The Utah Statesman, September 2, 2009

Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009

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Big Blue wants you to bleed Aggie blue USU Aggies join universities across the nation in celebrating College Colors Day

By CHELSEY GENSEL staff writer

Utah State University will join schools and alumni across the country this Friday for College Colors Day, an event encouraging people to wear their college colors and logo. In honor of the first football game of the season against University of Utah, the event has been extended until Saturday.

College Colors Day was initiated Sept. 2, 2005, by the Collegiate Licensing Company (CLC), which represents over 200 universities around the country. USU spokesman John DeVilbiss said they have been working with CLC for about 20 years, and they are in charge of licensing university gear and “making sure everybody is playing by the rules.”

“So they may have one reason for wanting everyone in the country to wear their favorite college colors, but our reason here is that it gives us an excuse to celebrate our good fortune to be Aggies, to be part of an exceptional university with extraordinary opportunities,” DeVilbiss said. “It’s twofold: a tradition like this promotes university spirit, it’s a day to celebrate being

Aggies, and nationally to celebrate higher education. We enjoy an increased quality of life here in the United States and colleges have no doubt factored into that standard of living.”

To encourage students and community members to get decked out and come out in USU apparel, the USU Bookstore will be giving away $25 gift cards Thursday and Friday every hour from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Gift cards are also being handed out at various downtown locations.

Celestyn Hollingshead, the bookstore’s marketing manager, said, “We’ll be giving hints about where we’ll be (downtown) on Facebook, so make sure you

join the bookstore’s Facebook group.”

The theme of “Caught in Aggie Blue” is something in addition to the event to encourage Aggies to show that they are “not only proud of their colors, but of Utah State, of their school,” Hollingshead said.

“We want a strong showing at U of U, but it goes beyond just the game,” Hollingshead said, “We really want to see Aggie pride.”

Because the bookstore is the largest source for Aggie-related items, there will be a 10 percent discount on Aggie Gear for anyone who comes in wearing Aggie blue Thursday and Friday.

Hollingshead said Aggie gear includes anything in school colors and with the name of the school, not just apparel.

“If you want to buy a license plate and take it to the game, go ahead. Ten percent off,” Hollingshead said. “We, at the bookstore, have a lot of Aggie pride and encourage students to participate, because you’ll be rewarded for it.

Who doesn’t want a $25 gift card?”

In addition, DeVilbiss said money from sales of Aggie products with the USU logo, the proper use of which is monitored by the CLC, goes toward scholarships at the university.

DeVilbiss, also a licensing director and works with the CLC almost daily, said they approached him last year about getting involved in College Colors Day. They felt this year would be appropriate for USU to start because of the proximity of USU’s football season-opener against the University of Utah.

“It’s our first year, it’s a good start,” DeVilbiss said. “It would’ve been nice to get it together six months ago, but as it is, we’re starting what hopefully can be an annual tradition, and hey, how hard can it be to wear blue?”

– chelsey.gensel@aggiemail.usu.edu

AS PART OF COLLEGE COLORS DAY, a national event created by the Collegiate Licensing Company, USU students are encouraged to wear their Aggie apparel Friday and Saturday. photo courtesy of JOHN DEVILBISS

Missing hiker’s body found in Green Canyon, suicide likely

By DELAYNE LOCKE staff writer

IN AN EFFORT TO STOP LOCALS FROM TUBING in Logan Canyon, the Logan, Hyde Park and Smithfield Canal Company put up fences. TODD JONES photo

Canal closed to tubing

By BENJAMIN WOOD senior news writer

In response to mounting safety concerns, the Logan, Hyde Park and Smithfield Canal Company has fenced off the entrance to a popular tubing location in Logan Canyon. Tubing has never been a sanctioned activity, said Jim Huppi, a member of the company board, but encouragement from Utah Highway Patrol and discussions of public safety have increased the need for more action.

“We don’t allow people to use the canal for recreational purposes. They use it at their own risk,” Huppi said.

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Sgt. Tony Hutson of the Utah Highway Patrol said the decision to close the canal entrance had been talked about in the past.

“The safety concerns have been present for years,” Hutson said. “We were seeing people nearly being hit.”

The canal entrance is located off the side of a bend on Highway 89 in the canyon. Hutson said visibility around the turn is low, and vehicles entering, exiting and parking around the area have led to traffic incidents in the past. “No Parking” signs were placed in the area but showed

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9/02/09 The Aggie women’s volleyball team defeats BYU in the fifth set of its home opener Tuesday.

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It was a tragic ending this week for all involved, when the body of 18-year-old Andrea Celina Roye was found Sunday at 5 p.m. in Green Canyon just off the Beirdneau Trail. The path is located three quarters of a mile away from the trail head in Green Canyon.

Hikers called the Logan City Police Department Communications Center, reporting a suspicious odor they smelled on the trail, according to Lt. Matt Bilodeau of the Cache County Sheriff’s Office. Search and Rescue officials responded to investigate the scene.

Extensive efforts by Search and Rescue were made after Roye was reported missing with her 4-month-old Wolf-Husky mix, Jerome (pronounced Jer-o-mee), Aug. 6. The search was continued, using helicopters and dogs until Aug. 17.

Sheriff Nelson of the Cache County Sheriff’s Office said, “I really appreciate all of the time and efforts given by the volunteers

The Celebrate America show displays patriotism through performance arts in the TSC Ballroom.

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THE BODY OF 18-YEAR-OLD ANDREA CELINA ROYE WAS FOUND just off the Beirdneau Trail in Green Canyon. Lt. Matt Bilodeau of the Cache County Sheriff’s Office said hikers called police after they smelled a suspicious odor. photo courtesy of CACHE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE

of the Search and Rescue team.

This has been a very long and trying search.”

The Utah State Medical Examiner’s Office is now ruling this case as a suicide.

Sheriff Nelson said, “We will do what we can to try and support the family as they try and deal with this tragedy.”

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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) – Madonna brought her mix of provocative music and spirituality to the Holy Land with a concert Tuesday in front of 50,000 fans who had endured a 16-year wait since the pop icon’s last gig in Israel.

MADONNA Madonna is wrapping up her worldwide Sticky & Sweet tour with two concerts this week in a country whose place at the heart of the Mideast conflict has made it more of a magnet for diplomats than big-name performers.

NewsBriefs Gallivan Center’s concerts uprooted SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – The popular downtown Thursday concerts at Salt Lake City’s Gallivan Center will likely have to find a temporary home while their normal venue undergoes a $6 million renovation.

The Gallivan Center is being redesigned in part to accommodate the large crowds at the weekly summertime Twilight Concert Series. Renovations start next spring.

Salt Lake City Arts Council Program Director Casey Jarman is now looking for a possible replacement site.

LateNiteHumor David Letterman, Aug. 31, 2009 - Top Ten Ways To Irritate Dick Cheney 10. Try to talk to him before he’s had his morning heart attack.

9. Don’t have weapons of mass destruction he keeps saying you had.

8. Reveal plot spoilers before he’s had a chance to watch “Gossip Girl.”

7. Leave the lights on in the dungeon – “You think I’m made of money?”

6. “Accidentally” throw out tub of Crisco he was saving for lunch.

5. Call him “Ricky.”

4. Beat him in sneering contest.

3. Replace Lipitor with refreshing Mentos.

2. At dinner ask, “Who’s got a good hunting accident story?”

1. Irritate Cheney? No, he’s a pretty laid back dude.

Cheney says politics behind CIA investigation WASHINGTON (AP) rogators went beyond Bush – Former Vice President Dick administration rules that gave Cheney says politics are driving them wide latitude to use the Justice Department’s decisevere tactics against detainsion to investigate whether CIA ees such as waterboarding, a interrogators abused terror sus- simulated drowning technique pects detained after the Sept. that critics call torture. Three 11 attacks. high-level suspects underwent “I just think it’s an outrawaterboarding scores of times. geous political act that will Cheney called the techdo great damage, long term, niques “good policy,” saying he to our capacity to be able to was comfortable in cases where have people take on difficult interrogators went beyond what jobs, make difficult decisions, they were specifically authowithout having to worry about rized to do. The CIA report what the next administration is found they included cases of interrogators going to say,” threatening a Cheney said in “I just think it’s detainee with an interview an outrageous a handgun aired on “Fox and an elecNews Sunday.” precedent to tric drill.

At issue set, to have this Cheney is Attorney kind of, I think, said those General Eric intensely partitechniques Holder’s deciwere “directly sion to look san, politicized responsible into abuse look back at the the fact allegations prior administra- for that for eight after the tion.” years, we had release of an internal CIA – Dick Cheney no further mass casuinspector genalty attacks eral’s report. against the United States.”

President Barack Obama has He noted that the Justice said interrogators would not Department, during the Bush face charges if they followed administration, approved the legal guidelines. harsh tactics in legal memos to However, the report conthe White House. cluded that some CIA inter-

“Now you get a new administration and they say, well, we didn’t like those opinions, we’re going to go investigate those lawyers and perhaps have them disbarred,” Cheney said. “I just think it’s an outrageous precedent to set, to have this kind of, I think, intensely FORMER VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY speaks at the National Press partisan, politiClub in Washington June 1, 2009. AP photo cized look back at available, it is clear to me that “My recollection of it is, in the prior administration.” this review is the only responthe reporting I’ve seen, is that Cheney was striking out sible course of action for me to the direction was for them not at a Justice Department that take.” to tell Congress until certain has reeled from accusations Cheney said he has serious lines were passed, until the of bending to White House doubts about Obama’s poliprogram became operational, politics for years, most recently cies – especially whether the and that it was handled approunder the Bush administration. new Democratic administrapriately,” Cheney said.

