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Health care system threatens nation’s future By KAYLA WOODRING staff writer
Failure to reform the nation’s health care system will lead to disaster for its economic well-being and global competitiveness in coming years, said Michael Lyons, professor of U.S. legislative policy. “We’re spending almost twice as much on health care as any other industrialized nation and it is undermining the prosperity of our economy and our competitiveness internationally,” Lyons said. “And with the retirement of the baby boomers in the next 10-15 years, the problem will become more severe as projections indicate we will be spending one-fifth or more of our entire gross domestic product (GDP) on health care costs.” The reason one-fifth of the nation’s GDP is such a staggering figure is because it leaves little opportunity for Americans to spend money on other important government programs and endeavors. To put it into a better perspective, Lyons said citizens should consider this: The U.S. currently spends about 7 percent of its GDP on education, which is half of what it is spending now on health care. “Any attempt to fix health care in this country must address the cost. The Obama administration’s proposal doesn’t do this directly enough in my opinion but seems to create a way to address it over a 20-year period,” Lyons said. “That being said, the bill does address the second major issue in health care reform and that is 40-50 million people in this country who do not have health care.”
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA addresses a joint session of Congress on health care reform Wednesday, Sept. 9. Michael Lyons, USU professor of U.S. legislative policy, said public misconceptions and hysteria are one of the biggest obstacles to health care reform in the U.S. MCT photo
If costs are reduced and the uninsured are covered by health care reform, it will be highly beneficial for the economy, Lyons said. The current system is inefficient as it requires the insured to pick up the costs for the uninsured who are unable to obtain medical care until they are in dire circumstances, often in emer-
gency rooms. “As it stands, there is socialism in our current health care system,” Lyons said. “That’s correct, I said there is socialism in our system that comes from many of us paying for those who can’t pay by being forced to pay higher prices for care and treatment. We need to get rid of this particular kind
Washington Monthly ranks Utah State 27th in nation By BENJAMIN WOOD senior news writer
USU beat out Brigham Young University, University of Utah and Princeton in this year’s Washington Monthly College Rankings, coming in at No. 27. The editor in chief of Washington Monthly, Paul Glastris, said its rankings began as an alternative to the listings published by the U.S. News and World Report. Often, Glastris said, non-academic factors like reputation sway the results of the U.S. News rankings, and the editors at Washington Monthly wanted to stick with more reliable data. “They measure prestige and money, which are not the same as academic excellence,” Glastris said. Schools in Washington Monthly’s annual rankings are rated based on their contribution to the public good, Glastris said, and are awarded points based on social mobility, research and service. Within these catagories, factors such as direct financial aid assistance, graduation rates, research expenditures and work-study funds contribute to a school’s overall score. “Rather than trying to determine whether a specific college is the best, we ask whether the taxpayers are getting their money’s worth,” Glastris said. USU excelled particularly in the area of finan-
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cial aid. According to the ranking data found at Washington Monthly’s Web site, USU is third in the nation for federal work-study funds spent on service and 52 percent of students receive Pell grants. “Where we shine is the service category,” said Steve Sharp, USU’s financial aid director. Sharp said USU has one of the most expansive America Reads tutoring programs in the country and roughly half of work-study funds are spent on tutoring and other community service programs. He also mentioned that in Utah, compared with other states, a greater percentage of undergraduates are married, increasing the availability of Pell grants. Even so, USU was ranked higher than other Utah schools – BYU and the University of Utah ranked 136 and 154, respectively. “The people who get Pell grants at our institution do better than expected,” Sharp said. Sharp agreed the rankings published by U.S. News and World Report can be somewhat unreliable when comparing institutions of higher education. “It’s about as accurate as high school popularity,” Sharp said. Sharp graduated from USU and in the space of his career has become familiar with many Ivy League schools and graduates and said he
- See RANK, page 4
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of socialism and reforming the system is the only way we’re going to be able to do that.” Public misconceptions and hysteria are proving to be the biggest obstacles to health care reform in the country. Lyons said there is a genuine lack of understanding of the consequences of reform and a propagation of myths like the
death panel, many of which are spread by certain polarized media figures, that prevent people from really becoming informed as to what the proposals are. Most of the media aren’t to blame for the division among the people however, Lyons said. “There’s media and then there’s media, and I think con-
servative talk-radio hosts and television personalities like Glenn Beck have worked a significant part of the voting population into near hysteria when there’s really nothing that radical in the Obama plan,” Lyons said. “I think the mainstream
- See REFORM, page 3
Tooele campus receives 30-acre land donation from local mayor BY CHRISTINA WRIGHT staff writer
Tooele City Mayor Patrick Dunlavy and the Tooele City Council recently donated 30 acres to the USU Regional Campus in Tooele. USU plans to purchase an additional 20 acres to build a 50acre campus that will serve all of Tooele County. The new campus will be south of the current one. The vice provost of Distance Education, Ronda Menlove, said, “Our first priority will be more classroom space.” In fact, the approximately 900 students enrolled this semester have to take some classes at nearby high schools because the Tooele Regional Campus is too small. To help alleviate the problem, an 18,000-square-foot addition to the old campus was completed and the ribbons cut on Sept. 14. According to the dean of the Tooele campus, Gary Straquadine, the $2.89 million addition includes a new biology lab with full wet lab capability, a computer lab with 20 workstations, a second set of restrooms, 110 new parking spaces and 15 new classrooms, which has already been filled and students are back in high school classrooms. Other short-term plans are in place to help with the classroom problem. Menlove said the Tooele School District is working on a new Career and Technical Education building, which will share some classroom space with the campus.
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“We’re also partnering with the Tooele Applied Technology College,” she said. The TATC will also share its classroom space with the Tooele Regional Campus while USU will assist the TATC in building its own new addition. The next priorities after classroom space include a new high-quality research facility, similar to the one at the Uintah Basin Regional Campus in Vernal, to be used by both students and faculty. Eventually a student center will be built to accommodate the different needs of fresh-out-of-high-school students and older, non-traditional students. The new campus will be bounded on the east by residential areas. Authorities hope it will attract light industry on the west. Dunlavy said an interest in building a bigger USU extension in Tooele has existed for years, especially with the recent doubling of the city’s population that has made it impossible for the current regional campus to serve all the students wishing to use its facilities. The enrollment for fall shows an increase of almost 114 percent from 2008’s enrollment, and the trend is expected to continue. The main goal that he and the Tooele City Council envision for the new USU Regional Campus is increased higher-education opportunities for local students so they can avoid the higher tuition and cost of living associated with moving to a different city for
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Celebs&People KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) – Beyonce Knowles says she will perform in Malaysia in October, two years after canceling a show in this MuslimBEYONCE majority country after protesters threatened to disrupt the concert because of her sexy image and clothing. The R&B superstar’s upcoming show is already drawing the ire of conservatives in this country, where female performers are required to cover up from the shoulders to knees with no cleavage showing.
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Ideas for Wasatch canyon use SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Getting to one of Utah’s ski resorts for a day on the slopes might someday be as easy as boarding a light-rail train. That’s just one idea emerging from a public survey conducted by the Envision Utah Wasatch Canyons Tomorrow project. Launched in May, the one-year project is aimed at creating a long-term master plan for the seven canyons of the Wasatch mountains. In addition to enhancing public transit, the survey of more than 2,000 residents identified limiting private development and addressing overuse as other prominent issues of concern. The information gathered will now be used to create planning scenarios that will be shared with the public for additional input, Envision Utah Planning Director said.
LateNiteHumor David Letterman, Sept 9, 2008 – Top 10 Perks Of Being A NASCAR Driver. 10. Don’t have to shave your body like Olympic swimmers ... although, why not? (Jeff Gordon) 9. Hasselhoff promised me one of those talking cars. (Greg Biffle) 8. I use old checkered flags to make fabulous throw pillows. (Tony Stewart) 7. There’s nothing like going through a car wash at 190 miles per hour. (Jeff Burton) 6. GPS underpants. (Denny Hamlin) 5. Sorry, I forgot my joke – I was thinking about Jessica Alba – man she’s hot. (Clint Bowyer) 4. Run out of olive oil? A little Quaker State will spruce up any salad. (Dale Earnhardt, Jr.) 3. Traveling to exotic locations like Martinsville, Virginia and Dover, Deleware. (Jimmie Johnson) 2. At high school reunions, it’s fun to ask, “So what do you do for a living?” (Carl Edwards) 1. After a race, your ass vibrates for days. (Kyle Busch)
Stakes high for Obama this week WASHINGTON (AP) – The unrelenting global troubles confronting Barack Obama are about to converge on him all at once, providing a stern test of leadership for a first-year president who has pledged to “change the world.” In a span of four days, Obama will plunge into the politics of the United Nations and host a summit in Pittsburgh on the world’s wobbling economy. The international stage is coming to him, and no one standing on it with him will have higher stakes. Obama is under pressure to push along stalled Mideast peace, prove the United States is serious about climate change and rally allies against the nuclear threats of Iran and North Korea. Restless leaders in Europe and elsewhere are pressing Obama to reform risky U.S. financial behavior and get Congress on board. He also bears the load of two inherited wars that now bear his imprint – the one he’s winding down in Iraq and the one that’s widening in Afghanistan. Eight years after the Sept. 11 attacks, Obama must hold together international will as he tries to keep Afghanistan from becoming an al-Qaida launching pad again. The talks have the
potential to be galvanizing moments or opportunities lost. “Leadership is not just telling people what you want, as the Bush administration discovered. Leadership is getting people to do what you need them to do,” said Jon Alterman, a senior fellow in Middle East policy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former State Department official in President George W. Bush’s first term. Obama will have his chances. His first speech to the 192member General Assembly will outline his view of leadership, emphasizing a new brand of cooperation as if to underline he is not Bush. As U.N. ambassador Susan Rice described the message: “Everybody has a responsibility. The U.S. is leading anew. And we are looking to others to join.” Obama will be the first U.S. president to be chairman of the Security Council, whose rotating presidency happens to be in U.S. hands this month during the annual meeting of the General Assembly. He expects to emerge from that special summit on arms control with a resolution that advances his goals of a nuclear-weapons free world.
FRENCH PRESIDENT NICOLAS SARKOZY, right, and U.S. President Barack Obama, during an arrival ceremony at the Prefecture of Caen, northwestern France on June 6. Attempts to rein in banker bonuses at the G-20 summit of world leaders spearheaded by Sarkozy may fall prey to the realpolitik of Obama’s hard fought attempt to pass sweeping health care reforms. AP photo
The measure will try to put heat on Iran and North Korea without singling out any country. With his domestic agenda consumed by health care, Obama is under pressure from world leaders to put more muscle into fighting climate change. He will seek to do just that this week, too, with a speech at a U.N. climate con-
ference. Time is short, though, for the U.S. to have leverage. An international conference is set for December in Denmark to a new global climate pact. Although the House has passed a bill to limit greenhouse gases, Senate action may fade until next year. Perhaps as important as the speeches will be the con-
versations the world never sees. Obama, who arrives in New York City on Monday for the annual U.N. gathering, will meet privately with the leaders of Russia, China and Japan. Less formal sessions will take place all week.
