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Student gov’t finds new voice

BY ADDISON HALL staff writer

CHARITY MAEDA

The ASUSU executive council gathered Tuesday to discuss a major change in the student government voting system and a change in the Residence Hall Association’s legislation that will affect

students on campus.

Abigail Kingsford, ASUSU public relations director, announced a new computer program to facilitate elec-� tronic voting on campus. “It can be viewed on any size of screen,� Kingsford said. “It’ll expand when it’s on a desktop computer and it

will shrink as you go a tablet or a mobile device.�

Kingsford said the new system will also help stu-� dents better identify and understand the candidates because a picture and short biography will appear next to each candidate’s name.

Linda Zimmerman, execu-�

tive director of the student involvement center, said the system would be available to all organizations on campus within a few months.

Charity Maeda, the RHA president, spoke and invited members of the ASUSU council to future RHA meet-� ings.

“We have written in our constitution that ASUSU has speaking rights,� said Maeda. “Anyone who’s appointed to attend those meetings you will be addressing the heads of dining, facilities and mainte-�

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ASUSU throws Back to School Extravaganza

BY BECKY EISENHOWER staff writer

Henna tattoos, photo booth, face paint, and “Pitch Perfect.� Put these four things together, add some snacks and a room full of USU students and it equals the Back to School Extravaganza.

Presented by ASUSU, the event gave students a chance to see their peers for the first time as well as meet new people since returning from the winter break. “It’s really great to see everyone after the break because I haven’t really had the chance yet,� said fresh-� man Marley Mcclune.

Hannah Blackburn, ASUSU activities director, coor-� dinated Wednesday’s event, which was held on the sec-� ond floor of the Taggart Student Center. She said she had been planning the event since August. “Students came to me and asked my why there isn’t a welcome back week in the spring,� Blackburn said. “So I decided we would try just one activity to test the waters.�

Set up in the TSC International Lounge was henna tattooing, a photo booth, face painting and a balloon artist. The new release “Pitch Perfect� was set up for students to view in the TSC Ballroom.

The ASUSU Activities Committee spent $3,000 for the Extravaganza, which is the normal budget for every event in the Aggie Event Series.

Sophomore Alexis Allen attended the event with Mcclune.

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KATY HUGHES designs a henna tattoo for student Kyle Jensen at the Back to School Extravaganza on Wednesday.

Hughes is a henna artist for Henna By Design. DANIELLE MANLEY photo

Aggie students celebrate old and new traditions

BY TMERA BRADLEY

news senior writer

Kissing under a full moon, famous ice cream, sledding down Old Main Hill and even riding naked on a bull statue are all part of the traditions that USU’s history is made of.

Traditions Week 2013 will kick off Monday and feature a vari-� ety of activities in which students can participate. “We just are trying to bring back a bunch of the traditions,� said Sloan Bailey, traditions director. “Every Friday, students used to wear their game day shirts to promote the athletic events for that weekend, so we’re trying to bring that back.�

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We noticed that some students

were disappointed there wasn’t a concert at the Howl . . so this will be fun and something different.�

Sloan said one of the lesser known traditions is the Hello Walk. “It’s been around since 1961 but hasn’t really happened in a while,� Bailey said. “Utah State University is known for being really friendly, so this is an opportunity for students to say hello to each other as they walk by.�

Bailey said on Monday the sidewalk by the Quad will be lined with volunteers giving out hand warmers and treats to encour-� age the friendliness on campus.

While some of the traditions are not very well known, one of the university’s most famous events is True Aggie Night. “Nobody really knows how the event started,� Bailey said.

She said it originally began with the Beno club, a service club around 1917. The group’s monument was the A block. “The only thing they can find is it was said that no girl could be a true Utah State coed unless she was kissed on top of the A, and so that’s probably the longest running tradition,� Bailey said.

Though True Aggie night will not be included in the week’s activities, it will be held on the night of the next full moon, Jan. 26. “We are trying to focus really hard on all of the traditions that Utah State has,� Bailey said. “A new one that we kind of started last year was a game show.�

Bailey said they have started to host some kind of game show on campus that students can get involved in.

“Last year we did Deal or No Deal, and that was a huge hit,�

Bailey said.

This year it will be a Campus Feud based around the Family Feud game show. “Kind of a new tradition we’re trying to start,� Bailey said.

Another event will be the sweatshirt swap held Tuesday through Thursday in the TSC Hub. Students can trade in used hoodies for this year’s Traditions Week sweatshirts. All of the donations will be taken to The Road Home in Salt Lake City.

Besides a free hoodie, Scotsman dogs and Aggie Ice Cream on the TSC Patio are also perks to showing up to campus this week.

A concert is on the schedule for Friday. Indie rock band We Shot the Moon will perform at 8 p.m. in the TSC Lounges. “We noticed that some students were disappointed there wasn’t a concert at the Howl,� Bailey said. “Traditions week has never had a concert before, so this will be fun and something different.�

She said when Student Traditions and Activities Board decid-� ed to look into some band options, We Shot the Moon came to mind. “They love Utah State, so they always like to come up,� Bailey said. “They basically are coming because they like the campus, and so we thought that would be a really good opportunity for students.�

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Spectrum will fear no beard

BY DANI HAYES staff writer

Due to the on-�court activities of junior guard Preston Medlin of the men’s basketball team — the latest being the game-� tying 3-�pointer to force overtime against Idaho — “Medlinsanity� is in full force among the USU stu-� dent section.

In honor of Medlin and his facial hair, a “beard-� out� will take center stage when Medlin and the

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he student section has been a little down from what it has been in the past, and so now we are trying to build up a lot more hype.�

Aggies face San Jose State on Friday at the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum. Students are encouraged to fill the Spectrum and come clad with a real or make-�shift beard. “The idea sprouted because every student sec-� tion in the country tries to do a white-�out or a black-�out or a red-�out,� said Karson Kalian, ASUSU ath-� letics vice president. “Well, what student section in the country has done a beard out? We’ve always been proud of the fact that we are different than everybody else, that we try and be original, and the beard-�out was original.�

The beard-�out is a prod-� uct of the HURD’s support of Aggie athletics. “It serves two purposes in my opinion,� said Charley Riddle, a HURD committee member and regular front-� row spectator. “One is to pay tribute to Preston and the team, but also to bring the fun and the enjoyment back into the Spectrum. So when you’re there for the game it’s not just to sup-� port the team but to have a freaking blast. It’s like a party every time.�

Riddle said the HURD is committed to finding new

UTAH STATE JUNIOR GUARD PRESTON MEDLIN prepares to shoot during a game earlier this season. Medlin’s beard is the inspiration for Saturday’s beard-out. DELAYNE LOCKE photo

ways to increase student involvement. He said atten-� dance has been hurting. “The student section has been a little down from what it has been in the past, and so now we are trying to

build up a lot more hype,� he said. “We really want the student section back to what it was two years ago.

It’s way different.�

Riddle said last year’s basketball season didn’t

reach “Aggie standards� and could be a reason for the supportive slump for bas-� ketball. “I have to look at it this way,� Riddle said. “There are some fans that are super die-�hards and they are going to be there no matter what. I know there are some other students that want to go to games because it’s fun, but college basketball isn’t just about the game on the court.�

Riddle said the HURD takes upon itself the duty to make the games as appeal-� ing as possible. “We go through this trou-� ble because if we are having a great time in the student section and going nuts for the team, the players have a better time,� Riddle said. “They play better and the other team plays worse, which is what we want.�

The students are responding. “With the whole ‘stand strong, stand together,’ that’s what I wasn’t think-� ing,� said Jeffrey Hofheins, a senior majoring in exer-� cise science. “Preston did great by shooting that three and that’s why we are doing this beard thing. It’s so unique and so creative. I just like that we are all uni-�

fied in doing this.�

Hofheins said he plans on creating the famed beard of Seneca Crane, the Gamemaker from the film “The Hunger Games.� “I’m going to draw on his beard, maybe with mas-� cara,� he said.

