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Construction to begin on Equine Education Center

By RACHEL A. CHRISTENSEN news editor

USU President Stan Albrecht announced a donation of $400,000 for the USU Equine Education Center at the center’s groundbreaking ceremony Friday.

Albrecht said The ALSAM Foundation’s donation will be used to complete the first phase of the Equine Education Center. Phase one is construction of a 150-by-300 indoor arena, horse stables and site improvements. The foundation was started by the Skaggs family, and part of the center will be named the “Sam Skaggs Family Stable” in their honor.

According to a press release, the cost to build phase one will total $2.9 million.

Albrecht said ALSAM Foundation representatives signed the donation’s paperwork 30 minutes before the groundbreaking ceremony.

Ronny Cutshall, president of ALSAM Foundation, said the Skaggs family had a ranch in Idaho and has been involved in agriculture for a long time. Along with agriculture, the Skaggs family emphasizes education, so the donation was a good fit, Cutshall said.

Noelle Cockett, dean of the College of Agriculture and vice president for Extension and Agriculture, said the center is still looking for more donations and horse stalls can be named for a $10,000 donation.

Albrecht said the $400,000 gift will significantly help pay for the center, and the rest of the money will come from College of Agriculture funds and gifts from other sources. In a time of budget cuts, Albrecht said some campus community members express concern over creating new buildings while university salaries are being cut. The university receives gifts, or one-time donations, specifically for the purposes of building and that’s what the university has to use it for.

“What people need to realize is we can’t deflect (money from these gifts) to salaries,” he said.

Cockett said the college has a significant need for the new Equine Education Center.

“It has an impact not only to our students but throughout Utah and the region,” she said.

The old equine building was located at 1400 North and 600 East across the street from Lee’s Marketplace. It was built in the 1970s and was beginning to show its years, she said.

When building of the Innovation Campus began at the same location, the agriculture research buildings in the area were moved to the South Farm in Wellsville. The Matthew Hillyard Animal, Teaching and Research Center was opened in May, and a sheep facility was also built at the South Farm.

Construction of a new USTAR building on the Innovation Campus was the last push to build a new equine building at the South Farm, she said.

Once the decision to make a new center began, plans were developed and administrators began looking for financial help from donors, Cockett said. The campaign successfully raised $1.6 million and the decision to start building was made, even though the project is not yet completely financed. The price of construction is currently favorable, and she said the building will allow local

- See EQUINE, page 3

AFTER BREAKING GROUND at a ceremony for the USU Equine Education Center, Leland Hogan and Randy Parker from the Utah Farm Bureau chat with USU President Stan Albrecht. Once completed, the center will be used for the university’s equine science and management undergraduate teaching program as well as 4-H and community events. PETE P. SMITHSUTH photo

Board approves Ag minor, VP for Business and Finance

By RACHEL A. CHRISTENSEN news editor

A new stand-alone minor for the College of Agriculture, called climate change and energy, was approved by the Board of Trustees Friday.

This minor will become effective spring 2010.

Provost Raymond Coward said, “This is obviously something that is an important issue for our campus, our state and our nation.”

The minor would require 15 credits, and according to the proposal the minor “will not require new finances initially as teaching resources will be drawn from existing faculty.”

The board also approved the appointment of David Cowley as the new vice president for business and finance. Cowley will take over the position, currently occupied by Fred Hunsaker, Jan. 1.

USU President Stan Albrecht said although “Vice President Hunsaker is as good as it gets,” he is excited for Cowley to step up. Cowley has years of experience and has worked alongside Hunsaker, which Albrecht said more than qualifies Cowley for the job.

Cowley said working with Hunsaker has been a privilege.

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“He is a strong leader and has been a great mentor for me,” Cowley said. “We have worked very closely together over the past two and a half years and I appreciate everything that Fred has taught me about being successful in the vice president position.”

During the meeting, Noelle Cockett, dean of the College of Agriculture, said plans for the new agriculture buildings, which will be built next to the Quad, are underway. The original plan was to construct one building, but the new plan includes a state building and a United States Department of Agriculture building, which will stand side-by-side on the Quad.

The new buildings will have classrooms, offices and research wings as well as a cafe and kiosks in the halls for where agriculture students can sell their products. Aggie Ice cream will be sold there as well, bringing USU’s hallmark dessert back to the university’s central campus, Cockett said.

Albrecht said he anticipates the university will break ground for the buildings early next spring.

USU has sponsorship from both the House of Representatives and the Senate to go forward with its merger with the College of Eastern Utah, Albrecht said. He said he doesn’t anticipate any

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problems getting the Legislature on board as well.

“USU has a great deal of credibility with the Legislature,” Albrecht said.

University administrators are also working with the Legislature on “budget-related issues,” Albrecht said.

The Budget Reduction Committee has been reorganized in an effort to combat the most

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recent $13 million budget cut, what Hunsaker called the “fourth round” of budget cuts.

Hunsaker said the committee should have a recommendation for how to handle the cut by Dec. 1.

Albrecht said the Alumni Legacy Nonresident Scholarship program has been successful, attracting about 240 legacy students its first year. Many of these students transferred to USU from Brigham Young University and BYUIdaho.

“This (legacy program) puts us on an even level with other institutions,” he said.

Master’s students in the School of Accountancy placed USU in the top 10 in the last two years, making USU one of three schools to do so, said Cliff Skousen, professor in the School of Accountancy. BYU has also been in the top 10 for the last two years.

The fee increase has helped the athletics department and improvement in the athletics program is visible, said Scott Watterson, Board of Trustees member.

“I think Scott (Barnes) is on the top of his game. We’re all excited and supportive of it,” Watterson said.

– rac.ch@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Celebs&People CHICAGO (AP) – Aye Carumba!

Marge Simpson has done something that Homer might not like but will make Bart the proudest kid in his school: She’s posed for Playboy SIMPSON magazine.

After more than a half century featuring women like Marilyn Monroe, Cindy Crawford and the Girls of Hooters on its cover, Playboy has for the first time given the spot to a cartoon character.

And the magazine is giving the star of “The Simpsons” the star treatment, complete with a data sheet, an interview and a 2-page centerfold.

The magazine’s editorial director, James Jellinek, won’t say exactly how much of Marge will show in the November edition that hits newsstands on Oct. 16 – or whether she lets that big pile of blue hair down.

But, he said, “It’s very, very racy.”

NewsBriefs

Gays in military

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama restated his campaign pledge to allow homosexual men and women to serve openly in the military, but left many in his audience of gay activists wondering when he would make good on the promise.

“I will end ‘don’t ask-don’t tell,’” Obama said Saturday night to a standing ovation from the crowd of about 3,000 at the annual dinner of the Human Rights Campaign, a gay civil rights advocacy group. He offered no timetable or specifics and he acknowledged some may be growing impatient.

“I appreciate that many of you don’t believe progress has come fast enough,” Obama said. “Do not doubt the direction we are heading and the destination we will reach.”

1 adult killed, students hurt in Idaho bus crash INKOM, Idaho (AP) – A bus carrying a celebrated Utah high school band swerved off an Idaho interstate and crashed on its side, killing an instructor and injuring multiple students.

Police identified the person killed in the Saturday wreck as 33-year-old Heather Christensen of Spanish Fork, Utah, a woodwind instructor for the American Fork High School band.

The band was returning from a competition in Pocatello when the crash occurred at about 7 p.m. MDT on Interstate 15, about two miles north of McCammon and 50 miles north of the Utah border.

Two students were rushed by helicopter to the Portneuf Regional Medical Center in Pocatello. Another 12 students went by ambulance with serious injuries, and 30 were taken to the Pocatello hospital by bus with minor injuries.

Only one student remained in the hospital Sunday evening, and she was expected to be released by Monday, hospital spokesman Brad Huerta told The Associated Press.

Police on Sunday also released the name of the bus driver, who remained hospitalized in stable condition. She is Debra Jarvis, 50, of Spanish Fork, Utah. Police said blood and urine samples were taken, as is customary in fatal accidents. The result will likely take weeks.

“We’re trying to figure out why the bus went off the road,” said Capt. Eric Dayley of the Idaho State Police in Pocatello. A phone call Sunday to Lake Shore Motor Coach Lines in Provo, the charter company that owns the bus that crashed, was unanswered.

John Miller, the band’s director, was on a different bus but said he was told Christensen saw the driver slump over and leaped up to grab the wheel. He said Christensen’s actions likely kept the crash from being even worse.

“She was doing what she loved – helping kids,” Miller said.

Members of the band met Sunday with Miller and his staff at the school to discuss the accident and whether they would participate in a Tuesday competition at Brigham Young University in Provo. A public memorial was to be held at the school gym after Miller and the students met.

“Considering everything, they’re doing wonderful,” Miller said. “They just had a really tough night last night.”

Miller said 54 students were on the bus that crashed.

A total of 222 students were on the trip, divided into four buses.

Idaho State Police officers said the crash scene initially was confusing and chaotic, with the other buses stopped

IDAHO STATE POLICE OFFICERS investigate the scene of an accident where a charter bus with students from American Fork High School (Utah) crashed off the side of the road in the southbound lane of I-15 outside McCammon, Idaho on Saturday evening, Oct. 10, 2009. Four buses carrying approximately 200 students were leaving Idaho, State University and headed back to Utah when the bus crashed. One adult female chaperone was killed in the accident, twelve people were taken to the hospital by ambulance, and two people were transported by medical helicopter. AP photo

nearby and family members steering their vehicles off the road as they came upon the scene of the tragic mishap.

Distraught students sang church hymns after learning of the instructor’s death.

“There were lots of young people milling about, with parents arriving,” Dayley said. “We were able to come together and provide the needed medical attention and law enforcement services.”

American Fork band member James Kimball, 16, was in

the bus behind the one that crashed and witnessed the wreck.

“We were watching a movie, and I looked forward and saw the bus bouncing across the side of the road,” the high school junior told The Salt Lake Tribune. “The bus flew off to the side, bumped across a couple hills and rolled over.”

Kimball said the band, one of Utah’s best-known, won the Pocatello competition. The school’s bands have won the

Utah state title for the past 19 years. The school band also performed at President George W. Bush’s 2005 inauguration and marched in the 2007 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade in New York.

Miller said he was getting calls and e-mails all day Sunday.

“It’s just been powerful,” he said. “The national band community is amazing.”

Mexico’s violent drug war; body found hanging from Tijuana bridge

7. There’s no Nobel Prize for napping.

TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) – The mutilated body of a state official who authorities said was suspected of giving fake driver’s licenses to drug gang members was found hanging from a bridge Friday in the Mexican border city of Tijuana.

Relatives identified the man as Rogelio Sanchez, a Baja California state official in charge of driver’s licenses, said Prisma Perez, a spokeswoman for the state Attorney General’s Office. Sanchez, 44, was kidnapped Wednesday as he left his home in Tijuana.

“The investigation indicates he had been giving licenses to organized crime,” Perez said.

His body was found hanging from the Morelio bridge at 5:30 a.m. in an industrial zone of Tijuana, just as factory workers were beginning to arrive for work.

Mexico’s brutal drug gangs often dump mutilated victims in public places.

Gang violence has killed more than 13,800 people since President Felipe Calderon launched a nationwide crackdown on drug cartels in December 2006. Many have been police and other government officials who are often attacked near their homes or inside their cars.

