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Tolson reelected as ASUSU pres.

By MEGAN BAINUM staff writer

The winners for the Associated Students of Utah State University (ASUSU) were announced Wednesday in the Sunburst Lounge. The following students will take their positions in ASUSU at the start of the 20102011 school year.

The elections started the last week of February and since then there has been positive and negative things said regarding the elections and the ASUSU positions.

Tyler Tolson, re-elected president of ASUSU, said that despite negative comments, the things accomplished

by ASUSU have a “positive affect on the school.”

“ASUSU is a positive entity here at Utah State,” Tolson said.

Tolson won the president position by 628 votes. The voting results varied from a 27 vote difference between the service vice president candidates, to a difference of 1,400 votes between the athletics vice president position.

During his acceptance speech, Tolson thanked his campaign managers and the people involved in the campaign week. He also thanked all of those involved and encouraged those who lost to apply for the other positions needing to be filled.

Tom Atwood, the winner of programming VP, said he is happy he won, but also happy the campaign is over.

“It has been an exhausting week, and I’m relieved the election process is over.

I’m proud of all the programming candidates who ran fantastic campaigns,” Atwood said.

– megan.b@aggiemail.usu.

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Continuance granted in Logan Lurker case

By BENJAMIN WOOD staff writer

Aaron Foote’s preliminary hearing was granted a continuance scheduled March 29, according to an employee at the First District Court in Logan. Foote appeared in court on Wednesday, but was granted a continuance of his hearing while Logan City Police continues to investigate his case.

Foote is a suspect in a series of burglaries that occurred at off-campus student residences during February. The thefts, referred to as the Logan Lurker burglaries, occurred at early morning hours, often while apartment’s tenants were at home sleeping.

Tamara Chambers, assistant to prosecuting attorney Tony Baird, confirmed that the investigation is ongoing and said Foote is possibly looking at a new set of charges depending on the outcome of Logan police’s investigation. Any new charges would be similar in scope to what the court is already pursuing.

“We may not file them if he pleads guilty,” Chambers said.

USU student Lisa Tobias said her Old Main View apartment was burglarized the same day Foote was arrested by the Logan police. At the time of the break-in, Tobias and two of her roommates were at home asleep, though no one witnessed the events take place. A fourth roommate was out of the apartment and it was found that her belongings had been rummaged and a few articles of her clothing removed from the premises, in addition to other items from

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the apartment.

Tobias said it is supposed that the burglar most often left the apartment through the window, in an effort to evade authorities.

Upon awakening, Tobias and her roommates found that their window screen had been cut open and a kitchen knife was missing.

Tobias and her roommates were summoned to appear in court Wednesday, along with many other burglary victims, though none of them were called on to testify.

“We just sat and watched,” Tobias said.

For the group, is was there first contact with the man suspected of entering their apartment. The content of the court proceedings was handled by Foote’s attorney, Tobias said.

“Eye-to-eye contact was creepy,” Tobias said. “I was hoping he would speak so I would know what he sounds like.”

Prior to the proceedings, the students met with Baird, and at one point Tobias said the girls asked if they could have their knife back, because it’s “the only good knife” they have. The girls have had many of their stolen items returned to them, but were told that the knife is needed until the case is resolved.

Not being present herself, Chambers was unsure whether Foote’s March 29 appearance was slated as an arraignment or a preliminary hearing, but said it is possible that Foote enters his plea on that date. Foote’s court appearance will be at 10 a.m. The court is open to the public and located at 130 N. 100 West.

– b.c.wood@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Election results President: Tyler Tolson Executive vice president: Brent Crosby Athletics vice president: Alex Putnam Student Advocate VP: Daniel Ricks Graduate Studies VP: Trevor Nelson Campus Diversity and Organizations VP: F. Kaho Fiehia Programming VP: Tom Atwood Service VP: Tasha Jorgensen Academic Senate president: Tanner Wright Ag senator: Jen Major Business senator: Skyler Jenks Education senator: Leezanna Hill Engineering senator: Cami Lyman HASS senator: Katie Brammer Natural Resources senator: Jason Carlisle Science senator: Mike Stewart GSS Ag senator: Subash Shrestha GSS education senator: Trevor Rowe GSS HASS senator: Tara Nelson GSS natural resources senator: Tony Roberts GSS science senator: Jesse Walker GSS international senator: Prabuddha Ghosh.

The Caine College of the Arts amendment passed with a 2,455 yes and 750 no vote

Exchanging letters for doughnuts

STUDENTS WRITE legislators to express their fear of future budget cuts. ASUSU Vice President

Spencer Lee headed the event and provided doughnuts for those who participated. PETE P. SMITHSUTH photo

Celtic Night brings Irish music and dance to the Ellen Eccles Theatre.

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Celebs&People GENEVA (AP) – Shakira has received a medal from the U.N. labor agency for her work to help impoverished children.

The 33-yearold Colombian pop star has worked as a UNICEF good- SHAKIRA will ambassador. Her Barefoot foundation provides nutrition to more than 6,000 children in Colombia, and she is member of the ALAS foundation that advocates for children across Latin America.

At a small ceremony Wednesday in Geneva, U.N. labor chief Juan Somavia called Shakira a “true ambassador for children and young people, for quality education and social justice.”

Nat’lBriefs Informant’s death creates doubt in artifacts case SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – The prosecution of the largest-ever American Indian artifacts looting case has been rattled by the apparent suicide of the government informant who broke open the investigation during more than two years of undercover work.

The death marks the third suicide in the case since investigators announced last June that they had charged more than two dozen people with illegally excavating, collecting and dealing artifacts including pottery, stone pipes and ancient jewelry.

Two defendants killed themselves shortly after their arrests, and now the government has lost its most important witness to a selfinflicted gunshot wound.

Coast Guard crew survives Utah crash

Fire the teachers when schools fail?

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – When all the teachers were fired from Central Falls High School last week in a sweeping effort at school reform, their superintendent gave them a taste of the accountability President Barack Obama says is necessary.

It is a strategy that has been used elsewhere, such as in Chicago and Los Angeles. But while there have been some improvements in test scores, schools where most teachers have been replaced still grapple with problems of poverty and discipline. Even advocates of the approach say firing a teaching staff is just one of several crucial steps that must be taken to turn around a school.

Central Falls teachers have appealed the firings and both they and the administration are now indicating a willingness to go back to the table to avoid mass firings. Teachers say wholesale firings unfairly target instructors who work with impoverished children who have been neglected for years.

“We believe the teachers have been scapegoated here,” American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said of the Central Falls firings this week.

In Rhode Island, the state education commissioner earlier ordered Central Falls authorities to make radical improvements in a city where more children live in poverty than anywhere else in the state. Eleventh graders tested at the school in the fall had a 7 percent passing rate in math. Fewer than half of the school’s students graduate in four years.

Obama referred to the Central Falls firings as an example of accountability during an education speech Monday in Washington.

“If a school continues to fail its students year after year after year, if it doesn’t show any sign of improvement, then there’s got to be a sense of accountability,” he said, citing the

CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT Frances Gallo talking on the telephone in her office, March 3. Gallo announced in February that all the teachers at Central Falls High School would be fired at the end of the school year in a desperate move to improve student performance. AP photo

school’s dreadful test scores.

No one keeps firm numbers on how often wholesale firings have been used.

But William Guenther, president of the Boston-based Mass Insight Education and Research Institute, estimates that mass teacher firings are tried in about 20 to 30 schools annually. Many more schools adjust other elements, such as curriculum and teacher training, to boost performance without substantially changing the staff.

The head of Boston’s public schools announced Thursday that five principals of underperforming schools would be assigned to different jobs. All the teachers at six schools must reapply for their jobs and could be moved elsewhere if not rehired for their current posts.

In Los Angeles, charter school operator Green Dot took over a high school in the Watts neighborhood and opened it in 2008 as seven small college-prep academies. Green Dot founder Steve

Toyota secretive on ‘black box’ data in crash

SOUTHLAKE, Texas (AP) – Toyota has for years blocked access to data stored in devices similar to airline “black boxes” that could explain crashes blamed on sudden unintended acceleration, according to an Associated Press review of lawsuits nationwide and interviews with auto crash experts.

The AP investigation found that Toyota has been inconsistent – and sometimes even contradictory – in revealing exactly what the devices record and don’t record, including critical data about whether the brake or accelerator pedals were depressed at the time

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Authorities say snow and wind affected visibility in remote Utah mountains where a Coast Guard helicopter went down as it returned home from the Olympics, but they still don’t know if that’s what caused the crash. All five people aboard survived.

Two were in critical condition following Wednesday’s accident and one was in serious condition, according to hospital officials. All three had to be airlifted from the ROBERTS & ROBERTS LAW FIRM released this Jan. 12 family photo of an event data recorder taken remote crash site.

LateNiteHumor David Letterman, March 3, 2010 Top 10 Reasons Barbara Walters Won’t be doing anymore Academy Award Specials 10. Everyone I want to interview is in rehab.

9. Tired of fending off George Clooney’s clumsy advances.

8. I’ve forgotten how to make people cry.

7. Don’t want to do any more of these lame Top 10 Lists.

6. I knew it was time to stop when I was asked to interview a blue guy from “Avatar.”

5. I’ve done it for 29 years – what more do you people want from me?

4. I just got a gig as Naomi Campbell’s assistant.

3. I’ve learned when a celebrity says they have an interesting story, they don’t.

2. I was pushed out by Jay Leno.

1. I’ll do another special when Dave hosts the Academy Awards again.

Barr laid off all the teachers and asked them to reapply for their jobs.

“You want them to come back, but you have to establish what your vision is and give them the choice: do you believe in this vision?” he said.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan chose to fire teachers en masse when he headed Chicago’s public school system.

He was confronted with lagging test scores at Sherman Elementary School in Chicago’s South Side, where students are overwhelmingly poor and black. Before it was revamped, 29 percent of students were meeting academic expectations, according to statewide tests.

The city allowed the Academy for Urban School Leadership to take over the school in September 2006. It hired a new leadership team and installed a large number of AUSL teachers, mostly people who decided to become teachers after working in other fields. The

school’s original staff had to reapply for their jobs; many simply left.

Test scores have improved. During the last school year, 51 percent of Sherman students tested proficient on the same academic test, although they still lag students in the rest of the district. More recently, scores for students in some grades have slipped in reading and mathematics.

A spokeswoman for Duncan cites the school as an example of where replacing the staff – which he calls a turnaround – worked. It’s one of four strategies that states can use to improve low-performing schools while competing for millions of dollars in stimulus funds.

The other three options are closing a school and sending its students to a better one, converting troubled schools into charter academies, and firing the principal and making other changes to improve performance.

Central Falls Superintendent Frances Gallo picked the turnaround model – the mass firing of all 93 teachers and staff after the end of the school year – after talks with teachers broke down.

It’s not clear whether any Central Falls teachers will lose their jobs. The union has filed a complaint with the state Labor Relations Board, and on Wednesday, after the union indicated it would support teachers working a longer school day and providing additional tutoring, the superintendent said she’d like to resume talks to avoid mass firings.