Marcus Lemmon, a junior majoring in commu-� nication disorders, said he is embracing the beard to salute Medlin for his stellar game last Saturday. “I’ve already got a beard going, so I’ll just amp it up with makeup or whatever,� he said.

Girls are also finding ways to get involved. “Maybe I’ll get a stick-� on mustache and goatee,� said Caitlin Willie, a senior majoring in art education. “We are going to go get some fabric, cut it out in the shape of beards and we are going to hand them out to the first 300-�500 people there,� said Kalian. “We are going to take our cardboard cutouts. They’re going to be bearded. We’ll have blue, white and gray for Aggie colors. We’ll do the classic brown. Real, fake, whatever beard you want, bring it.� – 1331dani@gmail.com Twitter: @dandan1331

EXTRAVAGANZA: Event provides students welcome diversion From page 1 “We’ve seen ‘Pitch Perfect’ a ton and we really love it,� Allen said. “It never gets old.�

Blackburn said “Pitch Perfect� was the best fit because it is geared toward the college demographic and it’s a movie everyone at USU can enjoy.

Nate Elmer, a freshman at USU, attended the event with fellow freshmen Peter Hartvigson and James Neely and junior John Bennion. “We were just walking through and we saw a bunch of people so we stopped by,�

Elmer said. “The cookies are great. A little more food could always be good.�

Blackburn said most on-�campus events have been best attended by freshmen and sophomores, but in this case even upper-� classmen were interested in the event. “I don’t go to a lot of events, but this sounded fun,� said senior Mackenzie Matthews. “Free food, henna, lots of friends and I think ‘Pitch Perfect’ will be fun.�

For Matthews, the biggest selling point was the henna tattoos. “Henna sounds way cool and it will defi-�

nitely be worth the wait in line,� Matthews said.

Other students were not as willing to wait in the lines as Matthews was. “I think they need more going on so people don’t have to wait in the long lines,�

Allen said.

This semester marked the first time a welcome back event like this one had taken place. “We want to learn from this event and make next year’s is even better,� Blackburn said. “When students come to us with sug-� gestions, we really do want to fulfill them.�

379 students responded to the Facebook event invite and even more attended in response to the wire banners hung on the first and second floors of the TSC, as well as posts on Twitter. “Rather than just sitting at home watch-� ing TV or just hanging out with the same people, this is an opportunity for them to meet new people, get accustomed to cam-� pus, and to see what campus events are like coming here to Utah State,� Blackburn said. – bec.eis@aggiemail.usu.edu Twitter: @bestfriendbeck

EXTRAVAGANZA ATTENDEE KYLE JENSEN makes a face while he dries his new henna tattoo with a hair dryer Wednesday. Henna by Design styled the body art.

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TRADITIONS: Winter week of fun planned for Aggie students From page 1 Bailey said she expects it to draw a large crowd since it is the first concert held this school year. “I think concerts are fun and will attract people,� said sophomore Esmeralda Arreola.

She said the week will help students learn more about the University’s traditions.

Traditions week is designed for all students,

but mainly new transfers and freshmen, Bailey said.

Anna Christiansen, a transfer graduate student, said she isn’t familiar with any of the traditions at Utah State. “I know people go make out on the A on Homecoming, but other than that I don’t know anything about traditions,� Christiansen said.

Bailey said she feels like it’s her job as tradi-�

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tions director to make sure students know the history of the university and be aware of what is going on around campus. “We encourage them all to participate in all the traditions,� Bailey said. “Whether it’s True Aggie night, eating Aggie Ice Cream, going to basketball games or what not, just anything.�

If students are interested in volunteering for future activities with STAB, meetings are held

Tuesdays at 8 p.m. on the third floor of the TSC. “Anybody can come up and get involved,�

Bailey sid. “We have lots of volunteer posi-� tions.� – tmera.bradley@aggiemail.usu.edu Twitter: @tmerabradley

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SDSU hosts shooting training Briefs Campus & Community

Aggie Blue Bikes subs for Santa

BY TONY PERRY Los Angeles Times (MCT)

SAN DIEGO — The gun-� man stalked the dormitory halls yelling, “I’m going to kill somebody,� pounding and kicking on doors, and firing his weapon in the air.

The resident assistants remembered their training: Turn off the lights, barricade the doors with chairs and tables, lie flat on the floor, push back if the killer tries to bust in, or jump out a window if it isn’t too high.

The drama was all staged but with a life-�saving purpose Tuesday as a dormitory at San Diego State University became a stand-�in for Columbine High School, Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook Elementary and the engineering building on the campus here — all scenes of deadly rampages.

Two-�dozen people from col-� leges and schools throughout Southern California came to campus for a two-�day session with the chillingly modern title of Active Shooter Response Training.

Although the program of lectures, discussions and sce-� narios was planned months ago, the recent shooting in Newtown, Conn., where 20 children and six adults were killed, only heightened the urgency of planning for pos-� sible violence.

Bret Bandick, a trainer from Texas company Response Options, played the role of a heavily armed killer target-� ing students at the Olmeca Residence Hall. He fired an airsoft gun into the air and at doors to provide an extra dose of realism. Resident assistants and others played the role of students caught by surprise.

In the fall, those same assis-� tants will be giving a new, mandatory 90-�minute seminar to all incoming freshmen at San Diego State on how to sur-� vive an on-�campus shooting.

The session will be in addition to the university’s system of alerting students via emails, text messages and social media when a gunman is suspected. “Our responsibility is to give people as many tools as possible to survive,� said Capt.

Lamine Secka of the San Diego State police force.

Kerry Harris, also an instructor with Response Options, said the strategy “is not rocket science.� “We tell people they should flee if they can, hide if they must and fight back if there is no other option,� Harris said.

The San Diego State resident assistants did better than many people who have taken the same training, Harris said.

The event drew police officers and school officials from Orange, the Vista and Escondido school districts in northern San Diego County and the campuses of Cal State Los Angeles, San Diego State, UC San Diego and the University of San Diego.

San Diego has reason to be concerned about school shoot-� ings.

One of the first high-�profile school shootings that gained national attention occurred

Aggie Blue Bikes, a program at Utah State University, successfully refurbished 16 children’s bicycles for Cache County Sub for Santa with the help of seven volunteers, donations from various community members and powder coating from Cache Valley Coating.

Aggie Blue Bikes staff and volun-� teers spent more than 100 hours working on the bikes. The work included stripping the donated bikes down, cleaning each part of the bike and all of its components and then building the bikes back to useable form.

All 16 bicycles are now in working condition, most of them with fresh paint and new parts.

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PARTICIPANTS IN THE SDSU SHOOTING SURVIVAL TRAINING barricade a door in the Olmeca Residence hall, above.

Retired police officer Chuck Harold, right simulates a police team entering the Olmeca Residence Hall at San Diego State looking for an active shooter on Jan. 8. They are part of a training exercise conducted with several school districts, police departments and campus agencies learning how to deal with an active mass shooting suspect.

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here in 1979, when 16-�year-�old Brenda Spencer used a rifle to kill two people and wound nine others at an elementary school across from her home. “I don’t like Mondays,�

Spencer told a reporter by telephone during the rampage.

She is serving a 25-�year-�to-�life prison sentence.

In 1996, a graduate student at San Diego State killed three of his professors in the engineer-� ing department. The gunman pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty and is serving a life sentence.

In 2001, two shootings in high schools east of San Diego left two dead and 18 wounded.

One shooter, then a 15-�year-� old student, is in prison; the other, an 18-�year-�old former student, committed suicide while behind bars.

In 2010, a mentally dis-� turbed man jumped the fence at a Carlsbad elementary school and wounded two stu-� dents before being subdued by construction workers. He is serving a life sentence.