- See BUSY, page 14
Medvedev: Israel not planning Iran strike MOSCOW (AP) – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says Israeli officials have assured him that they are not planning a military strike on Iran. In an interview with CNN television broadcast Sunday, Medvedev also confirmed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a secret visit to Moscow this month that included a meeting with the Russian president. In a transcript of the interview released by the Kremlin, Medvedev hedges on the question of whether Russia would support Iran if it were attacked by Israel. Although Russia has no defense agreement with Iran “this does not mean we would like to be or will be indifferent to such an occurrence. This is the worst thing that can be imagined,” Medvedev said of a potential Israeli strike. “What would happen after that? Humanitarian disaster, a vast number of refugees, Iran’s wish to take revenge – and not only upon Israel, to be honest, but upon other countries as well.” “But my Israeli colleagues
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT DMITRY MEDVEDEV, seen at the Gorki residence outside Moscow, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday praised the decision by the Obama administration to scrap plans for a missile defense system in Eastern Europe, calling it a “responsible move.” The Russian leader made the comments on state-run TV just hours after US President Barack Obama announced he was shelving the project, which has been a major irritant in relations with Moscow for years. AP photo
told me they were not planning to act in this way, and I trust them,” Medvedev said. It was not clear whether those referred to included Netanyahu. In a CNN clip played on Israeli TV and dubbed in English, Medvedev
refers to Israeli President Shimon Peres as the source of the assurances. “In one hour I will talk with the president of Israel, Mr. Peres, who when recently visiting me he told me a very important thing to all of us.
He said Israel doesn’t intend to deliver any strike against Iran. He said, ‘We are a a peaceful country.’” Netanyahu spokesman Mark Regev refused to comment Sunday on whether the Israeli premier had given any
such assurance to Medvedev, or to confirm that Netanyahu ever made the Moscow trip. Medvedev gave the first confirmation from the Russian side that the meeting with Netanyahu had taken place. Netanyahu was absent from public view in Israel for most of the day on Sept. 7. His office said he had visited a secret security facility, but there was widespread speculation that he had gone to Russia – either to pressure Moscow not to deliver S-300 air-defense missiles to Iran or to inform the Kremlin of attack plans. “Prime Minister Netanyahu came to Moscow. He did this under a closed regime, this was his decision. I don’t understand what this was connected with, but sometimes our partners decide it this way,” Medvedev said. He did not give details of the meeting. Russia signed a contract two years ago to sell S-300s to Iran, a move that disturbs Israel because the missiles would substantially boost Iran’s defenses. However, no deliveries have been made public.
FBI: Notes on bomb-making in Zazi’s handwriting Study: Salt Lake, Logan DENVER (AP) – Investigators said they found notes describing how to make bombs in the handwriting of an airport shuttle driver arrested as part of a terrorism investigation, and they also discovered his fingerprints on materials – batteries and a scale – that could be used to make explosives. The emerging details show that Najibullah Zazi, who has admitted receiving weapons training from al-Qaida, played a direct role in an alleged terror plot, authorities said in court documents released Sunday. Zazi, 24, has publicly denied being involved in a terror plot. Zazi, his father, and an Imam in New York City were arrested late Saturday on charges of making a false statement to
the government, though legal experts say more charges could be coming. Zazi’s defense team denied reports that Zazi considered a plea deal related to terror charges, and Zazi’s attorney, Arthur Folsom, dismissed as “rumor” any notion that Zazi played a crucial role. Zazi’s defense team did not respond to repeated attempts to reach them Sunday. Federal officials in Denver declined to comment. Zazi admitted to FBI agents that he received instructions from al-Qaida operatives on subjects such as weapons and explosives. Court documents filed in Denver say Zazi was speaking with agents under an agreement where he might avoid prosecution. He received the training
in the federally administered tribal areas of Pakistan, the documents say. The FBI said it found images of nine pages of handwritten notes on a laptop containing formulas and instructions for making bomb, detonators and a fuse. Zazi told the FBI that he must have unintentionally downloaded the notes as part of a religious book he downloaded in August. Zazi said he “immediately deleted the religious book within days of downloading it after realizing that its contents discussed jihad.” However, an arrest affidavit says the handwriting on the notes appeared to be Zazi’s. The affidavit doesn’t mention
- See TERROR, page 14
among top college cities
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – A study has named two Utah college towns to a list of the nation’s top destinations for students. The 2009-2010 College Destinations Index ranked Salt Lake City sixth among midsize metropolitan areas. Northern Utah’s Logan was ranked No. 13 among small college towns. The survey by the American Institute for Economic Research categorized more than 360 metropolitan areas by population and then assessed each city using criteria that included social and economic factors and educational and cultural amenities. The index report was released last week.
Study authors say the index is designed to help students consider location along with academics, sports programs and costs when deciding where to attend college. Salt Lake City has several private schools and two large public institutions – the University of Utah and Salt Lake Community College. The index found that 71 of every 1,000 city residents are students. The index found diversity was relatively low in Salt Lake City but high in Logan, where 13.4 percent of the nearly 25,000 Utah State University students are from other parts of the world.
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USU freshman runs for City Council Briefs Campus & Community
Homecoming week activities kick off
By CATHERINE MEIDELL assistant news editor
Skyler Tidwell, River Heights resident and USU freshman, received a call Tuesday, Sept. 15, to let him know that he made it through the primaries for River Heights City Council. After beating Keith Tilley by 16 votes, 18-year-old Tidwell has a shot at one of the two seats that need to be filled. The final election will take place Nov. 3. Tidwell, a big fan of former President George W. Bush, said he aspires to be governor of Texas and one day president of the United States. Tidwell’s father, Shawn Tidwell, said one day his son started following Bush’s election and ever since then he’s been reaching for the “hot seat.” After serving as Mountain Crest High School’s senior class president, Tidwell said he believes a spot on the city council is the next step up the ladder. Two of the city’s candidates are incumbents: Douglas L. Clausen and Kathryn Hadfield. Tidwell said the two will be the hardest to beat because they are already well-known by the people of River Heights. “I didn’t expect to make it this far,” Tidwell said. “It’s a miracle I’m keeping my head above water.” Tidwell said he thinks the reason why he won in the primaries is because Tilley didn’t get his campaign signs set up early enough to have his name recognized, while Tidwell was the first of all the candidates to place any signs. Though Tidwell won, he said he isn’t completely happy about the outcome. “I’m hard on myself. To be honest, 44 votes is pathetic. Only 17 percent of the city voted. There are a lot more votes to catch (in the next election),” Tidwell said. Political science professor Michael Lyons discussed with Tidwell about the measures that must be taken if he wants a chance at a seat on the council. Lyons said Tidwell will not have to be everything the people want but will need to be able to convey to people of River Heights that he will listen to them. Lyons said, “A person that is willing to listen to both sides, regardless of age, can operate effectively. The perception that the leader is willing to listen to them is critical.” Because he is only 18, Tidwell will need to be prepared to address his age, said Lyons. He said people will most definitely doubt Tidwell’s ability
USU’s Homecoming week kicks off with various events happening around campus. The celebration will conclude Sept. 26 with the first home game of the season against Southern Utah University. Monday, Sept. 21 • Noon – Lunch for the Bunch, LDS Institute. • 8-noon – Street Painting, 700 North. • 9-11 p.m. – Pudding Dance, HPER Field.
SKYLER TIDWELL, 18, sits next to one of his campaign signs. He made it through the primary elections for River Heights City Concil. Tidwell said he was attributes his success to setting up campaign signs early and getting his name recognized. TYLER LARSON photo
to perform because it’s a liability. Tidwell said the current council members do not listen to the people as much as they should, which helps his campaign strategy. Undoubtedly, the most difficult part of campaigning will be earning the trust of the River Heights people. Lyons said, “If he is running against members who are out of touch and not representing, he can say he will represent them. He needs to make a sincere effort to tell people he would be different in this way.” Tidwell plans to do just this. He will go around the city knocking on doors and shaking hands with community members, sharing his goals and attitude of a willingness to listen, Tidwell said. He said he has a lot to do between now and the Nov. 3 election. He wants to make signs with a new color scheme because the ones he has now are not as noticeable as he would like. His signs will also be visible in many more locations around River Heights. The funds for his campaign are coming
out of his own pocket, he said, and he will not be upset if he loses because of the experience he will have gained from the election process. Tidwell said he is determined to earn the trust of many in his city and he understands that at first they will have no reason to trust him. “Of course they’ll have a hard time trusting me. I’m 18 years old. I’m a punk. Of course they aren’t going to take me seriously,” Tidwell said about the River Heights residents’ first impression of his running for city council. Tidwell’s father said they need someone young in the city council. He said the age group of the council members has been the same for the 17 years that his family has lived there. He said the way the council operates is one sided. Tidwell said, “In the beginning I was in this to see how far I could get. Getting through the primaries was a wake up call. I’m going to fight now. A fight and a struggle isn’t going to wear me out.” – catherine.meidell@aggiemail.usu.edu
Reform: Making sense of current health care issues -continued from page 1 media have reported responsibly and, as it always is, the media outlets on the far left and the far right making it progressively more difficult to come to any sort of constructive compromise on any issue.” Lyons said it would help if people understood what the real elements of the proposals are. One such example is the public option, which is a government health care plan that would provide an alternative to the private plan. People would not be obligated to utilize the public option. “The best way to become informed on what the various proposals are really about is to read up on them. There are several readily available sources to do this: The New York Times, The LA Times and even The Salt Lake Tribune provide excellent coverage on this topic,” Lyons said. “Newspapers are a resource
that is significantly underutilized by students on this campus. Reading newspapers will help students to understand a lot of the health care reform proposals. That being said, this is a complex issue and not a very user-friendly one at that.” There are numerous proposals on health care reform and it’s nearly impossible to be informed and understand all of them, Lyons said. It’s best to pick a few of the more prominent proposals and to try and work to understand them. “I’m familiar with a few plans in particular, and the one I like best is the Healthy Americans Act introduced by (Democrat) Senator (Ron) Wyden (of Oregon) and sponsored by (Republican) Senator Bob Bennett of Utah,” Lyons said. “The Healthy Americans Act would drastically alter the health care system by severing
the tie between employment and insurance, therefore removing the enormous burden that health insurance costs place on businesses in the United States.” Lyons said the cost of providing insurance to employees has made it very difficult for companies in the United States to compete with companies worldwide, whose governments pay for the health care of their employees. The Healthy Americans Act would remedy this by helping the poor and the working class to pay for their health care coverage and would allow for everyone to deduct their health care expenses from their taxes allowing for indirect support from the government, he said. “The Healthy Americans Act does have a few things in common with President (Barack) Obama’s plan. One of them being that it
would require insurance companies to provide insurance to those with pre-existing conditions,” Lyons said. “Getting coverage for these people would have an enormous impact.” The goal of the Healthy Americans Act is to create vigorous competition among insurance companies, hopefully leading them to ultimately drop the cost of their premiums, he said. In the current system, insurance companies go to employers and when they secure a deal, end up acquiring numerous new customers through the business’ employee base. In transferring the responsibility of obtaining insurance from the employer to the employee, insurance companies would now only get one new customer out of each contract and would therefore need to create more of a buyer-friendly market, Lyons said. One challenge facing the Healthy Americans Act is its somewhat radical nature, Lyons said. This proposal would completely alter the system. Obama recently met with Bennett and told him his proposal was simply too revolutionary to be embraced by a majority of Americans. Obama emphasized that a key component to ensuring wide support for his own proposal was that he organized it so the majority of the insured could stay on the insurance plans they already have, Lyons said. “In my view, that’s shrewd. It would be more efficient and logical, but we’re accustomed to employers providing insurance,” Lyons said. “It’s what we’re comfortable with so what might be the most efficient plan isn’t the most popular plan politically.” Lyons said any health care reform at this point would be beneficial and Americans need something passed by Congress sooner rather than later. Plans like that of the Obama administration would still help to relieve many of the problems created by the present health care system, he said. “It’s important for students to care about health care reform because the population of elderly people receiving expensive medical care is growing very rapidly, and it will be an enormous burden for the working population to carry,” Lyons said. “More than terrorism, economic problems, budget deficit or the weakening education system, our health care system threatens our future prosperity and competitiveness globally.” –kayla.may.w@aggiemail.usu.edu
Tuesday, Sept. 22 • Noon - Free Aggie Ice Cream, TSC Patio. • 1:30 p.m. – Treasure Hunter Barry Clifford, TSC Ballroom. Barry Clifford and his team found the largest pirate ship wreck to date. He will be here to talk about his adventures. • 7:30-9:30 p.m. – Moonlight and Music concert, amphitheater. Local group Battle School and California band Musical Chairs will be playing. • 9:30-11:00 p.m. – The Princess Bride, amphitheater. Wednesday, Sept. 23 • Noon – Pillow Fight, the Quad. Students should bring their pillow to class and then meet on the Quad for a giant pillow fight. • Noon – AXO Dollar Days, TSC Patio. • 7:00 p.m. – Mr. USU, Kent Concert Hall. This year’s theme is “I Can Go the Distance.” Eleven contestants will participate in this year’s competition. Entry is $3 without a can of food and $2 with a can of food. Thursday, Sept. 24 • Noon-2:00 p.m. – Service Blitz and Aggie Treats, Sunburst Lounge. Participants will help put together packages for children at Primary Children’s Hospital. • Noon – Eric Hipple, TSC Ballroom. The former USU Quarterback is returning to Utah State to talk about his book “Real Men do Cry.” • 2:30 p.m. – Powder Puff Football, the Quad. Students can join in on a forgotten USU tradition and get their game on. • 5-8 p.m. – The International Student Council presents kite making, the Quad. Friday, Sept. 25 • Noon – Free Scotsman dogs, the Quad. 5:30 p.m. Homecoming Banquet, TSC Ballroom. • 8 p.m.-midnight – Homecoming Dance, TSC. The dance is free with USU ID and $5 without. Come dressed in your favorite decade, with or without a date. There will be a swing band, western swing, rock bands, ‘90s disc jockey and piano bar. There will also be a cash bar for nonalcoholic drinks. • Midnight – True Aggie Night, The “A.” Saturday, Sept. 26 • 8 a.m. – 5K Fun Run, campus route. Participants will meet at the south HPER doors. Pre-registration starts at 7:30 a.m. but sign-ups can also be found online. • 10 a.m. – Homecoming Parade, Main Street. • 3 p.m. – Tailgate Party, Romney Stadium. Food will be provided by Pounders. HURD members eat for free. There will be an inflatable obstacle course and an inflatable jousting station as well as a huge chest-painting station, which will paint the phrase, “Utah State, hey Aggies all the way. Go Aggies, go Aggies. Hey, hey, hey.” • 6:05 p.m. – USU vs. SUU, Romney Stadium. • 9 p.m.-midnight – White Out Party, the Quad. Participants should come decked out in white and be ready for glow sticks. Dance features DJ Marcus Wing. Those interested in more information on Homecoming week or any of the events should visit http:// www.usu.edu/homecoming.