Asked for comment Sunday, tion understands the threat to In the interview taped last Justice Department spokesAmericans. week at his home in Wyoming, man Matt Miller pointed to “I was not a fan of his when Cheney also touched on policies Holder’s earlier comments he got elected, and my views for two reclusive regimes – Iran about the probe in which the have not changed any,” Cheney and North Korea. He said he attorney general said he would said of Obama. supported taking military not target anyone who was actIn a related issue, Cheney action against Iran’s nuclear ing within the Bush-approved program but was overruled by said he was aware of a Bush interrogation guidelines.

President George W. Bush. administration order prohib“I fully realize that my deci“I thought that negotiaiting the CIA from advising sion to commence this prelimitions could not possibly sucCongress about a program to nary review will be controverceed unless the Iranians really kill or capture top al-Qaida sial,” Holder said in comments leaders. But he stopped short of believed we were prepared to last week. “In this case, given saying he personally issued that use military force,” Cheney all of the information currently said. order, as has been reported.

Bell confirmed as Utah’s new lietenant governor

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – State Sen. Greg Bell was confirmed as Utah’s lieutenant governor Tuesday, ending a transition process that began when Jon Huntsman resigned last month to become U.S. ambassador to China.

The Utah Senate approved Bell’s nomination during a special session 27-0, with two Democratic senators absent.

There was never any question that Bell would be confirmed. He is well respected among colleagues on both sides of the aisle and is often described as the voice of reason in passionate debates.

“I think all of us feel a great deal of remorse in losing a good colleague,” said Sen. Lyle Hillyard, R-Logan. “It’ll never be the same.”

Bell was sworn in shortly after his confirmation in a ceremony filled with family and other elected officials.

In comments to his colleagues after being confirmed, Bell gave thanks to

Gov. Gary Herbert for showing confidence in him and pledged to avoid “self-righteousness and finger pointing and personal attacks” that he says have overtaken Washington.

“I pledge to show civility and respect to everyone,” Bell said. “Let’s give alternatives instead of complaints.”

Herbert chose Bell to serve as his lieutenant governor on Aug. 5 over the objections of some conservative groups.

Bell, a fellow Republican, is widely considered a moderate, best known for pursuing ethics reforms in the Legislature and sponsoring a failed bill backed by Huntsman that would have extended some legal rights to gay couples.

Bell has reaffirmed his position that he’s opposed to gay marriage, but it remains unclear if he’ll make statements in support of legal rights for gay couples.

Herbert has said he doesn’t believe sexual orientation should be a protect-

ed class like age, gender and religious beliefs are.

Bell provides a balance to Herbert, who had been Huntsman’s lieutenant governor and is widely seen as more conservative than Huntsman.

Huntsman was the most popular governor in state history, but was falling out of favor with conservative delegates.

Bell’s appointment should help broaden Herbert’s appeal if he makes it out of the state convention in May ahead of a special election in 2010 to fill out the remainder of Huntsman’s term.

Although nobody has filed to run against Herbert yet, highly popular Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon is considered the Democratic Party’s best chance at returning to the governor’s office for the first time in more than two decades.

As lieutenant governor, Bell’s primary task will be overseeing state election and campaign finance laws. Herbert has also said Bell will be tasked with

carrying his administration’s message to the Legislature.

Bell promised to put partisan politics aside in his mission, although it largely seems unnecessary in a state controlled by Republicans. On the Democratic side, Senate Minority Leader Pat Jones called Bell’s nomination a “great choice.”

Herbert oversaw Bell’s confirmation hearing by taking the unusual step of a governor sitting next to the Senate president during the special session.

Herbert later joked the effusive praise for Bell usually only comes at funerals.

“There were so many nice things, I kept looking around for the body,” Herbert said.

The Davis County Republican Party will hold a convention on Sept. 12 to nominate its choice to fill Bell’s Fruit Heights seat. GOP chairman Dave Hansen will then forward the nominee’s name to Herbert for his appointment.

Mexico evacuates thousands ahead of hurricane LOS CABOS, Mexico (AP) – Heavy winds, battering waves and bands of intense rain pummeled residents and tourists in this vacation resort as Hurricane Jimena, one of the largest hurricanes this year, neared the coast on Tuesday.

The center of the roaring hurricane, which weakened to a still threatening Category 3, was on course to pass west of Los Cabos late Tuesday or early Wednesday, close enough to punish the picturesque beaches and fishing villages that fringe the harsh desert.

Ashley Legeyt, 62, a retiree from British Columbia who lives in Cabo San Lucas, pushed through the

oncoming storm onto an exposed rocky point where he leaned against the onslaught of the hurricane’s outer winds.

“It’s like getting sandblasted with water!” said Legeyt, his back to the wind, sand and spray blowing in from the ocean. “It’s quite strong.”

The Mexican government declared a state of emergency for Los Cabos and the Baja California Sur state capital of La Paz and schools, many ports and most businesses were closed. Rescue workers from the Red Cross and the Mexican military prepared for post-hurricane disaster relief, and two Mexican Army Hercules aircraft loaded with medical supplies

arrived.

Francisco Cota, head of Los Cabos civil defense, said that more than 2,000 people from low-lying neighborhoods and squatters’ camps had sought refuge in shelters at local schools, and many more were staying with relatives in safer areas.

Another 5,000 people have been evacuated, and 159 shelters with a capacity for 29,000 people now stand ready, state civil protection spokesman Luis Armando Diaz.

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Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009

Utah Poet Car goes up in blazes Laureate visits USU

Music around the world at museum

A RESIDENT’S CAR STOPPED WORKING AND THEN CAUGHT FIRE as the driver backed into a

parallel parking spot near 900 North and 700 East Tuesday, said Fire Chief Mark Meaker, Meaker said the fire department is 80 percent sure the ‘98 Chevy Blazer went up in flames due to a fuel line failure. CATHRINE VRIE photo

Float: Canal closed off for safety purposes -continued from page 1 little deterrent power, which lead to the decision to fence off the site.

“It had to be done,” Hutson said. “It was just a matter of time before someone got hurt.”

Huppi said while the canal company agreed that action was necessary, the decision to close the area ultimately came from Utah Highway Patrol.

“They’re the ones that want it closed,” Huppi said.

Huppi agreed the location poses problems with the high flow of traffic through the canyon, commenting that recently he and Watermaster Kim Cronquist were almost struck by passing motorists while attempting to exit the area. Cronquist could not be reached for comment.

“There’s a definite safety issue,” Huppi said.

Canal safety has been in question around Logan following a recent breach that resulted in the death of three Logan residents, but Huppi said the canyon canal closure was unrelated.

“They talked about shutting it down last year,” Huppi said. “It has nothing to do with the breach.”

Hutson, however, said due to the rechanneling of the water that would otherwise pass through the Island, water levels could rise, posing more risks to canal users.

“My understanding is they are going to have to increase flows and redistribute water based on that slide,” Hutson said.

Deb Harvey of the Logan Parks and Recreation office, which is not affiliated with or responsible for the canal that runs through the canyon, offered her suggestion to would-be tubers.

“If people want to tube they should try the Oneida Narrows (in Preston, Idaho),” she said.

–b.c.wood@aggiemail.usu.edu

• USU Police was advised by complainant that when he showed up to work at the library, he noticed a male sitting at one of the public computers. Because the library was closed, the complainant asked this subject to leave, which he did.

Complainant then reported this incident to the police. USU Police is documenting this incident as suspicous. No further action taken.

• USU Police was called to San Juan Hall on an individual selling magazines. The individual left before police could arrive.

• USU Police was dispatched to the Fine Arts Center on a fire alarm. An officer arrived to find the USU band was having a cook out on the south lawn area and the smoke from the grills went into the Fine Arts Center through the open doors, setting off the alarm system. USU Police had the individuals move the grills and advised them to keep the doors closed on that side of the building. The officers reset the alarm system and no further action was taken.

• USU Police responded to a bicyclist performing tricks near the Tanner Fountain. The student was stopped, advised and warned of USU sidewalk policy. The student was given a warning.

The Museum of Anthropology’s Saturdays at the Museum series at Utah State University next looks at music in activities Saturday, Sept. 5. The event, “More Than Meets The Ear,” is based on the museum’s traveling exhibit that highlights music from world cultures.

Interactive activities will focus on musical styles associated with specific regions of the world and are targeted to children of all ages and adults. A lecture spotlighting associated musical instruments will be ongoing throughout the day.

All tours and activities Sept. 5 will be given throughout the day.

USU students and members of the public are invited to the museum any time during the 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday hours.

Funding for the event is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). More information about the IMLS and its grants is available online at www.imls. gov.

The USU Museum of Anthropology is on the USU campus in the south turret of the historic Old Main Building, Room 252. Free parking is available in the adjacent lot, south of the building. For more information on this event or the museum, anyone can call museum staff at 797-7545.

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THE CANAL UP LOGAN CANYON is fenced up so residents can no longer use it for tuving. Jim Huppi, member of the Logan, Hyde Park and Smithfield Canal Company board, said the decision to close the canal came before the breach that killed three Logan residents. TODD JONES photo

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By CATHERINE MEIDELL assistant news editor

The department of English is hosting a reading as part of the English Speakers Series Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. in the Haight Alumni Center with Katharine Coles, Utah’s third Poet Laureate. The event is free and students are welcome to attend.

The State Laureate Program was established in 1997 and has chosen two Poet Laureates before Coles, including David Lee and Ken Brewer, said Marina Hall, head of Public Relations and Educational Outreach in the English department. The Poet Laureates are made available for readings in numerous schools and libraries. The poets are chosen to serve a five-year term.