By the time of the 2001 shootings, nationwide police protocol for school shootings had changed to emphasize an

immediate response by the first officer on the scene rath-� er than waiting for the SWAT squad to assemble.

The change in tactics was prompted by the 1999 shoot-� ing at Columbine High in Colorado where 15 people died, including the two shoot-� ers who committed suicide, while the SWAT squad was being assembled. “After Columbine, we learned that you just can’t wait for SWAT,� said Lt. Joe Florentino of the San Diego Unified Police Department, which deploys 43 officers to protect 200 sites with 133,000 stu-� dents and 15,000 employees, the second largest primary school district in California.

When a 15-�year-�old student opened fire at Santana High in Santee on March 5, 2001, the first police officer on scene was an off-�duty San Diego officer who was registering his daughter for classes. “When everyone else was running away from the sound of gunfire,� said San Diego Police Lt. Andra Brown, “he was running toward it.�

The post-�Columbine era also brought more training for offi-�

cers and dispatchers and, in some cases, better weaponry for beat cops who may have to confront a shooter with multiple weapons or assault weapons. “Lock down,� a term and practice once used in connection with prison riots, became common parlance a decade ago to describe keeping students in their classrooms during an incident.

But those changes, Florentino said, are meant to limit the casualties once a shooting occurs. The better strategy, he said, is to be aware of any advance signs that a student might pose a threat.

The San Diego school dis-� trict has a policy of follow-� ing up, with counselors and police officers, when a student is heard making possible threats or posting troubling comments on social media.

In rare cases, a student is put on a 72-�hour psychiatric hold at a mental health facility, Florentino said. “If a student says something odd, we don’t just ignore it,�

Florentino said. “We have to be right 100 percent of the time, we know that.�

ASUSU: Tension to subside with more talk From page 1

nance, our directors of housing and residence life, the RHA executive board and the resi-� dence and staff members who live on campus.�

Maeda said the new legislature will allow ASUSU to communicate important news out to the RHA. According to Kingsford, relations were sometimes tense between ASUSU and RHA because both programs looked at students differently. She said if ASUSU were to speak at their meetings, some of the tension could be relieved. “In the past there’s always been a slight disconnect between ASUSU and RHA because we both are programming-�type bodies in that we plan events for students on campus,�

Kingsford said. “RHA represents them as resi-� dents on campus whereas ASUSU represents them as students on campus. So they’re simi-�

lar but a little bit different.�

Kingsford said the two organizations have had conflicts about promoting events on cam-� pus and in resident halls. “There’s been a lot of lack of communica-� tion between the two,� Kingsford said. “The staff members and the RAs are frustrated with ASUSU because they feel like we don’t really do much to help them out, so they want to know why they should help us out.�

Maeda said the legislature to allow ASUSU to speak at RHA meetings will help to ease tension between the two groups. “I really want to advocate a good relation-� ship between RHA and ASUSU because I don’t want our residents or our staff members to think poorly of ASUSU,� Maeda said.

During the meeting, members of ASUSU discussed other issues. Zimmerman announced a server change for all officers in ASUSU that occurred Wednesday afternoon.

She said the old servers were causing problems for the officers and desperately needed to be replaced.

Karson Kalian, ASUSU athletics vice-� president, said the athletic department wasn’t getting enough advertising space on campus for their events. He said he was working with campus planning to get two permanent signs up by the Taggart Student Center and library in order to get more student awareness.

Jordan Hunt, the Academic Senate presi-� dent, said the university will shortly send out a survey to the student body asking if a testing center on campus was necessary. “The survey is ready, but for now we’re just trying to get a sense of how something like that would work and whether or not some-� thing like that would be something students would want or need,� Hunt said. – addison.m.t.hall@gmail.com

NEW YORK — Medical-�insurance markets crafted by four Republican governors won conditional approval by the Obama administration as the federal government nudges states toward full implementation of the landmark health-�care overhaul.

Idaho, New Mexico, Nevada and Utah are set to meet Affordable Care Act rules for marketplaces where resi-� dents can buy insurance, the Health and Human Services Department said in a statement Thursday. The agency also approved plans in Democratic-� led California, Hawaii and Vermont, bringing to 18 the number of states scheduled to run exchanges on Jan. 1, 2014. “In all of these states there’s more work to be done to be ready for open enrollment in October, but we believe they’ve made significant progress,� said Gary Cohen, director of the department’s Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, on a conference call with reporters.

The exchanges will enable consum-� ers to compare health plans and are a linchpin of the 2010 law’s efforts to extend coverage to millions of uninsured Americans. So far, 22 Republican governors have said they’ll refuse to participate, leaving it to the federal government to set up markets in those states. “One way or another there will be an exchange operating in every state

by October 2013,� Cohen said.

Enrollment in the exchanges must begin by Oct. 1 for plans that will take effect next year. The U.S. government plans to give states that run their own exchanges a share of about $2 billion to help get them started. In addition to the 18 states, Washington, D.C., is building its own exchange.

Matzen to speak at Kiger Hour Max Otto Matzen, assistant profes-� sor of trumpet and brass studies at Utah State University, will discuss Gustav Mahler’s controversial decision to alter Beethoven’s 9th Symphony during the first Kiger Hour talk of 2013. The event will be from 5:15 to 7 p.m. at CafÊ Sabor.

Matzen’s talk “Gustav Mahler’s Retuschen: Events leading to the alter-� ations of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and the aftermath,� will feature a student guest, sophomore Erik Horne who will perform a handful of excerpts on trumpet.

According to Matzen, Mahler was no stranger to controversy.

Historically, it surrounded the conduc-� tor and composer primarily due to his religious affiliations, he said. “However, when [Mahler] began taking liberties by making his own alterations to Beethoven’s monu-� mental 9th Symphony, he fell under heightened scrutiny. I plan to briefly examine Mahler’s rationale for his Retuschen, and survey an excerpt of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony that remains altered within contemporary performance practice.�

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Vice Provost pursues planetarium presidency

BY CALE PATTERSON features senior writer

Shelves lining the walls of Michelle Larson’s office were once filled with files, books and resources. They now lie bare. The desk is clear. The office she used for more than six years in her central administration position as vice provost is empty. Her time at USU is over after accepting a posi-� tion as president and CEO of the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.

Larson leaves USU with mixed emotions — both excitement for the oppor-� tunities to come in her new position and a deep appreciation for the people she was able to work with at Utah State. “That’s probably what I’m most excited about,� she said. “It’s unknown, it’s uncharted.�

Those in the provost’s office have expressed appre-� ciation for Larson and her contributions to the univer-� sity. “She is an outstanding individual, a consummate professional,� said Larry Smith, senior executive vice provost. “She was incred-� ible. She is incredible to work with.�

Smith worked with Larson since she was hired and was on the search com-� mittee that recommended her for hire in 2006. He said her intelligence, capacity for innovation and creativity as well as her high standard

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of excellence were factors which led to her hire, and she exhibited those qualities throughout the duration of her time at USU. “She hit a home run when we interviewed her,� he said. “We were very, very lucky she crossed paths with us.

The things that she has done will have a lasting

impact for a long, long time to come.�

Larson worked in various positions within the pro-� vost’s office. Her responsi-� bilities consisted in dealing with special projects which were unanticipated by the university. Projects ranged from college mergers to developing educational pro-�

gramming for an eco center and even participating actively in USU’s recertifica-� tion process for collegiate athletics. “Every ten years, the NCAA re-�accredits the uni-� versity to be able to partici-� pate in collegiate athletics,� she said. “My very first proj-� ect, literally the day I was

hired, was to kind of lead the NCAA recertification effort. Having the academic office be over that recertifi-� cation is to ensure that we’re teaching our students, first and foremost.�

Larson said this initial project was very beneficial in that it introduced her to many of the different

Logan-�based band launches album

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Logan-�based band Little Barefoot will play an album release concert in the USU Performance Hall on Jan. 17 at 7 p.m.