Guenther, who briefed Duncan’s staff on turnaround strategies in the fall, said breaking a “failing culture” in troubled schools almost always requires replacing a large part of the teaching staff, but cautioned that’s not the only thing that schools need to do.

“The problem with most reform elements is they tend to rely on a single bullet,” Guenther said.

from the 2008 Toyota Avalon in a deadly 2009 crash, commonly known as EDR, is shown at a wrecker service in Euless, Texas. AP photo

of a crash.

By contrast, most other automakers routinely allow much more open access to information from their event data recorders, commonly known as EDRs. AP also found that Toyota: – Has frequently refused to provide key information sought by crash victims and survivors.

– Uses proprietary software in its EDRs. Until this week, there was only a single laptop in the U.S. containing the software needed to read the data following a crash.

– In some lawsuits, when pressed to provide recorder information Toyota either settled or provided printouts with the key columns blank.

Toyota’s “black box” information is emerging as a critical legal issue amid the recall of 8 million vehicles by the world’s largest automaker. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said this week that 52 people have died in crashes linked to accelerator problems, triggering an avalanche of lawsuits.

When Toyota was asked by the AP to explain what exactly its recorders do collect, a company statement said Thursday that the devices record data from five seconds before until two seconds after an air bag is deployed in a crash.

The statement said information is captured about vehicle speed, the accelerator’s angle, gear shift position, whether the seat belt was used and the angle of the driver’s seat.

There was no initial mention of brakes – a key point in the sudden acceleration problem. When AP

went back to Toyota to ask specifically about brake information, Toyota responded that its EDRs do, in fact, record “data on the brake’s position and the antilock brake system.”

But that does not square with information obtained by attorneys in a deadly crash last year in Southlake, Texas, and in a 2004 accident in Indiana that killed an elderly woman.

In the Texas crash, where four people died when their 2008 Avalon ripped through a fence, hit a tree and flipped into an icy pond, an EDR readout obtained by police listed as “off” any information on acceleration or braking.

In the 2004 crash in Evansville, Ind., that killed 77year-old Juanita Grossman, attorneys for her family say a Toyota technician traveled from the company’s U.S. headquarters in Torrance, Calif., to examine her 2003 Camry.

Before she died, the 5-foot-2, 125-pound woman told relatives she was practically standing with both feet on the brake pedal but could not stop the car from slamming into a building. Records confirm that emergency personnel found Grossman with both feet on the brake pedal.

A Toyota representative told the family’s attorneys there was “no sensor that would have preserved information regarding the accelerator and brake positions at the time of impact,” according to a summary of the case provided by Safety Research & Strategies Inc., a Rehoboth, Mass.-based company that does vehicle safety research.

Sex offender in teen’s killing eluded suspicion

SAN DIEGO (AP) – When 17-yearold Chelsea King disappeared in a park last week, authorities checked photographs of sex offenders registered in the San Diego area. John Albert Gardner III was not among them.

When a 16-year-old girl was attacked last year in Riverside County, authorities did a similar check of the sex offender registry. Again, Gardner was not among them.

In both investigations, Gardner eluded detection because he was registered as a sex offender in different counties.

As authorities search for Gardner’s possible links to other cases, his trail highlights how sex offenders in California manage to avoid suspicion even under a system designed to keep close tabs on the state’s most dangerous predators.

“Obviously there’s loopholes and he seems to have found them, either

by design or by happenstance,” said Marc Klaas, who founded Klaaskids Foundation after his 12-year-old daughter Polly was abducted from a slumber party in 1993 and later found slain.

Gardner has attracted national attention ever since he was arrested in the rape and killing of King, a 17-yearold straight-A student whose body was believed to have been found in a shallow lakeside grave Tuesday.

Gardner, 30, is being held without bail after pleading not guilty Wednesday to Chelsea’s murder and to attempted rape of another woman in December, a potential death penalty case. His public defender, Michael Popkins, did not address reporters after the arraignment.

Escondido police are also investigating if Gardner is tied to the disappearance of Amber Dubois, a 14-year-old who vanished a year ago while walking

to school and carrying a $200 check to buy a pet lamb.

No suspects have ever been publicly identified.

“This has definitely got our attention,” said Lt. Craig Carter.

Gardner was registered as a sex offender because of his 2000 conviction for molesting a girl after luring her to his house with the Robin Williams movie “Patch Adams,” about a doctor who uses humor to treat patients. He served five years of a six-year sentence, though his plea agreement allowed for nearly 11 years and a court-appointed psychiatrist urged “the maximum sentence allowed by law.”

Gardner was a registered sex offender in Escondido, in San Diego County, from January 2008 to January 2010, with some gaps, Carter said. On Jan. 7 of this year, he registered as a sex offender 55 miles north in Lake Elsinore, in Riverside County.

Seven weeks later, King disappeared in San Diego, and Gardner’s name didn’t turn up on the list of neighborhood sex offenders because he had already registered that he moved north.

Authorities are also investigating the case of a 16-year-old girl who reported that she ran away after a man asked her for directions then tried to force her into a car at gunpoint on Oct. 28 in Lake Elsinore, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said.

The suspect was described as a man 30 to 35 years old with a squarish jaw, brown eyes and a blond crew cut. A sketch appears similar to Gardner.

“There are similarities,” Capt.

Joseph Cleary told the Riverside PressEnterprise. “If there is a connection, we will track it down.”

Investigators checked out local sex offenders at the time, but not Gardner; he was registered as living in San Diego County, Sgt. Patrick Chavez said.

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USU-CEU merge wins majority vote

By RACHEL A. CHRISTENSEN news editor

The bill that will merge the College of Eastern Utah and USU was approved by the Utah House of Representatives Thursday morning and now awaits the anticipated signature of the governor, said Michael Kennedy, vice president for federal and state relations.

This history-making bill, which will merge two land-standing educational institutions, is being called the first of its kind in the state.

The merged school will be called Utah State University-College of Eastern Utah (USU-CEU) and will have campuses in Price and Blanding, according to Legislature documents. The bill is to take effect July 1.

The House passed the bill, called Senate Bill 69, by a majority vote, with only one vote against it, Kennedy said. Legislative intent language was also read into the record, stating that both institutions agree to follow the memorandum of understanding as previously drafted.

“It’s a smart move for the Utah state system,” USU President Stan Albrecht said. “Our mission is a

land-grant mission, it’s not just for Applied Technology College (BATC), Cache Valley.” a separate campus with technical Albrecht said the new relationship training, though it will have many will provide better higher education practical areas of study that are difopportunities throughout the state. ferent than the BATC. USU-CEU stuAlbrecht said CEU was a “very dents will also be able to take USU good small college,” but it was strug- classes broadcasted by satellite. gling. The merge will keep the school CEU already has its own facilities, open where it such as a stumight have othdent center and “It’s a smart move erwise been lost, library, Lee said, for the Utah State he said. which will make system. Our misAlbrecht also the USU-CEU sion is a landsaid the merge campus USU’s gives USU a largest distance grant mission, it’s chance to extend campus. not just for Cache the success of The merge Valley.” the Uintah Basin process began campus to the – Stan Albrecht, when the bill was southern areas of introduced USU president first the state, which in a legislative would allow the session in 2009, school to teach information that is Albrecht said. Since that spring, useful in these areas, such as coal Albrecht said, task forces and commining and environmental issues. mittees from USU and CEU have Spencer Lee, ASUSU executive vice collected information and discussed president, said CEU will keep things financial, student and faculty issues. such as its sports teams, mascot, stu- This information was used to create dent government and school colors. a memorandum of understanding, USU students will be able to which was approved by the State more easily transfer to CEU, Lee Board of Regents last fall. The Senate said, whose programs have more of approved the bill, and now the gova vocational focus. USU-CEU will ernor must sign the bill. become more like the Bridgerland Kennedy said the governor has 30

days to sign the bill. He also said he expects the governor to hold some sort of ceremonial signing in Price.

According to a press release, a search is currently underway for someone to fill the position of chancellor.

The chancellor, which will be appointed by the president of USU, reports directly to the president of USU and will provide him with recommendations for a regional advisory council, according to Legislature documents. This council will be made up of the USU-CEU Student Association president and residents of counties in the school’s service regions.

In a ceremony Thursday that took place in the Capitol Board Room in Salt Lake City, Lee said representatives from both schools, as well as Big Blue and CEU’s eagle mascot, gathered to celebrate the union.

Sen. David Hinkins was present as well as members of the House of Representatives Ronda Menlove, Fred Hunsaker, Jack Draxler and Curt Webb, among other guests. The mascots posed, hugging for pictures, Lee said, symbolizing the new relationships between the two schools.

– rac.ch@aggiemail.usu.edu

Ag secretary says families need farmers

By MEGAN BAINUM staff writer

Fifty percent of American land is owned by farmers who represent fewer than two percent of the country’s citizens, and Kathleen Merrigan spoke about ways people can help farmers and their communities.

Merrigan, the deputy secretary of agriculture, spoke on Thursday for the Extension Annual Conference. Her speech, “Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food,” focused on the agricultural structure of the country and how city residents can support their local farmers.

“Not every family needs a lawyer. Not every family needs an accountant,” Merrigan said. “Every family needs a farmer. We are connected to the land every time we buy a loaf of bread, visit a farmers market or go out to a restaurant.”

Merrigan said her purpose is to find ways to strengthen agriculture and reconnect consumers with locally grown food. She said that as a result it will generate wealth for the community.

Merrigan said it is important to connect with young people and have them learn about local farmers. She said she wants to engage young people in “building a better world for tomorrow.”

“The average age of a farmer in the United States is 57 and who is there to fill in their shoes?”

Merrigan said. “Universities are an excellent example of programs that help students become interested in agriculture.”

People are starting to talk about agriculture again, Merrigan said, and there are jobs out there for college graduates interested in that field.

Merrigan said there are 52,000 jobs open in the agriculture structure but only 47,000 of those positions get filled by graduates.

Eating organically is not a new phenomenon and it has been on an upward trend for years. Merrigan said there has been 100 percent growth over the past decade in agriculture.

“Eating locally is hot,” Merrigan said. “Local produce is on a trend upward. The word organic comes more often in a Google search than Barack Obama does.”

Along with connecting with a younger generation, Merrigan also talked about the growing problem of child obesity in America and how eating locally grown food can help.

A lack of access to good healthy food is what Merrigan thinks leads to some of the obesity prob-

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Project to build new bike racks The class of 2010 has chosen to fund a covered bike rack as its Senior Class Gift. Students, faculty and visitors are increasingly using bikes as a means of transportation on USU’s campus because they are convenient and environmentally friendly.

However, there are currently not enough places to park bicycles that are secure and protected from the elements. The new covered bike racks will provide space for 24 bicycles each and help beautify campus areas that are being restored. The first bike rack cover will be a gift from the class of 2010, with the help of your donation.

Senior Gift is a century-yearold tradition that allows the senior class to come together to support and improve Utah State University.

Donations given by seniors is an expression of gratitude toward Utah State University for the knowledge and experience they have gained.

