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Bowling coach dies at age 53

By CATHERINE MEIDELL news editor

Craig Lofthouse, USU bowling instructor and bowling club coach, passed away Wednesday between five and 6 p.m. due to surgical complications, said Brian Olsen, USU bowling club president. Lofthouse was 53 years old.

Lofthouse was employed with USU for eight years and had been a dedicated bowling coach to youth and college-age students in Cache Valley for 17 years.

The precise cause of Lofthouse’s sudden death is unknown, but Olsen said his daughter, Casey Rowley, believes something went wrong during an operation to fix damage done after he was thrown from a horse. He fell off the horse Oct. 22, which caused his pelvis to break. Lofthouse also suffered injuries from being trampled by the horse.

He was quickly transported to Logan Regional Hospital where he was immediately Life Flighted to McKayDee Hospital Center in Ogden, Utah.

After doctors performed surgery to mend his broken pelvis, Olsen said.

Doctors are looking into whether or not Lofthouse’s death may have been linked to his history of high blood pressure. Olsen said his family members were concerned his blood pressure would heighten during recovery.

Lofthouse is survived by his wife of 31 years, Belynne Lofthouse, and his daughters, Casey Rowley and Maddie Lofthouse.

A viewing will be held Sunday, Nov. 7 from 6-8 p.m. at the Allen-Hall Mortuary located at 34 E. Center St. Graveside services are scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 8 in the Paradise, Utah cemetery located at 8998 S. 200 E. – catherine.meidell@aggiemail.usu.edu

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A NEW IPOD APP FOR ASUSU will be released Jan. 1, 2011. ASUSU is funding the new app which is expected to cost $21,000. ARMEN HOVSEPYAN photo illustration

ASUSU iPod app in the works

By JESSICA SWEAT staff writer

Utah State University is officially on its way to owning its own unique iPod application.

Public Relations Executive Director John Devilbiss said this process started last year when an employee brought the idea to staff members and students.

Together the group started began to seek out feedback, and received interest from various departments across campus including University Advancement, ASUSU, and Admissions.

Before ASUSU passed a bill requesting $6,000 for application funding, an online survey was distributed to students.The survey inquired about Droid and iPhone usage along with likelihood for downloading the application. It also states that USU is already in the developmental process of creating an application that will facilitate “getting information such as the academic calender, events calender, and sports calender easily onto such smart phones as well as abilities such as being

able to reserve library rooms and etc.”

Devilbiss held a meeting Nov. 4 with those involved in creating the application. During that meeting, the first phase of the design was revealed and contributors were able to see the potential for the final design.

So far icons have been designed and assembled for nine features included in the application. The features included are access to USU Today, campus maps that include bus routes and parking information, athletics, the USU directory, Youtube or “A” tube, Banner, events and academic calenders, weather and a place for donations.

Currently, there is a plan for four phases to take place before the design is complete. Now that the first phase for the application with iPhone compatibility is complete, developers plan to add enhancements and work out glitches and tweaks before sending it to the Apple company to undergo their processes. Following

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Garrels: International correspondents a dying breed Senior Foreign Correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR) Anne Garrels visited Utah State this week to speak about her experiences in covering war as a journalist and share some poignant memories.

Thursday, Garrels spoke at the Performance Hall in the fourth installment of the university’s Morris Media and Society Lecture Series, sponsored by the journalism department.

Garrels has received many awards and high honors for her news coverage of both wars in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan and several other places such as Kosovo and Bosnia, said Utah Public Radio interim director Nora Zambrino, who introduced Garrels.

“Garrels has put a human face on conflict, combining experience in the field with a sharp understanding of the policy debates in Washington,” Zambrino said.

Taking the stage, Garrels said she was part of a dying breed of journalists, comparing herself to a Neanderthal. Her lament was in reference to the “uncertain future” of journalism, specifically the work of foreign correspondents.

“I merely report about the life and death of Americans, I write about the uncertain fate of billions of dollars of your tax money, I report about the

world beyond our borders,” Garrels said.

New technology and its influence on the evolution of mass media, has good and bad sides to it, she said. It was a lot easier for police states to control or censor journalists before cellphones and iPods.

Now, foreign correspondents are more capable of getting information to the public. She said learning new technology is important for aspiring journalists but it is not everything.

“What doesn’t change is the imperative that you ask good questions, that you have something to say and you say it well,” Garrels said.

“We do have standards, clear standards, which we try to uphold,” she said. “I fear that the revolt against the media is that many in America, now, don’t like questions and information that make them uncomfortable,” There is a current trend in the media, she said, of information being repeated and used by several people for their own purposes. To uphold journalistic integrity, information found on the Internet must be checked.

“Americans are, more and more, seeking outlets that are opinion masquerading as facts,” she said, “outlets that confirm already held biases and beliefs.”

Cutbacks in foreign reporting result from a lack of funding for Internet media sites and the decline

Inside This Issue

11/05/10

By DAN SMITH staff writer

Brian Green returns to give USU’s defense 3point threat.

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ANNE GARRELS, NPR CORRESPONDENT visited USU and spoke about her assignments overseas as a journalists covering a variety of wars. She spoke in the Performance Hall on Thursday. CARL R. WILSON photo

of the mainstream media. Garrels said she was lucky to be with NPR for the past 25 years, where there are adequate tools to do her job.

Embedding, or “hanging out” with the military in places like Baghdad during wartime, is how foreign correspondents gather information. Garrels said she was able to get information to Americans that the military would have otherwise withheld if she would not have been there.

“We need as many experienced witnesses around the globe as pos-

sible, and I use the word experience advisedly,” she said. “I know I’m a much better reporter than when I started … only by being on the ground, can you truly report on events.”

Garrels said she stayed in Iraq for six years because simply making phone calls could not have substituted for actually being on the ground, reporting.

She said some of her best stories came from talking to people and not knowing where the conversations

B.J. Novak perform comedy routine at USU on Friday.

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would end up.

One night, she said, she was embedded with some soldiers and had the opportunity to record them talking about their lives, where they were from and what they were afraid of. The next day, two of the soldiers were killed.

I had all of this tape and I was in communication with the families,” Garrels said. “I sent them all this tape of the last night with their sons … I couldn’t possibly give them back their sons, but I gave them their last moments.”

After Garrels gave her lecture, the audience was invited to ask questions. One audience member asked if any of her reporting was edited or censored. She said there were certain things she was forbidden from doing, but no information was held back.

Another audience member said Garrels would make a great commentator and asked what subject she would address if she was.

She said, “Well, I’m not a commentator, I’m not a witty, snappy shouter, I would never make it on Fox News.” Garrel’s response was met with laughter and applause from the audience.

Thank you for your interest. I intend to come back and haunt you somehow,” Garrels said. “This is a very, very special place and I really mean it.”

– dan.whitney.smith@aggiemail.usu.

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Briefs Sutton speaks on protecting oceans Campus & Community

New USU website launched Friday Utah State University’s website will start transitioning to an updated look and feel beginning Nov. 6.

The new website is a positive reflection of USU and its high-quality offerings, said John DeVilbiss, executive director of Public Relations and Marketing. The new design and improved navigational features are the culmination of nearly a year of behind-the-scenes work, under the direction of University Webmaster Ben Renard-Wiart, in the office of public relations.

The look and feel and navigation of the USU website was last updated about four years ago.

The project was initiated following university-wide discussions regarding the strengths and weaknesses of the current site. Feedback and support came from IT web developers and designers, students groups and web managers.

The new USU.edu website focuses on the following goals: –To bring the site into conformity with the most recent recommendations of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), adjust the pages to the more common screen sizes in use today (1024px is a minimum resolution in most cases), and comply with web standards and accessibility standards.

– To “refresh” the current look and feel with a cleaner and more aerated design.

– To improve navigation and information provided to prospective students and faculty. A series of “information portals” have been created to meet this goal. These portals should help better represent the opportunities and unique characteristics offered by Utah State University, its academic excellence and the quality of its campus life.

– To enhance the brand identity brought by the previous template and design. The template has been simplified but retains more layout options available to web managers.

The new template will be deployed to all central administration websites to ensure consistency across the first levels of the university website.

– To better integrate dynamic content and multimedia such as photo galleries, videos, social media, university calendar and news within the first levels of the website.

The homepage now features a section dedicated to prospective students where they can discover the university, its academic excellence and campus life.

The release is planned for Saturday, Nov. 6. Renard-Wiart said it is not unusual if some links do not function during this process.

Anyone experiencing linkage issues with their website after the Nov. 6 launch should contact RenardWiart.

New award established A new award has been established to celebrate the ways individuals pursue and represent a healthy lifestyle. The award the Inspire Me Wellness Award is coordinated by the Utah State University Wellness Program.

Each month, one employee (faculty or staff member) and one student will be selected from the Inspire Me nominations.

“We invite you to nominate an employee or student who models a healthy lifestyle, has made significant changes in health behaviors, motivates others to make health improvements or has implemented a policy to help create a positive wellness culture at Utah State University,” said Caroline Shugart, USU employee wellness coordinator.

Individuals receiving the monthly honor receive a desktop acrylic Inspire Me Wellness award and a free Be Well T-shirt from the USU Wellness program.

Nomination forms are available on the Wellness website.

The inaugural award, presented in October, went to Jason Allen.

-Compiled from staff and media reports

By CATHERINE MEIDELL news editor

USU alumnus Michael Sutton is in the fight to create equal areas of marine and land preservations because scientists say if nothing is done, wild-caught sea food will no longer be what’s for dinner.

“If this continues the catch of the day will be jellyfish, and I’m not sure I look forward to that day,” Sutton said. “We are fishing in a way that is destructive.”

Sutton, vice president of California’s Monterey Bay Aquarium, said the large nets commercial fishers now use are catching more than what they intend to. Because of this, one-third of global fish catch is being discarded. In Sutton’s speech, “Protecting Our Oceans: Establishing Marine Reserves in California,” he conveyed the importance of conserving the ocean in congruence to the land because it composes 70 percent of the earth MICHAEL SUTTON SPOKE ON WEDNESDAY in the TSC Ballroom about the importance of conserving the and 90 percent of the biosphere. ocean. He spoke as a part of Sustainability Week and Natural Resources Week. BENJAMIN WOOD photo As a complement to Sustainability Week and Natural commercial fishing can be resolved. if we want to fish for the future,” the U.S. thus far. In addition to Prop Resources Week, Nat Frazer, dean After researching, he and the other Sutton said.

84, the Marine Life Protection Act, of the College of Natural Resources, members of his group found that There are a list of things that Marine Life Management Act and said he had the perfect excuse to New England is one of the most must happen in order to establish California Ocean Protection Act invite Sutton to USU so students overly fished areas, which prompted marine conservation areas, includwere passed through the House and could see what they are studying put them to create solutions. ing the attainment of a robust legal Senate. to work. He said it is Allred said he knew mandate as well as high-level politiDue to these laws, marine presequally important Sutton’s presentation cal support.

