, but Directive had one last year that was over on the Face and that was a lot better. That setup was really good. It was better over there because it was on a hill. You could get enough speed, as much as you wanted to for any of the features.”

Another problem the riders faced was the amount of energy it took to walk back up the hill after they’d thrown a trick. They walked up the hill an average of 10 to 15 times.

Rappleye said by the time he had finished his first hit and walked back up, he had felt like he had just finished running a marathon.

Despite the problems the skiers and boarders complained of, most com-‐ petitors said this year’s rail jam was an improve-‐ ment over the one last year.

“Everything about it is getting better,” Young said. “We got more prizes by far than last year.”

West said they also had more female competitors sign up this year. Last year’s rail jam only had one female rider sign up.

This year they had three.

Young hopes that next year’s jam will have even more improvements, especially in competitor numbers.

“Last year we only had one female contestant and this year we have three,” Young said. “We’re hoping next year if we can double that, they have their own division.”

GREG STEINDORFF PERFORMS A TRICK during his run at the second annual Rail Jam at Beaver Mountain Ski Resort. Steindorff took first place in the advanced skier division Saturday. DANIELLE MANLEY photo

GYMNASTICS

Landes leads way as Aggies ground Air Force

BY DANIELLE MANLEY staff writer

The Utah State University gymnas-‐ tics team pulled off its second win of the season on Friday against the Air Force Falcons with a final score of 193.575 — 193.200.

However, the score wasn’t enough for head coach Jeff Richards, who said in order to qualify for regionals, the team needs to pull off a 195.

“We’re coming out with nerves or something,” Richards said. “I can’t quite put my finger on it yet, but it is nice to have the win. We’ve got to work on some things. We’ve got to get our scores up there if we’re gonna be top-‐ 36 to make it to regionals. As a team we’ve gotta be scoring 195’s.”

The Aggies kept a steady two-‐point lead for the first two rotations. After vault, the uneven bars and beam, USU – daniellekmanley@gmail. held a slim .5 lead over Air Force.

Preparing for the final rotation, USU com on the floor exercise and Air Force on Twitter: @daniellekmanley the balance beam, all-‐around winner Sarah Landes said she didn’t realize the scores were close, but Richards did.

“I knew it was close,” Richards said.

“Coming into floor, it shouldn’t make you nervous, but after our perfor-‐ mance last home meet, I was a little bit nervous.”

At the last home meet on Jan. 26, the Aggies faltered in their final rotation, which ultimately cost them a first-‐ place finish.

“We hadn’t been doing a whole lot of floor,” Richards said. “We were nurs-‐ ing some injuries, so going into it we kind of knew that we were trying to put some things together, that it was going to be touch and go.”

Despite the nerves before the floor routines, the Aggies came out on top and scored a 48.325.

“We stepped it up in practice and you can see, going down to Southern, we had a great meet on floor,” Richards said. “Really this tonight, I was pretty pleased with how they did.

Our landings just weren’t that crisp.”

Though they didn’t get a 195.000, USU still won the meet led by recur-‐ ring top performer Sarah Landes.

“I felt pretty confident because of how we’ve done this season and how we’ve progressed and built on our-‐ selves,” Landes said. “I knew that if we

came in and did our stuff like we know how to do it, we would pull off the win.”

For the Aggies’ next meet, Richards knows exactly what his team needs to work on to pull off his desired score: the balance beam.

“We got a little bit of work to do in the gym,” Richards said. “We’ll do a little more pressure sets in there and put the pressure on them and hope-‐ fully that’ll make them feel a little bet-‐ ter out here.”

Landes is confident her teammates can step up to the competition in San Jose on Friday.

“We had a little bit of a rough meet tonight,” Landes said. “We had some bobbles here and there, so we expect next week to go in, pull ourselves back together and be able to hit a strong meet, build on the score we got last weekend, everything we did this week.”

The Aggies travel to San Jose State to face the Spartans and Brown University on Friday, Feb. 15 at 8 p.m.