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Monday, Sept. 21, 2009 Contact USU Police at 797-1939 for non-emergencies. Anonymous reporting line: 797-5000 EMERGENCY NUMBER: 911
PoliceBlotter Saturday, Sept. 12 • Police responded to the University Inn on a citizen assist. Police retrieved a name tag that was accidentally dropped between the elevator doors. The complainant said he needed the name tag for work purposes. • At the request of Logan City Police, USU Police assisted with a house party near 650 East and 700 North. Upon arrival police arrested several minors for being in possession of alcohol. • USU Police responded to Mountain View Tower for a broken window caused by a water balloon. Police are investigating. • Police responded to 1100 East and 1400 North because several sheep were on the highway. Police located the sheep and secured the animals in the Utah State Experiment Farm. The responsible party for the animals was contacted . Monday, Sept. 14 • Police responded to the back parking lot of the Eccles Conference Center on a traffic accident. Two vehicles hit each other while backing up in the lot. There were no injuries to report. • Police responded to the Poisonous Plant building on a report of a strange odor. The odor was from the parking lot being resurfaced. Tuesday, Sept. 15 • USU Police responded to the east side of Mountain View Tower on a report of a student falling and injuring his head. Logan emergency medical personnel also responded and transported this person to the hospital.
• USU Police was dispatched to the Living Learning Center to meet with the resident director who had just found three individuals on the roof of the Aggie Terrace. The complainant believed the individuals were smoking marijuana. Police arrived and found one of the subjects was smoking herbs in some rolling paper but no controlled substance was found. The three individuals were given a fine by Housing for being on the roof of the Aggie Terrace
• A student reported a sexual assault that happened on campus. Police are investigating.
• Police are investigating a theft that occurred at the Taggart Student Center. A sum of money was stolen from one of the offices in the building.
• USU Police met with employees from Housing to assist in s toring six bicycles that they have impounded from the Learning Living Center. The bicycles were placed in the bicycle storage.
• Police responded to the HPER Building on a medical assist. Police made contact with one female student who was unconscious due to several seizures. Paramedics arrived and released the student to a friend after being evaluated. • USU Police responded to the Living Learning Center Building B to talk to an individual about being homeless. Police informed the individual of available options. The individual refused assistance. Wednesday, Sept. 16 • USU Police was dispatched to the Aggie Terrace on some skateboarders in the terrace. Police arrived and met with the skateboarders and advised them of the skating rule. Both subjects were warned and sent on their way. • USU Police was dispatched to the soccer fields north of Mountain View Tower on a noise complaint. Police arrived to find several individuals playing on the field. Police advised the group of the time and that they needed to quiet things down. The group said they would and left the area. No further action taken.
Thursday, Sept. 17 • Police responded to a delayed report of a theft that occurred at the Richards Hall building. After a thorough investigation, police arrested one male for theft, a class B misdemeanor.
• USU Police was dispatched to a noise problem on the south side of Aggie Village No. 3 where a group of individuals were playing night games. USU Police arrived and watched as the group was playing. Once in a while, police could hear someone in the group scream for excitement. Police made contact with the group and advised them of the problem. They said they didn’t realize the time and would be done with the game and would head for the barn. The group disbanded. No further action taken. Friday, Sept. 18 • Police responded to a report of individuals playing in the Tanner Fountain. Police arrived and spoke to the individuals about the fact that they are not allowed in the fountain. The individuals were warned against doing such activity. • USU Police received a complaint about a vehicle driving on the sidewalk east of the Spectrum. This investigation is continuing. -Compiled by Rachel A. Christensen
Land: Tooele campus in process of expanding -continued from page 1 school. This in turn will attract new businesses and industries: first because of the educational opportunities available to current employees, and second because of the educated population base from which potential employees may be hired. Dunlavy wants to see the expansion of current undergraduate, graduate, concurrent enrollment and broadcast programs of study as well as the growth of new ones. The 50year master plan for the new campus may eventually include dormitories. The ultimate goal,
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he said, would be to someday provide the opportunity for students at the Tooele Regional Campus to “get any degree you can get in Logan.” The degrees available are listed in the 2007-2008 USU Regional Campuses and Distance Education Annual Report. According to the report, the College of Agriculture at the Tooele Regional Campus saw about 111 students enrolled in its programs, which include an associate degree in ornamental horticulture, a bachelor’s in horticulture and a master’s in agricultural systems technology. The Jon M. Hunstman School of Business saw an enrollment of about 226 students, who participated in such bachelor programs as accounting, business, and entrepreneurship. The Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services had almost 300 students enrolled in its
programs, which include seven bachelor degrees, nine master degrees, two doctorate programs, and several certificates, endorsements and licensures. The College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences had about 341 students enrolled in such bachelor’s as English, history and liberal arts and sciences and master degrees such as technical writing and social work. The College of Natural Resources saw about 27 Tooele students participating in the bachelor programs of fisheries and aquatic sciences, interdisciplinary studies and wildlife science. The College of Science had about 372 students working on the bachelor programs of biology or computer science or the master’s of computer science. Students can get the degrees through face-to-face delivery, online classes, interactive broadcast or a hybrid of the three. The Regional Campus and
Distance Education program started in the 1860s with funding from a series of federal land grants that were designed to help universities expand into more rural areas. There are now more than 10,000 USU students currently enrolled across the state. For the land donation to the Tooele Regional Campus, Dunlavy received USU’s Friends of the Regional Campuses and Distance Education Award. The award is given to individuals or organizations in recognition of the positive impacts that their exceptional generosity has had on the Distance Education program. The 30-acre donation from Tooele will be finalized this fall. The trick after that will be to find funding for the construction. –christina.wright@aggiemail. usu.edu
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Rank: USU one point ahead of Princeton -continued from page 1 has never felt he was academically lacking. While prestige certainly plays a part in the business world, the typical student, he said, can get just as good of an education at USU as Harvard or Yale. “I had no problem having my kids come to USU,” Sharp said. Glastris said the Washington Monthly rankings are not perfect, but in his opinion represent more accurately what they purport to measure. While listed as No. 27 on Washington Monthly’s Web site, USU’s overall score tied with Johns Hopkins University and University of Virgina and fell one point behind Yale University, No. 23, and was one point ahead of Princeton. A full breakdown of the rankings and points can be found at www.washingtonmonthly.com. –b.c.wood@aggiemail.usu.edu
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GAME 2: TEXAS A&M 38, USU 30
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So close & yet so far By TIM OLSEN sports editor Junior quarterback Diondre Borel threw for 334 yards and sophomore tailback Robert Turbin rushed for 121 yards to go along with 61 yards receiving, but it was not enough as Texas A&M outlasted USU, 38-30. “We were one or two big plays away from winning that ball game,” said wide receiver Stanley Morrison in a post-game radio interview. One of those big plays never materialized after USU recovered an onside kick at its own 42-yard line with 25 seconds left in the game. Trailing by eight, and with no timeouts remaining, the Aggies simply ran out of time. Early on however, it was the Aggies of Texas, not the Aggies of Utah that found themselves on their heels. Starting from its own six, Utah State took the ball 94 yards in 2:41 to take an early 7-0 lead. The highlight of the drive came when Turbin took a handoff and broke through the first wave of tacklers before sprinting 50 yards to the end zone. “Turbin had another fine game,” said USU head coach Gary Andersen in a post-game radio interview. USU then forced A&M to punt and got the ball near midfield with a great opportunity to add to the early lead. A fumble by junior tailback
Michael Smith cut the Aggie drive short, however, and gave the ball back to the home team. Texas A&M responded quickly after the fumble, as A&M quarterback Jerrod Johnson drove his team quickly down the field, and connected with Uzoma Nwachukwu on a 35-yard touchdown pass – one of Nwachukwu’s four scores on the day. The pair of Aggie teams would trade scores again, as Borel scored on a one-yard dive to put USU up 14-7 before Nwachukwu tied things back up with a 39-yard scamper. With 3:38 still remaining in the first quarter, there were already 28 points on the board. From that point, A&M went on a 24-3 run, including a 17-0 run to end the first half and take a 24-14 lead into the intermission. “It was a little low,” Morrison said of the halftime mood. “We knew we made a lot of mistakes in the second quarter.” To start the third quarter the Aggies got the ball and drove down to A&M’s 25-yard line before the drive stalled and they were forced to settle for a Chris Ulinski 42-yard field goal. The home team was not forced to settle on its next possession, however, as Johnson connected with Nwachukwu once again to extend A&M’s lead. A fourth touchdown by Johnson
shortly after the start of the fourth quarter seemed to wrap things up for Texas A&M, but the blue Aggies weren’t about to give up just yet. Borel led his team 96 yards in 3:05, cutting the A&M lead to 15. USU failed to recover the ensuing onside kick attempt but were able to force Texas A&M into a quick punt as the fourth quarter dwindled. Borel then led USU down the field again, covering 76 yards in 2:18 before scooting in for a two-yard touchdown run on fourth down. The play pulled Utah State to within a single score but cost USU its final timeout, despite the fact that Borel had spiked the ball on the Aggies third down to stop the clock. “They’re tough kids,
there’s no quit in them,” Andersen said. “I’m extremely proud.” The 521 yards of offense was the most by USU since a 580-yard outburst against Idaho last season. Borel’s 334 yards also
moved him over the 2,000-career yard plateau. USU will get a respite from its trying early season schedule when the Aggies play host to instate rival Southern Utah next Saturday, Sept. 26. Game time is slated for 6 p.m. – t.olsen@ aggiemail. usu.edu
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Ags bash BYU in home opener By G. CHRISTOPHER TERRY and LANDON HEMSLEY assistant sports editor and staff writer
AGGIE DAVE WYMAN moves in for the kill as BYU goalie Jason Antoniuk tries to locate the puck. TYLER LARSON photo
Utah State dominated BYU 15-1 on the Eccles Ice Arena rink Friday night, bullying an outnumbered Cougar squad that was not in the Aggies’ weight class. BYU dressed only 12 skaters and was not able to match the relentless pace USU played at. The Cougars were noticeably undersized and appeared callow and nervous as early as their pregame warmups, when many of them were looking out through the glass, wide-eyed, at the sizeable home crowd. Although the opening period quickly turned into a series of Aggie rushes on goal followed by extended offensive zone possessions, USU scored only twice, when Billy Gouthro and Jason Moore beat BYU’s Jason Antoniuk a minute apart. Assistant coach Aaron Burrell
said, “Backchecking and overall system play was lacking. It looked like the WWF out there, but we got that fixed.” Indeed USU did fix whatever was gumming up its offensive machinery in the second period, starting when Moore lifted the puck up and got his third goal of the season. Then freshman Dillon Sondergaard and Gouthro shoveled pucks in for a 5-0 lead just five minutes into the period. At this point BYU coach Stan Weiss called timeout to try and rally his troops, but the USU barrage continued as soon as play started up again with a Brendan MacDonald goal at the 14:30 mark. With the score sitting at 6-0, things continued to unravel for BYU when Cougar defenseman Ryan Newton got into a fracas with Sondergaard along the boards directly in front of the BYU bench. After USU’s talented freshman forward tuned Newton
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Aggie golfers shoot 905 in Colorado Utah State’s Benjamin Schilleman fired a final round 77 to finish tied for 20th with a one-over par 217 at the Gene Miranda Falcon Invitational held in Colorado Springs over the weekend. As a team, Utah State finished in 18th place with a 41-over 905 (297292-316). Colorado State won the tournament with a nineunder 855 (288-284-283), while Northern Colorado’s Steve Bidne took medalist honors with a 10-under 206 (68-69-69). Schilleman, a junior from Layton, Utah, began the tournament with an even-par 72 and then carded a four-under par 68 during his second 18 holes and was tied for seventh heading into the final round. Junior teammate Tyson McFarland (Rexburg, Idaho) finished the tournament tied for 36th with a four-over 220 (73-70-77), and senior Thad Truman (Blackfoot, Idaho) tied for 87th with a 17-over 233 (76-74-83).