The Senior Gift dates back to 1909, when the lighted “A” on top of the Old Main tower was given. Since then, many gifts have been given including beautiful clocks, scenic benches, the USU sign on fourth north and the new campus maps.

The Senior Gift gives seniors a chance to give back to the university that has given them so much. We hope that giving to the Senior Gift gets graduates to start their pattern of giving back to the university.

To learn more about the Senior Gift and to donate, visit www.usu. edu/seniorgift. You can also donate when we call you over the phone this week, at the Grad fair, in Old Main Room 106, or at our booth during A Week.

Soloist to play in Performance Hall This year, after slight schedule adjustments, the 2010 Wassermann Festival brings the most recent gold medal winner, Haochen Zhang, to campus for a solo recital Tuesday, March 9, with a 7:30 p.m. performance in USU’s Performance Hall.

Those goals are shared with Utah State University’s Wassermann Festival, and over the years the festival has been able to bring a number of prize-winning Van Cliburn pianists to the Logan campus for performances and master classes.

Tickets for the event are available at the Caine School of the Arts Box Office, located in the Chase Fine Arts Center, FAC 139-B on the USU campus; online (http://csaboxoffice.usu. edu/) or call 435-797-8022.

Faculty to promote healthy body image KATHLEEN MERRIGAN, deputy secretary of agriculture, spoke Thursday about ways Cache Valley citizens can involve themselves in agriculture to strengthen it. She said a crucial way to improve agriculture is by interesting children in it. PETE P. SMITHSUTH photo

lems children are facing.

“Let’s move a nationwide campaign to solve childhood obesity,” Merrigan said.

“For children ages 5 to 8, an average of 720 calories they have in a day are empty calories.”

Merrigan said having things like school gardens at the elementary school level can

help kids become interested in local farming, as well as improve their willingness to eat healthy. She also said farmers need to connect with school districts and have the students learn where their food is coming

- See FARMERS, page 4

Businesses donate to help education program

SEED INTERN stands with his Peruvian students as they present their certificates after completing a course in business. Students from the Huntsman School of Business volunteer to educate citizens in foreign countries. photo courtesy of the Huntsman School of Business

By KASEY VAN DYKE staff writer

Several businesses in Logan will be donating money to the Small Enterprise and Education (SEED) program March 5.

SEED has already received $250 from J.J. Cole and $500 from APX Alarms. Chili’s, Dominoes, McDonald’s, Cafe Sabor, Hamilton’s, Kamin Thai Cuisine, Aquatech Carwash and S.E. Needham Jewelers will also be donating part of their proceeds on Friday. SEED, a program through the Huntsman School of Business, will then donate the money to small businesses in South America, currently focusing on Peru.

According to the Huntsman School of Business Web site, SEED has a mission to “provide Utah State University students

- See SEED, page 4

Maintaining a healthy body image is difficult in American society. This is especially true for college students. USU Counseling and Psychology Services is promoting the Every “Body” Rocks event to celebrate each body’s uniqueness. When USU students have a healthy body image, they will grow in self-esteem and worth, event organizers said.

Every “Body” Rocks will be held March 8 from 10a.m. - 3p.m. in the Taggart Student Center International Lounge. The event includes more than 25 information booths and activities to appeal to all demographics at USU. The booths and activities are run by the Student Health Services; the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender community; Avalon Hills; USU Women’s Center; the Museum of Anthropology and many other local and USU organizations, including USU Counseling and Psychology Services.

Event activities include food tasting, a life-size Barbie to show the false expectations of a perfect body, body painting with messages of selfaffirmation and decorating skinny jeans with positive messages. Booths will highlight body modifications throughout the world, fashion for any body, body image triggers and men’s body issues.

-Compiled from staff and media reports

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Those who receive the funding follow an eight-month program. After SEED recipients are chosen, they are taught “basic, business principles,” then taught “how to project sales, identify costs, and manage cash,” according to the Web site.

After this, business plans are developed for those participants with potentially profitable ideas. The ideas are then presented to Huntsman School of Business students, who in turn spend 12 weeks working with the small businesses to get them started, giving the USU interns hands-on small-business experience.

Once a business has completed this training, it begins to pay back the

money it was loaned. The paid back of their March 5 proceeds. She said money goes to helping other small she hopes the businesses exceed the businesses, creating a cycle of learnprogram’s goal of $3,000. ing and growth within the program.

So far, SEED has recently had three Jeri Garner-Collings, owner of businesses finish the program and Brigham City’s has seen growth in and Logan’s three businesses “I think it’s an McDonald’s it had previously amazing idea. participating in helped, including a Friday’s fundguinea pig farm, a They’re trying to raiser, originally bakery and a yogurt get people out of got involved with producer. The poverty by teachSEED because of guinea pig farm has ing them.” her grandson, 530 breeders and Huntsman Scholar – Kirk Miller, sells about 175 pigs Jake Peterson. month to local junior, accounting major arestaurants.

“I think the Huntsman School The bakery, of Business is exceptional,” Garnerrun by five women, now makes 2,100 Collings said, “and I’m very excited pieces of bread daily, a large step for with what’s going on there.” the community, where before the only Garner-Collings said her restaubread available was five miles away, rants will each donate 10 percent old and poor quality. The yogurt pro-

ducer has also seen benefit, having moved up from mainly working in its fields to operating a yogurt producing facility. Recent graduates of the SEED program include a company called Altos Salaverry, another guinea pig farm and a mini-mart.

Kirk Miller, junior in accounting, is a volunteer for the program and said he enjoys it.

“I think it’s an amazing idea,” he said. “They’re trying to get people out of poverty by teaching them.”

Miller said he isn’t sure he’ll do more than volunteer at this point, but enjoys the work he is doing now.

“The most I can do now is just help out,” he said.

– k.vandyke@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Merrigan works for the United States “Farmers are real rock stars. Educating Department of Agriculture (USDA) and said children and getting them interested can only there are many programs funded, such as help in their fight against obesity,” Merrigan community food projects, school lunch prosaid. grams and rural business enterprise grants, Merrigan said agriculture is on an ecoto help agriculture across the country. nomic downturn and USDA has a budget times are tough for rural of $149 billion and is “Farmers are real rock America. Sixty percent the fourth-largest govstars. Educating chilof people live in rural ernment department. dren and getting them areas and 90 percent It employs 11,400 of those people don’t interested can only help people and Merrigan farm. Merrigan said said 90 percent of in their fight against Americans live in an those employees work obesity.” “urban nation but an in the field.

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– megan.b@aggiemail.usu.edu

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The earthquake in Chile was so severe that, according to Time magazine, it caused each Earth day to be shortened about 1.26 millionths of a second. This Saturday, those who want to help efforts in Chile will have a chance to make a difference.

Caridad por Chile (Charity for Chile) will

be at Yah Poh Restaurant, 1433 N. Main Sreet, Saturday, March 6, from 4-10 p.m. Ten percent of proceeds made that night will be sent to earthquake victims. Money donations can be made at Yah Poh, as well. All donations will be sent to earthquake victims.

Come get some food and show support to the people of Chile in their time of need.

For further information, call Claudia at 753-0599 or 890-3815.

– rac.ch@aggiemail.usu.ed

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Celtic celebration invades Ellen Eccles Theatre

By COURTNIE PACKER fetures editor

It’s a celebration of the Irish culture. It’s unique and carries a certain spirit. It is Irish dancing.

Bridger Folk Music Society presents the sixth annual Celtic Night, March 5 and 6 in the Ellen Eccles Theatre. Celtic Night features local talent by Inishfre Irish Dance Company and Celtic band Cuhulainn.

Julie Zufelt, founded and currently directs Inishfre Dance Company, said Irish dancing is something she loves and wants others to enjoy.

“I get excited dancing,” she said. “The music makes me want to kick up my heels and dance. We all do it because of the love of dancing. We work hard, and we want to show off our stuff.”

Zufelt has arranged and choreographed many of the dances, staying true to the traditional dances and styles of Ireland. The dances include both hard-shoe and soft-shoe dances that are choreographed to traditional Celtic music.

Emily Werner has been dancing with the Inishfre Irish Dance Company for five years.

She began with the company when she was 11 years old and said the difference between the hard- and soft-shoe performances are the sounds and movements. Hard-shoe dances make hard taps while soft-shoe is more ballet-like and is often described as a flowing movement.

“This is different from every-

INISHFRE DANCE COMPANY will perform at the sixth annual Celtic Night, held March 5 and 6 at the the Ellen Eccles Theatre. CARL WILSON photo

thing else,” she said. “It is great fun to watch, and you get into it.”

Werner is described by many of the dancers in the company as the “little star,” along with Kate Jensen, who also began dancing at age 11.

Jensen has been a member of the dance company for six years and is currently the Dance Sterling Scholar at Mountain Crest High School for her Irish dancing. She also choreographed the duet performed by her and Werner.

“I liked to challenge myself with my dancing,” Jensen said. “We don’t compete so I

would just learn a dance and it became too routine for me.”

Celtic Night has something to offer for everyone. Becky Erickson, is dancing her fourth year with the Inishfre Dance Company and said deaf and blind individuals will also enjoy the performance.

“This gives the deaf something to see with the dancing and the blind something fun to hear through the music,” she said. “This can touch all different groups.”

Erickson said she enjoys Irish dancing because people from different backgrounds can enjoy it. She describes

her husband as a redneck and herself as a ballerina and said they both find enjoyment in the dance.

“Whatever your background is you can enjoy this stuff,” she said. “This is a great tradition that has been put together.”

Erickson will be performing a duet during the show with special guest Luke Anderson.

Anderson has been dancing ballet with Erickson for many years and was asked to perform the couples dance with her during the performance.

Anderson said the difficult task of learning Irish dancing was learning the Irish tech-

nique.

“I’ve always admired the Irish,” he said. “I get to experience the Irish and be with these great people.”

Erickson said there is a sisterhood among the dancers. She said their friendship and the common feeling for love of Irish dancing comes out strongly on stage. Diane Herman, 57, said the love of Irish dancing is what drives her and keeps her going.

Herman said when she learned of Inishfre Dance Company she quickly called Zufelt and joined.

“I love the dancing and the

tation and some very strange and unnatural scientific equipment has found its way into the first act,” said Lynda Linford, director of the production and associate professor in the department of theatre arts.

From a weightless and billowy pink tent to extravagant masquerade headwear, the details are nothing short of ornate.

Though love is written in the script, it blossomed behind the scenes as well in the form of a cast romance between the actors behind Dumaine and Maria, who are not paired in the story.

“Dumaine is such a little romancer,” Baker said.

There are seven freshmen in the cast: Baker and Noall included and both in lead roles. The script contains more women than most works of Shakespeare. Linford cites the many female roles as one of her reasons for selecting “Love’s Labour’s Lost” for Utah State Theatre. Among her other reasons were the story’s topical nature among college students regarding study and love, and the genre of a previous recent production.

“I thought we had to do a comedy. We had just done ‘King Lear,’” Linford said.

And comedic it is, with Shakespeare’s intellectual farces executed cleanly and effectively.

“Performing Shakespeare at a collegiate level has been a much more unique experience in lower-level productions,” Baker said. “It has been far more demanding, but it is also able to yield a much more satisfying professional performance.”