Calderon has acknowledged that rampant corrup-

6. Your peacemaking efforts focused on Jon and Kate.

UN chief acknowledges fraud in desputed Afghan presidential vote

5. You’re up against Tina Fey – she wins everything, people!

KABUL (AP) – The top U.N. official in Afghanistan on Sunday acknowledged “widespread fraud” in the disputed presidential election and rejected allegations from a former deputy that he covered up cheating to smooth the path to victory for President Hamid Karzai.

The remarks by Norwegian diplomat Kai Eide appeared designed to win back respect for both the troubled U.N. mission and the entire election process ahead of a ruling by investigators on whether fraud was extensive enough in the Aug. 20 balloting to require a runoff.

Eide’s reputation was tarnished when his deputy Peter Galbraith alleged that the U.N. mission chief downplayed allegations of widespread ballot-stuffing

by Karzai’s supporters. Galbraith, the top-ranking

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9. Misspelled “Nobel” and “Prize” on application.

8. Mathematics paper notes “all figures approximate.”

4. Only prize you’ve ever won was for eating 68 hot dogs in ten minutes.

3. Devoted your life to creating a sushi that will still allow Jeremy Piven to act.

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1. Barack Obama flew to Sweden to plead on your behalf.

Most of the bodies were bound and dumped on roadsides. Several had their heads bound in packing tape. Police were alerted to the bodies by a series of telephone tips.

Officials in the western state of Jalisco said four suspects were killed and 17 arrested Friday in an hourslong gun battle between members of a criminal gang and soldiers and police in a rural part of the state.

The state attorney general’s office said the clash began when the suspects were detected by police and took cover on a hillside.

Authorities called in police helicopters to fight the suspects, who fired at the aircraft and hit one. A Mexican army helicopter gunship was then called in. One soldier and a police officer were wounded in the battle.

THE BODY OF AN UNIDENTIFIED MAN hangs from his neck under a bridge on the old Rosarito Prosecutors said they highway as authorities stand by in Tijuana, Mexico, Friday, Oct. 9, 2009. Authorities found the dead man beatseized grenades and other en, naked and castrated, and have not identified him but believe he is Rogelio Sanchez, a Baja California state government official who went missing this week. No suspects were named. The homicide is characteristic of weapons.

Later in the day, authorities Mexico’s brutal drug gangs, which often dump mutilated victims in public places. AP photo in northern Chihuahua state reported that gunmen killed tion is a major obstacle in his and the center of a bloody what is going to happen to a soldier in an attack on army fight against drug trafficking. battle between the Arellano all thieves and extortionists. vehicles near the hamlet of Hundreds of police – and Felix cartel and a gang reputYou know what you’re getting Colonia LeBaron on Thursday. many top-level government edly led by Teodoro Garcia into. Respectfully, the Boss of Five men and seven women officials – have been fired or Simental.

Bosses.” were detained. arrested for suspected ties to Also Friday, police in the In a statement, the The army has been patrolcartels under the Calderon Pacific coast state of Guerrero Guerrero state Public Safety government. reported finding the bodDepartment did not offer any ling the area since anti-crime activist Benjamin LeBaron Tijuana, across the border ies of 10 men, all apparently immediate explanation of the and a neighbor were slain from San Diego, is one of shot to death. Signs left next message or information on there July 7.

Mexico’s most violent cities to the bodies read: “This is the victims.

American in the U.N. mission, was fired Sept. 30 by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon after the widely publicized dispute.

A U.N.-backed fraud panel is expected to decide this week whether to throw out enough votes to require a runoff between Karzai and his top challenger, Abdullah Abdullah. Doubts about the U.N.’s neutrality could throw the panel’s rulings into question.

The Obama administration and its international partners had hoped the vote – the first presidential election run by Afghans – would restore legitimacy to a government plagued by weakness and corruption.

Instead, widespread allegations of ballot-box stuffing have sullied Karzai’s reputation and Galbraith’s accusations threaten to undermine the credibility of the

U.N. which helped organize the election.

In a separate news conference, Karzai told reporters that “confusion” over election results had been “created by Western elements in our country.” He did not elaborate.

During a press conference, Eide said Galbraith’s allegations were untrue in some cases and taken out of context in others. Eide was flanked by ambassadors from the United States, Britain and France in a show of international support for the U.N. mission and its embattled leader.

Eide said he could “only say that there was widespread fraud” and that “any specific figure at this time would be pure speculation” until the recount is

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Ancient and modern heroes celebrated Briefs Campus & Community

By CATHERINE MEIDELL assistant news editor

Youngsters in capes and adults sporting face paint participated in the Museum of Anthropology’s Saturday festivities, “Superhero Day: A Hero with a Thousand Faces.” Every weekend the museum hosts “Saturdays at the Museum” from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. to encourage handson learning of history subjects that spark a modern interest.

The weekend programs were approved by a $50,000 grant in July from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, which allows the museum to be free to the public, said Holly Andrew, the museum’s program coordinator.

Superheros from the fifth century to the present time were celebrated through various activities including caricature drawings, a costume contest and presentation on Greek heroes. There will be a local guest artist to tie in with the weekend’s theme, and caricature artist Doug Hills was the superhero weekend pick, Andrew said.

She said all of the fall topics are based around folklore. Next weekend’s exhibit is “Ancient Masks and Modern Eyes,” informing the public on masks from different parts of the world. The following weekend will explore Harry Potter’s world of magic through an anthropological lens. Saturday themes are chosen by a set of students from education majors to art majors, Andrew said.

“We try to make the events family oriented,” Andrew said. “Saturday events allow people to come to the museum because they aren’t allowed during the week.”

A presentation was prepared by Justin Hall, a former USU graduate student who studied Greek and Roman mythology as part of his academic career. Hall said superheroes show the values they want the rest of their city to imitate, and though many people wish they could live up to these standards, they are not willing or capable

of completing the impossible tasks superheroes have executed over the centuries.

Hall said two of the earliest well-known superheroes are Hercules of Thebes and Theseus of Athens. He said the drama and tragedy in a hero’s life is what has always made it of interest. This is why Homeric tragedies were sculpted around the experience of ancient heroes, Hall said.

Though superheroes are idolized, their experiences are grotesque and they often make decisions that question their role as model citizens. Hall said on the way to Athens, Theseus encountered and battled Procrustes who was notorious for cutting or stretching his captives bodies to fit the bed he placed them on. Hercules is considered the greatest Greek hero, though he killed his wife Megara and three children in a fit of insanity, he said. All Greek heroes have three things in common: “bravery, rash-decision making and confidence,” Hall said.

“The quote from Spiderman, ‘With great power comes great responsiblity,’ is true for ancient Greek heroes too,” Hall said as he compared heroes of ancient and modern times.

The Museum of Anthropology is currently working on getting the word out about the Saturday events through fliers around town and online calendars, Andrew said. Weekends currently attract from 30 to 60 people.

She said a new Web site for the museum is under construction and will be going up soon.

– catherine.meidell@aggiemail. illustration by usu.edu Doug Hill

Risks necessary for success, alumnus says

By MIKAYLA RICH staff writer

“It’s about how you conduct yourself when you’re at the bottom, not when you’re at the top that will determine your life,” said USU alumnus Scott Walker who spoke as part of the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences’ Distinguished Alumni Series on Friday Oct. 9 in the Haight Alumni Center.

Walker talked about his life and how he used his history and political science degree from USU to continue on to get an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management and became successful in the business world. He has headed businesses such as BillMatrix and ProCore Laboratories and has received numerous awards for his accomplishments including being inducted into the Sales and Marketing Executives International Academy of Achievement Hall of Fame.

“I was an Air Force brat,” Walker said.

He moved around a lot when he was younger because of his father’s job in the Air Force. He attended eight grade schools, three high schools in three different states. When Walker was in his senior year of high school, his father was reassigned to Hill Air

Force Base. Consequently, he visited USU campus and decided this was the place for him.

“I was a late bloomer. I didn’t know what I was doing or where I was going,” Walker said. “Then I thought, a history and political science major would go nicely with a business degree, right?”

After receiving his MBA he got started in banking and was successful. He was working with GE Capital and Corporate Finance Group when SCOTT WALKER the savings and loan crisis hit and he was let go. His wife took his 3-year-old son and left him three things: a chair, Walker said. a bed and a big screen TV. He finally got a job at a banking Walker moved into a 600-squarecompany, which wasn’t what he wantfoot apartment and took unemployed, but it was a job. He didn’t have a ment. He fell into depression and was portfolio when he started, but after out of work for two years. two years at the company he had the After hitting rock bottom and hav- largest portfolio in Texas. He got a job ing on $300 to his name he decided to with a well-known entrepreneur, Bill change his life.

Connelly.

“So number one I’m going to get “If you want to be an entrepreneur out of this and I’m going to do it right. don’t get of a school and go start a Number two, I’m going to have a plan. business. Go work for one. Learn It wasn’t like 50 details, but I’m going and understand all the mechanics, to get out of the transaction side of what kind of decisions you have to business, which is what banking is. make,” Walker said. “It’s not about the I said to myself, ‘You’re not creating money. It never will be. If you’re sucanything. Essentially, you’re a leech.’ cessful, money will be there. So how And that’s how I considered myself, about you go out and be successful I had to get into the principle side of first?” business. I’m going to create value,” Success didn’t come easy. A change

of telecom company laws left Walker out of a job, again.

Walker didn’t stop though. He began working as a chief financial officer for a company that needed to clean up its books. After two years the company went public and then the chief executive officer pulled Walker in and said the company wanted to go back to their old ways, so Walker quit.

“I made a decision that I wasn’t going to go to jail for someone else,” Walker said.

A business man heard about what Walker had done and showed him his young company, Telepay. The company had four employees and wanted to expand and be profitable. Walker went to work building up the company. He changed the company’s name to BillMatrix. It became successful after many years. In 2005, BillMatrix was purchased by Fiserv for $350 million.

While still working for BillMatrix, Walker started up ProCore Laboratories, a contract filler company. ProCore achieved positive cash flow within eight months of starting up. Today, the company is successful.

Walker said, “Risk to me, is something you want. You can’t go through life and not take risks, you’ll never be successful.”

– mikayla.rich@aggiemail.usu.edu

Advance screening of ‘ART:21’ at USU An exclusive, advance screening of Peabody Award-winning documentary “Art:21 – Art in the Twenty-First Century” is hosted by the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. The event is free and open to the public.

The screening will be Oct. 14, from noon to 1 p.m. in Fine Arts Visual Room 108.

“Art:21” is the only prime time national television series focused entirely on contemporary art.

The screening is made possible by a partnership between the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art and Art21, Inc. as part of the Art21 Access ’09 initiative.

Art21 Access ’09 is an international screening initiative created to increase the public knowledge of contemporary art. The screenings are intended to ignite dialogue and inspire creative thinking through hundreds of public screenings and events that tailor the ideas presented in the series to the interests and concerns of local audiences.

The fifth season of “Art:21” premieres on PBS Oct. 7 with new episodes each Wednesday during the month.

The USU screening Oct. 14 features the series’ fourth episode, “Systems.” Two artists with work included in the USU museum’s permanent collection are featured in the episode – John Baldessari and Allan McCollum.

More information about the screening can be found by calling 797-0165.

