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Event answers questions about breast cancer

By ALLIE JEPPSON staff writer

Joining the nation-wide effort to support Breast Cancer Awareness month and raise awareness among USU students, the Student Health and Wellness Center hosted a booth on the TSC patio Wednesday and Thursday.

The objective of the Health and Wellness Center during this event was to provide information, answer questions and caution people of breast cancer risk factors.

Karinne Van Wagoner, intern at the Student Wellness Center and a coordinator of the event said, “In 2002-2006 women ages 20-24 had the lowest incident rate of 1.4 cases for 100,000 women. Even though this number is really low, it still shows that younger women are at risk too. The most important thing a student can do is be aware of their bodies and realize breast cancer can happen to anyone, no matter their age, race or gender.”

Pink ribbons, commonly seen in retail stores to support breast cancer, and each ribbon represents the lives that have been touched, destroyed and saved through the consequences breast cancer.

According to www.breastcancer.org, “breast cancer occurs as a result of mutations, or abnormal changes, in the genes responsible for regulating the growth of cells and keeping them healthy. Normally, the cells in our bodies replace themselves through an orderly process of cell growth: healthy new cells take

BREAST CANCER AWARENESS WEEK partners with the Utah State Student Health and Wellness Center to educate students about the facts on breast cancer. KATLEYN BATTLES photo

over as old ones die out.”

Once the cell has been mutated it can keep producing identical cells without any order, creating a tumor, the site states. Once a tumor has formed, it is common for it to spread to

nearby tissue and even infect the under arm lymph nodes, which can be a portal for the infection to the rest of the body, spreading the harmful disease even further.

In 2010, 207,090 new cases of invasive

breast cancer were diagnosed in the U.S. which resulted 39,840 deaths, according to cancer.org. It is this type of cancer that is most common among women in the U.S., other than skin cancer, and is the second leading cause of death behind lung cancer.

There are a combination of factors that cause and increase the risk of breast cancer.

Lacy Fellows, a registered nurse for the radiation therapy department at Logan Regional Hospital, said heredity is one contributor to the risk of developing breast cancer. Other factors include obesity, lack of exercise, intake of hormones for menopausal women and age.

A pamphlet provided by the American Cancer Society states that “all women can get breast cancer – even those who have no family history of the disease.”

“There is no sure way to prevent it,” Van Wagoner said, “however, there are four main things that can help lower the risk.”

These four things include maintaining a healthy weight, avoiding hormone replacement as you get older, limiting alcohol consumption, and keeping a physically active lifestyle.

“The older you are, the more exercise helps” Fellows said.

Along with maintaining a healthy lifestyle, it is widely suggested by doctors and cancer specialists to do monthly self-exams as well as get a yearly mammogram and a Clinical Breast Exam (CBE).

- See PREVENTION, page 3

Gov. dedicates USU building Middle East club

By RHETT WILKINSON staff writer

The new USTAR Bioinnovations 650 Building was unveiled Oct. 7, complete with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Utah Gov. Gary Herbert was among the notables that attended the event, and provided opening remarks. The facility should begin to be occupied in December.

Part of the reason for the building’s name comes from its location, at 650 E. Grand Ave. in North Logan. Additionally, the facility will triple the size of UTSTAR’s current main research facility, located just down the street at 620 E. Grand Ave. “The research being conducted in this building will change our lives,” said Raymond Coward, executive vice president and provost of USU. The purpose of the 110,000 square-foot facility is to provide research among all USU sciences and industry researchers, and other institutions at the university. Additionally, the occupations in the facility and the research itself will continue to create 100 new jobs, besides recruiting top-level scientists in their field to the state, Coward said.

Gov. Herbert said the new facility not only improves the status of Utah State University, but also contributes to helping achieve three main goals currently being pursued on behalf of the state of Utah.

That first goal, Herbert said, is economic growth.

“With 2.3 trillion dollars on the side right now, there’s a lot of opportunities to research,” he said.

Herbert said the new facility encourages such GOVERNOR GARY HERBERT cuts the tape at the spending, and for a good cause of development of USTAR building dedication. ARMEN HOVSEPYAN photo technology that will improve the everyday lives of people. relate to and surround Utah State University,” Herbert The second goal of education is achieved, as Herbert said, said. “because students will have greater opportunity to work All of the speakers concerning the event were extremeside-by-side with researchers,” many of whom will be only optimistic about its potential to generate employment campus professors, already teaching within the majority and provide new innovational technologies, mainly of both the undergraduates and graduate students, who within science, that can be applied to the world outside will have the opportunity to work at Bioinnovations 650. the laboratory.

The third goal is accomplished because much of the Scott Anderson, USTAR governing authority member research is devoted to developing natural resources. and CEO of Zions Bank, was among these speakers.

Herbert described one of the already-in-place projects Anderson said the construction of Bioinnovations 650 as a miracle, saying that conversion of algae to energy is will help to continue a major goal that was set when the just as remarkable as conversion of water to wine, and is university was established in 1888. part of a greater miracle that is impacting the outlook of “This university was founded with the idea that it the entire state, not to mention the increasing prestige would take its discoveries from the campus to the peothat is building around the school.

“There’s a lot of great things in the state right now that - See HERBERT, page 4

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discusses Islam

By MIKE BURNHAM staff writer

The Middle East club met Tuesday to try to dispel some of the many misunderstandings associated with Islam.

“There are a lot of misunderstandings,” said the club’s president, Allia Abu-Ramaileh. “Our goal is to gain a better understanding of Middle Eastern politics, religions and culture.”

Abu-Ramaileh is an American Muslim. Her father is from Palestine and her mother is from Utah. She said she got involved in with the club after it was founded last year by students in political science. She said she saw it as an opportunity to help others bridge the gap between American and Middle Eastern culture, a gap she was raised in. The club welcomes those with or without a background in either culture.

“If we have a mixture of those who grew up in the Middle East and those who are interested in it, that’s the best combination to learn from each other,” she said. “We try to get a good representation of everyone.”

After a brief introduction explaining how clear Islam can be to those who look into it, Tuesday’s discussion kicked off with an introduction to the five pillars of Islam, and moved to an hour-long question and answer session covering topics ranging from the religion’s history to scientific evidences found in the Quran. Questions were so numerous that the discussion eventually had to be cut short due to time constraints. The panel fielding the questions consisted of a student couple from Kuwait, a convert to Islam who was raised in Utah, and USU’s Arabic professor. Past discussion topics have included the role of women in Islam and Muslims in the media.

In addition to discussions, Abu-

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Ramaileh said the club regularly plans other activities including fashion shows, barbecues, and dances in order to spread awareness and deepen understanding of Middle Eastern culture.

“It was a really good start (to the year),” said Arabic professor Abdulkafi Albirini. “There were about 40 people, so there is some interest.”

Bradford Hall, head of the languages, philosophy and speech communication department, said he has noticed a shift in student interests towards the Middle East.

“We just added Arabic this year,” he said, “and we would certainly hope for expansion.” He said Arabic is especially important because it is labeled as a “strategic” language by the defense department. Hall said while other “strategic” languages such as Russian are tight in enrollment and funding, Arabic is looking to expand.

Professor Albirini explains that there are currently two sections of Arabic 1010.

“I teach 65 students,” he says.

“There were actually 22 students who were on a waiting list and couldn’t get into the class. We could have easily offered another section if we could afford it.”

He said students in the club and class are “respectful, enthusiastic and receptive,” qualities necessary for the Middle Eastern programs to thrive.

“I could use all of the positive adjectives,” he said.

“For us to grow and flourish, support from the community and student body is important,” he said.

“It’s an important language and culture for the United States because it occupies a huge area.”

The Middle East club meets every Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Old Main 121.

– mike.burnham@aggiemail.usu.edu

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ClarifyCorrect The Oct. 6 Statesman article on concealed weapons on campus did not include comment from the college Democrats. Anna Harris, the group’s president, sent the following statement to The Utah Statesman: I feel that the second amendment, like all rights guaranteed within the Constitution, is important and was envisioned originally as a vital part of American society, but like with all rights should be exercised with a level of tact.

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Nat’lBriefs Four tornadoes tear across Northern Ariz.

BELLEMONT, Ariz. (AP) – A rare swarm of tornadoes shoved semis off highways and destroyed homes in the pre-dawn darkness Wednesday, leaving startled residents wondering if they were in Arizona anymore or had woken up in the twister-prone Midwest.

After one tornado rumbled through Bellemont around 5:30 a.m. with wind speeds of up to 110 miles per hour, residents armed with flashlights emerged from their homes to check on the damage – a house splintered, windows smashed, garage doors twisted, but no major injuries.

Wildfires occur often at Utah military base

Senate slams Afghan security contractors WASHINGTON (AP) – Heavy U.S. reliance on private security in Afghanistan has helped to line the pockets of the Taliban because contractors often don’t vet local recruits and wind up hiring warlords and thugs, Senate investigators said Thursday.

The finding, in a report by the Senate Armed Services Committee, follows a separate congressional inquiry in June that concluded trucking contractors pay tens of millions of dollars a year to local warlords for convoy protection.

Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate panel, said he is worried the U.S. is unknowingly fostering the growth of Taliban-linked militias at a time when Kabul is struggling to recruit its own soldiers and police officers.

“Almost all are Afghans. Almost all are armed,” Levin, a Michigan Democrat, said of the army of young men working under U.S. contracts.

“We need to shut off the spigot of U.S. dollars flowing into the pockets of warlords and power brokers who act contrary to our interests and contribute to the corruption that weakens the support of the Afghan people for their government,” he added.

The Defense Department doesn’t necessarily disagree but warns that firing the estimated 26,000 private security personnel operating in Afghanistan

in the near future isn’t practical.

This summer, U.S. forces in Afghanistan pledged to increase their oversight of security contractors and set up two task forces to look into allegations of misconduct and to track the money spent, particularly among lower-level subcontractors.

The Defense Contract Management Agency has increased the number of auditors and support staff in the region by some 300 percent since 2007. And in September, Gen. David Petraeus, the top war commander in Afghanistan, directed his staff to consider the impact that contract spending has on military operations.

But military officials and Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee warn that ending the practice of hiring local guards could worsen the security situation in Afghanistan.

They say providing young Afghan men with employment can prevent them from joining the ranks of Taliban fighters. Bringing in foreign workers to do jobs Afghans can do is likely foster resentment.

Also, contract security forces fill an immediate need at a time when U.S. forces are focused on operations, commanders say.

“As the security environment in Afghanistan

Southern Baptist leader: yoga not Christian LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) – A Southern Baptist leader who is calling for Christians to avoid yoga and its spiritual attachments is getting plenty of pushback from enthusiasts who defend the ancient practice.

Southern Baptist Seminary President Albert Mohler says the stretching and meditative discipline derived from Eastern religions is not a Christian pathway to God. Mohler said he objects to “the idea that the body is a vehicle for reaching consciousness with the divine.”

“That’s just not Christianity,”

Mohler told The Associated Press.

Mohler said feedback has come through e-mail and comments on blogs and other websites since he wrote an essay to address questions about yoga he has heard for years.

“I’m really surprised by the depth of the commitment to yoga found on the part of many who identify as Christians,” Mohler said.

Yoga fans say their numbers have been growing in the U.S. A 2008 study by the Yoga Journal put the number at 15.8 million, or nearly 7 percent of adults. About 6.7 percent of American

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Firearms and explosives training at a Utah military base have ignited dozens of wildfires in the past three decades, including one that swept into neighborhoods and drove residents from more than 1,600 homes, according to a review of documents requested by The Associated Press.