Men’s runners race to first Utah State men’s cross country team won the Montana State Invitational Saturday in Bozeman, Mont., while the women finished fourth. Redshirt sophomore Brian McKenna led the Aggie men finishing fourth overall in the fivemile course clocking in at 25:11.00. The next finisher for the Aggies was freshman Daniel Howell clocking in at 25:20.00 in sixth place. Senior Steve Strickland finished ninth overall crossing the finish line at 25:25.00 and sophomore Steve Atkinson placed 11th, finishing at 25:32.00. Following close behind Atkinson was senior Jason Holt in 12th place clocking in at 25.37.00. Other finishers for the men were junior Chio Lopez (25:47.00) in 15th place, junior Casey Snider (26:17.00) in 26th place, junior Nick Bolinder (26:21.00) in 28th place and freshman Kyle Moffett (26:52.00) in 40th place.
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WOMEN’S SOCCER
Aggies get kicked, come home winless By LANDON HEMSLEY AND STEVE CRASS staff writers
Washington 2, Utah State 0 Utah State goalkeeper Molli Merrill tallied a new career-high nine saves on goal in a 2-0 loss on the road to No. 25 Washington Friday night. Senior captain Sidne Porter-Garner heaped praise on the sophomore keeper. “She definitely is huge in our defense,” Porter-Garner said, “and today she played the best game I’ve ever seen her play.” The highlight of the night for the Aggie keeper came in the second half of the match around the 60th minute. USU committed a foul in the box and sent Washington’s Veronica Perez to the penalty spot to take her complementary shot on goal. Merrill anticipated, dove and saved the PK. It was her first PK of the season for the team. Head coach Heather Cairns praised the efforts of her keeper. “She was real big on corners,” head coach Heather Cairns said of Merrill. “She would get in there and hit the ball so they could get a head on it, get in their path and win it in the air. She fought really hard.” The reason Washington obtained the penalty kick was some risky defensive tactics on USU’s side. At that point in the match, USU was already down 1-0, and was having a very difficult time advancing the ball onto Washington’s end of the pitch. Cairns said the team decided to have the outside defenders mark Washington’s outside midfielders in the hopes of possessing the ball higher up the field and being able to move the ball up the pitch more quickly. She said Washington saw the move pretty quick and took advantage of it a few times. A second Husky goal and the penalty opportunity followed shortly thereafter. Cairns said she made the defense shift to try and create some offense. She said without any offensive opportunities for the team, there would be no way that USU could win. “We had nothing to lose,” Cairns said. “We decided as a team to go out and try to take it to them, but they saw that pretty quick and got in a couple times. We went for the win, but that’s what we’ve got to do. A loss is a loss. It didn’t matter if we were 1-0 or 4-0, we wanted to go down swinging.”
USU was vastly out-possessed in this match. UW outshot USU 11-0 in the first half and 12-2 in the second half. Cairns said the Huskies spread the USU defense out with effective use of long passes and wide field sets. “They did such a fantastic job of spreading the field,” Cairns said. “They would possess the ball using 40-yard balls. Normally when people do that, they play longball. But these guys would play those long balls with purpose to spread the field. Our strength as a team is to stay compact defensively to win the ball and create the attack off of that, but they spread us out so much it was difficult to do that.” Cairns singled out Porter-Garner and freshman Natalie Norris as standout players in this match. “Sid Porter and Natalie Norris did very well,” Cairns said. “Washington had this girl, Perez. She is an amazing front-runner. Those two did a great job on Perez. She didn’t score in the run of play, which is a testament to their play because she was an excellent, really super-dangerous player.” Cairns also singled out Lauren Hansen as playing very well. Indeed, this match was very important for Hansen, as she is a native of the state of Washington, was recruited by UW, used to play under the coach of UW, and knows several players on the UW team. Cairns said she did very well in this match, but was unable to do very much because the Husky offense was so prolific that it kept the Aggies out of the attacking third where Hansen plays for the vast majority of the match. “I think Lo played really well,” Cairns said. “We didn’t get the ball to her enough in major places for her to poke it in. Most of her touches were in the middle third of the field. She would just connect for us. We didn’t just get her the ball in the attacking third enough. That’s not for lack of trying on her part. Our team just kind of let down going forward; we just couldn’t create enough against them.” Seattle 3, Utah State 1 The Utah State Aggies received their second straight loss, falling 3-1 to the University of Seattle Redhawks on Sunday. Two days before, the Aggies had the chance to learn from No. 25 team Washington University. That too was a hard fought loss, yet Cairns believed that their practice and hard work would eventually pay off.
“We have had such great practices this week,” Cairns said. “We had a lot of members step up their leadership and accountability. We were really looking to apply some things we learned from Washington against this team.” For the first 15 minutes the Aggies played a solid game, Cairns said. The squad worked together and seemed to have a victory within its grasp. Yet for some unforeseen reason, the Aggies would not be able to keep their efforts up after that. “The first 15 minutes we played (were) really strong, but after that we just stopped,” Cairns said. “We lost our wits. We just stopped playing. It was hard to watch. The girls seemed to understand what their jobs were, but they just couldn’t get anything done.” The Redhawks were the first on the board when junior midfielder Kara Cutler scored from fifteen yards out in the 25th minute. Both teams struggled to have an offensive attack for the remainder of the first half. The second half opened with a goal from Seattle senior forward M’ily Reiter, who was able to convert off of a deflected shot from USU keeper Molli Merrill at the 57:23 mark. USU forward Lauren Hansen quickly took advantage of the Redhawk’s excitement, and scored the Aggies first goal after beating the keeper one-on-one and placing a shot off the near post at the 57:31 mark. The goal was assisted by junior forward Stefani Shiozaki. The Redhawks slipped away with one more goal early in the 72nd minute after freshman forward Chelsea Jennings headed the ball into the goal off a cross. The Aggies (4-4-1) have struggled to find a good balance on their defensive line all season, as they have only had one shutout, yet Cairns said there is no particular area of the team to blame for Sunday’s loss. “Our team wins together and loses together,” Cairns said. “The whole team takes the blame for today.” The Aggies also struggle to keep composure in pressure situations, said Cairns. The team has been very successful in communicating during practice, but when game time comes USU has been unable to apply a winning effort. – steven.crass@aggiemail.usu.edu – la.hem@aggiemail.usu.edu
Sluggers win three, two by forfeit, one earned By DAN FAWSON staff writer
Utah State 9, Gate City 8 Last week the Aggie bats were mired in inconsistency. Different week, different story. Led by Erik Swensen’s two home runs, the Utah State offense caught fire en route to a thrilling 9-8 come-from-behind victory over the Gate City Mavericks. After falling behind 8-1 early in the game, the Aggies rallied back to enter the bottom of the ninth inning trailing 8-6. Catcher Gavin Johnson opened the inning reaching base on a walk. Swensen followed with a single, and shortstop Zack Gunn loaded the bases when a wild pitch hit his ankle. First baseman Ryan Anderson followed, reaching base on a fielding error by the Mavericks’ second baseman, and Johnson scored from third, cutting the Gate City lead to one. With no outs and the bases still loaded, right fielder Ryan Doyle hit a ground ball to the Mavericks first baseman whose throw home got by the catcher, allowing Swensen and Gunn to score the tying and winning runs. The Aggie
dugout erupted in a celebration, rushing home plate to mob Swensen and Gunn. “It does a lot for us to come out here and win a big game like that,” Aggie coach Brett Al-amari said, noting the team had seemed flat recently. “Our players were extremely excited about it, and if we can carry that kind of energy into the games tomorrow that will help us a lot.” Speaking of the wild final inning, specifically the Mavericks’ erratic fielding and pitching, Al-amari said, “They gave us an opportunity to come back and win that game, and we just did a good job of capitalizing on their mistakes.” Gate City opened the game with six runs in the first inning. The Mavericks managed only four hits in the inning, but were aided by four Aggie fielding errors. The Mavericks tacked on another run in both the second and third innings, building an 8-1 lead before the Aggie pitchers took control of the game. Aggie relief pitchers held the Mavericks, a team composed primarily of former members of the Idaho State club team, scoreless over the final six innings. Tyson Bowser’s solid middleinning performance seemed to settle Utah State down and give them the opportunity they needed to get back in the game.