USU Sunrise Session looks at anthropology

USU archaeologist and anthropology professor Bonnie Pitblado will give a speech titled “The Real 10,000 B.C.: First Inhabitants in Northern Utah and Southeastern Idaho” at the USU Sunrise Session Oct. 16, 7:30-9 a.m., at the Little America Hotel in Salt Lake City.

Pitblado’s research focuses on the Ice Age human occupations of northern Utah and southeastern Idaho, two locales that many would find neither exotic nor adventurous. However, Pitblado would disagree.

During her Sunrise presentation Pitblado will discuss the many archaeological sites she has documented how her research was launched with the help of local farmers and ranchers and what she has learned about the indigenous people who colonized the region. She will also talk about the many job opportunities the archaeological discipline offers USU graduate and undergraduate students who learn beside her in the field and laboratory.

USU’s Sunrise Sessions is a breakfast lecture series held quarterly and designed to highlight timely and cutting-edge research conducted at Utah State University. The lecture is sponsored by Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Utah and is free and open to the public. Registration is construction workers to get involved. students and Cockett said she anticipates required.

The beginning stages of building have the number will grow to 150 students in the Anyone can register at 801-961been a long-time coming, Cockett said, near future.

1340 or online at research.usu. and “students have been patient but fully During the groundbreaking ceremony, edu/htm/sunrise-session. engaged” in the process.

13-year-old Branden Turner from Amalga Once money has been secured, construcand member of 4-H said, “My best friends tion will begin on the rest of the center. are horses.”

This will include 22 more horse stalls in His favorite horse was purchased from the east wing and an outdoor arena, which USU and went through the colt training will host USU rodeo events and things like program. Turner said this horse taught him Utah State University police offibreeding pens. traits such as goal-setting and patience. cers identified the individual in conThe fully built center will house classes The horse died Aug. 28, and Turner said nection with a report of an alleged on equine science such as genetics and he hopes to buy his next horse from USU. kidnapping attempt on Oct. 4 in the reproduction. Students will have handsTurner also said he hopes to study equine USU trailer court. No wrongdoing on classes in riding and horse training. science at USU when he becomes old was found in connection with the Cockett said the arena will also be used by enough. incident, said USU Chief of Police the USU equestrian team, local 4-H events Jessica Dube, senior in equine science, Steve Mecham.

The subject was an elderly gentleand community events. said students in the program are required man in the trailer park who was visEquine science has always had a presto clean stalls. Dube said she was glad to iting relatives. He was out for a walk ence at USU. When the Board of Trustees do it because not only did she get an educaat the same time the alleged victim approved the equine bachelor’s program tion, she also learned a good-work ethic. was outside playing. He told police 12 months ago, Cockett said 20 students – rac.ch@aggiemail.usu.edu that although he saw the young enrolled. The program now has almost 40 girl, he never spoke with her or had physical contact. His statement was confirmed by others in the trailer CAMPUS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS GATHER at the future site of the USU court. Mecham said they consider Equine Education Center Friday for the groundbreaking ceremony. Although not all of the the case now closed. money needed to complete the project has been secured, administrators decided to move

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No wrongdoing found in alleged kidnapping

ahead with construction plans. During the ceremony freshman transfer student Natalie White said she came to USUfor the university’s equine science program and looks forward to using the new center for her studies. PETE P. SMITHSUTH photo

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• The USU Police Department was dispatched to a noise complaint in the area of Aggie Village 35.

Police arrived in the area and heard some loud music coming from one of the apartments. Officers made contact with the renter of the apartment where the music was coming from and advised them of the problem. Officers were told the party was over and the music will be turned off. No further action was taken.

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Sunday, Oct. 4 • While on patrol, USU Police saw a suspicious vehicle parked in the parking lot just north of the Center for Persons with Disabilities Building. The vehicle had its park lights on, had fresh damage to the front left side panel, was unlocked and had keys in the ignition. Nobody was around the vehicle. Police checked the registration and tried to contact the owner but were unable to. Police secured the vehicle and took the keys to the office for safe keeping.

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• USU police officers were dispatched to 1700 North and 800 East on a utility problem.

A large piece of plastic blew off a USU greenhouse and was hanging in the power lines across the road. Rocky Mountain Power was called to assist in getting the plastic down before it snapped the power pole with the wind.

While officers were waiting for Rocky Mountain Power, the plastic broke free. USU Police rolled the plastic up and placed it in a shed located next to the greenhouse.

Monday, Oct. 5 • USU Police responded to the Taggert Student Center for a fire alarm. The alarm was set off by smoke from a grill. The area was cleared of smoke and the alarm was reset.

• USU Police responded to the stadium west parking lot in four minutes for a report of a hit-and-run accident. The report was filed with USU Police and the investigation is continuing.

• USU Police assisted Logan Police in attempting to locate a missing person. The individual frequents various locations on campus. Police were unable to locate the individual.

• USU Police responded to a fire alarm at the Valley View Tower. The alarm was set off by two residents cooking on an electric griddle. The alarm was reset.

• USU police officers were dispatched to the Living Learning Center Building D on the smell of burnt marijuana. Police arrived and could smell the burnt marijuana in the west stairwell.

USU police was unable to find any subject smoking the marijuana. Police are following up with possible leads.

Monday, Oct. 12, 2009

Contact USU Police at 797-1939 for non-emergencies.

Anonymous reporting line: 797-5000 EMERGENCY NUMBER: 911 Tuesday, Oct. 6 • USU Police responded to a medical incident in the stadium involving an individual that had hit his head while playing flag football.

Police contacted Emergency Medical Services at the request of the individual that was hurt. The individual declined to be transported to the hospital by paramedics.

• USU Police responded to the B premium parking lot on a report that there was an unattended vehicle that had its motor running for more than 20 minutes. When police, arrived they located this vehicle. The owner arrived shortly after and said he had forgotten to turn the engine off.

• USU Police assisted USU Parking with an individual who was unable to get out of the Aggie Terrace. Police issued a parking citation notice to make sure the individual would go talk with USU Parking the next day regarding the problem.

Wednesday, Oct. 7 • USU Police received a complaint of an individual making threats toward another individual at Central Campus Housing. Police are investigating.

• USU Police responded to a report of an individual pounding on an Aggie Village apartment door. Police arrived and noticed a student walking away from the apartment. Police investigated and determined the student was underage and intoxicated.

The student was arrested for minor in possession/consumption of alcohol.

• Police responded to a delayed criminal mischief report east of the Natural Resource Building. The Janet Lawson statue was vandalized during the weekend.

• USU Police responded to the Aggie Terrace for a report of three individuals riding their boards in the Terrace.

Police stopped the individuals, checked their information and released them with a warning for their first-time offense.

Thursday, Oct. 8 • Police responded to a suspicious person who supposedly locked herself in the restroom of the Engineering Laboratory building. Police made contact with the individual and found that the individual was possibly grooming herself for two hours. There was no further action taken at this time.

• USU Police responded to a suspicious odor of marijuana in the Living & Learning Center Building B. Police investigated and arrested one male student for possession of marijuana in a drug free zone, which enhances the crime classification to a class A misdemeanor.

Friday, Oct. 9 • The USU Bomb Squad was called to assist the Cache County Sheriff’s Office on a suspicious package that was near a church in Benson.

Further inspection found that the item did not contain anything harmful.

• The USU Bomb Squad was called to assist the Box Elder Sheriff’s Office with a reported pipe bomb that was found by a young child in Bear River City. The item was disposed of by the squad.

• USU Police responded to San Juan Hall for a medical assist. A student was having a seizure and was attended to by ambulance personnel.

The student was fine after the seizure stopped and refused transport to the hospital.

-Compiled by Rachel A. Christensen

Dashing for diamonds

Kayde Auger, Left, and Lori Truman, right, participate in the Race for Diamons Saturday. The event was sponsored by S.E. Needham Jewelers and prizes included $2,000 toward a diamond, an iPod and a laptop, among others. PETE P. SMITHSUTH photo

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Just a typical American family

By SETH BRACKEN features senior writer

On a fall evening, Gus, 6, and Niko, 3, help their father Kelly Huntington-Katis make bacon and eggs for dinner. Gus stirs the eggs while Niko pets the dog and watches his older brother work.

From the living room, Gus’ and Niko’s other father, Christopher Huntington-Katis gently chides them about staying on the reading schedule and doing their chores if they want to go to the play date the next day with the neighbor’s children.

“We’re just another typical American family,” Chris said.

Chris insists that each family is different and his family just happens to have two fathers.

The adoption process for Chris and Kelly began on a Thanksgiving afternoon walk in Oakland, Calif.

In 2000, Chris and Kelly had decided to spend the holiday alone, away from family.

After all, they are vegetarians with a jet-set lifestyle – traveling and seeing new places was their passion.

After making Chinese food for dinner, Chris and Kelly went for a walk and passed a large house with big bay windows where they could see inside the home. There was a family with several generations, standing around the dinner table, holding hands, saying a prayer.

“We had a good life,” Chris said. “But that afternoon, when I saw that beautiful family, I decided there was more to life, and we weren’t a part of it.”

After a relationship of 17 years, Chris and Kelly decided they wanted to adopt a child.

The Journey Chris and Kelly are participating in a study done by Sean Camp, a USU social work professor. The study analyzes how gay males become adoptive parents. Camp said the American Civil Liberties Union reported that there is six to 14 million gay parents in the U.S. The exact number is difficult to determine because many gay parents do not openly admit they are gay due to a variety of social and legal pressures, Camp said.

Many gay couples wish to adopt, Camp said. It’s the difficulties of adoption and the legal matters that often stop couples from adopting, despite a need for more adoptive parents.

There are more than half-a-million children who are in foster care in the United States, according to Camp’s study, and the number is increasing.

“It’s so hard to look at kids in the face and tell them they can’t be part of a family when there’s a long line of gay and lesbian couples who are just waiting to adopt,” Camp said.

Chris and Kelly first met in Salt Lake City through a mutual acquaintance and then again when Chris answered a personal ad by Kelly. They hit it off and shortly thereafter started dating exclusively. When they moved to the San Francisco area in the late 1980s, gay marriage wasn’t legal but many gay couples followed a tradition of jumping over a broom to signify their commitment to each other.

Before slaves were freed and allowed to get married they jumped over a broom together as their way of making a marriage promise.

- See FAMILY, page 7

Kelly and chris Huntington-Katis pose with their two sons Niko and Gus (left to right). After a relationship of 17 years, Kelly and Chris faced many difficulties while adopting the two young boys. photo courtesy HUNTINGTON-KATIS FAMILY

Club aims to start discussion, not offend

By CHELSEY GENSEL staff writer

Just a couple of months into its second year on campus, the USU-SHAFT (Secular Humanists, Atheists and Free-Thinkers) Club has already met several times not only to socialize but to participate in campus-wide activities like street painting and plan collaborative projects with other clubs. SHAFT was co-founded by students – Jon Adams, Mike Patton, James Patton and Jordan Daines – during the 2007-08 school year and was officially recognized at the start of spring semester 2008.

Co-founder Adams said he wanted to start the club after spending time in the philosophy and religious studies clubs and wanted a place for people who were not religious to feel comfortable discussing their beliefs.

“I felt bad being vice president of a religious club when I wanted to talk about agnosticism. We need our own group for some topics like that,” Adams said.

