The Utah Statesman, January 24, 2011

Monday, Jan. 24, 2011

Utah Statesman The

Campus Voice since 1902

Utah State University • Logan, Utah • www.utahstatesman.com

Utah education ranking drops, ASUSU exec. council finances prove biggest factor removes Parkhurst

By ROB JEPSON staff writer

By CATHERINE MEIDELL news editor

The state of Utah received a “C-” for overall quality of K-12 education this year in Education Week newspaper’s annual nationwide assessment. Down three places from last year, Utah placed 41st in the nation, just above Arizona, Oregon and Idaho.

Sylvia Reed, associate department head of teacher education and leadership, said Education Week’s assessment was, “a moderately fair way to judge and rank states,” but that it ignored a few important factors.

“The main reason Utah comes out 41st on the rankings is because of the school finance measures,” Reed said. “If you take a look at (the Education Week website), you’ll see that we are indeed the lowest in the nation when it comes to perpupil expenditures.”

Utah’s lowest grade was, in fact, in the funding category, where it was ranked 47th in the nation and earned a letter grade of “D.” It’s highest grade was in “Chance for Success,” which measures how well students are prepared for higher education and how much money they are projected to earn as adults. In this category, Utah earned a “B-” and ranked 20th.

Annaliesa Poet, a junior majoring in exercise science who attended public high schools in both California and Utah, said she felt Utah’s school system was much worse.

California ranked 30th in the nation for overall quality assessment.

“Utah high school was a lot easier,” Poet said. “The teachers were much more easily manipu-

Arts and Lecture Director Skyler Parkhurst was removed from his position early last week for reasons that have been made confidential by ASUSU advisers and council members.

“There are probably a lot of rumors out there, but he is leaving because of personal issues, and there is the FERPA rule we have to follow,” said Linda Zimmerman, interim director for student services.

FERPA stands for the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, which protects students’ private matters and academic records. All publicly-funded academic institutions must abide by this act.

According to www.ed.gov, “FERPA gives parents certain rights with respect to their children’s education records. These rights transfer to the student when he or she reaches the age of 18 or attends a school beyond the high school level.”

In the ASUSU Constitution, Article 4, Section 5 states that official removal from an appointed position therefor must be a submission of written charges against the individual and a twothirds majority vote from the executive council to have the individual removed. The individual must also accept their charges, be tried and then convicted by Student Court.

Because the Arts and Lectures Director is an appointed position, selected by ASUSU’s Programming Vice President, currently Tom Atwood, another individual may be selected to fill Parkhurst’s position. A meeting was held Friday to decide the best route to take due to the circumstances.

“I think what we are going to

- See EDUCATION, page 4

EDITH BOWEN LABORATORY SCHOOL is one of the hundreds of first and secondary Utah schools that are ultimately funneling into USU and other public higher education institutions. As of now, K-12 education is considered 41st in the nation. ARMEN HOVSEPYAN photo

SKYLER PARKHURST

do is after our meeting (Friday) we are going to appoint someone. However, the final decision will have to come from the executive council on Wednesday,” Zimmerman said.

Atwood worked with USU’s Student Services Vice President James Morales and Student Services Associate Vice President Eric Olsen to decide whether the Arts and Lectures director position will be filled for the remainder of the spring 2011 semester. Another option would be to disperse Parkhurst’s duties amongst members of ASUSU and the programming staff. However, Morales said he feels the likelihood of appointing a new arts and lectures director is high.

“The students aren’t going to feel any hiccups in the programming,” Atwood said. “Most of the remaining semester has been planned and we’ve got a lot of exciting things to look forward to.”

– catherine.meidell@aggiemail.usu. edu

NASA welcomes USU students back for 2nd year

By ROUCHELLE BROCKMAN staff writer

USU’s Get Away Special Team (GAS), a group of student researchers, are among 14 undergraduate teams selected nationally to participate in NASA’s Microgravity University program for a second consecutive year.

The GAS team will travel to Houston, Texas June 2-11 to conduct a heat-transfer experiment aboard NASA’s Vomit Comet. The comet is a modified plane that flies in a series of parabolic arches, allowing researchers inside to experience reduced-gravity conditions.

The Follow Up Nucleate Boiling On-flight Experiment, or FUNBOE 2.0, building on last year’s experiment, will test how effective boiling is at transferring heat in a reduced gravity environment, said Justin Koeln, mechanical and aerospace engineering senior and the GAS team’s technical lead.

“When you boil something on Earth, the bubbles go up, but in space there is no real ‘up,’ so where do the bubbles go?” Koeln said.

It was originally thought that the bubbles would stay around the wire or heating element and cause it to overheat, he said, but the experiment showed that

- See GAS, page 4

Inside This Issue

USU’S GET AWAY SPECIAL TEAM of 2010 was the first to be invited to experience NASA’s ‘Vomit Comet,’ a chamber that allows those who enter it to feel the effects of reduced-gravity conditions. Photo courtesy of the College of Engineering

1/24/11 Utah State tightens stranglehold on WAC standings with 59-49 win over New Mexico State.

Page 8

Professor Michael Twohig, headed a study featured on The Tonight Show.

Page 5

www.utahstatesman.com Check out Big Blue’s Best Calendar, the best master calendar on campus. Send something in ... let people know what you’re up to.

Official Student Newspaper of Utah State University • “It’s All The News You Need!”

Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 Page 2

World&Nation Utah State University • Logan, Utah • www.utahstatesman.com

ClarifyCorrect The policy of The Utah Statesman is to correct any error made as soon as possible. If you find something you would like clarified or find unfair, please contact the editor at 797-1762 or TSC 105.

Nat’lBriefs 4 police officers shot at Detroit precinct DETROIT (AP) – A gunman opened fire inside a Detroit police precinct on Sunday, wounding four officers including a commander, before police shot and killed him, authorities said.

Police Chief Ralph Godbee said along with the commander, two sergeants and an officer were wounded, but none appeared to have life threatening injuries.

Sgt. Todd Eby told the Detroit Free Press that he was sitting at his desk at the precinct when the gunman walked in around 4:20 p.m. with a pistol grip shotgun and opened fire. He said officers shot back at the gunman, killing him.

Woman in 1987 case surrenders to police

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – A North Carolina woman who raised a child kidnapped 23 years ago from a New York hospital surrendered to authorities on a parole violation charge Sunday, days after a widely publicized reunion between the biological mother and the daughter taken from her as a baby.

Ann Pettway surrendered Sunday morning to the FBI and Bridgeport, Conn., police on a warrant from North Carolina, FBI supervisory special agent William Reiner said.

North Carolina officials said Friday they believed Pettway was on the run from authorities. Correction officials had tried repeatedly to contact Pettway after finding out investigators wanted to question her in the 1987 abduction of the infant.

LateNiteHumor

Wal-Mart vs. Civil War site: battle heads to court RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – Nearly 150 years after Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant fought in northern Virginia, a conflict over the battlefield is taking shape in a courtroom.

The dispute involves whether a Wal-Mart should be built near the Civil War site, and the case pits preservationists and some residents of a rural northern Virginia town against the world’s largest retailer and local officials who approved the Wal-Mart Supercenter.

The proposed Wal-Mart is located near the site of the Battle of the Wilderness, which is viewed by historians as a critical turning point in the war. An estimated 185,000 Union and Confederate troops fought over three days in 1864, and 30,000 were killed, injured or went missing. The war ended 11 months later.

The 143,000-square-foot space would be outside the limits of the protected national park where the core battlefield is located. The company has stressed the store would be within an area already dotted with retail locations, and in an area zoned for commercial use.

The Orange County Board of

Supervisors in August 2009 approved the special use permit Wal-Mart needed to build, but the National Trust for Historic Preservation and residents who live within three miles of the site challenged the board’s decision.

They argued that supervisors ignored or rejected the help of historians and other preservation experts when they approved the store’s construction in Locust Grove about 1 mile from the national park entrance.

Hundreds of historians, including Pulitzer Prize winner James McPherson, have appealed to WalMart to walk away and find another place to build in the county of less than 35,000 people.

McPherson is expected to testify that the store’s site and nearby acres were blood-soaked ground and a Union “nerve center� in the battle.

Grant’s headquarters and his senior leaders were encamped near the site of the proposed store and Union casualties were treated there or in an area destined to be the store’s parking lot. “Among other things, thousands of wounded and dying soldiers occupied the then open fields that includ-

“No state or federal law precludes development of the site.�

Plaintiffs’ attorney Robert D. Rosenbaum said he plans to call descendants of Union and Confederate soldiers to testify.

In Orange County, many residents and community leaders have welcomed the Supercenter. It would create 300 jobs and tax revenue, and there would be a convenient big-box store in the county.

HISTORY WILL PLAY OUT in a Virginia courtroom this week when WalMart Stores, Inc. defends a planned store near the hallowed site where Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant first met on a battlefield in 1864. AP photo

Republicans press for Senate vote to repeal health care bill WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate Republicans want to box majority Democrats into allowing a health care repeal vote even if GOP lawmakers expect to be on the losing side. “We need to have a vote on it because we promised the people we would,� Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said Sunday on “Face the Nation� on CBS. “We have to have a vote on repeal so that everybody is on record whether they want to repeal.�

Republicans took control of the House after November’s elections and last week voted, as promised, to repeal the health care law. Only three Democrats joined all Republicans in the 245-189 vote to scrap the law.

In the Senate, Democrats retained majority control, even though the 53-47 split is narrower than the advantage they held before November. Two of those votes come from independents who caucus with the Democrats and support the health care law overall. Moreover, Senate measures usually require a 60-vote majority to advance.

While Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who controls the Senate agenda, has said such a

bill won’t come to a vote, Republican leader Mitch McConnell repeated his promise that a repeal vote will indeed take place. “I’m not going to discuss how we’ll do it from a parliamentary point of view here,� McConnell said on “Fox News Sunday.� “If that does not pass, and I don’t think anyone is optimistic that it will, we intend to go after this health care bill in every way that we can. It’s the single worst piece of legislation that’s been passed in my time in the Senate,� McConnell said.

One route to a repeal vote could be through an amendment brought to the Senate floor, according to Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat. “If some Republican senator wants to offer it as an amendment at some point, it’s possible they will. It’s possible we’ll face that vote,� Durbin said on Fox. “But having spoken to my members in the Democratic caucus, with Sen. Reid, we feel there’s still strong support for health care reform.�

With its mandate that almost all people in the U.S. carry insurance, the health care law divides

people about evenly. Some provisions – coverage for those with pre-existing conditions and allowing older children to remain on parents’ insurance – are popular.

Only about one in four people say they want to do away with the health care law completely, according to a recent Associated Press-GfK poll.

For those reasons, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., suggested that Republicans should be careful what they wish for. “If the Republicans offer an amendment on the floor, then we will require them to vote on the individual protections in the bill that are very popular and that even some of the new Republican House members have said they support,� Schumer said on CBS. “So, in the end, their repeal bill is going to be so full of holes it looks like Swiss cheese.�

The likelihood of defeat for a repeal bill – Obama could veto it even if it were to pass Congress – has led Republicans lawmakers to vow to dismantle the law piece by piece and to deny it the money necessary to carry out its provisions.

Albania to probe violent protest

Top 10 Signs You Have NFL Playoffs Fever – Jan. 21, 2011 10. You’ve been spreading Icy Hot on your morning bagel.

9. Got your wife a makeover so she’d look more like Brian Urlacher.

8. Find yourself giving a motivational speech to the UPS guy.

7. You answer the phone, “Hut, hut, hello!?�

6. You just posted your first YouTube foot fetish video.

5. You have a high fever and a rash over most of your body (actually, that’s a sign you have Dengue fever. In that case, consult a physician immediately.)

4. Keep asking co-workers to shower as a group.

3. You pick up your meatloaf and run through the house yelling, “Touchdown!�

2. Built lifesize sculpture of Mark Sanchez out of caulk and dryer lint.

1. Just ruined a wedding by dumping Gatorade on the bride.

ed the Walmart site, which is where many of the Union Army hospital tents were located during the battle,�

McPherson wrote.

An attorney representing Orange County argued the board and other officials acted properly and heard the opinions of hundreds of people before approving the store. “There is no indication that any significant historical event occurred on this land,� Sharon E. Pandak said.

MAIN OPPOSITION Socialist leader Edi Rama pays respects during the funeral ceremony of Ziver Veizi in Albania Sunday. AP photo

TIRANA, Albania (AP) – Albania’s parliament held a special session late Sunday to launch an investigation into an opposition protest that the governing Democratic Party has called an attempted coup.

An 11-member commission was created at the session to investigate Friday’s violence after three people were killed and more than 150 were injured in clashes with police at a rally against the government, which protesters accuse of being corrupt.

Only governing party lawmakers attended the session, with opposition parties boycotting. Prime Minister Sali Berisha has referred to the unrest as an attempted coup, blaming opposition extremists for the three deaths. Opposition leaders say government forces opened fire on demonstrators. “I invite you to create the investigative parliamentary commission to probe this putsch,� Berisha said before parliament voted 73-0 to create the commission, which will carry out its work for three months.