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The trifecta of evil â&#x20AC;&#x201D; sports edition Curtis Lundstrom Livinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; the Dream

Think back to the last time you had a heated debate with an opposing teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sports fan. Who was their team?

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m willing to bet whatever team it was will be mentioned in this column. I say this because while everyone has the team or player that they most despise, there are a handful of teams that come up more than others and seem to be universally hated.

It might just be me, but it seems there are two main reasons these teams are despised so passionately: They win a lot, or their fans are â&#x20AC;&#x201D; generally â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the most obnoxious, annoying and irrational people on earth.

That being said, I give you the trifecta of evil â&#x20AC;&#x201D; sports edition.

1. New York Yankees â&#x20AC;&#x153;Call me when you

have 27 championships.â&#x20AC;? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a fall-back when their fans lose an argument at the end of every season that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t end with a championship and combines the two main reasons people hate them.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been four years since their last title but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to refute their argument when theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been so consistent throughout history, which is a big part of why their fans are so aggravating.

Personally I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t dealt with a lot of obnoxious Yankee fans, largely because weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re 2,000 miles away from the Bronx and the more annoying fans tend to be the diehards within the hometown.

2. Los Angeles Lakers However, that generalization definitely does not apply to Laker Nation.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve met plenty of obnoxious LA fans in Utah. Granted, Utah seems to be on the more liberal end of the hate spectrum where the Lakers are concerned, but there are plenty of Laker haters across the country.

That tends to happen when a team is so

good for so long, as is the case with both the Lakers and the Yankees. Fan bases naturally grow larger when teams win, and the bandwagon sticks when they win consistently.

Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s be honest, who doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t love some of the old LA stars like Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and James Worthy?

Doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter.

America loves to hate the Lakers.

Cowboys, three titles in four years largely broadened the New England Patriots fan base â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and the hate club. Oakland boasts the nastiest fans in the entire country on every level in any sport.

At the college level, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s undisputed that BYU is the most hated

team locally. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a myriad of reasons why, but I wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go into that. Duke is a semi-close second, but for the same reasons as the rest: They win a lot and have annoying fans.

-â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Curtis Lundstrom is a proud husband

and father, an aspiring sports journalist and referee. A print journalism major, his life ambition is to bowl a perfect game. Send your comments or complaints to curtislundstrom@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter: @CurtisLundstrom.

3. Dallas Cowboys One word: dynasty.

The Cowboys were the first NFL team to win three Super Bowls in a four-year span, earning themselves the nickname of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Team.â&#x20AC;?

As is the case with the aforementioned teams, success garners haters: only in this case, the hate worked to the favor of fans, as the Cowboys have won just one playoff game since their last title in 1995.

Dishonorable Mentions: New England Patriots, Oakland Raiders, BYU Cougars, Duke Blue Devils As with the

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Higham tied for first

BY USU MEDIA RELATIONS

Utah Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tanner Higham is currently tied for first-â&#x20AC;?place with a 2-â&#x20AC;?under 70 after the opening round of the Southern Utah hosted Pat Hicks Thunderbird Invitational held here at the Sunbrook Golf Club on Monday.

Utah State currently sits tied for fourth-â&#x20AC;?place in the 14-â&#x20AC;?team field with a 10-â&#x20AC;?over 298. College of Charleston has a six-â&#x20AC;?shot lead after the first round with a 2-â&#x20AC;?under 286.

Joining Higham at the top of the leader board is Charlestonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alex Ellis, Cal Polyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Camden Price and BYUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Stephen

Archibald.

Higham, a junior from Shelley, Idaho began the tournament with a 1-â&#x20AC;?over 37 on the front nine before carding a 3-â&#x20AC;?under 33 on the back nine.

Overall, Higham led the field with a score of 3-â&#x20AC;?under on the par-â&#x20AC;?3â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to go along with one eagle during his round.

