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Lights out

Power outage leaves campus dark for hours Wednesday

by Tmera Bradley

by Steve Schwartzman

news senior writer

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As many as 13 buildings were left without power for a portion of Wednesday morning for what at the time appeared to be unknown causes, according to USU campus officials.

Patrick Williams, a spokesperson for USU Campus Facilities, said power went out at the Public Relations and Marketing Building around 8:40 a.m.

While assessing the situation, he said it was also observed power had been shut off in Widtsoe Hall, the Living and Learning Community, Alumni Center, HPER building and the Taggart Student Center until around noon Wednesday.

“It took a while to track down problems, but it seems there was some sort of defect in the system,” Williams said.

Williams said facilities performed a power feedback to restore power in the buildings later in the morning, which shut down electricity in Old Main and the Biology and Natural Resources Building for a brief period of time.

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crimes.

“We help them with setting up counseling or therapy,” Webb said. “We also help get them out of their classes and fill out stalking injunctions.”

Webb said SAVVI also strives to raise

A pink sticky note hangs on the door outside Professor Alan Hashimoto’s office. In handwritten letters it reads, “Thank you for everything Alan.”

Associate graphic design professor Alan Hashimoto, 59, died in his office Monday morning.

Hashimoto’s colleagues found him around 11 a.m. after he was late for ALAN HASHIMOTO a meeting.

The faculty called an ambulance and performed CPR on the professor, according to Denise Albiston, Caine College of the Arts marketing director.

The ambulance took Hashimoto to Logan Regional Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Albiston said a heart attack was likely the cause of Hashimoto’s death, though no official information has been released.

“Simply put, Alan Hashimoto was a force of nature,” said Laura Gelfand, department head of art and design. “His energy was boundless, as was his creativity. He touched so many lives in such positive ways. He will be terribly missed by everyone who was lucky enough to know him.”

Albiston said Hashimoto’s loss will be felt by many.

“Alan was really unique,” Albiston said.

“Even though his discipline was graphic design, he was great with animation and film and 3D design. He was very progressive and very sophisticated in his designs.

He offered a very broad range of understanding of artistic expression.”

Hashimoto had been a faculty member of the USU art department for almost 25 years and was very well known by students in the department.

“Because he was interested in so many different things he worked with faculty, staff, administrators and students from across our campus and on many others as well,” Gelfand said.

Albiston said students in the art department are very familiar with Hashimoto.

“You can easily go over there and walk the halls and everybody knows Alan,” Albiston said.

Savannah Jensen, an art major emphasizing in animation, said Hashimoto was always providing feedback for the students in the department.

“He was just really supportive,” Jensen said. “I don’t even think he knew my name, but he was always building me up.”

Jensen said Hashimoto would always come into the lab where she was working and recommend internships and other opportunities.

To some students, he was more than just a professor.

“He was a mentor for me,” said Mateo Rueda, a graduate student who worked closely with Hashimoto. “He was a friend, and of course it’s very difficult to think of continuing working, missing his advice but also the emotional background.”

Those who knew him said Hashimoto was full of energy and interest in his students.

“He gave everything to his students,” said Jeneal Bartlett. “He put his students first all the time.”

Bartlett, a drawing and print major, said Hashimoto always wanted his students to succeed. He cared about what happened to them after college as well.

“It wasn’t just about the degree,” Bartlett said. “He wanted to get people jobs and he wanted to give them a future.”

Hashimoto produced numerous creative works and authored the book, “Fundamentals of Design: A Digital Approach,” which is in it’s third edition.

“He was just a well springing with information,” said art graduate student

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STUDENTS WALK THROUGH DARK HALLS in the ground floor of the Taggart Student Center during the power outage Wednesday. DELAYNE LOCKE photo

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA enters the House chamber to give his State of the Union address Tuesday in Washington. SCOTT WILSON photo, The Washington Post

Obama exudes dominance

By Brigid Schulte

(c) 2013, The Washington Post.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama swallowed hard after he averred that protections for consumers, health-care patients and homeowners are stronger than ever before. A sure sign, body language expert Tonya Reiman said, that he wasn’t sure he believed what he was saying.

But when the president urged Republicans and Democrats to work together to reduce the deficit, he gesticulated emphatically with both hands directly in front of him, progressively moving them closer to his center. Reiman said that meant he really did believe. “If the hands go outward,” she said, “it’s a sign that people are lying.”

His eyes flashed anger when he spoke of guns and the children of Newtown. The tightness of his jaw registered frustration when he spoke of AIDS. His eyes widened, a sign of intensity, when talking about people learning English. His eyes blinked faster as he spoke of terrorism, a sign he was touch-

ing a raw nerve. And he smirked, one side of his mouth drawing up as he spoke of CEO salaries never being higher as wages for the poor and middle income have remained stagnant. “That was a flash of contempt,” she said.

Reiman is one of a rarified group of psychologists and anthropologists, like those at the Center for Nonverbal Studies in Spokane, Wash., who carefully track political leaders, not so much for what they say, but for what their body language conveys about what they believe. They analyze the 46 facial muscles capable of making 10,000 facial expressions, the twitch of the eyebrow, the sincerity of the smile, the jut of the chin and the hand gestures to determine when someone is telling the truth, fibbing or just saying things that they think people want to hear.

These are the experts who track sighs, eye rolling and eye blinks during campaign speeches and presidential debates to deter-

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Students encouraged to have healthy relationships

by Jessica Hinrichs staff writer

Aggies came together Feb. 13 for the 15th-annual Healthy Relationships and Sexual Responsibility Week at USU. Booths were provided throughout the day. Health service workers gave information about sexual health and advice on how to have a healthy relationship.

Speed dating games were a precursor to the Aggie Dating game, which featured Danny Berger among others as eligible bachelors.

Ryan Barfuss, USU Student Health Service’s prevention specialist, said the event was held to show there are many resources on campus available to students who have questions or problems.

“With college students there’s risks with healthy relationships,” Barfuss said. “Violence and sexual assault do happen here on campus. We would be naive if we think it doesn’t.”

Rachelle Webb, a staff member of USU’s Sexual Assault & Anti-Violence office, or SAVVI, said one in four female college students are sexually assaulted in the U.S. The males are slightly lower with one in 10. Most are typically aggravated by males.

STUDENTS EXAMINE FREEBIES at a table in the TSC’s International Lounge as part of Healthy Relationships and Sexual Responsibility Week. DELAYNE LOCKE photo

“It is the most underreported crime, so we think that the numbers are actually much higher,” Webb said.

Webb said most students aren’t aware of their services, which are located in the Health and Wellness Center.

SAVVI promotes healthy relationships and helps victims of violent or sexual

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Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013

Networking key in industry event

by Paul Christiansen staff writer

Those who attended the College of Engineering’s annual “Evening with Industry” event seemed to have one word to describe student interaction with some of the engineering industry’s top companies: “networking.”

“You have tons of very interesting companies,” said Cesar Hunt, a senior studying structural engineering. “It’s a great opportunity for us to start networking and get to know a little bit more about them.”

The event let engineering and computer science students speak to representatives for potential employers in an informal setting, discussing career and internship opportunities. Based upon interaction, students and employers can schedule job interviews for the future, building a professional relationship for the student’s future.

“This is basically a networking event for engineering students of all departments,” said Jenica Hillyard, president of USU’s section of the Society of Women Engineers.

“It’s put on by SWE, as well as the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers and the National Society of Black Engineers.”

Students began with an hour of interaction with company representatives, Hillyard said. Divided into two groups, students rotated between different companies in order to have a chance to speak with the company of their choice.

“When the students signed up for the event and bought their tickets, they also chose one company to sit and have dinner with,” Hillyard said.

“After their networking session with all the companies, they sit and talk and mingle with the representatives from their chosen company.

Basically it’s one-on-one and so much more personal than a career fair.”

Companies who sent representatives to the occasion were mostly based locally and regionally. Rio Tinto, the Space Dynamics Lab, Hewlett Packard, Solutionreach and Moog’s aircraft division were among those employers present.

The number of companies represented at this year’s

“Evening with Industry” was less than in past years. Last year there were 17 companies present. Indhira Hashbun, vice president of corporate affairs for SWE and event organizer, said only 11 of the more-than 100 companies contacted this year participated.

“Our first three years the number of companies that participated got bigger and bigger,” said Kristina Glaittli, SWE counselor at USU. “This year there aren’t quite as many. I think the economy is having a lot to do with that, but we still got a great response from our industry partners who are here.”

The number of those in attendance was less this year as well, totaling 111 participating students. At the 2012 event, more than 130 students took part.

Still, this year’s group of students was mostly gracious and grateful for this opportunity.

“As a student, it’s nice to see what these companies are expecting from students and how they interact with us,” said Kyle Hinchcliff, a senior studying electrical engineering. “This has been really

STUDENTS AND PROFESSIONALS NETWORK at the Evening with Industry.