He gave a presentation about atheism to the Religious Studies Club in 2007 and was then approached by Daines and Mike Patton.

“Some of the members then appreciated it and wanted to start a club,” Adams said.

The paperwork for the club to be recognized by USU took a couple of months after an initial meeting, James Patton said. They discussed what they wanted to represent as a club and came up with some primary goals.

Adams said they felt like there was some discussion with ASUSU about whether there was a need for a club like SHAFT, “but it definitely filled a niche. We have about 140 members in our Facebook group and about 30 at each meeting.”

The first of these goals, then, is to provide a community, “not necessarily of just atheists,” Patton said, “but for kids who don’t fit

the religious mold, to make friends. A lot of kids come to this campus and think, ‘Oh crap, I’m the only one,’” Patton said, “but that is not the case.”

By welcoming everyone and anyone, SHAFT hopes to accomplish another of it’s goals of sparking debate and making discussions of sometimes controversial subjects public on campus.

“To stir up controversy is one of our goals, really,” Patton said, “and for a lot of people controversy is a word that does have negative connotation.”

SHAFT aims to start discussion, not to offend, said Anderson, “you can be controversial without being offensive,” he said.

The club has been meeting every other week this semester, compared to about once a month in the past. Regular meetings are every other Wednesday at 5.

“We’ve been particularly active so far this year,” Adams said.

“What’s great is it’s not always the same 30 people, which is a healthy-sized group. There is a great deal of diversity.

“While most of us have that commonality of atheism, that doesn’t say much – that we all share a disbelief in something,” Adams said.

The diversity comes from what each member does believe, he said.

There are even some theists in the club who fall into the free thinkers part of the title. They are there, Adams said, because they are interested in critically discussing and analyzing religion, even if it is their own religion.

A second factor for Adams in starting the club was the appearance of Eli Brayley on campus. Most students know him as the “patio preacher,” who preaches outside near the Taggart Student Center.

“He’s become a great friend of mine, believe it or not,” Adams said. “He started a dialogue about religion that was absent before on campus. Since Eli’s been here, I’ve felt for the first time like it was a campus. It had that dimension of controversy that I feel a college campus should.”

Controversy – while bound to be present in a group formed to

discuss potentially sensitive topics like religion, philosophy and science – is not the sole interest of the club. Its recent meeting consisted of getting together to watch an episode of Futurama.

“We tend to be disproportionately social at the beginning of the semester because it’s critical to be able to meet people and find friends. It provides a built-in community for like-minded people,” Adams said.

Like Patton, Laughlin feels like SHAFT is a positive experience for students who may not already have a social circle when they arrive at USU. “When you can come to an event and make friends at a vulnerable time, when their is a lot of conflict in your life, that support really makes a difference ina person’s feeling of self-worth. If you decide you do believe in a higher power, you are still welcome. It’s been nice to know I’m not as alone as I thought in terms of religion,” Laughlin said.

A group of SHAFT members, including Adams and Patton, maintain a Web site, www.usu-shaft.com, where they take turns blogging about various topics. One series is called “Why I Don’t Believe” and takes on a multitude of issues regarding faith and reason, particularly within the LDS religion. Other posts may be humorous anecdotes or general overviews of a subject.

Laughlin suggested signing up for the email list through the website or joining the facebook group as a “great way for busy students to stay connected” with what the club is doing.

“While it’s important that SHAFT be a community of likeminded individuals,” Adams said, “the other important function is to start a dialogue, so we want people who don’t agree with us to attend. Really, all are welcome. I don’t want it to be a group where we all just get together and pat ourselves on the back. We should challenge ourselves. It is important to be even more critical of our own beliefs than of others.”

– chelsey.gensel@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Student lives life to the fullest

By DANIELLE ADAMS staff writer

Utah Statesman: “The ultimate question, Coke or Pepsi?”

Jeff Moss: “Neither. They both are disgusting and ruin your teeth.”

US: “If you were on death row, what would be your last meal?”

JM: “Probably some holy crap potatoes and a get me out of here drink on the side.”

US: “If you could take anyone on a date who would it be?”

JM: “John Stamos, because no one can talk Elvis like Uncle Jesse from Full House.”

US: “If you had a pet llama that could grant you wishes, what would you name it?”

JM: “Seymour Butts.”

US: “How old were you the first time you went to Disney Land?”

JM: “I’ve never been, and I’ve never grown up.”

US: “Did you ever own a dog named Bailey?”

JM: “No.” US: “How tall do you think Jack’s beanstalk was?”

JM: “Tall enough to get to the Giant’s house or we wouldn’t have a story.”

JM: “When I ran out of Marshmallow Maties.”

Caught on Campus Jeff Moss Chicago, Ill. freshman business management US:“Do you miss the spice girls, and who was your favorite?”

JM: “Yes, and Sporty Spice, because she was the most athletic.”

US: “If you had to choose between zebra print or polka dots for your wedding theme, what would you choose?”

JM: “Zebra, so the guests could ponder whether they wear white with black stripes or black with white stripes.”

US: “Why doesn’t McDonald’s or Burger King sell hot dogs?”

JM: “Because Sonic has got that on lock down.”

US: “Do you wake up or open your eyes first?”

US: “If you had an envelope that contained the date of your death and how you died, what would you do with it?”

JM: “I’d throw it away because nobody tells me what to do, except for my mom.”

US: “What is the highest elevation you have ever been?”

JM: “Anywhere because I get high on life.”

US: “What flavor is the hottest Fantana girl?”

JM: “Orange of course, because she says, Don’t you wanna? And I say, Mmmhmm.

US: “If you were a bug, what kind would you be?”

JM: “A lady bug, so I could confuse everyone I meet.”

US: “What’s the most expensive gift you’ve ever bought?”

JM:“A bamboo rug for my girlfriend but apparently that didn’t work out.”

Freshman Jeff Moss said the last time he cried is when he ran out of Marshmallow Maties. PATRICK ODEN photo

JM: “I wake up first, because.”

US: “Name a song from your past that you have always loved.”

US: “Do you believe in karma?”

“Boy Meets World.”

US: “Do you think Tupac is dead?”

JM: “Big Girls Don’t Cry.”

JM: “Yes, and so does “My Name is Earl.”

JM: “Yeah, but Biggie is still kickin’.”

US: “What’s your best weight-loss advice?”

US: “Where will you be in one hour?”

US: “If you had to wear nail polish for one week, what color would you choose?”

JM: “Eat slowly and talk a lot.”

JM: “Sitting on the couch watching

US: “When did you last cry and why?”

Hongik University in Seoul, South Korea is where USU Study Abroad student Madison Pope attends.. Pope studied painting for one semester as part of the exchange program. MADISON POPE photo courtesy

JM:“Lime green to show my wild side.”

– danny.lynn.a@aggiemail.usu.edu

Aggies Around the World

Everyday a new adventure in Korea

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his fall I ventured half a world away from the sleepy comforts of Logan, Utah, and found myself starting school at Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea. It is here that I am participating in an exchange program to study painting for one semester.

So far, it has been an amazing adventure.

First things first, I step off the plane where I am greeted by some students from the school, and am whisked away to a guesthouse. It’s a week before school starts and I have no family, no friends, no phone, no bank account and a vocabulary of about five Korean words. This is where I start to question the direction in which my life is heading, but there’s no going back now.

The second day of Korea, I wander through the techno-infused streets of clubs, street vendors, cafes and clothing stores until I find my new school. I register for classes and prepare to get started.

With every passing week, I get better adjusted to my new surroundings. But to say the least, Hongik University’s campus differs from USU. You never quite know what to expect.

For example, I nearly get run over by speeding mopeds at various times of day when walking to class. I take certain routes to avoid smells of the sewer, and sometimes in the morning I’m accompanied by random music playing from mysterious speakers.

Another fun thing, for every Western-style toilet there’s at least one to two squatters. When I run into people I know, our conversations usually turn into games of charades and often end awkwardly.

All the girls wear 2- to 4-inch heels despite the fact that the major walkways are unevenly laid stones of various sizes coupled with wooden boardwalks. (I’m trying to start a Chaco trend, but it hasn’t caught on). The T-shirts get me every time though, the T-shirt of the week was definitely won by the boy whose shirt displayed the following in huge text, “Make Love, Not Babies,” but I did like the T-shirt, “I need all the friends I can get” and also, “Marc can’t be always right.”

It’s true though, sometimes Marc is wrong.

What is clearly missing here are the longboarders, the bikers, the people who give free hugs on “Free Hugs Day” and the Quad.

However, I do enjoy what I have dubbed “the forrest of feng shua.” It’s a strip of vegetation that runs through the middle of campus. You can pop in and out of it on various paths and enjoy bamboo plants, trees, bushes, streams, ponds and birds. It’s quite nice. Even so, from time to time I miss the Quad that is perfect for falling asleep on during the fine fall days.

If you’re reading this, take a nap for me.

Overall, I am incredibly happy that I

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decided to do a semester abroad. I’ve learned more than I could possibly imagine. Everyday is a new Korean word, a new food, a new gallery, a new concert, a new place to visit, a new person to meet. I’ve learned so much from the Korean students, fellow international students, teachers and friends.

The people are amazing, the culture is rich, and the education is top notch. Besides, where else can you go to eat breakfast in the cafeteria in the middle of September and find yourself in a Christmas decorated wonderland?

Or wear a T-shirt that reads, “Dog. Peace. Fruits,” or “I like boring things” or buy fruit smoothies for a $1.50?

It was hard to leave USU for a few months, but I’m confident that it will be there for me when I return.

If you’re thinking about a semester abroad, I can only tell you to go ahead and go for it, and until next time, Anyonghi gaseyo.

Madison Pope is part of the USU Study Abroad program. For more experiences, check out Aggies Around the World every Monday in The Statesman.

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Family: Boys have two fathers

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Two years after they started dating, Chris and social acceptance improves, Camp said. and Kelly jumped the broom and made it offi “It’s definitely different for gay parents,” cial, at least it was official to them, if not to Camp said. “They have more to prove, there’s the state of California. more pressure on them.”

And on that Thanksgiving in 2000, the two The pressure comes from families, school decided to expand the family. mates, neighbors and case workers, Camp “We were still skeptical and Kelly wanted to said. And the number one objection to gay do it more than I did,” Chris said. “There were couples adopting is the false notion that gay still a lot of unknowns at that point.” couples who want to adopt are child molesters, The couple started with the adoption class- Camp said. There is extensive research that es, but they doubted that a gay couple would shows more than 97 percent of child molestabe allowed to adopt. tion is done by heterosexual males, he said.

Chris said, “On the first day of class, I Chris’ parents were not in favor of him went up to the counselor and said, ‘Obviously adopting children at first because of Chris’ we’re a same gender couple. Do we even have and Kelly’s jet-set lifestyle. But that changed a chance?’ The counselor looked at me with a quickly as soon as they met Gus and later look of disgust and said, ‘Why wouldn’t you?’” Niko, and now Chris’ family is accepting and The class was three hours long every loving of the two children.