The album, titled “A Hundred Different People (part one)� will include six tracks, but band mem-� ber Taylor Wilson said they plan to release an expanded version in the future. Wilson said he realizes many people don’t pay for music, so the album release is more about sharing the music and building a following than selling records. “I’d rather have people have the music for free and enjoy it and come show their support in other ways,� said Wilson, who co-�writes much of the band’s music.

The album will include art, a poster and other extras to make it appeal to fans who wouldn’t have to pay for the music alone, Wilson said.

Though they’re not charging admission for the concert, the band will sell the new album and other merchandise.

The album will be released on Lucidity, a Logan-�based label. Drummer Ben Wilson and bassist Dillan Stracke, who play with Little Barefoot, started the label. Wilson said he started Lucidity in response to label offers he received as part of another band, Racoon Dog. “They turned out to be really sketchy, and everyone was in it to benefit themselves,� Ben Wilson said. “So instead we decided to start our own label, where we have full control.�

Ben Wilson said Lucidity puts the success of the bands over the success of the label. He said three bands have worked with Lucidity so far,

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aspects and offices of Utah State, and this contact with so many branches of USU’s structure came to be the most rewarding part of her time here. “In leaving, I’m very fond of the fact that I have been able to interact with people

including Racoon Dog, Mountain Woman and Little Barefoot.

Stracke said he enjoys his work with Little Barefoot because it’s more about creative vision than financial success. “My goal is just to get people away from main-� stream, Justin Bieber pop,� Stracke said.

Band member Alex Van Oene said Little Barefoot has been described as experimental folk or new-�wave ‘80s. Van Oene said when a radio producer described the band as new-�wave ‘80s, he was surprised. He couldn’t see the band’s con-� nection with the popular music of the time, but eventually it made more sense. “I started listening to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Bob Dylan and those kind of ‘80s revival bands and that kind of style of writ-� ing,� Van Oene said. “I feel like we embody that.�

Though college bands often break up because members move away, Taylor Wilson said he expects band members will continue playing together for years.

Natalie Beck, a founding member of Little Barefoot, plans on leaving Logan later this month to teach English in Korea, Wilson said. “There’s still a spot in the band when she gets back,� Wilson said. “She’s still going to be listed as a member because she helped start the band.�

Ben Wilson said even if the band members moved to different states, the band could keep playing together. “(Taylor Wilson) could write a song and record a guitar part, and he can send me the file and I can mix the file, put drums over it, send it back

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8%=036 ;-0732 46%'8-')7 with Little Barefoot. SAMANTHA BEHL photo

When I arrived at Alex Van Oene’s apartment to interview the band Little Barefoot, he and the other band members were popping in and out of the door. Between hurried introductions, I learned the ceiling in Van Oene’s room was leaking. I went back to look and asked if there was anything I could do, but they had already pulled out most of his valuables and now they were putting tupperware bins under the slowly growing streams of water. A pipe had probably frozen and burst — I’d heard similar stories during the recent cold snap.

Then a chunk of the ceiling about the area of a bathtub buckled and fell, gallons of water cascading after it.

Several profanities followed.

I thought we’d have to reschedule, but ten minutes later the band members surprised me by setting up for the photo shoot. As the band’s full volume rang from the living room walls, Van Oene and the others played as if part of their house hadn’t just collapsed. “When I play music, I really like to get into it and lose myself in the music, almost,� Van Oene said in an interview the next day.

The jam session helped everyone in the apartment calm down after the collapse, he said. “I got really antsy and thought I should be doing something, but but at the same time, I felt like I couldn’t really do anything about the ceiling,� he said. “We just kind of had to sit there and wait. But music is music, right? It was good to forget about it for a second.� – Steve Kent is the editor in chief of the Utah Statesman. Send comments to steve.kent@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Les Mis fails on some fronts, flourishes on others Spencer Palmer

“Les Miserables�

Grade: B

Film

Review

I’m not a die hard “Les Miserables� fan.

I’ll admit my exposure to the story is limited.

I read an abridged version of Victor Hugo’s novel nine years ago. In my entire life I listened to one song completely and heard bits and pieces of some of the other songs.

In essence, the movie “Les Miserables� was my first experience with the songs and musical story.

The story of “Les Miserables� is too complicated to mention in a simple summary. For that, check CliffsNotes. The lessons in the movie are just as true as they were when they were first written: forgiveness, redemption, hope and freedom.

The movie had a grand feel to it. It effectively took the feel of a stage performance and turned it into a large masterpiece. “Les Miserables� was composed of the songs from the Broadway musical with slight additions of action, music, and dialog.

Don’t mistake this for a filmed stage production. The movie is a raw and heavy. It allows for things to be done that can’t be effectively demonstrated on any stage.

Much of the hype of “Les Miserables� came

from the announcement that the singing was to be recorded on the sets rather than a postproduction dubbing.

With the technology and methods of modern film, this wasn’t much of a dramatic achievement.

During most of the songs, the camera was close to the actors, making it convenient to have a boom microphone very near to the singing.

What was more impressive was the raw emotion the actors put into the songs. It was more than a person hitting the notes perfectly while standing still on a stage. The actors had liberty to act and bring more feeling to the characters than the songs could by themselves.

LES MISERABLES COMBINES SONGS from the Broadway musical with Hollywood action, music and dialog.

Unlike a stage perfor- Stock photo mance, there’s no interactor, and I look forward continuously develop her in “Sweeney Todd: The mission, which makes the movies from now on. “Les Miserables,� the to seeing him again this skills as her acting career Demon Barber of Fleet movie movie seem long.

Street,� “Harry Potter and It’s more than two and a pinnacle of the story summer in “Man of Steel� progresses. brought to film, featured as Superman’s father JorI’ve never been incred- the Deathly Hallows� and half hours. ibly impressed with “Alice in Wonderland.�

The filming was done an all-star cast. Hugh El. Jackman’s a strong, highI was surprised to Amanda Seyfried, but Colm Wilkinson must with the shaky cam methods, much like “The ly-talented actor with a hear Crowe singing. He’s she did a decent job as be mentioned for his perBourne Supremacy,� in background in Broadway, never had a singing role Cosette. She’s a plausi- formance as the Bishop an attempt to further making him perfect for in a film before. As a mat- ble adult of the younger in the movie because he draw the audience into the commanding physi- ter of trivia, he’s part of a Cosette. Her previous played Jean Valjean in cal performance of Jean rock group, The Ordinary acting includes “Gone,� the 1985 performance of the scenes.

Fear of God. “Red Riding Hood� and “Les Miserables.�

The songs and most Valjean.

Recognized everyAnne Hathaway was “Mamma Mia.�

If you’re a fan of Les of the music came where as Wolverine for simply amazing.

As she Sacha Baron Cohen Miserables, whether it’s from Claude-Michel Schonberg, the origi- his part in the “X-Men� played one of the most is quite a varied actor. the story or the songs, nal composer of the movie franchise, Jackman unfortunate characters He’s been the star of you’ll want to see this Broadway production, has also shown other in the story, she brought an intriguing series of movie sometime, but not helping to keep the film sides of his abilities everything to the table. characters in title mov- necessarily in theaters. familiar to the fans and in “The Prestige� and She effectively showed ies “Borat,� “Bruno� and “Australia.� the desperate situation “The Dictator.� He’s quite powerful to all. — Spencer Palmer is a Russell Crowe was per- Fantine was in with all skilled at singing as well, Director Tom Hooper graduate student workfect as Javier.

Everything the distraught and trauas he demonstrates as brought a strong backing toward an MBA with ground from “The King’s I’d ever imagined in ma that came with it. Thenardier. He’s crazy a recent bachelor’s in Speech� to tackle the Javier was present in Hathaway is a force to be but smooth. mechanical engineering.