Coles’ most recent collection of poems, “Fault,” was published in 2008. Some of her other poetry collections include, “A History of the Garden”, “One Right Touch” and “The Golden Year of the Fourth Dimension.”

She recently completed a nonfiction book, “Burnt Letters,” that recounts the lives of her grandparents. Her poetry has been included in art projects, in which she assisted designing, such as Salt Lake City’s Passages Park. She has been recognized with many awards to complement her position as Utah’s Poet Laureate. These include National Endowment of the Arts and the PEN award. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington, her master’s from the University of Houston and her Ph.D. in English literature and creative writing from the University of Utah. She has received multiple awards from the University of Utah for her books and contribution as a staff member.

Coles founded the Utah Symposium of Science and Literature and is currently the co-director with Fred Adler at the University of Utah. She is now an English professor at the University of Utah, teaching creative writing and literature.

In addition to her positions at University of Utah, Coles is the director of Chicago’s Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute at the Poetry Foundation.

Hall said Coles was chosen to share her works with the students of USU because of her esteemed award as Utah’s Poet Laureate.

The department of English stated that the purpose of the speaker series is “to promote the value of arts and humanities in American public life.”

– catherine.meidell@aggiemail. usu.edu

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• USU Police responded to a medical problem at the Quad. A female student fell while dancing and hit her head according to witnesses.

The female was transported to Logan Regional Hospital by Logan City Fire Department.

Sunday, Aug. 23

• USU Police received a report of water bubbling up from the grass near the Veterinarian Diagnostic Lab. Police arrived and found no excess water in the area. There had been an extensive down pour of rain just 10 minutes prior. The excessive water was determined to have come from the rain.

Monday, Aug. 24 • USU Police responded to a report of individuals swimming and fishing in a USU pond. The individuals were trespassing. Police arrived and could not locate the individuals but do have some names and police are investigating.

Tuesday, Aug. 25 • USU Police assisted Logan Police with a DUI at Aggie Station. The driver of the vehicle was booked into the Cache County Jail on several charges.

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

Anonymous reporting line: 797-5000 EMERGENCY NUMBER: 911 • USU Police was called to the Wellness Center to transport a student who had taken an unknown quantity of prescription medication to the emergency room.

• USU Police received a complaint of a vehicle being hit by eggs in the Snow Hall West parking lot. Police are investigating.

Wednesday, Aug. 26 • USU Police responded to San Juan Hall for a delayed report of three males throwing eggs at the building. Police searched the area but were unable to locate the individuals. Police are investigating.

• USU Police responded to the USU townhouses on two 5-year-old children who were left alone. Police made contact with the parent and informed her the children were too young to be left unattended. Police issued a warning.

• USU Police responded to the sidewalk between the Natural Resources Building and the library.

Upon arrival the police located a woman sitting on the sidewalk who had been hit in the left ankle by a run away skateboard.

-Compiled by Rachel A. Christensen

For two consecutive Saturdays, Sept. 12 and 19, Utah State University’s Museum of Anthropology will hold its biannual Boy Scout Archaeology Badge Workshop.

The popular workshop meets all the requirements for the archaeology badge, including a mock archaeological dig and hands-on experiences with skills practiced by prehistoric Native Americans.

“This is a great opportunity for scouts to meet all their requirements and have fun at the same time,” said Holly Andrew, program coordinator. “This fall, the format will be different from our previous workshops to incorporate more hands-on learning.”

Scouts can choose between one of two sessions: the first from 9 a.m. to noon or the second from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Scouts must attend both Saturdays to meet all requirements. Entire troops and individual scouts are welcome to attend.

Interested scouts and troops should call the museum to register beginning Monday, Aug. 24.

Because of limited space, all participants must RSVP with the museum

by Wednesday, Sept. 9, by calling 797-7545. Cost is $5 per scout, and a troop leader must be present.

Funding for this event is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). More information about the IMLS and its grants is available online at www.imls.gov.

The USU Museum of Anthropology is on the USU campus in the south turret of the historic Old Main building, room 252. Free parking is available in the adjacent lot, south of the building.

Learn to Swim starts Sept. 8 USU Learn to Swim session 1 starts Sept. 8 and runs through Oct. 1 between 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. There are eight lessons per session and each lesson is 45 minutes. Classes are taught through the American Red Cross. Classes include preschool levels, levels 1-6, BSA lifesaving and swimming merit badges, adult beginning, adult advanced and parent-tot. Registration is now open at the HPER service desk.

There is a $40 fee for USU affiliated and $50 for non-USU. More information can be found at http://www. usu.edu/camprec/learnToSwim.com or by calling 797-7529.

-Compiled from staff and media reports

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Video shows chicks ground up alive at egg hatchery DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – An animal rights group publicized a video Tuesday showing unwanted chicks being tossed alive into a grinder at an Iowa plant and accused egg hatcheries of being “perhaps the cruelest industry” in the world.

The undercover video was shot by Chicago-based Mercy for Animals at a hatchery in Spencer, Iowa, over a two-week period in May and June. The video was first obtained Monday by The Associated Press.

“We have to ask ourselves if these were puppies and kittens being dropped into grinders, would we find that acceptable?” asked Nathan Runkle, the group’s executive director, at a news conference in Des Moines. “I don’t think that most people would.”

The group said that tossing male chicks, which have little value because they can’t lay eggs or be raised quickly enough to be raised profitably for meat, into grinders is common industry practice. United Egg Producers, a trade group for U.S. egg farmers, confirmed that.

The hatchery is owned by West Des Moines-based Hy-Line North America and is one of many operations in Iowa,

the nation’s leading egg producer. grinder – is a standard practice supThe video, shot with a hidden camported by the animal veterinary and era and microphone by a Mercy for scientific community.

Animals employee who got a job at the Company spokesman Tom Jorgensen plant, shows a Hy-Line worker sorting said Tuesday an investigation was conthrough a conveyor belt of chirping tinuing, and once it’s completed the chicks, flipping some of them into a company would release more informachute like a poker dealer flips cards. tion.

These chicks, which a narrator Runkle acknowledged that his says are males, are group’s ultimate “The egg industhen shown being goal was to get dropped alive into a people to stop eattry is perhaps the grinding machine. ing eggs. He said he cruelest industry In other parts of believe many would on the face of the the video, a chick refuse to eat eggs planet.” is shown dying on if they knew what the factory floor – Nathan Runkle, happened to male amid a heap of egg chicks.

Mercy for Animals shells after falling “The egg through a sorting executive director industry is perhaps machine. Another the cruelest industry chick, also still alive, is seen lying on on the face of the planet,” Runkle said. the floor after getting scalded by a wash Mercy for Animals also sent letters cycle, according to the video narrator. to the nation’s 50 largest grocery store Hy-Line said the video “appears to chains, including Walmart, Whole show an inappropriate action and viola- Foods, Safeway, Harris Teeter and tion of our animal welfare policies,” Trader Joe’s, asking them to include referring to chicks on the factory floor. a label on egg cartons that says, But the company also noted that “Warning: Male chicks are ground-up “instantaneous euthanasia” – a referalive by the egg industry.” ence to killing of male chicks by the A spokesman for United Egg

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Producers called the proposal “almost a joke.” Spokesman Mitch Head said Mercy for Animals had no credible authority, as well as questionable motives. “This is a group which espouses no egg consumption by anyone – so that is clearly their motive.”

Mercy for Animals estimated 200 million male chicks are killed a year, which the United Egg Producers also confirmed.

“There is, unfortunately, no way to breed eggs that only produce female hens,” Head said. “If someone has a need for 200 million male chicks, we’re happy to provide them to anyone who wants them. But we can find no market, no need.”

Using a grinder, Head said, “is the most instantaneous way to euthanize chicks.”

There is no federal law that ensures the humane euthanasia of animals on farms or hatcheries, according to Jonathan Lovvorn, vice president and chief counsel of the Humane Society of the United States.

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – From anesthesia to the recovery room, 70-year-old Monna Cleary’s children followed her surgery – 140 characters or less at a time.

Twitter is opening doors to the sterile confines of operating rooms, paving the way for families – and anyone else for that matter – to follow a patient’s progress as they go under the knife.

Most of the Cleary family chose to track the developments from a laptop computer in the hospital’s waiting room. But one daughter-in-law kept tabs from work.

“It’s real time information instead of sitting and not knowing in the waiting room,” said Cleary’s son Joe, hours after his mother’s surgery Monday at St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids.

“It made the time go by,” said Cleary, who was joined by a brother, two sisters and a sister-in-law at the hospital. “We all feel it was a positive experience.”

His mother, who underwent a hysterectomy and uterine prolapse surgery, had given her OK for hospital spokeswoman Sarah Corizzo to post a play-by-play of the operation on Twitter, a social-networking site that lets users send out snippets of information up to 140 characters long using cell phones or computers.

Corizzo sent more than 300 tweets over more than three hours from a computer just outside the operating room’s sterile field.

Nearly 700 people followed them. Eight tweeted questions to Corizzo about the procedure and a Cleary family member commented on how fascinating it was to follow the surgery.

The primary goal of the Twitter posts was education, Corizzo said, but it had the added benefit of keeping the family informed during surgery. It also helps to raise the profile of the hospital.

The idea to follow the surgery on Twitter at St. Luke’s evolved after a similar surgery was Webcast several months ago.

“A lot of people would like to go into the operating room and see what happens but don’t want all the visuals and stuff,” said Laura Rainey, another hospital spokeswoman. “This is a more gentle way to help inform patients and consumers.”

The Iowa hospital isn’t the first to describe a surgery on Twitter. Others include Children’s Medical Center in Dallas, which tweeted in May when a father donated a kidney to his son, and Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, where officials have tweeted about several surgeries since January.