Opposition Socialist Party leader Edi Rama has

& / $ 5 . 6 % 8 5 * f % 5 ( 6 / $: f 6 7 2 1 ( / ( , * + L o g an’s P re mi e r St u d e nt Ap ar t m e nt s

Accepting Applications for Summer and Next School Year CLARKSBURG

%5(6/$:

6721(/(,*+

(DVW 1RUWK

(DVW 1RUWK

(DVW 1RUWK

)RU PRUH LQIRUPDWLRQ FDOO 'DUOD f f f GDUODGFODUN#SFX QHW

t t t t t t t t t t t t t t

denied organizing a coup to oust the government and urged people to come to a peaceful demonstration Jan. 28. “That is an invitation for you, all those who want a one-way street toward an Albania in which everyone feels free and equal before the law,� said Rama, speaking from Fier, where he took part in a funeral for one of the dead.

Berisha said his party would postpone their rally against violence from Wednesday to Saturday, following meetings with Western ambassadors who expressed reservations about the demonstration. “If you (Edi Rama) try to surround the government building again, you will find what a bandit deserves. I won’t deal with anyone else. Anyone else will be under an amnesty, but him. If he touches institutions any more it will be him and only him, the chief bandit who will take their cost,� Berisha said.

Rama said “my life is not dearer than that of the three innocent Albanians killed by the hand of the state. I am in the battle together with the others.�

4JOHMF 4UVEFOU "QBSUNFOUT "DSPTT UIF 4USFFU GSPN $BNQVT 'VMMZ 'VSOJTIFE 1SJWBUF #FESPPNT BOE #BUISPPNT %FTL #FE #PPLTIFMWFT JO #FESPPNT -BSHF $MPTFUT 7BDVVN -JWJOH 3PPN XJUI 57 %7% BOE 7$3 .PEFSO 'VMMZ &RVJQQFE ,JUDIFOT %JHJUBM $BCMF 57 XJUI 0VUMFUT JO #FESPPNT 8BTIFS BOE %SZFS JO FBDI "QBSUNFOU $FOUSBM )FBUJOH BOE "JS $POEJUJPOJOH 8JSFMFTT *OUFSOFU 4FSWJDF 1SJWBUF 1BSLJOH /P )BTTMFT 'JSF 1MBDFT

XXX DCTBQBSUNFOUT DPN

StatesmanCampus News

Monday, Jan. 24, 2011

Page 3

Event explores evolving climate

By RANDALL HENRY staff writer

Rob Davies, Utah Climate Center coordinator and USU adjunct professor, addressed the culminating issue of climate change during Friday’s Science Unwrapped, explaining the vehicles that are perpetuating these changes.

Davies explained that climate change is different from global warming. Global warming is the warming of the atmosphere, and the climate includes all aspects that can be affected by this change from weather to the biosphere.

“Humans are the single largest tug on the climate system now, causing it to change by a factor of 10 and 30. So we’re between 10 and 30 times stronger than the next natural tug on the climate,” Davies said.

Davies said the scientific community has reached a consensus about the causes of the warming. He also said this community has looked at the different natural causes, such as warming cycles and the sun, as primary causes of the problem using different climate models. A climate model is a complex equation that factors different variables and tests the effects that they would have on the climate system, he said.

Scientific consensus is reached through peer review, said Simon Wang, an assistant professor in the department of plants, soil, and climate.

“It’s not voting, it’s similar to counting hands, but you don’t only say that I agree because I like to. Every agreement or disagreement comes with data,” Wang said.

The process of collecting data can come from many different sources including ice cores, tree rings, coral and ocean sediments, which give the scientific community information about earth’s climate in periods before recorded data spanning back thousands of years. Current climate measurements are collected from devices around the globe designed to gather data on different aspects of the climate.

Bruce Bugbee, a professor in the department of plants, soil, and climate, is helping to replace USU’s current weather station that has been operating since 1893. The new station – which is now automated – allows for a continuous gathering of data. In addition, the data collection is automated, which means it no longer requires someone to check the readings every morning, Bugbee said.

“We’ve never had a station like that on Utah State University campus,” Bugbee said. “This was our chance to make the jump to light speed with a really modern weather station.”

The new weather station will be used to continue the research done at the university and teach students about data recording.

Students will also be able to use the new station when it becomes active by getting information about the climate on campus via website.

The informational sign that will be next to the

JOBIE CARLISLE (ABOVE) of the Utah Climate Center teaches local elementary school students at Friday’s Science Unwrapped series about USU’s research station’s work through hands-on experiments.

ROB DAVIES (LEFT), program coordinator for the Utah Climate Center spoke at the event on climate change, proof behind it and how humans are contributing.

USU Professor Bruce Bugbee said USU has its own weather-tracking station that gathers and produces data daily for scientists to analyze.

BRECK BYINGTON photos

data collector will have a bar code on it that can be scanned by smart phones to automatically take students to the website that gives information collected by the weather station.

Davies said as a society, we need to reduce the amount of green house gases

PoliceBlotter Friday, Jan. 14 • USU Emergency Management conducted an earthquake assembly for the students and staff at Edith Bowen Elementary School.

• USU Police received a report of lost property at the Public Safety Office. An individual lost a toyota key that was on a Miller’s Autobody keychain, with a Smith’s card, Hastings card and a flash drive, while riding on the Aggie Shuttle Bus. At this time the lost property has not been turned into the Aggie Shuttle Bus drivers or the Police Department.

• USU Police responded to the Science Engineering and Research building on a welfare check. Complainant informed the police that his mother was lost somewhere on campus. Police were able to locate the mother without any further problems.

• USU Police responded to a noise problem.

Contact was made with the renter who stated that he was putting together a dresser and was using a hammer.

Saturday, Jan. 15 • USU Police contacted three male individuals standing near the bull at 800 E. 1000 North in gym shorts at 2 p.m. The males claimed to be only looking at the bull. The males were warned not to climb on the bull or they could be arrested.

• Police responded to an emergency phone alarm at the tennis courts. An individual in a large group of high school-age students admitted to pushing the button. The individual was released to a school official with a warning.

Sunday, Jan. 16 • USU Police removed clear shower caps from three smoke detectors in Snow Hall on the first floor. Police and Fire personnel are investigating.

• USU Police responded to a utility problem

– randall.henry@aggiemail.usu.edu

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

Anonymous reporting line: 797-5000 EMERGENCY NUMBER: 911

at the Aggie Terrace. A water line had burst on the ceiling of the fourth floor. Upon police arrival Housing Maintenance was already on site attempting to repair the problem. USU Parking was notified of this incident.

• USU Police responded to a noise problem at an Aggie Village apartment building. Police received the report that loud door banging and stomping were occurring in an adjacent apartment. Police arrived and could not hear any noise problems in the area. Police made contact and found no problems in the suspected apartment.

Monday, Jan. 16 • USU Police responded to the construction site, west of the Business building, on a 911 hang up call. Police made contact with the subject and found that the call was made accidentally. There was no further action taken.

Tuesday, Jan. 17 • USU Police responded to an intrusion alarm at the anthropology museum. Upon arrival no one was located in the museum. Everything appeared to be in order. The alarm company and the responsible party were notified and the alarm was reset.

• Police responded to the USU trailer courts on a suspicious incident. Complainant informed the police that she heard strange noises outside of her home. Police searched the area, but could not find anyone in the area.

• USU Police responded to a parking problem at the Alumni House turnaround parking lot. Upon arrival police observed a white Jeep Cherokee which was parked sideways in two parking stalls, which are reserved stalls. The vehicle was also blocking access to a sidewalk in front of the Living and Learning Center. The vehicle was issued a parking citation.

• USU Police responded to a fire alarm at Davis Hall. Upon arrival it was discovered that the

being emitted by 90 percent before the middle of the century if we hope to avoid the most severe consequences of a changing climate.

alarm was activated due to someone that burned his hotdogs while cooking them on the stove top.

The alarm was reset and there were no further problems.

Wednesday, Jan. 18 • USU Police assisted North Park Police with a recent missing juvenile from her home in North Logan. The juvenile was only wearing pajamas at the time of her disappearance. After a couple hours of searching the juvenile returned home on her own.

• USU Police responded to the south side of the Taggert Student Center for a report of a dog tied to a bench for several hours. The dog was picked up by the owner previous to the officer arriving.

The owner and dog were not found.

• USU Police responded to the Recital Hall parking lot in four minutes for a report of criminal mischief done to a University vehicle. The vehicle had notes written on the windows of the vehicle.

This investigation is continuing.

• USU Police searched the area of 1200 E. and 700 North for an individual that was mooning cars as he walked down the street. The individual was never located. Mooning is an act of lewdness and criminal charges could be filed if the individual is caught.

Thursday, Jan. 18 • USU Police responded to an elevator alarm in the Aggie Terrace. Dispatch reported that they heard someone in the elevator and then the line disconnected. Police arrived and found a student stuck in the elevator. Police was able to alleviate the problematic exterior door, thus allowing the elevator to work properly and releasing the student from the chilly encapsulated elevator.

-Compiled by Catherine Meidell

Briefs Campus & Community

Regional professor earns Yale fellowship Steven Heath Mitton, an assistant professor of history at Utah State University, is the recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship for the 2010-11 academic year from Yale University’s MacMillan Center.

Mitton is a faculty member at USU’s Brigham City Campus.

Mitton will spend February 2011 in residence at the affiliated Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, where he is scheduled to present a selection of his scholarship Feb. 16 in a presentation titled “Manifest Dilemmas: American Slavery versus Atlantic Freedom in the Age of Industrial Revolution.”

Mitton has teaching responsibilities at USU’s Brigham City regional campus and learned in May 2010 he had been selected for the highly competitive fellowship that is intended to recognize and promote promising new research in the field of historical study of slavery and abolition.

Mitton said the presentation at the Gilder Lehrman Center will draw from a chapter in his monograph-in-writing “The Underground War: Slaveholding America, Postemancipation Britain, and the Struggle for Mastery of the Atlantic.”

He said his talk will highlight how the material interests of postemancipation societies like Great Britain and the American North in the 1840’s clashed with those of the slaveholding American South.

Center accepts works celebrating women The Center for Women and Gender will be celebrating Women’s History Month 2011 with the national theme “Our History is Our Strength” paying tribute to the millions of women who have taken action to help create a better world for the times in which they lived, as well as for future generations. We’d like to invite all USU students to participate in this significant celebration by creating and sharing a work by and/or about women that centers on this theme.

Works will be judged by a panel from supporting groups of Women’s History Month at USU. There will be a cash award for the top seven submissions, one from each category.

Additionally, where possible, all qualified submissions will be published as conference proceedings. Selected individuals will showcase their work during an award ceremony on April 5.

Submissions are due March 15 at 5 p.m. in Center for Women and Gender, TSC 309. For more information contact Diane Stuart at 435-7973703.

Research on Capitol Hill starts up for 2011 Undergraduates from Utah State University and the University of Utah will gather in the State Capitol Rotunda Wednesday, Jan. 26, for the annual “Research on Capitol Hill” event. The projects will cover such disparate topics as understanding the genetics of children with speech sound disorders, identifying interstate migration patterns, calculating USU’s ability to become carbon neutral and controlling parasite resistance in sheep.

Thirty-eight students from USU will share independent research projects with state legislators from 9 a.m.-1 p.m., and the public is invited to attend. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the celebration.

“At Utah State, we know that an undergraduate education is significantly enhanced when students are given access to research opportunities,” said Joyce Kinkead, USU associate vice president for research. “For 10 years, students have been sharing that message, as well as the results of their top-notch research, with our state leaders.”

Legislators will note this anniversary with a commendation on the state Senate floor that day. State Senator Lyle Hillyard will make some remarks, as well as student researchers and administrators from Utah State and the University of Utah.

-Compiled from staff and media reports

StatesmanCampus News

Page 4

Monday, Jan. 24, 2011

GAS: Engineering students prep for another round on the ‘Vomit Comet’ -continued from page 1 bubbles moved away from the wire, keeping it cool. “Boiling liquid is the most efficient method of transferring heat,� said Heng Ban, associate professor in the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering and one of the GAS team’s faculty advisers. “This technology is smaller and more efficient, which gives you more room to play with in your design.�

This technology may also allow for computer chips to become less expensive, Koeln said.

This year’s experiment will improve on last year’s model,

he said, they will be testing higher energy levels and in addition to testing a onedimensional wire, they will be testing a two-dimensional silicon chip.

The team also wants to streamline experimental procedures to avoid nausea.

Last year, the project required them to change out several units in quick succession. This constant movement caused them to become more nauseated than the other teams. “The plane is padded with no air conditioning,� said Troy Munro, a senior in mechanical and aerospace

Education: Utah schools drop in ranks to 41st place

engineering and the GAS team’s NASA contact. “I got really sick after eight parabolas.�

This project has been time consuming and expensive, Munro said. Out of 20 GAS team members, about 10 are active and spend between 2045 hours a week working on the project – on top of their course work. Out of those 10 members, only five will be allowed to fly on The Comet; this year’s flight team has yet to be determined.

NASA provided The Comet but the team was responsible for funding the project, which comes with a

bill of about $30,000, Munro said. The team received funding from various departments at USU as well as some contributions from private donors.

Aside from summer research, all the team’s hours are voluntary, he said. “Many members forgo real jobs to work on this project, but it pays back post grad,�

Koeln said.