Northrop representative Monica Berret, right, speaks with students as part of the event’s activities. DELAYNE LOCKE photo

interesting and beneficial for me to see this aspect of companies.”

Wendy Merkley, Region B Collegiate senator for SWE, said the event is a great chance for students to prepare for their professional future.

“We’re striving to make this more of a networking activity because it builds students’ abilities to interact and talk to employers on a social and professional level,” Merkley said. “This is more than just a list of potential

jobs.These are contacts at companies that are looking to hire college graduates.”

Boyd Wheeler, a representative for HDR, a global firm providing architecture, engineering, consulting and construction services through various operating companies, said participating in the event was an easy decision for his company.

“We’re always looking for fresh minds,” Wheeler said.

“At things like this, those kinds of people are all gathered right in front of us. Utah

State University has a prestigious engineering department and we can network with potential employees. We get to talk face-to-face and let them know what we’re all about, and they in turn can ask us questions and let us know where they’re coming from. It’s a fantastic opportunity, in my opinion, for us and for them to build solid relationships to help us both.”

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Engineering week to feature cardboard boat race, expo

by Andy Pierucci staff writer

A free breakfast courtesy of H. Scott Hinton, dean of the College of Engineering, will kick off this year’s Engineering Week at 7 a.m. Tuesday on the third floor of the Engineering building.

Engineering Week will end on Friday Feb. 22 with a cardboard and duct tape boat race at the HPER building from 4-6 p.m.

USU’s Engineering Week is always interesting, said Riley Bradshaw, the engineering academic senator for ASUSU. Guest speakers, a community expo and a Ms. Engineer beauty pageant are just a few events that will take place during this year’s Engineering Week.

Trevin Hafen, Engineering Council president, said there is a twofold purpose for Engineering

Week this year. The first is to get the word out about engineering to the general student body and the community at large. The second is to educate students who are engineering majors on what careers are available after college and what skills they will need to succeed in the engineering field.

“We want people to understand what engineering actually is,” Bradshaw said. “There is a general misconception on what engineers do and we hope to change that.”

Breanna Watkins, a junior majoring in civil engineering who transferred from Southern Utah University, said she is excited for the week’s activities.

“Engineering Week is going to be a blast,” Watkins said. “It will bring the engineering community together for some fun activities.”

Watkins is bringing a new event to Engineering Week in the cardboard duct tape boat race. She hopes it will become an annual event.

“We had a lot of fun doing it at SUU, and I thought it would be great if we started doing it here in Logan,” Watkins said.

Watkins said the event is open to all engineering, computer science and physics students, faculty and staff, as well as non-engineering students if at least one team member fits into one of the previous categories. Students must create a boat using cardboard and duct tape.

There will be a race in one of the pools at the HPER on Friday night to determine the winner.

Hafen said the Community Expo is another major event and will include hands on activities, prizes, free Aggie Ice Cream and spider

goats.

“We want the community to know that our Engineering Community Expo will be an annual event and will be a mainstay of Engineering Week,” Hafen said.

The Community Expo will take place Thursday night from 6-8:30p.m. at the Engineering building.

“We are really excited about community night and we hope to get the entire community involved by reaching out to future generations of engineers,” Bradshaw said. “It will be our crown jewel event.”

There will also be programs geared toward educating students who are currently in engineering programs so they can get a better understanding of what a career in engineering looks like.

“Just because a student can figure

out an answer to a problem doesn’t mean they can cut it as an engineer,” Hafen said. “There is a whole business side to engineering that many students don’t know even exists.”

Reed T. Searle, vice president of business development at Blue Castle Nuclear Power Plant, and Darren Ashby, director of electrical engineering at ICON Health and Fitness will be among the guest speakers featured throughout the week.

“We hope that they will be able to give students a real world look at engineering,” Bradshaw said.

“USU’s Engineering program is amazing, and we want to show it off to the world,” Hafen said.

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UNION: Obama’s body language shows power, arrogance oFrom page 1 mine who is lying and who is anxious.

(Typical human blinks per minute: 20. GOP presidential candidate Bob Dole in the 1996 presidential debates: 147. Former President Richard M. Nixon giving his resignation speech: “an eye blink storm” on a par with schizophrenics, according to Boston College psychology professor Joe Tecce.)

And what body language experts say Obama needed to do during his State of the Union address Tuesday night was not just to reach across the aisle and appeal to a divided Congress and country split along ideological lines to find a way forward together.

He also needed to convince them — and television viewers — that he was not just a calm, cool, collected and cerebral thinker, but a warm, empathetic and, yes, even charismatic leader worthy of rallying behind.

“His job was to convince Congress that, in coming together, everybody wins,” Reiman said. “And he did. He came across as warm and convincing. He needed to be dominant

and forceful without being aggressive.”

So how to do that, in body, not just in words?

Watch Obama talk about immigration reform, she said. He used what body language experts call “the politician’s point.”

His thumb touched his index finger. His hand was closed in a soft fist and he waved it in short bursts. “That’s a great way to make your point, to show dominance without being overly aggressive,” she said.

But when the cameras cut to Republican Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), Obama’s opponent in 2008 whom he had just praised for working in a bipartisan manner to find market-based solutions to climate change, Reiman drew in a deep breath.

“Oh, look, McCain is really agitated. He did not like being mentioned.”

But wasn’t McCain smiling?

“Yes, but you had to watch his eyebrows,” she said. “The eyebrows went down first, which is annoyance. Our immediate facial expressions usually show our real emotions.

But then, when we realize it, we often cover up that emotion quickly. And we usually cover it up with a smile. The first expression is real. The second is the coverup.”

Reiman watched carefully and noted that, on every point — from bringing troops home from Afghanistan to gun control to admonishing lawmakers to stop the brinksmanship with sequestration — Obama kept his palms parallel or down. And that’s critical. For a country that tends to elect its leaders because they are tall, or because they look good, keeping the palms down shows you mean business and you are not someone to be messed with.

“When the palms are up, that’s a sign of weakness,” she said.

Obama jutted his chin up and out, she said, usually a sign of arrogance. “But that’s just the way Obama carries himself. That’s his baseline,” she said. And within the space of the first 15 minutes of the speech, he began to thrust his left elbow out repeatedly.

“Flaring your elbow is a power move.

You’re trying to take up more space so you’ll come across as powerful. It’s like puffing out your chest. It tells people, ‘Hey, I’m bigger than you think I am,’ “ she said.

“He does it so often, that when you watch his speeches in fast-forward, it looks really bizarre, like he’s doing the funky chicken.”

And what of Vice President Joe Biden’s squinty eyes? And House Speaker John A. Boehner’s sour expression. And wait, was he sucking his teeth?

“Well, Biden was rubbing his eyes, so that may not mean anything other than he had something in his eyes. It looked like he had double pink eye,” Reiman said. “But Boehner’s facial expressions and smirks registered disgust and contempt. It was just the worst. You could see Obama try to counteract that at the end with a kind of tug-of-war handshake.”

A sign, perhaps, she said, of things to come.

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POWER: Some professors teach in the dark oFrom page 1 Williams said there was no definitive cause behind the power outage, but problems could have risen anywhere from an equipment issue or faulty transformer or switch, and Facilities is currently investigating the situation.

“The last update I have received is they are still in the midst of investigating and it may take some time,” Williams said.

“Power has been restored and they are very busy right now trying to track this down.”

The outage affected several buildings on campus, particularly inside the dining halls,

Campus Store and other offices inside the TSC. Jasmin Diaz, a senior studying sociology and Campus Store employee, said she came in to work at around 10 a.m., about an hour after the outage occurred.

“A lot of students seemed disappointed because they need scantrons or supplies for classes,” Diaz said. “We were able to help students with money but not much else. Overall though, things seemed to go just fine until the power came back on.”

Parking was also affected by the outage. Teresa Johnson, business manager for the Parking and Transportation Department, said power was taken from all

structures in the parking terrace.

With no power to run them, parking gates had to be lifted manually and customers were allowed to leave the parking area without charge.

Christie Wittwer, a junior studying physics, said she was in a kickboxing class in the HPER when the power went out.

“We weren’t too shocked at first, but I was a bit surprised it lasted as long as it did,” she said.

“Our instructor just had to do an impromptu workout in the dark for a bit and we were let out early.”

Wittwer said though the power was a bit of an inconvenience, most students in her

class didn’t appear all too upset.

“Nobody seemed too thrown off about it. I guess sometimes you just get lucky and get out of class early,” Wittwer said.

Williams said this was a rare situation and felt it was handled well by the campus.

“Like any environment, power usually goes out at home where you can’t do much,” he said, “Luckily here we were able to go and deal with it. We are just happy the power is back up and running.”