“He threw extremely well,” Al-amari said of Bowser. “He’s one of those pitchers that is extremely deceptive, because he’s a big guy and you expect him to throw a lot harder, and then he throws a bunch of junk at you. He’s just a tough competitor.” Swensen, the team’s designated hitter, went three for four at the plate, with two home runs to left field. “I didn’t have a very good batting practice before the game,” Swensen said, “so I kind of took my batting opportunities very seriously.” Swensen said both home runs came off fastballs, pitches he was waiting patiently for. Alamari praised Swensen’s patient approach at the plate, saying it helps out the entire team. “His approach at the plate and the hitter that he is totally changes the dynamic of our lineup,” Al-amari said, “because it changes the way opposing pitchers pitch to everyone else.” Al-amari said the Aggies have long been in need of a powerful bat like Swensen’s. “You know Eric is the bat in the middle of the line-up we have needed the last three years,” Alamari said. “He’s got a ton of pop. Tonight he hit three balls really well, fortunately two of them got out of the ballpark.” Gate City 6, Utah State 4 A day after their first win of the season, the Aggies came up short in the first game of Saturday’s double-header against the Gate City Mavericks. Well, sort of. The Mavericks didn’t have enough players to field a whole team, forcing them to forfeit both games of the double-header. With the fall season being primarily used for player evaluation and preparation for the spring season, though, the Aggies lent the Mavericks a few players, including Brad Singer and Cody Ferguson. The Aggie substitutions seemed to mesh well with their Idaho neighbors, helping the Mavericks jump out to 2-0 first inning lead on their way to a 6-4 win. The Aggies have struggled with slow starts in all but one of their games this fall season, a problem the players think will eventually pass as they get more experience playing with each other. “Coming out of the gate is a huge thing,” Singer said. “We need to get more comfortable with each other, knowing where to go in certain situations.” Similar to the opening game of last Saturday’s double-header against Weber State, the Aggies played a line-up primarily made up of newcomers, which may account for some of the problems with familiarity. Aggie pitcher Ryan Doyle said there are definitely chemistry issues at this point in the season, which he believes might be due to the new players trying too hard to earn a spot on the team. “There’s not a lot of chemistry going on,” Doyle said. “We have so many new guys. Some of the new guys are trying to press, trying to impress.”
While some struggled, one of the new guys did impress a number of his teammates. Center fielder Eudy Sanchez took advantage of the opportunity to show coaches what he can bring to the team, going three for three at the plate with two doubles and an RBI. “He hits the fastball really well,” pitcher Jesse Kunz said. “He has really quick hands.” “He’s really good,” Doyle said, saying Sanchez has “some really good raw talent.” While players know the team is a long way from where they want it to be, they say there was noticeable improvement in the second week of the season. “We’ve improved a lot picking up signs,” Singer said. “Last week we missed a lot of signs, which Coach Al-amari was not happy about.” “We’re all starting to hit a lot better because we’ve seen a lot of pitching,” Kunz said, noting many players haven’t played baseball in a while. “Everybody is starting to see the ball.” Utah State 6, Gate City 1 While many players in fall ball are still working to shake the rust off, Aggie pitcher Doyle seems to already be in midseason form. In the second game of a Saturday doubleheader, Doyle pitched a complete game, surrendering only two hits as the Aggies cruised to a 6-1 victory over the Gate City Mavericks. “When Ryan gets into the zone he’s a very hard pitcher to get a hit off of,” said Aggie third baseman Singer, praising Doyle for his endurance on the mound. “He can pitch as many innings as he wants to because his arm is basically rubber. He can pitch late into games, which is really big in our league.” Fellow pitcher Kunz said Doyle’s experience gives him a great advantage on the mound. “Doyle’s thrown a lot,” Kunz said. “He’s comfortable, and if you’re comfortable, then you feel like you can throw any pitch on any count.” “I threw a lot of strikes,” Doyle said. “Throwing strikes and not walking people is the best thing you can do.” Doyle’s win capped off a three-game weekend series with the Mavericks in which the Aggies took two out of the three games from their Idaho neighbors, and seemed to start finding some of the offensive rhythm they were lacking last week against Weber State. Leading the offensive charge was Aggie first baseman Swensen, who followed up a two-home run performance on Friday, with his third home run in as many games in the Aggies’ Saturday win. “He’s a really good fastball hitter,” Doyle said of Swensen. “If a pitcher makes a mistake, he generally doesn’t miss it.” Swensen was one of many who seemed to find a groove this weekend, and the Aggies believe their bats will only get better as the season goes along. – majerusforpresident@yahoo.com
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BYU: Aggies slam Cougars, then pick up overtime win against Weber -continued from page 5 up with a few stern rights and practically shoved him right over the boards, both players were ejected for fighting. MacDonald attributed the difference between the first and second period to jitters. “There’s a lot of new guys on the team and they never played here before,” MacDonald said, “so they were nervous about the home opener.” Unfortunately for BYU, the second period got even more out of hand when Gouthro, who centers USU’s best line between Jeff Sanders and Dave Wyman, completed his hat trick with 7:15 remaining. “Where to start with those boys,” team captain Kent Arsenault said of the Gouthro-Sanders-Wyman trio. “F***, they’re good, eh?” When the dust settled from the second-period bombardment, the lead stood at 12-0. USU owned the corners of the rink, sucking up every rebound and setting up shop in the offensive zone for long stretches. Nothing went BYU’s way, even when Antoniuk was square to Arsenault and had the near post covered, USU’s AllACHA wing slotted a wrister past him into the twine. “I think they just shut it down,” MacDonald said of the Cougars. “They were completely deflated.” BYU went with a different look in goal to open the third period, but Brent Taylor allowed two ugly goals in just over two minutes, including a backhand dribbler to the far post from Sanders and a five-hole MacDonald goal on the rush that sent Antoniuk jumping over the boards and back into action in net. Burrell said the coaching staff uses games against overmatched opponents like BYU to drill their players on the fine points of their schemes. “It’s not noncompetitive,” Burell said. “At the start of the season we’ve got a million little things to work on. When the score gets up there we can work on our system play.” Displaying a fine grasp of USU’s system was Wyman, USU’s most indefatigable forechecker. Time and time again, Wyman disrupted BYU’s puckhandlers deep in their own zone, chasing the puck like a dog off the chain and creating juicy opportunities for his linemates. “I’d say between the three of them they’re workhorses,” Arsenault said of Wyman, Gouthro and Sanders. “They work for everything they get. It’s just the first couple of games and they’re playing like they’ve played together for 80 games.” Wyman finished with a ridiculous six assists, part of an overall 16-point combined performance by his line. Gouthro led USU with four goals. Utah State 9, Weber State 8 (OT) Utah State Hockey upended a resurgent Weber State team Saturday night after scoring the golden goal in overtime to win 9-8 on the road. During the overtime, USU got out quick and fought hard, head coach Jon Eccles said. The game-winner came at the 3:02 mark in the extra period. Matt Hamilton took the puck down the ice and
CENTER BILLY GOUTHRO skates into shooter’s land directly in front of BYU’s goal. TYLER LARSON photo
got it to Jeff Sanders, who put the puck in the net and ended the game. Eccles said the goal was a testament to the Aggies’ work ethic. “It was just hard work,” Eccles said. “He never gave up on the puck.” That goal put the upstart Wildcats in their place. Weber had recovered from a three-goal deficit in the third to tie the game and send it into overtime. Sanders’ goal stopped them in their tracks. Along the way, USU showed determination, offensive efficiency and prowess. USU attacker Kent Arsenault scored three times, once short-handed, to net a hat trick. David Wyman added two other short-handed goals for the Aggies. This gave Utah State a remarkable three short-handed goals in the game. Eccles said the game was not easily won. It was not a very clean win for the Aggies, and sloppy play contributed to their troubles. Eccles said USU can improve in a few key areas: puck control,
adjusting to the officiating and power plays. Weber State tested the Aggies. They managed to pressure Utah State into neutral-zone turnovers. Weber State was able to capitalize on some of these turnovers and bring its offense to bear before USU could get back defensively to halt the Wildcat attack, especially in the third period. Eccles said Weber State was very well-conditioned and quick to get out in the third period to put the pressure on the Aggies, despite Arsenault’s quick short-handed goal to open up the period. USU started with a two-goal lead going into that third period, saw it grow to three and then shrink to zero. Luckily, USU was able to convert quickly in the overtime and bring a win back to Logan. – la.hem@aggiemail.usu.edu – graham.terry@aggiemail.usu.edu
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West Nile Virus growing in Utah By APRIL ASHLAND staff writer
West Nile Virus is a relatively new concern in Utah, said USU Extension entomology specialist Erin Hodgson. JoDee Summers, from Utah Department of Health, said the first case of the virus was reported in August 2003. According to the state’s health department, from 2003 to 2007 there were 318 cases reported in Utah. According to the CDC, there have been almost 29,000 cases in the United States from 1999 to July 2009 and more than 1,100 of those people have died. Hodgson said the virus is transmitted by mosquitos and cycles mostly between birds and mosquitos. The birds are infected by mosquitos, then they give it to their offspring. According to the health department, birds do die from the West Nile Virus. The state of Utah has previously tested dead birds for the virus, although testing had stopped as of May 2008. It is possible for game birds to be infected with West Nile Virus, although Summers said, “Proper cooking kills the virus. There is most
likely no danger associated with eating wellcooked wild game that might be infected.” Birds and humans are not the only ones who can be infected by West Nile. Mammals, aside from humans, are also at risk, although “horses, humans and some birds are particularly sensitive to developing West Nile Virus symptoms compared to other mammals,” Hodgson said. “Some people
can develop serious complications or die.” While people don’t necessarily know if they have West Nile Virus, horses usually exhibit the symptoms. According to the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP), the symptoms include stumbling and incoordination, grinding of the teeth, blindness, colic, intermitent lameness and death. The AAEP
also stated that about 33 percent of horses in West Nile Virus confirmed areas get the virus. There is a vaccine available for horses, although there is no vaccine for people or birds. Summers said most people will not know they are infected. Eight people have died from the virus in Utah since 2003. About 20 percent of infected people get flu-like symptoms, such as body aches, fever, a rash or fatigue. These symptoms can last weeks or months, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). There is no set protocol for the treatment of West Nile, according to the CDC, although in severe cases, “treatment consists of supportive care that often involves hospitalization, intravenous fluids, respiratory support and prevention of secondary infections.” There are ways for people to protect themselves and their house from the virus: avoid areas where there is a large mosquito population, wear pants and long-sleeve shirts, use bug spray that has DEET, eliminate standing water, drill holes in garbage cans to let water drain out. For more information about West Nile Virus visit www.health.utah.gov. -april.ashland@aggiemail.usu.edu
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TAIRA KOYBAEVA, INTERCULTURAL communications professor as USU, has worked as a negotiator and international adviser for numerous U.S. government agencies. TYLER LARSON photo cultures and languages is just part By KARLIE BRAND of the job for Taira Koybaeva, a USU staff writer intercultural communications professor. She has worked as a U.S.-Russian A globe-trotter and linguist by missile defense negotiator, internatrade, traveling the world, negotiattional adviser for several agencies of ing and communicating with many the U.S. government, such as Armed
Services Committee in the House of Representatives, Congressional Budget Office and Department of Defense. In addition to teaching, she is a business strategist and an executive coach for international and national business managers. Koybaeva’s specialty is in intercultural communications, a skill she feels she acquired at birth. She was born in the former Soviet Union to an Ossetian father – who worked as a missile defense specialist for the Soviet Union – and a RussianUkrainian mother. “That means three languages right away,” she said. “That’s cross-cultural communications right off the bat. You have to figure out what to say to your Ukrainian grandma and what you say to your Ossetian grandma; crosscultural communications is built into you. Koybaeva attended St. Petersburg University in Russia and Bonn University in Germany and holds a Ph.D. in applied linguistics. Soon after making the U.S. her
home, Koybaeva said she was invited to become a translator and later an international relations adviser for several U.S.-Russian defense programs at USU’s Space Dynamics Lab. The
Speak Up “Today’s world is shrinking so fast. We, Americans, need to be extremely careful that the train does not pass us by.” – Taira Koybaeva, USU intercultural communications professor programs became the largest and the most successful U.S.-Russian defense programs. She also became involved on a national level, working to nego-
tiate defense contracts and areas of national security concerns. Koybaeva said she quickly understood the service that was truly needed was cultural analysis of political and business situations. “I would give my clients an analysis,–‘this is what is going on, this is what people are thinking, this is why they don’t believe you and this is where you misrepresent yourself,’” she said. “So basically, I explained to them the cultural underpinnings of political and business negotiations.” Koybaeva said because of strong ties and understandings of both cultures, she was able to help both American and Russian politicians better understand each other. “Russia is my biological mother, but America is my adoptive parent. Being an adviser was like being torn between divorced parents. I know Mom and I know Dad, I understand Mom and I understand Dad, but Mom and Dad do not understand
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Aviation program offers thrilling educational experience By STOREE POWELL staff writer
Flying has been a long time intrigue for humankind. Modern technology allows for frequent, safe flying. But for some, riding a commercial airplane for the occasional visit to grandma’s just isn’t enough, like Christopher Thompson. Thompson, an aviation technology and professional pilot major at USU, says he enjoys thrills, has experienced four-Gs in a plane and “loves” having his classroom in the air. “I get to fly almost every week. Flying is one big roller coaster for me,” Thompson said. As a four-year Air Force cadet with 130 hours of air time, he wishes to be a major airline pilot for Delta. Thompson said the training of the bachelor’s degree professional pilot program is making him well prepared to enter the profession. USU offers a four-year bachelor of science in the aforementioned as well as aviation maintenance management. Job placement rates within the industry for graduated students is about 80 percent in the current economy. USU has connections with groups like Skywest and American airlines to help students get internships. Ray Zelenski is the aviation recruiter for USU. This is a new position for the department, and its purpose is to increase awareness of the program and bring new students into it. “Our program is well recognized throughout the country. Skywest will hire USU grads immediately, even during tough financial times,” said Zelenski. Currently, the program has 174 students, of which 139 are in the professional pilot program. Zelenski said the average new student enrollment every year is 20 to 30. He wants to increase it to 50. “We have a beautiful fleet of planes less than two years old, and we don’t utilize them with our number of students. Increasing to 50 new students each year will allow us to utilize the planes at 90 percent,” Zelenski said. “So we are reaching out to students who are still in high school and those already here with undeclared majors.” The program currently has only seven female students and two female flight instructors. Zelenski said his number one goal is to increase the number of females in the program and aviation awareness for female students
EVAN SCHWALM, LEFT, and Casey Hafla, right, inspect their plane before a training flight. STEVE SELLERS photo
but not just for the “sake of saying we have female students but because this is a tremendous opportunity for women in the aviation industry.” “I come from the field of education. I taught elementary through high school, coached women’s athletics, and I have an engineering and technical background,” Zelenski said. “My three daughters have taught me how to approach females in the aviation context.” In his opinion, female students’ fears of aviation professions are because “it’s a man’s world historically, but I want to change that.”