He said this type of research is rare for undergraduate students and that they will get their bachelor’s degree with “at least a master’s level of research experience.�

Along with benefiting the team members, the project is also benefiting USU’s reputation. According the NASA’s Microgravity University web page, only 14 teams nationwide were selected to participate in this program; among this year’s teams are schools like Yale, Dartmouth, and the California Institute of Technology. Koeln also said last year only 20 percent of the teams’ projects worked.

USU also has the distinction of being the university to have sent the most studentbuilt experiments into space with NASA. The last one from the GAS team was in

2001, Koeln said.

These achievements have been earning the university a good deal of positive publicity around the state, he said.

The GAS team’s achievement is also positively impacting Cache Valley and the surrounding communities, Koeln said. The team members have presented their project to at least 3,000 students at multiple k-12 schools to promote science and engineering as well as encourage children to attend college.

– rouchelle.brockman@aggiemail.usu.edu

Art reveals sensuality in nature

-continued from page 1 lated by the students. The work load was a lot less.� She also said Utah schools were less strict, that student athletes got away with more, and that there was less diversity among students and in teachers’ teaching styles. She said, however, that Utah education did have its strengths. “One really excellent thing about Utah education is that they do concurrent enrollment,� she said.

She said she knew many students who graduated high school with their associate degrees or with a skills certificate.

She also said that her Utah school was further along in mathematics.

Poet said the one drawback to California’s system was the larger class sizes.

Reed said class sizes were one of the most important factors in a student’s education, and that it was one factor not taken into consideration in the assessment. “When you ask about whether or not students arrive ready to learn at our state’s universities, it would be helpful to know what class size is like in Utah’s high schools,� she said.

She said large high school class sizes might account for why many students have to take remedial courses when they come to college. High school teachers in Utah often have 200 or more students per semester, and giving each student the personal attention they need can be overwhelming. “The heart of good teaching is providing differentiated instruction based on students’ needs,� she said. “That’s a nearly impossible task given the class sizes and student loads that Utah’s teachers have.�

USU English internship coordinator Linda Morse said she, too thought large class sizes were a major contributing factor.

She said growing class sizes and recent budget cuts were pushing Utah’s performance lower. “We have to really look seriously at raising taxes or doing something to improve – cut down the class sizes as well as improve the quality of education our students are getting,� she said.

Morse said she attributed the budget problem to overlyconservative legislators in the Utah Congress. “Several years ago they actually reduced the tax on the rich, and I just don’t know any other way you that you can raise money for public

CJ JILEK, CENTER, talks about some of her smaller ceramic pieces during the closing reception of her MFA thesis exhibition titled “Second Nature.� Jilek said her work is inspired by the sensuality of nature and hopes those who enjoy her work are able to explore them in detail as if they were exploring in nature. She is the second of three graduate students hosting their MFA shows this month.

CARL R. WILSON photo

schools unless you do increase the taxes,� she said.

Morse said that in a survey done every year, Utahns say they would be willing to pay more taxes if it benefited students, but that legislators simply aren’t listening.

Despite Utah’s low ranking in the assessment, Reed said Utah schools are not in trouble. “Similar complaints have been made for over a hundred years,� she said. “And yet we as

i i i i i i i i

a state and as a nation educate a higher percentage of all students than ever and a more diverse population than ever.�

More information about Education Week’s assessment can be found at www.edweek.org. – robmjepson@gmail.com

No Waiting List. Enroll Now! Career Job Placement/Counseling Services Scholarships and Financial Aid Available For Those Who Qualify LPN-to-RN/ASN in just 8 months, RN/ASN in just 16 months Over 100-Years Combined Nursing/Nursing Education Experience 5:1 Student-to-Clinical Instructor Ratio Experienced Faculty With High Student Success Rates on Licensure Exams (NCLEXÂŽ RN and NCLEXÂŽ PN) Nursing Program, RN (ASN) With LPN Exit Options

RU WROO IUHH

2U 7H[W 7KH :RUG ´1856(¾ 7R ZZZ QLJKWLQJDOHFROOHJH FRP

AggieLife Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 Page 5

Utah State University • Logan, Utah • www.utahstatesman.com

Leno-featured professor studies moral obsessions

By TAM ROUNDS staff writer

A few weeks ago, Jay Leno’s opening monologue mentioned a study that recently began here at USU focusing on scrupulosity. He joked that researchers are looking into people obsessed with morals and religion and the punch line was, “Yeah, we call those people parents.”

Assistant professor Michael Twohig, who is heading up the study, explained that scrupulosity is a type of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). He said OCD is when someone has obsessions, thoughts, urges or impulses that occur often and they are unwanted and disturbing.

These thoughts cause the person to engage in some behavior to get the thoughts to go away, which is the compulsion. OCD can occur about any topic, usually about the topic you care about most. Most often we have heard about compulsive hand-washing or cleaning. Scrupulosity is found in people who are highly religious. They obsess about things that are religious or moral in nature.

Twohig said he had a client obsessed with not engaging in premarital sex. The obsession led the individual to question what is and is not a sexual activity? They began to ask themselves if even shaking someone’s hand was a sexual activity.

The individual’s thoughts led to the question, “I am a sexual being so anything that I touch would have my sweat on it, thus, I have left my sexual mark on that door handle, so if you touch that door handle after me, you have had some type of sexual relation with me, which you did not consent to, so I am harming you and myself.”

This person couldn’t interact with anybody, which meant they couldn’t be out in public. So this person, who cared very much about their religion, couldn’t actually attend church.

They eventually got to the point where showering was very difficult because they became to believe that the water would go over their body

and then enter the stream of water that all of us are using. They felt like they were contaminating other people.

Another individual had a thought that if he didn’t do his prayers in a certain way that something could happen to his family. It took anywhere between three and six hours to go through the prayer process. If it got interrupted, he would have to start over. If you asked them how many hours they spent in meaningful prayer, the answer would be zero.

Twhohig uses a type of therapy called acceptance and commitment therapy, or ACT. He said there is a great deal of research on using it to treat anxiety disorders, depression, substance use and chronic pain.

He said ACT teaches people how to notice thoughts and urges lightly, to not buy into them and get pushed around by the thoughts. He said people learn to let the thoughts be there without fighting them and then decide on a direction to go in life.

When they follow that direction, the thoughts and feelings are going to get louder and yell at the individual to stop, but through practice, people learn how to let the thoughts be there and continue on. It gets easier and easier.

“There is a reason that therapy takes three months, not one week. It takes a while to get good at it,” Twohig said.

Twohig said he first became interested in psychology when he took a class in human behavior in high school. When he was in his master’s program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee he realized his interest in publishing and research. He went on to get his doctorate under the developer of ACT, Steven Hayes, at the University of Nevada.

Twohig recommends that students interested in this field of study find ways to collaborate with faculty in USU’s psychology department.

He said this will give them an edge, which is crucial as the programs are highly competitive.

Twohig said he was a distance swimmer in college, which earned him a scholarship. He said that the rigorous training was good preparation for the work it takes to get a Ph.D. “I learned to keep working even when I was

tired. Sitting at a desk and typing is relatively easy compared to the 25 hours per week that I was in the pool,” he said.

Twohig came to USU four years ago and said he can’t picture a nicer place to live and raise his family. He loves mountain biking and snowboarding. Of his 5-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter he said, “They certainly test my knowledge of human behavior.”

Twohig said students might be surprised to know that he was a drummer in a goofy high school band and that his tastes in music are on the heavier side. The band he listens to the most right now is Rise Against, though he tends to listen to Explosions in the Sky while working.

Twohig said he is interested in creating more effective and accepted therapies for disorders.

“The current therapies are really effective, but there still seems to be a stigma against see-

Take the percussive groups Blast and Stomp, add a wide range of original instruments and the energy of a child with a wooden spoon set loose in his mother’s kitchen, and ScrapArtsMusic is created.

Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, ScrapArtsMusic (SAM) makes their debut ain Logan Jan. 26 at the Ellen Eccles Theatre.

Always on the lookout for new groups to bring to Cache Valley, Amanda Castillo, program director for the Cache Valley Center for the Arts, discovered SAM at an arts conference.

“We got to see a small performance at the showcase, then we got to see a video performance. We wanted to see how they integrate the audience,” Castillo said.

Impressed with SAM’s eco-friendly innovations, unique instrumentation and stage presence, Castillo said she was inspired to bring the group to Cache Valley.

“We hope … to implement what they are doing and that it will have a longer impact (on the community),” Castillo said.

In addition to their two shows at Ellen Eccles Theatre, SAM is participating in education outreach with a lecture at USU, as well as performances for elementary students.

“We are hosting a matinee, which is already sold out. We could have had 3 mati-

nees and they would all have been sold out,” Castillo said.

According to a ScrapArtsMusic pamphlet, they began in 1998, created by George Kozak and Justine Murdy with the environment and a “next generation” ensemble in mind. They explored industrial scrap yards and discovered anything that could be recycled and make great sounds.

SAM’s webpage is splattered with reviews from all over, calling them “a feast of sight and sound” and “the kings of scrap.”

According to their Facebook page, the group is mainly percussion-based, but delves into experimental, world and jazz genres.

The 145 instruments invented by creator and director Kozak give the troupe a sound that allows them to cross all genres of music. The instruments have names like the ziggurat drum, whorlies, scorpion drums and the mojo.

“It’s more than just drumming,” Castillo said. “(It’s) almost like a dance on stage, they move the instruments, there’s a lot of choreography, a percussive dance and a sculptural dance. They transform the stage.”

Performances begin with an empty stage, heightening the audience’s anticipation. The following 90 minutes consist of 13 different musical compositions.

The group consists of five performers: Kozak, Spencer Cole, Christa Mercey, Greg Samek and Simon Thomsen.

“People often come up to us after the

– tam.r@aggiemail.usu.edu

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR TWOHIG’S WORK was recently featured as part of Jay Leno’s opening monologue. Twohig is heading a study on a branch of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder where patients become obsessed with their moral beliefs. ANI MIRZAKHANYAN photo

Scrapping up the musical stage

By SHANELLE GALLOWAY staff writer

ing someone and getting help,” he said.

He also said students have a huge resource in USU’s free counseling clinic.

“The staff is highly trained and the fees are already included in the tuition,” he said.

Twohig said if he could say one thing of importance to the USU population it would be this: “If there is something you notice about yourself that isn’t working, deal with it now.”

He said many students don’t realize how many people are dealing with the same things around campus.

“If you notice something about you that is not working for you in life, I would go get help with it now, so you don’t have to deal with that for the rest of your life.”

show to say they are blown away by our energy and creativity. Musicians tell us they are so impressed by the sophistication of the music; parents tell us they have rarely seen their children so mesmerized,” Murdy said.

Over the last 12 years, SAM has performed for NBA halftime shows and even the closing ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

“We performed ... in Australia, China, Korea, Taiwan, England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Mexico, Guatemala and of course, all over the USA and Canada,” Murdy said.

Their travels are documented on the troupe’s Facebook page, and they invite all to follow their travels, complete with photos, video clips and tour updates.

Logan initiates their 2011 tour, and from here they travel to California and on through the West, with shows in Arizona and Texas as well as Alaska, Philadelphia and Hong Kong.

“We are looking forward to our debut performances in Utah. We are also excited to perform in the Ellen Eccles Theatre. It sounds like a state-of-the-art theatre in a heritage space!” Murdy said.

Ellen Eccles is hosting two shows at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, Jan. 2627; ticket prices range from $17 to $27.

– shanelle.b@aggiemail.usu.edu

SCRAPARTSMUSIC WILL BE COMING to Logan this Thursday to begin their 2011 tour. The group uses industrial scraps for their instruments to create a kinetic sound. photo courtesy SCRAPARTSMUSIC

Teaching English across the globe

By JESSICA SWEAT features senior writer

Students from campuses across Utah are starting to shed their backpacks for suitcases and are heading halfway around the world to do one thing: experience. Whether to tour a foreign country or gain cultural insight, students are saying bon voyage to all the comforts of student living to gain the title of “teacher” from young children trying to learn English.

After being known as students for most of their lives, three Utah State University students give insight to what they claim to be some of the most eye-opening months of their lives.

Juniors Kailey Larsen, Britney Marler, and Amele’ Welliver, opted to postpone a semester of schooling to fly over 10,000 miles to live abroad for a period of four to six months.

All three students are participating in the International Language Program, known as ILP. Marler and Welliver first heard about ILP at the Day on the Quad event here at USU. They talked to representatives shortly after and both decided they wanted to apply for ILP’s China program because it was in a foreign country.

Both were majoring in English literature and said they found the opportunity worth every penny, all $2,300 dollars worth, and became excited about what was waiting in the province of Jiangxi.

Larsen is a business major and said she wanted to live and experience another culture outside of what a tourist sees. Larsen said she also found out that if she participated in ILP’s Taiwan program, they would pay her a bonus as well as her program fees. All that was required of Larsen was an associate degree in order to legally be compensated for her services.

All three girls said they were trained for only two days before leaving for their separate countries. A head teacher, or someone who has taught a semester in an ILP school before, would train and direct student teachers once they are on location.