There must be scientific ervation activists, like Sutton, have students learn about “If you were an would be helpful to his evidence to back up the reason for been able to begin working on saving marine conservation alien and came research for the project. investing public and private funding many of the 250,000 noted marine as well as land conSutton said he into the preservation projects. Also, animals, and maintain ocean water to earth by servation. to have a statethe preservation plans must contain purity. Sutton said scientists predict “For a landspace ship, you hopes wide network of marine an elaborate public process as well only 15 percent of ocean species have locked state like wouldn’t call it preservations across the as conservation enforcement, Sutton been discovered and referred to the Utah, it doesn’t hurt planet Earth, country and bring presaid. ocean as “the great unknown.” to educate people served ocean areas from “If you take one of these out, the It is essential that the ocean you’d call it on the state of 1 percent to 20 percent. whole thing falls apart,” he said. receives more attention in the future, ocean conservation, planet ocean.”

Currently, California “Each of these is a key ingredient.” which makes sense, Sutton said, because we aren’t constitutes the largest California state laws were passed because most of planet Earth is comtoo familiar with it,” Michael Sutton, U.S. marine reserve net- during George W. Bush’s and Bill posed of water.

Frazer said. work.

All the preserved Clinton’s terms in office.

Proposition “If you were an alien and came to USU alumnus In the human areas are organized into 84 was passed during the Bush earth by space ship, you wouldn’t call dimensions and regions because the administration and gave $90 million it planet earth, you’d call it planet national resource California coast is too far a distance to support ocean protection, which ocean,” he said. management class, Ryan Allred is to manage as a state. is the largest marine conservation working on a project to propose “We have to protect the habitat bond that has been distributed in – catherine.meidell@aggiemail.usu.edu how conflicts in New England’s

200 student ideas are reviewed for new USU business program

By ROB JEPSON staff writer

The Huntsman School of Business recently launched a new program designed to help students develop their sprouting business ideas.

The New Venture Development Group (NVDG) is led by entrepreneurship major Luke Lancaster under the direction of David Clark, the director of entrepreneurs in the school of business.

“We have two objectives,” Lancaster said. “First, to create an educational opportunity for students.

That’s our main objective. Second, to create economic development.”

Lancaster said the NVDG can help start businesses by working with entrepreneurs in the community and providing them resources. The group can provide funding, business consultation and potential licensing opportunities in conjunction with the USU Technology Commercialization Office (TSO).

“Utah is the number one place for entrepreneurship,” Lancaster said.

“Because of that, we need to provide entrepreneurs with resources they need to be successful.”

When the project was first launched, Clark, Lancaster, and associate director of entrepreneurial programs Mike Young interviewed about 40 students from across campus to serve as the group’s leaders.

Twenty students were selected for these roles based on their interest, past entrepreneurial experience and academic accomplishment. Students were selected from a variety of majors, including electrical engineering and biology.

Clark said originally they had intended to select 15 students, but the quality and the enthusiasm of the students was so high that they expanded

THE HUNTSMAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS launched the New Venture Development Group. It is led by entrepreneurship major Luke Lancaster. BRECK BYINGTON photo

the group to 20. As of now, 16 of those 20 are receiving scholarships for their work, and Clark said he hopes the number of scholarships will grow.

Clair Adams, a biology and public health dual-major, was one of the students selected. She said she was initially interested in the group because she had ideas for the health industry and wanted to be able to talk to someone about them.

“The NVDG is a great opportunity to talk to your peers about business ideas because everyone has a slightly different perspective on the world and gathering those perspectives strengthens an idea,” Adams said.

Adams said that the group is looking for more people to submit ideas to them for development. So far, they have about 200 ideas, which they intend to review and then select the best ones. While most of the ideas have come from members of the group, she said that many have come

from outside the group as well. The NVDG wants students to submit their ideas for review, Adams said.

Once an idea is submitted, Lancaster said, all 20 group members and the faculty involved sign confidentiality agreements stating that they can’t claim ownership of an idea or talk about it outside of the group. That way the idea still belongs to the student who submitted it, he said. “The idea is still theirs,” he said.

“Including the rights to it.”

Clark said that the goal of the group is to create.

He said: “The goal is to think of new possibilities and to identify opportunities for new, impactful, sustainable businesses. That’s one of the reasons we wanted a diverse group.

We wanted to bring perspectives from different backgrounds so that our thinking expands. We’re hoping to identify exciting new business opportunities with the possibility of having

those business grow and become significant contributors to the economy of our state and beyond.“ Clark said the NVDG is first step in a larger development program. He said they plan to create a four-step process which will help students take their business ideas all the way from the idea stage to setting up offices and running businesses.

Clark said the NVDG is for coming up with ideas, discussing them, and getting them ready for presentation. The next step in the process is the New Venture Consulting Group (NVCG) which was started last year and is currently led by president Travis Godderidge. Clark said the NVCG is for reviewing plans and getting them ready to present to potential investors. The next step, Clark said, is creating what will be called the New Venture Investment Group (NVIG) which will help students make decisions about funding. The final step, Clark said, is a business incubator program which will help students rent discounted office spaces and get their businesses going.

Clark said he wants the four-step program to be a way for students to get real, hands-on experience in the business world and gain a great education along the way.

“You can create an educational experience in the classroom, but we want to take that a giant step further,” he said.

“Our goal is not to say that everyone should start their own business,” Clark said. “Our goal is that students will have an understanding of what it takes to run a business, and be able to add to any business situation.”

Business ideas can be submitted to Clair Adams at claire.adams@aggiemail.usu.edu – robmjepson@gmail.com

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Zombies lay siege on USU campus iPhone: New app will

cost a total of $21,000 -continued from page 1

THE “ZOMBIE VS. HUMANS” GAME STARTED MONDAY and will end Friday night with the last mission.

Humans won the Thursday night mission so they will have an extra life for their last attempt to kill all zombies. The remaining humans will have to survive the day before they can play in the mission Friday night. Over 800 students have participated and information on the national game can be found at humansvszombies.org. STERLING BOIN photo

New dean appointed

By ROB JEPSON staff writer

The USU Uintah Basin Campus will soon instate a new dean and executive director. The position will be filled by USU alumnus Boyd F. Edwards who most recently served as a professor of physics at West Virginia University where he won multiple teaching honors including the endowed Russell and Ruth Bolton WVU professorship.

Edwards, a native to Utah, said he is humbled and motivated by the trust he has been shown through the extension of this opportunity.

“My vision for the USU Uintah Basin Regional Campus is to improve lives through education and hands-on research and internship experiences,” Edwards said. “Such experiences enrich the educational process and better prepare students for the workplace.”

Edwards said education and research are the keys to unlocking vast untapped energy resources in the Uintah Basin and will help the economy to grow.

Edwards, who earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at USU and his Ph.D in applied physics from Stanford, will be replacing interim dean Steve Hawkes, who has been filling in since the campus’s former dean, Wes Holly, resigned.

Robert Behunin, USU vice president for commercialization and regional development, said that the search committee responsible for finding and hiring the new dean wanted to find someone who could connect with the community and who understood USU’s land grant mission, but who also had experience with USU’s energy research platform. He said Packer’s experience in physics gave him the right research background, and his professorship made him well suited to mentor faculty and students.

“Edwards has high intellect and low ego,” Behunin said. “He knows when to be a leader and when to follow. The Uintah Basin is in a building and growth phase, and Boyd wants to help the community build a legacy of educational and economic sustainability.”

Hawkes, who also served in the search committee, said a num ber of people applied for the position and were interviewed, but Edwards was chosen because of his work in Utah growth and development as well as his enthusiastic and personable character.

He also said it was important that the candidate be able to work closely with the community to develop a vision for the future of the campus.

Edwards said, “My wife, Nadine, and I are impressed by the vision of the community for education and by the dedication of the Uintah Basin Regional Campus faculty and staff.”

Hawkes said the position of executive director and dean includes more than a typical dean’s position. He said that as well has having to manage campus, curriculum and faculty issues, Edwards would be expected to manage budget, development and advancement issues.

“I am eager to develop infrastructure that will allow students to have similar experiences in the Basin,” Edwards said. “My wife, Nadine, and I are delighted about this special opportunity and can’t wait to get started.”

Edwards will be instated dean and executive director of the Uintah Basin campus Nov. 15 – robmjepson@gmail.com

acceptance from Apple, the codes Devilbiss said it is an added bonus for the Droid system will be written. that this process has been kept “inIf all goes as house” because it has planned, the utilized local faculty “Personally, I don’t group plans members and employed to release the think it’s absolutely graduate students. necessary, but I am application Kevin Reeve Jan. 1, 2011. marketing and comsure a lot of people The applica- will use it.” munication coordination will be for Instructional Tia Blain tor free of cost Technology gave statisUSU Student tics from the Educause to download, but will not Center for Applied be free of cost to develop. Devilbiss Research annual study of undersaid the total cost of the application graduate students and information will be $21,000 if all four stages are technology. The 2009 study of 30,616 required. He said that so far about students found 33.1 percent own, and $6,000 has been used. Funding is said use the Internet from, a handheld to come from various organizations device. In 2010, 30,950 students were on campus. University Advancement, surveyed, and the percentage jumped Admissions, and ASUSU have already to 48.8 percent. contributed. The features will all ASUSU public relations vice be draggable so users can arrange president Lacey Nagao said in her them in their order of preference, like presentation of the bill for funding the icons on the home screen of the the application that there had been iPhone. a 35 percent increase in device usage Kim Larson marketing and memacross USU’s campus. bership director for the alumni center “If I had the right iPod I would use said one great thing about the applica- the app,” said sophomore Tia Blain. tion is that it will be completely cusAccording to developers, the applitomized with the USU feel and look. cation will add convenience and proUniversity Webmaster Ben Renard- vide more access to information for Wiart said while many other schools students. They also said it will show have similar applications, they use that USU can keep up with technoltemplates and just “slap” their school ogy and is in the running with other colors onto their application. Renard- schools.

Wiart also said because the school “Personally, I don’t think it’s absois developing their own application, lutely necessary, but I am sure a lot of they will own the codes to it. people will use it,” Blain said.

“This will not look like every other application,” Renard-Wiart said.

– jessie.a.sweat@aggiemail.usu.edu

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No more summer love

“It was a blast,” Carias said, “I loved the costume contest, and dancing the waltz. Everyone was dancing and having a good time.”

Carias said he thought the only downside to the night was the limited amount of space, but Fanjul said there will be plenty of room this year since the club rented out a larger venue. She said this will allow more tickets to be sold so more students will have the opportunity to attend. She said the club is selling a total of 175 tickets and each ticket is good for one couple to have dinner, lessons, dancing and a free dance photograph.