Dian Luffman, a spokeswoman with Change:healthcare, a business that helps clients save money on procedures, said hospitals using Twitter during surgery is a sign that it’s entering the mainstream, especially among the 20-and-30 somethings.

“I think hospitals are trying to build relationships,” she said.

Amanda Gillbret, whose husband and son were involved in the Dallas kidney transplant, said she appreciated being able to monitor her husband’s surgery at another hospital while she was at Children’s Medical Center with her son.

“I felt like I was part of my husband’s surgery and connected to what he was going through but was there with my son, too,” Gillbret said. “It gave me a huge peace and it was just comforting knowing what was happening.”

She noted that typically a person can sit for hours in a waiting room and maybe get two phone calls from the operating room.

“I received updates every two to three minutes,” Gillbret said.

“It not only helped the family stay in the loop but friends who weren’t able to be there.”

While the Detroit hospital has tweeted during several surgeries, neither the Cedar Rapids hospital nor the one in Dallas have immediate plans to do it again.

Officials at both hospitals said they would be open to the possibility if both the surgeon and patient are willing.

Cleary said she agreed to have her procedure posted on Twitter – but only after being educated to what tweeting was.

“I’m not much of a computer bug so I didn’t know that much about it,” Cleary said. “I didn’t know they did that sort of thing.”

During her surgery, Corizzo relayed tweets ever few minutes.

“Putting numbing medication where the incisions will be.

Making first incision right now,” Corizzo tweeted at the beginning of the procedure.

Later, Corizzo sent a message that read: “Right now doctor is cutting across some vessels & ligaments that connect the ovaries to the uterus.”

Then: “Opening up the peritoneum right now,” which led to a tweet questioning what the peritoneum is. Corizzo explained it is the sac that lines the abdomen.

The surgeon, Dr. Jerry Rozeboom, said he asked Cleary to participate because she is “very open, conversant and willing to be part of the education process.

“It was mostly a patient who I thought was open to helping other people learn about new technology and maybe helping other women in her situation,” Rozeboom said.

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King of the cue stick Twelve years ago, Rick Skinner was interviewed at Utah State University for the position of gameroom manager. By happenstance, the faculty member that interviewed Skinner remembered him from Logan High School and asked him if he’d like to teach pool.

What began as a class with 18 students has grown to more than 300 and is split into 17 sections, Skinner said.

The classes are taught in the Bullpen of the Fieldhouse, he said, and students enroll because they are curious and some even retake it.

One such student, Greg Dial, senior in business, has taken the class four times during his tenure at USU, and said he keeps coming

back not only because he loves to play, but because “Rick is a great teacher; he’s been playing pool for a very long time, and he knows his stuff.”

Skinner started playing pool at the age of 15. He said after having played a couple of games with friends, he moved to Okinawa, Japan, where he joined a teen club at his high school there. They played a variety of games and had a pool table, but “nobody really knew how to play, so even though I’d only played a couple of games, I showed ‘em how,” he said.

Skinner said he continued to play recreationally and worked up to a point at which he played six to 10 hours

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Show helps students Celebrate America

By STOREE POWELL staff writer

The Fourth of July might be over, but it is never too late to celebrate the home of the free.

That’s the idea behind the annual Celebrate America show in Logan.

This year’s show, held in the Stevenson Ballroom at USU, is the 10th year anniversary. “Yankee Doodle Dazzle” is the theme, comprised of the past 10 years best numbers, along with some new ones. The Broadway-style show plays from Sept. 2-5.

Sept. 2 is student night. Students who bring their USU cards will be admitted for $8 to enjoy the show, as well as a dance held after

the performance for audience members. It is $25 without a USU card.

Celebrate America began as a way to commemorate Constitution Week, enhance the arts and to foster gratitude for America and her service people, according to Celebrate America’s Web site.

Brenda Anthony, production director, said, “There is nothing else like it all year. The dance is the best dance of the year, and the music is phenomenal. It is definitely the occasion to bring the prom dresses out and dress up.”

The music is provided by a live 17-piece orchestra, many of who are from USU’s music

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A PERFORMER FROM Celebrate America rehearses Tuesday night in the TSC Ballroom. This is the 10th year anniversary for the show. PETE P. SMITHSUTH photo

Show: Bringing patriotism to USU -continued from page 5 department. According to Anthony, the finale has been especially commissioned just for this show.

“It truly is an amazing arrangement and a great surprise for the audience,” Anthony said.

The massive set is created by the local Magic Productions Company.

“This show is huge, probably the biggest production that takes place in the ballroom.

The set’s lighting and sound are the best and very professional,” Anthony said.

The cast is composed of 10 female dancers, 12 vocalists and specialty members, many of who are USU students. The cast was auditioned in April and May of 2009. Those chosen received three hours of class credit for participating, as well as a minimum scholarship of $100.

“We give scholarships to all 25 of the cast members,” Anthony said.

The show is almost sold out this year, said Anthony, with close to 400 people a night attending. Dinner comes with the ticket and is served in the ballroom, except for the student night show.

Show highlights are multiple said Anthony.

The drummer, Ned Smith from Seattle, plays solo in the show with black leather gloves.

“His performance is so electrifying,” Anthony said, “people stop and say who is that drummer?”

Another highlight is the professional ballroom dancers who will do a Paso Doble.

Also, there will be a special tribute to War World II veterans in the form of a multimedia production.

“It is very tender,” Anthony said.

To complete the package, another tribute to former committee member Laura Benson, who passed away in June, will take place. Benson used to play Charlie Chaplain in the show, so her segment will be redone this year.

Anthony said the production takes a team of committed people, and she is only one of them. This is Anthony’s 10th year as production director.

“This is a unique and elegant production, a big band show with dinner and a dance in one package,” Anthony said.

Comedy, music, dance and “Broadway dazzle” are sure to wow the audience as they recall the glory of America.

The Celebrate America Show is a nonprofit organization.

To attend this once-a-year opportunity, students can buy tickets at the door or from the Cane School of the Arts box office. For more details on admission, dinner and the show visit www.celebrateamericashow.com.

–storee.powell@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Tough debate hits close to home On the outskirts of Tooele, Utah, police found approximately $1 million of marijuana plants in two separate fields, according to The Salt Lake Tribune.

The article describes how officers tried to stake out the fields and catch those that returned to tend the pot.

However, the officers were unsuccessful in catching anyone and while the pot was confiscated, the root problem is still present and police said there is a larger drug cartel that is possibly responsible for the field near Tooele.

But the amount of marijuana found near Tooele is nothing compared to the 20,000 plants that were found near Boulder Mountain in Wayne County, Utah, according to The Deseret News. The field has a street value of $25 to $60 million.

The plants together weighed 15,000 pounds and it took a combined police task force two days to remove the marijuana plants, and while one person was arrested, police believe there are at least a dozen still at large. The sparsely-populated Boulder Mountain could still have pot farms growing and officials believe those responsible for the marijuana farms have fled the area, and they may be armed and dangerous.

Illegal drug traffic and trade is hitting Utahns in their own backyard. According to The Deseret News, in February, when a Utah Highway patrol trooper pulled over a semitruck for not changing lanes the trooper noticed some strange behavior by the driver. After receiving the driver’s permission, the trooper searched the truck and found 20 kilograms of cocaine. After setting up several stings with the information gathered from the original truck driver, troopers were able to make nine arrests, seize six weapons, two helicopters and confiscate 750 pounds of marijuana and 83 kilograms of cocaine.

On Thursday, Aug 29, police arrested a Salt Lake City woman on charges of possession and cultivating marijuana. The woman, according to The Deseret News, allowed police to search her home and they found she was growing a marijuana plant in her backyard that had grown to be 9 feet tall.

With millions of dollars dedicated each year to fighting drug trade and traffic, is it time to make marijuana legal?

The National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported 19.9 percent of Americans identify themselves as currently or previously using some sort of illicit drug and 14.4 percent of Americans say they are current or previous users of marijuana.

However, according to the American Cancer Institute, 19.9 percent of Americans smoke cigarettes on a regular basis. With the use of marijuana so widespread, some organizations argue that the legalization, taxation and control of marijuana could help the government as a source of revenue and slow the illegal drug trade.

There are currently 13 states where limited use of marijuana is legal: Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.

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Student clubs call campus home

By JILL STETTLER staff writer

There’s much more to the college experience than just school work. There are many extracurricular activities around campus to participate in, and, according to Associated Students of Utah State University (ASUSU), Utah State University is home to more than 100 student clubs.

“The most popular clubs would have to be HURD, Aggies for Africa, Latter-day Saints Student Association (LDSSA) and the multicultural student services clubs,” said Krista Bustamante, diversity and campus organizations vice president. “The HURD, as of now, has right around 1,000 members, and last year 800 people signed up to participate with Aggies for Africa.”

Another great club on campus is the BeNo club, which is the club with the most history, says Bustamante. “The president of

the university once said that there shall be no clubs. As a result of the policy, a group of students gathered together to make the Be-No club.”

The Bee Keeping club, Fort Night club, and the Lumberjack club are some of the more unique clubs on campus, says Bustamante. With such a vast variety of clubs, it is clear that not all clubs are for all people, so ASUSU has provided a for students to make their own club.

“The first step would be to make sure that there are no similar clubs on campus,” Bustamante said. “There are so many clubs and organizations that it may be good to find one and join. If there isn’t such a club, I would refer them to the ASUSU clubs and organization’s page. On there, one will see step-by-step instructions to create an account. You will need to write a constitution and mission statement and follow up with my office for approval. My office is located on the third floor of the TSC, you

can also ask for more information in Room 326. “ When forming a club, it is important to keep the club running. Jessie Kingsford, junior in technical writing and an officer in the Golden Key International Honour Society, says to try and involve food in activities and meetings.