The students learned they would not have to learn a lot of the native language because they would teach by speaking English and would plan lessons around engaging the children in activities such as baking, reading books, and playing games.

All three students could receive up to 15 college credits in their department as an internship, but opted to reduce costs and not pay the tuition fee.

“We felt a little guilty because the program said the focus is about the kids and we just wanted to travel, “ Marler said.

But upon arrival, Marler and Welliver said they found a unique experience waiting for them. They were there to help open a school.

Both girls said they were a little frustrated that they weren’t allowed to leave school grounds without an escort for the first month, but quickly embraced the children and the culture around them.

“It was the hardest thing i have ever done – opening a school in a small province, seeing some kids get beaten, that is not normal to me, but in our province they would,” Welliver said.

Larsen also witnessed some similar occurrences and felt helpless

- See TEACHING, page 7

AggieLife

Page 6

Monday, Jan. 24, 2011

Student has three favorite campus buildings

By GENEVIEVE DRAPER staff writer

Utah Statesman: Do you live on campus or off, and do you like it?

Raiven Smith: Off-campus. There are perks to both. I used to live on campus. But I’m married now, so I live off.

US: What is the hardest class you’ve taken here at USU? RS: USU 1350. Biology.

US: When you have a free Friday evening, what is your favorite thing to do in Logan?

RS: Go out to eat somewhere. We like Chili’s.

US: Did you vote in the last election, and what do you look for in a candidate?

RS: The last election I voted for was the House of Representatives and Senate one. I describe myself as a Democrat but I found a website where it compares your values to the candidates so I actually voted for some republicans. Someone that shares the same values as you.

RS: Hula Hoop

Caught on Campus Raiven Smith sophomore Flint, Mich.

RS: CILs.

US: What do you think is the most pressing problem in the political arena?

RS: Everyone coming to agree with each other. I think we all have such different opinions.

Trying to come to a medium of what is best for the country.

US: What is the one graduation requirement you could do without?

US: What is your second choice for a major?

RS: If USU had it, culinary management.

US: Have you ever cried/talked your way out of a ticket?

RS: No. I’ve never got pulled over before.

US: What is your nightmare job?

RS: Door-to-door sales.

US: What is the weirdest thing you’ve seen on USU’s campus?

RS: Earlier this week I saw a cow walking around. A person dressed up as a cow.

US: If you could tell your past self to do one thing differently about freshman year, what would it be?

RS: Make sure you pick who your roommate is before you get put with some creepy girl like I did.

US: If you could take a trip to any other country, where would you go?

RS: Tuscany, Italy.

US: During finals week do you cram or do you party?

RS: Cram. Definitely cram.

US: What is the latest time you have stayed up on a school night and what was your excuse?

RS: Probably two or three in the morning. Hanging out with roommates, watching the Jai-Ho video from “Slumdog Millionaire” and dancing around.

US: If you were to be a hermit, where would you live and why does this strike you as a good place?

RS: I really like Las Vegas. I went to high school there. The weather is always nice and always different people around.

US: Of all the “normal” abilities a person has, like blowing up balloons or cartwheeling, what is one thing you secretly struggle with?

RS: I can’t somersault, but that is probably because I am too scared.

US: If you were a street artist or musician, what would you do for a living?

RAIVEN SMITH IS a sophomore in FCHD and would like to live in Las Vegas. If she were a street artist, she would hula hoop for a living. GENEVIEVE DRAPER photo

RS: Um, I can’t think of anything … probably, “Nice lips.”

US: What is your filler word or phrase?

RS: Probably I say, “Let’s see.”

US: What is something new that you have learned this semester?

RS: Go to classes and take notes and not sleep in them.

US: The last book you read that was not required for class?

RS: “The Surgeon.” By Tess Gerritsen. Loved it.

US: What is the funniest thing you have heard someone say in their sleep (or that someone has reported that you have said)?

RS: My roommate used to scream out her mom’s name. I guess she was having an argument and just screamed out, “Mom.” She always talked in her sleep when we were roommates.

US: Why USU? RS: First it was because of prayer, second because my best friend lived up here. Now I’m married and just waiting to graduate.

US: If everyone else was like you, what would the world be like?

RS: Very non-judgmental and probably goofy with a hint of demanding-ness. Pretty persuasive.

US: What class have you enjoyed the most?

RS: English 1010. Well, I got an A in it, and the teacher was a grad student who really enjoyed my writing and was pretty interesting.

US: Has anyone every told you that you look like someone famous?

RS: No.

US: What is your favorite building here on campus?

RS: Either the TSC or I really like the library here. Those two and the education building.

US: What is the hardest thing for you about getting to know someone?

RS: Here in Logan I always have to worry about their preconceived notions about my race but other than that I am pretty friendly.

US: Do you ride the bus or do you have a car?

RS: Car.

US: What is the most random thing a stranger ever told you?

– genevieve.draper@aggiemail.usu.edu

You are what you drink I’ll be the first to An admit that January is rough. The charm of apple the Christmas season has dwindled, a day you’re an ice cube by the time you walk to campus, and RandiMartin the stress of a new semester is wearing you thin. Nothing perks up those winter woes better than a refreshing can of Dr. Pepper, right? Wrong.

According to an article on associatedcontent.com, Americans, on average, drink 1.6 cans of soda pop daily. That’s 597 cans of soda per year. Soda has become the largest source of calories in the American diet, which is mind-boggling when you figure that it has no nutritional value.

Here are five reasons to stop drinking soda.

1. Energy suck – It’s funny that people drink pop to give them energy. They can’t go a day without a mid-afternoon can or else they will die.

The ironic thing is they are actually hindering their overall energy level with every sip they take. It may give you a burst of energy at first, but all that sugar and caffeine will lead to a crash later. It also messes with the quality of your sleep.

My tip for those who need more energy is to change your diet. If you are constantly eating nutrient-dense foods, like leafy greens and fruits, your body will have what it needs to get you through the day.

If all we eat are starchy foods and sugar, it’s no wonder we start to crash at 2 p.m. It may be a rough transition, but trust me, you will see that drinking water and eating an orange will give you more “oomph” than any Mountain Dew could.

2. Save your pennies – As college students, we should all be trying cut corners in the money department. Someone who drinks just two cans a day will spend around $206 a year.

As prices rise, that amount will easily double or triple. And what are you getting for $206 a year?

3. You are what you drink – You get out of your body what you put into it, and, as I mentioned earlier, soda has no nutritional value.

What it does have are dangerous ingredients that have been known to lead to obesity, tooth decay, stomach and digestion issues like gastric lining erosion, headaches, heart disease and weakened bones.

It also increases your risk of diabetes, which is one of the major killers in America today. A Harvard study showed that there is a strong link between soda consumption and bone fractures among teenage athletes.

Girls who drank soda were about five times more likely to suffer bone fractures than girls who didn’t. Another study showed a direct link between tooth decay and soft drinks in nearly 3,200 Americans from 9-29 years old.

4. Good for you and good for Mother Earth – Not only will you be feeling spry, but you will also be reducing your carbon footprint. Even if you recycle your soda cans and bottles, it still takes energy and resources to recycle them.

According to the Container Recycling Institute, Americans consume 200 billion bottled and canned beverages in a year, and that number continues to increase.

There is also the cost and fuel usage of transporting it to you. So while you decrease your use of bottles and cans, you should increase your consumption of fruits and veggies. And when you buy local and organic, you are supporting local and sustainable farms.

5. Look good in those skinny jeans – I’ve talked to my fair share of people who have quit their soda addictions. Almost all of them mention losing a significant amount of weight just from eliminating soda from their diet.

My friend Katie Lewis, a professional photographer, lost more than 10 pounds one year just by quitting her Coca-Cola addiction.

Another Harvard study shows that 12-yearolds who drank soft drinks regularly were more likely to be overweight that those who didn’t.

For every additional daily serving of sugarsweetened soft drink consumed in the twoyear study, the risk of obesity increased 1.6 times. And don’t think that switching to a diet drink is better. Diet drinks cause bloating, have more sodium, and contain aspartame, which mercola.com lists as a toxic ingredient that can affect your vision and cause seizures and brain tumors.

They can also contain Nutrisweet, which causes excessive hunger and thirst, so you end up consuming more. Some studies show that diet drinks are more likely to lead to obesity than regular soft drinks. Try giving up soda for two weeks and see the pounds start to shed off.

I realize that eliminating soda pop from your diet may seem daunting or even downright impossible, but know that it is doable and worth it. Lewis blogs about her experience and said she found that making her decision public held her accountable and gave her more support and motivation to quit.

Try gradually decreasing your daily consumption one can at a time. You can also start replacing soda with fruit juice, but stay away from juices with artificial flavors and sugars.

Add some flavored powders like Crystal Light if you can’t stand the taste of water, but only use those as a transition tool until you can drink water on its own.

My favorite option is to add lemon or cucumber slices to my water. It tastes great and also aids in digestion. Drinking soda every once in a while isn’t going to do much harm, but drinking as little as one or two cans a day could cause some serious damage.

– randi.martin@aggiemail.usu.edu

Monday, Jan. 24, 2011

AggieLife

Page 7

Ogden’s Egyptian brings Sundance to your doorstep

By BENJAMIN C. WOOD editor in chief Park City may be two hours away, but students with the independent itch can catch select Sundance Film Festival screenings all week at Peery’s Egptian Theater in Ogden.

Here’s a look at what’s playing.

My Idiot Brother When: Monday, Jan. 24, 6:30 p.m.

Tickets: Waitlist Only Paul Rudd dons shoulder-length hair and a beard for his turn as Ned, a free-spirited and wellintentioned farmer whose unconditional belief in the best of people leads to a series of unfortunate situations. After being released from prison for selling drugs to a uniformed officer, Ned finds himself homeless and unemployed and bounces around under the care of his three sisters (Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, Emily Mortimer), igniting fires with his honesty.

MIB is a fresh, realistic look at the complexities of adult familial relationships. While the three supporting players each shine, the film rests comfortably on Rudd’s lovable shoulders. While the hijinks that ensue are at times uncomfortable, Ned is effortlessly embodied with a personality that you just want to sit down and spend time with.

The film dabbles in the dramatic – two of his sisters deal with infidelity – but the tone of the film stays squarely in the hopeful, comedic idealism Ned personifies.

Rudd shows his range, shedding his normal polo-wearing underdog in exchange for a neo-hippie, and dons the character’s skin so naturally that no matter how odd things get, the character seems 100 percent natural. AThe Greatest Movie Ever Sold When: Wednesday, Jan. 26, 6:30 p.m.

Tickets: Available (likely to sell out) With his 2004 smash “Super Size Me,” documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock struck gold and singlehandedly made documentaries cool. Since then, Spurlock has stayed busy but mostly off the public’s radar. With TGMES, Spurlock returns to the fundamentals of what made him a household name: the evils of modern American consumerism.

This time around, Spurlock focuses his lens on the practice of brand partnerships in films, a.k.a. product placement. He sets off to make a movie financed 100 percent by brand partnerships, essentially selling every inch of the film from the cars he drives to the shoes he wears and the beverage that touches his lips – in this case POM Wonderful 100 percent pomegranate juice.

Along the way, he chats with media experts and marketing gurus about the modern advertising industry, peppering the film with nuggets of information like how ads are engineered to target the craving sensors of your brain. We get Spurlockesque interviews of everyone from environmentalist Ralph Nader to director Bret Ratner, who exclaims “Artistic integrity? Whatever.”

The film lags somewhat in the plethora of self-acknowledgments. The movie is about the making of the very movie you’re watching and after so many endless mirror moments, suspicion creeps in every so often that you’re not actually watching anything at all. However, it may slow down, but it never stops. It all culminates in a montage of synergistic cross-marketing products and branded objects while a movie-specific song by OK Go plays in the background about being the greatest song you’ve ever heard, and the effect delivers.

It may not be as socially poignant as “Super Size Me,” but it’s just as entertaining and Spurlock shows us again how telling the truth can be hard to do. B+ Like Crazy When: Friday, Jan. 28, 6:30 p.m.

Tickets: Available (likely to sell out) Like Crazy tells the story of Jacob (Star Trek’s Anton Yelchin) and Anna (Felicity Jones), who meet while attending

Teaching: Traveling Taiwan -continued from page 5 but had to accept the way the school and parents dealt with discipline.

“It was then that I knew I would experience a few negatives as well,” Larsen said.

Determined, all three girls said they focused on providing their pupils with a fun and loving English education. Their groups ranged from 4-20 students.

Larsen said she even taught college-age students and really enjoyed seeing them have fun while learning English.

“I love those children as if they were my own and I really left a piece of my heart in Taiwan,” Larsen said. “I didn’t expect that.”

Larsen said she will most likely graduate from USU a semester late, but felt that the real world experiences she gained were far more valuable than anything she could ever learn in a classroom.

“I learned how to try and understand other people’s emotions better and how to communicate and deal with cultural differences in a respectful way,” Larsen said.

Larsen, Welliver, and Marler, all said they did miss the comforts of home, Welliver even said she almost cried after returning home and sitting on a cushioned sofa again.

“I got to experience so many extremes,” Marler said. “It is so important for others to see other cultures. It broadens your perspective on your own culture and it really made me grateful for what I have.”