Zelenski found in his earlier teaching that all-female classes help them perform higher, even better than all-male classes. However, since the law prohibits this, he is thinking of other ways to better serve the female aviation students. “Female students are a potential that’s untapped,” Zelenski said. “But before we can pursue new methods in teaching, we have to get
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Aggies around the world Student experiences Brazilian’s passion for soccer
Late, like always, I rushed off the metro to watch an AmericaSul Championship match between two Rio de Janeiro rivals: Flamengo and Fluminense. Soccer jerseys and loud groups of people began to pepper the crowd as I made my way closer and closer to the ticket booth. What I saw next only confirmed what I’d heard about Brazilian soccer fans. I was meeting up with some friends that were already inside the iconic Maracana stadium. Outside one of the main entrances, hundreds of people enjoyed the game through the loud speakers and radios in large groups. “‘Great,” I thought, “happy Brazilian soccer fans.” I was excited to take part in the festivities. I day-dreamed as I walked on the cracked pavement, wondering whether I would use my longboard or my regular skateboard the next time I came. “Pega ele! Pega ele!” I looked up and saw about 30 or 40 people running past me again yelling a few of the swear words that my landlady had insisted on teaching me. Looking ahead, I could see about 20 or 30 police officers with 4-foot-long nightsticks and body armor stepping of a modified school bus kicking, pushing and jabbing whoever was not stepping off with them. I walked briskly in the opposite direction of where some men were already lined up on the ground sitting cross-legged, bleeding, with their hands zip tied behind their backs. I avoided any kicking and pushing and bought a ticket and started to look for my seat. The corridors surrounding the stadium were empty except for the vendors and other police and security officers who seemed bored. After meeting up with my friends I found out that the Fluminense had just scored against its lifelong rival Flamengo. It would be somewhat comparable to game six of the Mets and the Yankees playing in the World Series. What I witnessed outside was a result of that goal. The rest of the game was characterized by flag waving,
FRENZIED SOCCER FANS wave flags in the streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil, while watching a World Cup game in 1998. KRT NEWS STORY SLUGGED: SOCCER KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY PAULO FRIDMAN (KRT110-June 19)
flares and fans, who were jumping over their seats to get a few feet closer to yell at players, referees or other fans. We were seated in a neutral area where fans from both teams were free to cheer without fear of retribution. My friend and his girlfriend each liked a different team. “If you have all your teeth, paid for your ticket and know how to read, you’re a Fluminense,” said the girlfriend. “We’ll talk when your team has five championships,” retaliated my friend. After the game I witnessed more threats and scuffles and was glad to have been well prepared from Aggie basketball games. Paul Malouf is a USU student currently participating in a study abroad to Brazil. For questions or comments you can contact him at maloufish@gmail.com
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Flight: Aggies leave the classroom behind, take student numbers up first.” Female role models within the instructor program are one of the keys, Zelenski said. In general, the fear of the cost of the program keeps many students away. According to Zelenski, USU offers one of the most competitive programs around for a reasonable price. On top of tuition, students will pay $54,000 to receive their license and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certifications. Utah’s other programs at Westminster and Utah Valley University doesn’t have all of the benefits offered at USU. “One thing that Westminster and UVU can’t boast about is having a zero percent accident rate like we can,” Zelenski said. Another asset to the program, said Thompson, are the Diamond DA40 Stars. They can fit more people than UVU’s DA20s, Thompson said. The fleet of 10 DA40s are complex aircrafts with retractable gear and adjustable props. Also, the Logan Cache
EVAN SCHWALM AND CASEY HAFLA prep their plane before embarking on a flight lesson. STEVE SELLERS photo
Airport has an FAA certified test center. According to Zelenski, there are only a handful of these and this means USU students don’t have to travel far. Some students, Zelenski said, would think Cache Valley’s variety of weather would be a hindrance to the program. But he said students have the opportunity to learn to fly in different weather. USU does have some room
for improvement, however. Thompson said the Logan Cache Airport, where students take off from, is small and can be crowded. Both Zelenski and Thompson said the old flight simulator needs to be replaced. “The old graphics don’t allow for elaborate scenarios. I wish we had a newer one for instrument training,” Thompson said. According to Zelenski, the
department is looking for funding to get a new simulator as well as funding to increase ads and marketing. “My budget has been slashed, so I am looking for alternative ways to advertise like on Facebook and MySpace. Students are helping with this too, presenting ideas to me,” Zelenski said. Thompson said, “I would say to students unsure about the program to just try it. My best experience was getting my private pilot’s license. I have flown to many places like Lake Tahoe and Butte, Montana.” Students don’t just fly planes; they have ground instruction where they learn about the aircraft, the laws and regulations and the physics behind flying – the most fascinating part for Thompson. “Flying for me is freedom. I don’t have to follow a road,” Thompson said. -storee.powell@aggiemail.usu.edu
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Learn: Professor encourages building relationships -continued from page 8 each other.” Koybaeva said her keen understanding of Russian and American cultures helped her succeed while working in international relations with the two countries. It later led to cultural analysis of other international negotiations. Koybaeva said her ability to build trust in political and business relationships is why she was so successful as an adviser, and now as a professor and an executive coach. “Here I am, a trained linguist, consulting aerospace NASA projects. Why? Because regardless of the nature of the project, it is people who make decisions,” she said. “Therefore, relationships are the only medium through which a business can develop.” Koybaeva said building relationships is one of the key leadership skills she teaches her intercultural communications students. She said beyond learning skills and receiving training specific to a student’s career, students in any major or career path should develop “emotional intelligence” – the ability to read, assess and deal with their own and others’ emotions. According to research, emotional intelligence is the single most accurate predictor of a person’s
success. “Professional survival in the world is dependent on emotional intelligence and ability to grasp knowledge not linearly but at several levels. You’ve got to mix with others to see how they do things in different cultures and grasp the logic of that culture,” she said. “(Students) must learn the ability to adjust (themselves) very, very quickly to a new organization, to a new culture, to a new environment and land on their feet.” Koybaeva said she believes American students need to understand that they are no longer unchallenged in the fields of business, technology and economy. They need to reanalyze their strong skills and neutralize their deficiencies. This will enable young Americans to thrive in what is rapidly becoming a very competitive, global, international world. “Today’s world is shrinking so fast. We, Americans, need to be extremely careful that the train does not pass us by,” she said. “We are in the middle of a large continent. Here, there is nobody to challenge us. Behind our backs, things are developing and we’re often not sufficiently aware of that. In my view, you can read a textbook,
you can learn job related skills on the job, but what you must learn are empathetic leadership skills rooted in emotional intelligence. They are crucial for Americans in adapting to the rapidly expanding international work force.” She said her ability to understand and represent Americans so well came from her appreciation of the profound spiritual principles that lie at the foundation of American national character. She says, “I noticed that when a nation capitalizes and correctly represents the best part of their national essence, they shine. America is very unique in that its foundation is not based on a particular ethnicity but a set of principles and values. By nature, Americans are optimistic problem solvers and independent thinkers. They do not give up until they find a solution. These qualities are invaluable in today’s world.” So, why is someone who has spent extensive time, living and working all over the United States and the world still doing in Logan? “Because I like it, a lot,” Koybaeva said. She said being in the middle of the western United States allowed her to understand the nation at the grassroots level,
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something she didn’t feel could be understood by living in Washington, D.C. “That’s why I call this community home. It helps me to represent America’s interests across the ocean. When people start criticizing the United States, I say, ‘No, come meet these farmers. They are the real America. Not the MTV glossy edition of America the world is so used to stereotyping.’” -karlie.brand@aggiemail.usu.
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USU students show their entrepreneurial side By GREG BOYLES assistant features editor
Life as a student entrepreneur is extremely busy, if not permanently chaotic. Long hours dedicated to a business often paralleled by a second job, a family and all the expectations of a student make it one of the more demanding careers choices. “One of the things that is tough about being a student entrepreneur is, you go to school, you have a family, you have work and then you have your business,� said Matt Schmoldt, a sophomore at USU and part owner of a local deck construction company, J&R Decks. Schmoldt is a part-time student and is working toward a degree in marketing, in addition to working a full-time job and striving to build up his company’s clientele. His partner, Ryan Nielsen, is in a similar boat. He is taking 18 credits at USU, working part time and offering up the rest of his time to their decking company. Nielsen said currently their company has three contracts out and has many more on the back burner. However, with a team of only five men, they can only do so much. “Business is going great right now but it’s hard to keep up,� he said. While the partners are not yet rolling in the money, Nielsen said their promise to provide a high-quality product
at a low price has attracted a lot of attention. This being said, the partners do have to fight harder to gain recognition due to their age, which is often associated with inexperience. However, Schmoldt said their youth has proven to be advantageous in certain areas of business. “We have an advantage with our youth because of our technological side,� said Schmoldt, who recently added the finishing touches to the J&R Decks Web site. “Most of the local builders don’t have a Web site,� he said. “So for us, we’re a small builder but we have a pretty big Web site.� While technological advantages are one way to succeed as an entrepreneur, Brandon Hunt, senior in entrepreneurship, said the keys to success in business are relationships and capitalizing on opportunities. Hunt owns three businesses: a window cleaning and tinting company located in Cache Valley, a marketing company that custom designs newsletters for doctors, chiropractors, dentists and the such to be sent to patients around the country and a company called Minerals Away, which make products designed to remove hard-water stains. While these are successful businesses, Hunt said he plans to start more businesses and sell the old ones depending on opportunities that come his way.