Camp Williams officials readily acknowledge the dangers that come from training with live rounds in tinder dry hills on the edge of a metropolis, but insist they can manage the risks and have no plans to move from the Utah Army National Guard base 26 miles from STEPHANIE DILLON conducts a yoga class in Louisville, Ky. on Sept. 24. Dillon’s practice of yoga puts her at odds with Southern Baptist Seminary President Albert downtown Salt Lake City.

Tijuana makes strides amidst the drug war TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) – If Tijuana is safe enough for Al Gore, Nobel laureates in chemistry and economics and co-founders of Twitter and Wikipedia – not to mention a 100,000 dancing residents – shouldn’t it be safe for anyone?

City leaders, with the help of President Felipe Calderon, made that point Thursday as Tijuana kicked off a two-week festival to showcase the city’s economic prowess and cultural riches.

The “Innovative Tijuana” festival at the gleaming cultural center is a $5 million victory party.

LateNiteHumor Top 10 Signs There’s Trouble at FOX News Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010 10. Accidentally said something positive about a Democrat.

9. News ticker reads, “Bosses crazy, send help.”

8. Today’s top story: Is there anything more delicious than bacon?

7. Been criticizing Obama for not doing enough to prevent World War I. 6. Bill O’Reilly inviting guests to enter the “No Pants Zone.”

5. Crime stories eerily similar to plot of most recent “Hawaii Five-O.” 4. Spent five hours today breaking down the Mets playoff chances.

3. Thinking about hiring Rick Sanchez.

2. Since June, Glenn Beck has been barking nonstop.

1. They’re thinking of giving the 10 p.m. slot to Leno.

improves, our need for (private security contractors) will diminish,” Petraeus told the Senate panel in July.

“But in the meantime, we will use legal, licensed and controlled (companies) to accomplish appropriate missions.”

Levin says he isn’t suggesting that the U.S. stop using private security contractors altogether. But, he adds, the U.S. must reduce the number of local security guards and improve the vetting process of new hires if there’s any hope of reversing a trend that he says damages the U.S. mission in Afghanistan.

His report represents the broadest look at Defense Department security contracts so far, with a review of 125 of these agreements between 2007 and 2009.

The review concludes there were “systemic failures” in the management of the contracts, including “widespread” failures “to adequately vet, train and supervise armed security personnel.”

The panel’s report highlights two cases in which security contracting firms ArmorGroup and EOD Technology relied on personnel linked to the Taliban.

Last week, EOD Technology was one of eight security firms hired by the State Department under a $10 billion contract to provide protection for diplomats.

Mohler, who feels the stretching and meditative discipline derived from Eastern religions is not a Christian pathway to God. AP photo

adults are Southern Baptists, according to a 2007 survey by the Pew Research Center Forum on Religion & Public Life.

Mohler argued in his online essay last month that Christians who practice yoga “must either deny the reality of what yoga represents or fail to see the contradictions between their Christian commitments and their embrace of yoga.”

He said his view is “not an eccentric Christian position.”

Other Christian leaders have said practicing yoga is incompatible with the teachings of Jesus.

Pat Robertson has called the chanting and other spiritual components that go along with yoga “really spooky.”

California megachurch pastor John MacArthur called yoga a “false religion.” Muslim clerics have banned Muslims from practicing yoga in Egypt, Malaysia and Indonesia, citing similar concerns.

Yoga proponents say the wideranging discipline, which originated in India, offers physical and mental healing through stretching poses and concentration.

“Lots of people come to yoga because they are often in chronic pain.

Others come because they think it’s a nice workout,” said Allison Terracio, who runs the Infinite Bliss studio in Louisville.

And some yoga studios have made the techniques more palatable for

Christians by removing the chanting and associations to eastern religions, namely Hinduism and its multiple deities.

Stephanie Dillon, who has injected Christian themes into her studio in Louisville, said yoga brought her closer to her Christian faith, which had faded after college and service in the Army.

“What I found is that it opened my spirit, it renewed my spirituality,” Dillon said. “That happened first and then I went back to church.” Dillon attends Southeast Christian Church in Louisville and says many evangelical Christians from the church attend her yoga classes.

She said she prayed on the question of whether to mix yoga and Christianity before opening her studio, PM Yoga, where she discusses her relationship with Jesus during classes.

“My objection (to Mohler’s view) personally is that I feel that yoga enhances a person’s spirituality,” Dillon said. “I don’t like to look at religion from a law standpoint but a relationship standpoint, a relationship with Jesus Christ specifically.”

Mohler wrote the essay after reading “The Subtle Body,” where author Stefanie Syman traces the history of yoga in America. Syman noted the growing popularity of yoga in the U.S. by pointing out that first lady Michelle Obama has added it to the festivities at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on the front lawn.

Toxic red sludge reaches the Danube River KOLONTAR, Hungary (AP) – Red sludge flowed into the Danube River on Thursday, threatening a half-dozen nations along one of Europe’s key waterways. Monitors took samples every few hour to measure damage from the toxic spill and emergency officials declared one Hungarian tributary dead.

As cleanup crews gathered deer carcasses and other wildlife from the villages in southwestern Hungary flooded by the industrial waste, environmental groups warned of long-term damage to the farming region’s topsoil.

Conflicting information swirled about the dangers posed by the ankle-deep muck coating the most seriously hit areas after the collapse of a waste-storage reservoir at a nearby alumina plant Monday.

The Hungarian Academy of Sciences maintained that while the material was a continued hazard, its heavy metal concentrations were not considered dangerous to the environment.

“The academy can say whatever it wants,” fumed Barbara Szalai Szita, who lives in Devecser, one of the hardest-hit villages. “All I know is that if I spend 30 minutes outside I get a foul taste in my mouth and my tongue feels strange.”

Hungary’s environment minister, Zoltan Illes, said the henna-colored sludge covering a 16-squaremile swathe of countryside does have “a high content of heavy metals,” some of which can cause cancer. He warned of possible environmental hazards, particularly if it were to enter the groundwater system.

With rain giving way to dry, warmer weather over the past two days, the caustic mud is increasingly turning to airborne dust, which can cause respiratory problems, Illes added.

“If that would dry out then ... wind can blow ... that heavy metal contamination through the respiratory system,” he said.

Amid the conflicting reports, officials had one piece of encouraging news: The mighty Danube was apparently absorbing the slurry with little immediate harm beyond sporadic sightings of dead fish.

The red sludge, a waste product of aluminum production, reached the western branch of the Danube early Thursday and was flowing into its broad main stretch by noon. By evening, it was moving southward toward Serbia and Romania.

At monitoring stations in Croatia, Serbia and Romania, officials were taking river samples every few hours, though experts hoped the river’s huge water volume would blunt the impact of the spill.

Hungarian rescue agency spokesman Tibor Dobson said the pH content of the sludge entering the Danube had been reduced to the point where it was unlikely to cause further environmental damage. The waste, which had tested at a highly alkaline pH level of 13 soon after the spill – similar to lye or bleach – was under 10 by Thursday.

A neutral pH level for water is 7, with normal readings ranging from 6.5 to 8.5. Each pH number is 10 times the previous level, so a pH of 13 is 1,000 times more alkaline than a pH of 10.

The tributaries feeding the Danube from the area around the spill were not so fortunate. The Marcal River, stained ochre and devoid of fish and other aquatic life, was declared a dead zone.

“Life in the Marcal River has been extinguished,” Dobson said of the waterway, which is fed by streams around the accident site and carried the waste into the Raba River, which then flows into the Danube.

He said emergency crews were pouring plaster and acetic acid – vinegar – into the area where the Raba and Danube meet to lower the sludge’s pH value.

“The main effort is now being concentrated on the Raba and the Danube,” he said. “That’s what has to be saved.”

An AP television crew watching cleanup efforts at the confluence of the Raba and the Danube said neither river showed visible signs of pollution.

An environmental group that monitors threats to the Danube said the breached reservoir was on

a 2006 watch list of some 100 industrial sites that were at risk for accidents that could contaminate the 1,775-mile-long river. The International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River coordinates conservation efforts in the nations bordering the waterway and its tributaries.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban, visiting the village of Kolontar, where homes and fields were coated with sludge, described the reservoir break as a disaster unprecedented in Hungary.

A FISHERMAN PULLS a net on the Danube River near the city of Bezdan, Serbia, Oct. 7. The toxic red sludge that inundated three Hungarian villages reached Europe’s mighty Danube River on Thursday. AP photo

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MTV to help ease grant process

By CATHERINE MEIDELL news editor

A national initiative to simplify the grant application process and encourage students to apply is in process, said U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

“We want to help students not just go to college, but graduate,” Duncan said. “Because of investments the president has made in the PELL Grant office, the average grant has gone up by $1,000.”

President of the College Board Gaston Paperton said 56 percent of college students graduate in six years, and 27 percent of those students do so in a community college. He said he is sure this is because of students’ inability to pay their tuition.

This school year, almost half of USU’s population relies on some form of financial aid to pay for college, said Steve Sharp, USU’s director of Financial Aid. It is President Obama’s goal for the U.S. to again be No. 1 in the world for percentage of college graduates, Duncan said. Currently, the U.S. is ranked No. 9 globally in percentage of the population who are college graduates.

Duncan said college graduation will be more easily achieved when more students know how to dip into the $70 billion of financial aid the government allots each year.

“Historically, we haven’t been creative enough in making college affordable and accessible,” Paperton said.

Duncan and Paperton are teaming up with MTV to create collaboration amongst students, encouraging them to help solve these problems. The Get Schooled College Affordability Challenge is one way government officials plan to create excitement amongst college students to join in the effort to improve students’ financial barriers, said Jason Rzepka, vice president of MTV Public Affairs.

“We need to be realistic in that there is not any one silver bullet,” Rzepka said. “What we are trying to do ALMOST HALF OF USU STUDENTS rely on some form of financial aid to pay for college – MTV is here is get some momentum going.” helping students find ways to more easily achieve help. CATHERINE MEIDELL photo illustration The challenge asks college students to think outside of the box and find interesting “digital tools” that regulations for Financial Aid to abide by. Some aspects acquiring financial aid as simple as legally possible,” will ease confusion in the financial aid process. The of this process have been simplified recently, he said.

Sharp said. winning proposal will be awarded $10,000.

Rather than fill out an entire form, students can check Though Secretary Duncan said he realizes the road Though the initiators of the challenge are optia box allowing Financial Aid to gain access to their to a simpler financial aid system is hopeful, he also mistic, Sharp said he is skeptical that this new proIRS paperwork. Also, loans and grants now come said it will be full of hurdles. gram will solve financial aid complexities. He said straight from federal funding and are not accessed at “The honest answer is there isn’t an easy answer on many programs similar to the College Affordability all through banks. Sharp said one of the biggest things this,” Duncan said. “We are seeing horrendous cuts all Challenge have been attempted without any profound that creates confusion in accessing loans and grants over the country. We need to challenge states to invest results. comes with deciding who deserves the money. every little dollar we put into them.”

“The Department of Education has continually “Welfare is a very unpopular program and people With ideas from students who are aware of finanasked for suggestions of how to make financial aid believe only the deserving poor should receive assiscial aid stresses, Rzepka is hopeful that interesting and more accessible,” Sharp said, “But it’s a congressionally tance,” Sharp said. “Who are the deserving poor, effective ideas will be produced through MTV’s chalmandated thing, so the department is hampered. though? Figuring this out is where everything gets lenge.

They don’t have the power to pass anything.” complex.”