Overall, all three said they found their programs a little “sugarcoated” and agreed that the support system ILP offers, a head teacher and native coordinator, could be stronger. Marler and Welliver both highly advised signing a contract so both parties, the individual and the school, know what is expected from the other.

Larsen, Welliver and Marler also said to expect to miss those you teach but expect to be taught as well.

When asked if she would return, Welliver said, “In a heart beat.”

– jessie.a.sweat@aggiemail.usu.edu

college in L.A. Anna, a British student, overstays her student visa, initiating a long and tumultuous series of long-distance relationships while the couple battles the bureaucratic processes that separate them and the strained emotions that result.

Director Drake Doremus brings his traditional dialogue-less outline formula to create a heart-wrenching, raw and understated film.

Alternating between times tender and traumatic, the viewers are rushed back and forth as the two lovers are drawn together, crumble apart and pull themselves together again. The films wastes no time, skipping the typical rom-com chats

with friends to get right back to the action, literally fast-forwarding the passing of time to bring us instantaneously to the next emotional wave.

Yelchin’s Jacob is the perfect blend of devil-may-care millennial and stability-craving everyman. Jones, on the other hand, livens the flirtatious foreigner angle with a relentless desire for reconciliation even while biding her time in the arms of another man – Charlie Bewley, of Twilight, apparently.

These are tortured characters, but through Doremus’s crafting the story is not torturous. It instead reminds us that we are all fools in love and romantically calls to mind the kind of hopeful masochism that we endure when we love like crazy. B+

– b.c.wood@aggiemail.usu.edu

HUNTSMAN SCHOOL BUSINESS STUDENTS:

questions about the proposal to increase Differential Tuition?

Do you have

Business students are invited to join open forum discussions to learn more.

OPEN FORUM DISCUSSIONS January 24 10:30 - 11:30 – OC Tanner Lounge (BUS 9th floor) January 25 3:30 - 4:30 – OC Tanner Lounge (BUS 9th floor) February 2 1:30 - 2:30 – BUS 215 For more information on the proposal, go to the Huntsman School home page www.huntsman.usu.edu to view an open letter addressed to students.

Skyler Jenks, Business Senator

Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 Page 8

MondaySports Utah State University • Logan, Utah • www.utahstatesman.com

Seemingly untouchable! USU wins 13th straight Aggies’ defense shuts down WAC’s top offense in 59-49 win

By TYLER HUSKINSON assistant sports editor

The Utah State Aggies found another way to win a close one, extending their winning streak to 13 games Saturday night.

Senior forward Tai Wesley finished with 18 points on 5-of-7 shooting to lead USU over the New Mexico State Aggies, 59-49 at the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum in front of a national audience. Though both teams struggled to score the entire game, Utah State used a 17-0 run along with dominating rebounding and stifling defense to get the edge over New Mexico State.

“It was a battle,” Wesley said. “It was a lot of fun. There was a lot of blood out there.

We played defense

- See DEFENSE, page 9

STERLING BOIN photo

Hockey rains down punches and goals in 15-2 win over BSU

By MEREDITH KINNEY staff writer

Coming off a loss to Eastern Washington last weekend, the Utah State hockey team looked to rebound with a pair of wins this weekend. On Friday, the Aggies hosted the Boise State Broncos before traveling to the University of Utah on Saturday.

In their first home game since winter break, the Aggies came out strong and proved to be too much for the Broncos to handle. They took control from the first period and carried their momentum to a 15-2 victory.

The Aggies’ first goal came on a Boise State power play when USU’s Billy Guothro scored from in front of the net 4:44 into the first. He scored his second shorthanded goal just 13 seconds later. Utah State’s Jay McFadden was the next Aggie to score, burying a bullet of a pass from Rylee Orr at the 11:03 mark.

The Aggies scoring streak continued with goals from Matt Hamilton, Kent Arsenault, and Brendan MacDonald before Boise State got on the board with a goal with 26 seconds left in the period.

USU coach Jon Eccles said he was proud of how his veterans played in the first period. “Tonight our blue line jumped on Boise,” he said. “The team leaders really stepped up and the rest of the players followed them.”

Utah State’s quick scoring continued into the second when Arsenault drilled his second goal into the back of the net just 1:29 into the period. After that goal neither team scored until Guothro netted his third goal, sending hats onto the ice.

Just more than a minute later the Aggies’ Tyler Mistelbacher added his first goal of the night to the growing score. Less than minute later Arsenault

got his hat-trick off assists from Guothro and Hamilton.

After that goal, Boise State pulled their goalie. The move didn’t help, however, as Jeremy Madigan scored only 32 seconds later.

Utah State’s Ty Johns took an assist from Dave Wyman and scored his first goal 8:45 into the period and Mistelbacher scored two consecutive goals for the third hat-trick of the night.

The third period got off to a slow start until McFadden dropped his gloves against Boise State’s Clark Gaynor. Both Gaynor and McFadden were issued game misconducts and suspended from their next game.

Nine seconds later, Wyman had his turn in the ring when he took on Devon Harris. They were also both given game misconducts and suspensions. A goal from MacDonald and a desperation goal from Boise State’s Jerrod Hergishmer finished out the game.

Utah State’s performance against Boise State something the Aggies are hoping is a sign of good things to come.

“We just have to keep skating, doing little things right,” Guothro said.

“We’re going to be battling out there.”

As the Aggies continue to get healthier, they look to continue with this energy. Goalie Bryce Scherschel returned to the ice for USU, making 28 saves in his first game back from injury.

If there was one way to improve from this game it may be the amount of time the Aggies spent in the penalty box. Penalties have plagued the Aggies all season. According to Arsenault, this has been on the team’s mind.

“We’ve talked about it through and through,” he said. “It’s unnecessary but it’s something that has been happening a lot.”

Saturday night found the Aggies traveling to Salt Lake to face the Utah

UTAH STATE’S DAVE WYMAN looks to finish off his opponent during a fight in Friday’s hockey game against Boise State. The Aggies won the game 15-3 and followed that up with another victory Saturday to earn the team’s 30th win of the season. BRANDEN FONDA photo

Utes. Again, the Aggies came out on top with a 3-0 victory. The shutout victory for Scherschel in net was the first of his career in ACHA play.

Utah State’s three goals were scored by Johns, Guothro and Chase Allington, but that was not the story of the game. The Aggies started the game without three of their veter-

ans, McFadden, Wyman and Jeremy Martin, who were all serving suspensions from previous games.

“It was one of those games that’s an ugly win,” Eccles said. “I’m really proud of our bench who really stepped up.”

Despite being shorthanded from the 11-minute mark in the third period on the Aggie bench pulled together and

held on for the win.

The Aggies improved to 30-5-1 on the season. They will return to the ice next Friday when the travel to Provo to play BYU and then return to Logan take on the Cougars again at home on Saturday.

– meredith.kinney@aggiemail.usu.edu

StatesmanSports

Monday, Jan. 24, 2011

Page 9

Live & Work

Abroad

:MOQ[\MZ NWZ WVOWQVO :;; NMML 0MILTQVM[ KIUX][ VM_[

Job Preview Thursday, Jan. 27 University Inn Room 507 4-5 p.m. www.peacecorps.gov (800) 424-8580

UTAH STATE FORWARD BRADY JARDINE electrified the crowd with a fast break dunk off a feed from teammate Brian Green during a second half scoring run for Utah State. The Aggies rode the momentum of several large runs to a 59-49 victory over New Mexico State. JON LARSEN photo

Defense: USU holds NMSU under 50 -continued from page 8 tonight and that’s what won it for us, our defense and our rebounding.”

Utah State out-rebounded New Mexico State 4530, and forwards Nate Bendall and Brady Jardine finished with 11 and 10 rebounds respectively. Bendall’s 11 boards were a game-high.

“If there was ever a testament to defense and rebounding, tonight was it,” Utah State head coach Stew Morrill said. “They struggled worse than we did to score and we out-rebound them by 15. That’s a great accomplishment. Like I told our players, we don’t care if it’s pretty or not as long as it goes in the proper column. That’s what we care about and we found a way to get ‘er done.”

Utah State (18-2, 7-0 WAC) for the second consecutive game, held their opponent to a terrible shooting percentage. New Mexico State (10-11, 4-3 WAC) finished the game shooting 37.7 percent from the field and 25 percent from the 3-point line. Junior forward Troy Gillenwater led New Mexico State with 20 points on 9-of-16 from the field, and scrappy junior guard Hernst Laroche added 11 points to with five assists and two steals.

“Gillenwater is a good player,” Wesley said.

“There isn’t much you can do. You get in his face and he’ll hit a shot. You scoot closer to him and he’ll get around you. He’s a tough match-up.”

It was actually Gillenwater, who scored 14 points in the first half, who had New Mexico State up early on. Bendall made a strong move to the basket to put Utah State up 8-4, and that’s when New Mexico State went off. Freshman guard Christian Kabongo nailed a trey on the ensuing possession that fueled an 11-1 New Mexico State run. Gillenwater and Sophomore forward Tyrone Watson also hit 3’s as a part of that 11-1 run.

“They’re long, they get into us and they cause problems with their physicality and their athleticism and their size,” Morrill said.

No one may have struggled more with New Mexico State than junior guard Brockeith Pane, who finished with two points and four assists on the night. Sophomore guard E.J. Farris, who got another chance this week to prove himself, finished with five points and three assists over a stretch where Utah

State went on a 26-4 run.

“That was about the difference of the game, kind of interesting,” Morrill said of the run. “I was really pleased for E.J., he was in for some of that stretch and made some good plays. It’s nice when you reward a kid who deserves a chance because of his practicing.

He didn’t do everything perfect tonight, but he did some good things and that was fun to see.”

Wesley said, “We got on a roll. E.J. sparked us and it just kinda got us going. We need guys to do that.”

Utah State headed into the locker room with a 12point lead, and although things would get even more physical and chippy in the second half, USU was able to sustain a double-digit margin the rest of the way despite terrible shooting. Utah State finished the night shooting 41.5 percent from the floor and 31.3 percent from the field. Many of USU’s shooting woes against New Mexico State may be due to mid-season fatigue.

“We’re a little worn out right now,” Morrill said.

“We need to get ourselves refreshed a little bit, with all of the practices and games. You just kind of sense that we’re a little worn down and a little tired. We’ve got to get our energy back. Hopefully we can do that next week. I always talk about the dog days of February. We’re not quite there, but we’re just a little worn down. I think if there was ever a time for a day off, it’s now. You just kind of feel that. We need a little time to get our legs back, get our energy back.”

Despite the fatigue, Morrill feels his team is in a good spot.

“We sure would have taken 7-0 going into conference,” Morrill said. “The three road wins were huge and we’ve done what we need to do to hold home court. It’s a great start to conference is what is it. A lot of bumps in the road could still happen. You’ve just got to keep battling and keep playing, but this team has some veterans that understand the length of the season, so hopefully that will help us.”

Utah State will go on the road again next week, as they face the San Jose State Spartans (9-9, 1-6 WAC) and the Hawaii Warriors (12-8, 3-5 WAC). Utah State defeated both teams at home to start the season.

– ty.d.hus@aggiemail.usu.edu

Men’s tennis gets first win on the road at New Mexico State

By BRET CLAPIER staff writer

After opening the season with a loss to in-state rival BYU, the USU men’s tennis team hit the road this past weekend, playing a doubleheader in Las Cruces, N.M. against Texas A&M Corpus Christi and conference opponent New Mexico State University. On Friday, they lost 7-0 to the Islanders of Texas A&M Corpus Christi followed by a 4-3 triumph over New Mexico State on Saturday.

Friday morning, three of the seven matches went into the third set, with Texas A&M coming out on top in all of them. Senior Alex Thatcher was defeated in three sets

by Texas A&M CC’s Gergo Weidinger. Thatcher won the first set, 7-5, but dropped the next two, 4-6 and 8-10.

Thatcher’s fellow Aggies, Nikita Ryashchenko and Jakob Asplund, also sent their respective matches into a third set but were unable to lock up victories for USU. Asplund and Ryashchenko followed their singles play with a win in third doubles over the Islander’s Alex Povlov and Gergo Weidinger, defeating them 8-6. Texas A&M CC won the No. 1 and No. 2 doubles to earn the doubles point for the match.

On Saturday, the Aggies claimed their first Western Athletic Conference victory since 2007 over the Aggies of New Mexico State University winning 4-3.

They claimed the opening doubles point with a win from Sven Poslusny and Bryan Marchant, 9-8. Followed by Asplund’s and Ryashchenko’s 8-6 win, their second in two days, giving the men their first

doubles point on the year.

In singles play, Asplund got the Aggies started by winning his No. 2 singles match in two sets, 6-4, 6-4 over Arthur Surreaux. The Aggies clinched the match with wins in the No. 5 and No. 6 spots from Thatcher and Ryaschenko.

Thatcher battled NMSU’s Luis Ramirez, eventually coming out the victor 6-4, 2-6, 7-5.

Thatcher’s momentum helped Ryaschenko claim a match deciding three set victory over Armando Morales 6-4, 2-6, 75.

Utah State will stay on the road next week hoping to improve on their success this past weekend with a stop in Pocatello, Idaho on Wednesday to take on the Idaho State University Bengals.