Freshman Seokwon Jeon (Salt Lake City, Utah) finished one shot behind Higham for Utah State and is currently tied for fifth-â&#x20AC;?place with a 1-â&#x20AC;?under 71 (33-â&#x20AC;?38).

Senior Kris Sayer (Idaho Falls, Idaho) is tied for 36th after carding a 4-â&#x20AC;?over 76 (38-â&#x20AC;?38), junior Zach Waxler (Casper, Wyo.) is tied for 79th with a 9-â&#x20AC;?over 81 (43-â&#x20AC;?

Reed a State Farm finalist

BY USU MEDIA RELATIONS

Utah Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kyisean Reed is a finalist for the â&#x20AC;&#x153;State Farm Dark Horse Dunkerâ&#x20AC;? competition, Intersport announced Monday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;State Farm Dark Horse Dunkerâ&#x20AC;? nominees are under-â&#x20AC;?the-â&#x20AC;?radar players who have what it takes to compete against the D-â&#x20AC;?I field in Atlanta.

The winner will participate in the Dennyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Slam Dunk Competition at the State Farm College Slam Dunk & 3-â&#x20AC;?Point Championships in Atlanta at 5 p.m.

(MT), on April 4 on ESPN. Sixteen dunkers have been selected to compete in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;State Farm Dark Horse Dunkerâ&#x20AC;? Facebook bracket, which is a five-â&#x20AC;?week knockout competition. Fans will determine the winner by voting during each round at the official Facebook page (facebook.com/CollegeSlam).

Each of the 16 finalists are slotted against another Dark Horse Dunker candidate in our bracket. Fans can access the bracket, watch video of each dunker, and vote for their favorite starting Monday at noon.

They will be able to vote one time per day, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important that they share their vote with their friends and help share the word. The first round will last TWO weeks until Monday, February 25 at 11:59 am CT. At that time, the dunker with more votes in each match-â&#x20AC;?up with move on to the second round.

Ultimately, the dunker left standing at the end of our competition on March 18 will be invited to join us in Atlanta Final Four weekend for the College Slam Dunk contest on ESPN. Reed is out for the season with a knee injury sus-â&#x20AC;? tained on Jan. 17.

38), and freshman Reed Platke (Whitefish, Mont.) is tied for 88th after card-â&#x20AC;? ing a 12-â&#x20AC;?over 84 (43-â&#x20AC;?41).

Utah State also has two players competing as individuals in the tourna-â&#x20AC;? ment as senior Brendan Dennis (Roosevelt, Utah) is tied for 19th at 2-â&#x20AC;?over 74 (38-â&#x20AC;?36) and sophomore Ryan Pearson (Pocatello, Idaho) is tied for 95th with a 21-â&#x20AC;?over 93 (47-â&#x20AC;?46).

Teams will tee off on Tuesday, February 12 in the final round of the Pat Hicks Thunderbird Invitational beginning at 10 a.m. (MT). USU will be paired with players from Utah Valley and Idaho.

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Middle ground is most secure for USU Lately, reading the news seems to hurt. Even for a group of college journalists who pride themselves on being stoic, when weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re constantly bombarded with news about violence at US colleges, it gives us reason to stop and reconsider what we believe about campus safety.

When a student hears about a particular violent act, whether it be a shooting or a bomb threat, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve noticed their reacAn Editorial Opinion tion often falls into one of two categories.

First, there are the deniers. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to say it wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happen to us. After all, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cache Valley, where even the worst tragedies seem to be unpreventable accidents. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no need to put any laws, rules or changes into place because USU is safe as it is.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll call the second group the cautionaries.

Students need to be kept safe at any cost, they say, so no weapons should be allowed on campus, ever. The Second Amendment is outdated, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no reason for somebody in the middle of a city to have a gun. After all, people only use guns to hunt animals, right? Well, I can buy my food at the grocery store, thank you very much.

Just a note: We realize many people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fall into one of these areas exclusively. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just parroting back a trend weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve noticed.