“We’re expecting this to be a very formal event,” Fanjul said, “Everyone will be in masks, although not everyone has to be. We do have some people coming in costumes, and that’s what why we’ve got the costume contest for.”

It’s one of those nights you dread. You know Staff how it goes. The tension “Big Time” Guy XXXX between both of us has Climbing been building for weeks.

We are still spending time together, but it’s not like it used to be. It’s getting harder and harder to put my whole self into it, knowing that one day soon, it will be time to part ways.

I try not to think about it. I try to go on like everything is normal and things are as they have always been, but it starts to feel like the whole mess is strapped to a time bomb. I seem to feel the clock slowly winding down, ticking off the seconds until it will all go up in smoke.

I have my moments of delusion. I almost convince myself that it will work if I keep trying, that even the tilt of the earth’s axis can’t keep us apart. Memories of all the happy afternoons spent together this summer flash through my mind. I remember days when I woke up before the sun, so excited to spend the day together that it didn’t even seem early. I think about all the nights I lay in bed with thoughts of us racing through my mind and a smile on my face. I want to believe that we will always be together, that nothing will change. Still, it’s getting harder and harder to convince myself of this.

Then one cold morning, I wake up and know that it has to end. I almost tear up. The pit in my stomach serves as a brutal reminder that this is real and not some horrible dream.

Our time together has come and now, is nearly gone. I know what I have to do. I have to end it.

We go up the canyon to go climbing and to bike a trail with a few friends. Only I know that it is our last. My mind and heart aren’t in it. A compulsive thought seems to bounce off the walls of my mind. “It’s over” is all it says.

But how do I break the news? As I turn this thought over, my resolve almost slips. But then, a sign from the heavens arrives. With a gust of wind, large snowflakes begin to fall.

The storm quickly begins to worsen and we rush to the car.

I know what this means.

Not a word is spoken during the drive home. The storm is getting worse outside, and a new one is brewing inside me.

We make it home and go inside. I know that it’s time.

“Can I talk to you about something?” I say. I take their silence as a yes. Gathering them into an embrace, I slowly spit out the words, feeling the bitter taste of each one. “We can’t be together anymore. Winter is coming, and it would just be too hard on you. This is for the good of both of us.”

My climbing rope and the handlebars of my mountain bike that I am hugging don’t say anything. I know that they are hurt, though. I am feeling the same pain. “Maybe we can take the occasional trip down south together, but we can’t see each other every day like we used to. You aren’t made

- See DANCE, page 7

- See OUTDOORS, page 6

Dusty’s

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STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN the Masquerade Ball last year. The event will feature dinner, dance lessons, as well as contests and awards. JESSICA BLACK photo

Unmasking the dance Dance United hosts annual Masquerade Ball

By JESSICA BLACK staff writer

USU’s Dance United club will be hosting the second annual Masquerade Ball this Friday at the Bullen Center, 43 South Main, from 6:30-11:30 p.m. Dinner will be catered by the Bluebird restaurant, followed by waltz and ballroom dance lessons and social dancing, as well as contests and awards throughout the night.

This is the club’s general fundraiser and plans on more than 200 people attending said event coordinator, Brandie Fanjul. She said seating and food is limited, therefore they will be selling tickets left over from this week’s sales at the door the night of the event.

Manuel Carias, a junior in engineering, attended the Masquerade Ball last year and performed with the ballroom team and taught lessons.

‘Office’ writer to perform in Kent Concert Hall

By STOREE POWELL senior features writer

Good entertainment doesn’t come cheap, and good entertainment for students is the goal of USU’s student program planners.

BJ Novak, an actor, screenwriter and producer for the hit TV show “The Office” is coming to USU Nov. 6 to perform a comedy routine at the Kent Concert Hall, located in the Chase Fine Arts Center at USU. Tom Atwood, programming vice president, said: “We heard good things from other universities who’ve had him. One of our goals this year has been to increase the quality of talent coming to campus, with names that will bring recognition to the university, and get students excited.”

The cost to bring Novak to campus is $51,500, Atwood said. Atwood said this amount was reached after some negotiations.

“We wanted to make the event free for students, but because of where the budget sits we need to recoup some of the money, so that is why we are selling tickets,” Atwood said.

After ticket sales, Atwood is projecting about $10,000 will be taken out of the total budget for arts and lecture events. This budget comes from the student activity fee that is paid with tuition.

Atwood said sales trends are showing an even spread between the general public and students, and around $15,000 has been generated in revenue so far. Currently, about 1,300 tickets have been sold, leaving 700 more seats open.

“It is a last-minute-buyer market, or so it seems to be the case with all of the events, like the HOWL,” he said.

Last-minute buyers actually help create more revenue because there are other fees attached to buying the tickets the day of the event, Atwood said. Day-of prices for the general public is $25 and $20 for students. Atwood said the hope is to generate as close to $40,000 as possible, so the arts and lectures budget will be left with over half the original budget to plan the rest of the year, Atwood said.

The arts and lectures program director, appointed

by Atwood, is Skyler Parkhurst.

Parkhurst said his budget for the year 2010-11 is $75,000. If the total budget is not spent, he said it does not roll over to the next year, but goes into a general USU fund used for campus maintenance, etc.

“We have to spend it or lose it.

Last year we lost a total of $60,000. It is just not fair to students

to not use it all,” Parkhurst said.

Linda Zimmerman, the interim director for student involvement, said the programming budget is split into arts and lecture, traditions and activities.

She also said the Kent Concert Hall, the location of the event, is giving a deal on using the facility.

James Morales, vice president of student services, said while these decisions are made by the student leaders like Atwood, Morales’ office does the final approval.

Morales said he felt even if the event did not generate the $40,000 that it is worth it.

“We want people to see that USU is on the radar, not just off in northern Utah, but that we attract some top-name people. It is not inexpensive to bring somebody like this, but the impact of what he brings in terms of

visibility and exposure for students of someone at the level makes it worth the money,” Morales said.

Morales said one reason for bringing Novak is that when students are considering where to go to college, and they know that BJ Novak came to USU, “that creates an association, a positive image of USU in the minds of the prospective students.”

“That is something you just can’t put a price tag on,” Morales said.

Atwood said the idea to bring Novak came about collectively because “The Office” is a hit on college campuses, and season seven is launching this fall. The decision was made in April.

“We are trying to hit more than one bird with one stone. He’s not just a comedian, but he is an actor, writer, and producer. We felt that since he is heavily involved in the entertainment industry, there is also an educational factor,” Atwood said.

Morales said, “We don’t know how this will go, if will he engage the students with a discussion that is audience led, or if he will bring a canned presentation. We’ve left that to him because it is creative license. I hope he shares with the students all of his experience.”

Atwood said Novak will be answering some questions after the presentation.

Tickets are available at the Caine College of the Arts Box Office, located in Room 139-B in the Chase Fine Arts Center through Friday to students, who must show a valid USU ID. The general public can buy tickets online at www.arts.usu.edu.

– storee.powell@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Starkiller strikes back Movie about life, not love with ‘Star Wars’ game The original “Star Wars: decapitations that certainly The Force Unleashed” is add realism to the weapon.

“Force one of the best Star Wars The game does suffer in Unleashed II” games around. With solid this category from some Grade: B mechanics and a storyline tedious and annoying that rivals that of the films, boss fights that are either you can imagine the hype extremely easy or frustrattrain I was riding coming ing. Considering the qualinto “Force Unleashed II.” ity of the boss fights in the I am sorry to say, howgame, the game really NathanChristensen first ever, that the game fails to takes a step back in this live up to the promise and department. There is also potential of its predecesa complete lack of enemy sor. variety and it would have been nice to get a The strength of every great piece of Star new challenge throughout the levels.

Wars fiction is the story. From “Empire Strikes The other aspect in which the game Back” to “Knights of the Old Republic,” excels is in cinematic presentation. The strong narratives have defined the best game is absolutely gorgeous and is easily parts of the universe. It is in this category one of the best looking games of this conthat “Force Unleashed II” unleashes its big- sole generation. The amount of detail that gest disappointment. The story is extremely goes into the characters and environments weak to virtually nonexistent. is amazing and reaches a level few games The game begins with your character have yet achieved. Lightsabers leave perStarkiller, who was killed at the end of the manent scorch marks as they slice through first game and now apparently a clone, enemies and environments, and you will in captivity in a cloning facility on planet find yourself constantly amazed by the Camino. He is haunted by memories of his amount of action on screen. Every now dead, non-clone self and decides to escape and then some minor screen tearing would and look for answers. It is not a very strong occur or I got snagged on a random piece of premise to build the story around and it geometry. It was never anything that broke never really finds solid footing. It is also the game and does not deter from the fun at incredibly short, taking me only about six any point. hours my first time through, and was far The score is also exactly what you would from the force driving me to keep play- expect from something “Star Wars.” It is ing. There is a decent challenge mode that nearly perfect, bringing the best of John attempts to add replay value to the experi- Williams’ classic themes as well as some ence but I feel like it will be a one-and-done great new pieces. Sound design is also great, for most gamers. I expected much more with some very good voice acting perforin the story department and really have to mances as well as excellent sound effects express my disappointment. and hilarious AI banter during combat.

Fortunately, “Force Unleashed II” does Overall “Star Wars: The Force Unleashed excel in other departments, making the II” is a fun, yet flawed experience. Strong game an enjoyable romp. Its greatest accom- game play and visuals are dangerously close plishment comes from the game play. From to being overshadowed by a short, uneventstart to finish combat is an absolute plea- ful story that really doesn’t feel like it should sure. Animations are insanely smooth and have been told at all. I really wanted to love keep up with the relatively deep and varied this game and I ended up disappointed, combat system. New powers include the but still enjoyed my time with it. This game Jedi Mind Trick, which always ends with the is worth a play-through for fans of action enemy hilariously betraying his allies or com- games with excellent game play as well as mitting suicide in a ridiculous manner. Melee all fans of the galaxy far, far away. combat also receives an upgrade with dual lightsaber wielding and absolutely awesome – nathan.c@aggiemail.usu.edu

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From the very beginning I was completely intrigued by “It’s Kind of a Funny Story.”

Honestly, you can’t go wrong with Zach Galifianakis and Lauren Graham, but the story wasn’t about them.

It was about a 16-year-old boy, Craig (Keir Gilchrist), who suffers from the many stresses of the average teenage life.

After being depressed and having thoughts of suicide, “Cool Craig” admits himself to the adult psychiatric ward in hopes for a quick fix. While the teenage ward is under renovations, all the other teens are with the adults, too.

That is where Craig meets Noelle (Emma Roberts).

Noelle, with problems of her own, has been there for a couple of weeks. Craig is to stay at least five days. It seems like a short time, but within that week, his life takes a turn for the better.