– bret.clapier@aggiemail.usu. edu

___ ]\IP[\I\M[UIV KWU

StatesmanSports

Page 10

Monday, Jan. 24, 2011

Gymnasts place second in San Jose State tri-meet

By MEGAN ALLEN sports senior writer

The Aggies opened their Western Athletic Conference competition with a secondplace finish in a tri-squad meet at San Jose State Friday night.

Utah State posted a score of 191.350 behind the Spartans’ 194.700 and ahead of University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire’s 181.675.

The Aggies opened the meet on bars with freshman Rachel Vaske scoring a 9.600.

Freshman Paige Jones and junior Nicole Simoneau both landed scores of 9.675. Junior Rebecca Holliday had the top score for the squad with a 9.700.

After the first rotation the Aggies were in second as SJSU scored a 48.550 on vault and UWEC logged a 45.600 on beam.

USU moved to the beam for the second rotation of the night, where they maintained their second-place position with a total score of 94.850.

Simoneau led the Aggies with a score of 9.625. Jones

scored a season-high 9.225, leading her to another night of bettering her all-around score.

The beam has been a point of struggle for USU this season, but routines and scores continue to get better each week.

The team spent the week in practice hammering out their individual routines.

“We moved all the beams out of the practice gym and just kept one up,” head coach Jeff Richards said. “We kind of made it like it was more like a competition setting, to hopefully get them out of their element and maybe stress them out a little bit. We made them go until they all hit in a row.”

The scores this week were higher than last week’s meet against BYU and the University of Arizona. Richards said he thinks this week’s practice helped a lot.

“It took them awhile but they’re figuring it out,” he said.

“I think they’re kind of settling down a little bit.”

The Aggies took to the floor for the third rotation of the night with freshman Cammi Muhr scoring a season-high 9.675. Senior Jackie Dillon and

sophomore Amelia Montoya followed with scores of 9.775 and 9.725 respectively. Jones concluded the rotation by matching the team’s high score of the season at 9.825.

USU finished the evening’s events on the vault with Holliday starting off with a 9.600. Vaske notched a 9.525 just before Dillon also scored 9.600.

Jones closed out the night with a 9.725 on vault, giving her an all-around score for the night of 38.450, and a new career-high.

“Tonight really showed me that each time I can keep improving and it’s only going to go up from here,” she said.

As she goes into the rest of her debut season, she said she’s just going to keep working and training for every event.

“I just go in to practice every day thinking I just need to focus on what I need to focus on and go to improve,” she said.

The Aggies continue their series of away meets and will be in Provo Saturday, Jan. 29 where they will once again face the Cougars and the

Thunderbirds of Southern Utah University. Joining them will also be the Cyclones of Iowa State.

“We’ve had our first away meet, and I feel like we’re just going to go up after tonight,” Jones said.

Richards said they will continue to work hard in practice this week in preparation for this quad-meet.

“We’re not going to overwork them though,” he said.

“We have a few things we’re just nursing here and there, but we hope to do a little more training with them and making things a little more intense that way.”

Mostly, he wants the girls to enjoy what they’re doing, he said.

“Hopefully we can get it so they’re just doing their gymnastics, not thinking about who they’re competing with, or worrying about what the score is,” he said. “We want to get them to do their gymnastics and have fun with it.”

– megan.allen@aggiemail.usu. edu

UTAH STATE’S GYMNASTICS TEAM finished second out of three teams over the weekend, partly due to improved scores in the beam exercise. The beam had given the Aggies struggles in the team’s last meet prior to the San Jose tri-meet. STERLING BOIN photo

USU racks up 29 top three finishes and eight wins at Washington State

By MARK ISRAELSEN staff writer

For most track athletes, the indoor season does not usually produce the best results.

However, for the Utah State men’s and women’s track teams over the weekend, this was not the case. In their second indoor meet of the year, the Cougar Invitational hosted

by Washington State in Pullman, Wash., the Aggies had 29 top-three finishes along with eight event victories. With those performances, both the men’s and women’s team won twice, beating Idaho and Montana, while losing to Washington State in the triple-dual team scoring system.

“The thing we try to do in our meets is continue to improve,” head coach Gregg Gensel said. “I told the team and my coaching staff that I don’t think I’ve seen a season open up with this many good marks from across the board. Our young people performed really well, as well as our veterans. It really excites

me for what we have in store for the rest of the season.”

The two-day Cougar Invitational saw the Aggies off to a good start on Friday. USU had six top-three finishers and individual wins by junior Sonia Grabowska and sophomore Spencer Hall. Grabowska, who hails from Warsaw, Poland, won the pole vault, jumping 13-03.75 (4.06m), and Spencer Hall, from Kaysville, Utah took home the victory in the weight throw with a mark of 53-04.50 (16.27m).

Other notable performances from the day included talented freshman Chari Hawkins who was second in the pentathlon with 3,460 points, senior Lindsey Spencer finishing third in the weight throw with a personal best of 55-01.50 (16.80m), and junior Damian Szade posting a personal best in the long jump, finishing second and jumping 23-06.25 (7.17m).

“We had several people who PR(personal record)’d or are back to where they left off during outdoors last year,” coach Gensel said.

“A good example of that is Damian in men’s long jump. He jumped over seven meters, and he didn’t do that until we got to outdoors last year, so that was a great accomplishment for him. I’m sure it’s a huge confidence builder.”

After a solid first day of competition, the Aggies came back even better on Saturday as they had 23 individuals finish in the top three of their events and six event champions.

The men had three champions in senior Armahd Lewis, who nearly replicated his PR performance from last week in the 60m dash with a time of 6.81, senior Clint Silcock, who won the high jump for the second week in a row clearing 6-10.75 (2.10m), and junior Chio Lopez, running in his first meet of the season, won the 3000m run in a time of 8:25.52.

On the women’s side, Juniors Katelyn Heiner and Spela Hus both won their respective events. Heiner took first in the 400m with a time of 56.50 and Hus won the shot put throwing 44-11.50 (13.70m).

The last event titles brought home by USU

were the men’s and women’s 4x400 meter relay teams. The men’s team, which included freshman Parker Bluth, Jake Peterson, Tanner Hunt and sophomore Tyler Killpack broke the tape in 3:22.36 to win, while sophomore Aubrie Haymore and juniors Jessie Nielson, Katelyn Heiner, and Kylie Hirschi made up the women’s team that won in a time of 3:53.83.

“There were a lot of great performances both on the men’s and women’s side,” Gensel said. “Even though we had some people perform last week, we didn’t take the whole team, so it wasn’t a very big showing. We had some good performances, but not from everybody, so this was our first main competition and I am excited with what I saw.”

After a slew of impressive performances in the early going of the season, the Aggies look to continue their momentum as they head to the Bronco Invitational in Boise next weekend.

– mark.israelsen@aggiemail.usu.edu

Women’s basketball loses heartbreaker on the road at New Mexico State, 75-71

By TAVIN STUCKI staff writer

CREST WOODs Brentwood 736 E 900 N

Lynwood 880 N 650 E

FEATURES: • Practically on campus • Full bath in each bedroom • Free wireless internet • Fully equipped kitchen • Washer & dryer • Furnished • Covered parking Edgewood

Edgewood 736 E 800 N

Stay in the BEST single student housing!

PRICES: Entire Summer • from $560 School Year • Private from $3,150 Shared from $2,490

435-755-3181 www.logancrestwoods.com

The USU women fell to New Mexico State 71-75 in a tough loss Saturday night.

The Aggie defense held the crimson-clad Aggies without a field goal during the final four minutes of the game, but couldn’t come up with the win in a game that was tied 15 times and had 15 lead changes. USU head coach Raegan Pebley said it was a tough loss.

“Both teams competed really hard,” Pebley said. “Both teams I thought really left it all out on the floor.”

After scoring the first four points in the game, USU found their opponents roaring back and going up by 10 with a 12-0 run kick-started by a field goal from New Mexico State guard Madison Spence. NMSU led 2818 before Utah State went on a run of their own to bring the Aggie-battle back to a close match.

Down 31-34 at halftime, USU led by as much as seven in the second half. NMSU came back with an 8-0 run with seven minutes remaining to go up by one, 58-59.

Seven made foul shots by New Mexico State put USU down six, and the last field goal from a blue-clad Aggie came with just 24 seconds left.

In the end, Pebley said her girls didn’t have enough time to catch up.

“New Mexico State is a team that finished the game on a run and we didn’t answer,” Pebley said. “Couldn’t stop that run, not enough time.”

USU had three players in double figures, led by forward Ashlee Brown who had three blocks to go along with her 19 points. She also made the final two foul shots in the contest. “(Brown) played very, very strong,” Pebley said. “She is continuing to produce with a lot of physical contact, getting sometimes even double-teamed. She’s playing aggressive and we want to see her continue that.”

Devyn Christensen had two 3-pointers in the game, including an assist from Brown to put the Aggies from Logan on top with just over three minutes remaining, 67-66. The 5foot-6 sophomore from Caldwell, Idaho had

UTAH STATE GUARD ALICE CODDINGTON scored 11 points for the Aggies Saturday in an effort that came up just short against New Mexico State. USU fell to 2-3 in WAC play with the loss, while NMSU moved to 3-2. BRECK BYINGTON photo

13 points before fouling out with two minutes left in the game.

“Devyn is a great offensive spark for us coming off the bench,” Pebley said. “She’s a confident player that stretches the defense out.”

Senior USU guard Alice Coddington went 4-8 from the field with 11 points and five rebounds.

New Mexico State’s Spence and Danisha Corbett combined for 44 points. Forward

Tabytha Wampler added another 13 points and six rebounds.

The loss drops Utah State to 8-10 overall and 2-3 in the Western Athletic Conference.

New Mexico State improves to 9-10 and 3-2.

The Aggie women will return to Logan next week to face Hawaii on Jan. 27 and San Jose State on Jan. 29, both games at 7 p.m.

– tavin.stucki@aggiemail.usu.edu

Views&Opinion

Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 Page 11

Utah State University • Logan, Utah • www.utahstatesman.com

OurView

AboutUs

Utah Education – worst in the country?

Editor in Chief

t’s official, Utah has some of the dumbest kids in the country – or do they? It was reported in Education Weekly that Utah’s K-12 education system is 41st in the country, however, high school graduation rates recently showed that more than 90 percent are graduating. So why are our schools stuck in the mud? Why should we even care whether these kids are graduating? They should just hit the books harder.

It may not be that easy. When we realized that Utah government takes the cake for least amount spent per student, it was jaw-dropping embarrassing. Is Utah seriously struggling this much in comparison to other states? No. Does Utah legislature refuse to raise taxes? So it would seem.

Supposedly, Utah teachers are superb, some of the best, which makes up for the miniscule amount the state spends on each student. Thanks to USU’s lauded College of Education and other similar departments throughout the state, universities are cranking out serious workers that are not only intelligent and hardworking, they care about their students. If the government is going to pay the teachers peanuts, they may as well invest a little more in the students so they can one day make something of themselves.

All of these students who are willingly or unwillingly going to school in order to pursue some kind of future come into college having been given fewer tools to succeed than 40 other states’ students. How are Utah’s youth expected to compete with millions of other students fighting for the same goals? Can the teachers really make all the difference?

Even further, this must in some way effect our academic environment at USU, seeing as the majority of the student population comes from Utah’s public schools. Perhaps USU would house a more staunch group of students if Utah government invested in K-12 the way Maryland did – a state that spends 47 percent of its total revenue on education, according to the 2009 Census Bureau.

Out of all the areas Utah schooling was graded on, the best mark received was a Bfor its “chance of success.” It’s because we’re farmers, isn’t it? Of course the standards of these people who most likely have their office in a high-rise building in a booming city cannot meet with the petty lifestyle of a Utahn. We have horrible pollution and are stingy when it comes to first and secondary education, so how could we ever be successful? Optimistically, a B- is still above average, but keep in mind, this is what we ranked best in – pathetic.

Whether Education Weekly was too harsh with this rating, it’s hard to say, but one thing is sure, there are too many well-educated parents and leaders in this state to not understand how important investing in early education is. Something needs to change.

Assistant News Editor Megan Bainum

Benjamin C. Wood News Editor Catherine Meidell

I

New college, new opportunities It has been a monumenASUSU tal year for the College of Humanities and Social View Sciences. In May the college restructured and established two separate, sister colleges: The Caine College of the Arts and HASS. With the newly-restructured College of Humanities and Social Sciences the future is bright, and the opportunity for students to get hands on experience with their educational pursuits is limitless.

If you were asked to explain what skills and jobs one would acquire with a degree in business or engineering, I presume you would have an easier time coming up with an answer than if you were asked the same question with the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Let me take the opportunity to introduce you to the educational opportunities and skills that the College of Humanities has to offer.

As quoted by Dean John Allen, “The College of Humanities and Social Sciences will help you confront great questions and controversies animating our world today – political, social, cultural, and philosophical. You will learn about the forces which have shaped our world

Katie Brammer

- See HASS, page 12

Features Editor Kellyn Neumann Assistant Features Editor Kasey Van Dyke Sports Editor Matt Sonnenberg Assistant Sports Editor Tyler Huskinson Copy Editor Chelsey Gensel

ForumLetters More lectures unwanted To the editor: Like many students here at Utah State, I work part time in order to stay in school. My busy schedule depends on my ability to smash classes into as few weekdays as possible so I can keep my job. This is a difficult feat as it is and now we’re losing some of the best class time of the day to a common hour for guest lecturers that will likely go un-utilized by the vast majority.