“My plan is to own a portfolio of no more than five businesses at a time,� Hunt said. “But I hope to have owned 50 plus businesses throughout my lifetime.� Hunt, like Schmoldt and Nielsen, said that being an entrepreneur is an exciting experience, but an exponential amount of work. “A lot of people think (being an entrepreneur) is a ‘coosh’ job that makes you a lot of money – which can be true in the end – but when you’re getting started you’re working 12 hours a day and often into the night,� he said. Due to the demanding nature of entrepreneurship, Hunt said it would be impossible to succeed without support at home. In addition to a student and business owner, Hunt is a husband and father and is constantly trying to balance his roles. “You have to have a good family behind you if you’re going to be an entrepreneur,� he said. “It is very difficult if you don’t have a supportive family to go out there, spend your hard earned money and invest in a new business or idea.� Hunt said while he loves entrepreneurship, he never wants to compromise his family’s well-being, which forces him to be cautious when going after new ideas. Unlike certain careers, entrepreneurship is completely uncertain. When starting a business, there are few guide-
MATT SCHMOLDT, RIGHT, and Ryan Nielsen are co-owners of J&R Decks, a decking company the two men manage in addition to attending school and working second jobs. PETE SMITHSUTH photo
lines to follow; however, certain programs have been put in place to give prospective entrepreneurs some guidance. One such program is the USU Entrepreneurs Club (E-Club). Bryson White, senior studying entrepreneurship and recruitment officer for the E-Club, said in years past the E-Club focused primarily on business students because they were prone to entrepreneurial tendencies; however, this year White said the club is trying to extend its hand to the entire campus community. “Whether you’re studying pre-med and want to own your own medical practice some day or you’re an engineering
major and you’re trying to figure out how to make a more efficient product or you’re in business and want to start something up entrepreneurial, the club is there to help you frame that, get financing for it and launch it,� he said. Paul Rossiter, E-Club president, said each month is broken down by topic and contains two separate meetings. The first meeting is visited by an entrepreneur with realworld experience, who comes up and tells his or her story. The second meeting is led by a faculty member who has experience in that month’s topic. “We have different meetings where we discuss how
to recognize an opportunity and how to build a business plan off that opportunity, all the way to how to finance and market your business,� he said. This year’s first meeting – to be held Sept. 17 at 4:30 p.m. in Room 214 of the business building – the E-Club will be hosting Robert Peterson, CEO of Zag, the fastest growing company in Utah. Rossiter said the meetings are a great way for current entrepreneurs and potential business owners to network and discover new ways to operate their company. -greg.boyles@aggiemail.usu.edu
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our young and your in great health and as hard of a time as the well educated and informed political leaders of our nation are having coming to grasps with health care reform, who could possibly expect you to understand, right? Not understanding, or simply not caring, is a tempting road to take. Let Washington sort it out, it doesn’t really affect you anyway. Wrong. The fact is, the health care reform that finally gets passed, and something will pass, affects you far more than most. You are young, you are healthy (for the most part), but that won’t always be the case. Changes this difficult to make won’t be easily undone, and as you graduate, enter the work force and start families you will become far more aware, far more concerned with health care than you likely imagine right now. Comedian Doug Stanhope once said the reason legislation always seems to favor the elderly is because “old people vote.” His point was simply profound. Retirees have time on their hands, where we, the young and healthy, have classes and jobs, which not only keep us from dedicating as much of our time as we might like to following the issues that concern us but often prevents us from even being able to make it to the polls. Unfortunately, the needs of the nation’s seniors are not the same as those of the baby boomers and are far from aligned with our own. The outcome of issues, such as health care, that are being debated now, will be dictated by those whom it affects for the least amount of time. The issues of the day are not as simple as party alignment – the right and the left. They are multilayered, folded in, complex and vexing. It takes time to understand how the sound bites will alter your future, but rest assured they will. It is our privilege and our responsibility to invest ourselves in our nation, in our democracy. It is important to realize that our views are represented in Washington by those we elect to speak on our behalf, our congress members, but it shouldn’t start there. After all, it wouldn’t make sense to try to climb a ladder by starting at the third rung from the top. Government starts in the towns and cities of our nation. City council members become mayors, mayors become state legislators and governors. Do you seen where this is going? These people, those with the desire to make a difference, start at the bottom of the ladder, and we are young enough to follow closely on their heels. Become involved, pay attention and realize if we start in the right place, we can make a difference too. Read the paper, watch the news and don’t be afraid to ask questions. Educate yourself, then call your mayor, e-mail your congress members. Let them know how they may better represent your interest. Let your voice be heard.
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In many ways, Patrick Swayze was quite a bit like The Gipper. Personally, Swayze and Reagan had that genuine likability that endeared to them to people. They both possessed that “aww, shucks” simplicity that made us want to see men like them on our television screens. When they turned on their professional skills, both men were tough as nails and you simply wanted to avoid getting in a fight with them – nice but tough. Reagan and Swayze are both gone now. My generation has to come to grips with that. Many of you under the age of 25 may think that Chuck Norris and Arnold Schwarzenegger were the
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his spring, President Obama reversed himself and decided to block the release of photographs showing the abuse of detainees by the U.S. military. Now, having lost in two lower federal courts, the administration is seeking review by the U.S. Supreme Court. The justices should decline the invitation. The high court ordinarily agrees to hear cases that raise difficult questions on which lower courts have disagreed. But two courts found the legal issue in this case straightforward. The Freedom of Information Act allows for the non-disclosure of information that “could reasonably be expected to endanger the life or physical safety of any individual.” The obvious purpose of that language is to protect individuals who might be identified and placed in harm’s way. The administration is offering a different argument. In her petition to the Supreme Court, U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan quoted Obama’s warning that releasing the photos would “further inflame anti-American opinion and put our troops in greater danger.” No doubt these and other photos would feed anti-American propaganda, as did the stomach-turning images of abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. It’s doubtful, however, that they would provide much additional traction for enemies who already portray the United States as a nation of torturers. If anything, releasing the photos – with alterations to protect the identities of individuals
true Hollywood legends of the ‘80s. This is partially revisionist history. Facts are, Chuckles never had that many blockbuster films. Most of his money was made in home rentals. Arnold had many hit films but, like Norris, they pretty much were in the same mold. In most of their films, Chuck and Arnold would usually hit the bad guys twice; first, with a devastating right hook, then with a pithy one liner. Patrick Swayze could punch you in the face, knock you into next Tuesday with a 360degree pirouette kick to the back of the head or do a mamba that would freeze you into stunned silence. As an example, take the 1989 film “Next Of Kin.” In this film, Swayze starred as a fiddle playing Kentuckian who works as a Chicago police detective. When the Mafia kills his younger brother, Swayze sets out for revenge. If Chuck or Arnold were in this film, they would have used an AK-47, a bucket of hand grenades and one of those obnoxiously big rocket launchers, which appear out of nowhere, to blow the bad guys into a gazillion pieces. What did Swayze use in this film to administer justice? A half dozen hillbillies, a crossbow and a school bus full of snakes. That is why Swayze was better than Chuck and Arnold. He diversi-
– would underscore Obama’s determination not to repeat the egregious violations of human rights that occurred during the Bush administration. As we have argued before, suppressing images of atrocities – whether of Nazi concentration camps, lynchings in the American South or “tiger cages” in Vietnam – is an attempt to blot out the historical record. Besides, the attempt is likely to be unsuccessful, given the history of efforts to block the unauthorized release of embarrassing information. Ignoring those realities, the Senate has approved legislation that would allow the secretary of Defense to block release of photos of detainees captured abroad after 9/11. The House fortunately has not approved it. Meanwhile, judges are charged with weighing the legality, not the wisdom, of withholding such photos. If the Supreme Court were to reverse or weaken the decisions of lower courts, the impact would extend far beyond this case. A dilution of the exemption in the FOIA for materials that would threaten individuals would be a license for future administrations to suppress all sorts of information on the grounds that it might exacerbate anti-Americanism. Obama was wrong to try to block the release of these photos. Neither the court nor Congress should compound his error. This column originally appeared in the Sept. 17 edition of The Los Angeles Times.
fied. Another reason Swayze stands with Reagan on the Mount Rushmore of eightiesdom is because his films were very right wing. In the 1983 film “Uncommon Valor,” he played a young Marine working with Vietnam War vets to bring back MIAs. In 1984, he starred in the ultimate Republican propaganda film, “Red Dawn.” “Red Dawn” was about a group of Colorado high school kids who fight a guerrilla war against an invading Communist force that is occupying America. The kids, led by Swayze, carry assault rifles, live high in the mountains, perform acts of terrorism against their occupiers and summarily execute spies and prisoners. They are kind of like alQaeda – except they were white and Christian. Released during the middle of Reagan’s re-election bid, the film almost screams to the audience, “Elect Walter Mondale president and this could happen to you!” “Red Dawn” did not make Swayze a star. That would happen in 1987 with the film “Dirty Dancing.” It is hard for me to relate what a phenomena “Dirty Dancing” was. The concept of the film alone was bizarre. A summer dance instructor seduces an underage Jewish girl named Baby. The critics were ambivalent. The women that went to
see the movie time after time were fanatical. Patrick Swayze became a religion, and women knelt and prayed to his image. I cannot talk about this man’s wonderful career without mentioning the film that was far and away his best performance, “Ghost.” Yes, the movie was released in 1990, but it was still very much an ‘80s film. This was not Swayze’s best film because of the style in which he delivered his lines. This was his best job as an actor because he actually made us believe someone would voluntarily fight back Death in order to spend more time with Demi Moore. Patrick Swayze was a top-shelf movie star. No, he was not a very talented actor. But, he was a decent man that you wanted to root for. Typical ‘80s. He will be missed. Harry Caines is a senior re-entry student from Philadelphia majoring in interdisciplinary studies . Unconventional Wisdom will appear every Monday. Comments can be made at www.aggietownsquare.com or sent to chiefsalsa@yahoo.com
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Sterling W. Sill said, “To be a leader is far more than just to be a good man (or woman). Leadership is the ability to make goodness operate in the lives of others.� Being the president of ASUSU, I have a wonderful privilege of serving alongside some of the best leaders. I have great pride in USU and I feel honored to represent my fellow students. I was born and raised in a town on the outskirts of Washington, D.C. In the spring of 2004, I was first introduced to Cache Valley and USU. The following three years I was continually reminded of the great feeling here and decided to attend in December 2007. I am currently a sophomore studying graphic design and English. The responsibilities of the ASUSU president have surpassed my initial expectations. I currently sit on or chair 25 councils and committees. Among these are the USU Board of Trustees, the Athletics Council and Faculty Senate. My soul responsibility is to ensure that the student voice is heard and represented. Due to limited column space I extend a personal invitation to come to my
office, Room 326-C in the Taggart Student Center, and bring any questions or concerns to my attention. Friendly conversation is welcomed too. Becoming involved is a great way to learn outside of the classroom. The Irish poet Oscar Wilde said, “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.� ASUSU offers many avenues for students to get involved. Come up to the third floor of the TSC to find out more. I hope to see everyone come out and support Homecoming this week. There are a lot of great events planned, including a pudding dance Monday, free Aggie Ice Cream Tuesday, Mr. USU Wednesday, kite making Thursday, the dance and True Aggie Night Friday and of course the big game Saturday. Get involved and come have fun. I am looking forward to the rest of a great school year. GO AGGIES.