Boy meets girl, the rest is history right? Wrong. It’s not a love story, it’s a life story; a story about fresh starts and new beginnings. I know you are all thinking, “He’s 16, the prime ‘fun’ age, what does he have to worry about?” I remember when I was 16.

High school is stressful. Can you blame him?

He discovers that he enjoys the arts and would much rather pursue that than worry about the prestigious business high school he currently attends. His dad disagrees.

In the midst of finding himself, Cool Craig unintentionally helps influence the lives of other patients. From his bed-ridden-by-choice roommate to a lost and confused father to Noelle, Craig never fails to have an impact.

Keir Gilchrist was introduced to me in this movie. I have never seen him before

Zach Glifianakis and Keir Gilchrist star in “It’s Kind of a Funny Story.”

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but I liked him. For a notso-experienced actor he did a great job portraying the chaotic mess of a brain inside an adolescent head. It was a little exaggerated, but aren’t all high school students overdramatic? From nervous vomiting to the terrifying first conversation with a member of the opposite sex, you got yourself one heck of a story.

Emma Roberts, who I would say is most famous for just being Julia Robert’s niece, proved herself. She, like her aunt, can act. She played a sort of mysterious character with spunk.

The on-screen chemistry between Noelle and Cool Craig was quite delightful.

Playing “the question game” and drawing each other pictures, teen innocence is discovered. But like I said, it isn’t a love story.

Craig becomes a sort

of idol within the hospital.

A performance of “Under Pressure” is one of the reasons everybody becomes a fan.

Through the eye opening speech delivered by Zach Galifianakis’ character, Bobby, Craig has an epiphany. Bobby says if he were Craig he would “just live.”

Craig realizes that there is something bigger than the next application to a summer school program. His friends in turn see that, too.

The use of animation further enhanced the depiction of this boy’s complicated mind. He draws what he calls “mind maps.” These socalled maps are a creative way to describe a person, like the one on the cover of the book on which the movie is based.

Props to Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck for taking Ned Vizzini’s novel and creating a superb screenplay. I haven’t heard of Vizzini’s novel, “It’s Kind of a Funny Story,” but because I liked the movie so much and books are usually better than their films, I feel compelled to read it.

Either way, I am completely pleased with this film.

– anike.pullens@aggiemail. usu.edu

Several classics for the masses Mark Twain once said, cover who the Scarlet “The Scarlet Pimpernel is, capture “A classic is something Pimpernel” him, and murder him. that everybody wants to have read Grade: A+ Lady Marguerite is and nobody wants to another main character, read.” risen through the French Classics are so named ranks to become one of because they have stood the most admired and the test of time. When witty women in France.

I walk into a book store Kellyn Neumann Marguerite is intelligent, and look at the new and has used her talreleases, I am wary that ents to involve herself in many books – while attractive from the many different aspects of politics, includcover and the description on the back ing an acquaintance with Chauvelin. (yes, I judge books by their covers, get In the setting of the book, she has over it) – may not prove to be well writ- married Sir Percy Blakeney, an extremeten or interesting. ly wealthy but witless Englishman. Just In contrast, I know that not only are after their marriage, Blakeney discovers classics fitting for my poor, married, col- a mistake his new bride made in her lege student budget, but they will never past, a mistake for which she will always fail to live up to the standards to which I feel remorse. It seems that Blakeney will am accustomed in my reading. never forgive her, and their formerly I will be reviewing classics that not blissful relationship transforms into an only expand the mind, but are also fea- emotionless marriage. sible for college students to read and Chauvelin uses his acquaintance with enjoy, as I know some classics may be a Marguerite to blackmail her to try to disbit thick to get through. cover who the Scarlet Pimpernel is. But “The Scarlet Pimpernel,” by Baroness the Scarlet Pimpernel is much too clever Orczy, fulfills the common theme of to be discovered by anyone. He never books better than the movie. Considering fails to rescue French royals though, and that the movie tells you information right devises ingenious plans to help them from the beginning that is saved in the escape, a few at a time. book until later as an important twist, it is What I love most about this book is easy to see the merit of text over visual. the tension Orczy creates with secrecy As a fan of historical fiction, I love and deception. Towards the end of the how this novel does not just tell a story, book, the plot heats up even more and I but teaches about the history of that time was literally on the edge of my seat. This period as well. is one of those books with which I had The book is set in the year 1792, after to read the second half in one sitting, for the French citizens have taken over the there is no “good place” to stop. government and are massacring royals I say “good place” because I want to by way of the ruthless guillotine. The explain that I don’t think true literature infamous Scarlet Pimpernel is an English ever has what many of us call good citizen risking his life to rescue many of stopping places. Writing should always the innocent royals in France. encourage us to keep reading, and if it Admired by the British populace and doesn’t, than that writing has failed. despised by the French, the true Scarlet Orczy captured me from the very Pimpernel is known only to those mem- beginning. She uses language that bers of the rescuing team. Chauvelin, moves every sentence forward, rather the French antagonist, vows he will dis- than becoming stagnant. Any female

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can admire Lady Marguerite for her wit and strong nature, while any male can respect the Scarlet Pimpernel for his courage and cleverness.

This novel captures one point of view of the French Revolution beautifully. I felt the emotion of the royals being murdered, of Marguerite’s conflict with Chauvelin, and most of all, the sadness of the Blakeney marriage.

For those who would like to say they have read a classic, “The Scarlet Pimpernel” is a perfect place to start. The 271 pages of beautiful writing and a successful plot put this book in my top five favorite classics.

If all of your homework is done – and in my case, even if it is not – turn off that TV and go read something lasting. Not only will it help expand the mind (unlike “Spongebob,” which does exactly the opposite), but I guarantee you it will make you appear smarter to those potential employers, in-laws, dates, or even all three.

– kellyn.neumann@aggiemail.usu.edu

Outdoors: The winter begins in Cache Valley -continued from page 4 for it. I am trying to protect you.”

I try to reassure them that one day things will be like they were, someday in the spring. Still, they only sit there, silent and immobile. Knowing that lingering will only make it worse, I gather up the rest of the climbing gear, and push it far back in the closet. It hurts to shut the door. I take my bike to the farthest corner of the garage and cover it with a sheet so I don’t have to look at it.

I then sit on my bed to think. I feel numb and directionless.

The wind starts to blow harder and I stand up and look out

the window. As it starts to stack up, I realize that climbing and biking season won’t be back for a while. It’s starting to look like a long winter.

Just then, I catch a look at pair of skis stacked up in the corner. I could have sworn they winked at me. Looking back out at the snow I think, “Maybe moving on won’t be so bad.”

– dustin.nash@aggiemail.usu.edu

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How to add a little Thanksgiving to your home Sunflower and nut bouquet Description: This decoration is a great centerpiece for the dinner table or a nice accent on any fireplace mantle or coffee table.

Materials: clear glass vase or jar, variety of unshelled nuts such as walnuts and pecans, about a dozen artificial or real sun flowers in a variety of shades, wire-cutter tool, scissors, fall-colored ribbon with wire edging.

Difficulty: Easy Time: 15-30 minutes Step 1: Make sure the jar or vase is clean, and tie approximately 1.5’ of the wire-edged ribbon around the top of the jar, just under the lip, in a bow-like fashion. Make sure to straighten out the ribbon after handling it during tying.

Step 2: Next, fill the container nearly to the top with the unshelled nuts.

Step 3: If necessary, cut down the stems of the flowers using the wire cutters so they sit at the desired height when placed in the jar.

Step 4: Arrange the flowers in the jar by pushing them into the unshelled nuts, which will serve as a flowerfoam of sorts. Arrange them so there are not holes in the arrangement and so the flowers are at varying heights throughout the jar (i.e. don’t put all the short ones together and the tall ones together).

Leafs n’ Things Wreath

Gourd place cards

Description: The first thing Thanksgiving dinner guests see is the front door, so give it some vim by hanging a wreath covered in the warm-colored leaves of fall.

Description: Sometimes grandpa shouldn’t sit next to Uncle Buck, and little sister shouldn’t sit next to big brother. Keep a peaceful Thanksgiving dinner table by using place cards to strategically place guests while adding color and fall’s bounty to the table.

Materials: 9” wicker wreath, artificial fall leaves, artificial bouquet of sunflowers with green leaves and berries, wire cutters, hot glue gun, 18-22 gauge craft wire, scissors, and wire-edged ribbon.

Difficulty: hard

Materials: variety of small gourds in the number of guests expected, toothpicks, scotch tape, fall colored/themed craft paper, glue stick, craft scissors, metallic markers or gel pens.

Time: 2-3 hours

Difficulty: easy

Step 1: Using the wire cutters, take the flowers, leaves and berries off the stems.

Time: 30 minutes to 1 hour

Step 2: Organize the flowers, green leaves and berries on the wreath to determine the preferred arrangement, and then fasten them with the hot glue. The flowers and leaves can be grouped together, spread out in a pattern or just randomly placed.

Step 3: Fill in the rest of the wreath by gluing on the artificial fall leaves, and more is better to create a full effect.

Step 4: Cut approximately 2’ of the ribbon and tie a wreath bow (four or more loops, with long or short tails). Glue the bow on the wreath in the desired position such as on top (good for long tails) or on the bottom (good for short tails).

Also, a tail-less bow can be used to put in the middle of the flower arrangement.

Step 5: Cut about 5” of craft wire and secure it to the wreath by tying each end to a piece of wicker in the back of the wreath to make a loop for hanging.

Step 1: Cut out (however many guests as the number) 1.5” by 2.5” pieces from the paper.

Step 2: Using the metallic markers/gel pens, write one name per card for every guest attending. Add borders or designs to the edges of the cards.

Step 3: To give the cards more depth, glue them onto a slightly bigger piece of paper. If desired, use scalloped scissors to decorate the edges.

Step 4: Tape a toothpick to the back of the card, and stick it into a gourd so the gourd will ‘sit upright’ with the place card.

Step 5: Place the gourds on the table where you’d like guests to sit, and let them take it home as a Thanksgiving day souvenir.

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A COUPLE POSES at the first annual Masquerade Ball. This year, the second annual ball will be held at the Bullen Center Friday, Nov. 5. JESSICA BLACK photo

Dance: A night undercover -continued from page 4 Fanjul said the Masquerade Ball will have raffle prizes as well. She said the club is trying to create an event where everyone, whether they know how to dance or not, can come have a good time and go away thinking about what a magical night they had.

Loraine Joyce Berner, a senior in music therapy and the president of the Dance United club, said, “What we want is the Masquerade Ball to not only be the highlight of the semester, but the entire year.”

Berner said the club and the council members have put a lot of thought into the decorations, food, venue, location and lessons so they can create an event that will feel like a fairy tale.