Rzepka said: “One thing I’ve seen here at MTV in Paperton said he is pleased that this challenge is At this point, Sharp said all he and the rest of the our efforts with education is a paralysis, and I think creating some tension by making students face the Financial Aid staff can do is act as intermediaries with this challenge in particular we will come up financial issues they must face. He said it will make in the complexity because all changes made by the with a tool that will help students understand their them think critically about how they can improve government don’t take action for years. The option to options.” their own situation, and they will be motivated to do change a FAFSA form’s status from single to married so with the $10,000 prize. in the same year was only recently approved after 10 – catherine.meidell@aggiemail.usu.edu Sharp said in his experience, simplifying the finan- years of debate. cial aid process for students creates more rules and “Our job is to make the student’s experience

Prevention: weight matters -continued from page 1 Part of the Wellness Center’s Breast Cancer Awareness movement this month is the slogan “The best kind of protection is early detection.”

“If you catch it early,” Van Wagoner said, “it is that much better.”

“You have to be really proactive” Fellows said, “because the doctor doesn’t feel your breasts every day so it is up to you to take care of it yourself.”

Michele Plogh, a USU student and employee, caught a small lump in her breast early thanks to a mammogram.

“It was so small,” she said. “I wouldn’t have felt it myself.”

Plough was diagnosed with tubular carcinoma, a rare form of breast cancer diagnosed to only 2 percent of all women with breast cancer.

In order to remove the cancer from Plogh, a lumpectomy was required.

In a lumpectomy, the tumor as well as the tissue surrounding it is removed. Plogh’s infection had not spread to the lymph nodes, and with one surgery, she was clear of cancer.

Chemotherapy and radiation were not required in the recovery process.

Having a family history of breast cancer, Plogh said she was lucky to have such a short period of cancer.

However, though her experience was brief, she said it still affects who she is today.

“I had a lot of emotions,” she said. “You just kind of wonder what I could have done. I would recommend that all women and even some men, because it can affect them too, give themselves self-exams and make sure that women get their regular mammograms.”

In an effort to support those women with breast cancer, Smith’s

Food and Drug store participates in a national sales effort across the country during October. In Utah alone, Smith’s raises $20,000 to donate to Race for the Cure and $10,000 to the American Cancer Society.

Marsha Gilford, vice president of Public Affairs and spokesperson for Smith’s, said: “All of our stores participate in a sales promotion called Giving Hope a Hand. We ask many of our vendors to participate in this event and throughout our stores we have about 1,800 ‘pink’ items. Fiftyseven of those items each feature what we call a sharing-courage story.”

On the back of these “pink” items is a story of a cancer survivor from somewhere in the country, said Gilford. “Breast cancer is a very pervasive disease and we’re hoping by drawing awareness that we can create healthier women. With every sharing courage story that is shared, these women have admonished other women to do monthly self-exams and annual mammograms. We’re all very busy as women but we need to do that for our health.”

Through this event, the vendors of Smith’s contribute money towards those “pink” items, totalling around $3 million nationally, which is then donated to the breast cancer awareness program. “Supporting the good health of women is one of our very top priorities,” Gilford said, “and now that breast cancer now touches one in eight women, it tends to impact the entire family.”

- allie.jeppson@aggiemail.usu.edu

Committee modifies summer semester

By JESSICA SWEAT staff writer

With enrollment of about 2,100 students during Summer semesters, USU has decided to take action and hopes to double this number in the next five years.

Now feeling some pressure from the Legislature, a Summer Enrollment Committee was assembled to identify key issues and barriers preventing full utilization of facilities and resources. Heading this committee is Vice President of Student Services James Morales.

According to a presentation given by Morales, the Logan campus has experienced a 45 percent decline in undergraduate students enrolling for summer semesters since 1999. The committee has identified factors contributing to the decline as increased pressure to work, issues with incentives for faculty, the proliferation of online courses, and a lack of clarity about scheduling as well as not meeting students needs.

The committee has been at work compiling a report of recommendations and presenting them to various organizations across the campus including ASUSU and University President Stan Albrecht.

“So far the response has been really positive,” Morales said. “We realize this is just the framework for discussion and ideas and not the final product.”

The first recommendation made

includes better scheduling. Instead of three sets of four week sessions and one eight week session that overlap, sessions will be realigned into two parts. Immediately following Spring commencement will be a four-week workshop session followed by a seven-week main session that will end early enough to give students a month break before Fall semester begins. The scheduling will all include the same standardized bell times and the sevenweek session will include no Friday classes.

Recognizing the need for students to work, the committee recommended offering student employment opportunities and internships to students as part of summer enrollment. Tuition incentives may be offered, such as discounts to accompany current offers being made. One incentive already being given is all students only have to pay in-state resident tuition for summer semester regardless where they are from.

A large factor keeping students from campus is online classes.

Originally implemented to keep students on track to graduate, for prerequisites, and classes not available, online classes have gained popularity for their flexibility and convenience. While they may keep students off campus, their fees sometimes work in favor of the university.

- See OPTIONS, page 4

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Jazz bands kick off USU ensemble The jazz bands from Utah State University’s Caine College of the Arts and the Department of Music kick off their 2010-2011 concert season with a Big Band Jazz Concert Wednesday, Oct. 13, 7:30 p.m., at the USU Performance Hall.

The jazz bands include the USU Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Todd Fallis, and Jazz Orchestra, under the direction of Jon Gudmundson. A guest singer and small combo groups will also perform.

Tickets are $8 for general admission and free for USU students with presentation of ID. Tickets are available at the Caine College of the Arts Ticket Office, Chase Fine Arts Center, Room 139-B, or online (arts.usu.edu<http://arts.usu.edu>).

Tickets are also available at the door performance night.

The Jazz Ensemble also performs contemporary music, including Chick Corea’s “Electric City” from his 1980s Electric Band.

The concert features guitar solo work by Clovis Ward and Greg Newbold.

“It is an exciting year for USU Jazz,” said Gudmundson, who also is director of jazz studies at USU. “We are offering our usual series of concerts in October and December and will have our Jazz at the Sky Club dinner and dance fund raiser in February. Our slate of guest artists for our April concert includes the great saxophonist Dave Pietro and two guest artists from Italy, bandleader Marco Renzi and clarinetist Bepi D’Amato.”

For more information about upcoming music events at the Caine College of the Arts, visit arts.usu. edu<http://arts.usu.edu> or call the Caine College of the Arts Box Office at 797-8022.

“Aggie Blue Sky Night” opening All are invited to the inaugural public opening of the USU Observatory Friday, Oct. 8. The observatory sits atop USU’s Science Engineering Research ‘SER’ Building.

Physics faculty member James Coburn, USUO coordinator, discusses the university’s new 20-inch telescope.

All are invited to “Aggie Blue Sky Night,” the inaugural public opening of the Utah State University Observatory Friday, Oct. 8, on campus. The free gathering begins at 7:30 p.m. with a brief dedication ceremony in the Engineering Building, Room 103.

Following the ceremony, guests will have the opportunity, in small groups, to visit the roof of the Science Engineering Research building, upon which the observatory is located. Weather permitting, guests will view crisp, clear images of Jupiter and the Galilean moons through USUO’s new 20inch PlaneWave Instruments telescope.

For more information, contact the Department of Physics, 435797-2857.

Resource Center workshops offered USU’s Academic Resource Center offers a series of weekly workshops on perfectionism and procrastination, test anxiety and math anxiety. The workshops are offered Oct. 6-Dec. 8, every Wednesday from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in the Taggart Student Center Room 335.

Workshops are offered on a rotating schedule, featuring a different topic each week.

Students, staff and faculty are welcome to attend any or all workshops. Registration is not required simply attend the workshop(s) of interest.

For questions or additional information, contact the Academic Resource Center, (435) 797-1128, email Jesse Crosby at jesse.crosby@ usu.edu, or refer to the ARC website.

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River research attempts to increase safety

By RHETT WILKINSON staff writer

Extensive research on the Le Sueur River, also known as the Minnesota River, is underway to develop a sediment budget and determine the cause of heavy sediment deposits in the river.

Patrick Belmont, USU assistant professor of watershed sciences, is studying what sort of potentially devastating effects that the deposit will have on nearby lands and inhabitants.

Belmont’s findings are reported routinely in national settings including the Geological Society of America and the American Geophysical Union. The final results of the project’s first leg is a continuation of a postdoctoral project Belmont began more than two years ago and will be submitted to the Pollution Control Agency in Minnesota in six to nine months.

The research is also part of a collaborative effort with the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics, where Belmont studied before joining the Utah State staff.

Jack Schmidt, professor of the department of aquatic, watershed, and earth resources, said Belmont’s project has great value on a national scale. “(The research) has national significance because they are trying a lot of innovative techniques to find sources of sediment yield, sources of eroding sediment, and ultimately how to control them,” Schmidt said.

Belmont himself said the extensive research itself involved a lot of time and energy, but it is for a great purpose.

“I have been studying erosion and sediment

transport in the (Le Sueur) river, particularly trying to figure out where all the mud comes from, so we can determine the most effective way to restore the watershed and improve water quality,” Belmont said.

Belmont will be in Minnesota doing this research until Oct. 17. He said he will put in 14-hour days and routinely start field work at 7 a.m. He said his out-of-town, on-site research this week couldn’t have come at a better time.

“Last week, Southern Minnesota received 10 to 13 inches of rain in 24 hours and experienced the worst floods by far since we started tracking flows in the 1930s,” he said.

Due to the floods, the river has become very susceptible to testing, and tests can more easily be read as the water table rises.

Barbra Utley, a post-doctoral research fellow and Schmidt’s teaching assistant, said the reasons why the river is full of sediment are due to problems beginning 13,000 years ago at the end of the Ice Age. A break in the glacier where south-central Minnesota now rests had a major slip that resulted in a large “nickpoint” or “headcut,” which are descriptions of rapid changes in elevation that propagate through a watershed.

This nickpoint, and the location of much of the river, has caused the watershed to be 70 meters below the level of most of the landscape.

For this reason, the river is susceptible to erosion not just from the glacier, but from a second dilemma: the watershed lies below a surface that is routinely feeding into the river and other lakes further downstream.

“We care about water quality. We care about how it affects bio-industry. We care

about how water is affected downstream, and the filling in of sediment, which effects (people),” Utley said, “There are really two different landscape processes occurring – how do you identify which one is the problem?”

Utley said that though the base of the watershed has since stabilized, the erosion problem remains. Belmont has taken the role of identifier, and is one of the reasons why the research garners attention, she said.

“That’s where (Belmont) comes in: to do a budget of where the sediment is coming from in this watershed. As this project is part of the Mississippi River, it gets a lot of publicity, (and) it gets a lot of money thrown at it,” Utley said.

“Are we wasting the money? Will the affects of the river be any different in five, 10, or 20 years? What scale are the changes occurring, and where is the watershed change coming from?

That’s part of what Patrick and others are trying to identify,” said Utley, a Virginia Tech and Georgia graduate.

The one currently assisting Belmont to identify those questions is Justin Stout, a watershed science major who is currently in his first semester of graduate school.

The eroding of the river can alter its course as well, and Utley said that’s where nearby residents and their lands could find themselves in the greatest potential peril. This will also affect the corn and soybean yield that grow in the rich soil of the Minnesota River Basin deposited by the Mississippi River.

“We have, as humans, changed the landscape and then have said, ‘we want to get more production out of these agriculture fields. So

now we’re changing the hydrology in the headwaters of the river,’” Utley said.

She said drain tiles were installed 150 years ago to lessen the effects of the river’s altering course, but that hasn’t been enough to defer the river from being a danger and demanding the research to fix the problem.

“Instead of having the soils drain slowly so there’s a long retention time, it now permeates the soils and hits the drain tiles, and quickly makes it to the river. So it totally changes the landscape process,” Utley said.

Because of the quick drainage and possible change of course of the river, homes and life there today are potentially threatened.