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AGGIE BASKETBALL’S DANNY BERGER listens to responses from three potential dates from his seat on the right during Wednesday’s True Aggie Dating Game in the TSC International Lounge. DELAYNE LOCKE photo

SEX: True Aggie Dating features Berger, others oFrom page 1 awareness of sexual assault and be a resource to students in unhealthy relationships or situations at USU. Barfuss said many students come to college looking for a relationship and some come solely to find a special someone, but either way, there are potential dangers.

Kaleena Anderson teaches a class called “How to Avoid Falling for a Jerk (or Jerk-ette)” through USU extension. The research based class shows how to build a strong healthy dating relationship and avoid the dangers of being with a bad partner.

Anderson said the best way to know if a person is a jerk is to see all of their “faces.”

“Really get to know the sides of that person,” Anderson said. “Get to know their family background, their conscience, whether you are really compat-

ible with that person.”

Classes are taught for free at USU and can be registered for at HealthyRelationshipsUtah.org. The next session will begin March 18th.

“We’re always going to be learning no matter how old we are,” Barfuss said.

“We all still need that advice.”

Monica Moser with REACH Peers, an undergraduate program that assists USU’s psychologists, said they help with everything from those with unhealthy relationships to those looking for someone to be with.

Moser said a lot of students have fear about going in to get counseling.

“I respect everyone who comes in,” Moser said. “They come in wanting to change something about what they want to improve on.”

The REACH Peer center, located on the third floor of the TSC, offers counseling sessions and informational workshops on

a variety of subjects not limited to dating problems.

Planned Parenthood also manned a booth. The club’s vice president Tabetha Aparicio, with members Andrew Swensen and Elaine Taylor, gave out lubricant and condoms to promote safe sex, prevention and awareness about STD’s.

“If students decide to have sex, we want them to have a safe option,” Taylor said.

Aparicio said Planned Parenthood wants to promote healthy reproduction.

“We just want people to be aware of their options and know that services are available through Planned Parenthood for very inexpensive prices,” Aparicio said.

All services and programs at the event are available to staff and students of USU free of charge.

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Chuck Landvatter. “He knew so much and he was always current and up to date on evolving social media.”

Landvatter said Hashimoto was energetic, tenacious and was dedicated to his work.

“It wasn’t just a job,” Landvatter said.

“I don’t think he needed to be a professor financially, he wanted to be a professor. He liked helping people with information and knowledge.”

Landvatter said Hashimoto took on a lot of projects and was involved in a lot of

things. He said the department will not be the same without him.

“You can’t replace him. He’s irreplaceable,” Landvatter said. “I don’t know logistically how they’re going to cope with this loss.”

Craig Jessop, dean of the Caine College of the Arts, said it is a huge loss for the college as well as many personal individuals.

“Alan was a man of boundless energy and enormous vision, and he will be sorely missed by all of us,” Jessop said. “Our hearts go out to his wife Amy and to the rest of Alan’s family.”

Rueda said although it was assertive

and brutally honest, he always welcomed Hashimoto’s advice because it was experienced.

“He told me once that he saw me a little bit reflected in him when he was a kid, which is kind of cool to hear,” Rueda said.

“I will keep that in my heart right now. He’s someone to look upon, and right now I’m working on the idea that I hope he would like what I do.”

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Orr to put fee records online

Christian Orr, the ASUSU student advocate vice-president, and a volunteer committee under the Student Voice Committee began a project Tuesday to put all USU tuition fees records online to allow students easier access.

“The state and the university have a policy of truth in tuition,” Orr said.

“In 2004 the executive council of ASUSU created some legislation that said we would like that same thing with our fees.”

Orr said the fees were already available to anyone who wanted to see them but were not as easy to access as many students would have liked.

On top of that, Orr said the school needed a backup in case anything happened to the records on campus.

“We only currently have one record of them and it’s currently in that office, in TSC 326, in four four-inch binders and they are available to students,” Orr said. “But unfortunately it’s only during office hours and if you can catch it in a window when someone’s available to assist you, because if we lost those records it would be detrimental.”

Orr said scanning was already complete. The committee is looking for more volunteers to post the information on the website.

“We did most of the work with scanning them and now that they’re digital files, it’s basically in the cloud,” Orr said. “The committee can work anywhere at any time, day or night, to put those on.”

Sustainability to open contest A group of faculty are initiating a “Clear the Air Contest” for USU students to come up with the best ideas for reducing our winter air pollution.

There will be cash prizes, separate prizes for undergrad and grad students. There may be a separate category to design a “Clear the Air” poster. The contest is supported by the USU Sustainability Committee.

The deadline will be the Friday before spring break, March 8.

Living Legends to perform Living Legends will perform Saturday in the Kent Concert Hall.

Living Legends combines the dynamic choreography of Native American tradition with the color and vitality of Polynesian and Latin American dance. Performed by talented descendants of these cultures and woven together by traditional and contemporary music, Living Legends’ program is a stunning tribute to the ancient cultures of the Americas and the Pacific.

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

PoliceBlotter

Friday, Feb. 1

• USU Police received a report of alcohol in multiple rooms of Bullen Hall. No arrests have been made at this time.

Saturday, Feb. 2 • USU Police responded to a report that there was a male individual sitting in the driver seat of a female individual’s vehicle. Police are investigating.

Sunday, Feb. 3 • USU Police responded to a noise problem at Aggie Village. Individuals inside the apartment were playing a soccer video game. Police advised them to keep the noise down.

• USU Police responded to a drug incident near the football stadium. Two male individuals were found in possession of marijuana and paraphernalia. Police arrested the suspects.

• USU Police responded to an odor of gas at Merrill Hall. Upon arrival no odor was observed. Police cleared the scene.

Monday, Feb. 4 • USU police responded to the northwest entrance of the Engineering Lab Building on a report of a broken door. It appears someone may have pushed the door open hard as they were exiting the building, causing the screws on the hinge to be sheered off.

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

Anonymous reporting line: 797-5000 EMERGENCY NUMBER: 911 • USU Police responded to a traffic accident at the south Old Main parking lot.

• USU Police investigated a two-vehicle accident with no injuries at the car pool lanes on the east side of Edith Bowen.

A driver struck a parked vehicle while attempting to park.

• USU Police filed a hit-and-run accident near the University Inn. A driver struck a parked vehicle attempting to park.

Wednesday, Feb. 6 • USU Police served eviction papers to a resident in the West Stadium Villa.

• USU Police responded to the bike rack near the library where a bike had accidentally been locked to another bike.

Police cut the lock.

• USU Police assisted Logan City Police with a suicidal juvenile.

• USU Police is investigating a theft at Aggie Blue Bikes. Several bikes have been stolen from students who checked them out.

Thursday, Feb. 7

• A student reported his bicycle stolen from the Aggie Village bike rack.

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• USU Police will demolish any snow caves on campus for safety reasons.

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A&EDiversions A different kind of love Utah State University • Logan, Utah • www.utahstatesman.com

BY CARLI SORENSEN staff writer

MARSHALL GREER, a junior majoring in public health and economics, has a deep love for his country. JESSICA FIFE photo illustration

Love is expressed in many different forms, from respect to sacrifice to a developed feeling. Students at USU have found their definition of love in various ways.

Mayran Mohamed, a sophomore doublemajoring in English and international studies, was born and raised a Muslim.

She grew up in Utah, but her parents were originally from Somalia.

She said in Islam, a man is supposed to marry for specific things: religion, personal wealth and inner beauty.

“In our religion a lot of people think because we wear the scarves that women are oppressed and when everyone thinks of Islam they think of the

Middle Eastern culture, which there is a lot of arranged marriages, you can never fall in love, which is not true,” Mohamed said.

Mohamed said their prophet taught men how to love their wives, daughters and mothers.

“Now we know if he can do this, I expect all you guys to be like that,” she said. “So he set the bar high for us to respect one another, so for us, in terms of love in the religion, it is more or less respect.”

In Islam, whoever is performing a marriage ceremony will ask the man one time if he wants to marry the girl, and if he says yes, they ask the girl three times.

“The reason why it is so significant is because it’s supposed to ensure that

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Breakups can be awkward, funny or painful

BY DERRICK SAUNDERS

staff writer

During this time of year, relationships and everything coming with them are hot topics. Breakup stories can be humorous, awkward and just downright sad. USU students have had their fair share of relationships gone awry.

Brittany Brunner, a 19-year-old freshman majoring in pre-elementary education, said she met a guy because they were in the same group going to a dance. He wasn’t her date, but when her date was out of the room, he asked her out.

“Our first date was ice skating,” Brunner said. “It was really fun, and he was a real charmer too. He helped me up when I fell down and that kind of thing. Things seemed to be going great.”

For Valentine’s day, he shredded green paper on the ground, made a paper tree on the wall, and set up a sun in the corner so they could have an indoor picnic, she said.