“Love’s Labour’s Lost” runs March 4-6 and 11-13 in the Morgan Theatre of the Chase Fine Arts Center. Tickets are $13 in advance or free with student ID. – noelle.johansen@aggiemail. usu.edu

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music,” she said. “I love the Irish music.”

Harvey Neuber, a member of the band Cuhulainn, has worked with Zufelt in planning Celtic Night for five years.

Neuber said the band will be performing Celtic songs along with a few modern compositions.

“This is a new thing for me and I really enjoy it,” Neuber said. “I went to Ireland and played music over there, and it is a lot of fun.”

The band consists of a combination of musicians and musical instruments.

Cuhulainn has chosen many classic Celtic pieces along with some familiar tunes.

“This is something you can’t just do any other weekend,” Neuber said. “It is appealing to all audiences and can’t really be seen any other time of the year.”

Zufelt said this isn’t just your regular dance performance.

“It’s not stuffy and it is fun,” she said. “It’s loud, rowdy and fun.”

Anderson said this year’s Celtic Night is one performance he encourages all students to attend.

“Go and experience the dancing. You will either like it or you won’t. Go and see it because you never know until you do,” he said.

Celtic Night begins at 7:30 p.m. and tickets range from $10-19. Students with a student ID will be admitted at half price one hour prior to the performance.

– courtnie.packer@aggiemail. usu.edu

Shakespeare’s “Love’s” takes the stage Idaho indie at USU

By NOELLE JOHANSEN staff writer

Ponytailed men in ruffled collars and knee-high boots mill about an elaborate study that reeks of academic sophistication and leather-bound books. In Utah State Theatre’s production of “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” Shakespeare is very much alive.

Thirty minutes before the opening scene, after microphones are checked and costumes are pinned, the curtain opens to the preshow. On-stage actors silently busy themselves in small, yet consuming tasks.

The effect is to create a specific ambiance for the audience filtering into the Morgan Theatre, a sort of prologue drawing the focus of the guests even before the play has begun.

The story of a Spanish king and his three comrades swearing an oath to three strict years of study, fast and certainly no women is one of Shakespeare’s first comedies.

Set in late 18th-century Spain trademarked by lush Georgian era fashions, the women are adorned in picturesque gowns and the men in double-breasted jackets with tails. The wardrobe was designed by professor Nancy Hills. Jonathan Baker, freshman in literary studies and the lead of Ferdinand, the King of Navarre, fancies the stark contrasts of the costumes.

“I think the period it’s set in has such a fun element to it,” Baker said. “We get to be fancy in the case of the aristocracy and very grungy in the case of the peasantry.”

Fancy can be hindering, however, informed Joanna Noall, freshman in theater education.

In the role of the Princess of France, she battled with hoop skirts and masses of shiny material.

“The costumes are really complicated. They’ve been changed

TWO STUDENTS EMBRACE in USU’s production of “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” one of William Shakespeare’s first comedies.

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a lot,” Noall said.

Costume alterations were not the only complications. Some actors and a musical director had to be replaced, along with time setbacks due to one third of the cast participating in American College Theatre Festival in St. George. Despite such setbacks, the cast and crew of “Love’s Labour’s Lost” managed to successfully construct an innovative and modern production.

“It’s been really amazing how, despite all of these setbacks, people have still been able to bring together a show that’s so lively and engaging,” Baker said.

Clinton Jones, freshman in English and portraying Costard, a clown of sorts, was one of the actors to replace a dropped part. He joined the production

weeks later than the rest, yet the fact escapes undetected, as Jones performs seamlessly with the rest of the cast, as though he was Costard from the beginning.

“It’s just amazing how the actors have come together,” Jones said.

The intricate set, which Noall refers to as “grandiose,” was designed by graduate students – a male student created the structured world of the male characters, and a female student shaped the females’ natural and liberating environment. As the period was one of advancing technology and enlightenment, props like air balloons and telescopes are incorporated to enhance the dreamy and scholarly feel, respectively.

“Lots of scientific experimen-

One of Idaho’s finest bands will be in town this Saturday.

Spondee, an Indie band that started in Pocatello, Idaho, is going to be the Independent Music Club’s featured band this weekend.

“The Shuttles” and “Poor Ophelia” will open the concert.

Amy Nguyen, sophomore in anthropology and vice president of the Independent Music Club, said, “I consider them (to be) bigger than a local scene band here in Logan.”

Spondee has played in Logan at Why Sound a couple times in the past.

“We loved playing in Logan. We love the crowd in Logan,” said Clint Vickery, junior in Spanish at Boise State University and band writer, lead vocalist and guitarist. “We’re way excited to get back down there and have a dance party with you again.

Hopefully, we haven’t been forgotten since it’s been a year.”

The band independently released its first full-length album “Pop Your Socks Off” in March 2009. The title of the album alludes to the band’s new focus of making every song fun and danceable.

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IDAHO BAND SPONDEE will play a concert Saturday in the Lundstrum center. photo courtesy of the band

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Critics ‘Stolen’

It looks like a movie that I have seen over and over again.

Now, don’t get me wrong, a little action and the true-story plot definitely helps things out, but the plot of a father looking for his missing son – been there, done that.

“Stolen” follows the story of a father who is investigating the disappearance of his son. While searching, he discovers 50 years earlier, another young boy disappeared.

The movie seems to have its thrilling moments, and I will confess that at some times I was staring at the trailer, wanting to find out a little more. But hasn’t this storyline been done a bazillion times? I definitely don’t smell an Oscar with this one.

But what appears to be the highlight of this film? It is when James Van Der Beek, aka Dawson from “Dawson’s Creek,” steps onto the screen. But you have to ask yourself, where in the world did he come from? I figured he would have been long gone with all the other ‘90s show actors. But you will not hear me complaining.

If all other options for a Saturday night activity fail, “Stolen” might just be the plan “G.” I pre-emptively don’t like this movie but am grateful Dawson hasn’t disappeared forever.

– courtnie.packer@aggiemail.usu.edu

‘Brooklyn’s Finest’ “Brooklyn’s Finest,” rated R, seems like another typical cop movie. The preview makes it look good and kind of exciting, but in all reality, I think this movie will be only a B movie.

Richard Geere plays a cop who is almost retiring.

He overlooks things happening in the last two minutes of his job and is just ready to be done. In the preview, he tells a replacement cop that “today, a woman gets slapped. Tomorrow, it’s murder.”

Another cop starts taking money that the cops take from drug people to get his wife, who is pregnant with twins, a new house. He’s also apparently deeply religious, because it shows him in confession (which is totally ridiculous and unrealistic, I might add).

The third cop is undercover, in some sort of gang or drug operation. His part of the story seems most promising.

Really, this movie looks like just another cop movie, where cops are doing bad things and being corrupt, only instead of looking the other way for criminals, maybe become criminals themselves.

The bad cop story is so worn out. It’s practically my mom’s leather pants from the 70s. I pre-emptively hate this movie.

– april.ashland@aggiemail.usu.edu

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‘Alice in Wonderland’ Leave it to Tim Burton to make a movie based on a book that is notorious for reminding people of an acid trip. “Alice in Wonderland” looks like it will follow the Tim Burton pattern of flashy colors, cartoon-ish actors – Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter – and an eerie, yet child-like, storyline. He will most likely use a fair amount of computer animation, excessive amounts of makeup on his characters and an equal distribution of good and evil.

From what I can gather, Alice has returned to Wonderland, which means the movie should be titled “Alice Through the Looking Glass,” since that was the sequel to the book, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” That little annoyance aside, I’ll have to see this movie. I love Burton and Lewis Carrol, but I’m unsure how the two will mix. Also, the previews seem to focus most of the time on the Mad Hatter, not so much on Alice or why she’s back or the hint in one preview that she’s running away from getting married.

I’m guessing most people will go see this movie for one of two reasons. First, they read the books and want to see how Burton does with them or, second, they love Burton’s directing and want to see how this one compares to the others. You can’t get much information from the previews, and I doubt it will stray too far from Burton’s usual style. I pre-emptively rate this a B-.

– k.vandyke@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Winona Ryder and Julianne Moore, Penn’s As the title promises, “The Private Lives performance is by far the most memorable of Pippa Lee” focuses on the character of and presumably the most difficult. Like Pippa, played by the talented Robin Wright the character herself, Penn has the abilPenn. On the surface, Pippa is a caring ity to exert sophistication and a mature wife and mother, famous for her generos- confidence that is merely the surface of ity and loyalty, but at times, showing a deli- a deeper performance that isn’t fully realciously enigmatic nature that elicits ques- ized until the movie is completed. tions about her past from those around The scenes in the movie do not produce her. The story begins with Pippa moving an adrenaline rush caused by the unrealisto a retirement community for the sake of tic, but rather the shock of the unpredicther husband, Herb, in hopes that a slower ability and corrosive nature of life experilife pace will help improve his deteriorat- ences. Making a movie of this caliber is ing health. Unfortunately for Pippa, her incredibly difficult because the majority husband is 30 years her senior, and he fits of audiences do not run to the theater to the criteria for the community of seniors learn about the hardships and mysteries of much better than she does. Along with this life; they go to be entertained. But in realrequirement of adaptation comes an unex- ity, there are many who would find compected wave of nostalgia, and Pippa finds fort in movies of this nature. People have herself thinking back to her childhood and a deep desire to be recognized and undertrying to follow the events of each year as it stood, so it is soothing to a viewer to see leads up to the present and, hopefully, find a character that goes through experiences answers to recently developed questions that are painfully familiar, and let them about her life. After rediscovering demons know that they are not the only ones who from her past that have managed to remain are trying to power through unpredictable undefeated throughout the years, Pippa times. So if people feel a desire to break struggles to maintain her identity, all the their routine of watching cookie-cutter while trying to avoid the potential existen- movies, “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee” is tial crisis lurking behind every memory. an ideal movie to do so and will hopefully “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee” doesn’t remind them that life is not like the movies, have chase scenes, shootouts, a quick-wit- but perhaps movies should be about life. ted sidekick or a superhero that swoops “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee” was in and saves the day just in the nick of recently released on DVD. time. Simply put, it is about life. The heart– jen.goods@gmail.com ache, the monotony, the joy, the fear and the unpredictability that accumulate and

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-continued from page 5 The sound of the band is professional, but people have a hard time putting their finger on what it is exactly. Nguyen said that several times people have asked her what they sound like.

“I’ve been trying to think about that all week, and all I know is it’s super poppy,” Nguyen said.

Vickery said, “Lots of people have described it as taking a ‘50s rock band and ’80s pop band and putting them together. Our sound structures are very simple like the ’50s songs, and they dissolve to be very poppy. We have synthesizers over the top, and we have female vocals and male vocals.”

Nguyen said, “The average cool indie kid would like them.”

The band has been influenced by groups such as The Flaming Lips and Belle and Sebastian. Vickery said any song that has “hyper danceability” or “pop wonderfulness” has influenced the band.

“That’s what we try to do,” Vickery said. “We try to recreate it and throw our own something on it.”

