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Engineers recruit local talent BY TAVIN STUCKI news editor
USU’s engineering program is loaded with male students, something evident to the Society of Women Engineers. Saturday, SWE hosted an outreach event for high school girls in the Engineering Building in an attempt to reverse that trend. According to enrollment numbers from the Fall 2012 semester, approxi-� mately 10 percent of all of USU’s 1,982 undergradu-� ate students in the College of Engineering are female. Women make up about 15 percent of all USU 413 graduate engineering students, which offers a doctorate degree in engi-� neering education. “The percentage of women in engineering is relatively small,� said Gilberto Urroz, an asso-� ciate civil engineering professor. “These types of programs are good to increase the appeal of prospective students and entice women into engi-� neering.� Professor Chris Hailey, associate dean in the College of Engineering, said eventually she wants to see women comprise at least 50 percent of all engi-� neering students at USU. “In the country, there’s a shortage of engineers,� she said. “Engineers make a world of difference, wheth-� er it’s in the area of health or environment or energy or national security. All of those areas require tech-� nological solutions. They require engineers.� Isabello Muffoletto, a senior from Logan High School who attended SWE’s Engineering Extravaganza, described the stigma. “Personally, I don’t know any girls that would feel comfortable going into engineering,� Muffoletto said. “They don’t think they’re smart enough or that it’s a man’s field.� Hailey said she thinks one reason the female pop-� ulation isn’t participating in the discipline is because the College of Engineering doesn’t do a good enough job letting high school students know the impor-� tance of the profession. “By the time kids get to college, they’re no longer thinking about engineer-� ing because they never
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Underage drinking on USU’s dry campus
BY PAUL CHRISTIANSEN staff writer
It’s no secret USU had problems with on-�campus alcohol use in the past. Being a “dry� campus, university policy doesn’t allow any sort of alcoholic beverage on cam-� pus at any time. But that isn’t to say problems don’t occur. In fact, the largest part of liquor law viola-� tions in the USU community involve under-� age students. “It makes sense, given the demographic,� said Capt. Steven Milne of the USU Police Department. “Kids come to college for four or five years. They start at the age of 18 and three of those years are under the legal drinking age. A lot of the arrests that we make are in on-�campus housing locations.� The number of arrests for liquor law vio-� lations has increased slightly from the 50 arrests made in 2011. In 2012, USU police made 58 alcohol-�related arrests. “If you’re underage and we find you, you’ll be cited. That’s a criminal matter,� Milne said. “If you’re of legal age and you’re found to have alcohol on campus, that’s a housing policy violation and more of a civil violation. What we do at that point is seize the alcohol and write a report. A copy of that report goes to housing and they’ll follow up with the individual and take the proper action.� USU POLICE made 58 alcohol-related arrests in 2012, up eight from 2011. MICKELLE YEATES photo
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LLC flooded
Seven students temporarily evacuated to University Inn
BY TMERA BRADLEY news senior writer
Water poured down from the ceiling in Tyler Christianson’s apartment around 6:40 a.m. Thursday. His room in the Living Learning Community on cam-� pus was filling with water. “I was still asleep,� said Christianson, a freshman majoring in mechanical engi-� neering. “There was a big crashing sound. I thought, ‘Wow my alarm sounds really
loud.’� Christianson said at first he thought it was just a broken sprinkler. “After I saw water coming out of the light fixtures, I real-� ized what was actually happen-� ing.� Executive director of housing Steve Jensen said the flooding was called by a broken pipe. “Water ran for 20 min-� utes, and it’s a big pipe,� Christianson said. “It was a lot
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DRYERS AIR OUT Tyler Christianson’s LLC apartment, which was flooded by a broken pipe. Photo courtesy Austin Spence
THE AG CHILI COOKOFF featured chili recipes of all sorts. Photo courtesy Lisa Allen
Cadaver chili wins Ag cookoff BY STEVE KENT editor in chief
The annual College of Agriculture Chili Cookoff marked its sixth year with a new location and a new award Saturday in the Junction. Melanie Wilson, an Ag Ambassador and a junior studying nutrition science, coordinated the event. The Chili Cookoff’s main purpose is to bring members of the agricultural community and the college together, she said. “It’s to remind people of what we are and to get people involved,� Wilson said. “It’s something that’s really tra-� ditional, too, like everybody has their recipe and they love their chili.� This year, the judges gave an award in a new category: the Best Department. The trophy — a slow-�cooker spray-�painted gold — went to Michael Bishop, an academic and student services coordi-� nator. Bishop represented the School of Veterinary Sciences with his entry, “Cadaver-�ili.� Next to his slow-�cooker, a piece of paper listed humor-� ous ingredients, correspond-� ing with ingredients actually used, including “goiters,� “intestines� and “lymph nodes� as bell peppers, stewed tomatoes and garlic. “Don’t be thinking those don’t add flavor,� Bishop said. “Those add a lot of flavor. I went with the weaker recipe. The general public — it’s a
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USU Fee Board to propose new exspenses Band, theater, Blue Bikes fees on the increase list ADDISON M.T. HALL staff writer
The USU Fee Board has met twice in recent weeks and as Thursday’s final meeting approaches, four MEG CAMPBELL groups are doing their best to gain support for their
respective fee increases. The music and theatre department, Aggie Health and Wellness, Aggie Blue Bikes and the Campus Recreation department are the four main groups asking for an increase. Meg Campbell, student representative of the music and theatre department, said the extra fees would help the band grow and get the department much-� needed upgrades. She said the total the department is asking for is $4 with $1.50 going to the marching and pep bands and the rest going to the department as a whole. Campbell said the fees for the band would allow
them to purchase more music to play during shows, to hire a field coordinator to help with formations and to increase the size of the band. In order to do this, Campbell said the department would give sti-� pends and additional scholarships to the band mem-� bers. “For a lot of people, the band’s a big time commit-� ment,� Campbell said, explaining the need for better band benefits. She said the money would help the band recruit
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