“Residents are not worrying about flooding, but if the watershed started moving, and the river started moving toward the bluff, I would start caring about it a lot,” she said.

While human residents nearby the river are affected, potentially dangerous particles within the material, pesticides and other substances released into the surrounding area by humans and carried by the erosion also pose a threat to those living within the waters.

“On a larger scale, as all the sediment makes its way downstream, we as citizens care because we care that there are fish alive, that the fishing industries are maintained, that it costs less to clean water for drinking water, so there’s lots of reasons why we care about water quality,” Utley said. “That stuff can re-enter the water and can poison fish. It can poison us.”

–rhett.wilkinson@aggiemail.usu.edu

Options: additional courses -continued from page 3 “I dropped my online summer classes because of the online fees,” said Kylie Jones, a Junior in Family Consumer Human Development. They also didn’t offer the courses I needed on campus.”

To compete with online courses, the committee had the ideas of offering bundled courses to cater to different learning styles, additional training courses for teachers, co-curricular summer activities, and even letting students participate in a short study-abroad for the May session.

To promote these potential changes will be a marketing campaign that will highlight the benefits of a summer semester. The main highlights will be the new schedule, cost, opportunity for college transition and quality of the experience.

“More student activities during the Summer would make it more likely for students to come to campus,” Jones said of enticing students to stay. “‘Yes, college students are here to get an education, but they also think of college as a social aspect,” Jones said.

Morales said that while education is a priority, student needs are never forgotten and that a summer concert series may be one of many activities that could be started in the future.

While all recommendations are subject to change, no official action is said to take place until summer 2012.

“We want to take the time and do this right; it is an important change,” he said.

“We are confident that the recommendations will make Summer more attractive.”

-jessie.a.sweat@aggiemail.usu.edu

Herbert: positive effects for research -continued from page 1 ple,” Anderson said, while describing that this purpose was particularly set forth since USU is largely a research school.

Fred Hunsaker of the Utah House of Representatives, who Anderson described as “one of USTAR’s heroes,” was among those optimistic about what all speakers and event notables recognized as something that can be revolutionary to the advancement of biological innovations and more. “(Bioinnovations 650) is tremendous not just for the university, not just for Cache Valley, but it’s a tremendous thing for the entire state and the entire world. What will come out of here will have the potential to change lives for the better and make a tremendous difference in people’s lives. And that’s what it’s all about,” Hunsaker said.

Hunsaker, a former USU business and finance professor, added that due to the university’s heavy involvement in research programs, the facility is only tailoring to what the school does best, and what it offers its students with regards to on-site and on-campus employment opportunities related to their fields.

“USU does more than almost anybody in undergraduate research, so this will have a very positive effect on undergraduates,” he said. “The graduate students will have a first-hand experience of discovery, and that will give them a leg up when they go into the marketplace or continue the education. They are going to be way ahead because they’ve had this kind of experience and research.”

“The entire theory of the USTAR program is economic development and improvement of quality of life. And the economic development is really all about jobs. By utilizing the talent in the faculty, it opens up new jobs. It’s not just people finding jobs and shifting around; (the opportunities at Bioinnovation 650) creates jobs. And that creates jobs for everyone, including students.”

The audience at the dedication were told the facility will provide not only employment opportunities in the midst of the recession, but will also bring new light and invention to already-established truths in the science fields.

“This is a great day for the state of Utah and certainly USTAR, as well as Utah State University. Today, we are all Aggies,” Herbert said.

–rhett.wilkinson@aggiemail.usu.edu

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By APRIL ASHLAND staff writer

PAULA DAVIS HAS been a volunteer at Global Village Gifts since their opening. Global Village Gifts is a non-profit fair trade shop that sells goods from artists in struggling countries. BRECK BYINGTON photo

All around the world Store sells handicrafts from 30 countries

By NOELLE JOHANSEN staff writer

The quaint, butter-yellow Victorian house just east of Federal Avenue is much more than an ordinary dwelling.

Global Village Gifts, located at 146 N. and 100 E., is a haven of handicrafts from around the world and home to a strict standard of equality and fair trade. The nonprofit establishment started off as a Christmas bazaar; Sally Keller, manager of Global Village Gifts, sold products from the fair trade vendor Ten Thousand Villages over a weekend at the First Presbyterian Church. Fueled by much success, Keller said she opened the store under the name and umbrella of Ten Thousand Villages, specifically the Salt Lake City location. In September 2005, Keller said the store became Global Village Gifts, opting to become independent from Ten Thousand Villages and therefore increase vendor opportunities.

The store is run by Keller and Julie Barker, as well as numerous other volunteers committed to the duty of fair trade.

“Our mission is to educate about fair trade and to help the artisans,” Barker said.

Though Barker said her first occupation is that of a mother, she has learned valuable business and retail skills through her service.

“This is a way I can help these artisans and still live in

Cache Valley,” she said.

Barker said Global Village Gifts recently gained membership in the Fair Trade Federation, allowing future promoting and networking opportunities within the community of fair trade.

According to the Global Village website, the store is stocked with artisan goods from 30 different countries spanning Africa, Asia and South America. The store offers everything from woven scarves and bags to authentic instruments and children’s toys. They carry rings made from telephone wire and animal bones, and intricately beaded necklaces and bracelets.

A trip to Global Village Gifts is an educational adventure.

Spotlights on specific artists give a face and meaning to otherwise nameless merchandise. According to the Global Village website, “Focus is on educating the public on the principles of fair trade and learning about the artisans.”

Barker said fair trade works like so: artisans in various countries throughout the world, the majority of them mothers, are hired for their fine handiwork skills. She said with contractors like Ten Thousand Villages and SERRV International, artisans are paid in full for their materials and labor even before the product leaves the country.

“The buyers seek out the poorest of the poor and try to find

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Mack Wilberg, director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, will be guest-conducting the final four numbers of Saturday’s American Festival Chorus concert.

The concert will take place in the Kent Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m. and will feature music composed and arranged by Mack Wilberg.

The American Festival Chorus was created in the fall of 2008, as a part of the Caine School of the Arts, according to Craig Jessop, dean of the Caine school of the Arts and director for the chorus.

Jessop said he wanted to do Wilberg’s music because he has always been a fan of Wilberg, and believes he is one of the most talented composers in America.

“To me, he is one of the most prominent, talented and significant composers and arrangers in America,” Jessop said.

Wilberg was appointed to the position of conductor for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in 2008, when Jessop accepted the position of dean of CSA. Prior to being the conductor for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, he was Jessop’s assistant, and directed and conducted the Temple Square Chorale in Salt Lake City.

The concert will have music from various genres, such as American folk tunes, hymns and three of his Christmas songs, Jessop said.

“He’s done so many arrangements of Christmas music for the Tabernacle it would be unthinkable not to include some of it,” Jessop said.

The American Festival Chorus and Symphony is composed of mostly volunteer members of the community, USU faculty and even students, Jessop said. It is connected with CSA, and the students can use the participation as class credit.

The group meets every Wednesday evening for two and a half hours of practice, and this week did a five hour rehearsal, Jessop said.

Leslie Black, a member of the Chorus, said she is excited to do the performance, because the music is beautiful.

“The music is really moving. We were doing a song, and my eyes teared up, and I couldn’t sing, I couldn’t even see the page,” she said.

Jessop said the chorus and symphony is an important part of the cultural life here in Cache Valley, and said not only does the group sing classical choral music, but they include all types of music, including pop and musicals.

“Last summer Peter Cetera, the lead singer from Chicago came and sang with us,” Jessop said.

The concert finale will be what Jessop said is one of Wilberg’s most famous and most beloved songs, “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing,” which will be conducted by Wilberg.

Jessop said while “Come Thou Fount” is one of the most beloved of the public, he couldn’t name his favorite song of Wilberg’s, since there is such a broad range of songs that will be sung on Saturday.

“I have a strong personal tie with a lot of this music,” he said, since he asked Wilberg to create many of his pieces for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

“I can’t use enough superlatives (for Wilberg). He’s a world class musician, a father of four, and one of my closest friends. It’s an honor to have him come here,” he said.

Tickets are available at the Caine Box Office, or online at arts. usu.edu – april.ashland@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Weezer gets back to Easy to click “Like” on basics with ‘Hurley’ ‘The Social Network’ I think I Staff “Hurley” just wet my Guy XXXX Grade: A pants. Not because I drank too much water Rhythm and am far away from the bathroom, not because I RexColinMitchell have a bladder condition and not because my zipper is stuck.

It’s because I just saw the cover of the new Weezer album.

It is simple and intriguing, featuring nothing but a close-up photo of Jorge Garcia, known for playing the hairy yet lovable Hurley in the hit television series “Lost.”

And to make it even better, the album is called “Hurley.”

I must say, after I had changed my pants, the album cover alone made my weak.

While many bands enjoy using complex artwork on their CD covers, Weezer has always been pretty conservative. They often just use a picture of themselves with different colored backgrounds, as with “Make Believe” and their three self-titled albums, better known as the Blue, Green and Red albums. “Simple yet intriguing” has always been their style – in album art as well as in music – and “Hurley” keeps with the norm.

From just seeing the album cover, one has to wonder what Weezer is getting at.

Granted, I love the album art, but does naming an album after a TV character have some sort of deeper meaning? Spoiler Alert: since everyone on “Lost” ended up being dead anyway, is this some kind of reference to the afterlife and that which awaits us? Or were they just trying to up their sales by getting all the “Lost” addicts to buy their album?

On second thought, it’s usually a good policy to not try and explain why rock bands do things. You’ve just got to accept it at face value and move on.

Right from the first track, you notice that after their not-so-acclaimed album “Ratitude,” Weezer has definitely gone back to their roots. The songs wouldn’t necessarily sound out of place on the Green

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album, but they are definitely fresh and new.

The band uses some new musical techniques that keep their music fresh while maintaining their trademark garage-band sound. For example, the song “Unspoken” employs the use of jazz flute and strings to back up the vocals and acoustic guitar in a wonderful way. An odd choice for a song about not forgiving and unspoken hate, but it works.

As usual, Weezer uses some simple back-up vocals to accentuate the lead vocals. Also, frontman Rivers Cuomo has stepped up his performance from the early albums; his vocals are much more varied and animated than before. In one of the bonus tracks, they cover Coldpay’s “Viva la Vida,” and Cuomo actually sounds a bit different than usual. It could be that he isn’t used to singing any songs but his own.

Cuomo doesn’t disappoint when it comes to writing witty, random lyrics, either. “Memories” gives a lot of one-liners about the good old times as a young band, such as “... playing Hacky Sack back when Audioslave was still Rage.” Also, the song “All My Friends Are Insects” is reminiscent of the randomness of They Might Be Giants, and thoroughly confused me – is a worm really considered an insect?

One of the lyrical highlights of the album would have to be the song “Where’s My Sex?” It’s really confusing until you realize that they wrote a song about losing and looking for their socks, and then replaced the word “socks” with “sex” throughout the whole song. It just goes to show that no matter how old rock bands get – Weezer has been together for almost 20 years – they’re really just 15 years old at heart.

Overall, it’s a good album. One that will probably not outdo the early releases such as the Blue or Green albums, but is definitely worth the $10 you’d pay for it on amazon.com. And besides, any CD that inspired Jorge Garcia, or “Hurley,” to perform “Perfect Situation” with Weezer at a live concert is worth your time. The video is on YouTube. Just make sure your bladder’s empty before you watch it.

– rex.colin.mitchell@aggiemail.com

“The Social Network” was Staff “The Social a great movie Guy XXXX Network” to watch.

Grade: A+ It tells the story of Mark Zuckerberg ( J e s s i e E i s e n b e r g ), the developer of the internet sensation that is Facebook.