“As far as activities go, we’re trying to involve food when we can, or plan fun activities that would make people show up,” says Kingsford. “Since we are in school, meetings are great when they are short, straight and straight to the point. We’re all students, and it’s hard to commit a lot of time to extracurricular stuff.”

Making a club known and getting it out there is the best way to recruit members, said Kingsford.

One can learn what each club is about on the ASUSU Web site, www.usu.edu/asusu.

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STUDENTS PRACTICE BILLIARDS DURING class on Tuesday. The class is taught by instructor Rick Skinner, who began playing pool at age 15 and at one point played six to 10 hours a day. PETE P. SMITHSUTH photo

Billiards: Man who knows the game -continued from page 5 a day.

“Pros practice 10 to 14 hours every day for two years before they get to play professionally,” Skinner said, who is not a professional player.

Even so, he began hustling – gambling – and competing in tournaments around 21 years old.

“I didn’t make much that first year,” Skinner said, “but I got a lot better after that.”

Asked how he started to get so involved in the game, Skinner talked of working at a bar in Logan years ago, “I was serving and occasionally bouncing, and I played a lot of pool.”

Skinner is working toward becoming a master instructor, which Skinner’s teacher is one of the four original members. Skinner travels there for instruction among professionals and others who can pay as much as $3,000 each for a session of lessons over the course of three days. Skinner said there are only 11 such instructors worldwide, and he aims to become the next one within the next year.

The instruction certification comes from the Billiards Congress of America (BCA) and requires extensive training. Skinner is currently a certified BCA instructor and teaches his classes in accordance to BCA rules. He said most universities and professionals use the same rules as well. A group of pool enthusiasts go with Skinner

to play against other students about once a month at Idaho State University in Pocatello and at Weber State about once a month, and Skinner competes in a tournament himself once every couple of months.

“I didn’t do very well, but that’s OK,” Skinner said of his recent tournament in Ogden.

“You know, I never get tired of it,” he said of the game and of teaching. “I really enjoy teaching students because some of them get really interested in learning the rules, and the rest of them just have fun.”

Students not only enjoy the class but also the professor. Dial says Skinner is “really fun to learn from and fun to shoot around with. As far as teachers for a billiards class, I couldn’t imagine any better.”

Even a new student can gather the sense of enthusiasm Skinner brings to his work. Will Fullmer, freshman in biology, started the class this semester and said “the class seemed fun, and the teacher was helpful. He seemed like he liked his job.”

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Ags beat BYU in a thriller

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In true Spectrum fashion the energy was electric for Utah State Woman’s Volleyball 2009 home opener, which they won in a thrilling fifth set.

“The crowd was awesome tonight,” head coach Grayson DuBose said. “The crowd really was the eighth person out there on the court tonight and I can’t thank them enough.”

Maybe from the promise of “Star Trek” just outside on the HPER Field or maybe because it was the first home sporting event of the semester, Aggie fans showed up to support the now 2-2 team.

USU started out hot in the first set with a season high .560 hitting percentage (15-1-25). The hitting percentage is the number of kills minus the number of errors divided by the total attempts. After USU’s JUNIOR CHELSEA FOWLES, 2, SOPHOMORE EMILY KORTSEN, 12, and teammates celebrate after quick start, BYU pulled back into contention, the game felt close until junior libero Christine Morrill, beating rival BYU in a heated tiebreaker Tuesday night at the Spectrum. CODY GOCHNOUR photo .387 percentage. from Neola, Utah, stole the momentum by laying out for a diving play that The fourth set started with a 6-2 run by the Aggies, after which BYU’s head brought the ball back in play and eventually led to an Aggie point making the coach, Shay Goulding, quickly called a time out. The break seemed to successscore 16-10. The Aggies went on to win the set 25-18. fully break USU’s momentum and the score soon became to 13-9. Back-to-back The second set was more of the same for the Aggies who were kick started by an opening serve ace from Morrill, who finished with two aces in the game. The attack errors by McArthur followed by an error from Taylor allowed the Cougars to swiftly move one point behind USU, 12-13. Throughout the rest of the set the next crucial point came at 7-4 when a long rally ended with a kill from outside score was tied 10 times and the lead changed hands seven times. Eventually, hitter Liz McArthur bringing the score to 8-4. McArthur, sophomore from St. six-foot five-inch Kayla Walker of BYU banged out four straight kills giving the George, Utah, had a career high 19 kills Tuesday.

Cougars a 28-26 set win.

BYU had a large front line and the outside hitters knew they needed to be The deciding fifth set is played to 15 points rather than the usual 25, which creative with their kill shot, McArthur said. Their creativity paid off with 65 means it’s especially important to get a quality start, and even though BYU won total team kills. At 14-10 the USU crowd showed no mercy or class when they the hard fought fourth set, DuBose said, it still felt like USU had the momencheered and mocked BYU’s libero, Chelsea Goodsell, after being hit hard in the tum. face by a forceful kill from junior middle-blocker Shantell Durrant. Redshirt Similar to the previous four sets USU wasted no time, they jumped out to a junior Danielle Taylor, who hasn’t had game time since Sept. 2, 2008 when an ankle injury kept her on the sideline, got one play of action late in the second set 4-0 lead. A ball handling error followed by a service error allowed BYU to reach one point behind the Aggies at 9-8. The one point deficit proved to be the closbut subbed-out with no touches on the ball. USU went on to lose the set 21-25 est USU would allow BYU to get. The Aggies won the set by a final score of 15hitting a game low .105 percentage.

11, winning the game three sets to two.

The Aggies started the third set coming out of the locker room with Taylor The final two points scored in deciding fifth set were on a service error folserving. They made quick work going on a 5-1 run. The Aggie women frustrated lowed by an attack error for BYU. Errors from BYU and high energy from USU BYU throughout the third set allowing zero aces and avoiding the Cougar front proved to be the deciding factors. line from tallying up any blocks. BYU hit its game-low hitting percentage of “The mental game is really important. You have to always be thinking about .174 while USU surpassed its season high for the second time that night with a the next ball,” said McArthur. .667 percent.

USU’s next challenge comes from another in-state rival. University of Utah, McArthur had a personal hitting percentage of .800 with four kills on five who is ranked 17th in the nation, travels to the Spectrum Tuesday, Sept. 8, at 7 attempts with zero errors. Sophomore opposite side hitter from Hollister, Calif., p.m.

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Andersen, Aggies ready for first game

By G. CHRISTOPHER TERRY assistant sports editor

Thursday’s game against USU’s cousin to the south represents a historic point in the Utah, USU rivalry in more ways than one.

The teams won’t meet again for two years, so the loser won’t have a chance at redemption any time soon. The “Battle of the Brothers” has been played every year since 1943, making it the 12th-most played rivalry in the Football Bowl Subdivision.

It’s also just the second time since 1982 that a head coach has begun the season against his former team. The last time Gary Andersen was coaching in a live game situation, it was in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, and he was wearing Ute red and watching his defense throttle a favored Alabama team. The last

time he coached in Rice-Eccles Stadium, it was Nov. 22, 2008 in the BYU vs. Utah game, when his defense intercepted BYU’s Max Hall five times.

Andersen sounded completely focused on preparing his team Tuesday.

“I would say more in the summer I thought about that stuff but not now,” Andersen said. “Our situation is we need to go out and play our game and do what we do. We can’t sit there and worry about what tunnel we’re coming out of. Football is football ... I’ve come out of a lot of different tunnels.”

Once the ball is snapped, fans will see two teams with similar philosophies going at it. Both teams want to spread the field on offense and play at a high tempo, while hammering the quarterback on defense.

“The best pass defense is always a pass rush.

There’s no question,” Andersen said. “Every coverage no matter how you play ends up breaking down at the end of the day if you give them enough time.”

If USU wants to sustain drives they need to get

a blocker on big number 10 in red – linebacker Stevenson Sylvester. Sylvester was a second team AllMountain West selection a year ago and is a senior with three varsity letters. He leads a defense that is probably the strength of the Utah team for now, even without defensive backs Sean Smith and Bryce McCain, and athletic pass-rusher Paul Kruger.

“They have very good linebackers,” said USU’s starting running back, Robert Turbin. “Sylvester, you know he’s their top guy. I’ve tried to watch as much film as I could on number 10 because he’s that good of a player that you have to spend a few hours studying him. He’s tall and lanky. His body is kind of unorthodox, which I think makes him a good linebacker. It’s hard to block him, he gets off blocks really well because of his body type.”

The defensive line is a traditional position of strength for Utah, but sustained a major loss when it

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Junior forward Lauren Hansen has been named both the Western Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Week and the America First Credit Union Utah State Student-Athlete of the Week it was announced on Monday.

The USU weekly award is voted on by a state media panel.

Hansen, a junior from Camano Island, Wash.

(Stanwood HS) scored three goals in two matches as Utah State went 2-0 last week to win the Miner Classic title in El Paso, Texas. Hansen scored the game-winning goal in USU’s 3-2 win over Stephen F. Austin. In Utah State’s 3-2 win over Texas Tech, Hansen scored the first two Aggie goals as USU won its first-ever match against a Big XII opponent. Utah State’s 3-0 record marks the team’s best start in program history.

This is the first WAC Player of the Week honor for Hansen this season.

This is the second-straight week that the Aggies have been honored by the WAC after Summer Tillotson was named WAC Defensive Player of the week last week.