“Then he started randomly talking about this girl in one of his classes,” she said. “I asked him about her, but he denied being interested at all. Later I found out from his roommate that he was hanging out with her a lot.”

Brunner said she confronted him about it, and he finally admitted it.

“He told me, ‘The magic is gone,’” she said. “That’s really what he said.”

The next day she got a lengthy text message from him apologizing and saying he wanted her back. She refused.

“I couldn’t believe that. I haven’t heard from him since until like a month ago when he randomly called me and apologized for being such a jerk,” Brunner said.

Another story comes from McKell James, a 19-year-old freshman majoring in elementary education. James went to a wrestling match to watch her rival high school with a friend and met Lorenzo.

“He was a wrestler,” James said. “I’d known him since junior high, but we had different friend groups. We hadn’t really hung out or talked ever, but he asked for

my number.”

She said they started talking and hanging out. He bought boots for her birthday and she went to all his wrestling meets.

“Then we wanted to spend New Years together, but the family he was with was going to be up at their cabin,” she said.

He invited her up for the day, but it didn’t turn out quite as expected.

“I hung out with his mom more than him, and he was acting really weird,” she said. “Then at the end of the night he told me, ‘We really need to talk,’ but I had to drive home then.”

James said the drive wasn’t an easy one.

“I had to drive all the way home on New Year’s Eve and think about all the things we might need to talk about and how bad it was going to be, and then right before I got home I got pulled over right in front of my house,” she said.

Lorenzo didn’t have cell phone service for days because he was at the cabin. James had to wait until school started again to know what was on his mind.

“He finally told me that he was graduating early and going on a mission,” she said.

“He told everyone he was going on a mission. I was fine with that reason, it was OK with me.”

Instead of sticking to his word, he left for Salt Lake City to join the Navy weeks later.

“I haven’t talked to him until I saw him at our friend’s funeral, and he came up and hugged me and my mom and acted like nothing was wrong,” James said. “It was really weird.”

Spencer Williams, a 25-year-old senior majoring in biological engineering, dealt with an abrupt break up a few months ago.

“I dated a girl in the fall semester for a few months, but right around Thanksgiving we were getting ready to break up, so we could date around,” Williams said.

She was dating someone as spring semester started, and Williams tried to give up. They still talked quite a bit but didn’t think anything of it.

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“All of the sudden we were at a basketball game and she told me to come sit next to her,” he said. “Later that night her roommates told her that she needed to decide to either break up with her boyfriend or stop talking to me.”

She told him they needed to start dating again, and he said he was all for it. It happened to be his birthday, which was also Valentine’s Day. The two continued to date into the summer break and things were going well.

Williams went on a trip for a week, came back and invited her for Sunday dinner with his family.

“My family loved her to death, so my mom gets this huge Sunday dinner ready and my family is ready to relax and play games together all evening,” he said. “She knocked on the door and I was so excited to see her, but she said to me, ‘Let’s go for a walk.’ I wasn’t really expecting a break-up, but immediately I knew something was

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They walked 20 feet before she broke it to him.

“She said she thought it was done and that we needed to go our separate ways,” Williams said. “She didn’t really give an explanation.”

Williams was stunned, but wasn’t bitter.

“I asked if she was going to stay for dinner but she had to go on a family trip that she was leaving on,” he said.

This time, the breakup was permanent.

They never got back together.

He didn’t hear from her for five months, but her best friend worked with him and was always asking him how he was.

“It was a hard summer because I had her best friend quizzing me all the time and I knew anything I said could get back to her,” he said.

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The woes of a flowershop boy

BY KIEL REID

to express how much I hate Valentine’s Day whenever it is brought up. Most people think they are funny and just respond by saying, “You only hate it because you are single.” False: Actually, that isn’t even a factor to why I hate the holiday. It actually has to do with the high expectations people have, and most importantly the “11th-hour procrastinators.”

They come to me at the very last minute when I am standing there with nothing left but piles of stems and expect me to make something out of nothing, and then they expect to get an arrangement of red roses for less than $20.

There is a better chance of flying to the moon than getting decent long stem red roses at the last possible minute on Valentine’s Day, cheaply. Flower

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Picture, if you can, standing behind a long black counter covered in loose leaves and cut stems. You’re standing on piles of discarded flower parts, plastic cellophane and ribbon of every color. You can’t see the countertop you are working at or the floor you are standing on because of all the debris.

Standing in front of you are what seem like leagues of frustrated customers, come to you to help save their hides all because they forgot about Valentine’s Day. When people ask me what I do for work while I’m attending USU, I’m generally pretty happy to tell them I work in as a florist. I am met with a wide variety of responses, ranging from weird looks from guys that read,

“You’re a florist? But you’re a dude,” to girls fawning, breaking out everything they know about flowers and sharing their dream wedding plans with me.

But there are two times during the year when I try to refrain from even thinking about my job as a florist, and one of those times is Valentine’s Day. I’m always really quick

prices almost double for a florist to purchase them from a wholesaler, which means you can expect the retail price of the flower to double and then some.

It all goes back to the principle of supply and demand we all learn about in economics classes.

When the demand skyrockets, so does the price.

Then we tack on the labor.

Just like the price of the actual flowers, labor costs go up for florists on this magical holiday.

A florist can plan on working at least 24 hours straight to meet the demands for just the preordered arrangements and then an additional 6 to 8 hours just to help the blessed 11th-hour customers.

And as if that wasn’t enough, then there are the attitudes of the customers themselves. I understand you are frustrated because

there are such high expectations on you to produce something amazing and memorable this year, but there is no need to be rude. I can only work one miracle at a time, but sometimes there comes a point where I have nothing left.

So there I stand, at the end of another fabled Valentine’s Day. My legs hurt, my head is pounding, and if I have to be nice to one more impatient customer, they’re going to find out what bad customer service looks like.

And none of us want to know what that is like, trust me.

So on Feb. 15, hug a florist and thank them for their service, because the only thing worse than Valentine’s Day is knowing Memorial Day is right around the corner.

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this is something the girl wants to do, and that it is not something she is being forced into,” Mohamed said. “A woman cannot be married to someone unless she wants to.”

For Mohamed, love is respect.

“If you respect me and you respect my friends and you respect my family, then there could be something,” she said. “But if you are lacking that, there is like no way I can be with you.”

Mohamed believes there is more than one person out there for everyone.

“I think there are a lot of people that I can match up with because even if you have that one person, you are always going to have to make sacrifices,” she said.

For Marshall Greer, a junior majoring in public health and economics, love can be measured by how much a person is willing to sacrifice. Greer said he has always been willing to sacrifice for his country.

Greer has always been interested in America.

“Back in 2008 when they started introducing the health care policy, Obamacare, it kind of triggered something inside of me,” Greer said.

He said he spent most of 2009 reading something on health care policy and politics and trying to get caught up in the procedures. This was the start of him becoming politically active.

“There is a statistic from the last election that 70% of voters did not know that the Constitution was the supreme law of the land,” Greer said. “Ever since then I’ve been looking into starting a Constitution club to promote the Constitution.”

He said his love for the United States runs deep.

“It’s the best country in the world,” he said. “We have more opportunities than anyone else in the entire world. I’m willing to die for my country and I’m grateful for all those people that are willing to die for it and to promote freedom.”

Brian Cook, a first year grad student, believes everyone should have the freedom to love who they want.

He has been with his male partner for almost two years.

They met using an online dating website.

“I think it’s stupid that I met him through that,” Cook said. “I hadn’t even been checking this email account.”

One day Cook decided to check the account and noticed he had an email from the man he is now dating.

“I looked and responded to him,” Cook said. “We ended up that day meeting up and went and paid my car payment. It was nothing big. We were just doing normal things.”

It took Cook three or four years to feel comfortable and figure out what he was looking for.

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For Cook, love is a developed feeling for someone who is important. He said it encompasses most kinds of love because it does not start out as something great.

“We started out as friends,” he said. “We would just get together, watch movies, play games, but the more that we were together the more we realized that this friendship was very important to us.”

Cook and partner have now become more than friends.

“I’m happy, we’re happy and no matter what difficulties come from outside, we’re happy,” Cook said.

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They went to an area “We kissed and got with hiking trails and a excited,” Shumway said. lookout. Newhouse said “Then he opened the Casey began getting nerbox and we both looked vous and acting anxious. down to see it was empty.

“He made sure I turned I didn’t really know what my GoPro on and began was going on until he charging ahead of me started freaking out. Then while I tried to film it,” I knew he really didn’t she said. “He was giving know where the ring was.” me clues of where the Shumway said everyone geocache was and I was there was extremely helpjust trying to keep up with ful and nice and helped him.” look all over the hill for Casey navigated the ring. They retraced Newhouse toward a bench Hales’ steps and everyand Newhouse climbed where he had been since around a bit before findthe last time he saw the ing a green box. Inside the ring. box she found her favorite “The last time he saw candy and a small brown the ring was twenty minbox. utes before he came to “He took the camera pick me up,” Shumway and set it down so it said. “He’d met with would be filming us,” she my mom and sister and said. “I opened the little showed it to them.” box and it said, ‘Will you Throughout the next few days Shumway and Hales filed police reports and used metal detectors in hopes of finding the ring, but were not successful. Shumway and Hales are still hoping the ring somehow shows up, but

have a loaner ring for a few months in the meantime.