Vickery writes most of the parts himself and then teaches it to the rest of the band. The most interesting step is how he comes up with the lyrics.

“I write all the music first, and the lyrics is last, and I decide on the consonants and sounds that I want,” Vickery said. “I’d rather the music be memorable than the message that I’m trying to put across.”

Vickery said what’s interesting is that a lot of the band’s lyrics are sad, but the way the song sings is happy and dancey.

“Maybe we’re really screwing people up, with subliminal messages,” he said.

Spondee has played all over the Northwest -ern parts of the U.S. “We’ve played down from Provo to Spokane, Washington,” Vickery said. “We’ve played all through Idaho, northern half of Utah and quite a bit of Washington and Oregon. We’re going to be going down to California, so we’re excited to expand our horizons.”

The band started in the fall of 2007 at Idaho State University. Vickery had a roommate named Blake who played the drums. He

explained how they recorded tracks of the parts on his loop pedal. He sang and played guitar, and Blake drummed.

“A spondee is a poetry term that means a word that has two stressed syllables,” Vickery said. “We started that because there were two of us in the band.”

When they started adding more members, people still knew them as Spondee.

“We decided not to change the name, even though it has absolutely no relevance to us,” Vickery said, “but the name goes well with the sound.”

Vickery continued writing songs as they pieced their band together, adding more people to play the parts. They had a rotating lineup of drummers and bassists until they released their first CD, “Creaky Step,” in March 2008.

The five-song EP was put together with fourtrack recordings from Vickery’s bedroom and a few other local studios. The band members continued playing, writing and fine tuning their sound until they reached a point where they decided it was time to leave Pocatello.

“It was hard to find bands and venues to play with so that’s why we moved to Boise.” Vickery said.

Vickery transferred to Boise State University, losing some band members, who were soon replaced by people they met. Then finally they released their first real album, “Pop Your Socks Off,” in March 2009 as a six-piece band, adding another guitarist and a female vocalist.

“It ended up being a longer process than we thought, but we’re just happy that it’s out,” Vickery said.

Spondee will be selling their album for half price when the band comes to play at USU, along with other merchandise.

“We have slap bracelets as well as CDs,” Vickery said. “If you come you might get free stuff.”

Spondee will play at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 6, at the Lundstrom Student Living Center.

The band members are Vickery, Gia Trotter (vocals), Noah Jensen (bass), Kylee Pearson (keys and vocals), Cody White (drums) and Sam Hill (guitar).

– j.budd@aggiemail.usu.edu

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“World-Class Pianists in a World-Class Setting”

Haochen Zhang, pianist

Tuesday, March 9, 2010 7:30 p.m.

USU Performance Hall

Reserved Seating Tickets: Adults $20, Students $8 Tickets: (435) 797-8022 or http://csaboxoffice.usu.edu Additional information, including concert programs, at www.usu.edu/wassermann

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Reaping your own fate and fortune

oughly three months ago I snapped open a fortune cookie, gobbled the crunchy pseudoChinese shell and proceeded to read the slip of paper inside. We all know that if a fortune is read before the cookie is swallowed, the fortune will not come to pass. Kinda like making a wish on a birthday cake. If you tell someone your wish, it will never, in a million years, come true. Be certain that I followed all of the “rules� as I finished my fortune cookie, because I do not advocate jinxing fate.

My fortune read something along the lines of: Good things are in store ... in three months!

I whipped out my USU planner, and to the date, three months later, indicated with my pen that good things were in store. The reason I wrote this fact in my planner is that a few months previously I had opened a fortune cookie with the exact same fortune (three months and all), but as time passed, I forgot what day I was supposed to find fortune. I do not even know if it came true. I was not about to let another opportunity of good fortune slip by without recognition, so I wrote it down.

Last week, as I looked at the list of the daily tasks I needed to accomplish, I saw the exclamationed phrase “good things in store� and was bewildered.

Do you ever write something down in your planner and when you later come across it, you have no clue what you are supposed to do, so you worry incessantly about deciphering the message because it might be life-alteringly important? Mind-scouring pandemonium and mayhem ensue as your brain is racked with unknown possibilities.

Well, fortunately, my mind put two and two together and my heart rejoiced. This was my day. This was my day that good things would happen.

Holy smokes, all day long I anticipated greatness.

And the door on the bus got

stuck, and I tried to close it and failed.

And someone bailed on a previously planned engagement, so it canceled.

And my seventh graders would not follow my baton worth beans. What a day, what a day. I kept searching and searching for a redeeming factor, but could not find one, until, as foresaw by my cookie, fortune struck me like a llama in a dust storm. My ninth grade orchestra class was canceled because all the kiddies were going on a ski trip.

My cooperating teacher let me leave school early, with a big whoop and a yahoo.

What did I do with my extra time?

Well, I took a nap. Whoop. Yahoo.

Last year I had some neighbors that owned an alligator head that supposedly gave luck to those that pet it. It was a real honest to goodness alligator head with real honest to goodness alligator teeth, though it probably did not have real honest to goodness alligator eyes.

My roommates and I were intensely studying for a music history exam, hours upon hours, when our neighbor came over with the aforementioned head in his hands. (Honest to goodness.) “I guarantee you an A on that test,� he spoke with a smarmy smile comparable to a salesman. “Go ahead, pat this lucky head.�

I was not sure how much a dead alligator head knew about music history, but I tapped its head anyhow, took the test and got a great score.

Internal Conflict: Who earned the grade? The alligator or I? Are the outcomes of our lives altered by simple, inane actions that displace determinacy? Gadzooks.

Karma. I do believe somewhat in karma. I believe that if you make poor choices, they will eventually come around and bite you in the butt. I believe that if you make good choices, felicitous times will be inherent. If you are kind to people, they will be kind to you. If you respect people, they will

respect you, etc. I believe that people reap what they sow.

But I also acknowledge that, frustratingly, some people sow, sow and sow and do not reap a single sinnin’ thing.

Job after job after job. Relationship after relationship after relationship.

Illness after illness after illness. Fail after fail after fail. Bad fortune? Maybe. But maybe events in life are just events to be dealt with, and in the dealing with them, true fortune shines through.

Lemony Snicket states, “If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say, in a pleasant and hopeful voice, ‘Well, this isn’t too bad. I don’t have my left arm anymore, but at least nobody will ever ask me whether I am right-handed or left-handed,’ but most of us would say something more along the lines of ‘Aaaaah! My arm! My arm!’�

Bad things happen to good people.

Good things happen to bad people.

Point in case. But don’t you want to be a good person, regardless of what happens to you? Hm? When life goes out of control, don’t you want to be in control of how you react? Because you are in charge, no question about it. Complaining never got anyone anywhere. Whining never got anyone anywhere. The more optimism you have, the more opportunity and leeway you give fortune to bestow bounteous blessings into your blasted life. Good things really do happen to good people. Just remember that.

Melissa Condie is a senior majoring in music education.

Questions or comments can be sent to her at m.condie@aggiemail.usu.edu.

So fun, you’ll forget you’re exercising

By STOREE POWELL features senior writer

“It’s exercise, but it’s like a party too. That’s the whole theme of the Zumba fitness program, ‘join the party.’ The idea is to distract you while you’re working out, and it really does.

I love it and I’m addicted to it,�

Cara VanTassell said.

VanTassell, junior in photography, is a Zumba-certified instructor who has been teaching the dance since September at Tueller School of Dance in /RJDQ ORFDWHG DW 1 Main Street. All instructors are required to have certification.

The Zumba fitness program, according to VanTassell, is a fitness-based Latin dance class that utilizes interval training of high- and low-heart rate songs. “This back and forth is the best exercise because you burn more calories by not going at a steady pace. We’ll do a couple of fast songs and then a slow one,�

VanTassell said.

The moves are repeated throughout the whole class, so it is not learning a whole routine. “It is aerobics in a dance style,� VanTassell said.

The Zumba class uses lots of Latin songs, and VanTassell likes to also use Lady Gaga, Black Eyed Peas and the Pussy Cat Dolls for warm-up. “You forget that you’re working out it is so fun, it is even relaxing. You leave the class happy, and I never leave the class feeling like I’m glad it’s over. It goes by so fast. That’s biggest difference between Zumba and going to the Fieldhouse and just running,�

VanTassell said.

There is not one shoe everyone uses, VanTassell said, although the Zumba Web site does offer Zumba shoes. “I use Adidas bounce shoes because the tread is not too sticky. Since it’s a Latin-based dance, you move around a lot and too much tread could cause ankle twisting,� VanTassell said.

Classes are offered Monday and Wednesday nights, Friday mornings, and a Thursday night class will be starting shortly. Tuesday is Zumba Toning. “The toning is not interval heart-rate dancing, but toning muscles while dancing, and it actually burns more calories,�

VanTassell said.

VanTassell said people can come as often as they want.

According to VanTassell, the first time is free so everyone can come try it and after that it is $5 a class, or a punch pass can be bought for $30 that includes 10 classes for $3. Additionally, free classes are rewarded when the cards are filled.

Some of the participants wear “body bugs� to the class to count calories burned.

VanTassell said on average they burn 900-1,100 calories in the one-hour class, which is consistent with the Zumba program claim of 700-1,000 calories an hour for the average person. Zumba Toning is generally 1,500 calories an hour, VanTassell said. “Don’t be afraid to try.

I’ve danced my whole life, and the first class was pretty overwhelming because there’s no sit-down basic instruction, you just follow. Usually by the third class you pick up on it because the moves are repeated throughout all the songs,�

VanTassell said.

Zumba fitness students are all on the same level, VanTassell said. “Since Pam Waldron, the other instructor, hasn’t taught dance before, she will keep it basic, and I will do the more extreme move. We do arms and legs together, but you can just do arms or just legs if you want,� VanTassell said.

The Zumba fitness program does not discriminate. The class has several ladies in their 70s, as well as a few 12- to 13-yearold girls, VanTassell said. Also, she said guys are starting to join. “Some of the songs are a little girly, so sometimes the guys change the moves to be more masculine,� VanTassell said.

According to Zumba.com, the celebrity fitness trainer “Beto� Perez created Zumba in Colombia in the mid 1990s.

Zumba.com states, “One day, he walked into his aerobics class and realized he had forgotten his aerobics music. Thinking quickly, he grabbed whatever tapes he had in his backpack.

Beto’s tapes were comprised of songs he loved, the traditional Latin salsa and merengue music he listened to all his life. But it was a challenge to improvise a whole class on the spot using nontraditional aerobics music.

Beto rose to the challenge and

THE ZUMBA FITNESS PROGRAM blends dance with exercise to create a party atmosphere. Classes are currently taught at the Tueller School of Dance in Logan and are free for first-timers. photo courtesy of Zumba Fitness, LLC

from this last-minute improvisation a revolutionary new concept in fitness was born – the Zumba Fitness-Party. The class soon became the most popular class at his fitness facility.�

Zumba fitness has become an international craze and has started incorporating different music and moves, VanTassell said.