“We’re hoping this sparks a bit of romance and creates a night where magic can happen,” said Eva Kammeyer, a junior in elementary education and Fanjul’s assistant in coordinating the event. “Everyone has their dances, the balls, their events – this is ours.”

Berner said the event will not just let experienced dancers have a good time, but will open up to all the students on campus and create an atmosphere where people could come to learn to ballroom dance, socialize and have a “magical” night at the same time. Berner said Dance United wants students to come to gain friendships and relationships, and create a community of friends that shared the common leisure of dancing together.

“How often do students get to dress up and just have fun?”

Berner said, “We really want to have a night people can walk away from feeling fabulous, just let the magic happen.”

– jessica.black@aggiemail.usu.edu

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‘Inspirational’ Green provides offensive spark

By MEGAN ALLEN staff writer

Each time Brian Green sinks a 3-point shot, he slaps his elbows. For most of his debut season at Utah State, no one in the crowd knew what he was doing. At the end of the Western Athletic Conference tournament in Reno, Nev., someone finally asked him what it meant.

“I’m just loading the guns,” he said.

Green, a 6-foot-1-inch guard, is starting his second season at Utah State. He grew up in Kaysville, Utah, playing basketball, as well as baseball and football. After playing at and graduating from Davis High School, he went on to play at Salt Lake Community College (SLCC).

In his two years at SLCC, Green averaged 14 points a game, shooting 44.2 percent from 3-point range. His freshman year, he was named to the National Junior College Athletic Association all-tournament team. That same year, he received the Bud Obee Award, which is given to the best small guard in the national tournament.

His sophomore year, he helped lead the Bruins to a 32-4 record and an appearance in the championship game of the NCJAA tournament.

As he got close to finishing at SLCC, Green said he had a lot of options when it came to deciding where to go next to continue his education along with his basketball career.

He said he had offers from schools across the Big Sky and Big West conferences, as well as from Colorado State and the University of San Diego. In the end, however, he decided USU was the best fit for him.

“It’s all a good fit,” he said. “The way we run our offense, the coaches, the Spectrum and the fans make this a great place to be.”

Green said he knew USU would be a place that would help him achieve his goals.

“My whole life I wanted to play in the NCAA tournament,” he said. “I knew Utah State would give me a good chance of doing that.”

Green’s impact on the USU basketball program has stretched across a very wide range, said Aggie assistant coach Tim Duryea.

“Brian’s always one to dive for a ball, but

BRIAN GREEN spent two years at Salt Lake City Community College before coming to Utah State.

The 6-foot-1 Kaysville, Utah native was an integral part of USU’s success last season, and led the WAC in three point shooting percentage. His 50 percent from beyond the arc set a new USU single season record. TODD JONES photo

then he’ll celebrate more for a shot made by a teammate than one of his own,” he said. “He is full of infectious qualities.”

Last season, Green led the Western Athletic Conference in 3-point shooting, making 50 percent of the shots he took.

Green showed promise from the beginning

of the season, but it took until spring semester for him to really show what he could do. Once he did, his actions made national waves.

“He had a bit of a slow start,” Duryea said, “but he got his feet wet and became the best shooter in the country. I wouldn’t put it past him to maintain that percentage this year.”

That shooting percentage took Green past the previous school record held by Jaycee Carroll, who shot at 46.5 percent from behind the arc during his career.

“It’s a compliment to be compared to a player like that, and an honor to be able to shoot like him,” Green said. “I wasn’t even trying to break his record, it just happened. I look up to him a lot.”

Duryea said Green’s impact to the team extends past the court.

“Brian’s hard work starts before anyone sees us,” he said. “He’s always helping someone, whether it’s on the court, in the locker room and in things not even related to basketball.

He holds people accountable.”

Sophomore Preston Medlin is Green’s fellow guard on the USU basketball team, as well as his roommate.

“We have tons of fun,” he said. “He’s a great guy to live with.”

Medlin said he enjoys playing basketball with Green.

“He’s fun to watch,” he said. “Just give him his space and he makes the shot.”

Going in to this season, the team is really excited, and with good reason. With Green on board and prepared for another run, the Aggies have high expectations. Still, Green said, the team isn’t getting too far head of itself.

“We just don’t want to have any regrets,” he said. “We have a lot to work on, but we’re just going to take it one game at a time.”

The game all Aggie fans are looking forward to is the game at BYU on Nov. 17, but the team isn’t too focused on that game yet.

“That’s still like three games away,” Green said. “We’re excited and we’ll be ready, but we’ve just got to go game by game.”

The coaches and other players all agree Green is a leader both on and off the court.

“Brian leads by example first, and then verbally,” Duryea said. “Every team needs one of those guys.”

Last year, along with forward Tai Wesley, Green was voted “most inspirational player” by his teammates. To keep himself motivated, Green said he makes sure he stays competitive,

- See GREEN, page 10

Bartlett proves worth in USU pass game half showing against Nevada. Enter Bartlett.

The 6-foot-2, 246-pound junior may have come into the season with only 10 career catches, but his five on Saturday night proved he It’s the kind of game college football players has valuable assets beyond the point of attack.

According to his position coach, T.J. Woods, dream about.

Bartlett’s performance was no fluke, and came The game where, after an offseason filled from an entire career dedicated to doing whatwith grueling practices and a season mainever it takes to improve both his pass catching tained by the grim duty of blocking, a player and blocking. finally graduates to play-maker status. The “I think it’s been about two years in the kind of game where not only his coaches see all his hard work pay off, but a national television making. Kellen’s been working his butt off, and has been steadily improving every week,” audience watches as he rumbles into the end Woods said. “The opportunity knocked, and zone and leads his team in comeback fashion.

Somebody better pinch Utah State tight end he answered the call.

Bartlett has caught 10 passes over the Kellen Bartlett. After Saturday’s five-catch, course of the last three weeks, including his 131-yard performance in the Aggies’ 56-42 first career touchdown against the Wolf Pack. loss to Nevada, the junior from Blue Springs, A vicious blocker who prides himMo. won’t have to imagine what self on making blocks to spring it would feel like to take center stage on an offense where he had “Everyone wants others for scores, even he couldn’t help but comment that the feelpreviously been an afterthought. to have a game of scoring a touchdown is “Everyone wants to have a like that...It was ing unmatched. game like that,” Bartlett said. great to get out “It’s hard to compare the “It’s something you work for, two,” Bartlett said of the differespecially as a tight end. You’re there and be ence between scoring and blocka blocker most of the time, more a receiver and ing for someone else who scores. than a receiver. But it was great “But I definitely love some touchto get out there and be a receiver make some big downs, that’s for sure. There’s and make some big plays for the plays for the nothing better than scoring, and I team. It was a good feeling.” team. It was a can’t wait to get some more touchIf the Nevada defense was good feeling.” downs. caught off guard by Bartlett’s Kellen Bartlett, He may not have to wait sudden emergence in the Aggie passing game, they weren’t alone.

USU tight end long. When the Aggies (2-6, 0-4) host New Mexico State (2-6, 1-3) Prior to the season, Bartlett was on Saturday, Bartlett figures to expected to be mostly a blocker again figure into the USU passing game. Utah for the Aggie offense, which uses multiple sets in offensive coordinator Dave Baldwin’s spread State’s coaches have taken notice of his versatility in recent weeks, and say that his ability scheme. Yet with injuries to receivers Stanley to provide a physical presence as a blocker, Morrison and Matt Austin, the Aggie passing game has struggled throughout portions of the coupled with his soft hands as a receiver, make season, and has recently been working without him an ideal player for the kind of multiplethe services of slot receiver Xavier Martin, who personnel, spread offense Baldwin runs.

“With his versatility you can split him out has also battled injury. and he can run routes or you can bring him in The drop-off was apparent in back-to-back the box and he can bang around a little bit,” losses to Hawaii and Louisiana Tech, in which Woods said. “In a spread offense it’s all about the Aggie passing attack had just 73 and 123 being able to catch the ball and connect the yards, respectively. With production so low, something had to give if Utah State’s offense was going to build any momentum heading - See BARTLETT, page 10 into November, especially after a dismal firstBy ADAM NETTINA sports editor

JUNIOR KELLEN BARTLETT had a career game against Nevada last Saturday, catching five passes for 121 yards, including his first career touchdown. Bartlett has seen increased action for USU in the passing game, filling in for injured slot receivers. ADAM NETTINA photo

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Led by Hansen, Utah State makes move for title

By TAVIN STUCKI staff writer

What do the WAC player of the year, an all-time leading goal scorer, five all-WAC players and a WAC co-championship team have in common? Answer: they are all found on the Utah State soccer team this year.

On Nov. 3, sophomore defender Natalie Norris was awarded the WAC defensive player of the year.

Norris was also awarded WAC defensive player of the week for the first time this season during the week ending Oct. 31. USU head coach Heather Cairns said Norris has a lot to do with how the defense has been performing this season.

“Our defense is solid, we’re limiting teams’ chances. Norris has a lot to do with that,” Cairns said of the sophomore. “She is great in the air.

She is a great one-versus-one defender. She closes down seams incredibly well. She is a big reason that our back line is a strong as they are.”

This season is the first time that Norris has made an all-WAC appearance, and she is joined on the first team by forward Shantel Flanary and midfielder Chandra Salmon.

Earning second-team honors for the Aggies are defender Summer Tillotson and forward Lauren Hansen.

Hansen, who has earned the second-team all-WAC honor for the third season in a row, also became Utah State’s all-time leading goal scorer with a hat trick in the match against Hawaii on Halloween, giving her a career total of 37 goals. “(Hansen) certainly had a weekend breaking all the records,” Cairns said. “That’s really exciting. She’s one of the better forwards in the conference.”

Hansen also tied the school

record for total points in one game, adding an assist to her three goals, giving her a total of seven points in the match.

“It was just a really emotional day, happy tears of course,” Hansen said. “Just having the whole family there, ‘perfect’ is really the word to describe it. It’s something that I’ll remember for the rest of my life. I never thought it would actually happen, that’s for sure.”

USU junior goalkeeper Molli Merrill said she is excited for Hansen to have broken the record.

“I’m also excited for the team because we’re scoring,” Merrill said. “When (Hansen) and Shantel (Flanary) are keeping the ball up top, we’re not getting the ball shoved down our throat. It takes pressure off of us.”

Flanary, a junior, earned her second straight first-team all-WAC award this season. She has scored four goals and four assists in WAC play, and was named the 2010 WAC offensive player of the year before the season started.

“Flanary is so dangerous because not only is she a goal-scoring threat, but also a threat to be a play maker for us to set up the people around her,” Cairns said. “She is a warrior.”

Salmon, also a junior, earned her third-straight first-team appearance, having been awarded the recognition every season she has been on campus.

“We get recognition when the team does well,” Salmon said. “It’s really a team award.”

Tillotson was awarded her first all-WAC appearance of her career.