After a successful 20 road trip, the Aggies return home for a twomatch home stand against a pair of Cowgirls. USU takes on No. 21 Oklahoma State on Friday, Sept. 4 at 4 p.m. and Wyoming on Sunday, Sept. 6 at 1 p.m. Both matches will be played at Chuck and Gloria Bell Soccer Field.

Racquetball club tryouts on Sept. 8 The Utah State Racquetball club, currently ranked 10th in the nation, is looking for new members both male and female.

Tryouts will be held Tuesday, Sept. 8 from 7-9 p.m. at the Racquetball courts in the HPER.

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Preview: Ags ready for Utes -continued from page 8 was announced two weeks ago that starting end Koa Misi, a preseason All-Mountain West selection this year and second team All-Mountain West selection last year, is out until further notice with a back injury.

His replacement is Nai Fotu, a converted linebacker.

On the flip side, Utah possesses a strong offensive line and a great stable of running backs, led by Matt Asiata.

“He’s an NFL running back in my opinion,” Andersen said of Asiata. “He’s a force, he’s a power. He’s a good blocker, he’s deceptively shifty and when he lowers his head he definitely packs a punch.

You don’t want to spend your whole evening trying to tackle Matt Asiata up high, I can promise you that. He’ll make you pay.”

Utah may stick to a power running attack early on to try and keep its quarterbacks comfortable, because they have a serious lack of experience at that position. Brian Johnson graduated after a long and successful career capped by a Sugar Bowl MVP award, and his backup Corbin Louks transferred late in the summer when it became obvious he wouldn’t be the clear-cut starter. This leaves Utah with a true freshman, Jordan Wynn, and a junior college transfer, Terrence Cain, who have been named co-starters. No coach wants to begin the season

without a clear-cut leader at the game’s most important position, and Andersen will no doubt attack the Ute’s signal caller aggressively from the first whistle.

“You can change the game if you have a young quarterback, or if you have any quarterback, if you have the ability to get pressure on him and that’s something I believe in,” Andersen said. “On the offensive side of the ball we don’t want that to happen and we’ll do everything we can to not let that happen. But on the defensive side of the ball we definitely want to do everything we can to take advantage of that.”

One bit of good fortune for the Aggies, who will walk into Rice-Eccles Stadium as three-touchdown underdogs to the Sugar Bowl champs, is that they have come through spring and fall camps under Andersen without suffering any major injuries.

“We’ve got some nicks and bruises but we should walk in fairly healthy, which goes to show that the kids did a fantastic job in the offseason conditioning themselves,” Andersen said. “You can call it lucky, you can call it fortunate, you can call it whatever you like but I don’t believe that.

I believe it’s because the kids prepared themselves right.”

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he scent of the last of the summer air dwindling away, the feel of the temperature outside cooling down, the look of fear and uncertainty on the faces of freshmen everywhere ... This must mean football season has finally come to Logan. It is no secret that I can’t keep my excitement reigned in for this season, and I have fair reason. When you consider the factors of facilities, institutional support and quality personnel within the program, it is tough to argue that there has ever been a better foundation laid at any point over the past 30 years for USU football to return to glory.

In case you have been actively trying to ignore Utah State football, you should know by now that our new head coach is former University of Utah defensive coordinator Gary Andersen. Andersen was the architect behind that dominating defense that pretty much shut down Alabama in last year’s Sugar Bowl and carried Utah to an undefeated season, so the guy obviously knows a thing or two about running a football team.

Andersen knows at least one thing about bringing legitimacy to struggling programs too. Andersen’s prior head coaching experience in the college ranks took place in 2003 when he coached Division I-AA Southern Utah, a team that had won just three total games in two seasons prior to Andersen’s arrival. In 2002, SUU finished ranked No. 102 in the nation in the I-AA Gridiron Power Index (GPI), which is a ranking system used to determine playoff selection in IAA, where they actually determine a champion by having a playoff. At the end of the 2003 season with Andersen at the helm, SUU finished No. 36 in that same ranking, a jump of 66 spots in just a single season.

As if Andersen’s 2003 success wasn’t enough to give him some credit as a potentially great head coaching candidate, I’m sure he picked up a few more tips from a certain guy he coached with in 2004. That person would be twotime national champion head coach Urban Meyer, whom Andersen was the defensive line coach for during Utah’s first BCS run that season.

It probably isn’t right to try and put Andersen, a first time Division-I head coach and Meyer, a veteran head coach with two national titles, into the same conversation, and just to be clear, I’m not proclaiming Andersen to be the next Urban Meyer. The main similarity I feel needs pointing out is the aspect of a heavy increase in strength training after Andersen arrived on USU’s campus. Andersen has mentioned several times the improvements his team has made in getting stronger, particularly the improvement of having more than just the four players on last year’s team who could lift 300 pounds. The number of USU players capable of lifting 300 pounds is now in the mid-30s.

When Urban Meyer arrived at his first head coaching job at Bowling Green State University in 2001, he put a similar emphasis on his players getting stronger. Meyer inherited a team that finished 2-9 in the 2000 season. In Meyer’s first year, Bowling Green improved to 8-3.

Similarly, when Meyer went to the University of Utah he inherited a team that went 5-6 the previous year with only 11 total returning starters. Utah went 10-2 in Meyer’s first year there and went undefeated in his second year.

Given the quality players that have found their way to Logan in the past couple years, the overall increased strength of the team and considering the resume of Andersen, and who he has coached with, it all lends plenty of legitimacy to the excitement surrounding the program.

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THE AGGIES HOPE TO be able to pressure Utah’s QB’s just like they did their own in USU’s recent scrimmage. USU opens the season Thursday at Utah. PATRICK ODEN photo

Ags have a chance at upset of ranked Utes

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s the Aggies’ first game of the season approaches and the Gary Andersen era is set to kick off, I’ve been fielding a lot of questions about the Aggies’ chances against 19thranked Utah. Here’s my take: USU’s chances are decent.

Traditionally games against teams ranked in the top 25 have not been good to the Aggies. Thursday’s contest will mark the 50th time Utah State has taken on a ranked opponent, and the Aggies have amassed a not-so-stellar 1-48 record in the previous 49 games.

If that wasn’t enough to extinguish the hopes of the Aggie faithful, the Utes have won 19 of the last 21 meetings between the two schools, including 11 in a row. Despite these forlorn statistics, there are some positive signs that the Aggies can stamp their name back on this rivalry before it takes a two-year hiatus.

Last year, Utah went 13-0, dismantled national power Alabama in the Sugar Bowl and in the mind of most college football aficionados was the true National Champion.

That is not this year’s Utah team.

Defensive studs Paul Kruger and Sean Smith are now showcasing their skills in the NFL, longtime starting quarterback Brian Johnson has graduated and his backup Corbin Louks, who got pushed to third on the depth chart, eventually transferred to WAC foe Nevada.

Louks’ transfer leaves the Utes with no clear-cut QB as true freshman Jordan Wynn and junior college transfer Terrance Cain have been named co-starters for Thursday’s season opener.

Obviously these two signal callers must have some talent to knockout Louks who was the only QB on Utah’s roster with game experience after playing in games during his freshman and sophomore seasons, but the fact still remains that neither has taken a snap in a Division I football game.

Players aside, the biggest and most obvious advantage for the Aggies going into this year’s game could be familiarity. Andersen

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spent 11 seasons as an assistant coach for the Utes, including the last four as the defensive coordinator.

Along with Andersen, seven other current Utah State coaches have experience on the Utah sideline. That knowledge should give the Aggies a competitive edge that they probably won’t have against other opponents.

Similar to the Utes, this year’s version of the Aggies is not the same as in years past.

There has been a not so subtle buzz around the Valley about the 2009 football season, but that buzz is even more palpable within the team. The players have a new energy, one that has been clearly visible in practices, scrimmages and interviews.

Each player I’ve talked to is bigger, faster, stronger and hungrier. With a new offensive system that should highlight junior quarterback Diondre Borel’s talents and a fast, blitzing defense, the product on the field should be markedly better this year.

That said, Utah still has a lot of assets.

Running back Matt Asiata, who ran all over the Aggies for three touchdowns last year, is back in the backfield and safety Robert Johnson anchors a solid, speedy, big defense. Utah is deserving of its highest preseason ranking ever.

This will be a tough matchup for the Aggies, as will the majority Tim Olsen is a of their preconference games. senior majoring in The Utes will hand nothing to print journalism.

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

MEN’S SOCCER

MEMBERS OF THE MEN’S SOCCER TEAM practice for their upcoming season. The Aggies made a run at a region title in 2008 and hope to do so again this year. TYLER LARSON photo

High hopes for ‘09 season

By STEVEN CLARK staff writer

SENIOR LINDSEY SMART is one of three captains on this year’s women’s soccer team. Smart has been an integral part of USU’s success over the past few seasons, culminating with the WAC regular season championship last season. This year Smart has her sights set higher. PETE SMITHSUTH photo

Let’s talk about football, but not the football you skip church to watch on Sunday with your dad.

It’s soccer season. With all the hype about the 2009 Aggie football season, it’s time to highlight the men who actually play futbol.

The USU men’s soccer club sweated through tryouts last weekend with aspirations to put together a team good enough to win a region championship and qualify for nationals. With 13 returning players, including seven starters, the Aggies have high hopes of accomplishing their goal of improving on last year’s record of 8-5 and winning a region title.

The Aggies had a strong 2008 season where they finished 3rd in the region tournament which consisted of 12 teams. The region itself has about 20 teams. Due to the lack of an NCAA men’s soccer league, the Aggies are a part of the National Intramural Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA). In NIRSA, the teams who qualify for nationals are those who finish with the best record in their region or make the two available wild card spots. Barely missing the wild card for nationals last year left a bad taste in the Aggies’ mouth, but captains Dave Firmage and Danny Fonseca are positive that this year’s squad has what it takes to get the job done.