The moves can also come in handy in other places. “Pam went on a cruise last week, and she said that when they went to clubs, they did Zumba moves there,�

VanTassell said. “It is fun and no one should feel self-conscious about it. You just go and shake it,� VanTassell added. “You are so concerned at getting the moves you don’t look at anyone else and they don’t look at you.�

Students interested in taking Zumba classes can contact VanTassell at 208-431-5587 or Pam Waldron at 881-0293 or email partyzumbastyle@gmail. com. – storee.powell@aggiemail.usu. edu

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SpecialFeatures

BY LAREMY LEGEL/FILM.COM

Two categories remain up for grabs as the 82nd Annual Academy Awards Ceremony barrels towards telecast March 7 (8 p.m. ET, ABC). The biggie? Best Picture. “The Hurt Locker� and “Avatar� eye each other warily, though an “Inglourious Basterds� victory isn’t mathematically impossible. Best Actress offers a modicum of suspense too; it’s the classic battle of “She’s never been this good!� (Sandra Bullock) paring off against “She’s always soooo good!� (Meryl Streep). The other four major categories? They’re probably a done deal, with the Oscars presentation acting as a mere formality.

PICTURE The epic battle for Oscar’s soul will come down to “Avatar� vs. “The Hurt Locker.� Is The Academy set to stand up for the plucky underdog? If so, “The Hurt Locker� will become the lowest grossing Best Picture winner ever, and by a large margin: “Crash� topped $50 million in domestic receipts, while “The Hurt Locker� has earned a full four times less. Rewarding a film that, essentially, no one has seen will send a strong message to the masses: The Academy doesn’t need your input.

The other direction the voting could go is right into the arms of James Cameron’s “Avatar,� which will have cleared more than $2.5 billion at the box office when the curtain comes up on Oscar night. It is the people’s champion, though certain members of The Academy must be reluctant to reward a film so reliant on technology. “Avatar� has one historical trend working against it too: it would be the first Best Picture winner to garner no actor or writing nominations since 1932 (“Grand Hotel�). The coattails of “Avatar� are long, but evidently they don’t have any room for the people who actually appeared on the screen.

WILL WIN: “The Hurt Locker�

SHOULD WIN: “Avatar�

DIRECTOR

Before the Oscars are handed out, the evening is all about the golden girls of the red carpet. In anticipation of this fashionable portion of the program, we’re handing out style awards: The Fashion Oscars, if you will. The envelope, please?

BEST USE OF COLOR: GABOUREY SIDIBE

More often than not, this best actress nominee embraces rich, dynamic colors on the red carpet. During awards season, Sidibe has strutted in royal blue, emerald green, red, pink, purple and orange. Not many people can pull that off — or even have the courage to try.

BEST LITTLE BLACK DRESS: PENELOPE CRUZ

An LBD is always a safe bet. But Cruz has a knack for finding black frocks that punch up the classic

It’s taken 82 years, but The Academy will finally hand over a Best Director Academy Award to a female director. James Cameron’s already won a director statue, while Jason Reitman, Lee Daniels and Quentin Tarantino will all be back. Remember, The Academy loves to reward pedigree, and Kathryn Bigelow has paid her dues. Combine that with the fact that “The Hurt Locker� is

look. Her short L’Wren Scott dress at the SAG awards boasted sparkling embellishments and beaded strands at the shoulders, while her elegant Giorgio Armani Prive mermaid gown from the Golden Globes was rich with texture, including lace trim and horizontal stripes.

BEST SHOES: CAREY MULLIGAN

A girl after our own hearts! While Mulligan’s gowns sometimes do a disservice to her adorable figure, the best actress nominee has some of the best footwear we’ve seen — like the Gianvito Rossi ankle strap sandal (left) that she wore at the 2010 Directors Guild of America Awards.

From patent shoe booties to sequin-trimmed sandals to heels with floral embellishments, Mulligan’s got a pair of shoes for every occasion.

a taut actioner and you’ve got a recipe for which The Academy can pat itself on the back.

WILL WIN: Kathryn Bigelow, “The Hurt Locker�

SHOULD WIN: Kathryn Bigelow, “The Hurt Locker�

indication she’ll be up for an Academy Award again in the near future.

WILL WIN: Sandra Bullock, “The Blind Side�

SHOULD WIN: Meryl Streep, “Julie & Julia�

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Jeff Bridges

ACTOR This will be Jeff Bridges’ fifth shot at Academy gold — his first came back in 1972 for “The Last Picture Show.� The difference between his previous four nominations and this one? This is the one he wins, as his portrayal of “Bad�

Blake, a washed-up country crooner, has found support from fans and critics alike. Plus, who doesn’t like Jeff Bridges? You can look forward to a wry speech from him come Oscar night.

WILL WIN: Jeff Bridges, “Crazy Heart�

SHOULD WIN: Jeff Bridges, “Crazy Heart�

ACTRESS The Academy’s dilemma here is a profound one. Do you give the little golden man to the gal who did something completely out of her range, and who probably won’t be back? Or do you finally reward Meryl Streep with her third Oscar, as it’s been almost 30 years since she’s triumphed? Chances are Bullock will get the votes she needs to win under the auspice of crowning Streep next year. Or the year after, as the 16 nominations she’s earned give a pretty good

BEST COVER-UP: MERYL STREEP

At 60, the best actress nominee isn’t trying to keep up with young Hollywood on the red carpet. Her age-appropriate looks usually involve long sleeves, but she still manages to look glam by incorporating prints, shiny fabrics, interesting belted waistlines or slightly off-theshoulder tops. Besides being a huge talent, she’s got class for miles.

BEST HAIR: SANDRA BULLOCK

No matter what Bullock is wearing, her hair is often her best and most

By Academy standards, German actor Christoph Waltz pulled off a rare feat. He put up a winning performance in August and was then forced to sweat out “Oscar season.� Luckily for him, it came off flawlessly. No one else mounted a serious challenge; Waltz will have a chance to shine in four languages when he takes the podium.

WILL WIN: Christoph Waltz, “Inglourious Basterds�

SHOULD WIN: Christoph Waltz, “Inglourious Basterds�

Mo’Nique

SUPPORTING ACTRESS “Precious� had a significant amount of buzz in November, only to see it all washed away by “Avatar� at the box office and “The Hurt Locker� on the critical and professional awards circuit.

Still, Mo’Nique will come out on top come March 7, providing a lift for a film that desperately needs marketing for the DVD push.

WILL WIN: Mo’Nique, “Precious�

SHOULD WIN: Mo’Nique, “Precious�

diverse accessory, giving her a fresh look with each appearance. From a wavy chignon (Golden Globes) to an up ‘do with mild volume (SAG) to down and straight (Santa Barbara International Film Festival), Bullock’s tresses are always on point.

BOOBY PRIZE: MARIAH CAREY

The voluptuous singer-turned-actor always manages to find something that’s at least one size too small for her (and usually two sizes too small on top). Though she famously de-glammed her look for her supporting role in “Precious,� it remains to be seen whether Mimi shows restraint on Oscar’s red carpet. — Maisy Fernandez, film.com

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FridaySports

Utah State University • Logan, Utah • www.aggietownsquare.com

EVERYONE WANTS BILL

By CATHERINE MEIDELL assistant news editor

Chick flicks make him happy, he enjoys the occasional fried lamb testicle, and because of his shirtless appearance at every basketball game, ESPN can’t get enough of him. USU’s second mascot, “Wild” Bill Sproat, is currently all the rage among ESPN commentators, after stealing the camera’s attention from behind Section F’s basketball hoop.

“I’m a really good-looking guy, and I love to show how good looking my body is,” Sproat said as he grinned.

His cupid costume, complete with tutu and fairy wings, was too much to handle for University of Idaho’s center Marvin Jefferson who walked away from the free-throw line empty handed. Sproat’s hypnotizing features, cape, coconut bra, bow tie and buddha belly have served their purpose. Though these things

are not the reason the Aggies have won 13 consecutive home games, Sproat said, at least the crowd is getting a kick out of it. Through his homemade costumes, Sproat is also able to unleash some rivalry of his own.

“I always want to do special things with BYU, and I thought I wanted to give them a treat. I did. I gave them Chip ‘n’ Dale’s,” Sproat said.

Sproat’s most recent ESPN interview was Wednesday morning for ESPN’s First Take and it broadcasted him on its show through Skype.

ESPNU asked Sproat to fly to Charlotte, N.C., for an all expenses paid spring break adventure.

Sproat said he isn’t sure what ESPN wants him to do there, he just knows he is going. He has also been featured by SportsCenter, NBC Sports and local publications. Sproat said he can’t believe he is getting all this attention and that one random impulse to take his shirt off has led to national publicity. After all, he is just a “regular dude,” he said.

“We love Bill, and he deserves everything he is getting right now,” said Brady Jardine, sophomore forward. “He has helped the basketball team out a lot. We are behind him 100 percent, and he is great for our school and program.”

All Spectrum regulars are familiar with Sproat’s heckling and his butt crack, but only a chosen few know who the Hawaiian-ChineseCaucasian basketball fan really is. Sproat was born in Fortuna, Calif., with a twin sister, Aubrey. Since then he has lived in Hawaii, and spent much of his youth in Cache Valley and went on an LDS mission to Oklahoma. He received his first recognition for taking his shirt off in his high school yearbook when he looked similar to the way he does now, but with a lot less hair.

“I definitely grew up different than anyone else around here (in Cache Valley),” Sproat said.

“My grandma would cook fish, and we’d eat the heads. My family has always eaten a lot of spam but it’s not received very well here.”

Sproat’s multicultural background has divided his lifestyle into cooking musubi, a dish made from spam, rice and seaweed; eating; playing the ukulele and kicking back with his friends. His weight is no doubt due to his mother’s and grandmother’s cooking that has had him salivating since he was young. He said his relaxed way of living can be blamed on his Hawaiian blood.

“I’m super chill. I don’t like to wear clothes, and I don’t even smoke weed,” he said while laying back on a couch, wearing a gray tank top.

On game days, Sproat’s family in Hawaii enjoys getting together to watch USU games, but mostly to see Sproat’s outlandish outfit in the bullseye of the camera lens. Sproat said his uncle never wants to know what his costume is going to be before the game. He always wants it to be a surprise. Bottom line, his family thinks

- See WILD, page 11

Women’s hoops loses fifth straight

By STEVE CLARK staff writer

The Broncos extended the Aggies’ losing streak to five games as they came into the Spectrum and defeated Utah State 57-47 Wednesday night.

The Aggies fought desperately to end their streak at four straight losses, and they would have succeeded had it not been for Boise State’s Janie Bos and her doubledouble performance with 16 points and 16 rebounds. Bos led all scorers and her teammate Tasha Harris came in second with 15. Amber White was the only Aggie to finish in double-digits, with 10.

“We just didn’t get our flow on offense,” White said. “We didn’t

shoot too well from the 3-point line, and we didn’t ever get into our rhythm and that’s something we need to take advantage of when we’re at home.”

USU only shot 32 percent from the field compared to BSU’s 42 percent.

The Aggies’ game plan, according to head coach Raegan Pebley, was to turn the Broncos over, get aggressive, pressure them, make their guards have to handle and give them “a little more heat than they saw from us in the first round.” Trapping on-ball screens and picking up on defense early were their approaches to limiting the wing entries to the post.