“Even though it was all pretty crazy, it was still perfect,” Shumway said.

Sophomore Marissa Unbedacht-Peterson, a pre-med student, said her proposal back in January 2011 took her completely by surprise. Her then-boyfriend — now husband — Devin Peterson invited her and her roommates to go to dinner the following week. Completely unaware of his motives, Marissa accepted the invitation and looked forward to a night out.

“He invited a bunch of friends to go with us,” she said. “Just a fun, friendly dinner.”

When the evening arrived, Marissa, Devin and their friends went to dinner. Everyone was having a great time, Marissa said.

Devin’s friend owns a hangar at the Logan airport and he and his friends like to go hang out there, she said. On this particular night they decided to go there after dinner. As they pulled up outside the hangar, Devin told Marissa to remind him to take her up to the top of the control tower.

“I didn’t think anything of it,” she said. “He did a good job making sure none of it was obvious or anything.”

Later, Marissa, Devin and some of their other friends decided to go to the top of the control tower. As they all started going up the stairs, their friends said they had forgotten something at the bottom and would meet them at the top in a few minutes. Marissa and Devin were alone as they walked up the spiral staircase.

“All of the sudden I could hear our song playing in the background,” Marissa Peterson said. “I thought it was so weird that our song would be randomly playing.”

When they got to the top of the hangar, decorations were everywhere.

Rose petals were on the floor, a fondue fountain was in the middle and there was a view overlooking the valley.

“Looking around I just thought, ‘Oh my gosh, this is crazy,’” she said. “Then he knelt down and asked me to marry him.”

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Sports Gearing up for another title run and love

BY MARK HOPKINS sports senior writer

Mark Hopkins Put the team on my back

Around this cruddy day of love, I’m sure you’re used to the paper having either a complaint from an unlucky, mateless soul or a glowing report from some head-over-heels romantic twerp.

So although I could do one of the above, we’re going to skip that. For once we’ll discuss how the man ticks. Women, have you ever wondered how your hunk thinks?

Why it makes more sense to him to go to the Aggie game tonight instead of a candlelight dinner? Why he uses baseball bases to describe how your date went?

Luckily for you, I’ll take the hate mail and deliver, a la Karl Malone. Before delving into similarities between sports and love, please understand this ladies: He’s had a favorite team his entire life.

You’ve only been relevant for a few months. This Valentines Day I will openly spill my heart for my true love: the wide world of sports.

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It has been 37 weeks since the Utah State club baseball team won a national championship in June, and the team is finally ready to take the field again.

“We’re really excited about this year,” said club president Garrett Schiffman. “Maybe more so than we were last year, because now we know what we’re capable of.”

The Aggies, currently ranked No. 1 by the National Club Baseball Association, will open the

season Feb. 15 against the College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls. Head coach Norm Doyle said game is the team’s top priority for now.

“Our first goal is our very next game,” he said.

“We’re going to work this spring or winter and just try to take it one game at a time.”

The team returns 12 of last year’s 15 players and has only gotten deeper, Doyle said.

“We have two guys that were All-Americans last year returning and we have a great group of returning players,” Doyle said. “We

added some additional players to the roster this year.”

Schiffman said he has very high hopes for the team’s new acquisitions.

“We have a few guys that enrolled in school that played junior college ball in the Midwest,” he said.

“Yeah, we celebrated what we did last year, but we’re working hard now. We should fare well.”

One of last year’s strong points was depth and balance at every position, Schiffman said. He said he feels they are even more balanced this time around.

“Last year we were

incredibly deep with our pitching and our offensive power, something that led to our success,” Schiffman said. “But I think this year our pitching is definitely going to be our stronghold.

That’s not to say we don’t have great defense and good hitters as well. We return five guys that hit over .400 last year, which is pretty amazing.”

Doyle said although the talent is impressive, the team needs a few good bounces to go all the way again.

“I feel talent wise, we’re every bit as good as we were last year, maybe even

a little bit better,” he said.

“But talent alone does not win championships. You have to mesh as a team, you have to gel, you have to come together and you have to have a little bit of luck.”

Senior Matt Stranski returns as the nation’s home run leader from last year and credits the team’s unity and atmosphere to their success.

“It’s called baseball, it’s a very relaxed atmosphere,” he said. “We have a lot of fun on the team, and the guys on the team they gel

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Tough homestand awaits Aggies

BY CURTIS LUNDSTROM sports ediotr

After sweeping its threegame road trip, the Utah State men’s basketball team returns to the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum for pair of home games against two of the top three teams in the conference in Denver and New Mexico State.

“We’ve got a number of really tough games coming up and the best thing to do is just try and focus on the first one,” said head coach Stew Morrill.

“Denver has just basically been carving people up with their personnel and their Princeton system.”

The Pioneers sit at 11-2 in conference play with an average scoring margin of plus-9 while shooting nearly 48 percent from the field.

“Defensively they just give you fits with their match-ups, switching to man-to-man, half-zone, half-man, nobody really seems to know exactly what their rules are,” Morrill said. “They do a great job on both ends of the court.”

Denver has generated an average of 16 turnovers

per game on defense this season including nine steals. The Aggies committed 15 turnovers in a 68-57 loss the first time the teams met this season.

It was the first complete game USU played without injured players Preston Medlin and Kyisean Reed.

The Pioneers shot 52 percent from the 3-point line — including 63 percent in the first half — in that game, something they live by.

“From a purist standpoint, when you watch them, you have to appreciate what they do. They get a lot of layups and they make a lot of threes offensively,” Morrill said.

But while the Pioneers boast a strong threat from beyond the arc, the Aggies showed they are just as strong from the 3-point line. USU is ranked second in the WAC in 3-point field goal percentage at 38 percent, just ahead of Denver with 37 percent in conference play.

So while the teams will likely duke it out from 3-point range, the game may be won or lost in the paint.

Utah State and Denver are 1-2 in rebounds allowed per game, but the Aggies have the WAC’s

best rebounding margin at plus-7.2 per game while the Pioneers rank last in rebounds per game.

“That’s game one, then we turn around and have New Mexico State on Saturday night,” Morrill said. “Both teams are right at the top of the league with Louisiana Tech.

There’s quite a separation in our league right now, top to bottom.”

Having won 59 of its last 67 games at home, Utah State will look for rising star Spencer Butterfield to continue his strong play. The junior guard has posted five consecutive double-doubles and ranks in the top 10 in the WAC in scoring at 13.5 points per game.

“He’s playing well. We wouldn’t have won games without him,” Morrill said. “It’s certainly a nice honor for him, and like I said, for our team in general.”

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SOFTBALL

Rising from the dust: Hopes high for USU

BY MITCH HENLINE staff writer

The Utah State softball team opened the 2013 season at the Red Desert Classic in St. George over the weekend. It competed in five games, losing all of them, including games against nationally-ranked Tennessee and in-state rival SUU. Despite the rough start, expectations from the players are still high.

“I want to see us go really far in the WAC, and I think we have all the potential to get there,” said sophomore outfielder Hailey Froton.

“We have a very strong team this year.”

Head coach Carissa Kalaba agreed.

“My expectations haven’t changed,” Kalaba said. “I believe that we have all the talent in the world to win the WAC. All the pieces are there. The girls just need to believe that they can do it.”

A challenge for the softball team has been the snow and the cold, which forces the team to practice indoors and off of the real playing field. The players were able to practice on dirt for the first time this season when it arrived in

St. George, just one day before the season opener against Tennessee.

Though all five games resulted in a loss for the Aggies, players said it was good to be able to play on an actual field.

“I think that’s what everybody was excited about, getting on a real field and getting out on the turf,” Froton said. “We just worked through early season jitters.”

Senior pitcher Mandy Harmon said games provided a better look at where the team was.

“This weekend just showed us everything we need to work on for our upcoming tournament,” Harmon said. “I know a lot of it is hitting-wise, and we just need to get a little bit more comfortable and make better pitch selections, but that’s exactly what we are doing at practice this week because that is what we learned in the last tournament.”

Kalaba agreed.

“It was great to play at game speed, there is no substitute for game speed,” Kalaba said. “Every single game we saw improvement in the girls and in the way

they responded on the field. The girls got better offensively and defensively throughout the entire game. Opening up against the number-six team in the nation isn’t that easy to do when you’re not playing at game speed and it’s certainly not when you don’t get to practice on dirt for over a month.”