“We have a really good team this year, and everyone will contribute,” Fonseca said. “We have people from all over who’ve played some

pretty good soccer.”

The Aggies have a tough region looking at them this year, including BYU-Idaho, BYU, and nationally ranked Weber State. Both Firmage and Fonseca said they are confident that players will step up in crucial times during the season.

Some of those expected stand out players for this year are midfielder Vic Carlson, defenseman Tyson Kelly – a transfer from Iowa Western – and Fonseca.

“Make it to nationals, that’s always our goal,” co-captain Dave Firmage said.

The Aggies’ take their first step toward accomplishing that goal on Sept. 12 when they take on the Juventas. All home games will be played at the Tower Field.

There is one game in particular that the Aggies are licking their chops to play and it will take place Sept. 25 against the team down south – BYU. “We lost to both BYU and BYU-Idaho last year,” Fonseca said.

The Aggies are definitely hoping for a better result this season.

It should be some good soccer, indeed, if the Aggies play as hard as they’ve been practicing.

Final cuts have been made and they are hitting the ground running. From the looks of it, USU can expect two very successful football/futbol seasons.

“We hope for a lot of support,” Fonseca said.

“Come watch some good soccer this year.”

–steve.clark@aggiemail.usu.edu

Smart a leader on and off the field

By LANDON HEMSLEY staff writer

Lindsey Smart, one of three captains for the USU women’s soccer team, is a player with a lot of family history at Utah State University, not all of it in athletics.

For example, the Ross A. Smart Veterinary Diagnostics Laboratory is in fact named after her grandfather, and that’s not all. Her father was a student body officer, her mother was a cheerleader and her sister helped coach the women’s gymnastics team last year before moving to Washington.

With a load of family history in Cache Valley, it’s not surprising that the soccer star from Sandy decided to make Cache Valley her collegiate home. Smart said there were a number of reasons that she came to play for the Aggies when considering her collegiate destination, but the determinant was that she knew she’d fit

in well, get a lot of playing time and be able to make a meaningful contribution to the team. She said she felt very comfortable with her peers and with the head coach, Heather Cairns.

“I talked with Heather and visited campus a lot,” Smart said.

“I knew it was a good fit for me. I knew that this was a program headed in the right direction, and in my years here at Utah State it’s just gotten better and better.”

Smart certainly has the soccer and athletic resume to back USU’s athletic scholarship offer. She won the 5A State Soccer championship while at Brighton High School, in addition to being selected to the 5A All-State team by both The Deseret News and The Salt Lake Tribune. Since coming to USU, she has started all 66 matches she’s played in, a respectable feat alone. Beyond starting, Smart was named WAC Freshman of the Year in 2006, earned allWAC academic honors in the same year, earned the Joe E. and Elma Whitesides ScholarAthlete award in 2006, 2007 and 2008, earned the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) academic all-district eight honors, and is part of the team that has garnered six straight NSCAA Team Academic Awards. This is a young lady who has earned a lot for herself.

Smart has strong career and academic aspirations. She is an exercise science major with hopes of getting to graduate school in order to become a physician’s assistant. Smart, who will graduate this year, said she has already sent off applications to seven different graduate schools in four different states, including the University of Utah’s physician’s assistant program. Luckily for us Aggies, Smart won’t be play-

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With all of this young lady’s strengths, awards, recognition and aspirations it’s hard to believe that Smart said she felt very intimidated starting here as a freshman.

“Starting that first game as a freshman I was super, super scared,” Smart said. “I felt like I had been thrown into it. It forced me to grow, so it was good, but it was hard. I feel like I’ve been able to grow into my role on this team, though.”

The team apparently agrees, because Smart was voted into her captaincy role by her teammates. Smart said she feels humbled by the selection.

“I’m honored,” Smart said. “It means the team has confidence in my abilities. When I was selected as a junior to be captain, Coach said it was because I was an example to the team. I thought it was cool that my example rubbed off a little bit. It’s a great feeling.”

Smart’s leadership abilities have helped the Aggies do very well so far this season. The defensive midfielder has led the team to its best start in school history, 3-0-0, and said that this team’s aspirations and abilities for this year are very high.

“This team has a ton of talent,” Smart said.

“There’s just so much depth. Everyone can play, everyone’s competing every single day in practice and in the games. We want to win the WAC tournament and get to the NCAA tournament this year, especially after last year’s double-overtime loss to Fresno.”

Although this team has been selected to win the conference this year, Smart said she knows that what’s on paper is very different than what happens on the field. Smart said that every WAC match is a battle, no matter who you play.

“It could be Fresno, Hawaii or whoever,” she said, “The thing about WAC games is that every game’s a battle. When I got here, we were at the bottom, and we earned our respect. You can’t rely on the polls. You have to play.”

In particular, Smart said the WAC championship match from last year’s tournament was a very difficult loss.

“It was a back and forth battle. We would advance, then they would advance. It was so heartbreaking to play for that long, get to the double overtime, and then they sent in a perfect shot to win it. It was a shot out of nowhere,” she said. “We want to get to the NCAA tournament this year, and we can.”

With all of that in the past, there is a lot of hope for the USU soccer team this year, and the team has earned respect. It has already beaten Texas Tech, its first Big XII opponent ever, and will have the opportunity to take out No. 21 Oklahoma State when the Cowgirls come to Logan Friday on the Bell Soccer Field at 7 p.m.

Smart and her co-captains are excited to lead their team out to meet the challenge, and earn the respect they so covet.

–la.hem@aggiemail.usu.edu

“Starting the first game as a freshman I was super, super scared. It felt like I had been thrown into it. It forced me to grow, so it was good, but it was hard. I feel like I’ve been able to grow into my role on this team, though.” - Lindsey Smart

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Crews make gains on southwestern Utah fire SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Crews made progress on a large wildfire burning in southwestern Utah on Tuesday but another fire farther north jumped a highway, torched power poles and knocked out electricity to several communities.

The Mill Flat fire, which burned three homes over the weekend, had blackened more than 17 square miles by late Tuesday afternoon, according to Kathy Jo Pollock, a spokeswoman for the firefighting team.

The fire is 10 percent contained but continues to threaten about 550 homes and 58 commercial properties in the area of New Harmony.

Residents in the area remain on a one-hour notice for evacuations if the fire picks up again.

Local fire departments are monitoring homes

and buildings in the area.

Slightly cooler and calmer conditions allowed crews to make small gains Tuesday, including solidifying a fire line on the fire’s east flank, which is closest to the developed areas.

Also Tuesday, two firefighters sustained minor injuries but details were not available.

There are about 650 people assigned to the fire, along with four helicopters, 30 engines and two bulldozers.

To the north, stiff winds fanned the Sawmill Canyon fire. Earlier in the day, fire officials estimated it had burned about 8 square miles. But Lisa Reid, a spokeswoman for the fire crew, said late Tuesday afternoon that fire south of Scipio had jumped Highway 50 and was moving quickly.

Storm: State of emergency declared SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, R-Ariz., center, speaks as Sen. Richard Burr, R-NC, left, and Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., right, look on during a health care forum in Charlotte, N.C. AP photo

Republican senators on the road to slow health care reform CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – An odd couple of Republican senators have hit the road, arguing for a go-slow approach to President Barack Obama’s push to revamp health care.

Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and 2008 presidential nominee John McCain are headlining the GOP’s answer to the raucous town hall meetings of August in which congressional Democrats had to shout over angry constituents about health care, growing deficits and the increasing role of the federal government.

Not known for working closely or particularly liking each other – the two waged a fierce fight for years over campaign finance – McConnell and McCain nonetheless have been united at three events in two days in which they’ve urged a more modest approach on

Obama’s top domestic priority.

In North Carolina on Tuesday, they interacted with something close to deference, unity and self-deprecation.

McConnell introduced McCain as the “famous GOP senator.”

McCain answered, “You mean our most famous loser.”

Hardly an upbeat outlook, but on health care they have reasons to work together and try to frame Republican opposition to a comprehensive health care overhaul in thoughtful and credible terms.

Start with the GOP’s drive to recover in next year’s midterm elections after the drubbing Republicans took from Obama and the Democrats in 2008. To do that, they must bring the Democrats down a notch from an effective hold on 60 Senate votes, potentially enough to kill

GOP filibusters and control policy.

Political recovery is an issue for McCain, too.

The decorated war veteran and recognized expert on national security and campaign finance reform has largely deferred to other Republicans on health care although the Arizona lawmaker is a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

But in recent weeks, McCain has been outspoken on health care overhaul and its pricetag of $1 trillion-plus over 10 years and basing his argument on his reputation as a deficit hawk.

Health care also offers McCain a chance to revise his image with millions of Americans and fill the elder statesman role embodied by his friend and former colleague, the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.

-continued from page 2 While the storm’s eye was forecast to pass west and north of the city, another 20,000 were expected to evacuate elsewhere in the peninsula. Schools, many ports and most businesses were closed.

Children ran through strong gusts of wind Tuesday waving pieces of paper and trash bags under bands of intermittent rain. Forecasters expect the hurricane to leave between 5 and 10 inches of rain in Baja, but already the dry stream beds had turned into gushing torrents.

Hank and Maureen Butt, from Los Gatos, California, snapped photos outside their Cab San Lucas Hotel, enjoying the driving winds.

“The waves have been great,” said Maureen Butt, an intensive care nurse.

“I think we’re going to be out of harm’s way as far as major damage,” her husband said. “We’re in a very good structure here.”