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Wilson’s son says congressman is not racist ATLANTA (AP) – U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson’s oldest son defended his father against a claim by former President Jimmy Carter that the congressman’s outburst during a speech by President Barack Obama was “based on racism.” Responding to an audience question at a town hall at his presidential center in Atlanta, Carter said Tuesday that Wilson’s outburst was also rooted in fears of a black president. “I think it’s based on racism,” Carter said. “There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an AfricanAmerican should not be president.” But Wilson’s son disputed that. “There is not a racist bone in my dad’s body,” said Alan Wilson, an Iraq veteran who is running for state attorney general in South Carolina. “He doesn’t even laugh at distasteful jokes. I won’t comment on former President Carter, because I don’t know President Carter. But I know my dad, and it’s just not in him.” “It’s unfortunate people make that jump. People can disagree – and appropriately disagree – on issues of substance, but when they make the jump to race it’s absolutely ludicrous. My brothers and I were raised by our parents to respect everyone regardless of background or race.” Carter, a Democrat, said Joe Wilson’s outburst was a part of a disturbing trend directed at the president that has included demonstrators equating Obama to Nazi leaders. “Those kind of things are not just casual outcomes of a sincere debate on whether we should have a national program on health care,” he said. “It’s deeper than that.” Wilson’s spokesman was not immediately available for comment. Wilson, a South Carolina Republican, was formally rebuked Tuesday in a House vote for shouting “You lie!” during Obama’s speech to Congress last Wednesday. The shout came after the president commented that illegal aliens would be ineligible for federal subsidies to buy health insurance. Republicans expressed their disbelief with sounds of disapproval, punctuated by Wilson’s outburst. Tuesday’s rebuke was a rare resolution of disapproval pushed through by Democrats who insisted that Wilson had violated basic rules of decorum and civility. Republicans characterized the
measure as a witch hunt and Wilson, who had already apologized to Obama, insisted he owed the House no apology. South Carolina’s former Democratic Party chairman also said he doesn’t believe Wilson was motivated by racism, but said the outburst encouraged racist views. “I think Joe’s conduct was asinine, but I think it would be asinine no matter what the color of the president,” said Dick Harpootlian, who has known Wilson for decades. “I don’t think Joe’s outburst was caused by President Obama being AfricanAmerican. I think it was caused by no filter being between his brain and his mouth.” Harpootlian said he received scores of racial e-mails from outside South Carolina after he talked about the vote on Fox News. “You have a bunch of folks out there looking for some comfort in their racial issues. They have a problem with an AfricanAmerican president,” he said. “But was he motivated by that? I don’t think so. I respectfully disagree with President Carter, though it gives validity to racism.” On Wednesday, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele accused Democrats of using the race issue to shift attention away from the health care plan. “President Carter is flat out wrong. This isn’t about race. It is about policy,” Steele said in a statement. Carter called Wilson’s comment “dastardly” and an aftershock of racist views that have permeated American politics for decades. “The president is not only the head of government, he is the head of state,” said Carter, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his work to promote human rights and resolve international conflicts. “And no matter who he is or how much we disagree with his policies, the president should be treated with respect.” As president, Carter appointed record numbers of women, blacks, and Hispanics to government jobs. Under The Carter Center, Carter and his team of experts work to resolve conflict and promote democracy, among other goals. Wilson, a former state senator elected to Congress in 2001, is known as a mild-mannered lawmaker with hard-line conservative views. But he has been confrontational in the past.
BUSY: Pres. Obama has busy week ahead of him -continued from page 2 The showcase for the new U.S. president is getting familiar. In just his first year, Obama has made it through summits with heads of both the world’s 20 top economies and eight major industrial powers, as well as Western Hemisphere heads, Russian leaders and NATO. The president hasn’t been shy about calling for the U.N. to take on “big, tough” problems more effectively. When the focus shifts to Pittsburgh, Obama will run the Group of 20 summit of the rich and developing countries that represent 80 percent of world economic output. Although their united, expensive efforts earlier this year helped halt the economic slowdown, there is enormous work left and wide divisions about how to proceed. “All of us need to act more responsibly on behalf of a better economic future,” Obama said in a Saturday radio and Internet address that looked ahead to the G-20 summit and warned of complacency. European leaders are frustrated about the lack of U.S. action on financial regulation and restricting how bank executives get paid. Just ahead of Obama’s travels, details emerged of a Federal Reserve plan that would for the first time police how banks pay executives to minimize reckless investment gambles. Obama himself is pushing Congress to get moving – he just went to Wall Street to say as much. But that effort is unlikely to satisfy his fellow leaders. “You’re hearing very strong concern that the lessons haven’t been learned,” said Heather Conley, who served in the Bush
State Department and now runs the Europe Program at the CSIS think tank. She said Europeans fear a sense of urgency has been lost, and they are asking, “Americans, what are you doing about it?” The events of just the past several days will influence Obama’s agenda, too. The president has penalized China over tires exported to U.S., citing trade rule violations. The move has infuriated an economic ally and stoked fears of further protectionism. He just scuttled Bush-era plans for a missile defense system in Eastern Europe, swapping it for a more mobile system aimed at a changing threat from Iran. That change has pleased Russia, which Obama said had no reason to worry in the first place, while causing consternation in the region. His Mideast envoy has failed to bridge gaps between Israelis and Palestinians, casting fresh doubt over peacemaking talks and the U.S. influence over them. The White House announced Saturday that Obama will host a meeting Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. And then there’s the shadow of Iran. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday again questioned whether the Holocaust actually happened and asserted that Israel was created on “a lie and a mythical claim.” That set an ominous tone for the U.N. – Ahmadinejad will be there – just as the United States and five other nations head toward an Oct. 1 conference with Iran.
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NYC TERROR: Evidence piles up against suspected terrorist -continued from page 2 that they were part of a book, but that they were e-mailed as an attachment between accounts believed owned by Zazi in December, including an account that originated in Pakistan. “It appeared to be consistent with the handwriting as it appeared in the document,” an FBI agent wrote of comparisons of Zazi’s handwriting with the notes. In addition, agents found Zazi’s fingerprints on a scale and double-A batteries seized during a raid at a home in the New York City borough of Queens on Sept. 14. Zazi, who lives in the Denver suburb of Aurora, underwent three days of questioning by the FBI before his arrest. Also arrested were his father, Mohammed Wali Zazi, 53, in Denver; and an associate, Ahmad Wais Afzali, 37, of New York City, the Justice Department said Sunday. Both also were charged with making false statements to federal agents, which carries a penalty of eight years in prison. Court appearances for all three were set for Monday. Both Mohammed Zazi and Afzali face charges for allegedly lying to FBI agents about calls between Denver and New York. While prosecutors are seeking to detain Najibullah Zazi, prosecutors say they’re not seeking detention for Mohammed Zazi, his father. It was unclear from court documents whether officials would seek to detain Afzali, an Imam at a mosque in Queens who has worked as an informant for New York police. Crews of journalists clustered outside Afzali’s home in Queens. No one answered the doorbell at the three-story brick residence, adorned with brightly colored flower boxes. Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond who has been tracking terrorist investigations around the country, said authorities could have made the arrests now because they feared too much information was getting out to the suspects. Additional charges could be filed later, he said. FBI agents say Najibullah Zazi traveled to Pakistan twice this year on Jan. 15 and most recently on Aug. 28. Zazi says
he was visiting his wife, who lives in the Peshawar region. The investigation escalated after Zazi rented a car and drove from Denver to New York, crossing into Manhattan on Sept. 10. Zazi said he went to New York to resolve some issues with a coffee cart he owns in Manhattan, then flew home to Denver. The FBI searched Zazi’s rental car and laptop during the New York trip and listened in on telephone conversations, according to the affidavits. On Monday, FBI agents and police officers with search warrants seeking bomb materials searched three apartments and questioned residents in the Queens neighborhood where Zazi stayed. An arrest warrant affidavit says FBI agents intercepted a phone conversation around Sept. 11 in which Afzali, a legal permanent resident from Afghanistan, told Zazi that he had spoken with authorities. “I was exposed to something yesterday from the authorities. And they came to ask me about your characters (sic). They asked me about you guys,” Afzali told Zazi, according to the affidavit. However, Afzali allegedly lied to authorities about that conversation when federal agents asked him about it Thursday, according to the affidavit. The department says Mohammed Zazi, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was interviewed last week by the FBI, lied when asked if he knew anyone by the name of Afzali and said he didn’t. The FBI said it had wiretapped a conversation between Mohammed Zazi and Afzali during Najibullah Zazi’s visit to New York. The FBI also searched Zazi’s apartment and his uncle and aunt’s home last week in suburban Denver. Authorities have not said what they found. Zazi was born in Afghanistan in 1985, moved to Pakistan at age 7 and emigrated to the United States in 1999. He returned to Pakistan in 2007 and 2008 to visit his wife, according to Folsom. At the mosque in Queens where Zazi recently visited, Masjid Hazrat Abu Bakr, worshippers marked the end of Ramadan on Sunday.
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Monday, Sept. 21, 2009
StatesmanBack Burner
Today is Monday, Sept. 21, 2009. Today’s issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Josh Pack, senior in mechanical engineering, from Logan, Utah.
Almanac Today in History: In 1780, during the American Revolution, American General Benedict Arnold meets with British Major John Andre to discuss handing over West Point to the British, in return for the promise of a large sum of money and a high position in the British army. The plot was foiled and Arnold, a former American hero, became synonymous with the word “traitor.”
- Homecoming Week, all week - Big Blue Coach’s Luncheon, noon.
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Come take a look at photographers’ work from the Study Abroad program in Scotland. Runs Sept. 2-23. in the Twain Tippets Gallery in the Fine Arts Building.
True Aggie Night – Meet right outside of Old Main at midnight for the Homecoming True Aggie Night on Sept. 25. Nature Photography Course at Stokes Nature Center. Learn the fundamentals of nature photography. Sept. 26 from 9-12. Preregister by calling 755-3239 or e-mailing nature@logannature. org. The Women’s Resource Center’s Power of Positive Thinking Workshop on Self Esteem will be Sept. 22 from noon to 1 p.m. Please e-mail womenscenter@usu. edu for a link to view the workshop on your computer if you are unable to attend. Religion in Life – Sept. 25 at 11:30 a.m. in the Cultural Hall. Gale Boyd is a Jewish convert to the church and is an educator and author of several books. She has raised her family in four countries: the U.S., Israel, Cyprus and Ireland. Make a difference on public lands by joining us for the 16th annual Nation Public Lands Day on Sept. 26 at 9 a.m. Volunteers are needed for multiple projects. For more info on this project contact the Logan Ranger District at 755-3620 or visit www.brwcouncil.org. The Mineral Collector’s of Utah is having its annual show at Trolley Square in SLC, Oct. 23-25. For more info contact the show chairman, Curt Forrester at 801789-6325 or e-mail fossilmin@ dcdi.net. Cosmic Nudge holds classes every week on various topics on improvement such as meditation, stress management and teen meditation. Call 363-7173 for more info.
Emergency test
Tuesday
Sept. 22 -Homecoming Week, all week -Power of Positive Thinking, TSC 336, noon to 1 p.m.
On Sept. 24 at about 9 a.m., USU Emergency Management will be conducting a test of the USU Emergency Alert System. Students should make sure they are signed up to receive critical emergency info in a timely manner. For more info long onto www.usu.edu/campussafety.
Organic Farm
Wednesday
Sept. 23 -Homecoming Week, all week -Organic Farm produce sale, TSC Patio, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
The Student Organic Farm at USU is a student-run organization aimed at providing educational opportunities and fresh, organic produce for the surrounding community. Produce from the farm is sold at the TSC Patio on Wednesdays from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Kayaking class
ORC kayaking class every Friday at 7:30 in the HPER pool. We will cover basic kayaking skills. Kayaks are provided, please no outside boats. Cost is $5.
Peer advising
Have you ever wondered who you can talk to about classes that is your age and is going through the same things along with you? Well take advantage of the Peer Advising Program. Find out who your peer adviser is at www.usu. edu/peers.
Weather High: 65° Low: 36° Skies: Mostly clear.
Bike sale
Aggie Blue Bikes first Annual bike garage sale will be Sept 25 from 8-5. We will also be having a picnic ride on Sept 24. Bring your bike and dinner and meet at Aggie Blue Bikes at 6 pm. For more info e-mail aggiebluebikes@gmail.com.
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