Just as there are people on all sides of the spectrum around campus, at The Statesman office we fall on both sides of the issue. Despite this, we can come to an agreement on one thing: Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no single solution. We also understand ever-increasing burden for USU administration to solve a problem that hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happened yet. But we feel there should be some important considerations taken if campus security is to increase.

First: Any decisions about our safety should lie in the hands of our own administration.

This is what we pay them for. Although much debate is happening at a federal level, the men in Washington, D.C. donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always understand that what we need may be different from what the University of Florida needs.

Second: Students have a right to feel safe.

Some studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s means of feeling safe are different than others, and this needs to be taken into consideration.

Third: Teaching is the most important method of control. Showing students how to defend themselves can prevent tragedy. Sending employees to workplace violence training may help them save a student someday. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not foolproof, but it is a step that those on both sides of the issue can come to compromise on.

As violence increases across the nation, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not wait for it to catch up with us. We canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t predict the whens and wheres of campus violence, but we can be prepared.

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ForumLetters Heterosexuality is not morality To the editor: I remember as a teenager sitting in a Mormon church during training to become a Boy Scout counselor. One particular day, we watched a video to teach us about the dangers of gays.

One section showed a man who said he could â&#x20AC;&#x153;convertâ&#x20AC;? any boy he wanted to being gay in the matter of a week.

As a gay teenager, this turned my judgment against myself; I knew I was gay, but I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t doing the horrible things

shown on that video.

Recently, Richard Winters wrote an article about declining morals.

One particular attack he made was against â&#x20AC;&#x153;homosexuals,â&#x20AC;? a scientific term that removes much of the emotion behind gays.

In this culture, we tend to use scientific terms when talking about things that make us uncomfortable; it makes everything sterile, safe.

As Winters claims, embracing homosexuality means eliminating the human population in one generation. Fortunately, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wrong; learning to love our African American

Photo Editor Delayne Locke brothers has not caused Caucasians to die out.

We gays are not here to convert; weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re here to live and find happiness.

I know Winters wants to hold onto morals, but these morals are not just privileges for a straight white male.

I am a gay man with a single partner for almost two years, and I have morals.

Beliefs like these were created for self-betterment, and Winters must be trying to be the best he can be. However, we should perfect ourselves and allow others to find perfection in their own spheres.

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Five years later, I am still worried, but not for the fear of being mocked, for the fear that many women and men still feel like they will be shamed, jeered at, beat-

en, or worse if they stand up against domestic violence and abuse in a public forum. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Vagina Monologuesâ&#x20AC;? is one example of many where students standing at their ticket tables were met with demeaning stares, looks of shock, and parents covering their childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eyes just because a medical term was written on the poster hanging from the table. VOX, a student group that provides free sexual education, has experienced

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How should the US deal with illegal immigration?

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On the other hand, a more compassionate view exists. Most of these immigrants come here to find a better, more prosperous life. They often have relatives who already live here and many have children while so they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just be shipped back to where they came from. I tend to have a view that sits somewhere between the two main viewpoints.

President Obama has recently proposed a plan that would eventually give illegal immigrants a path to citizenship. Some prominent Republicans like Florida Senator Marco Rubio have proposed similar plans but with more emphasis on securing the border. The largest difference between the two plans is that Rubioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s would require the southern border of the United States to be secured before moving forward with a plan to deal with the illegal immigrants already in the country â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a requirement I wholeheartedly agree with.

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I heard a fantastic analogy the other day that helped put the situation into perspective for me. If you have a leaky roof on your house are you going to replace your carpet before you fix the leaky roof? No. You would never consider replacing your carpet before you fixed your leaky roof. The same principle applies to our illegal immigration problem. Until the border is secured, there is no point to implement new immigration reform laws. Border security should be the number one priority for our federal government with regards to our illegal immigration problem.