It keeps movie-goers entertained throughout and tells a great story.

I first have to admit that when I first heard about this movie I was a bit skeptical. I thought it would be a lame movie about how amazing Facebook is. I was definitely wrong.

As I looked into it more I realized how much potential it had. It was based on the nonfiction novel, The “Accidental Billionares,” written by Ben Mezrich: The same guy who wrote one of my favorite books, “Bringing Down the House,” which is the novel the movie “21” was based on.

Also, the screenplay was written by Aaron Sorkin, the creator of the great NBC television show, “The West Wing.” Not to mention the director, David Fincher. Fincher directed “Se7en,” “Panic Room”, “ Zodiac,” and one of my favorite movies ever: “Fight Club.”

I was very excited to see how this movie making team of Sorkin and Fincher would do. I was expecting something great, and I was definitely not disappointed.

The film opens in a Boston bar where Harvard undergraduate Zuckerberg is dumped by his girlfriend Erica Albright. He is crushed, and in a drunken fury he goes home and hacks into Harvard’s online sites to create a co-ed rating site. The site gets 22,000 hits on the first night. Because he wrote about the entire thing on his blog, he is caught and given six months academic probation.

This attracts the Winklevoss twins, Tyler and Cameron. The “Winklevi”, as Zuckerberg later calls them want him to help them program a dating website that would be exclusive to Harvard students. Zuckerberg instead decides to make a similar website on his own with funding from his best friend Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield). They call it, “thefacebook.” Little does he know that he would later be facing law suits from each of

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these two parties.

As thefacebook.com grows in popularity, so do Mark and Eduardo. Eduardo looks to make some money from advertisers, much to the disapproval of Mark. While looking for potential advertisers, the two meet with the creator of Napster, Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake). While Eduardo doesn’t approve of Sean and his rockstar antics, Mark loves everything about him, and in a way begins to idolize him. He takes Sean’s advice and changes the website from thefacebook to just facebook.com.

Eventually Sean joins the Facebook team and helps them to become very successful.

He also spices things up a bit with his drugs and partying antics. The tension continues to grow between Sean and Eduardo, and eventually ends with Eduardo being dumped from the company on the day Facebook got to one million members.

“The Social Network” was a huge success. Sorkin provided some great dialogue that Fincher ran with beautifully. Many of the scenes reminded me much of the classic dialogue based scenes of “Fight Club,” with quick and clever delivery that Timberlake and Eisenberg had down to a tee. Their time together on screen were great.

Sorkin also made this tale into somewhat of a thriller. The quick scene changes and rapid dialogue kept the movie moving at a fast and intense pace. It kept the audience on edge.

Eisenberg was also a highlight of this film.

His depiction of the youngest billionaire alive was fantastic. He nailed the arrogant “speak your mind” attitude of a Harvard student who is an amazing programmer and knows it. I think he should no longer be compared to his look-alike Micheal Cera. He showed that he has potential to be a very successful actor and make a name for himself.

The acting of both Garfield and Timberlake were great too. I was particularly worried about Timberlake, but his first appearance on the screen quickly made all my fears vanish. He did a fantastic job of playing the cool and charming Hollywood know-it-all.

Overall this film was outstanding. It lived up to every expectation I had for it and exceeded others. I have to give it an A+.

– jace.smellie@aggiemail.usu.edu

GLOBAL VILLAGE GIFTS is a nonprofit establishment that started as a Christmas bazaar. The store recently gained membership in the Fair Trade Federation. BRECK BYINGTON photo

Gifts: Learning about the artisans -continued from page 5 a way that they can give them employment by making these crafts,” Barker said. “Then they negotiate a price that would be a fair wage for them to support their family and send their kids to school.”

Barker said free trade enables the artisan to immediately provide for his or her family and community without having to wait on merchandise to ship to a destination thousands of miles away and hopefully make a meager profit.

“We just hope we can sell it all,” she said.

The nearly exclusive use of volunteers throughout the fair trade process holds its nonprofit standard and minimizes cost for the consumer.

“It’s a great way to help women and their families provide a stable income,” said Rachel Rambay, fair trade volunteer and USU graduate.

Barker said through community involvement in service fairs, university activities and the annual Gallery Walk, Global Village Gifts

gains faithful customers who become faithful volunteers. Global Village Gifts is constantly seeking new volunteers and accepts online or in-store applications. She said volunteers are trained with a general knowledge of the handicrafts and can therefore help educate new customers as well as help with requests for items from specific countries.

Volunteer and USU freshman Vanessa Bertolio said she values the hands-on retail experience of volunteering, as well as the bridge of acclimation it forms between not working and a first job.

Global Village Gifts is open Thursday and Friday from 12-6 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Extended holiday hours in midNovember will open the store every day but Sunday.

Bertolio said she finds herself saying, over and over, as she sorts through new shipments, “This is new, I have to get this.”

– noelle.johansen@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Liverpool, England, 1955. Imagine the world without the Beatles. However, they are soon to be, and it all began with a young lad named John Lennon.

“Nowhere Boy” is the never-before-seen portrayal of John Lennon’s youth. The movie centers around his dive into the world of rock ’n’ roll and the creation of his first band, “The Quarrymen”, that would later develop into none other than The Beatles.

It’s the classic coming-of-age biopic – the telling of a great man’s humble beginnings.There’s the tragic, dislocated boy that no one believes will go anywhere, trying to find his place in the world and proving the naysayers wrong. Certain tragedies that just about collapse his world, triumphs accompanied by tears and struggle and humorous happenstances all combine in perfect harmony to create the man who engineered one of the most revered bands of all time.

This debut film from director Sam TaylorWood stars adorable British actors Aaron Johnson as Lennon and Thomas Brodie Sangster, who plays the cherubic Paul McCartney, complete with the heartmelting Liverpudlian accent – I’d go just to listen to them talk.

“Nowhere Boy” was originally released in the UK back in December 2009, and did fairly well. We’ll see how the Americans take to it – after all, we loved, and still love, the Beatles too. The film beckons us to experience the evolution of the revolution, and I preemptively recommend it.

“Life as We Know It,” rated PG-13, looks like every other romantic-comedy, with a baby in the mix. It seems pretty original in the sense I’ve never seen a movie where two total strangers (or rather, frenemies) are thrown together to live in the same house, with a baby they know nothing about.

The basic plotline is this: jerk of a guy comes by an hour late for a date, then tells some other person (probably a girl) that he can come over at 10:30 p.m. rather than 11, and just all around has a horrible date.

Turns out, these two have mutual friends – a couple that has a baby. They are named godparents, which isn’t really a big deal, and they both go along with it.

Well, life is just fine, which means something bad has to happen, because that’s life (and movies). The two main characters – played by Katherine Heigl, who I just love and think does a fabulous job (I mean, “Grey’s Anatomy”!) and Josh Duhamel, who is just a total babe as far as I’m concerned – don’t get along, but are pushed together to take care of the baby.

Neither wants to do it, and they don’t exactly understand why. I think that these two would go really well together – their chemistry seems like it would work really well.

Of course the two of them end up falling in love, and I’m sure one or the other messes it up, they somehow realize they are perfect for each other, and live happily ever after. As cheesy as it seems, it’s cute.

The plot may be predictable, but I preemptively like this movie for its originality and humor.

– shanelle.b@aggiemail.usu.edu

– april.ashland@aggiemail.usu.edu

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‘My Soul to Take’

If you fancy “Nightmare on Elm Street” or “Scream,” then “My Soul to Take” might be your type of movie. That’s right, this is another one of Wes Craven’s horror movies that will keep you sitting on the edge of your seat.

This is Craven’s first movie since “Red Eye.” This movie supposedly goes back to his better-made movies of the 1980s and is one that you supposedly wouldn’t want to miss.

But as for me, I say let’s keep everybody’s soul to themselves. I usually don’t want to see anybody jumping out of somebody else’s body or looking in the mirror and seeing somebody else’s reflection because they have been killed.

In this movie, a serial killer decides to return to a small town called Riverton. The killer decides to stalk seven children who share the same birthday as the date he was allegedly put to rest. Yet just as killers never die, this murderer appears to keep you wondering what is going to happen next.

To tell you the truth, the killer seems like another Freddy Kreuger or Jason from “Friday the 13th.”

I say this because he seems mysterious. Even though he doesn’t seem to be wearing a mask you don’t get a good look at him during the trailer.

The whole time, you are trying to figure out who he is.

After watching the trailer I would have to say this movie is more for teenagers than for anybody else. I wouldn’t personally go see it but that’s because I saw enough people jumping out of closets on Halloween to keep me entertained.

It seems like this thriller is packed with heartstopping moments and will keep you glued to your seat. That is, after all, what a horror movie is supposed to do. I pre-emptively recommend this to the horror-movie lovers.

– ronald.wallace@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Steep: On top of the world -continued from page 5 was too busy smiling to mind the odd glances my oversize load attracted as I hurried down the stairs.

It was one of the last few warm weekends of the year and the weather was ideal for a pack trip across the Wellsvilles.

Despite being the steepest mountain range in the world, the planned hike was only eight miles long. I jump in my buddy’s van at the bottom of Old Main Hill, and soon our group is at the trailhead to Deep Canyon, which we would follow to get up to the ridgeline.

Shouldering our packs, we set off at a quick pace, hoping to reach the ridgeline by sundown. We hike amidst the changing colors of fall, breathing in the crisp fall air. As we reach the ridge the sun is sinking over the west end of Box Elder County.

My legs are burning, as one would expect, from climbing such a steep grade. With the last remnants of the light, we roll out our sleeping bags and boil water to reconstitute our dinner. We will finish the other four miles, tomorrow.

As I settle into my sleeping bag, the lights from the valley floor on either side of the range stretch out beneath me, with an expanse of stars above. A smile creases my face as I ponder upon sleeping here upon the steepest mountains in the world.

So maybe they win by a technicality. I don’t care, as far as I am concerned, I am on top of both the Wellsvilles and the world.

– dustin.nash@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Aggies basketball on ESPN seven times in 2010-2011

By ADAM NETTINA sports editor

LOUISIANA TECH LINEBACKER ADRIAN COLE tackles Utah State running back Robert Turbin during last year’s 23-21 Aggie victory in Logan. The Bulldogs have started out 1-4 this year, and are currently on a four-game losing streak. Despite their record, Louisiana Tech has been competitive in game’s this year, with all four of its losses coming to teams with winning records. Utah State is looking to start the season 3-3 for the first time since 1983, and looking to win back-to-back games for the first time in the Gary Andersen era. Statesman file photo

Plenty at stake as USU travels to play Lousiana Tech Saturday

By ADAM NETTINA sports editor

Hard as it may be, Gary Andersen and his Utah State Aggies (2-3, 0-1 WAC) will look to move on from the program’s historic win over Brigham Young last Friday night, traveling to play the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs (1-4, 0-1 WAC) on Saturday in an early season conference clash that could make or break USU’s bowl game hopes.

For the Aggies, the prospect of evening their record at 3-3 would not only represent the best first half of a USU football season since the 1983 season, but it would be the first time since 2007 in which the team has put together consecutive wins.

A victory in Ruston, which would bring the Aggies to within three wins of bowl eligibility, would also alleviate Andersen’s team from one of its perennial failings – winning on the road.

“This is a WAC game, and a very important game,” Andersen said at his Monday press conference. “It is a home game for (Louisiana Tech), and we have to go on the road and play where we haven’t played well. We have won one road game since we have been here as a staff. The young men in this program have not had success on the road.”