“Offensively, we really wanted to go at them inside and we did a good

job of that,” Pebley said. “We made their defense collapse and that’s what opens up so much perimeter shots. There are so many perimeter shots where we’re open, and those are uncontested shots, and we did not knock them down.”

The offensive and defensive rebounding by BSU helped keep the Aggies at bay most of the game. The Broncos beat USU on the boards 44-30. Pebley said they had a lot of chances to convert BSU mistakes into points.

“We didn’t rebound well,” Pebley said. “You’re never going to play a perfect game, but you have to make plays. We had a lot of good open shots.”

The way the entire second half of the game went for the Aggies could

be summed up in one play. USU guard TaHara Williams was playing defense at the top of the key when she pick pocketed a BSU guard.

She had nothing but daylight and a basket in front of her only to slip on the floor and lose control of the ball.

The first half was a different story contrary to what the final score read. After a slow start, Pebley sent in freshman guard Devyn Christensen to try to bring more energy back to the court.

Christensen helped stop Boise’s 9-0 run it had with eight minutes left in the half. Christensen closed the gap to three with seven minutes to go, with a deep 3-pointer.

“Coming off the bench you just have to be ready to come in and

play your role,” Christensen said.

“My role on this team is the shooter, so I need to step up and hit those shots, and today, fortunately, I was able to do that early on.”

As time winded down to the final seconds of the first half with the score tied, Christensen took a shot at a deep buzzer beater, which bounced off the rim and into the air. With fewer than two seconds remaining, USU forward Nicole Johnson elevated for the ball and tipped it in as time expired to give the Aggies a two-point lead going into halftime.

“We had the lead going into halftime, and we had energy on defense and we hit some shots,” Christensen

- See COLLAPSE, page 12

Aggie handballers compete in World Championships

By LANDON HEMSLEY sports senior writer

The USU handball team hit the road for Phoenix, Ariz., two weeks ago to compete in the World Collegiate Handball Championships.

When the team returned home to Logan, four trophies had been secured by the seven Aggie handballers. Head coach Herm Olsen said the team came home with a men’s division second-place trophy, a second-place trophy in the overall competition and an individual national champion trophy for the women’s B-division earned by Becky Drebin. Also, Krista Allen, defending C-division national champion, claimed the national sportsmanship award in Phoenix.

The tournament was an international

open tournament. Olsen said high-profile schools, such as the University of Florida, Texas A&M and a 45-member team from the island nation of Ireland, came to compete in the World Championship. Several different divisions separate the players by their various skill levels, the highest being the open division. Drebin said the first few matches played determine which division the various players from around the world play.

“Women’s open is the best,” Drebin said. “Then A, then B, then C. It kind of all filters out. I started in ABC and won my first match, so I went to AB, but then I lost my second match. So I ended up in the B division. I won all my matches once I was in B division. The second to last match was challenging, and the last match was played right after. I was pretty exhausted, but it was worth it.”

Drebin said she was happy when she won, even though she wasn’t in the top division.

“I was excited. I was really surpised to be honest,” Drebin said. “I didn’t expect to play in B division, so the fact that I won it, I was shocked. It’s a good experience and it gets me excited for next year.”

Olsen said he was very proud of the players in the club.

“Utah State has two national champions,” Olsen said. “Not bad. And I love Stew Morrill, but he’s still waiting for his first.”

“Handball is the oldest sport in the world,” Olsen said. “They were playing a form of handball in ancient Egypt.

Abraham Lincoln used to play handball – he’s a good handball player too. It is the most challenging aerobic sport in the world. It’s a great workout, it burns calo-

ries and builds wonderful hand-eye coordination.”

As Olsen put it, handball and racquetball have “essentially the same rules” and are played, at least here at USU, on the same court.

“Handball is a little harder than racquetball,” Olsen said. “It requires both hands, left and right, and, boy, you feel awkward when you first try to hit it left handed, if you’re a right-hander and vice versa.”

Some other differences further separate the two sports. Obviously, there are no racquets in handball, but also, the ball used in handball is much smaller and denser than a standard racquetball. In fact, Olsen said racquetball is a relatively new game

- See HANDBALL, page 12

StatesmanSports

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WAC clinched but one more to go its momentum into the WAC tournament. Senior guard Jared Quayle may also be motivated as he will be playing his last regular season home game in an Aggie jersey.

Utah State dropped its first

for New Mexico State. Junior guard Jahmar Young added nine points; however, Young has proved to be a more prolific The Utah State Aggies (24-6, scorer over the course of the 13-2) conclude their regular seaseason, averaging 21 points per son schedule at home Saturday game, which is good for third night against the best in WAC overall.

WAC’s other Aggies with Gibson and • USU leads the nation in 3-point Along from New Mexico Young, New Mexico State.

State has three other shooting percentage Junior forward Tai players averaging Wesley told the media • Green is shooting 44-88 from double-figures, includMonday night that he ing sophomore forand the team was satis- beyond the arc ward Troy Gillenwater, fied with a share of the sophomore center • USU ranks 28th in the ESPN/USA Hamidu Rahman WAC Regular Season Title, and that Utah and junior forward Today Coaches poll State would be playWendell Mckines, who ing for the title against are averaging about 10 New Mexico State (11-4, 19-10) game to New Mexico State, 55points apiece. New Mexico Saturday. Wesley was wrong.

52, on the road. Juniors Nate State’s offense is high-powered, With a little help from the Bendall and Tyler Newbold led averaging just more than 78 University of Nevada Wolf Utah State with 12 points apiece, points per game. However, New Pack, who defeated New Mexico but were the only players in Mexico State allows its oppoState, 100-92, in Reno, Nev., double-figures for Utah State. nents to average just 78 points the Utah State Aggies are the Senior guard Jonathan per game. New Mexico State is 2009-’10 WAC Regular Season Gibson led New Mexico State in 7-6 on the road while Utah State Champions for the third consec- scoring with 19 points apiece, has dropped only on home game utive year. Even so, Utah State and Gibson is second in scorall year for a 16-1 record. will be looking to finish the sea- ing with 18.3 points per game – ty.d.hus@aggiemail.usu.edu son strong with a win and carry

By TYLER HUSKINSON staff writer

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Wild: ESPN’s favorite Aggie -continued from page 10 he is a hoot. He takes his body for me.� family’s opinion about his selfForward Matt Formisano proclaimed shenanigans serisaid seeing Bill while trying to ously, especially the opinion of focus on the court is an interhis mother. Last year, Sproat esting situation. He cannot told his mother he planned help but smile and laugh when on wearing a Speedo to one he sees him. The Spectrum of the basketball games, and would not be the same if he she rejected the idea, saying, wasn’t there to add his comithere was no need for that. He cal element, he said. said he would stop wearing In truth, Sproat loathes constumes at the basketball basketball, but not Aggie basgames if he ever offended his ketball. Aggie basketball is in mother. an entirely different playing “My mom is a sweetheart. field, he said. Sproat has made She is just a good woman,� a commitment to himself to Sproat said. “She always learn the game of basketball texts me saying, ‘Just be you so he knows what to say when because he belthat’s just lows snide “I always want to what I love’ remarks at do special things and ‘I love the opposwith BYU, and I you.’ She ing team. thought I wanted always He said he renews is learning to give them a me.� basketball treat. I did. I gave Some lingo and them Chip ‘n’ of Sproat’s recently closest added Dale’s� friends are – Bill Sproat “crashthe Aggie ing the basketball boards� to players he dresses up for every the list. game day. Forward Tai Wesley Saturday will be the last said he can’t help but smile home game of the season, and when he’s on the court during Sproat has yet another cosa game and sees Sproat in all tume up his sleeve to dazzle his shirtless glory. Wesley said the crowd and hopefully Sproat’s new title as “Wild� distract the New Mexico State Bill is boosting the basketball free-throw shooters. Sproat team’s notoriety, and though isn’t upset that his dress-up Wesley doesn’t credit the days are coming to a close team’s success to Sproat, the though, because like he said, national recognition he brings there is always next year, and to USU doesn’t hurt. He said the year after that.

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Friday, March 5, 2010

Softball heads to Fort Collins

BY USU ATHLETICS

Utah State softball (5-3, 0-0 WAC) returns to action after a week off traveling to Fort Collins, Colo., for the Colorado State Classic.

The Aggies look to halt a two-game losing streak. USU will take on five games in three days, including host Colorado State.

This is the first meeting between North Dakota State and Utah State. NDSU is 8-5 this season after ending the Gaucho Classic with a record 3-0 last weekend. Melissa Chmielewski leads the Bison offensively with a .475 batting average with six doubles, four home runs and 19 RBI. Utah Valley and Utah State will be very acquainted by the end of the season. Apart from the Colorado State Classic, the teams will meet in a pair of doubleheaders one in Orem and one in Logan. The Wolverines are 3-5 after finishing 1-3 against Cal State Bakersfield last week. USU holds a 10-6 series lead over UVU. The Aggies are 0-1 all-time against South Dakota State with the Jackrabbits defeating the Aggies in 2008. SDSU is 4-9 this season after concluding the Tulsa Invitational with a 1-2 record. Ashley Durazo leads the team at the plate with a .325 average this season.

Utah State holds an all-time record of 27-17 over the host Rams. CSU is an even 7-7 this season. The Rams have recorded a .319 batting average as a team with runners in scoring position this season.

Carissa Millsap-Kalaba is the eighth Aggie softball head coach and became the fifth USU head coach to win their opening game at the helm of the Aggies with a 7-5 win against Maine on Feb. 12. USU is now 5-3 in head coach openers. Kalaba joined John Horan in 1976, Lloydene Searle in 1980, Pam McCreesh in 1998 and Candi Letts in 2007 for winning their first game for USU. Utah State softball showed no fear in upsetting the reigning NCAA Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s College World Series champions and current No. 1 Washington, 7-4, Friday morning in the opening game of the Campbell-Cartier Classic in San Diego.

Freshman Kali Cancelosiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s three RBI led the Aggies to their biggest upset since defeating No. 2 Texas A&M in College Station in 1987.

In that battle, USU shut out Texas A&M, 1-0.

Senior Kate Greenough was in the circle for the Aggies Friday, improving to 2-1 with the win, while freshman Shelbi Tyteca earned her second save of the year. With the win, USU improves to 5-1 this season, the Aggiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; best start since 1990.

The last time the Aggies had even faced a No. 1 team was 1998 when USU fell to No. 1 Arizona, 19-2. Utah State also fell to No. 1 Arizona, 8-0, in 1997. The last time that Utah State defeated a ranked team was a 2-0 win over No. 15 Oregon State in Corvallis in 2008.

USU has four batters who are hitting over .300 led by junior Joreigh Landers who is hitting .391 with nine hits and nine RBI in her first eight games as an Aggie. Senior Rachel Evans is hitting .381, while freshman Mandy Harmon is hitting .333. Red shirt sophomore Kelley Kansehiro is hitting .308 with two home runs this young season.

The 2010 season marks the 35th year of softball at Utah State. The Aggies enter the season with a 782-875-3 (.472) overall record.