The 5-foot-8 junior out of Alta High School was a part of the back line that helped shut out opponents nine times this year.

Looking forward to tournament play in Ruston, La., the Aggies have

FORWARD LAREN HANSEN dribbles between defenders in last month’s double overtime tie against Boise State.

Hansen became the Aggies’ all-time leading goal scorer last Sunday when she scored three goals against Hawaii. Utah State will play Fresno State today at the WAC tournament in Ruston, Louisiana. CARL R. WILSON photo

high hopes for a WAC tournament championship. Cairns said every team in the conference is better this season compared to last.

“At this point in the year we have to expect that every opponent will give us their best game,” Cairns said.

“We have to focus on us giving the best game we can. We have to take control of our own destiny.”

Having earned a bye in the first round, Utah State will play Fresno State on Friday, Nov. 5 at 11:30 p.m. local time.

Keeper Molli Merrill said that she is hopeful for a high finish.

“Obviously we hope we can come

out and win. Our expectation is to win,” Merrill said. “Honestly I think it’s just who works the hardest and gets a little bit of luck.”

Hansen said she felt the team’s previous experience playing in the WAC tournament is something the players can use to their advantage.

“I really think this is the year.

Any team any given day can win, and there’s no team that’s ‘out-ofthe-water-can’t-beat-them,’” Hansen said.

Cairns said USU’s defense is going to be important in the tourney.

“Our back line is better than it

was last year. It’s more solid, it’s more reliable, less mistakes, limiting opportunities in the 18-yard box,” Cairns said. “Our shutout numbers have improved, goals against average has improved. It gives you that many more opportunities as well.”

The winner of the match will move on to the championship game, to be played on Sunday at 1 p.m. All tournament games will be streamed online from the WAC.tv website for a fee.

– tavin.stucki@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Aggies rope Broncos with three set win

By TYLER HUSKINSON web editor

Junior outside hitter Liz McArthur pounded 11 kills and senior libero Christine Morrill posted a record-high for kills in three-set match with 24 to lead the Utah State Aggies (18-7, 6-6 WAC) over the Boise State Broncos (1711, 4-8) in a three-set sweep Thursday night (25-18, 25-22, 25-23). The Aggies had already lost to the Broncos on the road this season and knew they would have a fight on their hands.

“That was really big,” senior middle blocker Katie Astle said. “We’re just giving it everything we’ve got.”

The first set went back and forth, and there were five ties and three lead changes. The Broncos had cut the Aggie lead to 17-16 when sophomore outside hitter Fiona Jones committed a service error and the Aggies went on an 8-1 run to notch the first set victory.

McArthur had four kills during the first set and Morrill had 10 assists. The Aggies disrupted the Broncos, holding them to a -.024 hitting percentage in the first set.

“We knew Boise is really scrappy, too so we had to match their play,” Morril said.

“We went there and played them, we got outworked defensively. Being scrappy is a big deal. We knew this was a big game, so I think we were out there just giving it our all,

especially on defense I think that was our main mindset for that game. Every win that we can get right now is a big deal.

We’re playing really well as a team right now.”

The Aggies jumped out to a fast start in set two and led by as much eight points. The Broncos wouldn’t go away quietly, however and cut the Aggie lead to 23-21 late in the set. The Aggies were able to hold their composure and McArthur along with sophomore outside hitter Josselyn White each notched a kill to close out the set. The fact that the Aggies were able to battle through adversity was especially positive for head coach Grayson DuBose.

“I thought we showed a lot of character,” DuBose said.

“I thought we did a really nice job battling back. I was real pleased with how we played and the composure we showed.”

The third set was closer than the Aggies would like.

There were 10 lead changes and four ties in the set and the Aggies weren’t able to pull away till late in the set. Jones put the Broncos up 19-17 with a powerful kill, forcing the Aggies into a timeout. Bronco’s senior middle blocker Alisha Young came up with huge block out of the timeout, but the Aggies went on a 8-3 run to capture the set and the match.

“Typically for us, we let up in third right there towards the end and we battled back and scored,” DuBose said. “We gave

them a little bit of momentum going into that third set and I thought we just stayed steady for a long period of time.”

With the season winding down every win is crucial for the Aggies. Six teams move on to the WAC Tournament in Las Vegas and the Aggies are in fifth place.

“We know that we’re coming to the end of the season and every win is big for us right now,” Astle said.

The Idaho Vandals and the Nevada Wolf Pack are the two teams just ahead of the Aggies in the WAC standings and the Aggies will have a chance to take on both teams at home in the upcoming week. The Aggies dispatched the Vandals in four sets on the road this season, but they know there isn’t a single game they can take for granted and aggressive tough play will be crucial to success.

“We need to be aggressive,” DuBose said. “We need to go hit the ball hard and take risks.

We talk about that every day.

It’s nice to have something to work on at this stage of the season. We can still improve a little.”

Morrill said, “Idaho is a great team and coming here they can be a completely different team. That’s a really big match for us.”

The match against the Vandals is slated for Saturday at 7 p.m. in the Spectrum.

– ty.d.hus@aggiemail.usu.edu

Now that’s the Jazz team I wanna see Wow, what a differagainst the Celtics, who ence one week can have also been very impresmake. In the space of sive, Miami has turned on Eye on just a couple days, the the burners and reeled off the Jazz totally redeem four straight wins, the last themselves from a forof which have been by hardwood three gettable week one.

20+ points. Miami is killing Week one for the teams with their stingy team Jazz went a little like defense, holding their oppothis: Shoot 38.6 pernents to 84 points and only cent and commit 22 34 percent shooting in the turnovers to get creamed by divisionlast three games. rival Denver in their first game. Then Easily the Heat’s most impressive win get outscored 50-16 in bench scoring of the week came last Friday when they to get beat by the not-so-great Phoenix destroyed the Magic by 26, but don’t Suns. Not a very promising start after a jump on the wagon just yet, as their perfect preseason, if you ask me. other three wins came against perennial But like I said, a single week can bottom-dwellers; the Nets, 76ers and Tmake all the difference. Last Sunday, Wolves. something clicked for Utah and they Meanwhile, the Celtics – Rajon destroyed a young, talented Oklahoma Rondo in particular – have been a sight City team 120-99. Williams, Millsap, to behold. Rondo has been absolutely and ‘Big Al’ all had double-doubles for unstoppable as he has racked up 82 the Jazz, Millsap leading the way with assists in his first 5 games, including an 30 points and 16 boards.

NBA record 67 through his first four.

Utah followed up that performance Rondo’s play has propelled the Celtics with a dominating show against the to a 4-1 start, but a loss to lowly Raptors, scoring 41 in the first quarter Cleveland and only a 4-point home win before cruising to a 125-108 win. Deron against the Knicks shows that the other Williams had a monster game with 22 players need to step up, especially with points, 14 assists, and 8 rebounds. a four-game road trip coming up that For many Jazz fans it was a moment includes Oklahoma City, Dallas, and a of “where was that kind of play in the rematch with the Heat. first two games?!” And they’re right, The surprise of the season so far has these Jazz don’t even look like the got to be the Hornets. I mean, c’mon, same players we saw in the first week. who honestly thought that the Hornets The bench is stepping up and Deron is would go 4-0 in their first week and a back to being arguably the best point half? With a rookie coach and disapguard in the league. pointing 2009 (in which they went But hey, wait a minute. This offsea37-45) the Hornets have come into this son was a busy one for Utah as well, season on fire and ready to play. But and they underwent a pretty serious are they for real? Who knows, but we makeover. After all, they lost Carlos should have a better idea tonight as Boozer, Wes Matthews, and Kyle Korver they take on LeBron and the Heat. and added six new guys including Al The only other undefeated teams as of Jefferson, Raja Bell, and rookie Gordon Nov. 3 are the Hawks and the defendHayward. ing champion L.A. Lakers. The Hawks I mean, come on, for all the changes are 5-0, but their schedule so far has they’ve had, the Jazz are playing pretty been laughably easy, with their first real dang good! test coming this weekend as they take Crushing the Raptors doesn’t mean on the Suns and Magic on back-to-back much, but beating the preseason MVP nights. favorite Kevin Durant and the Thunder The Lakers are undefeated also and by 21? That’s impressive at any point are averaging almost 114 points a game in the season, not to mention the third and playing some of the best team ball game. in the league. Kobe is just Kobe; Gasol, The only thing that worries me about in my mind, is the most skilled big man the Jazz so far? Their lack of defense. in the league, and I think the Lakers are Utah’s defense has allowed nearly 107 still the definite favorites to repeat as points per game – way too many for a NBA champs. team looking to challenge in the West.

Buckle up, because this is going to I know those first two losses got all be one wild and fun ride. the Jazz fans a little on edge, but don’t worry, if Utah is playing this good MARK ISRAELSEN is a freshman major– when they still haven’t “figured it all ing in mechanical engineering and a lifeout” – everybody better watch out. long Jazz fan. Comments can be sent to You know who else has been makmark.israelsen@aggiemail.usu.edu. ing headlines? Yep, you guessed it, the Heat. After their opening night dud

Mark Israelsen

SENIOR SHANTELL DURRANT goes up for a spike in Utah States’ three set-win over Boise State on Thursday night. Durrant finished the night with six kills and 9 points, as the Aggies improved their record to 18-7 overall, and 6-6 in the WAC. USU avenged an earlier season loss to Boise State with the win, and will take on Idaho this Saturday at 7 p.m. BRANDON FONDA photo

Bartlett: tight end has huge game -continued from page 8 dots in the passing game, and we were able to do that in the second half last week. Kellen was a big part of that.”

Woods wasn’t the only USU coach singing Bartlett’s praises after Saturday game, and he’s not the only coach looking forward to utilizing the tight end’s talents more as the season comes down to its final four games.

According to Aggie headman Gary Andersen, the play of Bartlett along with running back Kerwynn Williams provided the play-making spark that USU has been looking for all season – although it came a half too late against Nevada.

“To me the biggest difference in the offense in the second half was Kerwynn Williams and Kellen Bartlett, period,” Andersen said. “They made plays when the ball was thrown to them ... They did a tremendous job, and we haven’t had that all year long from our wide receivers.”

Andersen went on to say that having Bartlett line up wide as a wide receiver gives the Aggies an advantage against other teams, because with the tight end’s size, he creates mismatches against

defensive backs.

“Teams have made a living having guys like Kellen out there,” Andersen said. “There are mismatches that take place because you can’t put a corner on him because they will get pushed off and you can’t put a safety on him because that still is a mismatch.”

Not that Bartlett will be outracing defensive backs anytime soon. He laughs when talking about his speed, but says the oft-cited, end-all, be-all attribute for receivers and tight ends is overrated if a player can take advantage of his other physical gifts.