I don’t know about you, but when I get out of my morning lecture classes, the last thing I want to do is go listen to another lecture. This is a complete waste of a valuable scheduling block and is a shining vision of a university detached from the mindset of its student body.

Maybe this is rude of me but perhaps the reasoning behind the poor attendance for guest lecturers currently is that not that many people care. I spend a great deal of time on campus and never have I been walking to class and heard the words “man, that lecture at lunch yesterday

Letters to the editor • A public forum on deficit spending was KILLER!” Our lives as college students are ex tremely stressful so why not schedule an event that lets us blow off some steam and relax? The Red Jump Suit Apparatus concert last fall was amazing and the turnout was huge. If the university is looking for increased student presence at events then that’s the type of thing they should be spending our money on, not lectures in the middle of the day that adversely affect our scheduling.

Jared Ballard

Obama’s new economist falls short Last Friday, Major President O b a m a Concerns announced that he was dissolving the P r e s i d e n t ’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board (PERAB). It will be replaced by the Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. From the White House’s statement on the council, it seems to be little more than renaming the former board to sound like one that will actively seek out economic improvement, rather than simply respond and react to the recession. However, there is one essential change: the new organization will be chaired by Jeffrey Immelt, who is essentially replacing Paul Volcker.

In response to the recession he experienced as President, Obama created the first board, PERAB. This organization ostensibly existed in order to gain insight into the economy from those who were not a part of the government. I do applaud the president’s apparent recognition that what Washington desperately needs is to look outside its borders when making policies that affect the entire nation. In particular, it is sensible that those who understand the economy best are its chief players and those who spend their lives studying it. Certainly these are the ones the government should look to for advice.

Charles Major

A further comfort for conservatives is that Obama appointed Paul Volcker as chairman.

Volcker was the chairman of the Federal Reserve during Reagan’s presidency. His policies effectively ended the 1970s reign of stagflation. To do so, he was forced to enact policies that were unpopular, such as raising the federal funds rate to 20 percent.

By appointing Volcker, Obama was making a statement that he was willing to do the right thing to restore the economy, though it may not be the popular or easy policy. This assurance offered some comfort to those who were concerned that his administration could potentially be one of unprecedented rampant government spending.

Clearly, Volcker’s appointment was a toothless statement.

So Volcker, who has expressed disappointment over the board being used for little more than a public relations vehicle for the White House, is out, and Immelt is in.

So, who is Jeffry Immelt?

Immelt has been the CEO of General Electric since Sept. 7, 2001. In that time, he has pushed for General Electric to expand into alternative energy. Few industries are as reliant on government subsidies and regulations (of traditional energy sources) as alternative energy. Already we should be concerned. How unbiased should we expect the advice of the CEO of the second largest corporation in the world, one

- See IMMELT, page 12

Photo Editor Carl R. Wilson Assistant Photo Editor Alison Ostler Web Editor Tyler Huskinson

Editorial Board Benjamin C. Wood Catherine Meidell Kellyn Neumann Matt Sonnenberg Chelsey Gensel Tyler Huskinson

About letters

• Letters should be limited to 400 words.

• All letters may be shortened, edited or rejected for reasons of good taste, redundancy or volume of similar letters.

• Letters must be topic oriented. They may not be directed toward individuals.

Any letter directed to a specific individual may be edited or not printed.

• No anonymous letters will be published.

Writers must sign all letters and include a phone number or email address as well as a student identification number (none of which is published).

Letters will not be printed without this verification.

• Letters representing groups — or more than one individual — must have a singular representative clearly stated, with all necessary identification information.

• Writers must wait 21 days before submitting successive letters — no exceptions.

• Letters can be hand delivered or mailed to The Statesman in the TSC, Room 105, or can be e-mailed to statesman@aggiemail. usu.edu, or click on www.utahstatesman. com for more letter guidelines and a box to submit letters.

Online poll How often do you drink soda?

• • •

Every day.

Every week or so.

Never.

Visit us on the Web at www.utahstatesman. com to cast your vote and see results from this straw poll.

Views&Opinion

Monday, Jan. 24, 2011

HASS: Add to you knowledge BOOT BOOT and broaden horizons

BOOT CAMP

-continued from page 11

CAMP

and will continue to do so.

Skills taught in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences include; learning to think critically and how to effectively communicate that understanding to others, learn how to diagnose problems and think creatively towards a solution.”

Stressing the importance of communication, leadership, creativity, and political, cultural, and social awareness, The College of Humanities and Social Sciences readies its stu-

CAMP

dents to succeed in the pro- For example, take an English fessional world. class and refine your ability So now you are read- to write. Or, take a coming this article thinking; well munication class and learn that is all really how to speak great, but I have with confideclared my “HASS has some- dence in front major and am thing beneficial of a group of quite pleased for everyone. people or how with it. My to effectively Whatever your answer to that lead a group is great, come career desires of people. add to your are, the College Come take a knowledge and of Humanities PR class and broaden your learn how to horizons. HASS and Social utilize media has something Sciences teaches most effecbeneficial for skills that will tively in your everyone. profession of Whatever your enrich your edu- choice, or take career desires cation ... ” a political sciare, the College ence class and of Humanities become aware and Social Sciences teaches of the issues that affect you skills that will enrich your in the world today and learn education and increase your how you can make a difskills as a future employee. ference politically. The list

bodyrebellion. com

bodyrebellion. com

$17.50 $12.90 $8.75 $39.15/week

Page 12

$11.50 $8.60 $5.75 $25.85/Week

bodyrebellion. com

we could alternate between graphics.

goes on and on. With nine different departments, the college offers something for the art student and the engineer alike.

Now, you’re reading this article thinking; well I really would like to learn some of those skills, but I don’t have room in my class schedule to take any of those classes. What do I do? HASS is home to several different clubs and programs that can help you with your desire to broaden your horizons and make you more socially aware. The ways you can get involved include Aggie Radio, Anthropology Club, Creative Writing Club, Institute of Government and Policy, Italian Club, Middle East Club, College Republicans, College Democrat s, National Association of Social Work,

Phi Alfa Theta and the Public Relation’s Student Society of America.

While many people used to summarize the college as a conglomeration of random majors thrown into one college, the newlyrestructured college has a central focus of helping the students make sense of the things that have shaped our world and the things that will continue to do so.

So the next time you are awake in the wee hours of the morning registering for your next semester’s classes thinking, “Man, I really wish I knew what to take with these three credits I need,” I urge you think HASS.

Katie Brammer is the ASUSU HASS senator.

Immelt: Appointment is a slap in the face -continued from page 11

that is very interested in making a lot of money? Immelt is ultimately beholden to his stockholders, who are looking to make money off of their investment. Why should Obama, or we, the constituents, expect his advice to be for the good of America, rather than for GE? Perhaps, if Immelt were changing careers, deciding it was time to move into the public sphere, we might be less concerned. However, Immelt is not quitting his job as CEO. He will continue to receive his base salary of $3.3 million from GE. And that is not to mention additional forms of compensation he might receive. In 2007 his total compensation amounted to $14 million. This additional compensation is largely based on how well GE does in the year that Immelt is being paid for. So, he has an immediate economic interest to get GE as much money as possible. Doing so will also get as much money as possible into his own pocket. If GE is able to secure government contracts, that is more business, more income and more money for Immelt.

If that isn’t enough, Immelt has repeatedly pushed for

Sunrise Sunrise Midwifery Midwifery Services Services WarmerLife’s Life’sDawning Dawning AAWarmer

Nurturing&and natural Nurturing Natural carefor for Care mother and child Mother and Child witha a with

the government to establish standards and subsidies for the energy industry. Part of GE’s official strategy under Immelt’s leadership is pushing for additional government subsidies – and ensuring that GE is the recipient.

Obama’s appointment of Immelt is a slap in the face to America. It is a sign that he “Immelt is not has little concern for the indi- quitting his job vidual American.

Democrats have established as CEO. He will a false dichotomy where their continue to party is pro- “big government,” receive his base as opposed to Republicans salary of $3.3 favoring “big business.” Any attempt at keeping this pre- million from tense alive is quickly drop- GE and that is ping away. Big business and not to mention big government are pairs, not additional forms opposites.

It is only when there is big of compensagovernment that a business tion he might has the incentive to spend money to lobby for subsidies receive.” and regulations. And a large monopoly can protect its status only through the legal force of the government.

Obama shows us that the aisle in the Capitol is not the only one he wants to reach across. What unifiers (in both parties) fail to realize is that our differences are not our weaknesses, but our strengths. Through peaceful competition, Americans bring out the best in ourselves. Through conflict between business and government, both will excel in their field. By “healing the divide,” we eliminate what makes us great. An alliance between Obama and Immelt will lead to both becoming worse. And who will pay the price? The American people.

Charles Major is a graduate studying business. He can be reached at charlesrmajor@gmail.com.

Everybody reads The Statesman.

Midwife MIDWIFE Midwife MIDWIFE Launa Campbell Launa Campbell

Launa Campbell Launa Campbell (208) 521-9286 (208) 521-9286 (208) 521-9286 (208) 521-9286

Spring Break Special Photo Phun •A New Contest!

$10 • Home Birthsconsultations • Hypnobirthing Initial free. appointments available.

•Saturday Water Laboring • Water Birth • Doula Services • Childbirth Classes Monday – Saturday 8:30-5:30pm • Birth Center • Lending Library Sunrisemidwifery@hotmail.com

www.sunrisemidwiferyservices.com Initial consultations free.

Saturday and evening appointments available. …Providing pathways ...Providing pathwaystotoaagentle gentlebirth birthexperience… experience...

with Christy Haircuts and Styles

6 years experience

Take a look at this photo of, well, of something, somewhere on campus. What’s your guess? Have you seen it? First entry to describe specifically details about what this is and where it can be found will be famous! E-mail your entries to: statesmanoffice@aggiemail.usu.edu. Include your name, major and year in school. Winner will be announced in this space on Friday.

TimeOut

Monday, Jan. 21, 2011

Page 13

All But Dead • sarah.a@aggiemail.usu.edu

Pearls Before Swine • Steve Pastis

Friends by Default • Trevor.Stewart@aggiemail.usu.edu

Loose Parts • Dave Blazek

Breaking the Mold • Kenneth.Locke@aggiemail.usu.edu

Dilbert • Scott Adams

Bound & Gagged • Dana Summers

The Joke’s on You! • BY YOU! Take a look at this comic. All we need is your gag line, your funny caption. You’ll be famous and win a free chicken lunch from Kelly’s Foothill Mart! E-mail entry to statesmanoffice@aggiemail.usu.edu

by Thusday at noon ... and watch for the winner on Friday! Good luck!

Rhymes with Orange • Hilary Price

1436 N 1200 E

f+RPH RI WKH R] )RXQWDLQ 'ULQN f&RUQGRJV f)UHH R] )RXQWDLQ 'ULQN RQ )ULGD\V ZLWK DW OHDVW *DOORQV RI )XHO ZLWK 868 ,' &DUG

www.a-bay-usu.com

ClassifiedAds

Utah State University • Logan, Utah • www.aggietownsquare.com

Help Wanted +(/3 :$17(' (DUQ ([WUD 0RQH\ 6WXGHQWV QHHGHG $6$3 (DUQ XS WR SHU GD\ EHLQJ D 0\VWHU\ 6KRSSHU 1R ([SHULHQFH 5HTXLUHG &DOO

Misc.

4 Sale 0,6& )25 6$/( 1HHG KRPH IRU \ R QHXWHUHG $.& &RFNHU 6SDQLHO +RXVH WUDLQHG &XU UHQW RQ YDFFLQDWLRQV *UHDW ZLWK NLGV 6PDOO UH KRPLQJ IHH &DOO

52200$7(6 :$17(' Housing

Answers at www.utahstatesman.com

/RRNLQJ IRU IHPDOH URRPPDWH PRQWK ,QFOXGHV XWLOLWLHV LQWHUQHW DF FHVV SDUNLQJ VSDFH DQG DFFHVV WR ODXQGU\ IDFLOLWLHV &RQWDFW .DWK\

0DUULHG FRXSOH VKDULQJ GXSOH 'XSOH[ IRU PDUULHG FRXSOH RU SURIHVVLRQ DOV :DVKHU DQG LQWHUQHW DQG EDVLF SKRQH 3ULYDWH URRPV PRQWK XWLOLWLHV 3HWV 2.

2297 North Main, Logan

NO LATE SHOWS ON SUNDAY OPEN SATURDAY AT 11:30 FOR MATINEES

4LNHTPUK 7. + ! ! :H[\YKH` ! !

+LZWPJHISL 4L 7. +HPS` ! :H[ ! !

<UZ[VWWHISL 7.

+HPS` ! ! ! :LJYL[HYPH[ 7. :H[\YKH` 4H[! ! +HPS` ! ! ! :H[\YKH` 4H[ ! !