Madame Thenardier is challenges of bring- Crowe. Best known for reckoned with. Her other Email him at spencer. ing one of the biggest “Gladiator,� “A Beautiful screen talents include played extraordinarily by palmer@aggiemail.usu.

Mind� and “Master “The Dark Knight Rises,�

Helena Bonham Carter.

Broadway hits of all time edu or visit his website, to the silver screen. He and Commander: The “The Princess Diaries� She’s proven herself as themovieknight.worddid a great job and will Far Side of the World,� and “The Devil Wears a magnificent singer press.com Crowe’s an excellent Prada.�

She seems to and actor, participating probably have his pick of

LARSON: Stepping outside the box From page 4 all across campus,� she said. “I enjoy interacting with so many different people and people who are so good and so proud of the role they play on campus. I just love that interaction.�

Larson said prior to work-� ing at USU, she associated primarily with people who were similar to her in their skill sets and ways of accom-� plishing tasks. Since coming to Utah State, she said she has come to appreciate the value of surrounding herself with people who do things differently than she does. “Interacting with the breadth of individuals that I’ve been able to, I’ve really grown to appreciate new ways of approaching a prob-� lem, new ways of communi-� cating,� she said. “I’ve broad-� ened my appreciation of the skill sets that can come to the table since stepping outside my little physicist’s world.�

Larson advised students to take advantage of the opportunities they have and explore classes that are out-� side what they’re typically interested in. “I’m not sure all students during the time they’re here recognize the opportunities available to them in terms of stepping outside the box and taking a class that’s about something you never knew you wanted to know

MICHELLE LARSON’S RUBBER DUCK COLLECTION consists of 147 rubber ducks. Stock photo

about,� she said. “But take it, because it will open your mind.�

Larson grew up in Anchorage, Alaska and received her bachelors degree, master’s degree and Ph.D. from Montana State University. She began her undergraduate work in 1989 and finished her Ph.D. in 2001. “I kept taking all those interesting classes to take,� she said. “I wasn’t in a hurry.�

Larson has a six year old daughter with her husband and enjoys hobbies such as cooking, hiking and geocaching. She said work is a passion for her and she spends much of her time working, but also spending time with her family.

She also has an extensive collection of rubber ducks, which she began collecting in grad school. She said there is a rubber duck for everything and enjoys her collection greatly. “My daughter and I just recently counted them and I have a 147 rubber duck collection,� she said. “I can’t remember why I started.

Everyone has a few rub-� ber ducks around. If you’re aware of it, there’s a rubber duck for everything. It’s a lit-� tle obnoxious, but it’s pretty fun, and then when you take a bath you can just grab a handful and throw them in and you have fun.� – calewp@gmail.com

BAREFOOT: Playing without regrets From page 4 and he can put singing on top,� Ben Wison said. “We can sit here and have a practice for a whole week and not even see each other and be in com-� pletely different states. As far as people moving away, I don’t think that’s ever a big deal.�

Though the band is promoting their music through online track releases and tours, Taylor Wilson said their motive isn’t money. “It’s just all about the music,� Taylor Wilson said. “I feel like that’s cheesy to say. I don’t think anyone gets to the end of their life and says, ‘I wish I had never played music.’� – steve.kent@aggiemail.usu.edu

Little Barefoot Band Members: Taylor Wilson (guitar, keyboard, lead vocals) Natalie Back (keyboard, vocals) Alex Van Oene (guitar, violin) Dillan Stracke (bass) Ben Wilson (drums) Doug Deakin (drums) Jesse Massey (strings)

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CenterPiece SOPHOMORE QUARTERBACK CHUCKIE KEETON eludes a tackle in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, left. Below, USU football fans show their support in the stands at Bronco Stadium in Boise, Idaho.

DELAYNE LOCKE photos

HEROES OF SPUDTOWN TAVIN STUCKI news editor

BOISE, Idaho — For 53 minutes, penalties, offensive struggles and even a little ill-‐ ness stagnated Utah State in the 2012 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.

Aggie quarterback Chuckie Keeton ran 62 yards for the only touchdown in the first three quarters and a com-‐ bined four field goals made it a 13-‐9 game with seven min-‐ utes left.

Enter Kerwynn Williams.

The USU senior running back scored three touchdowns

WIDE RECEIVER CHUCK JACOBS is brought down by a Toledo defenders, above. Above right, linebacker Kyler Fackrell helps tackle a Toledo ball carrier. Above far right, the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl mascot dances while Aggie cheerleaders look on.

Far right, then-head coach Gary Andersen holds the Potato Bowl Championship trophy. Right, fans and players celebrate USU’s victory on the field at Bronco Stadium in Boise, Idaho. DELAYNE LOCKE photos

over the final seven minutes to earn MVP honors and lead Utah State in the 41-‐15 blast-‐ ing of the Toledo Rockets on Saturday.

“Kerwynn found some creases for one thing, that’s what happened,” said USU head coach Gary Andersen.

After the game, a slight cough was the only thing to hinder Williams’ smile.

“I actually wasn’t sick at all until I was out there playing.

It’s a little cold out there,” he joked with reporters after the game.

Williams’ 235 rushing yards was the second-‐most

ever in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. With his 34 receiving yards added in, he broke the Western Athletic Conference record for career all-‐purpose yardage with 6,922.

Williams said he was happy with the result, the season and his career as an Aggie.

As for the cough, the Las Vegas native isn’t worried.

“This win will be medicine enough,” he said.

– tavin.stucki@aggiemail.usu. edu Twitter: @StuckiAggies

SENIORS WILL DAVIS AND MATT AUSTIN celebrate on the field during the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, left. Clockwise above, fans celebrate the Aggie victory after the game on the field. Above, a fan holds a sign celebrating senior running back Kerwynn Williams’ accomplishment in becoming the Westen Athletic Conference’s alltime yardage leader. Below, thenhead coach Gary Andersen puts his arm around Williams, who holds the Potato Bowl Championship and Most Valuable Player trophies.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Over- or underrated?

Curtis Lundstrom

Livin’ the Dream

With the “Class of 1996� — Derek Jeter, Kobe Bryant, Ray Lewis and Tiger Woods — getting so much attention in the media recently, it got me thinking about elite athletes and sports legends and I asked myself a question: Who are the most overrated and under-� rated elite athletes in sports?

Immediately, the first THE HURD unveils a large team flag emblazened with the university logo at the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum at the beginning of the basketball season- athlete that comes to my mind is Dan Marino of the CURTIS RIPPLINGER photo Miami Dolphins. Talk about underrated. While he will likely slip to No. 3 in all-�time passing yards next season behind Brett Favre and Peyton Manning, there’s something about Marino.