Once the border is more secure and the incentive for people to come here illegally has been taken away, the time will be right to deal with the illegal immigrants already in the country. I think Senator Rubioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposal might be a starting point for immigration reform. I like his ideas of making the illegals in the country pay back taxes for as long as they have been here and have them do community service in order to be allowed to even stay is very reasonable: a way to let people stay with their families but still pay a price for breaking the law. There is a lot of room for debate about what process people must go through to gain citizenship. My own view is that once they pay their back taxes and do their community service, they can get in the back of the line behind everyone else who is trying to come here legally and go through the citizenship process. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Casey Saxton, a junior majoring in business administration, is the president of the USU College Republicans. He can be reached at caseysaxton@ hotmail.com.

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From page 12 Making citizenship a greater possibility provides incentive to be a contributing member of society, whereas restriction and deportation only serve to alienate and break up families, not to mention costing the taxpayers. Many of these provisions are being advocated by President Obama and a bipartisan group of Senators and Congressman, a plan which also has received a record amount of public approval.

The changing demographics of our country leave us with two basic options: either embrace legal immigration and provide more options for citizenship and work programs or continue to spend billions of dollars closing our borders and victimizing our own citizens and legal immigrants in the process. In 2006 alone the budget allocated $6.7 billion for heightened border security, essentially building an enormous wall, adding more than five times the number of armed guards and requiring more legal restrictions. Despite these measures, the rate of illegal immigration actually increased.

I am not advocating the total absence of regulation, but it is clear that immigration is inevitable, regardless of our policies.

Tony Blair once presented the truism that a simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in and how many want out. The American experience is as promising now as ever, and the fact that immigration stands as a major policy issue is a testament to that. It is time to embrace the tradition of immigration that has built the country into what it is today instead of criminalizing the desire for a better life.

If we do so responsibly, the diversity and cohesion we create will carry our society through future generations. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mike McPhie is a senior from Toole, Utah, majoring in law and constitutional studies. During the spring semester, he interned in Washington, D.C. Send him comments at mike.mcphie@aggiemail.usu.edu.

From page 12 similar looks. As their members sat at tables spread with educational pamphlets on everything from healthy body image to safe sex practices, some have said they felt afraid that a fellow USU student might flip over their table or mock them openly.

Why? The culture here is that sex is not normal conversation.

Many USU students might be surprised to know that: 1 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Of the college woman who are raped, only 25 percent describe it as rape; 2 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; One in four women in college today has been the victim of rape, and nearly 90 percent of them knew their rapist, and that number is climbing to one in three; and 3 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 34 percent of completed rapes and 45 percent of attempted rapes take place on campus. Almost 60 percent of the completed campus rapes occur in the victimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s residence, 31 percent occur in anoth-

er residence, and 10 percent occur in a fraternity.

These statistics are just the tip of the iceberg.

Why are people still afraid to go to groups, classes or shows like â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Vagina Monologues,â&#x20AC;? where sexual assault is discussed openly when there is a clear need to discuss these topics in more ways? I hear the comments: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not my problem.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because it is a private affair.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really want to hear about those things. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not proper.â&#x20AC;? The truth is, whether or not you have been involved in an assault in any capacity, everyone should know about these issues and draw attention to them as deep problems in our culture. The only sure way to verify the normalcy of an action is to allow it on a daily basis. To not discuss it as wrong like we do with discrimination against other races or robbing someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home. When actions like assault, rape and sex in general are kept behind

doors undiscussed and unacknowledged, we normalize assault, rape and not knowing very much about our bodies, sex or healthy displays of intimacy in the bedroom, let alone understanding why more people should demand their elected leaders reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act and take more action against perpetrators of violence and politicians who think there is legitimate rape exists â&#x20AC;&#x201D; how was Akin still a congressman after that statement?