Kalaba said working as a team and putting the team first will be key to having a successful season.

“Softball is kind of interesting that way,” Kalaba said. “Although it is very individual, it is very team based.”

Harmon said the team camaraderie this year is great and it will help the team reach the goal of winning the WAC tournament.

“Our main quote is ‘team first.’ You’re never selfish. You never think about yourself, but you are doing everything for the end result of the team,” Harmon said. “Out of all four years I’ve been here, this year our team is the closest it’s ever been.”

first with a 2-under 142, marking the best event total by an Aggie since 1996. It is also Higham’s best career finish at an event.

Higham finished 3rd in a playoff with a bogey on the 8th hole. The team finished with an 18-over 594 for the tournament, ending the final round with an 8-over 296.

Coach Dean Johansen said he was really happy to see the team’s performance overall.

“We’ve been working hard all break, and the

kids let it show out there,” he said.

Johansen said the break in between seasons has had no effect on the team.

“The kids were just really excited to get back out there and compete,” he said. “With the players we have now, we feel like we have the best team I’ve seen in years.”

Johansen said it was not only the team he was impressed with.

“With the performance we saw from Tanner Higham and Seokwon Jeon, it really is a testa-

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Higham ties for first at Thunderbird Invitational

BY CONNOR COMEAU staff writer

The men’s golf team is back from its break and has started play for the spring season.

The team competed at the Pat Hicks Thunderbird Invitational at Southern Utah University on Monday and Tuesday, and finished the two day event tied for sixth with Seattle University. Tanner Higham finished tied for

ment to how hard the team is willing to fight out there on the course,” he said.

However, it was easy over the break.

“When we have a long break like we did, we need to find someway to get our practices in,” Johansen said. “We obviously couldn’t practice in Logan, so the players would try to go down to St. George and try to get their practices in there.

But with the snow on the roads and the cost to rent the facilities down there,

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it was tough for some of the kids to get down there and sharpen their skills.”

The team consists of 10 members, five of which are freshmen.

“With freshman, you’re going to get something different,” he said. “They are just getting used to a new environment, adjusting to college and trying stuff on their own for the first time. Basically, they are having to learn everything over again.”

Johansen said that even with half of the team being freshman,

he thinks it will have no effect on how the team plays.

“Even with everything they are going through, they are just very excited to get on that course and prove they belong.”

The team will now travel to Industry, Calif., to compete in the Cal State Fullerton–hosted Folino Invitational, which will run Feb. 17-19.

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

What is the planet’s best spectator sporting event?

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The greatest possible sporting event is the Olympics.

The Olympics is a scarce occurrence compared to events such as the World Cup or March Madness. After all, these championships take place four times as often as the 400plus championships of the Olympics. Because of this the agony is four times more magnified, the ecstasy four times greater and the success four times more improbable.

Because of the gap in time, the Olympics trump any event.

What makes it greater than other competitions such as the World Cup is the size. The World Cup involves 32 countries playing one sport. The Olympics involve six to seven times that.

The moments in the Olympics stand out more too.

There are simply more of them. Sure, everyone remembers Northern Iowa beating Kansas, but those are one moment for each championship. Multiply that by the magnitude of and the number of moments, and the Olympics overshadows. Phelps winning gold by a tenth of a second, Douglas becoming the greatest gymnast at 17, Bolt becoming the fastest man ever and Ohno rising as the greatest winter athlete in his final Olympics were some of the greatest moments in sports history.

These moments are worth waiting four years for. These moments never disappoint. These moments make the Olympics greater than any other sporting competition.

March Madness. It’s in the name.

David slaying Goliath, Cinderella stories and ultimately one victor that rises above the rest.

Every team in the country has a shot at winning the title. It may be a long shot for some, but there’s a chance. Other sports limit that in the way they’re set up.

The best part about the NCAA tournament is the intimacy. In what other sport can you personally invest your time, energy and money to succeed or fail like what is possible with March Madness?

We put our happiness and fate into the players’ delicate hands when we fill out those brackets and enter pools.

Filling out my bracket each year is like Christmas, my birthday and Valentines day all rolled into one. It is absolute euphoria.

Teams I’d never heard of before Selection Sunday have me pulling my hair out as I scream at the TV yearning for the upset over blue-bloods like Duke or North Carolina so I can gain an edge.

Their loss is our gain, their victories our defeats. And as each round goes by, we rejoice or mourn with our teams as we rise or fall in the office pool standings.

There’s nothing like it.

I’m going with my soccer roots and saying the World Cup is the best sporting event around. For one month every four years, the world stops and watches the greatest international tournament there is.

The special thing about the World Cup is every country has a chance to make it as one of the final 32 teams. Making it to the World Cup is no easy task, as the field is cut from 120 to 32 countries. Making it into the tournament is an accomplishment in itself.

National pride is worn on your sleeve as you watch every minute, no, every second of your country’s game. The players on the field care because they aren’t playing for themselves: They are playing for their country. You get to see the best players in the world playing in soccer’s biggest stage. The World Cup is where heroes are born and rivalries are renewed.

Losing means everything, but winning means even more because if your country is the last team standing, there’s no denying that they are the best team in the world and they can actually call themselves world champions. No other sport can say that.

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Pickin’ the WAC Denver (15-8, 11-2 WAC) at Utah State (17-5, 8-4 WAC)

Seattle (7-16, 2-10 WAC)

The Mile High City indeed.

The Pioneers are 11-2 at home in this, the first season since marijuana was legalized in Colorado. They haven’t lost since the change, as both losses came prior to Dec. 10, the day the law went into effect. They’re 4-6 on the road this season. Coincidence?

You decide.

Aggies 65, Pioneers 62 New Mexico State (17-8, 10-2 WAC) at San Jose State (9-14, 3-9 WAC) Is there anyone in Las Cruces who doesn’t break the law? A little research dug up not only Tyrone Watson’s arrest, but the arrest of a former university president, a former cheerleader and a press release from the FBI’s website.

There’s something not quite right in the City of Crosses. On the crime index scale, 100 is the safest rating.

Las Cruces has a rating of 8.

Yet somehow the basketball team is riding an 11-game win streak, and haven’t dropped a game in 2013. Well, there’s a first time for everything.

REPEAT: Aggies set for another run real well. Having such a close team really helps.”

Stranski said everyone playing at a high level helps loosen the whole team up.

“The good thing is when you play on a good team, you feel more relaxed,” he said. “I led the nation in home runs, but we had five or six guys that hit over .400, Brad Singer led the nation in doubles and so when you hit around good guys it takes the pressure off of you.”

Schiffman said the

schedule should be tough and specifically noted games against Idaho State, Oregon, and Arizona State.

“We scheduled 37-40 games that we feel are going to be tough, competitive games that are going to compel us to be better,” he said.

Stanski said a rematch against Colorado State, whom the Aggies defeated in last year’s NCBA World Series, was circled on his calendar.

“Colorado State’s a good team,” he said. “That’s a team we’re trying to focus

on to make a statement.”

Stranski said the team appreciated the support of Cache Valley and the students during last year’s run.

“It was a Cinderella kind of story last year,” he said.

“Who would think that Utah State, out of 160 club teams, would come out of the Pacific Northwest and beat teams like Georgia, Texas Tech, and teams like that? It’s just unheard of.”

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It’s been almost three weeks since I’ve been with her, but I know I won’t miss a beat with our timing and our inside jokes.

In case it isn’t totally obvious yet, my date tonight is with the Spectrum — the premiere basketball venue west of the Mississippi, maybe even the entire world — and I can’t remember being more excited for February 14.

It’s almost been a long-distance relationship between me and the Spectrum these past few weeks with the Aggies being on the road, but they’re back, and we get to fill the Spectrum again.

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The latest from Moscow is that the football team can’t use ice water on the sidelines next season due to the fact that the two players who knew the recipe graduated.

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Apparently the education system isn’t much better since they misspelled “athlete.”

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Valentine’s Day is what you make of it

Happy Valentine’s Day — or SinglesAwareness Day, as referred to by some.

There are many ways to look at Valentine’s Day: Some see it as a celebration of love and some find only painful reminders of romance gone wrong. This variety of opinion has prompted us to reflect on what the true meaning of Valentine’s Day really is. Is it just about love, or just any other day? Are there An Editorial Opinion parts to the story that are overlooked?

Legends say that in Ancient Rome, Emperor Claudius II banned marriage based on the decision that single men made better soldiers than those with distractions such as wives and children. St. Valentine would secretly perform marriages because he believed in the power of love as he himself was in love. The legends vary in detail, as one mentions that St. Valentine was helping inmates escape the harsh conditions of the prison and fell in love with his jailer’s daughter. It was said he sent her a letter before he was put to death, signing, “Your Valentine.”