Consider that he threw for 10,000 more yards than the fourth-�place quarterback, John Elway, during an era in

BY MARK HOPKINS campus. “It was built with the other venues.� “It’s hard to believe the NFL that had the run-�first, staff writer “When the Spectrum seats very close together, “It’s a special place,� now,� Olsen said of the pass-�second mindset. He held is at its best, it’s as fine as people can attest to, so Morrill said. “People all school spirit. “I want this nearly every passing record of home-�court advantage that puts the crowd right over the country have cop-� experience for everyone Editor’s note: This is the in the books until the NFL as there is anywhere in on top of the game and ied our students because that goes to Utah State. first in a three-�part series transitioned to a pass-�happy the opponent,� Morrill it goes viral and it’s on You go to the rest of the detailing the Dee Glen Smith the country,� said head league. coach Stew Morrill. “The said. “If they ever need YouTube. I’ve had college schools in the state, you Spectrum Until this season, Marino acoustics, the creativity of to replace it, they need to coaches tell me that it’s on don’t get that. I went to held the single-�season pass-� build another one just like an even par with Duke’s LSU and we played at that ing mark and remains in the Standing on the north edge the students, the students getting the regular fan it.� crowd.� stadium down there with of campus, its common top 5 in a handful of passing into the game, all of that is One of the keys to the The history and evolu-�

80,000 people wearing yel-� categories. Pretty astounding outside appearance masks fabulous and as good as it success of the Spectrum tion of some of the more low and I said, ‘Why can its tortuous inner cham-� considering during the past gets.� has been the creativity of popular cheers and tra-� we not be this way?’� bers. Seating 10,270, what 15 years since he retired the It boasts a .921 winning what ESPN announcers ditions that have since After the fight song took NFL has become a pass-�happy, once was quiet erupts on have described as “one of gained national attention hold, Olsen’s next task game day in what has been percentage under head quarterback-�oriented league. coach Stew Morrill, and the smartest student sec-� is rich and deep, beginning was to get all fans wearing called the West’s premier The only reason Marino is only silent during free tions in the entire nation.� with some of the key unify-� blue. Using about 200,000 gets left out of the “greatest home-�court advantage by throws and by student “I think it’s grown into a ing components. blue Tootie Fruities as ESPN, a top-�five college quarterback of all time� dis-� decision. place that is an experience bribes, Olsen gave them basketball fan base honor-� cussion is his failure to win a The Spectrum opened every single time you go Game day Shirts out to any fan around the able mention by Bleacher super bowl. Teams win Super for basketball play on Dec. there,� said Tyler Olsen, arena wearing blue.

Report and is frequently Bowls, and Marino never had 1, 1970 with an Aggie vic-� former ASUSU vice presi-�

When Olsen, a former “Like Pavlov’s dog theo-� the help the other greats had, named by visiting players tory against Ohio State, dent of athletics and cre-�

Aggie football player, was ry, it worked,� he said. as the most hostile arena which makes him a pretty and has seen 1,491 victo-� ator of the game day shirts. elected to his post in 2004, However, due to the high clear favorite for most under-� they have played in. ries since. Morrill credits “You can know nothing one of his first problems price of Aggie apparell, As the commercial rated player. the stadium’s structure for about basketball and walk was no one having enough many students couldn’t states, the Dee Glen Smith On the flip side, there are away feeling like you had school spirit to learn the Spectrum is the most inter-� aiding the crowd’s effec-� the overrated players. tiveness. an experience unlike most fight song.

See MAGIC, page 9 esting place on the USU I’m talking the likes of Tim Tebow, Dennis Rodman and Jimmer Fredette.

YMNASTICS Before I go too much fur-� ther, let me define overrated.

I’m not talking overhyped.

That list is far too long and includes some of the greatest athletes of all time. I’m talking those players that get endless

BY DANIELLE MANLEY Both Montoya and sophomore Sarah Landes recognition because they’re staff writer are confident in their team, despite the young talented and expected to be talent.

The season opener for the USU gymnastics the best, but perform sub-� “Our team is really good this year,� Montoya team will be their chance to showcase new tal-� par. said. “We have a lot of freshman. It’s a lot of ent and increased confidence.

Tebow is easily the most new talent. They’ve all stepped up to the plate The 2013 gymnastics season will begin 1 overrated player in profes-� and I’m excited to see what they do. We’re solid p.m. Friday at Brigham Young University. Head on all four events.� sional sports today. The guy coach Jeff Richards said he is excited about the is not an NFL quarterback. “We have a lot of potential,� Landes said. “So team’s progression this season and is eager to He doesn’t have a quality stat far, they’re stepping up to the challenge.� kickstart the official season. line. He has not performed Richards agreed with his athletes about the “We’re just hoping to go out there and get any where close to where he future potential of the team. our feet wet and realize the season’s here,� was expected to. “We’ve got some really great stuff hap-�

Richards said. “I think the girls are already I’m a die-�hard Denver pening,� Richards said. “Our freshmen have excited. There’s not huge expectations. We’re Broncos fan and it was one of been really good. We’ve got Paige Jones, one coming out a little bit slow this year. We’re just the happiest moments of my of our upperclassman, that has been looking trying to get out there and put things together.� really good. Sarah Landes last year did really life when he left. Yes, he led Richards and the rest of the team over-� the Broncos to an 8-�8 record well. She’s a sophomore, she’s looking really came several medical challenges early in the and a playoff win, but that good. We’ve got a couple of freshman, Kinzey season. Though they only lost two seniors to was in an absolutely abys-�

Martinez, Hayley Sanzottii and Michelle graduation, gymnasts Amanda Watamaniuk, mal AFC West division and Yasukochi that are on fire right now and look-�

Samantha Wagner and Breyanna Aufiero were ing really good.� against less than stellar teams. injured and will not compete this season.

He had one good game, Other than confidence in their team’s Watamaniuk injured her elbow at the end of potential, Montoya and Landes are also excited which conveniently came in last season and Aufiero tore her ACL just weeks about their team’s performance at the meet the playoffs at home against before the Aggie Exhibition Tournament.

Pittsburgh. against BYU. Wagner has been battling scoliosis for years During his 11-�game stint as “It’s fun to go out against your big rival at and underwent surgery in December. starting quarterback he threw the beginning of the season,� Landes said. “We were hoping to get another year of 12 touchdowns and six inter-� “It’s our first meet and being a young team, beam out of her,� Richards said about Wagner. you don’t know how the freshman are going ceptions with a completion “But it just wasn’t in the cards.� percentage of 46 percent. to respond,� Montoya said. “But we put them Challenges are eagerly accepted by the team He is vastly overrated. under a lot of pressure in training and they do and regardless of the injuries, the girls have The same applies to Dennis well. And I think that’s exactly what they’re high hopes for the future.

Rodman. Don’t get me wrong, going to do.� “Training was a little more rigorous this the guy could rebound, but year, but in a good way,� senior Amelia that was all. Even those stats – daniellekmanley@gmail.com Montoya said. “We’ve had our fair share of Twitter: @daniellekmanley injuries, but like every gymnastics team, it’s JOANNA CUBA performs a floor routine during the See CURTIS, Page 9 expected.� blue and white exhibition CURTIS RIPPLINGER photo

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Which player deserves NFL Rookie of the year?

BY JASON BORBA

BY ERIC JUNGLBUT

BY CURTIS LUNDSTROM

Robert Griffin III is the NFL Rookie of The Year.

Period. The enormous expectations placed on the shoulders of the young rookie quarterback were met and even exceeded during his rookie year.

RGIII led the Redskins to their first division title in 13 years, and their first playoff appearance since 2007. Over the years Redskins fans have seen their team fail year after year, but this year RGIII gave them hope for a brighter future.

In 2012 the Redskins rocketed from the bottom of the NFC to NFL relevance with the passing and running ability of their star quarterback. Andrew Luck and Russell Wilson- RGIII’s main competition for ROY- were drafted into franchises with recent success.

The Seattle Seahawks made the super bowl in 2006 and had a string of playoff appearances from 2003-10.

The numbers RGIII put up also speak for themselve. He finished the a quarterback rating of 102.4, which was good enough to finish third in the league. He finished the season with 20 touchdown passes which was lower than both Luck and Wilson, but RGIII only threw five interceptions.

Luck finished with 18 and WIlson had 10.

Along with his passing ability RGIII can flat out run even if it’s only on one good leg. He finished with 815 yards on 120 attempts, and tacked on nine touchdowns. The 815 yards rushing by RGIII placed him in the top 20.

All the numbers point to RGIII, but if the numbers aren’t good enough look at where the Redskins were one year ago and where they are today.

The fact that Russell Wilson is the sole remaining member of the rookie three still active in the playoffs should be the only excuse I need to convince you that he is the quarterback most deserving of the 2012 Rookie of the Year Award. But just in case you still need some more convincing, hear me out.