“I’m never going to be as fast as a wide receiver, so one thing as tight ends, you’ve got to be sure you run your routes real well,” Bartlett said. “A good way to counter speed is to be physical with (defensive backs) because they don’t want to get in your dish and hit you.”

Bartlett and his teammates are looking forward to building off the momentum from the Nevada secondhalf this Saturday. While he acknowledges that students at USU might be ready to make the transition to basketball

season, he and the Utah State coaches warn that giving up on the Aggie football team would be a mistake.

“Just don’t give up on us,” Bartlett said. “I promise you guys that we’re going to come out and turn this season around for us. We’re going to play well.”

Bartlett, along with Andersen, said the team is refocused heading into its final four games, and is working to take one game at a time.

They know the team’s oncebright postseason hopes have all but extinguished, but said the Aggie football program has a real opportunity to show it has finally turned a corner just when people think it’s down for the count.

“It’s time for us to really get to that point where we know we’re at,” Bartlett said.

“I think the second half of that Nevada game is a springboard, and I think it’s going to carry on into this game and I think we’re going to really go out there and play well.”

–adam.nettina@aggiemail. usu.edu

Green: three point shooter primed -continued from page 8 but doesn’t let it get out of hand.

“I love to win, and it’s a competitive sport,” he said, “but I really just want to have fun.”

This season, Green said he plans to work on his personal defense.

“I need to work on my one-on-one along with a bit of ball handling,” he said.

The guard will be wearing a different jersey for Utah State this year, after being handed the number 12 when he first arrived at USU. “I just didn’t like it,” he said of his old number. “I needed a change.”

Ideally, Green said he would want to be number 24, his favorite number, but that one has been claimed by senior guard Tyler Newbold for his career. His decision to adopt number 23 for this season wasn’t just based on proximity to his favorite number, however.

Green hopes it will help him capture some of the magic of the game’s best player in history.

“I’ve always really looked up to Michael Jordan,” Green said, “so I decided that was a

good way to go.”

Green will graduate in May with a degree in psychology. After graduation, he plans to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Green said the team has a lot of chemistry which helps them work really well together.

“We can hang out and have fun, we don’t fight,” he said. “That’s part of what’s special about this team. Our coaches recruit good, quality guys who are also good, quality players.”

Overall, Green said he is very excited about this season.

“It’s my senior year, so I’m just going to play hard and have fun,” he said. “No regrets.”

– megan.allen@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Utah AG proposes Bowl Championship Series investigation WASHINGTON (AP) – Utah’s attorney general met with Justice Department officials this week to discuss a possible federal investigation into college football’s Bowl Championship Series.

Attorney General Mark Shurtleff is investigating the BCS for possible antitrust violations and is hoping to get the Justice Department to do so as well.

“They are doing their due diligence,” Shurtleff said in a telephone

interview Thursday, a day after the meeting. “They had done their homework.”

Shurtleff said department officials did not commit to conducting an investigation. He said among those at the meeting was Gene Kimmelman, chief counsel for competition policy and intergovernmental relations in the department’s antitrust division.

Justice Department declined to comment on the meeting.

In January, in a letter to Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who had asked for an antitrust review, the department said the Obama administration was considering several steps that would review the legality of the BCS. The department said it was reviewing Hatch’s request and other materials to determine whether to open an investigation into the BCS and possible antitrust violations.

Several lawmakers and many critics want college football to adopt

a playoff system to determine the teams that play in the championship game.

BCS executive director Bill Hancock said Thursday it was “hard to imagine a bigger waste of taxpayer money than to involve the government in college football.”

Under the BCS, the champions of six conferences have automatic bids to play in top-tier bowl games, while the other conferences don’t.

Those six conferences also receive

more money than the other conferences.

Last year, the state legislature in Utah adopted a resolution calling for a playoff system to determine college football’s national champion after an undefeated Utah was shut out of the national title game for the second time in four years.

Next season, Utah will be moving into one of the conferences with an automatic bid.

AP Enterprise: World’s oil thirst leading to environmental peril MIAMI (AP) – The world’s thirst for crude is leading oil exploration companies into ever deeper waters and ventures fraught with environmental and political peril.

The days when the industry could merely drill on land and wait for the oil – and the profits – to flow are coming to an end. Because of that, companies feel compelled to sink wells at the bottom of deep oceans, inject chemicals into the ground to force oil to the surface, deal with unsavory regimes, or operate in some of the world’s most environmentally sensitive and inaccessible spots, far from ports and decent roads. All those factors could make it difficult to move in equipment and clean up a spill.

From the Arctic to Cuba to the coast of Nigeria, avoiding catastrophes like BP’s Gulf of Mexico spill is likely to become increasingly difficult and require cooperation among countries that aren’t used to working together.

An Associated Press review of oil ventures around the world found plans to punch through layers of salt more than three miles beneath the ocean floor off the coast of Brazil, drill seven exploratory wells off Cuba and extract oil from crude-soaked sands on the Canadian prairie. Drilling is proceeding in countries with extremely weak regulations and a lack of skilled operators, and in geological settings much like the northern Gulf of Mexico, with high pressure and weak rock formations ripe for blowouts.

Companies are seeking the new frontiers amid warnings from some analysts that worldwide oil production will peak and then decline as onshore wells dry up. It’s not that oil itself is scarce – global reserves are estimated at 1.2 trillion barrels – but getting to it requires large investments in treacherous places.

“It’s just getting harder to find this stuff.

You’re having to go to the end of the Earth or the bottoms of very deep oceans now,” said Randy Udall, director of the nonprofit Community Office for Resource Efficiency in Aspen, Colo.

BP CEO Bob Dudley argued last week that deep-water drilling is necessary despite the dangers because the world could be consuming 40 percent more energy by 2030.

BP and other major oil companies say they are preparing for the risks and trying to find common solutions. Also, the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers, a trade

group, is talking with other industry organizations in the U.S., Australia, Brazil and Britain about preventing and responding to disasters, said executive director Michael Engell-Jensen.

But so far, little has been done globally to come up with a universally accepted set of standards and response procedures. Diplomatic tensions could prevent effective cooperation among countries, and some projects already under way – such as a deep-water containment system that U.S. oil companies are building in the Gulf – are meant only for a particular area.

In the meantime, the industry is pursuing some audacious projects.

Exploration companies have discovered huge oil fields in the South Atlantic off Brazil, with deposits believed to exceed 8 billion barrels.

Reaching them will require drilling not only in waters nearly two miles deep, but through salt layers up to three miles below the ocean floor.

The BP well that blew out was in water a mile deep.

The U.S. Geological Survey estimates the Arctic region holds up to one-quarter of the world’s undiscovered conventional oil and natural gas, including 90 billion barrels of crude – most of it offshore. Companies in the U.S., Russia, Norway, Denmark and Canada are stepping up preparations to drill there.

Environmental groups have sued to prevent it. Cold and ice would hamper cleanup of a spill, they say, by making it hard to get people and equipment to the scene. And the region lacks the sunlight and abundance of microbes that are helping break down the oil in the Gulf. A major spill could injure or kill whales, polar bears, seals, walruses and many types of fish.

Shell Oil, which plans to drill exploratory wells off Alaska, will have a response fleet constantly on hand with helicopters, boom, skimmers and other equipment for dealing with spills.

“In the unlikely event of a discharge, they would be deployed and recovering oil within an hour,” spokesman Curtis Smith said.

In the western U.S., companies are targeting what the Energy Department says are billions of barrels of recoverable oil trapped within deposits of shale rock, which is composed of layers of claylike, fine-grain sediments. Mining and processing shale oil are a big source of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Nat’lBriefs Appeals court halts Smart kidnap trial SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – A federal appeals court on Thursday halted the trial of a man accused of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart to decide if he can get a fair trial in Utah.

Opening statements in the case of Brian David Mitchell were interrupted to announce the decision by the three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver.

The trial was put on hold as the panel considered a claim by defense attorneys that extensive publicity about the abduction has tainted the jury pool. Prosecutors have until 12:59 a.m. Friday to respond to the claim.

U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball, who is presiding at the trial, sent jurors home just an hour after they were selected in Salt Lake City.

“I’m of course very unhappy about this,” Kimball told the nine men and five women serving as jurors and alternates before he apologized and released them for the day.

States urge upholding of immigration law JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A coalition of 13 states has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold an Arizona law penalizing businesses that knowingly hire illegal immigrants.

The Supreme Court is to hear arguments next month on the 2007 Arizona law, which allows business licenses to be revoked or suspended when employers are found to have knowingly hired illegal immigrants. Similar laws are in place in several states.

Businesses and civil rights groups have challenged the Arizona law by contending it infringes on federal immigration powers – an argument rejected by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in September 2008.

LateNiteHumor Top 10 Reasons I’m Glad to be Justin Bieber – Nov. 3, 2010 10. I really enjoy the look of disappointment when people first meet me.

9. I got a free trip to New York City out of it.

8. YouTube video of me mowing the lawn got ten million hits.

7. If I make an ass out of myself in public, he gets the blame.

6. Last week performed a sold out arena show in Delaware and no one knew the difference.

5. Reading all the fan mail from Letterman.

4. I made a hundred bucks selling some of my hair on eBay. 3. Due to a mixup at the post office, I’m the proud owner of a Teen Choice Award.

2. Aside from the constant harassment, the fact that no one takes me seriously, and the sense of inadequacy compared to a wealthy 16year-old, what’s not to like?

1. I just thank God I’m not named Charlie Sheen.

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GOP asserts new strength, targets Obama WASHINGTON (AP) – Victorious at the polls, congressional Republicans asserted their newfound political strength on Thursday, vowing to seek a quick $100 billion in federal spending cuts and force repeated votes on the repeal of President Barack Obama’s prized health care overhaul.

At the White Houses, Obama said his administration was ready to work across party lines in a fresh attempt to “focus on the economy and jobs” as well as attack waste in government. In a show of bipartisanship, he invited top lawmakers to the White House at mid-month, and the nation’s newly elected governors two weeks later.

Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, in line to become the new speaker of the House, brushed aside talk that the No. 1 GOP goal was to make sure Obama is defeated at the polls in 2012. “That’s Senator McConnell’s statement and his opinion,” he told ABC, referring to the party’s leader in the Senate and adding that his own goals included cutting spending and creating jobs.

But tentative talk of compromise competed with rhetoric reminiscent of the just-completed campaign.

In a speech at the conservative Heritage Foundation, Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell said the only way to achieve key party legislative goals such

as ending government bailouts, cutting spending and repealing the health care law “is to put someone in the White House who won’t veto” them.

“There’s just no getting around it,” he added.

Obama has ruled out accepting repeal of the health care measure, and Senate Democrats responded quickly to McConnell.