Even though the legends vary, each had something in common. They showed that St. Valentine was known for his heroism, sympathy and romanticism. We believe these factors have been overlooked by many including ourselves, so sit back and relax if you don’t have a date or if your partner is oblivious, because there is a way to make Valentine’s Day mean more than just the intimate love we associate with the holiday.

Love has two sides to it. There is intimate love and there is compassionate love.

Compassionate love means being kind and caring for others. It is the kind of cheer felt all through the Christmas season.

That said, we encourage all to make the most out of Valentine’s Day. Go out and honor St. Valentine and the legacy he left behind. Be compassionate toward others, serve and be courteous to each other. Sure we may not receive the same deed back, but we get more out of giving than receiving.

So have no fear: You can still celebrate Valentine’s Day. Take that pint of Ben and Jerry’s Phish Food and put it back in the freezer. There are plenty of things that can be done for Feb. 14 other than the depressive antics a few of us may be planning.

Get out and do something. If you have no clue what to do, attend the men’s basketball game against Denver. Show your pride as an Aggie and cheer on your team to victory. Be their heroes. Whether we choose to be someone’s hero or not, whether we enjoy Valentine’s Day depends on what we do for ourselves and for others.

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My last opinion column appears to me to have caused quite the stir. I have received several emails in support of my position and several denouncing it.

One thing has been made abundantly clear: I cannot take a shotgun approach

to such important issues.

I was trying to cover three important topics — pornography, promiscuity, and homosexuality — at once, in response to previous articles published in The Statesman. I merely was stating my position on these issues with the whole-hearted intention to move forward into subjects less discussed and less sensationalized.

It has been made quite clear to me that this was unwise. On such important issues, one must elaborate. Needless to say the debate has been far less than civil in many cases,

ForumLetters Are textbooks price gouging?

To the editor: Starting off the new semester is lots of fun, but can be pretty stressful. On top of starting up the new classes, getting into the swing of things, and adjusting your work schedule to fit with your classes, you have to pay for your tuition. After paying for tuition, you have to get your book list and pick up the list of required literature for each of your classes. As I checked my books in the USU bookstore, I was appalled at how expensive they were, even used. I started thumbing through them to get an idea of the content,

but was informed by one of the employees that we are not permitted to look through the books. I must ask, How many people honestly buy a book they have never looked through?

Apparently I am not allowed to review the material before making a large purchase here at the bookstore at USU. One book, Writing toward Hope, cost $31.95 used in the bookstore. I pulled out my handy smartphone, scanned the barcode, and like magic Amazon came up with the identical book, but for $12.00.

Total cost after expedited shipping: $19.56, a 49 percent reduction in cost. I moved on in my list and got to my next book, Latinoamerica: su

though, I hope this is not the case with those who agree with me. What I mean to say is I may be opposed to homosexuality, pornography, promiscuity, drug use or anything else, but that doesn’t mean I think people who do these things are of no value or deserve to be discarded. However, I must also be very clear that it doesn’t mean I endorse in any way the behavior itself.

Let me give you an example. Contrary to the apparently popular belief, I am

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As the U.S. population ages, and with the effects of the financial crisis promising to Nat’l linger for some View time, economic growth will be lower than we would like.

This is why the federal government needs to do more to help Americans earn college degrees.

For much of the 20th century, the United States benefited from rapidly rising educational levels, as the economists Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz of Harvard University showed in their 2008 book, “The Race Between Education and Technology.” Over the past 30 years, however, educational attainment has risen much more slowly. From 1960 to 1985, the share of adult Americans with at least a college degree more than doubled, to 19 percent from less than 8 percent. From 1985 to 2010, though, the share rose by only about half, to 30 percent. This slowdown has exacerbated inequality and crimped growth.

If the increase had continued at the same rate as before 1985, about half the adult population today would have at least a college degree. More graduates would mean lower inequality, because the wage

premium for a college degree would be reduced by the additional supply. And it would mean higher national income, because better-educated workers are, on average, more productive.

So it is important to ask what we can do to raise college graduation rates. It may be useful, in turn, to break that question down into the three stages of attaining a degree: high- school graduation, college enrollment and college completion. For now, I would like to focus on the first two stages.

The first challenge, it seems, is already being met to some degree. In a surprisingly encouraging, though little discussed, development, the high-school graduation rate has been increasing. After stagnating from 1970 to 2000, it has risen by about six percentage points over the past decade, reaching about 85 percent. The increases have been particularly substantial among blacks and Hispanics. In a new paper examining this trend, Harvard University economist Richard Murnane says many recent school reforms (such as providing support and guidance to ninth-graders) look like promising explanations, though he says the evidence is too thin to allow definitive conclusions, or to suggest exactly what we can do to sustain or expand on the recent success.

The second stage involves college enrollment. Among many considerations that influence a person’s decision to attend college, financial aid is a significant one. Aid to undergraduates totals about $200 billion

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If I elected to get an older edition (which I did) I only payed $24 including shipping , which is a 75 percent price reduction. I am starting to wonder why anyone buys their books at the USU bookstore when things seem so overpriced. I may be crazy, but it looks like price gouging to me.

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a year in the U.S., and about two-thirds of students are eligible for some form of assistance. A variety of evidence suggests that every $1,000 of additional grant aid per student increases college enrollment by about three to four percentage points, according to a review of the literature

by Susan Dynarski, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan, and David Deming, an assistant professor of education at Harvard.

The reverse is also true; people who lack access to financial aid are less likely to invest in college. Michael Lovenheim and Emily Owens of Cornell University found this effect in their study of a 2001 amendment to the Higher Education Act that prevented people convicted of drug offenses from receiving federal financial aid for two years. College attendance among those affected by the rule plummeted.

It is not just the amount of aid that matters but also the complexity of the process. Students apply for federal aid through the Fafsa (free application for federal student aid), which is cumbersome to the point of being intimidating to many potential applicants, who are often unaware of the aid for which they are potentially eligible. The 2011 Fafsa poses 116 questions, almost as many as a full 1040 tax return (and many more than the simplified 1040EZ form).

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RESPECT: Civil discussion is best oFrom page 10 not actually from Utah. I grew up in Missouri where promiscuity, drug use and especially drinking are the norm. Do I support or endorse any of these things? No, of course not.

Did I have, and do I still, have friends who do?

Absolutely. In fact, a year or two after high school a friend of mine who is gay needed a place to live. I had no extra bedroom but told him he was welcome to my couch. We cleared out our storage closet to give him space to put his things. He was grateful for the offer and moved in.

My friend Jim — not his real name — is gay. Yes, he is a homosexual. Did that bother me? I’ll admit it did a little bit, but not because I’m a homophobe or because I hated him. If so I wouldn’t have let him live in my house. Yes, he is gay, yet we still went to ball games, movies and out to eat. We still blew things up and went paintballing and did all of the things everyone else does. Does any of that mean I had to endorse what I felt was inappropriate? Did I have to let him bring his boyfriend home to get feisty?

Of course not, and neither should you. I didn’t support Jim and I won’t support anyone else for that matter in premarital sexual acts regardless of gender, but that doesn’t mean I would kick them to the curb either.

We have to learn, myself included, to be better at treating people as people. We have to see and respect others for who they are and not what they do, even and especially when they have different views than our own. At the same time, the most important thing, perhaps, is to have civil discussion.

Debates such as this are often polarizing. In many ways that can’t be helped, but in some ways it can.

Try to be a light to your friends without condemning them. I will do my best to do the same.

Many readers, particularly those who emailed me a less than cordial response, may not believe that. You are free to believe what you will.

This is my stance: I do not believe in “gay rights.” I do not believe in “women’s rights.” I do not believe in “African-American rights” or any other kind of “group” rights. To view an individual through generic labeling is divisive and derogatory. A right is something that every single human being has simply by virtue of being a human being. If you accept that the government can grant you rights then you must accept the corollary that the government can take them away.

Instead, we must recognize that rights are given to us by God and governments are instituted to protect them. Therefore, we

should all advocate rights for ALL people, including life, the ability to protect our families, bearing arms and property, for example.

Now here is the rub: How can we, myself included, recognize and help to protect the rights of all individuals and yet not sustain what we consider to be immoral? The answer is simple. We treat others as we would want to be treated. Would I want someone to have an honest, civil and sincere conversation with me if they thought I was doing something detrimental to myself? Sure, but ultimately I would want them to leave the choice to me.

Would I want them to discard me completely if I chose contrary to their beliefs and standards? No, of course I wouldn’t.

So this is my suggestion: Let’s have a real, honest and open dialogue with our friends and neighbors on any side of any issue.

Let’s keep it civil, calm and open-minded while recognizing we need not throw away our standards in an attempt to conform in the process. Let’s just do our best to treat people with love and respect.