Wilson got an earful from the media when he entered the NFL Draft last year. He was considered too short to be a good quarterback and many thought he would pursue a career in the MLB. He ended up being picked in the third round by the Seahawks, but their signing of Matt Flynn from the Packers added to the idea of Wilson becoming another NFL nobody.

Instead, Wilson became just the opposite. He beat out Flynn for the starting job and led the Seahawks to the playoffs for the second time in three years — this time with a winning record. The team’s success cannot be completely attributed Wilson, however.

His receiving corps is talented, his running back Marshawn Lynch lives up to his nickname, and the defense has given him ample opportunities to score.

Still, Wilson’s cool pocket presence and ability to break down and run has put his team within two wins of a Super Bowl berth and has shown his true leadership skills.

Yes, Andrew Luck turned the Colts around, and RGIII did the same for the Redskins. But Luck’s knack for engineering late-game comebacks ran out against Baltimore and RGIII’s injuries prove he is too risky a player. Wilson utilized the weapons around him to set a once-laughable organization in the right direction.

Russell Wilson is the popular choice among Aggie faithful for fairly obvious reasons, but Andrew Luck is the rookie of the year. Here’s why: The Stanford grad took a team that was 2-14 last season and led them to an 11-5 record and a playoff berth. He threw for 1,200 more yards than any other rookie quarterback and was the first rookie quarterback in NFL history to throw for 4,000 yards and win 10 games.

And that’s where the records start. Other rookie records Luck owns after his stellar season include six 300-yard passing games, the single-game passing record and seven game-winning drives.

The numbers support his performance, but it’s his seven game-winning drives — most by any starting quarterback since 1970 — that scream rookie of the year to me. Luck kept his team in games with his composure in pressure situations and found ways to win.

Not to mention that Luck accomplished all of that without Indianapolis head coach Chuck Pagano, whose battle with leukemia kept him off the sideline for the entire regular season.

Luck’s biggest fault is turnovers. He had 18 interceptions and five fumbles this season. It’s a concern, but when you combine that he was hit and hurried more than any other quarterback in the league with the fact that he is indeed a rookie, it helps.

He’ll learn to more effectively take care of the football as he gains experience in the league, and if his offensive line gives him protection, watch out.

– jborba@aggiemail.usu.edu @JBorba15

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

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MAGIC: From the beginning From page 8 afford a game day shirt.

Olsen and some friends designed a cheaper version they could sell on the side and despite some con-� troversy with competing sellers, the game day shirts were born and have been sold by the bookstore since 2005. “The first ones looked really ugly,� he said. “I wasn’t looking to make a profit, I was just trying to build the spirit.�

With a goal of unifying the student body and creat-� ing a “sixth man,� Olsen said although his advisors were initially worried about a surplus, sales shot up and the shirts quickly became a success.

The Refraction Matt Sonnenberg arrived at Utah State the year after Olsen graduated and continued building the traditions. His first effort in building unity came in 2007 with his friend Kraig Williams via the parody

newsletter known as The Refraction. “We were chatting one night, thinking of how we could ramp things up, of how could we get people more rowdy,� he said. “I stayed up through the whole night that night, making up what ended up being the template.�

The duo co-�wrote the paper, beginning with 100 copies the first game, and walked up and down the aisles trying to con-� vince people to read it.

Sonnenberg said by the third game people were flagging them down to read it. “We tried coming up with parody style news stories,� Sonnenberg said. “We put that in there and dug up all the dirt we could on the opposing team to go along with whatever else, game preview and oppos-� ing team rwoster, and kind of took a shot.�

Although they received a few donations and sponsor-� ships, Sonnenberg said the paper was mainly financed out of the writers’ pockets.

“I spent well over $1,000 out of my own pocket for it, not counting the hun-� dreds and hundreds of hours spent making it,�

Sonnenberg said.

The Refraction was soon passed around to the entire student body and helped organize new chants and cheers. Sonnenberg cred-� ited Jay Wamsley, the advi-� sor for the Utah Statesman, with helping the publica-� tion grow by slipping it to the national press at the Spectrum. It has since been mentioned by ESPN, USA Today, the New York Times and Sports Illustrated.

While the paper was last published in 2011 due to Sonnenberg and Williams graduating, Sonnenberg said any student willing to put in the time and creativ-� ity is welcome to produce a similar product. “I really think it helped organize the student body,� he said. – m.hop@aggiemail.usu.edu Twitter:@legendarymhops

were padded with the num-� ber of times he pulled down his own rebound. His rise to stardom was fueled more by his off-�court antics and the fact he was a member of several title teams led by Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen.

Does anyone even remem-� ber he was a member of the Detroit Pistons or San Antonio Spurs?

He averaged a solid 13 rebounds per game for his career but averaged seven points and three personal fouls per game compared to one assist and half a steal.

He’s not even remotely elite.

And as for Jimmer Fredette — well, let’s just say his field goal percentage got worse from his sophomore season to his junior season and then even worse his senior season, yet his points per game steadily climbed to

– curtislundstrom@gmail.com Twitter: @CurtisLundstrom

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Watch out for winter water damage It’s no secret that most of Utah’s population resides along the stretch from Provo to Brigham City known as the Wasatch Front. This fact, combined with the overwhelming amount of in-state students who attend Utah universities, leads to many simply considering college to be their “second home.� Many at Utah State live only a few hours drive — if that — from their homes An Editorial Opinion and families, and don’t consider Logan their real home.

For those students who come from out of state and establish residence in Utah to take advantage of the lower tuition, Logan is not just a place where they spend eight months out of the year and then jaunt south for the summer: It becomes their home. As such, residents of Logan should make it a point to get renter’s insurance or have some sort of plan for when the unthinkable happens.

The Statesman recently ran a feature about the local band Little Barefoot and their upcoming album. During the interview at guitarist Alex Van Oene’s apartment, a frozen pipe burst and caused part of the ceiling to collapse. Events like this are common in Logan’s frigid winter months and can render thousands of dollars worth of electronic devices and other important items worthless within seconds.

It’s not just the winter months to worry about, either. During the summer, dry, hot weather can start fires. Human error can factor in as well: A stray BB set off a sprinkler in Davis Hall last semester, causing thousands in water damage and cleanup. Basically, one can’t predict when something will go horribly wrong. Doesn’t it make sense to protect valuables before disaster strikes?

It is safe to assume that many Aggies rent during the school year. It just makes sense to have renter’s insurance should anything go wrong, which the Davis Hall incident proved is a very real possibility.

It is also safe to assume that many Aggies do not have the finances to afford renter’s insurance. That is understandable.

However, students shouldn’t feel like they don’t have other, cheaper options for protecting their possessions. Buy a fireproof safe to hold important documents such as birth certificates or Social Security cards.

Take down the serial numbers of important electronics under warranty so they can be replaced. Always wrap pipes with a blanket or another type of insulation if the temperature dips below freezing. The list goes on.

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Traditions abound at USU 7PSER &EMPI] ASUSU View

Utah State is a university full of history and many traditions.

Sometimes we forget that USU has been around since 1888 and was once based on agriculture. There are so many stories and meanings that follow this ex traordinar y line of traditions. For instance, have you ever thought of where the name “Aggies� came from or how True Aggie Night started? The traditions at Utah State are what make USU a great school to attend.

They are things you will remember long after you graduate.

We are known as the Utah State Aggies, but where did this term really come from? Back in 1894, at the first football game played against the University of Utah, reporters referred to the Utah Agricultural College as “Farmers.� Occasionally they would refer to the players as “Aggies� because the school was based on agriculture.

As soon as the school

was named Utah State University, the farmer nickname disappeared but the public was determined to keep the name “Aggie.�

Utah State has always been known for its honesty, but more importantly, friendliness — but maybe not when it comes to basketball games in the Spectrum.