5L_[ +H`Z 7. 9LK 7. +HPS` !

56 ! VU :\UKH`Z

+HPS` ! !

56 ! VU :\UKH`

4V]PL /V[SPUL!

(SS :LH[Z 6US`

MXVWORXLVH OLYH FRP 6800(5 -2%6 Jobs Summer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

Statewide Ads

+HOS :DQWHG 1856(6 1(('(' )25 UDSLGO\ JURZ LQJ KRPH KHDOWK FRPSDQ\ DQ KRXU /31 51 UHTXLUHG (PDLO UH VXPH WR WUDYLVVKXPZD\#OLYH FRP RU FDOO 8&$1 RI '5,9(56 &'/ 75$,1,1* FDUHHU FHQ WUDO :H WUDLQ DQG HPSOR\ \RX &RP SDQ\ GULYHUV XS WR . ILUVW \HDU 1HZ WHDP SD\ 8S WR F PLOH &ODVV $ &'/ WUDLQLQJ UHJLRQDO ORFDWLRQV ZZZ FHQWUDOGULYLQJ MREV QHW 8&$1 RI

(* '! % * "& * "%. )(**-() +//% .3</. ,A #3-2 8::3; +7. 8A-/ /?3;

+,8 58-+5/

+55 +; 286/ 9:3-/; +>+7+ 28?.A 3;<+7< ;<+:<

7;=:/. 9+<3/7<F; 6/. -8;< 3./+;< 7+<387 8-87=< ./;;/:< $<+</ ,8:./:371 /312< 8<2/:; ,,: :+BA 80 -863-; +-4;53.371 />/7< %8=:3;< +<<:+-<387

+-/<38=; 7+6/ 08: + 0=7. :+3;371 -3:-=3< /7<:C/ $86/ -+69=; ;3;</:; 31 :/9+3: ,355 :/+-<387

D // +?E 9:89

=?+3<3 -=::/7-A

+3:A <+5/ 5/1=6/

(2/:/ 3<F; 5+=12+,5/ <8 ;// <2/ +7;?/:; <8 ;<+::/. -5=/; !5. -=:;/ ?8:. !>/:2+71; +7+5 <2+< $+5 ?8:4/. 87 37 ;871

$<=. 0+:6 ;<=. :8=7.,:/+4/:; 3@/: 285./:

37.0=5

#+745/;

%' -2+77/5; <8

3;+F; <3<5/

)/558? ;5399/: D 1://. E "=< +7 ** ;<89 +73;F; -863-; 6+</

$+5/ -+=<387 8=7<A 78:<2/+;< 80 87.87

!-/+73- 058:+

987A68=; /:6+7 ,:/?/: /37:3-2 +:3,,/+7 -858:

D 87F< ?8::A +,8=< 3< E #3>/: 3;5/

$=:13-+5 -8>/:+1/

. & * # $

#+--887 *** D%2/ 87/A6887/:;E 0:+</:7+5 1:8=9 34/ ;86/ /-2/587; ":37</69; 687<2 8/ ** ?//.

2/:,+5 :/6/.A 34/ ;6+:< 9287/; / 1 '+-==6 ;28?7 530<371 + ,8?5371 ,+55 37 %' +.; %35<371 985/

& 5/+./: 8A+F; D =-2/;; 80 **E ":/03@ ?3<2 ;-89/ $-2 7/+: <2/ #38 :+7./

89; F ; #/. $-+:/ 19 3<-2/7 6/+; $+37<5A -3:-5/

!7/ 18371 .8?7

;;=:/ >3-<8:A 37 ;5+7135A

=< 3< 8=<

=< 8=< ;+A

:3.1/ +;;/7<;

%+4/ ,A 08:-/

!NSWERS FOUND WWW UTAHSTATESMAN COM Â?/PTIONSÂ&#x17D; + * .0* +//% (%,

'OOD ,UCK )" +' " )," * '

87<+37/: +558?+7-/

/A,8+:.3;< $+=7./:; ?28 -855+,8:+</. ?3<2 /::A +:-3+

#+71/ :8>/:; 8- ?3<2 ,355387; 37 ,=55387

D** 13:5 E ;5+7. ?2/:/ #8,/:< 8=3; $</>/7;87 .3/.

=::A 7.8: 372+,3<+7<; +?+33F; "37/+995/ ;5+7.

"3-45/;

$9/+4 08:6+55A

(+: <8 $2/:6+7

+:.5A + ,31 <3-4/< ;/55/:

$/?371 -3:-5/

% 8: 87 </;<;

+:+-23F; -8=7<:A ,,:

5(()(5 '5,9(56 1(('(' ([SHUL HQFHG GULYHUV DQG &ODVV $ FRPPHU FLDO VWXGHQWV ZHOFRPH $VVLVWDQFH LQ REWDLQLQJ &'/ LV DYDLODEOH &DOO 3ULPH WRGD\ ZZZ SULPHLQF FRP XFDQ RI 0LVFHOODQHRXV *8,7$5 :$17(' /RFDO PXVLFLDQ ZLOO SD\ XS WR IRU SUH *LE VRQ )HQGHU 0DUWLQ 5LFNHQEDNHU DQG *UHWVFK JXLWDUV )HQGHU DPSOL ILHUV DOVR &DOO WROO IUHH XFDQ RI :,1*)227 &/2&.6 3RFNHWZDWFK DQG &ORFN 5HSDLU &DOO IRU \RXU )5(( HVWLPDWH $OVR

1436 N 1200 E

f+RPH RI WKH R] )RXQWDLQ 'ULQN f&RUQGRJV f)UHH R] )RXQWDLQ 'ULQN RQ )ULGD\V ZLWK DW OHDVW *DOORQV RI )XHO ZLWK 868 ,' &DUG

Page 14

Monday, Jan. 24, 2011

StatesmanBack Burner

Jan. 24 - Open registration, last day to receive 100 percent tuition refund - Math and Stats drop-in tutoring - Art Exhibit: Mentor/Mentee, Tippetts - Open Forum Discussions for Huntsman School Business students.

10:30-11:30, OC Tanner Lounge, 9th Floor.

Today is Monday, Jan. 24, 2011. Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wildâ&#x20AC;? Bill Sproat, a junior majoring in dietetics from Anchorage, Alaska.

Tuesday

Jan. 25

Almanac Today in History: In 1957, machines at the Wham-O toy company roll out the first batch of their aerodynamic plastic discs â&#x20AC;&#x201C; now known to millions of fans all over the world as Frisbees.

- Healthy Couple Relationship workshop, Skyroom, 6:30 p.m.

- Tryouts for a variety show, TSC auditorium, 6:30 -Biology Backcountry/Nordic United meeting, Logan Art house, 6:30 p.m.

- Winter Field Trip, 10 a.m., Twain Tippetts Exhibition Hall.

- Media & Society Lecture, 9 a.m.

- Coaches Luncheon, 12 p.m.

- Chamber Music Society of Logan, Performance Hall, 7:30 p.m.

- Art Exhibit: Mentor/Mentee, Tippetts - Open Forum Discussions for Huntsman School Business students.

3:30-4:30 , OC Tanner Lounge, 9th Floor.

Weather

Wednesday

High: 33° Low: 26° Skies: Partly cloudy

Jan. 26

Registrar dates

You need to know....

The registrars office would like to remind everyone that Jan. 24 will then be open registration and the last day to receive a 100% tuition refund.

OR ALL SENIORS! Career services will be coming to talk about job searching and the doâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ts of entering the workforce. Jan. 26, 2011 at 5 p.m. at the Haight Alumni Center! Refreshments to follow. Find us on facebook @ USU SENIORS 2011 or Phone: 801-655-3391 Utah State University College Republicans will be offering a concealed weapons class on campus on Jan. 29 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Ag. Science Room 202. Only 21 or older and the cost is $45 that can be paid on the day of the class. To RSVP or ask a question e-mail us at usu.gop@aggiemail.usu.edu Got talent? Tryouts for a variety show will be held Jan. 25 from 6:309:00 p.m. in the TSC auditorium.

The February 3rd variety show is a fundraiser for the Rotaract Club and their pursuit to help in Mexico over spring break. Email RotaractUSU@ gmail.com for a time slot to tryout or come and we will try to fit you in when we can.

The Weber County Healthy Marriage Coalition invites you to come and learn how to create a marriage filled with greater connection, fulfillment, and fun by attending a fun date night for individuals and couples who want to prepare for or strengthen their marriage. It will be at Weber State University Union Building on Feb. 11, 6 - 9:30 p.m. MST (bonus workshops from 4-5 p.m. and entertainment from 5- 6 p.m.). Tickets available through any SmithsTix location, see www. utahmarriage.org under Events for additional information.

Spring Semester Drop-in Math and Stats Tutoring will occur for classes MATH 0900-2250, 2270, and 2280 and STATS 1040-3000 held in room 225 at the TSC. For more information please contact USU Academic Resource Center.

Save the day on Jan. 31 for USU Aggie CAREâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Family Lending Library Open House. It will be held from 12 noon to 8 p.m. in the Edith Bowen Lab School, west end on the 2nd floor. Families are invited!

There will be refreshments served.

ASUSU Elections If you are interested in running for a position in ASUSU, be sure to pick up your packet and get your creative mind spinning.

We are distributing packets early this year at the TSC room 326. Election filing Deadline is Feb. 1 3 p.m. TSC 326 ($20 fee must be paid, and Declaration of Candidacy Form submitted).

Elections will be held Feb. 22-25, 2011. Anyone interested in being on the Elections Committee is welcome to visit TSC 333.

Taste of Logan

Taste of Logan! Friday night Feb. 28 in Downtown Logan. We have over a dozen shops and restaurants providing food and free samples, give-a-ways, and great sales! Also, bands playing throughout the evening while students stroll in and out of shops in downtown Logan. Admission is free to all students...but you must be wearing USU Aggie apparel.

Shaw lecture

Dr. Susan Shaw will present a lecture, â&#x20AC;&#x153;They Didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Teach Me That in Sunday School: Feminism and the Bibleâ&#x20AC;? as part of Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s History Month at USU. The event is free and everyone is welcome.

MC Library 101, 2:30-4:30 p.m. on Jan. 26.

Couple workshop

- Research on Capitol Hill, Rotunda, 9 a.m.

- Dr. Susan Shaw Lecture, MC Library 101, 2:30 p.m.

- Senior Event, Alumni Center, 5 p.m.

- USU Opera, Lyric Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

- Art Exhibit: Mentor/Mentee, Tippetts

Healthy Couple Relationship workshop at TSC Skyroom, Jan. 25 at 6:30 p.m. The speaker will be Dr. Kay Bradford a professor in FCHD. A light dinner will be served. Cost is $6 per person $10 per couple. To register, phone 752-6263.

Flight Deck â&#x20AC;˘ Peter Waldner

Strange Brew â&#x20AC;˘ Peter Deering

More Calendar and FYI listings, Interactive Calendar and Comics at

www.utahstatesman.com We are located in the University Shopping Center

STORE HOURS: Mon.-Sat. 6:00 AM - Midnight,

Closed Sunday

MARKETPLACE

1400 North

600 East

Three Convenient Locations: Logan Â&#x2021; (DVW 1RUWK Smithfield Â&#x2021; 6RXWK 0DLQ North Ogden Â&#x2021; 1 :DVKLQJWRQ %RXOHYDUG

1200 North

LVLW RXU UHG ER[ Â&#x160; IRU 9 \RXU IDYRULWH QHZ UHOHDVHV -XVW SHU GD\

N A

Romney Stadium

Monday

800 East

Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Issue

1000 North

Prices Effective January 24-29, 2011

4 1 $$

fo r

2 5 $$

Small Pink Texas

Grapefruit

2

$$

fo r

Pint Fresh

3

$$

Malt O Meal

1

ShurSaving 2%, 1% or Skim

Gallon Milk

1

$$ 7799

ea.

12 oz. Sliced

Bar S Bacon

4 5 $$

fo r

24 oz. Loaf Wide Pan or Round Top Asst.

Farm Bread

ea.

9999

ea.

12 ct. Bakery Fresh

99 T.J. Farms 24-32 oz. Asst.

Frozen Potatoes

2 5 $$

fo r

Western Family 96 oz. Chilled Asst.

Orange Juice

1

$$ 88 88 12-19 oz. Waffles, Pancakes or French Toast Asst.

Krusteaz

lb.

Navel Oranges

Glazed Donuts

¢¢

44

Large Choice

Blueberries

43-50 oz. Giant Size Bag Cereal Select Varieties

$$ 99 99

7799

¢¢

99

¢¢

99

¢¢

lb.

Jonagold or Braeburn

Large Apples

AFS Vendor Coupon Expires: 01/29/11

PLU#9868 Scan Down

2 Liter Bottles

Coke Products

2 3 $$

fo r

12-16 oz. Cans Asst.

Rockstar Energy Drinks

1

$$ 49 49 Western Family 24 oz. Original or Lite

Syrup

10

55$$ fo r

With This Coupon & Purchase of 5. 4 for $10 Without.

10-18 oz. Select Varieties

.HOORJJ¡V &HUHDOV

TAW

Good only at participating Associated Food Stores. Limit 1 coupon per item(s) purchased. Limit 1 coupon per customer.