Saturday for 10 weeks. It taught parenting Gus, who is now in the first grade, and skills and a variety of other skills. In the class Niko, who is in preschool, have accepting there were two other teachers, and Chris said homosexual couples, he has never noticed any “I don’t consider Chris said. Before Chris discrimination or maltreatand Kelly could adopt ment toward the children. myself a gay dad. I they had to go through

“No one wants to consider myself a dad, extensive background hurt or blame the chilwho happens to be checks, had their home dren,” Chris said. thoroughly reviewed,

Gus and Niko have gay.” had to write an extenregular play dates with sive autobiography and other children their age, – Christopher Huntington-Katis and parents are generally were interviewed by case workers. accepting of the children, After the training, Chris said.

Parents interviewed

Chris and Kelly try Chris and Kelly to see if they were the right to stay involved in their kids’ education and in candidates for their children. But a match their hobbies. wasn’t found.

“This last year I was the only man that read “Almost two years had passed since we in my son’s kindergarten class,” Chris said. “It decided we wanted to be dads,” Chris said. was all the women and me.”

“I gave the county until the end of that year The kids don’t seem to mind that they are before we would pursue other options.” growing up in a family with two dads.

In October 2002, a match was finally made “I try and tell my kids that each family is and Chris and Kelly went to meet a newborn different and special in their own way,” Chris boy. said.

The mother of the boy had her doubts For Chris, his family might be a little difabout allowing two gay men to adopt her child ferent, but the fundamental aspects are still and she raised those doubts with Chris and present.

Kelly.

“I don’t consider myself a gay dad,” Chris “When we first went to the house to meet said. “I consider myself a dad, who happens to the baby boy, he was in a Johnny Jumper but be gay.” there were other kids in the house,” Chris As a gay father, Chris acknowledges the said. “There was another baby there who was pressure he feels to be a successful parent. addicted to crack and there were obviously On one occasion when the family went to several generations living in the house.”

Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Gus began Chris and Kelly began spending time with to act up and be loud. Chris, feeling embarthe baby boy. But it was on Thanksgiving that rassed, pulled his son aside and began to Chris, Kelly and the baby really bonded. lecture him on how important it was that he “When we went to take (the baby) back to represents his fathers well. his mom’s he started to cry, he didn’t want to Chris said he promptly realized Gus had no leave us,” Chris said. idea that his family was different than other The mother recognized that her son had families and Gus was just behaving like any bonded with Chris and Kelly and soon after other child. they became his guardians.

“But the pressure is there. I feel it,” Chris Chris and Kelly came full circle two years said. after deciding to adopt. The desire became a reality and they named the boy after Chris’ Gay adoption and gay rights father, Gus. When they moved to Los Angeles in 2004, Gay rights activists are pushing for a variChris and Kelly were notified that Gus had ety of reforms and bills, from simple proteca little brother, who they also adopted and tions against discrimination to legalizing gay named Nikko. marriage across the country, Camp said.

“The boys would have been stuck in a fam Gay marriage and gay adoption are intriily where there was a cycle of abuse, a cycle cately linked. When a couple has adopted of pain,” Chris said. “But now that cycle has children, the argument for them to be able ended.” to marry is that much more potent and tangible, Camp said. Likewise, if gay marriage is Challenges legal, then it’s only logical that gay couples be allowed to adopt, he said.

Camp’s study looks at the process that gay Chris and Kelly were married in San couples go through in order to adopt, even Francisco after the courts declared gay marthough it is different for each couple. riage constitutional, before Proposition 8 was The study cites extensive research that has passed in 2008 and gay marriage was again found gay men to be as capable at parenting as outlawed. Chris’ and Kelly’s marriage is not their heterosexual counterparts. recognized in Utah.

The laws on adoption vary by state and For Chris, fighting for gay rights is a pasUtah does not allow gay couples to adopt, or sion and he sees his family as an illustration at least on the surface it is against the rules, of how far gay rights have come in the past 50 Camp said. years.

“Some agencies allow it and know that the The idea that gay marriage would be legal couple is a gay couple,” Camp said. “The agen- even in some states was unheard of 50 years cies that do this fill out the paper work and go ago, Chris said. through the process as though it were a single The American Gay Rights Movement began man who was adopting.” in 1969 when police raided the Stonewall Inn, Department of Child and Family Services a bar in New York City that catered to a gay (DCFS) is forced to follow the regulations but and lesbian crowd. After a history of mistreatoccasionally will allow gay couples to adopt; ment and antigay laws, many of the patrons the parents just have to hide their sexual fought back against the raids. This sparked orientation, Camp said. During home inspeca series of protests, known as the Stonewall tions, the couple must “de-gay” the house and Riots, all across the United States. pretend there is only one parent living in the Not too long after the riots, Harvey Milk home, Camp said. was the first openly gay person elected to pub Ignoring the issue altogether does not lic office when he won a seat as a city superviallow couples to be trained about issues that sor in San Francisco in 1977. He was assassionly gay fathers face such as how to deal with nated in 1978. teachers, how to address the issues of showing In August, President Barack Obama postphysical intimacy and a variety of other fachumously awarded the Presidential Medal of tors, Camp said.

Freedom to Milk.

Chris and Kelly adopted their sons in Gay rights are expanding and homophobia California, where both are considered legal is becoming a thing of the past, Chris said. guardians. But if a gay couple adopts in Utah, “Every step is a step forward. We will never they cannot share equal guardianship of the go backwards,” Chris said. “Every step is a link children. in the chain. From a bunch of drag queens “Gay men face stricter scrutiny when adopt- in high heels in 1969 that said, ‘Enough is ing,” Camp said. “They are looked at closer enough,’ to Harvey Milk, to my family here than a heterosexual couple that is adopting.” today. Every step is a link. And it becomes a nonissue as we begin to see gay relationSocial Pressures ships and families daily. It’s not a matter of if homophobia will be unacceptable but a matter As the number of children being adopted of when it will be unacceptable.” by gay parents increases, the understanding – seth.bracken@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Sweaty owners and panting dogs

Russ Albert from Clinton along with his dog, Jake, participates in Sweat for a Pet on Saturday morning. The Cache Humane Society hosted the event. More than 100 people participated in the 5K race/1 mile dog walk.

Proceeds benefited the animals of the Cache Valley Humane Society. The shelter provides a central animal impound facility and up-to-date online database of impounded animals for Cache Valley. PETE P. SMITHSUTH photo

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TouchBase Women’s soccer tops Idaho 2-1

By USU ATHLETICS

USU’S TYLER MISTELBACHER raises his hands in celebration after scoring one of his three goals against Metro State Saturday night in the Eccles Ice Arena as Roadrunner goalie Taurean Cavins-Flores tries to locate the puck. CODY GOGHNOUR photo

Aggies hammer Metro

By LANDON HEMSLEY staff writer

Freshman forward Tyler Mistelbacher rattled off a hat trick and the USU hockey club put a beat-down on the Metro State University Roadrunners, 8-3, in the Eccles Ice Center Saturday night.

USU wasted no time taking it straight to Metro. For the first two minutes of the game, USU kept the puck effectively in Metro territory and, before long, put itself on the board. At the 18:51 mark in the first period, Metro State’s Michael Walters was penalized for holding after nearly tackling Jay McFadden to the ice. In the ensuing power play, Brendan MacDonald took a pass from Jeremy Martin and punched it into the back of the net after only 1:55 of play.

MacDonald’s powerplay goal sent USU on its way. The Aggies never trailed.

The real star of this game, however, was Mistelbacher. “Missile,” as his teammates call him, scored once in the first and twice in the second period.

The “Missile” and USU really showed their deadly nature on the power play – all three of Mistelbacher’s goals

were power play goals. That, along with MacDonald’s super quick goal just under two minutes into the first, really sealed the deal for Utah State and solidified the win for the Aggies.

Team leader David Wyman said he was pleased with Mistelbacher’s effort.

“He’s had a ton of chances this year,” Wyman said. “He’s like a natural goal scorer. He’s hit a ton of posts, so it was great to see him put in three. It helps with the confidence. He’s a great player.

It’s always great to see one of your fellow teammates have a big night.”

USU only really fell apart during a 30-second stretch of low-efficiency hockey in which Metro State was able to fire two pucks past USU goaltender Dan Cornelius. Metro was able to clean up the trash after a couple of long shots left the puck right in front of the goal.

With 4:09 remaining in the first period, Metro’s Turner Bahn snuck through a slew of Aggie defenders and put it past Cornelius. Twenty-seven seconds later, Metro State’s Steve Call swung around the back side of the net, spied Montana Loundigan’s rebound next to Cornelius’s right shin pad and punched

it through his legs. Just like that, the score was locked at two apiece.

Enter Tyler Mistelbacher.

Metro State was called for having too many men on the ice with 1:44 remaining in the first, and Roadrunner Adam Page went to the sin bin. USU started its attack. With about 20 seconds remaining, Jeremy Martin took a shot at the goal that Metro’s keeper, Anthony Davis, was able to deflect. Martin gathered the puck and passed the puck out to the blue line where Matt Hamilton advanced toward the goal. Hamilton split two defenders, got Davis to commit on a fake-shot attempt and dropped it back to the trailing Mistelbacher to make the score 3-2 in favor of USU. Mistelbacher’s other two power-play goals came in the second period. With 15:39 remaining, Metro’s Rob Malik was called for hooking and sent to the penalty box. Ten seconds later, Martin faked a shot at the blue line and sent the puck low to Hamilton. Once again, Hamilton put it right in Mistelbacher’s wheelhouse and “Missile” sent it home.

Finally, Hamilton found Martin who found Mistelbacher on the power play

with 5:31 remaining in the second.

Pass. Shoot. Score. USU led at that point 6-3 and would add two more goals. McFadden sent in a bullet off a Wyman assist and Wyman himself scored his second goal and the final goal of the game with 13:57 remaining in the third period.

USU’s puck movement was excellent in this game. Metro was trailing five yards behind the Aggies’ quick passes all night long. Wyman praised his team and credited the win to USU’s passing.

“I think it was really good,” Wyman said. “It’s one of our definite advantages against other teams is that we’re very good passers and we look for the open man. Tonight it just came together and worked out for us.”

The matchup against Metro State was certainly not the cleanest. USU was called for 14 penalties compared to Metro’s 9.

Several players and the coach were not pleased with both their own team’s effort and the officiating, despite the favorable result. Wyman was one such

- See HAMMERS, page 9

Volleyball

Wolf Pack nips Ags in five sets

By Connor Jones sports senior writer

The Aggie spikers lost in five sets against Nevada on Saturday night, 22-25, 25-23, 25-18, 22-25, 7-15.

The loss is the team’s second consecutive conference loss, which drops its record to 2-4 in WAC play and 10-8 on the season. Nevada improves to 6-12 on the year and 2-3 in conference play.

St. George native Liz McArthur continued to lead, had a team-high 12 kills and seven errors in 47 attempts for a .106 hitting percentage. One kill behind McArthur was sophomore opposite side hitter Emily Kortsen from of Hollister, Calif., who, with 11 kills and two errors on 30 attempts, led the Aggies in hitting percentage with .300. Kortsen also had 15 digs on the night.

The first set had 10 ties and four lead changes en route to the 22-25 Wolfpack set win. The normally Aggie-dominated first set has proven to be a problem.

The Aggies have now lost three opening sets in a row for the first time this season.

The Aggie second set win was anything but perfect.