“What Sen. McConnell is really saying is, ‘Republicans want to let insurance companies go back to denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions, let them go back to charging women twice as much for the same coverage as men, and let them push millions of

seniors back into the Medicare doughnut hole,” said Jim Manley, spokesman for Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. The maneuvering unfolded two days after elections that swept Democrats out of power in the House and cut deeply into their Senate majority, scripting an uncertain new era of divided government for the final two years of Obama’s term.

In the House, Boehner asked members of the Republican rank and file to support him for speaker when the new Congress convenes in early January. His victory is a formality, given the huge 60-member gain he engineered as party leader.

Brazil wants Rousseff’s alleged torturers SAO PAULO (AP) – Brazilian prosecutors filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking damages against four dictatorship-era agents accused of killings and kidnappings. One is a former army captai linked to the torture of President-elect Dilma Rousseff when she was a guerrilla in 1970.

The civil lawsuit also involves the case of a rebel who was killed while in custody after leading the 1969 kidnapping of former U.S. Ambassador Charles Elbrick.

Brazil’s Supreme Court recently upheld a 1979 amnesty law pardoning both civilians and military personnel for alleged crimes committed under the 1964-1985 military dictatorship.

But prosecutors argue the law does not prevent charges under civil law and say they are stepping up such efforts. Three other civil cases were filed this year by the Sao Paulo prosecutors.

The three former soldiers and a former military policeman in the new lawsuit were tied to Brazil’s Operation Bandeirante, a repressive secret paramilitary police group that rounded up leftist rebels starting in 1969, prosecutors allege.

The prosecutors seek a “declaration of civil responsibility” against the four, along with an end to their military pensions, restitution to

JOSE SERRA DELIVERS a speech during a meeting with members of the Green party in Sao Paulo Brazil on October 18. Serra, a presidential candidate of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB), is accompanied by Fernando Gabeira (right) and former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso. AP photo

society and help in compensating the alleged victims.

The lawsuit was made available to The Associated Press by federal prosecutors in Sao Paulo. It did not give a monetary figure for the damages sought.

The allegations are based on testimony at military trials during the dictatorship, public records from the

era and testimony from victims.

Among the defendants is former army Capt. Mauricio Lopes Lima, who prosecutors hold responsible for the torture of Rousseff after she was captured in early 1970.

A spokesman with the prosecutors office, who talked on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to discuss the case in detail,

said it was not clear if Lima tortured Rousseff himself or ordered subordinates to do so.

Rousseff joined student resistance groups as a 19-year-old in 1967. For three years she helped lead guerrilla organizations, instruct comrades on Marxist theory and write for an underground newspaper. She denies carrying out any acts of violence herself, says she opposed such action and was never accused by the military regime of violent acts.

After three years underground, Rousseff was captured by Brazil’s military police and was considered a big enough catch that a military prosecutor labeled her the “Joan of Arc” of the guerrilla movement.

She spent nearly three years in the Tiradentes prison, where she was beaten to the point of heavy bleeding, underwent electric shocks and spent hours on the “parrot’s perch” – a painful position involving tying wrists to ankles, then suspending a prisoner off the ground by running a pole under their knees and over their biceps.

Rousseff rarely discusses this period of her life, but in an interview with the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper published in 2005, she said: “We fought and participated in a dream to build a better Brazil.”

Lawsuit filed in Okla. against Islamic law OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – An Oklahoma Muslim filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday to block a state constitutional amendment overwhelmingly approved by voters that would prohibit state courts from considering international law or Islamic law when deciding cases.

The measure, which got 70 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s election, was one of several on Oklahoma’s ballot that critics said pandered to conservatives and would moved the state further to the right.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Oklahoma City, seeks a temporary retraining order and injunction to block the election results from being certified by the state Election Board on Nov. 9. Among other things, the lawsuit alleges the ballot measure transforms Oklahoma’s Constitution into “an enduring condemnation” of Islam by singling it out for special restrictions by barring Islamic law, also known as Sharia law.

“We have a handful of politicians who have pushed an amendment onto our state ballot and then conducted a well-planned and well-funded campaign of misinformation and fear,” said Muneer Awad, who filed the suit and is executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Oklahoma. “We have certain unalienable rights, and those rights cannot be taken away from me by a political campaign.”

About 20,000 and 30,000 Muslims live in Oklahoma, Awad estimated.

Legal experts have also questioned the measure.

Joseph Thai, a professor at the University of Oklahoma’s College of Law, said the ballot measure is “an answer in search of a problem.” He said he knows of no other state that has approved similar measures.

“There is no plausible danger of international law

or Sharia law overtaking the legal system,” Thai said in an e-mail to The Associated Press. He said courts only consider international law when deciding issues involving a federal treaty, a business contract or a will that incorporates international law.

Thai said the ballot measure “raises thorny church-state problems as well” and could even affect a state judge’s ability to consider the Ten Commandments.

“The Ten Commandments, of course, is international law. It did not originate in Oklahoma or the United States,” Thai said.

The measure is scheduled to go into effect on Jan. 1. Its author, Rep. Rex Duncan, R-Sand Springs, said it was not intended to attack Muslims but to prevent activist judges from relying on international law or Islamic law when ruling on legal cases.

“The threat posed by activist judges is clear,” Duncan said. “It shouldn’t matter what the law in France or any other European country is.”

Duncan described the measure as “a pre-emptive strike” in Oklahoma, where he said activist judges are not an imminent problem. But some judges elsewhere, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, believe courts should look to the law of other countries for guidance when deciding cases, he said.

Ginsburg told a meeting of international lawyers in Washington in July that American judges can learn from their foreign counterparts when seeking solutions to “trying questions.”

“The only people who would be a victim of this are activist judges,” said Duncan, who in 2007 rejected a Quran as a gift from a council created by Gov. Brad Henry, explaining that “most Oklahomans do

MUNEER AWAD, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of the Council on American-Islamic Relations – Oklahoma Chapter, left, answers questions during a news conference in Oklahoma City on Nov. 4. AP photo

not endorse the idea of killing innocent women and children in the name of ideology.”

One Oklahoma resident said he voted for the measure on Tuesday because chaos might ensue if judges were permitted to rely on international or religious laws in their courts.

“Any private organization could come in and say the judge has to rule according to our rules and regulations and overrule state laws,” Oklahoma City attorney Jerry Fent said.

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Nov. 5 Today is Friday, Nov. 5, 2010. Today’s issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Merial Hutchison, an undeclared freshman from Riverton, Utah.

Almanac Today in History: On this day in 1994, George Foreman, age 45, becomes boxing’s oldest heavyweight champion when he defeats 26year-old Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their fight in Las Vegas. More than 12,000 spectators at the MGM Grand Hotel watched Foreman dethrone Moorer.

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Friday, Nov. 5, 2010

- Parent and Family Weekend, All Day - Women’s Volleyball at WAC Tournament, 11:30 a.m.

- Women’s Soccer vs. Fresno State, 11:30 a.m.

- Men’s Volleyball, HPER, 5 p.m.

- Women’s Basketball vs. U of Mary, Spectrum, 5 p.m.

- Masquerade, Bullen Center, 6:30 p.m.

- Reduce, Reuse and Rock, International Lounge, 7 p.m.

- Men’s Basketball vs. Grand Canyon, Spectrum, 7 p.m.

- Suessical the Musical, Morgan Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

- Chamber Singers and Symphony Orchestra, St. Thomas Aquinas Church, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday

Nov. 6 - Parent and Family Weekend, All Day - Bioneers Conference, All Day - Men’s Volleyball, HPER, 8 a.m.

- Football vs. New Mexico State, Romney Stadium, 1 p.m.

- BJ Novak, Kent Concert Hall, 7 p.m.

- Volleyball vs. Idaho, Spectrum, 7 p.m.

- Suessical the Musical, Morgan Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

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Nov. 8

- USU’s Got Talent, TSC Ballroom

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“West Side Story” is playing on the big screen at the Logan Arts Cinema on Nov. 5. The cost is $5 per person. Proceeds from ticket sales for this event go toward SEED. Come for a good time and for a good cause!

Abstracts due on Nov. 15 for CUR’s National Posters on the Hill, which takes place in April, 2011. Submit through www.cur.org.

Deadline to submit abstracts to the Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research extended to Friday, November 5, www.ucur.org.

Byron Burnham, the Dean of Reduce Reuse and Rock Concert Grad Studies at USU, and Matt featuring Buffalo. Free concert Barclay, a doctoral student at USU to wrap up Sustainability Week are looking for couples married seven on Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. in the TSC years or less to participate in an International Lounge. Free cofonline study to help them test softfee and hot chocolate from Caffe ware about “listening in marriage.”

Ibis if you bring your own mug or All participants will receive compenthermos! sation and be entered into a drawing for prizes. For more info see: www. facebook.com/ListeningInMarriage.

Phi Alpha Theta is sponsoring Fry Street Quartet in concert at Monty Python Night with intro- The Performance Hall. The program duction by Dr. Norm Jones. Don’t includes works of Beethoven, Bartok, miss this classic event! Nov. 10 at and the Brahms Piano Quintet 7 p.m. in Old Main 121. Food will with guest pianist Jason Hardink. be served.

Performances will be held Nov. 5-9.

EMPLOYEES – Are you wanting to get a jump start on your fitThe Art Guild is hosting a Studio ness? Do you want to know where Stroll on Nov. 18 from 6-8 p.m. you stand with your health? Contact in the fine arts building. The Dayna (dayna.barrett@usu.edu or museum and galleries will be 797-8519) to schedule your FREE open and each emphasis area FITNESS ASSESSMENT TODAY! will be displaying artwork for Done every Thursday between 12 inexpensive prices. It will provide and 4. Don’t miss this great opportua pleasing atmosphere with music nity! and refreshments.

Cache Co. Sub for Santa is seeking those that would like to sponsor a child/children for the 2009 The Men’s Volleyball team has Christmas season. If you are intertheir first tournament of the year ested in helping provide Christmas playing host to teams from Utah, for those in need, contact the Cache UVU and others. Nov. 5 5-10 p.m. Co. Sub for Santa office at 752-6315. and Nov. 6 8 a.m.- 4 p.m.

Our office hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. M-F. We would need the gifts to our drop-off site by Dec.11th in Come watch some great talents order to distribute them accordingly. and vote for your favorites at Cash donations are also appreciated, USU’s Got Talent Nov. 8, in the please send donations to: Cache Co. TSC Ballroom! Tickets are only Sub for Santa, P.O. Box 4603, Logan, $3 and the proceeds benefit the UT 84323.

S.E.E.D. program. Interested Upcoming dates at Caffe Ibis: in competing for the $100 Chad Floyd and Liz Wooley on Nov. grand prize? Search “USU’s Got 5 at 7 p.m., Todd Milovich on Nov. 7 Talent!” on Facebook, or email at 12 p.m., Hilary Murray on Nov. 14 USUgottalent@gmail.com to at 12 p.m. The Gypsies on Nov. 19 at sign up!

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