A tradition that is sometimes forgotten is known as the “Hello Walk,� which was established in 1961. On designated days while walking from Old Main to the Business Building, students are encouraged to say “hello� to one another to promote friendship among students. Occasionally, you will see volunteers stationed along this sidewalk encouraging the tradition.

Let us not forget the often-imitated, but never duplicated True Aggie Night. In 1917, the Beno Club erected their “headstone� on campus, which was a Block A. The Beno club performed service on campus and came up with their name from a school official telling students that there would “be no� clubs because of pranks that were played. The Block A stands as a traditional monument of Aggie spirit. However it is not mentioned in

any student handbook as to how True Aggie Night started, but it’s mentioned in alumni publication that you are not an official USU coed until you have been kissed on this monument. True Aggie Night is held every month on the night of a full moon.

There is something to be said about Utah State athletic games, especially when they are held in the Spectrum.

The USU student section is known to be loud, annoying and intimidating, especially when it comes to Aggie basketball. Traditionally, Aggie basketball has outstanding attendance to every game. We, as students, need to continue the tradition and make sure the Spectrum remains one of the best home court advantages in the nation.

As you can see, Utah State is a wonderful university with some of the most amazing history and school spirit. I encourage every student to make an effort in engaging in our university’s traditions.

Don’t be afraid to “Show Me the Scotsman!�

Sloan Bailey is ASUSU traditions director. Send comments to sloan. bailey@aggiemail.usu. edu.

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I am that student who places extreme confidence in my “winging it� skills at the beginning of each semester. When the teacher discusses the textbook required for the class on the first day of school, I automatically weigh out in my head whether or not I can skip buying the reading material.

Questions that go through my mind include, “Will the information be covered in lecture?

Will the teacher post notes on Canvas? Can I still pass the class without the textbook?�

If the answer is yes to any of these, I usually find myself skipping a trip to the bookstore.

However, there are those rare moments when my heart sinks as I realize there is no way I can make it through

the course without buying the dreaded textbook. In these instances, I still opt for buying used or searching the Internet for the cheapest edition on Amazon or eBay. My motto for all shopping habits carries through to buying necessities: Never pay full price for anything.

I had a class last semester that was one of those “buy the book or fail� kind of courses. I showed up to class confident that I could get through by only taking notes, but left downhearted after the instructor informed the class that the textbook was extremely necessary. She said all tests and assignments would be given through the accompanying e-companion.

So, I relinquished my “no-textbook� policy and purchased the materials — and of course, having a digital disc included, buying used was not an option this time.

A semester later, I’ve never once popped the CD into my disc drive. Turns out, the teacher never figured out how to set up the e-companion with our class. Now I’m stuck with a textbook and CD that I

never used, never will use and can’t sell during textbook buyback.

Now that I’ve aired that grievance, it brings up one more bone I have to pick: textbook buyback.

It’s a great concept — students can sell their used textbooks for some extra cash — but there are a few problems with the system. Half the time I find they only give me a fraction of what I paid for the book, and the other half of the time, they won’t buy it back at all since a brand new edition just came out and apparently the old version just won’t do anymore. Frankly, I don’t see why something as age old as math and science would change enough to warrant a new textbook edition. To me, it sounds like the authors just rearrange the page numbers a little bit so that poor starving college students won’t be able to use the same book twice.

Obviously the publishers know where to make their money. Book prices are rising as fast as tuition, and between them both, students have a hard time making it out of school without a mountain

of debt on their shoulders. Is that any way to send us, the future of America, out into the world?

So now that I’ve analyzed my loathing for textbooks — the root of all college evil — I’ll just plan my trip to the bookstore to sell my old ones for pennies and buy new ones for hundreds. But this semster, I’ll be back in class, looking for ways to beat the system before the first week is up and those hardbacks are nonrefundable.

Tmera Bradley is the senior news writer for The Statesman and a junior majoring in broadcast journalism. Send comments to tmera.bradley@ aggiemail.usu.edu.

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Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Levi Pace, a freshman majoring in buisness administration from Medina, New York.

Almanac Today in History: On Jan. 10, 1946, the first General Assembly of the United Nations, compris-â&#x20AC;? ing 51 nations, convened at Westminster Central Hall in London, England. One week later, the U.N. Security Council met for the first time and established its rules of procedure.

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SaturdayJan 12 Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Basketball vs. San Jose State, Spectrum 7:05-â&#x20AC;?

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LUX Exhibit, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art 10-â&#x20AC;?5 p.m.

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MondayJan 14 Traditions Week Instructors signature required to add class Hello Walk, Quad 11 a.m.

TuesdayJan 15 Traditions Week Sweatshirt Swap, TSC HUB 11 a.m.

Campus feud, TSC Lounges 7 p.m.

WednesdayJan 16 Traditions Week Sweatshirt Swap and Scotsman Dogs, TSC HUB 2:30 p.m.

Common Hour: The End of Racism Lecture with Preacher Moss, TSC Ballroom 11:30-â&#x20AC;?12:30 p.m.

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Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Basketball vs. New Mexico State, Spectrum 7-â&#x20AC;?9 p.m.

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Auditions for singers and dancers to perform in the annual big band show, â&#x20AC;&#x153;In The Miller Moodâ&#x20AC;? will be held Jan. 12 at 11 a.m. at 2600 N. 200 E. North Logan (Thomas Edison School). This is a paying gig+ 3 hours class credit. For more infor-â&#x20AC;? mation call 435-â&#x20AC;?753-â&#x20AC;?1551.

The USU Ecology Center will host Joshua Schimel from University of California Santa Barbara for two seminars Jan 14 and Jan. 16 at 6 p.m. Dr. Schimel is a leading scientist in ecosystem ecol-â&#x20AC;? ogy and soil microbiology. Wednesday evening he will present a talk for general audiences focused on the under appreci-â&#x20AC;? ated role of soil in human society.

A Carnival of Service will be held at Wilson Elementary (89 S. 500 E., Logan) on Jan. 21 from 1-â&#x20AC;?7 p.m. Activities will include performances by local musi-â&#x20AC;? cians, games and prizes, a silent auc-â&#x20AC;? tion, a pie throwing booth and feature performance by Logan Out Loud Improv Comedy at 6 p.m. An entrance donation of $2 is requested. Check out CSF VISTA on Facebook for more info.

There is a support group for those who suffer from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or who have a loved one who suffers from OCD. Contact Christina at 435-â&#x20AC;?787-â&#x20AC;?6366 with any questions. The group meets in the Ephraim Room at the Logan Library.

Snowbasin Ski Mountain is hosting a USU ski day on Jan 26. They have issued the Outdoor Recreation Program www. orp.usu.edu reduced lift tickets to sell in advance. These tickets will only be avail-â&#x20AC;? able at the ORP, not at Snowbasin. They are $32 off the normal ticket price, the tickets will cost $50. If interest abounds there will even be a shuttle bus going down from campus. All USU students, faculty and staff (plus their immediate family) are encouraged to participate. But get your tickets in advance at the ORP. Club M.ed is hosting a Principal Panel for all Secondary Education students Jan. 31, 6-â&#x20AC;?7 p.m. in ENGR 101.

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The USU chapter of Fight The New Drug is hosting the battle of the bands fundraiser event for Fight The New Drug. The event will take place Feb. 23.

Local indie band Little Barefoot will be playing at the USU Performance Hall on Jan. 17 at 7 p.m. to mark the release of their album, â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Hundred Different People (part 1).â&#x20AC;? Admission is free, but seating is limited.

Visit Little Barefoot on Facebook for more details.

The Cache County Bar Association will hold its montly pro bono legal pro-â&#x20AC;? gram Jan 10 at the Historic Cache County Courthouse. This free service is designed for those who cannot otherwise afford an attorney. Services will be provided on a first come, first serve basis. Call Kevin Fife at (435) 752-â&#x20AC;?1551 for more information.

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