USU committed 10 attack errors, three of which came from middle blocker Shantell Durrant and two coming from both McArthur and Durrant’s fellow middle blocker Katie Astle. USU hit a .028 (11-10-36) percentage for the set but still managed to squeak by the Wolfpack who had a .081 (11-8-37) hitting percentage.

AGGIE LIBERO CHRISTINE Morrill attempts a dig in a match against San Jose State earlier this season in the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum. PATRICK ODEN photo

Set three was all Aggies, who never allowed the Wolfpack the lead in the 25-18 routing. USU hit a .167

percentage in the set and held Nevada to .067, their lowest hitting percentage of the night.

Junior middle blocker Danielle Taylor started the third, fourth and fifth sets and had the second highest hitting percentage for USU on the night at .250 (4-2-8). Taylor also contributed one solo block and two block assists.

The Wolfpack regained control in the fourth set outhitting USU .143 (17-10-49) to .079 (9-6-38) in the 25-22 set win. While the Aggies struck first blood in the fifth and final set, the Wolfpack came back strong on a 5-0 run and eventually won the set and the match 15-7 and 3-2 respectively.

While the Aggies looked far from their best, there were positives from this loss. Taylor had her first significant impact since returning from injury and freshman outside hitter, Josselyn White, continued to improve with two solo blocks and five block assists while hitting a .043 percent.

The team returns to the court on Tuesday to play nonconference foe Utah Valley University in Orem.

USU hopes it has improved since its last meeting with UVU, which came during the Aggies’ first tournament of the season hosted by Weber State. The Aggies lost that match 3-1. The team then faces off against Fresno State on Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. in the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum.

– c.h.j@aggiemail.usu.edu

Senior forward Erin Salmon’s golden goal in the 104th minute led Utah State soccer to a 2-1 double overtime win over Idaho on Sunday at Guy Wick Field in Moscow, Idaho.

With the win, Utah State won its secondstraight Western Athletic Conference match. The Aggies improve to 7-7-1 overall and 2-1 in the WAC, while the Vandals fall to 8-7-0 overall, 1-3 in conference play. Utah State is now 11-1 against Idaho with the only loss coming in 2003 when both teams were in the Big West. That match was also a double overtime affair with the Vandals winning 3-2.

“This is our ninth match in the last 10 that has been played away from Logan,” USU head coach Heather Cairns said. “For us to get two wins on the road under those circumstances, I could not be more proud of this team.”

USU got on the board quickly in the 15th minute.

Junior midfielder Heather Pond played a long ball to sophomore forward Shantel Flanary, who was able to beat Idaho goalkeeper Liz Boyden one-on-one to give the Aggies the early 1-0 lead. Flanary had another opportunity later in the half going one on one with Boyden to once against challenge the Vandal defense.

Flanary is the leading point scorer for Utah State with six goals and two assists for 14 points. She has now passed her point total from her freshman campaign, which was 12 points on five goals and two assists.

The Vandals came out strong in the second half, showing a lot of energy.

Idaho used that energy to tie the score at 1-1 in the 59th minute. Jennifer Hull scored her third goal of the season beating the Aggie defense and tapping the ball past USU’s sophomore goalkeeper Molli Merrill.

The score would remain tied through 90 minutes of regulation and 10 minutes of the first overtime. To start the second overtime period, sophomore midfielder Allie Maduell was subbed in. In the 104th minute, Maduell played a great ball to senior forward Erin Salmon who snuck the ball into the Vandal far post and beat Boyden to give the Aggies the win.

The goal was Salmon’s second of the season and Maduell’s second assist of the year.

With the double overtime win, the Aggies improve to 2-0-1 in extra time this season with a win against Utah and a tie against Wyoming.

“We tried to keep them out of the box in the second half,” Cairns said. “We just fought. It was just one of those matches where you just had to fight. At times, we looked like the better team, and at times Idaho looked like the better team.”

Next week, Utah State returns home to take on two teams from California.

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GAME 5: NEW MEXICO STATE 20, USU 17

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By MATT SONNENBERG staff writer

10th-consecutive road loss for Ags

By TIM OLSEN sports editor

Utah State (1-4) was robbed of a 38-yard touchdown pass on its first possession – the first time this season the Aggies failed to score on their opening drive – and the offense sputtered for the remainder of the game as USU lost its WAC opener at New Mexico State, 20-17.

NMSU (3-3) jumped out to a 10-0 lead, largely due to USU mistakes, but the Aggies were able to battle back and tie the game heading into the half.

Coming out of the intermission, the Aggies scored again to take their first lead, 17-10, but that was the end of their offensive production.

USU sophomore running back Robert Turbin led the Aggies in a big way, rushing for 184 yards on 24 carries, but cramps kept him from gaining a single yard in the vital fourth quarter.

Questionable penalties at untimely moments also cost Utah State dearly. The Aggies had three gains of 40 yards or more negated by holding penalties alone.

Hammers -continued from page 8 individual. He said the officials made some questionable decisions, but also that USU can continue to show progress in certain disciplinary areas of its game.

“Tonight there were a lot of marginal calls,” Wyman said.

“But you didn’t see us yelling at the ref or anything like that.

So, that’s an improvement.

We’re slow learners with that, and it’s cost us earlier this season and last year. But if we can keep improving then it’s going to be a big step forward for our team.”

Head coach Jon Eccles said USU needs to learn to play more consistently.

“It should have been 10-0,” Eccles said of the game. “We tend to fall into a pattern where we play to their level at times. I thought the guys held their composure and played through it. It’s tough when you play teams that aren’t a CU (Colorado) or CSU (Colorado State), but we’ve got to be able to play at that high intensity every game.”

The defensive play caller and goalkeeper, Dan Cornelius, said USU goes through stretches where the team falls apart mentally. He said the team needs to develop mental fortitude.

“We do this a lot,” Cornelius said. “We underestimate teams and let them stay in the game until the third period where we actually have to step it up.

We need to quit getting down on ourselves. If they get a goal, we need to shake it off and get another goal. The best way to answer is to get another goal.

There’s still stuff we need to work on. All we need to do is keep working on being disciplined.”

USU will have an opportunity to continue developing its game next Friday when the Boise State Broncos skate onto the rink at the Eccles Ice Center. The puck drops at 7 p.m.

– la.hem@aggiemail.usu.edu

“Penalties cost us the football game, poor special teams play cost us the football game and not being able to convert on third and one, that’s it,” said USU head coach Gary Andersen. “There were some very tough penalties called tonight. But did that lose the game for us?

Absolutely not.”

Despite racking up 12 penalties for 128 yards, USU looked to be at least headed to overtime before giving up a huge punt return with less than two minutes to play.

NMSU’s Marcus Anderson returned the ball all the way to the USU 29 to set up the southern Aggies’ game-winning field goal.

New Mexico State moved the ball down to the Aggies’ 11-yard line before settling for a 28yard field goal attempt with three seconds left.

NMSU’s Kyle Hughes remained perfect on the season as he hooked it between the uprights.

Junior quarterback Diondre Borel had his worst game since the season opener against Utah, going 15-of-25, for 156

USU DEFENSIVE BACK KEJON Murphy eludes New Mexico State tacklers during last year’s Utah State victory in Logan. FILE photo

yards and a touchdown.

“They’re a man coverage team, and apparently we had a hard time getting off the man coverage,” Andersen said. “We didn’t throw the ball effectively.

We had to throw on a trick play to score a touchdown.”

Astoundingly, Utah State outgained NMSU 429-230, but the southern Aggies took advantage of multiple USU special teams mistakes that gave

them good field position.

Punt returner Josh Flores fumbled the ball during the first quarter, giving the ball to the NMSU near midfield. That drive, along with the long punt return, led to 10 of the Newmags’ 20 points.

USU must now regroup for a two-game conference homestand against two of the WAC’s tougher teams. The Aggies host the Nevada Wolfpack next Saturday, and then

host the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs the following week.

“It’s a game we should have won and they used their plan to win and got it done. To say that this is a disappointing football game is probably the biggest understatement that I’ve ever made in my career,” Andersen said.

– t.olsen@aggiemail.usu. edu

USU women’s tennis defended its home-court with authority this past weekend as it took three of four championships in the USU Open tournament, headlined by Aggies filling five of the six spots in the three separate singles championship rounds.

In the flight A bracket of the tournament, USU junior Hailey Swenson blazed her trail to the championship round with straight-set victories over Idaho State’s Rilee Moorhead and Weber State’s Keya Jenkins. USU freshman Jaclyn West met her teammate Swenson in the flight A championship after victories over ISU’s Lisel Lewis and WSU’s Greyce Farias. Swenson defeated her teammate West in straight sets – 6-4, 6-3 – in the flight A championship to give USU it’s first of three tournament championships.

Another Aggie freshman made a strong showing in the tournament’s flight B bracket as newcomer Kristina Voytsekhovich advanced to face junior Taylor Perry in another championship matchup of fellow Aggies. Voytsekhovich defeated Perry 6-3, 6-3 to claim the flight B title.

“I was pleased to see our freshman get to the finals of the flight A and B,” head coach Christian Wright said. “They played some solid tennis to get in that position. We feel that they will add depth to our team this season.”

While two of the team’s four freshman advanced to championship rounds, freshman players Jenny Phillips and Sadi Wilkins both had solid showings in the flight C bracket as they each advanced to the semifinals before they were eliminated. Joining Phillips and Wilkins in the flight C semifinal was the team’s lone senior in Britney Watts, who defeated her teammate Phillips – 61, 6-0 – to advance to the championship round of flight C. In the championship round Watts jumped out to a commanding first set victory, beating Weber State’s Elsje Beneke 6-1. Beneke fought back from the deficit against Watts and went on to take the final two sets en route to the flight C championship, the only bracket USU failed to win in the tournament.

– matt.sonn@aggiemail.usu.edu

Women’s soccer ends losing streak Grizzlies get bloodied up

By LANDON HEMSLEY staff writer

The USU women’s soccer team ended their record three-game losing streak Friday afternoon on the road against Boise State, turning the tables on the Broncos and blanking them, 1-0.

The lone goal of the match was scored in the 67th minute. Shantel Flanary chased a ball deep into the Bronco zone and put the ball off the defender to earn USU a corner kick. Lindsey Smart came up, took the corner kick and connected with Natalie Norris, the highflying Aggie defender. Norris solidly put her head on the ball and sent it into the back of the net.

“We send Nano (Norris) in on corner kicks because she’s very good in the air,” coach Heather Cairns said of her freshman defender.

“It was so good,” USU defensive midfielder Chandra Salmon said of Norris’s goal. “I think we all kind of felt it too. She was talking about it before the game. She really wanted to score.

A couple of the girls on the bench were saying they knew she was going to score. She’s really good in the air, and she was completely focused.”

The match was not easily won. Cairns said both sides were extremely determined to win the match. Both teams only were able to get off four shots in the first half. Both teams had trouble

getting any sort of offensive momentum going, but USU did a good job of getting a few different players involved.

Not only Lauren Hansen, the USU forward from Washington State, managed to get a shot off but also Rachel Feuz, the freshman defensive midfielder got in on the action, putting a shot on goal as well. Cairns said goals and shots were difficult to get in this match.

“The first half was pretty uneventful.

I can’t say either of the teams really had great opportunities,” Cairns said. “Goal scoring is the hardest part of soccer.

Sometimes you get in a funk and the ball doesn’t bounce your way, and you have to be resilient.”