USU has one college World Series appearance (1984, tied for seventh) and four NCAA tournament appearances (1984, 1989, 1992, 1993). Utah State won the 1980 and 1981 AIAW National Championships. This is USUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fifth year in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC).

USUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s April 2 home-opener is the latest home-opener since 2007â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s April 3 opener. It is the 25th time in the 35 years of Utah State softball that the Aggiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; first home game is in the month of April.

The Aggies have the latest home-opener in the WAC. USU also has the latest home-opener in the state of Utah, later than Weber State (making the programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s return debut April 1 vs.

Nevada), Utah (March 30 vs. Southern Utah), BYU (March 31 vs. Utah State), Utah Valley (March 13 vs. College of Idaho), Southern Utah (March 12 vs. South Dakota State) and Dixie State (Feb. 20 vs. Southern Utah).

Handball: Collegiate World Championships that has developed since he was in college.

He said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the olden days when I went to school, there was no racquetball.

There was just handball back in the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;60s. And then people got soft and lazy

and forgot what their subordinate arm was used for.â&#x20AC;?

Of course, Olsen took advantage of plenty of opportunities to make some harmless jokes about the racquetball team. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just kind of tease them because racquetball is a softer, easier game,â&#x20AC;? he CLARK PEST CONTROL said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like the Marines NOW HIRING â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the few, the tough, the FOR OUTSIDE strong. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a friendly little SALES POSITIONS IN: rivalry.â&#x20AC;?

Involvement in the USU *BAKERSFIELD, CA Handball Club is achieved *LANCASTER, CA mainly through an aca*VISALIA, CA demic course, PE 1120. The *FRESNO, CA course is a one-credit class *SANTA CLARITA, CA that takes place Mondays and Wednesdays at 2:30 SUMMER JOBS MAY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; AUGUST p.m. After class, the students can stick around and continue to play handball CONTACT TEAM LEADER with a group of players PARKER FOLKMAN from the community. The 208-221-7578 students affectionately refer PARKERFOLKMAN@GMAIL.COM to the non-student players as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the old guysâ&#x20AC;? as the average age of community players is between 60 and 75 years. Olsen said â&#x20AC;&#x153;the old guys,â&#x20AC;? however, are anything but pushovers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These guys in here are a

combined total of 140 years old and will beat 20-yearold kids,â&#x20AC;? he said of a pair of elderly players. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The 75year-olds beat the 22-yearolds because they know the game. Speed is great, quick feet, power â&#x20AC;&#x201C; if it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come together, then these old guys just thrash them.â&#x20AC;?

Allen said thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of room left on the team. She said six men and six women are allowed to compete in handball competition, but currently USUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team only has five men and two women on the court.

Olsen said the benefits of playing are many. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You discover a lot about your body and the skill levels you didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know you didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have until you come and play,â&#x20AC;? Olsen said.

Beyond the World Championships, the Handball Club has recently competed against BYU and the University of Utah, defeating both. This weekend, the club will travel to Pocatello, Idaho, to face the Bengals of Idaho State. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; la.hem@aggiemail.usu.edu

JUNIOR HAYLEY SWENSON returns a shot Thursday during her singles match. Swenson defeated Montana Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s No. 1 player, 6-2, 6-4. CODY GOCHNOUR photo

Tennis wins third straight

By KAYLA CLARK staff writer

Utah State womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tennis beat Montana State, 5-2, Thursday at home. This is the third win in a row for the Ags, bringing their season record to 5-3.

Utah State overcame MSU in singles action, taking home wins at the No. 1, 2, 4 and 6 positions.

Junior Hayley Swenson, at the No. 1 spot, defeated MSUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Laure Villegas, 6-2, 6-4. Swenson now leads the team with her 6-1 singles record this season, complemented by a 12-2 record altogether. Freshman Jaclyn West brought in a win at the No. 2 position, beating Ali Griffin 6-4, 6-3. Freshman Kristina Voytsekhovich, however, was overcome by her opponent Charlotta Hjalmarrson at the No. 3 spot,

losing 7-5, 6-2. Sophomore Monica Abella defeated MSUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jennifer Coll, 6-2, 6-3, for the No. 4 point, and junior Taylor Perry battled it out through three sets with Andrea De La Torre for a final score of 1-6, 6-3, 12-10. Brittany Watts brought home the No. 6 win, beating Lucy Fairbotham of MSU, 6-1, 6-1.

MSU stole the doubles point, with USU losses at the No. 2 and 3 positions. The Swenson-West team defeated Montanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Villegas Hjalmarsson, 8-3, at the No. 1 position. At No. 2, Abella and Voytsekhovich fell to Griffin and Coll, 8-4. No. 3 De La Torre and Fairbotham of Montana triumphed over USUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Perry and Watts, with a final score of 8-6.

Utah State will face off against Idaho State Saturday at the Sports Academy and hopes to prolong its winning streak. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; kayla.clark@aggiemail.usu.edu

Collapse: Ags give up 1st-half lead -continued from page 10 said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Down the stretch we just didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make the plays.â&#x20AC;?

After the game, White explained the falling apart of the Aggies between the two halves. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think sometimes we get a little complacent, especially with the lead,â&#x20AC;? White said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have to come out with the same energy we had in the first half and take care of things on the defensive and offensive side.

We need to make sure weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re consistent with doing that in the first and second half.â&#x20AC;?

After starting conference 2-0, the Aggies have fallen to 4-11 since then. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really frustrating, especially when we know that we have what it takes to win these games out here and to do better than weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing,â&#x20AC;? White said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The answer is to keep going and to keep pushing, so thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking to do.â&#x20AC;?

Utah State hosts the University of Hawaii Saturday, March 6, in its last game of the season prior to going into the WAC tournament. A win would be â&#x20AC;&#x153;big,â&#x20AC;? according to Christensen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It would bring momentum and confidence and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something that we need,â&#x20AC;?

Christensen said.

White said her team needs more â&#x20AC;&#x153;consistencyâ&#x20AC;? if they want to beat Hawaii. â&#x20AC;&#x153;(We need a) full 40 minutes of defense and a full 40 minutes of offense,â&#x20AC;? White said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once we get our flow, we need to go with it, and we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let it go, especially coming into the second half we have to come out with the same energy, same momentum.â&#x20AC;?

Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game is also Senior Night, in which each senior on the team will be honored. This year, Williams, Lydia Whitehead and Johnson are the seniors to be recognized. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d love see them to go out on bang,â&#x20AC;?

Pebely said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just want to see them continue to do what we preach in our program: always grow as a person and always represent this university with a lot of character. We talk a lot about embracing every moment because it goes by fast. Just like a game goes by fast, one possession is gone like that, so does each year. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d love to see them be able to go out on a high note here in the Spectrum, lead their team, build some momentum and do it with a lot of character.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; steve.clark@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Friday

March 5 Today is Friday, March 5, 2010. Today’s issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Kevin Foulger, senior in horticulture, from North Ogden, Utah.

Almanac Today in History: In 1944, Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, the head of Murder, Inc., is executed at Sing Sing Prison in New York. Lepke was the leader of the country’s largest crime syndicate throughout the 1930s and was making nearly $50 million a year from his various enterprises. Reportedly, he was able to order final hits on his betrayers from jail before his execution.

Weather Saturday’s Weather High: 44° Low: 29° Mostly cloudy

Friday, March 5, 2010

-Recyclemania, all day.

-Softball at North Dakota State, 9 a.m.

-Founders Day Celebration, TSC Ballroom, 6 p.m.

-Women’s gymnastics at Boise State, 7 p.m.

-Love’s Labour’s Lost, Morgan Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday

March 6 -Track, Last Chance Meet, all day.

-Softball vs. South Dakota State, 9 a.m.

-Men’s tennis vs. College of Idaho, 10 a.m.

-Saturdays at the Museum, Museum of Anthropology, 10 a.m.

-Women’s tennis vs. College of Idaho, 2 p.m.

-Women’s basketball vs. Hawaii, 3 p.m.

-Men’s basketball vs. New Mexico State, 7 p.m.

-Love’s Labour’s Lost, Morgan Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

Monday

March 8 -Recyclemania, all day.

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Brain Waves • B. Streeter

Every “Body” Rocks by the USU Counseling and Psychology Services will be held March 8 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the TSC International Lounge to celebrate each body’s uniqueness.

Religion in Life devotional will be held March 5 at 11:30 a.m. in the Institute Cultural Center. The speaker will be Daniel W. Bachman who serves as a counselor in the Logan Temple Presidency.

Employee Fitness Club begins “Writing Women Back into March 23 at 5:15 p.m. in HPER History.” Come and enjoy 109. Kind of like “Boot Camp” the Amelia Earhart biograbut lots more fun. Email caroline. phy on March 10 in the TSC shugart@usu.edu for details.

Auditorium from noon - 2 FNA Food Drive and ‘90s p.m. Light refreshments will dance will be held March 5 at 8 be provided. Sponsored by the p.m. at the Institute. Come enjoy Women’s Resource Center, 797- a night of fun and dancing as we 1728. venture back to the ‘90s. Bring a can of food to be donated to the Community Abuse Prevention The USU Ecology Center semiServices Agency. nar series presents Dr. Julian Students are invited to listen Olden from the School of to Rea Hederman of the Heritage Aquatic & Fishery Sciences at Foundation and eat pizza March University of Washington on 10 at 7 p.m. in Old Main 225.

March 10 at 6 p.m. in ENGR Steven Halliday CD release 101 and in NR 105 at 3 p.m. on concert will be March 23 in the March 11.

TSC Auditorium. Doors open at 6:30 p.m to promote his new album “Beginner’s Luck.”

Register your team now for USU Extension in Cache intramural indoor soccer, 4Country will present an emeron-4 volleyball and dodgeball gency preparedness class on now. Registration deadline is 5 organizing financial information p.m. on March 10 at the HPER on March 11 at 11 a.m. Pre-made Service Desk. Space is limited. packets are available for $12. Cost Call 797-1504 for more info. for workshop is $2. Reserve your spot at 752-6263.

Stokes Nature Center invites Spring break at the Sports all ages to join us for a famAcademy. Employees and stuily showshoe event at 10:30 a.m. dents: Enjoy 10 days of fun at on March 6. Children must be the Sports Academy from March accompanied by an adult. Fee is 12-21. Individual pass is $10, $4, which includes shoe rental. For family pass is $20. Talk to Wes more info call 435-755-3239. in membership for details.

Come study abroad in the beautiful city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, this summer. Info can Indoor triathlon will be held be found at http://www.usu.

March 6 at 10 a.m. Register by edu/studyabroad. The dealing for 9:45 a.m. at HPER Service Desk. applications has been extended.

300-yard swim in HPER pool, Los Rasquet is headling at 2-mile bike on spinning bikes, Why Sound on March 5. Show 1-mile run on Fieldhouse track. starts at 8 p.m. with two opening Call 435-797-1504 for more info. bands, cost is just $5. Stop by and get a taste of Spanish rock.

Amelia Earhart

Ecology speaker

Moderately Confused • Stahler

Intramurals

Spring fitness

Indoor triathlon

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