–Richard Winters is a senior majoring in Law and Constitution Studies and Communication Studies. Send comments to rajin82@hotmail.com

AID: Paperwork can deter students oFrom page 10 demonstrated in the results of an experiment by Eric Bettinger, an associate professor of education at Stanford University, and several colleagues. Working with H&R Block Inc. tax preparers, the researchers randomly assigned potential applicants to two different groups. One received assistance in filling out the Fafsa, as well as an estimate of their aid eligibility and information about college options; the other received information about aid eligibility but no help in filling out the forms.

Those in the first group “were substantially more likely to submit the aid application, enroll in college the following fall, and receive more financial aid,” the researchers found.

Over the past few years, the Fafsa process has been simplified a bit.

There are slightly fewer questions, for example, and some applicants can now transfer their tax information to the Fafsa electronically, which saves

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ometimes charitable giving can be a tough pill to swallow — but the Valentine Chocolate Festival aims to sweeten fundraising. The annual festival raises money for the Planned Parenthood Association of Utah and the Logan Health Center through a chocolate dessert contest.

The 26th annual festival was held in the Four Seasons apartments in North Logan on Saturday.

A PATRON DONATES in one of the buckets placed

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attendees sample various chocolate desserts.

“THE QUEEN OF HEARTS” chocolate cake.

“Mayan Delights” from the assorted chocolates category.

A CHOCOLATE dragon tempts donors.

“STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN,” an entry in the

teen category.

WHITE CHOCOLATE Hazelnut Cake with Red Berry Surprise, an entry in the professional category.

“The Rose Garden,” an assortment of chocolate cupcakes with a raspberry frosting.

A boquet of chocolate-covered bacon made one

of the evening’s more unorthodox entries.

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FOR RELEASE FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis

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For Friday Feb 15 — Feb 21 Phone for Thursday eve shows Skyfall (PG-13) DAILY 6:40, 9:40

Rise of the Guardians (PG)

DAILY 4:30 Sat Mat 12:00, 2:20

Twilight Breaking Hotel Transylvania Dawn (PG-13) DAILY 9:45

(PG) DAILY 4:15 Sat Mat. 11:40, 2:00

Life of Pi (PG)

Parental Guidance

DAILY 6:50, 9:25

Wreck it Ralph

(PG) DAILY 5:00, 7:30 Sat Mat 12:20, 2:40

(PG-13) DAILY 5:15, 7:40 Sat. Mat 12:40, 3:00

Here Comes the Boom (PG) DAILY 9:35

Open Sun-Fri at 3:45 | Saturday open 11:30 for Matinees • No late show on Sundays

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14 Cowboy, at times 15 Palm product 16 Classic creamfilled snack 17 For the birds?

18 Agile deer 19 Actor Ken 20 Stout 23 Seaside raptor 24 Have to thank for, with “to�

25 Horn sound 26 Belgrade native 28 Lawn option 29 Nova Scotia hrs.

32 Relative via remarriage 36 Shell out 37 Stout 40 Gremlin and Pacer 41 Able to come back 42 Cole Porter’s “__ Clown�

43 Bond, for one 45 “Heavens to Betsy!�

46 Place to tie up 48 “__ we having fun yet?�

49 Intractable beast 52 Stout 57 Dead set against 58 Ram, e.g.

59 Significant 60 Sax immortal Getz 61 Politico Bayh 62 Blue hue 63 Reaction to being cut off 64 Not a good mark 65 Hem again DOWN 1 Talk and talk 2 Casanova 3 For the bees 4 Tide type 5 Cubemaster Rubik 6 Milkshake choice

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7 Gradually vanish 8 Cobb of “12 Angry Men�

9 Not get the better of 10 Flickr image 11 Ring insert 12 Knife in “West Side Story�

13 Shape (up) 21 Tire-shaped 22 New England catch 26 Nos. for beachgoers 27 Chemical suffix 28 Cryptozoologist’s quarry 30 Name meaning “young warrior� in Old Norse 31 Short communication 32 Work on a deck 33 Large volume 34 Yosemite attraction 35 Not a good mark 36 Crossword component 38 Rival of Rory 39 Greeting in Rio

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Answers found elsewhere in this issue!

Good Luck!

Wednesday’s Puzzle Solved

(c)2013 Tribune Media Services, Inc.

43 When doubled, a breath freshener 44 Specialized undergrad course 47 Permanently 48 Liam Neeson voiced him in “The Chronicles of Narnia� films 49 Like many a prime rib serving

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50 One in a Lincoln quartet?

51 Scatter 52 Reason for stitches 53 “Do __ ...�

54 Late-inning achievement 55 Barbra’s “Funny Girl� co-star 56 Flabbergast

Today’s Issue

TheUSUBack Burner ThursdayFeb 14

Today is Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013.

Today’s issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Kari Olsen, an undeclared freshman from Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Almanac Today in History: On Feb. 14 around the year 278 A.D., Valentine, a holy priest in Rome in the days of Emperor Claudius II, was executed.

Claudius believed that Roman men were unwilling to join the army because of their strong attachment to their wives and families.

Claudius banned all marriages and engagements in Rome. Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret.

Weather High: 29° Low: 19° Skies: Scattered snow flurries and snow showers before noon. Becoming partly cloudy later.

Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013

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o Group Meditation, TSC 12-1 p.m. o USU Yarncraft Guild, TSC Juniper Lounge 7-9 p.m. o Banff Mountain Film Festival, TSC Ballroom 7-10 p.m. o Men’s Basketball vs. Denver, Spectrum 7:05-9 p.m. o 9th Annual Jazz Night at the Sky Club: Student Dance Only Night, Skyroom 8-10 p.m. o Healthy Sexuality Workshop (2), TSC 310B 12-1:30 p.m. o Nominate a student/organization for USU Robins Awards 2013, All Day

FridayFeb 15

o 9th Annual Jazz Night at the Sky Club, Skyroom 6:30-10 p.m. o Banff Mountain Film Festival, TSC Ballroom 7-10 p.m. o For the Love of Banff Ticket Contest, All Day o Delta Sigma Phi presents Lady in Red Dance Party, TSC 9:30-1 a.m.

SaturdayFeb 16

o 9th Annual Jazz Night at the Sky Club, Skyroom 6:30-10 p.m. o Men’s Basketball vs. New Mexico State, Spectrum 7:05-9 p.m. o Saturdays at the Museum of Anthropology, Old Main 10-4 p.m. o Alternative Breaks Dodgeball Tournament, HPER 10-2 p.m. o City of Rocks Yurt Trip & Snowshoe Expedition, ORP All Day o Living Legends Dance Crew, Chase Fine Arts Center & Kent Concert Hall 7:30-9 p.m.

SundayFeb 17

o City of Rocks Yurt Trip & Snowshoe Expedition, ORP All Day

MondayFeb 18

o President’s Day Holiday (No Classes) o City of Rocks Yurt Trip & Snowshoe Expedition, ORP All Day o Family Snowshoe Tour, Swaner EcoCenter 11-12 p.m.

FYI:

Aggie Ice Cream will be open until 10 p.m. on Feb. 14 and 16 for the Aggie Men’s Basketball Games. Come enjoy a Sweetheart Sundae, served with two spoons.

The Pet Loss Support Group provides a place to grieve, learn coping skills, and honor your companion animal. We meet every Tuesday 5:30-6:30 p.m. in TSC 310. No RSVP required. Sponsored by USU Veterinary Medicine and Counseling and Psychological Services. Contact Chris Chapman at (435) 797-1012 for more information.

Information Session: Humanities Study Abroad Summer 2013 on Feb. 14 at 5 p.m. in FAV 236. We will be talking about the itinerary, classes, and any general questions.

Dr .James Estes from the University of California will be speaking for Ecology Department’s monthly speaker. Dr. 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 Richards’ musical adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s classic novel, Jane Eyre. The show opens on Valentine’s Day and runs through Feb.19, excluding Sunday (with two shows — a 1:30 matinee and an evening show— 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 435-752-0026.

Letting Go, Dealing with Loss Workshop: In order to help students who have lost a relationship (parent, spouse or friend) due to death, divorce or separation, this workshop is designed to facilitate the process of rebuilding. Stages of grief will be reviewed, as well as the core tasks of dealing with denial, fear, loneliness and guilt. Students will address anger, worth and transition so they are more open to letting go, trusting and finding purpose in their present situation. Remembering the important lessons learned from the relationship and celebrating the positive memories will be balanced with the opportunity to manage the frustration and disappointment associated with loss, especially premature or unexpected loss. The workshop is Feb. 21 from 1:30-

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2:30 p.m. in TSC Room 310 B. Please call 435797-1012 to reserve a seat.

The USU Chapter of Fight the New Drug is hosting Battle of the Bands! It will be Feb. 23 in the Fieldhouse from 5-10 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.

The Human Library offers “living books” 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 experiences 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.

More Calendar and FYI listings, Interactive Calendar and Comics at

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www.utahstatesman.com