Cairns said both teams came out ready to fight in the second half. USU struck first, and then Boise State really bore down and tried desperately to work USU’s offense. The effort showed.

Boise outshot USU 10-3 in the second half and nearly converted on a few shaky plays.

For instance, Cairns said Boise’s Shannon Saxton, the Broncos’ All-WAC forward, just narrowly missed a golden opportunity thanks to the brilliant play of Allie Maduell.

“Allie disposessed Shannon Saxton on the cross. She would have buried it, and Allie dispossessed her. That was amazing,” Cairns said.

– la.hem@aggiemail.usu.edu

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t is demoralizing the extent to which Utah has gone to ensure the GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender) community is allowed to be discriminated against. Simple things such as holding a job, renting an apartment and being a parent are made incredibly more difficult for the gay and lesbian community who, under Utah law, can be fired, evicted and refused the right to adopt a child merely for sexual orientation.

In a time where tolerance of all people is growing, Utah in its little bubble has managed to once again be on the leading edge of bigotry by solidifying the GLBT community as second-class citizens.

Utah’s own governor, Gary Herbert, believes there should be no “special law” protecting gay and lesbian people from discrimination, rather “we ought to just do the right thing because it’s the right thing to do and we don’t have to have a law that punishes us if we don’t,” he said in a news conference in August.

While Mr. Herbert’s message of let’s just do the right thing and we’ll all be happy is a good one, it is unrealistic. As long as there are people on this earth, sadly, there will be some form of discrimination. However, through liberal thinking and support from local government, the way Utah treats its GLBT citizens can be changed for the better.

This is not an argument of whether being gay is right or wrong. Rather, this is an argument of how to treat a human being, regardless of sexual orientation, religious affiliation, skin tone, etc. It is irrelevant if you are in line with or against the GLBT community. No one says you must like everyone; however, every citizen deserves a level of respect, a level Utah is far from offering.

We implore the USU community and Utah as a whole to “do the right thing because it’s the right thing to do.” If we, the grass roots citizens, can begin forging the path toward open-mindedness, maybe our state officials will reconsider their point of view.

Church and state

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he greatest fallacy that exists in Christian America today is the belief that Jesus is a Republican.

This is a delicate conversation to have at USU. Many students here are Latter-day Saints. Many of them are socially conservative. And as this is a state-funded school, it is supposed to be free of religious influence. Oh, there is the omnipresent LDS Institute but that building is not part of campus (wink, wink).

Now, before some of you get your underwear in a bunch, this is not a Mormonbashing column.

Re-Entry Thoughts I never accepted that moniker being thrust on to me. I don’t bash Mormons. I bash theocracies. If I was a middleaged college student attending Mississippi State instead of Utah State, there is a good chance I would say something quite similar there to what I say here. And, I most likely would be called a Baptist basher.

This is the where the great fallacy comes in. Too many people in Utah, and probably Mississippi as well, want Jesus sitting in the big chair of government – whether it be federal, state or local.

There are many problems with this. Morality is subjective. Religion has a horrible track record of running governments. This country’s Constitution was meant to prevent all sects, religious ones

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U.S. and Cuba inching closer

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he United States and Cuba are taking baby steps toward each other. Since President Obama called for a “new beginning,” his administration has allowed unlimited family travel and remittances, resumed migration talks, proposed direct-mail service and given its blessing to the concert by Colombian pop star Juanes. In the last 10 months, the State Department issued 5,500 more visas for Cubans to visit the United States than in the like period before October 2008.

When news leaked that Bisa Williams, U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, had traveled to Cuba, eyebrows were raised. Over six days, she met with Cuban officials on direct-mail service, toured an agricultural cooperative, lunched with five dissidents, hosted a reception at the U.S. Interests Section and took in the Juanes concert.

On Sept. 29, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez told the U.N. General Assembly that not much had changed between Cuba and the United States since Obama’s inauguration. “The economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba remains intact,” said Rodriguez. True, but it takes two to tango.

Cuba’s Foreign Ministry – seat of a first-rate diplomatic corps – should review its files from the 1970s when Havana and Washington established a dialogue on a doable, not maximalist, agenda.

The White House, in turn, should look back to the late 1990s when President Bill Clinton’s administration reclaimed his foreign-policy prerogatives and crafted a flexible Cuba policy. The Helms-Burton Act seemingly codified the embargo, but it also codified the Office of Foreign Assets Control’s rule-making powers regarding Cuba.

Thus, after Pope John Paul II’s visit to Cuba, Clinton restored charter flights, family travel and remittances. The administration had to do an inevitable balancing act: mollifying U.S. allies on Helms-Burton; announcing new democracy grants mandated by HelmsBurton; giving Cuban airliners en route to and from Canada the right to overfly the United States; and arresting the Wasp Network of Cuban spies in South Florida.

In January 1999, the White House truly pushed the envelope by: –Authorizing direct flights between cities other than Miami and Havana.

–Allowing remittances to independent orga-

especially, from dominating the political culture to the point where oppression flourishes. This all leads us to the irony we get when Christian dogma is interwoven with government and makes me doubt Jesus’ Republican street cred. Jesus was neither a conservative nor a capitalist.

Consider what Jesus said: love your enemies; if a man takes your coat, give him your cloak as well; forfeit your riches to the poor; the rich have little shot of getting into heaven; be merciful upon the wicked; and, my favorite, judge not lest ye be judged. Jesus was a socialist. Deal with it.

The life of Jesus does not suggest he was a dittohead. He walked from town to town with no money. He crashed at people’s houses with 12 friends. He scorned the religious hierarchy every chance he could. He enjoyed a good wine from time to time, and if he did not have any around, he just made some out of water. And then there were the hookers. He really liked having hookers around. Does this sound like Sean Hannity’s America to you?

In no way is this column a mocking diatribe against those who are Christian in name and in deeds. I admire those who take the Light of Christ into their hearts and use it make the people and things around them better. A charitable heart and a contrite spirit can only improve humanity, if it’s sincere. Politics, by nature, is almost never sincere. As such, shoving Jesus into every political discussion reeks of opportunism. Social conservatives, who have been on a crusade to define the Republican Party and shape public policy by a strict code of Judeo-Christian values, risk not only destroying the GOP but also becoming completely irrelevant to the voting populous that has shown

nizations and individuals unaffiliated with the government or the Communist Party.

–Expanding licensed travel to Cuba for academics, artists, scientists, journalists and increasing visas for Cubans to visit the United States.

–Allowing the Baltimore Orioles and the Cuban national team to play ball.

–Authorizing the licensed sale of food and agricultural products to NGOs and private individuals in Cuba.

Clinton’s decision to license the sale of food and agricultural products harbored the greatest potential for change in bilateral relations since the 1970s. It gave renewed impetus to the anti-embargo movement. Market forces had, moreover, created a potentially powerful constituency for a change. Amid the agricultural glut and depressed prices of the late 1990s, U.S. farming interests turned their hungry eyes on the Cuban market.

In October 2000, Clinton signed the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancements Act, which authorized the sale of agricultural commodities while barring Havana from U.S. public or private credits. TSRA also codified the travel ban – that is, all OFAC Cuba-related travel regulations.

Clinton set a precedent that mobilized agricultural trade and soft power to pry Cuba open. His administration started down a path of limited engagement. At first, George W. Bush stayed the course but then did a U-turn in 2003 until the end of his presidency.

The White House cannot lift the embargo nor end the travel ban. The president nonetheless retains broad authority to license trade, Cuban imports, limited investments and most travel except tourism.

Today, making Cuba policy is much less mined than it was under Clinton. Cuban Miami has become more diverse. More time has passed under the embargo without Cubans being any closer to freedom. Cuba policy is bipartisan, for and against the embargo.

Obama can do more than meets the HelmsBurton eye. Yet, I’m not surprised that the tempo is slow. Sure, he’s got a lot on his plate, but even if that weren’t so, 50 years of mistrust can’t be bridged quickly. I say so far so good, but I hope a lot more eyebrows – here and there – are raised.

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they do not want religion in their government.

This is my argument to my fellow Aggies, many of whom are half my age. A considerable amount of you are socially-conservative Republicans. In the next three decades, you will mature into a politically astute citizenry of the greatest, most prosperous country to ever exist. Many of you will vote. Some of you will have the chance to attain political standing and power. While these decades come to pass, this country will legalize gay marriage, dismantle all laws regarding gambling and alcohol, continue its expansion of artistic expression through the limitless avenues of communication that are invented faster than we can buy them and will see the Caucasian population be relegated from a majority to a plurality. If you grow older and refuse to adapt to these monumental changes then you will have little political power beyond the narrow scope of cookie-cutter Utah towns.

If your free will compels you to give your heart and soul to Jesus, then do so. On Election Day, leave him at home.

Harry Caines is a re-entry student from Philadelphia majoring in interdisciplinary studies.

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ho, Obama? So fast? Too fast – he hasn’t had the time to do anything yet.”

Even some of the president’s admirers must have shared the puzzled reaction of Poland’s Lech Walesa, the 1983 Nobel Peace Laureate, upon learning of President Barack Obama’s selection as this year’s recipient.

Europe loves Obama because he’s not George W. Bush, whose war-on-terror policies are reviled, but is that really a prizeworthy distinction? It shouldn’t be.

His selection is an honor for this country, yet the word premature springs to mind. Obama has made some eloquent speeches, most recently reaffirming a commitment to diplomatic engagement before the U.N. General Assembly.

And he has done some good things, too, like ordering the eventual closing of the prison at Guantanamo and outlawing waterboarding.

That’s a good start, but no more than that. The Nobel Peace Prize should represent more than a pat on the back for good intentions.

There is as yet no grand political achievement that compares to finding a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland (John Hume and David Trimble, 1998). He has not reached the level of Nelson Mandela, who shared

the prize with F.W. de Klerk in 1993 for bringing reconciliation to South Africa. He is not a worldwide symbol of the capacity of the human spirit (Elie Wiesel, 1986), nor a personification of peace (Mother Teresa, 1979; the Dalai Lama, 1989).

The Nobel committee cited as his key accomplishment bringing “a new climate in international politics.” It is to Obama’s credit that he has inspired such great expectations around the world, and perhaps the award is a way to encourage him to keep at it. But the prize would mean more if it could point to concrete achievements.

Obama’s comments on Friday seemed to reflect his own surprise, describing his selection “a call to action for all nations to work toward peace” and “an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations.” He seems to understand what the world expects of him. Now he has to deliver on those great expectations. As he is fond of saying, “It’s not going to be easy.”

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Prison time and felony charges rare for relic looters SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Stepping into the afternoon sun last month, Jeanne Redd and her daughter Jericca walked away from a federal courthouse with probation papers – not prison time – for their role in the theft and illegal trafficking of Indian artifacts.

Some, including one of the Salt Lake City’s daily newspapers, expressed frustration that the judge didn’t come down harder on the duo from southern Utah.

History however says the punishment for the Redds, who pleaded guilty to several felonies, was fairly typical. Despite high-profile arrests and indictments, most people convicted of illegally digging up, collecting and cashing in on artifacts in the United States don’t go to prison.

And for those that do, most are in for a year or less, according to a 10-year analysis of prosecutions under a 1979 law meant to punish those that foul the country’s cultural resources.