Utah State’s one win on the road during Andersen’s tenure came against Idaho in the season finale last season, although after the first month of the 2010 season, the Aggies would appear to be the favorite heading

into Saturday’s tangle with Jenkins for at least a period the Bulldogs. Not only did of Saturday’s game. Jenkins USU defeat a bowl-bound performed admirably when Louisiana Tech team by a he came off the bench against final score of 23-21 in Logan Hawaii last week, hitting 19last season, but Andersen’s of-26 passes for 215 yards and Aggies will be facing a strugtwo scores. gling Tech team this season.

Despite the fact that After a promising start the Bulldogs have lost four to the year with a win over straight games and face conFootball Championship tinued uncertainty at the Subdivision (FCS) member quarterback position, Dykes Grambling, the Bulldogs said his team will not be lost have dropped four straight for motivation when it comes games, including a 41-21 loss to playing the Aggies. at Hawaii last Saturday. The “Our kids are going to Bulldogs have had a tough be excited to be home and I time adjusting think we’ll play “This is a WAC to first-year well,” Dykes said. head coach “We’re hungry game, and a Sonny Dykes’ very important and our guys feel spread offen- game. It is a like they haven’t sive system, as well as home game for played and continue they are capable to experience (Louisiana Tech), of playing up to and we have to this point.” instability at go on the road the quarterAll of Tech’s back position. and play where four losses have Both sophocome to teams we haven’t more Colby which currently played well” Cameron and have winning Gary Andersen, records, a point Tarik Hakmi USU head coach not lost on Utah have seen time at the posiState’s head tion for Dykes, coach. but both quarterbacks have “What I see is a team thrown more interceptions that is much better than than touchdowns so far this their record in my opinion,” season.

Andersen said. “They have “We have tried to find the played some tough teams, best combination of players and have been hanging in at certain positions and the there and playing extremely quarterback position is not hard. I don’t see it being any any different,” Dykes said different when we go in there when asked about his quarto their place.” terbacks’ struggles. “I think Andersen cautioned about that has probably slowed our putting too much into his growth a little bit.” team’s win over BYU and the Dykes has yet to name a Aggies’ improved record. starter for Saturday’s game, With injuries continuing but the former Arizona to pile up – including the offensive coordinator will announcement that senior likely turn to senior Ross running back Michael Smith

will not be returning this season – Andersen said talent alone will not guarantee victory come Saturday.

“We are not a team that can sit back and say ‘well, our athletic ability will get us through this game,’” Andersen said. “In no way, shape or form are we even close to that form. We need to get our best guys on the field, and be creative with our game plans as a coaching staff.”

Aside from not having Smith in the lineup against the Bulldogs, Andersen also announced that USU will be without defensive lineman Daniel Gurrola. Injured starters or not, Andersen isn’t making excuses for any potential letdown the Aggies might have on Saturday, and maintains that as long as the players execute the gameplans on offense, defense and special teams, his team will be successful.

“We keep getting those starters hit, and taken out of the starting lineup, but it is an opportunity for more young men to step up and play. It is not easy to deal with, but it is the way it is,” he said.

Andersen continued, saying, “If the Aggies go out and take care of the Aggies, execute, and play as a team, we will have a chance to beat anyone on our schedule.”

Saturday’s game will begin at 2 p.m. MST and can be seen locally on the Altitude television network, and also viewed online at ESPN3.com.

– adamnettina@aggiemail. usu.edu

After providing viewers around the nation with a glimpse of one of the nation’s best kept secrets in the college basketball last season, Utah State will once again highlight ESPN’s coverage of Western Athletic Conference men’s basketball, as it was announced that the Aggies will appear on the ESPN family of network at least seven times during the 2010-2011 season.

ESPN 2 is currently slated to carry three USU basketball games this coming season, including a Feb. 2 matchup with Nevada that will be broadcast at 9 p.m. MST from the Glen Dee Smith Spectrum. The Spectrum will also welcome an ESPNU crew on Jan. 22 when New Mexico State comes to Logan. On Dec. 4 Utah State will play on ESPNU when the Aggies travel to play Big East powerhouse Georgetown on the out of conference slate.

The Western Athletic Conference is currently guaranteed at least 22 regular season games on the ESPN family of networks this season, although that number is likely to increase. Not only will ESPN televise the WAC tournament quarterfinal games in March, but ESPN’s annual “BracketBuster” competition could feature a WAC team – including Utah State – in February. Last season Utah State defeated Witchita State in the Bracketbuster competition in a nationally televised game on ESPN. USU men’s basketball will begin the preseason on October 30 when the Aggies on the Universite Laval in an exhibition game from the Spectrum. The Aggie season will start in earnest when Weber State comes to Logan on Nov 13. The Aggies return four starters from last years regular season WAC championship team, and also return proven bench players Brian Green and Brady Jardine.

The Aggies will play a challenging nonconference slate that will feature five games against in-state schools, and will also travel to play at Denver, Georgetwon and Troy. USU will officially begin conference play on Dec. 29 when Hawaii comes to town, and will finish WAC play during the WAC tournament in Las Vegas between March 9-12. Aggie head coach Stew Morrill, who has a 176-13 (.931) career record in the Spectrum, spoke to the challenges of playing the WAC teams, but said that the league’s competition should make the 2010-2011 season a special one for USU. “When we get to WAC play we will face the usual tough competition, and with the league ever-changing each team will want to make this season one to remember,” Morrill said.

– adamnettina@aggiemail.usu.edu

Volleyball defeats Vandals

By TYLER HUSKINSON web editor

The Utah State Aggies picked up their first Western Athletic Conference road win of the season on Wednesday night in four sets over the Idaho Vandals (25-18, 25-22, 20-25, 25-17). Senior setter Chelsea Fowles recorded eight kills, five blocks, and hit .538, but her most impressive stat was 47 assists in the match that gave her 3,948 career assists, good for the school’s all-time record. Carrie Steverson previously held the record with 3, 942 career assists; a record that remained untouched for 19 years.

“We’re really proud of her,” Aggie head coach Grayson DuBose said. “She’s been a big part of our program. I think it’s a real tribute to her work ethic and to the teammates that have surrounded her over the years. She’s had some wonderful teammates around her

that have allowed her to get so many assists.”

The Aggies (14-3, 2-2 WAC) broke a four-game road losing streak to the Vandals (8-9, 3-3 WAC) and DuBose notched his first career win at War Memorial Gymnasium.

“That’s a tough place to play,” DuBose said. “They have a really nice home court advantage. So, to be able to go in and win on ESPNU is just a really great accomplishment for our team and testament to who they are as volleyball players.”

Junior outside hitter Liz McArthur posted 20 kills, nine digs and three service aces, while sophomore opposite side hitter Shay Sorenson 13 kills and hit .478. Sophomore outside hitter Josselyn White added 11 kills, six digs, five blocks and two service aces while hitting .300, and senior middle blocker Shantell Durrant paced the Aggies with

- See Volleyball, page 9

Golf finishes strong

By JACE MILLER staff writer

The Utah State Aggie golfers took to the course this week in Lake Tahoe, Nev. at the Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course. Edgewood Tahoe is considered one of the top golf courses in the United States by Golf Digest and has hosted the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship for the last 21 years. USU competed against 14 other schools, including a number of top-20 teams including Idaho, San Diego and Washington State. The event was hosted by the University of Nevada, which took second place overall with an even 576 (292-284). The event was planned to have three rounds, with the first two on Monday and the last round on Tuesday, but the last round was cancelled due to inclement weather.

After playing in cold, windy and rainy weather, the Aggies took 13th place in the two rounds with a 20-over 596 (295-301).

The team was eight holes into the third round when the weather

- See Golf, page 10

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State your case: Statesman weekly sports debate Are the baseball playoffs worth following this year?

The Statesman sports writers weigh in.

Do you have an opinion? Let us know in an email to sports@statesman.usu.edu.

Mark Israelson (staff writer) PHILLIES pitcher Roy Halladay celebreates after throwing a nohitter against the Reds. AP Photo

Gotta celebrate October

Steve Schwartzman (staff writer)

Tavin Stucki (staff writer) Jace Miller (staff writer)

UTAH STATE’S Joey DeMartino and the Aggies are reason enough to tune out of the baseball playoffs. TODD JONES photo

Football is where it’s at

It’s October, and for many people that only means one thing: it’s time for some baseball. The past few weeks have been crazy for teams in MLB as they have scrambled to try to make that final push, and now the playoffs are here.

October is baseball’s month and I think this year’s playoffs are definitely worth watching.

Sure, the college and NFL football seasons are starting to heat up, but all their games

are either on the weekend or Monday night. That leaves Tuesday-Friday with nothing for the die-hard sports fans to watch except baseball playoffs.

These playoffs will be exciting, and as any sports fanatic knows, intense playoff action is always worth watching, regardless of the sport.

During the regular season all the talk was on the pitchers as we watched them dominate, throwing five no-hitters, two of which were perfect games. Now the question must be asked, will it continue in October? What will happen when Roy Halladay faces Joey Votto and the Reds (answer: a no-hitter in game one)? Cliff Lee dominated in the postseason several years ago,

but can he do the same with a new squad? It’s always exciting to see superstars go head-tohead, and this year’s playoffs will have plenty of that.

These playoffs will also see some great storylines. This year we’ll be seeing some faces that we haven’t seen in a while. The San Francisco Giants haven’t been to the playoffs since 2003; the Texas Rangers haven’t made the postseason since 1999, and this year’s National League Central champion, the Cincinnati Reds, are playing in October for the first time since 1995. New teams provide new excitement, and that only leads to better competition and better baseball.

Don’t get me wrong, I loved playing baseball when I was a kid, and I still like co-ed softball in the summertime, but baseball is boring to me now.

I would much rather watch a football game instead.

Baseball is too slow. The methodical ceremony that begins when the pitcher gets the ball, looks for the sign, shakes it off, looks again, checks the runner, sets, throws to the base, gets the ball back, looks for the sign, shakes it off, looks again, checks the runner, ignores him, sets, and ... well, you get the point. All of that for us to see just one pitch?

Games take about three hours, and there’s a game almost

every day! Who’s got that kind of time?

The baseball season is way too long. C’mon, 150 games in the regular season? This is fall; let’s get back to watching football already! Baseball needs to stay in the spring and summer, and stay to about 25 games.

That would make a win a lot more meaningful.

Baseball players don’t even need to be athletes to play the game. Can you imagine Babe Ruth in the 100-meter dash?

All baseball players do is sit in the dugout for half the game, and the other half they stand around in a park.

Seriously, football is a million times better. How many

Aggie fans would have traded seeing BYU get thumped in Logan to watch a baseball game on TV? That’s what I thought. Let’s get back to watching more brain-rattling tackles from some real athletes in a sport where one win or loss actually means something; like the difference between a bowl game and a mediocre season.

I’ll tell you this much, coming into this week I didn’t have the greatest of interest in the MLB postseason. In all honesty, the teams don’t look too exciting, we’re just getting into the thick of an insanely competitive NFL season, and I‘m not loving the idea of watching anything on TBS. All things considered, my expectations for the playoffs have been pretty low.

This was, until Tuesday, when I watched the most recent ESPN 30 for 30 documentary “Four Nights in October,” reliving the 2004 Red Sox and their comeback from falling behind 3-0 against the Yankees in the ALCS. My heart gave a complete reformation. Suddenly my blood ran for baseball.

Only one explanation is needed – it’s October, people! Never mind the fact that we’ll get to see beastly pitchers, with the likes of Tim Lincecum and Roy Halladay (who, by the way, already threw a no-hitter) take their shot at the postseason for the first time in their respective

careers. Never mind the fact the Cincinnati Reds have a shot at being the Cinderellathat-could, or that Yankee haters will be back in full swing. Take all that out of the picture, and it’s still October.