I do not argue that pornography is for everyone nor that everyone is at the same level of comfort when it comes to discussing sexually-related topics. I am of the opinion, however, that sexual education and communication should be discussed more openly and more often to de-normalize the shame of assault victims and normalize the culture that says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;No.â&#x20AC;? I expect most people would agree that

assault is not okay. The problem is our culture of silence around and condescension toward these issues has constructed an environment that says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sexual assault is normal,â&#x20AC;? by deliberate avoidance of the issue. Forums of public discourse on sexuality should be safe, normal and comfortable spaces, not places to be avoided and shunned.

Stand up for your right to say whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right and say it. Say it not when the assault or abuse has already occurred, but before it does so that we can live in a culture where sexual abuse and rape are things of the past. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Kristin Ladd is a Utah State University graduate student and instructor in the English Department.

She currently teaches an English 2010 class on Civil Rights and LGBTQA issues. She can be reached for questions or comment at kristin.ladd@ aggiemail.usu.edu.

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Today is Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013. Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Lori Schafer a freshman majoring in business administration and event planning from Aurora, Colo.

Almanac Today in History: On Feb. 12, 1999, the five-â&#x20AC;?week impeach-â&#x20AC;? ment trial of Bill Clinton came to an end, with the Senate vot-â&#x20AC;? ing to acquit the president on both articles of impeachment.

Rejecting the first charge of perjury, 45 Democrats and 10 Republicans voted â&#x20AC;&#x153;not guiltyâ&#x20AC;? and on the charge of obstruc-â&#x20AC;? tion of justice the Senate was split 50-â&#x20AC;?50. After the trial con-â&#x20AC;? cluded, President Clinton said he was â&#x20AC;&#x153;profoundly sorryâ&#x20AC;? for the burden his behavior imposed on Congress and the American people.

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OPTIONS for Independence will be hav-â&#x20AC;? ing an Independent Living Skills Class Feb. 12. Twelve Dietetic students are com-â&#x20AC;? ing to do 45 minute one-â&#x20AC;?to-â&#x20AC;?one consults, 24 spots are available, call Anna to schedule your time (435) 753-â&#x20AC;?5353 ext. 103. It will be from 4-â&#x20AC;?6 p.m. at OPTIONS, 1095 N Main Street, Logan Utah 84341.

The Human Library offers â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;living booksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to be checked out for a conversation. The Feb. 27 Human Library will be focused on religion and spiritual pathways. Each human book is unique and has something to share regarding his or her experiences, perspectives, values, or beliefs. Readers are invited to select books that offer new expe-â&#x20AC;? riences and viewpoints so that both the book and the reader can learn something new and foster understanding through a shared conversation. Conversations can be up to 30 minutes long.

Understanding Emotions Workshop: Learn skills for understanding your emo-â&#x20AC;? tions better and being able to use your emotions as a resource instead of being controlled by them. The workshop will run Feb. 13 from 1:30-â&#x20AC;?3:00 p.m. in TSC Room 310 B. Please call 435-â&#x20AC;?797-â&#x20AC;?1012 to reserve a seat.

Come and tie a quilt at OPTIONS for the Independence Quilters group, Feb. 13 from 10 -â&#x20AC;?12:30 p.m. Lunch will be fur-â&#x20AC;? nished. Quilters will be at OPTIONS for Independence, 1095 N Main Street, Logan Utah 84341. For more information contact Royella at 435-â&#x20AC;?753-â&#x20AC;?5353 ext. 105.

James Estes from the University of California will be speaking as the Ecology Departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s monthly speaker. Estes will be speaking Feb. 13 at 6 p.m. in ENG 103 and Feb. 14 at 4 p.m. in ENG 103.

Music Theatre West will perform Jay Richardsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; musical adaptation of Charlotte Bronteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classic novel, Jane Eyre. The show opens on Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day and runs through Feb.19, excluding Sunday (with two shows-â&#x20AC;?-â&#x20AC;?a 1:30 matinee and an evening

Overcoming Test Anxiety, TSC 335 10-â&#x20AC;?10:45 p.m.

Delta Sigma Phi Date Auction, TSC International Lounge 7-â&#x20AC;?9 p.m.