In Jeanne Redd’s case, prosecutors had sought at least 18 months in prison. She’s among 26 people charged after a federal sting operation that lasted more than two years and included hundreds of transactions between an undercover agent and buyers and sellers from Utah, New Mexico and Colorado.

At sentencing, U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups gave her three years probation and a $2,000 fine for seven felony counts of plundering artifacts from tribal and federal lands. She and her daughter, who got two years of probation, had already surrendered a collection of more than 800 artifacts ranging from exquisite pottery and decorative pendants to human remains.

The sentences didn’t surprise Robert Palmer, an archaeologist and former academic who analyzed Archaeological Resources Protection Act prosecutions from 1996 to 2005.

His analysis, published in an obscure law journal in 2007, found that of the 83 people found guilty, 20 went to prison and 13 of those received sentences of a year or less. Palmer also found that while prosecutors were successful in the cases they took on, they turned away about a third of the cases they got, mostly because of weak evidence or a lack of clear criminal intent.

Those refusals – along with a lack of manpower and other priorities for investigators – are part of the reason why “we are witnessing the wholesale stripping and selling off for scrap our collective American heritage,� said Palmer, who now works as the senior law enforcement

ranger at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa. “People might see these as insignificant but over time, you’re removing context, you’re removing significance, you’re removing the lens of the future to look back at the past,� he said.

On average, 840 looting cases are reported each year – more than two per day – across federal land managed by the National Park Service, the U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, according to Todd Swain, the Park Service’s lone investigator on cultural crimes.

There are certainly more cases that are either never discovered or never reported, he said. “Lord knows what the scope of the problem actually is,� he said. “But clearly the numbers we do have are seriously under what’s going on.�

Of the cases reported, only about 14 percent ever get solved. Roughly 94 percent of violators walk away with misdemeanor tickets, said Swain, who examined records from 1996 to 2005.

Some of those are minor cases worthy only of a misdemeanor citation but “a bunch� could probably be pursued as felony cases – those that result in damage of $500 or more – if there were

the time and resources to conduct a lengthier investigation, Swain said. “ARPA investigations can be as complex as murder cases,� Swain said in his 2007 analysis which, like Palmer’s, appeared in the Yearbook of Cultural Property Law. Often those cases require archaeological expertise, weeks or months of investigation and prosecutors with the time and inclination to take on the cases with a portion of federal law they’re not always familiar with.

A park service program to train federal prosecutors lasted for 12 years before it was discontinued in 2003. Swain said most of those who were trained have either left the office or taken on other assignments. The program resumed last month and Swain is hoping it’s going to continue.

Despite a push in recent decades to get tougher on artifact looters, there are no significant signs that prosecutions or punishments are having any major effect on looting, especially those that steal for commercial purposes. “The numbers should be going down,� said Swain, who has investigated more than 30 archaeological looting cases. “That’s definitely not the case.�

As China’s economy grows, so do mounds of garbage: 300 million tons a year ZHANGLIDONG, China (AP) – Visitors can smell this village long before they see it.

More than 100 dump trucks piled high with garbage line the narrow road leading to Zhanglidong, waiting to empty their loads in a landfill as big as 20 football fields.

In less than five years, the Zhengzhou Comprehensive Waste Treatment Landfill has overwhelmed this otherwise pristine village of about 1,000 people. Peaches and cherries rot on trees, infested with insect life drawn by the smell.

Fields lie unharvested, contaminated by toxic muck. Every day, another 100 or so tons of garbage arrive from nearby Zhengzhou, a provincial capital of 8 million. “Life here went from heaven to hell in an instant,� says lifelong resident Wang Xiuhua, swatting away clouds of mosquitoes and flies.

The 78-year-old woman suddenly coughs uncontrollably and says the landfill gases inflame her bronchitis.

As more Chinese ride the nation’s economic boom, a torrent of garbage is one result. Cities are bursting at the seams, and their officials struggle to cope.

The amount of paper, plastic and other garbage has more than tripled in two decades to about 300 million tons a year, according to Nie Yongfeng, a waste management expert at Beijing’s Tsinghua University.

Americans are still way ahead of China in garbage; a population less than a quarter the size of China’s 1.3 billion generated 254 million tons of garbage in 2007, a third of which is recycled or composted, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

But for China, the problem represents a rapid turnabout from a generation ago, when families, then largely rural and poor, used and reused everything. “Trash was never complicated before, because we didn’t have supermarkets, we didn’t have fancy packaging and endless things to buy,� said Nie. “Now suddenly, the government is panicking about the mountains of garbage piling up with no place to put it all.�

In Zhanglidong, villagers engage in shouting matches with drivers and sometimes try to bodily block their garbage trucks coming from Zhengzhou, 20 miles away. “Zhengzhou is spotless because their trash is dumped into our village,� says Li Qiaohong, who blames it for her 5-year-old son’s eczema.

Li’s family is one of a few who live within 100 meters (300 feet) of the landfill, separated from it by a fence. These families get 100 yuan ($15) a month in government compensation.

The dump has poisoned not just the air and ground, but relationships. Villagers say they were never consulted, and suspect their Communist Party officials were paid to accept the landfill.

In China, especially in rural regions, there is often no recourse once local officials make a decision. The villagers say not only were their petitions ignored, but they were warned by the Zhengzhou police to stop protesting or face punishment. “We villagers were too naive ... we didn’t know what a landfill was,� said Li. “If we had known earlier about all the pollution it would cause, we would had done everything possible to stop the construction process. Now it’s too late.�

Elsewhere, thousands of farmers in the central province of Hubei clashed with police last year over illegal dumping near their homes. A person filming the clash died after being beaten by police.

Protests in cities are driving trash to the countryside.

Residents in central Beijing swarmed the offices of the Ministry of Environment last year, protesting the stench from a landfill and plans for a new incinerator there. In July, officials scrapped the incinerator plan and closed the landfill four years early.

In eastern Beijing, local officials invested millions of dollars to make the Gao An Tun landfill and incinerator one of a handful in China to meet global health standards. That was after 200,000 residents petitioned for a year about the smell. “Our standard of living is improving, so it’s natural that more and more of us begin to fight for a better quality of life,� says Zhang Jianhua, 67, one of the petitioners. “Widespread media coverage embarrassed the local government, so they finally decided to take action,� she says.

After millennia as a farming society, China expects to be majority urban in five years.

Busy families are shifting from fresh to packaged foods, consumption of which rose 10.8 percent a year from 2000 to 2008, well above the 4.2 percent average in Asia, according to the Hong Kong Trade Development Council. By 2013, the packaged-food market is expected to reach $195 billion, up 74 percent from last year.

At least 85 percent of China’s seven billion tons of trash is in landfills, much of it in unli-

censed dumps in the countryside. Most have only thin linings of plastic or fiberglass. Rain drips heavy metals, ammonia, and bacteria into the groundwater and soil, and the decomposing stew sends out methane and carbon dioxide.

Regulations allow incinerators to emit 10 times the level of dioxins permitted in the U.S., and these release cancer-causing dioxins and other poisons, according to a Chinese government study. “If the government doesn’t step up efforts to solve our garbage woes, China will likely face an impending health crisis in the coming decade,� warns Liu Yangsheng, an expert in waste management at Peking University.

In Zhanglidong, resident Zheng Dongxiao says the village’s only water well is polluted and causing chronic ulcers.

Wang Ling, a spokesman for the Zhengzhou Ministry of Environment, said the landfill has a polyethylene liner to protect the ground beneath. “Test results of the local soil, water, and air quality, in 2006 and this year, showed that everything was in line with national standards,� he told The Associated Press.

Residents say the liner has tears and only covers a fraction of the landfill.

The government knows its garbage disposal will always draw complaints, says Liu. “What they need to do is invest more money into building and maintaining better plants.�

That remains a tall order in a country bent on growth, where economic planners hold more sway than environmental regulators and are loath to spend scarce funds on waste management.

Fraud: Afghan vote wrapped in controversy

-continued from page 2 complete. Eide said Galbraith’s allegations against him have “affected the entire election process.�

Final results have been delayed by more than a month as a U.N.-backed panel set up as a check on the Afghanappointed election commission examines complaints and suspicious votes. Though preliminary tallies show Karzai winning with about 54 percent, enough Karzai ballots are suspect that the voiding of fraudulent votes could drop him below the 50 percent threshold needed to avoid a runoff.

Eide said he remains “committed to the process� and pointed to the ongoing fraud investigations as proof that systems set up to catch cheating are working.

Last week, Galbraith said he was sticking by his allegations. He accused the United Nations of failing to exercise its responsibility to oversee the Afghan elections, adding that “the fraud that took place in Afghanistan was preventable.�

Four U.N. staffers who worked under Galbraith have resigned over the dispute, U.N. spokesman Aleem Siddique said.

Among other things, Galbraith complained that polling stations were allowed to open in areas that were insecure, raising the likelihood of fraud. Eide said military operations were launched in a bid to secure to open as many stations as possible.

Eide said that closing such stations would have denied a large number of people the opportunity to vote and created “an important element of potential instability in the country.�

Many polling stations believed affected by fraud were in areas of the Taliban-con-

trolled south where turnout was low.

Eide denied that he had told U.N. staffers not to pass on credible information about ballot-stuffing or low-to-nonexistent turnout. However, he said reports from second- or third-hand sources were not reported because they did not appear credible. “Some of these allegations are based on private conversations whilst he was a guest in my home for two months,�

Eide said. “My view is that private discussions around the dinner table remain just that: private.�

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The Registrar’s Office would like to remind everyone that this Friday is Fall Break and there will be no classes. Because of this holiday everyone should attend Friday’s schedule on Thursday. There will be no Thursday classes.

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PLU# 9264 Scan Down With This Coupon

When You Buy SIX (6) Participating

General Mills Products In one shopping visit.

14 oz. Cheerios, 12.25 oz. Honey Nut Cheerios, 11.25 oz. Cookie Crisp Sprinkles, 12.2 oz. Trix, 10.7 oz. Lucky Charms, 11.5 oz. Wheaties, 10.9 oz. Nature Valley Chunchy Granola Bars, Chewy Trail Mix Bars, Sweet & Salty Granola Bars, Yogurt Bars, Roasted Nut Crunch Bars, Nut Clusters, Fiber One Chewy Bars, Chex Mix Bars, Curves Chewy Granola Bars, Yopait Go-Gurt, Trix Lowfat Yogurt, Kids, Lowfat Yogurt, Kids Yogurt Drink.

Good only at participating Associated Food Stores.

Limit 1 coupon per item(s) purchased.Limit 1 coupon per customer.

Harvest M&M’s, Kit Kat, Reese’s or Almond Joy

$ 24

4-4.1 oz. Pouch Asst.

Boneless

Western Family 12.3 oz. Asst.

Frozen Waffles

6 $9

1

49

1

General Mills Cereal

With In-Ad Coupon 6 for $12 Without

3.5 lbs.

3.5 lbs.

N

AFS Vendor Coupon Expires Oct. 20, 2009

10.7-14 oz. Select Varieties

¢

Western Family

1

1

$ 99

ea.

Child’s Play Candy

$ 98

Grandma Sycamore’s Bead

Baby-Cut Carrots

1

1200 North

Prices Effective October 12th - October 17th, 2009

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Romney Stadium

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