We just got out of some exciting baseball in September, and something tells me this month will be even better. And if you need statistics, here’s a number for you: 10. It stands for the tenth month of the year when cheers and tears bring cities together and rivals farther apart via baseball stadiums across the nation.

There is no way you should waste your days watching “America’s Pastime” this fall.

For one, it shouldn’t be even considered our pastime anymore. The days of gathering some friends to play baseball have been replaced by gathering friends to go out to toss the ol’ pigskin. Next time you go to a park, take a look around. You might not see anyone since America sits in front of TVs and computers all day, so make sure it’s a Saturday. How many people are playing baseball?

Consider how many watch the sport in the first place. The World Series final game last year had 22.3 million people watching it. In comparison, Super Bowl

XLIV had over 106 million people watching. That’s more than four times as many viewers. Also, the biggest Major League Baseball stadium is Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California and it seats about 56,000 fans. Cowboy Stadium in Arlington, Texas is the biggest National Football League stadium, seating up to 110,000 fans – almost twice the capacity. This is not even adding in the audience of college football, which is arguably more popular than the NFL. Finally, think about the games. Baseball players get thrown a ball and they try to hit it. The best MLB hitter, at this moment, is Josh Hamilton on the Texas

Rangers. He has batting average of .359 so far this season.

How is this fun to watch? If a quarterback completed 35.9 percent of their passes, they wouldn’t even be considered for a backup role in the NFL. That kind of percentage is pathetic! I mean no offense to baseball fans, but if you want to watch a sport where people can actually do their job more than 35.9 percent of the time, I recommend football.

Vollyball: beats Idaho Vandals -continued from page 8

eight block assists.

Trailing 7-4 in the first set, USU got back even three times including at 12-12 before taking control with runs of 5-1 and 8-3 to post the seven-point win. White, who spurred the 5-1 run with a kill, led USU with five kills in the opening set . The Vandals pulled within two points before committing four straight errors that started the Aggies’ 8-3 run.

USU never trailed in the second set as it opened an early 13-5 lead and withstood a late rally by Idaho to notch the 25-22 win. McArthur

and Sorensen each had five kills for the Aggies in the second set as they hit .486 and the Vandals hit .419.

USU jumped out to a quick 4-1 lead in the third set, but the Vandals recovered with a 7-1 run. With the set tied at 9-9, the Vandals scored six straight points and eventually built a 21-11 advantage en route to the five-point win.

USU scored the first two points of the fourth set and never looked back, building an early 9-5 lead and coasting easily to the eight point win.

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“For us it comes down to serve and servereceive,” DuBose said. “If we can serve well and stay in-system then I think we can do some great things. That was real evident to me last night.

We were in-system 70 percent of the time and that’s quite an accomplishment.”

Coming into to the match, Idaho was 15th in the nation in blocks per match, but it was USU which out-blocked Idaho, 15-8. USU finished the match with a .347 hitting percentage and the Vandals hit .256. The Aggies also had six more service aces in the match, while the Vandals had three more digs and three fewer service errors.

USU will play game two of its three-game road trip against the Boise State Broncos (14-4, 2-2 WAC) on Saturday and they may have another test on their hands.

“That’s a challenge for us,” DuBose said. “If we can go in and serve tough and make it so they (Boise State) can’t set to their middle blockers in-system, then we’ll have a distinct advantage.”

Game time against the Broncos is set for 3 p.m.

– ty.d.hus@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Rare Titanic survivor letter to be auctioned

TITANIC SURVIVORS Laura Francatelli, standing second right, and her employers Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon, standing 3rd left, and Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, standing directly behind Lady Lucy, standing on the rescue ship Carpathia. The photo was made available by auctioneers Henry Alderidge and Son on Oct. 7. AP photo

LONDON (AP) – She heard a terrible rumbling noise, then anguished cries for help as her rowboat pulled away from the sinking ocean liner Titanic that dreadful night in 1912.

Now Laura Francatelli’s first-person account of the disaster, in the form of a signed affidavit that was given to a British board of inquiry, is set to be auctioned.

It is a gripping firsthand account of how she and her two prominent employers – Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon and his socialite wife, Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon – managed to survive, fleeing in a rowboat with a capacity for 40 people even though they only had 12 people on board.

“You see a lot of documents that talk briefly about the incident, but this affidavit goes into strong details, it talks about Lady Duff being sick the whole time, about the lifeboat bobbing up and down, about the screams,” said Andrew Aldridge, an auctioneer at Henry Aldridge & Son, which plans to sell the affidavit and other Titanic memorabilia on Oct. 16.

He said the letter will likely fetch between 10,000 pounds ($16,000) and 15,000 pounds in part because of the notoriety of Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff.

“They were two of the most controversial survivors,” he said.

“Sir Cosmo gave the crewmen who were in the lifeboat with him

5 pounds each, which was a tremendous amount of money at the time, and it was misconstrued at the time that he was paying blood money.”

The implication is that the wealthy Sir Cosmo paid the crewmen to get him safely away from the sinking vessel without returning to help those who were drowning. But Aldridge said it is also possible that Sir Cosmo made the payments simply to express his gratitude.

He said it is not surprising that Francatelli’s account is sympathetic to her employers and makes it sound as if Sir Cosmo paid the men “out of the goodness of his heart.”

In her written statement, Francatelli, Lady Duff’s personal secretary, described a scene of utter terror as they tried to get as far as possible from the Titanic.

“We kept on rowing and stopping and rowing again,” she wrote. “I heard some talk going on all about the suction if the ship went down. I do not know who joined in the conversation.

We were a long way off when we saw the Titanic go right up at the back and plunge down. There was an awful rumbling when she went. Then came the screams and cries. I do not know how long they lasted. We had hardly any talk. The men spoke about God and prayers and wives. We were all in the darkness.”

9th Circuit Court upholds ban on voting by inmates SEATTLE (AP) – A federal appeals court reversed course Thursday and upheld Washington state’s ban on voting by prison inmates in a case that challenged the disproportionate effect it has on minority voters.

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals caused a stir by ruling in January that Washington’s inmates should be allowed to vote. That decision was expected to give momentum to other efforts to expand voting to inmates; only Maine and Vermont allow those behind bars to cast ballots.

But an 11-judge panel reconsidered the case at a hearing in San Francisco last month and unanimously upheld Washington’s ban, which dates to 1866, before statehood.

“This ruling affirms the rights of states to withhold the right to vote from those who’ve committed the most serious crimes against society,” Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna said.

The judges said that to challenge the ban

under the Voting Rights Act, inmates would have to demonstrate intentional discrimination in the state’s criminal justice system – not just a disparity in the racial make-up of the prison population.

The inmates suing in Washington made no such showing, they said.

“Felon disenfranchisement laws have a long history in the United States,” the court said.

“These laws predate the Jim Crow era and, with a few notable exceptions, have not been adopted based on racial considerations.”

The suit against Washington’s law was filed

by Muhammad Shabazz Farrakhan, formerly of Bellevue. He was serving a three-year sentence at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla for a series of felony-theft convictions when he sued the state in 1996.

Five other inmates, all members of racial minority groups, later joined as plaintiffs. They argued the voting ban “results in a denial or abridgement of the right ... to vote on account of

race,” and thus violated the Voting Rights Act. The first milestone ruling in the case came in 2003, when a 9th Circuit panel ruled 2-1 that inmates could challenge the voting ban by presenting evidence of racial disparities in the prison population.

The 9th Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to reconsider that ruling, but the 11-judge panel backed away from it, saying Thursday it was too sweeping and ran counter to opinions from other federal appeals courts.

Instead, they adopted the rule that inmates must show intentional racial discrimination.

McKenna and Secretary of State Sam Reed said they were pleased the court recognized there is no evidence of intentional discrimination in the criminal justice system, but said they remain concerned about the disproportionate number of blacks in state prisons.

Blacks make up about 4 percent of the Washington’s population, but 17 percent of the people under the Department of Corrections’

supervision. McKenna said that’s a dramatic improvement from a few decades ago, when the disparity was far more stark.

He also said that some minorities – Hispanics, Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders – are actually underrepresented in the prison population.

Last year, the Legislature passed a law that allows convicted felons to register to vote once they’re no longer on parole or probation.

Previously, they couldn’t regain their voting rights until they paid all court-ordered fines and restitution – a hurdle that many found nearly impossible to overcome.

Farrakhan was represented by a law clinic at Gonzaga University. The clinic did not immediately return a message seeking comment Thursday.

Sarah Dunne, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington, which filed a friend-of-the-court brief, said she was disappointed by the ruling.

German militants training in Pakistani border area ISLAMABAD (AP) – The video at first seems like many others filmed in Pakistan’s tribal areas: The bearded militant sits cross-legged on the floor, an AK-47 propped against the wall behind him. But as he applauds his three companions’ decision to join jihad, the words come out in fluent German: “Wir sind die Soldaten Allahs,” he says – “We are the soldiers of Allah.”

Between 15 and 40 Germans and a smaller contingent of other Europeans are believed to be getting militant training in Pakistan’s lawless border region, intending to join the Taliban’s fight against NATO forces in neighboring Afghanistan or return to Europe and strike at the soft underbelly of those countries.

Their presence has attracted fresh scrutiny after a European terror warning based on information from a German-Afghan captured in Afghanistan, and a CIA drone strike Tuesday that allegedly killed eight German militants in North Waziristan – an al-Qaida and Taliban hub that the Pakistani army has so far left largely alone.

The German speaker in the jihad video, Mounir Chouka, is one of two Bonn-born brothers with dual German-Moroccan citizenship well known for appearances in videos made by the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan apparently aimed at recruiting more militants from Germany. German federal prosecutors confirmed Thursday that the two are

Recite pledge or go to jail?

Lawyer supports free speech TUPELO, Miss. (AP) – When a Mississippi judge entered a courtroom and asked everyone to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, an attorney with a reputation for fighting free speech battles stayed silent as everyone else recited the patriotic oath. The lawyer was jailed.

Attorney Danny Lampley spent about five hours behind bars Wednesday before Judge Talmadge Littlejohn set him free so that the lawyer could work on another case.

Lampley told The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal

he respected the judge but wasn’t going to back down.

“I don’t have to say it because I’m an American,” Lampley told the newspaper.

The Supreme Court ruled nearly 70 years ago that schoolchildren couldn’t be forced to say the pledge, a decision widely interpreted to mean no one could be required to recite the pledge.

On Thursday, the judge again asked those in the courtroom to pledge allegiance to the flag, which stands to the right of the bench.

under investigation on suspicion of membership in a terrorist organization.

The clip appeared on a militant website earlier this summer, a nearly 40-minute video telling new recruits of the legitimacy of jihad, or holy war.

“At every border crossing, at every airport and at every search, we pray to Allah ... to make these enemies blind,” he says. “Allah answered. The proof?

We are here.”

Germans are thought to be one of the largest European groups in Pakistan’s northwest, though information is scant. Most are believed to be immigrants from Muslim nations or their descendants.

The Germans killed Tuesday were hit by a drone strike in Mir Ali, a town

about 20 miles from the border with Afghanistan.

Reporters who have been to Mir Ali describe Internet cafes in the basement of shops where militants from all over the world watch extremist videos or send e-mails. The Pakistani army has a base nearby, but soldiers do not patrol the area.

“For three or four months we have been hearing that there are people who say they are from Germany who have been trickling in one by one,” said retired Brig. Mahmood Shah, the former chief of security of Pakistan’s tribal regions. “Some people say that they are Turkish, or appear to be Turkish, or maybe Turkish from Germany.”

Shah said the group is thought to include about 15 to 20 people but, he

conceded, “nothing much is known about them.”