Student Employment Fair, TSC Sunburst Lounge 9-â&#x20AC;?2 p.m.

For the Love of Banff Ticket Contest, All Day

WednesdayFeb 13 Financial Planning for Women, Family Life Center 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 7-â&#x20AC;?8:30 p.m.

Healthy Relationships and Sexual Responsibility Week, TSC International Lounge 10-â&#x20AC;?2 p.m.

Aggies with the Times, TSC 11:30-â&#x20AC;?12:30 p.m.

The Art of Happiness Workshop, TSC 310 11:30-â&#x20AC;?

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Nominate a student/organization for USU Robins Awards 2013, All Day For the Love of Banff Ticket Contest, All Day Pre-â&#x20AC;?trip meeting for City of the Rocks Yurt Trip & Snowshoe Expedition, ORP 5-â&#x20AC;?6 p.m.

Medical School-â&#x20AC;?American University of the Caribbean Presentation, Old Main 5 p.m.

ThursdayFeb 14 Group Meditation, TSC 12-â&#x20AC;?1 p.m.

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

Banff Mountain Film Festival, TSC Ballroom 7-â&#x20AC;?10 p.m.

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

9th Annual Jazz Night at the Sky Club Student Dance Only Night, Skyroom 8-â&#x20AC;?10 p.m.

Healthy Sexuality Workshop (2), TSC 310B 12-â&#x20AC;?1:30 p.m.

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FridayFeb 15 9th Annual Jazz Night at the Sky Club, Skyroom 6:30-â&#x20AC;?10 p.m.

Banff Mountain Film Festival, TSC Ballroom 7-â&#x20AC;?10 p.m.

Delta Sigma Phi presents Lady in Red Dance Party, TSC 9:30-â&#x20AC;?1 a.m.

show â&#x20AC;&#x201D; on the 16th). Kent Braddy (Edward Rochester) and Karlee Heaps (Jane Eyre) lead the talented cast. Tickets are available at www. cachearts.org or by calling the box office at 435-â&#x20AC;?752-â&#x20AC;?0026.

USU Chapter of Fight the New Drug is hosting a Battle of the Bands. It will be Feb. 23 in the Fieldhouse from 5-â&#x20AC;?10 p.m. There will be local bands and sponsors and tons of great prizes just for showing up. Cost is $4 in advance at KSM Guitars or $6 at the door.

Come enjoy great music and great people.

On Feb. 28 USUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alumni Association will be hosting an event on campus called Love a Donor Day. Booths will be set up from 9-â&#x20AC;?2 p.m. in Library RM 101, outside the ballroom on the 2nd Floor of the TSC, and at the Alumni Center for students to write a quick thank you note to some of USUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s donors. Everyone that writes a thank you note will be entered into a drawing to win prizes donated by local busi-â&#x20AC;? nesses.

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Asparagus

99 $

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1

LIMIT 5 LBS.

BirchBerry

LIMIT 5 LBS.

99 $ 77

Sliced  Turkey

lb. lb.

Sliced  Turkey

LIMIT 4

97 2 $

LIMIT 4

2

Western  Family  48  oz.  Asst.

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80%  Beef  20%  Fat

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TRAFFIC STOPPER

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15

LIMIT 5 LBS. LIMIT 2

$1

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Friday $ 88

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LIMIT 4

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BirchBerry

Ground  Beef

Bananas

LIMIT 5 LBS.

lb.

lb.

80%  Beef  20%  Fat

Gallon  Milk

52

1

lb.

Fresh  Ripe

Ground  Beef

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25 $

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Juicy 1 lb. pkg.

Strawberries

1

99 $ 97 1 Dozen

$16.99

½ Dozen

Chocolate  Dipped  Strawberries

555 East 1400 North

Logan

Store Hours: Mon.-Sat. 6:00 AM - Midnight

Closed Sunday

Martinelliâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 25.4 oz. Asst.

Sparkling  Juice  or  Cider