Many top al-Qaida Arab leaders are believed to be somewhere in the border region, including Osama bin Laden and his Egyptian deputy, Ayman alZawahri.

Of the Germans in the region, most recent attention has been on Ahmed Siddiqui, a German citizen of Afghan descent who had been in the Mir Ali area and was captured in Afghanistan in July. He is now being interrogated

by U.S. forces at the Bagram Air Field, German and U.S. officials have said.

American officials say Siddiqui provided some details of an early-stage terrorist plot to attack targets in Britain, France and Germany, which led to the recent warnings in Europe.

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Put your knowledge of athletesturned-politicians to the test

BY GREGORY CLAY McClatchy-Tribune News Service

Who is the only U.S. Supreme Court justice to finish as a runner-up in the voting for college football’s prestigious Heisman Trophy?

That would be Byron “Whizzer” White, appointed to the bench by President John F. Kennedy in 1962. By the way, White, a star running back and Rhodes Scholar from the University of Colorado (hence the “Whizzer”), finished second to Yale’s Clinton Frank in the Heisman balloting in 1937.

The next year, White led the NFL in rushing, and enjoyed a nice $15,000 salary, a hefty sum for that era.

White’s is not the only tale of athlete-turned-office holder. From Orange Bowl MVP-turned-congressman J.C. Watts to Baseball Hall of Famer-turned-senator Jim Bunning, the political bench of former athletes is deep.

J.C. Watts As we are in the serious throes of two busy seasons — a contentious election period and an overlapping, non-stop sports schedule — we offer a meeting of politics and sports in this dynamic trivia quiz:

1.

What U.S. president played football and captained the swim team for a small college in the Midwest?

A. Richard Nixon B. Barack Obama C. Ronald Reagan D. Gerald Ford

2.

What cabinet member in the Barack Obama administration played on her college basketball team?

A. Hilda Solis B. Kathleen Sebelius C. Janet Napolitano D. Hillary Clinton

3. Name the track sprinter who

competed in the 1936 Olympics and later became a U.S. congressman.

A. Marty Glickman B. Ralph Metcalfe C. Jesse Owens D. Sam Stoller

4.

Which influential U.S. senator spent much of his spare time as an amateur boxer before entering the political stage?

A. Mitch McConnell B. Patrick Leahy C. Harry Reid D. Chuck Schumer

5. Name the former NBA big

man who won the Republican nomination for Oregon’s gubernatorial race in 2010.

A. Chris Dudley B. Bill Walton C. Bill Bradley D. Arvydas Sabonis

6.

What former Oklahoma quarterback led a dynamic wishbone offense before becoming the state’s lieutenant governor?

A. Thomas Lott B. Jack Mildren C. J.C. Watts D. Cale Gundy

7.

Which former baseball slugger played the role of a New York state senator adamantly fighting to pass legislation against college hazing in a made-for-television movie featuring actress Linda Gray (of “Dallas” fame)? The movie’s central theme focused on an antihazing message in relation to college fraternities.

A. Mike Schmidt B. Harmon Killebrew C. Barry Bonds D. Rusty Staub

Ronald Reagan

Gerald Ford

Jack Kemp

8. Jack Kemp was MVP of the old American Football League with the Buffalo Bills before becoming a New York congressman, vice presidential running mate and secretary of Housing and Urban Development. For which president did Kemp serve as HUD secretary?

A. George W. Bush B. Ronald Reagan C. George H.W. Bush D. Bill Clinton

9. On May 10, 2010, boxing

superstar Manny Pacquiao was elected as a member of the House of Representatives in his native Philippines. Pacquiao also is the first Filipino athlete to: A. Appear on “Dancing With the Stars” B. Be named to People Magazine’s “Most Beautiful” list C. Win a gold medal in the Summer Olympics D. Have his likeness on a Philippine postage stamp

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2. B — Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of Health and Human Services, graduated from Trinity College in Washington, D.C., in 1970. She played on the basketball team there, as well as the tennis and field hockey squads. She still likes to play golf and go jogging and scuba diving.

Interestingly enough, her father John J. Gilligan was the former governor of Ohio. When she was elected governor of Kansas in 2002, they became the nation’s first father-daughter governor team.

3. B — Ralph Metcalfe won the silver medal in the 100-meter dash (his friend Jesse Owens took the gold) and a gold in the 400-meter relay in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, then was elected to Congress from 1970 to 1978 in Illinois (1st Congressional District). Metcalfe, a cofounder of the Congressional Black Caucus, also introduced the resolution that officially recognized Black History Month.

4. C — Harry Reid, born in Searchlight, Nevada, was a middleweight boxer in high school and junior college. The title of Reid’s memoir: “The Good Fight: Hard Lessons from Searchlight to Washington.”

5. A — Chris Dudley, who played 16 seasons in the NBA, including six with the Portland Trail Blazers, won the gubernatorial primary in Oregon on May 18, 2010. The 6-foot-11 former center from Yale (with a degree in economics and politics) was most known for rebounding and missing an NBArecord 13 consecutive free throws in one stretch. Dudley’s grandfather, Guilford Dudley, served as ambassador to Denmark under Presidents Richard

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Nixon and Gerald Ford. And, interestingly enough, his wife also is named Chris.

6. B — Jack Mildren was elected lieutenant governor of Oklahoma in 1990, holding the position until 1994, when his bid to become governor failed against Republican Frank Keating. Mildren, who was Oklahoma’s first wishbone quarterback in 1971, led the Sooners to a school-record 567 yards total offense per game that season, including 472 yards rushing, with 7.1 yard-per-carry average, also both school records.

7. C — Barry Bonds, who has 762 career home runs, played the role of Sen. Wilson in the 1994 television movie, “Moment of Truth: Broken Pledges.” Bonds reportedly refused to join a fraternity when he attended Arizona State University because he did not want to participate in hazing.

8. C — Jack Kemp was secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President George H.W. Bush, being appointed on Feb. 13, 1989.

Kemp, who was the AFL MVP in 1965, was named as the vice presidential running mate for presidential candidate Bob Dole in 1996 (Bill Clinton, of course, won the election).

9. D — Manny Pacquiao’s stamp, with the design handpicked by him, was issued as a limited edition collectors’ item by the Philippine Postal Corporation (PhilPost) in 2008. Pacquiao, who represents the southern province of Sarangani on the island of Mindanao, lost badly in his previous attempt at the Filipino Congress in 2007. Pacquiao is considered by many to be the most popular boxer in the world.

10. D — Heath Shuler, who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from western North Carolina in 2006, played quarterback for the University of Tennessee from 1990-93.

Shuler, who was the No. 3 overall pick in the NFL draft’s first round by the Washington Redskins in 1994, also is a member of the wellknown Blue Dog Coalition, a caucus of moderate-to-conservative House Democrats.

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Oct. 8 Today is Friday, Oct. 8, 2010. Today’s issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Brady Hammond, a sophomore majoring in engineering from Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Almanac Today in History: In 1871, flames spark in the Chicago barn of Patrick and Catherine O’Leary, igniting a 2-day blaze that kills between 200 and 300 people, destroys 17,450 buildings, leaves 100,000 homeless and causes an estimated $200 million in damages.

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- Bike to School Day, TSC Patio, 7-11 a.m.

- Women’s Soccer vs. Nevada, 3 p.m.

- Lacrosse Team Scrimmage, 4:30 p.m.

- Robert Linton at Cafe Ibis, 6 p.m.

- Hockey vs. Colorado State, Eccles Ice Center, 7 p.m.

- Organ Festival, Logan Tabernacle, 7 p.m.

- The Cripple of Inishman, Caine Lyric Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

- Aggie Blue Sky Night, USU Observatory, 7:30 p.m.

- Pumpkin Day, Student Organic Farm, All Day - Volleyball Tourney, HPER Field, All Day - Cache Valley Gardner’s Market, Merlin Olsen Park, 9 a.m.

- Football at Louisiana Tech, 2 p.m.

- Hockey vs. University of North Colorado, Eccles Ice Arena, 3 p.m.

- The Cripple of Inishmaan, Caine Lyric Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

- Choral Music of Mack Wilberg, Kent Concert Hall, 7:30 p.m.

- Poetry and a Beverage, TSC Lounges, 9 p.m.

Monday

Oct. 11 - Men’s Golf at Purple and Red Invitational, All Day - Math and Stats Drop-in Tutoring, All Day

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USU Lacrosse team is holding a blue vs. white Team Scrimmage on Oct. 8 at 4:30 p.m. Come to play a fun full game of lacrosse full pads. Contact the coach if you are interested or have questions: dandtmercer@yahoo. com.

All volleyball players, it’s time for the 2010 Fall Fury Outdoor Volleyball Tournament at Utah State. There will be men’s doubles, women’s doubles and coed 4’s divisions. Registration will be from 8 until 8:45 a.m. and play will start at 9 a.m. on Oct. 9 on the HPER field. Plan on a great tourney!

The Chinese Students and Scholars Association is organizing a cook-out on Oct. 12 on the TSC Patio from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Come get a Lunch Box, which includes two entrees and rice/noodles. Stop by, you don’t want to miss this!

Ed Prescott, who won the 2004 Novel Prize in Economics will speak on “Efficiently Financing Retirement.” The speech will be at 12:30 on Oct. 8 in the Christensen Auditorium. This is free and open to the public.

Don’t miss the films you want to see by registering now to purchase Festival Passes and Ticket Packages. Discover priority Passes designed for locals. Registration ends Oct. 13. Visit www.sundance. org/festival/tickets/locals/.

All are invited to attend a Peace Vigil Oct. 8 at 5:30 p.m. on the east side of Main Street between Center and 100 N. as we mark the milestone of the 9th anniversary of the beginning of the war in Afghanistan. Email info@ loganpeace.org of you have questions.

Spencer Jensen will perform live at 6 p.m. on Oct. 8 at Pier 49 Pizza in Providence. He will be followed

by Banjoman and Co. Timmy Pearce will perform live on Oct. 9 at 6 p.m. followed by Melody and Tyler. There is no cover charge!

Upcoming dates for Cafe Ibis: Robert Linton on Oct. 8 from 6-8 p.m. Melody and Tyler On Oct. 10 from 12-2 p.m. Hilary Murray on Oct. 17 from 12-2 p.m. Opening Reception for Photographer Jessica Briggs and live music by Kris Krompel on Oct. 22 from 7-9 p.m. and Ryan and Bill on Oct. 24 from 12-2 p.m.

AIAA social

Opening social for AIAA student chapter is on Oct. 8 from 6-9 p.m. We will be eating pizza and watching “From the Earth to the Moon” in ENGR 106.

Anyone interested in aerospace should come.

Richard Sherlock

Saturday

Oct. 9

USU Lacrosse

Philosophy professor Richard Sherlock will present a lecture defending liberal arts education call “Cardinal Newman on the Idea of a University” on Oct. 11 at 4 p.m. in Old Main room 121.

Blue Sky Night

All are invited to “Aggie Blue Sky Night” the inaugural public opening of the USU Observatory on Oct. 8 at 7:30 p.m. in ENGR 103. Includes stargazing from the new telescope as well as presentations and exhibits. Call the Physics Dept. for more info: 797-2857.

Pumpkin day

You-pick pumpkin patch day at the Student Organic Farm!

Come and pick a pumpkin and help us raise money for the farm. Located at 800 E. and 1750 N. on Oct. 9 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Prices will vary with size.

Mystery farce

“The Murder Room,” a mystery farce presented at the Old Barn Theatre on Fridays, Saturdays and Mondays from Oct. 8-30 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $8. Come for a night of murder, mystery, and fun.

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ASUSU ARTS & LECTURES

Flight Deck • Peter Waldner

Strange Brew • Peter Deering

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