Most tourists had already fled by Tuesday, leaving 75 percent of hotel rooms vacant. But some of those who

remained came out to see the storm with avid anticipation, fighting the winds and intermittent bands of rain at the shore.

Hurricane chaser Brian Osburn of Pensacola, Florida, stood on a beach in high tech gear and protective padding while holding a plasticencased, submersible Hi-definition video camera to take shots of the poundin g surge and gusts.

“I think Cabo San Lucas is still in for a good blow,” said Osburn, holding his waterproof microphone into the shrieking winds.

Others wandered the nowdeserted streets, some ankledeep in water, enjoying the storm.

“We’re going to go, get some more liquor and go back to the room and just watch it,” said Mark Lopez, 29, a truck dispatcher from San Jose, California, as he walked near a marina with a half-dozen friends. “We’re making the most of it.”

Many slum dwellers concerned about looting refused

to leave their imperiled shanties.

Marco Nina, 24, a bricklayer, warily eyed a growing stream that rushed past his plywood and sheet metal home.

“We are here with our nerves on edge,” he said. “If this hits, the roof is not going to hold. Other storms have passed but not this strong.”

By Tuesday afternoon, Jimena had weakened slightly, with winds of 125 mph (205 kph), still a major hurricane with potential to do huge damage. It was located 110 miles (175 kilometers) southwest of Cabo San Lucas and traveling north-northwest near 12 mph (19 kph).

Local officials say Hurricane Juliet, also a Category 4 hurricane on a similar course that killed several people and caused $20.5 million in September 2001, was the most damaging hurricane in the storm-prone state’s history. That 145-mph (230 kph) storm made a raging 12-day trip through Mexico and the southern United States.

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Trying to make sense of health care reform

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ealth care. Oh, those two dreaded words.

These words are thrown around in debate as sort of a political buzzword. The system is going through big measures of reform in hopes to cut costs and create a more effective program.

But honestly, what is health care and how does it affect us, Aggies, in Utah?

President Obama’s Web page states he is working to create a health care plan that will be beneficial to every citizen of the U.S. He said he’ll do this by reforming the health care system, promoting scientific and technological advancements and improving preventative care. Preventative care includes things like cancer screenings and better nutrition coupled with investments in electronic health records can help save lives, the site states.

“A better system is also essential to rebuilding our economy,” it states.

Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, during his visit in Logan said Obama has tried to let the House and Senate create a health care bill from which a health care plan can be constructed. Neither body could agree on an affordable, realistic bill.

Bennett said Obama set a deadline for these legislative bodies to have a bill prepared, which was before the August recession. More information about progress on the health care reform process can be found at www.healthreform.gov.

“Health care reform cannot wait, it must not wait, and it will not wait another year,” Obama said Feb. 24.

So let’s get this straight. Obama says he wants to create a program that will fit every U.S. citizen, but Bennett said no one has been able to come up with a bill so far. If politicians can’t grasp the situation enough to decide on an outline of a program, the rest of us are in for a headache.

And let’s be honest, not many of us have really tried to work our way through the health care program’s intricate details. At least not seriously.

Many USU students are young and health care is far from their thoughts. These students, however, are getting close to or have already reached that point where being educated on what health care is and how it’s used is important. The problem is, with all this information flying around – different plans, different ideals, different politician’s motives – health care becomes so muddled and confusing that deciphering the concept is too much to stomach, especially after spending an hour doing assigned reading for an upper-level physics class.

I feel a headache coming on.

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Japan’s new rulers

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ow do you say “throw the bums out” in Japanese?

That’s what Japanese voters did on Sunday, booting the Liberal Democratic Party that has ruled almost continuously for more than half a century and leaves now with the world’s second-largest economy in sorry shape. The newly elected Democratic Party of Japan is an eclectic mix of leftists and defectors from the ruling party. Its ability to run the country is untested, and its leaders have yet to explain how to pay for their populist campaign promises.

Nevertheless, this page sees the election upset as a potentially positive development. A one-party state is bound to grow stale; competition is as important in politics as it is in business.

The outgoing Liberal Democratic Party helped turn Japan from a post-World War II wreck into a global powerhouse. In league with industry and a powerful government bureaucracy, the ruling party oversaw decades of growth that offered its citizens lifelong jobs with housing and health care. But that system has been unraveling since the Japanese economy collapsed in the 1990s. Now, government scandals, recession, unemployment and an aging population’s deep anxiety about the future have prompted voters who normally value stability to reject the known and embrace the promise of change.

Although the Democratic Party has never held power, key members come from the political elite, starting with leader Yukio Hatoyama, who is expected to be named prime minister. His grandfather is a founder of the justdefeated Liberal Democratic Party, and Hatoyama himself was a legislator. Other party members also have served in the Legislature or held Cabinet posts. At the same time, the party and the country should benefit from an infusion of new political blood, including many first-time legislators and more women. About a third of the 480 seats in the lower house will be filled by newcomers.

This kind of change is necessary but not sufficient to fix Japan’s problems. During the campaign, the Democratic Party promised support for families with children as well - See JAPAN, page 13

ForumLetters No sympathy for Vick

To the editor: An opinion article appeared in The Statesman contending that Michael Vick should be forgiven and receive a “second chance”. Yet, this article glossed over Vick’s crimes so allow me to examine this view a bit more critically and make a few points.

To begin with, the view simply states Vick performed “horrible” actions, yet this word is not strong enough to describe Vick’s vicious, cruel and sick torture tactics. He not only bought, bred and trained dogs to fight, he used bait dogs, pry bars (to rip their mouths open during fights), Rape Racks, and several other fighting tools.

And if the dogs were not good fighters, him and his buddies (all part of Bad Newz Kennels – which is quite a catchy name for someone to come up with who later claimed he was regretful that he ran this business) electrocuted, drowned and brutally beat dogs in order to kill them.

Secondly, the view argued that the values of our society seem backwards because Vick’s crimes received so much attention.

The article also implies that Vick’s 21-month sentence was excessive, yet it is not even one month for each dogs’ life he ruined. When Vick’s dog-fighting ring was busted, investigators cited three key points of evidence: the fighting arena itself with bloodstained walls, carpets and kennels, 56 injured and

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scarred pit bulls and 10 deceased dogs’ bodies. When this evidence was revealed, Vick’s dog-fighting business had been active for six years. We will never know the actual count of lives lost or the number of dogs who lived their lives suffering at Vick’s Bad Newz Kennels, but 21 months sure seems a lot shorter than 6 years to me.

Thirdly, Vick has RECEIVED his second chance. He spent less than two years in jail, and he is now free. Wait, that is not enough, fans want protestors to leave Vick alone so he can rebuild his all-American “image”. Yet, have any of you Vick fans considered why these protestors do not want him in the NFL? The NFL in America is part of our culture and to let a man with this sort of charter in the NFL is devastating to many American citizens.

Lastly, Vick is not the least bit remorseful.

If he were, maybe he would have stopped after he killed the first dog, or maybe after the 100th fight, or maybe after the first year, yet he never stopped until he was caught.

Being convicted is what he is sorry for, not for the lives lost, not for the money he made, and not for the example he set for all of his young fans.

My point is this: before you forget Vick’s actions at least investigate his crimes or spend two minutes looking at the pictures of the dogs that survived Vick’s fighting ring and try to imagine their suffering.

Kelsie Martinez

As a matter of faith

s a boy, the only parts of those museum field trips that didn’t bore me to death were dinosaurs and anything involving ancient legends. The stale smell of the building and broken cassette-player guides couldn’t have contrasted more with the glory and violence on the canvas. Whether they showed the fury of Zeus, or the might of Ra, I dreamed of being with these incredible figures (sometimes combining them with the dinosaurs), watching them battle for command of the universe. Few things can spur a young lad’s imagination more than a bunch of monstrous reptiles throwing lightning at one another. The day I discovered old Zgrade Godzilla movies, my life couldn’t have been more pristine.

In school and church however, my wideeyed questions about the gods and monsters were always dismissed with adults’ fake smiles and rolling eyes. They just answered that these old tales were merely ways of “explaining things they couldn’t understand.”

This phrase was always used regarding a scientific account, referring to weather events or medical anomalies. Eventually I swallowed the pill that these awesome stories were just dodges of reality or reason by a bunch primitive brutes. My church at the time though, which was of the literalist variety, inadvertedly refused to let my wonder fail me. I began to question why one faith was less legitimate than another, if the general rule was that the account was merely a cover up for limited technology or other tools. Sitting at my window at night, watching lightning dance beautifully across a black sky as a storm mercilessly pummels the land, I refused to believe that things could be so simple, so cut and dry.

As I’ve grown in my experience – in the loss of loved ones, feeling the earth shake from an Iraqi car bomb, or the joy of experiencing real beauty – my understanding has grown with me. Most of the arguments between my fellow soldiers in our oven-like barracks were about faith and in another way, truth. This has been true throughout our history, leading to some of our greatest art, philosophy and heroes, as well as our most horrific wars. Faith and religion, I’ve come to realize, are about more than overactive imaginations or ignorance of scientific methods. It is about humanity’s pursuit of the

bridge between our world and nature and that of transcendence (or divinity). The stories, parables and beings present in religion are our ways of explaining these things to ourselves, regardless of the presence or lack of scientific empirical evidence. Christ talked to his followers in parables for this same reason, to show the nature of divine will and how we relate to it, as well as each other. He was not speaking of God as a physical man operating a vineyard that we will one day see with the Hubble Telescope, that was never his point.

Just as it was with Christ’s life and the parables he left us, it is with religions around the globe. It doesn’t matter whether it is the self sacrifice of the great Norse allfather Odin so that he might gain true knowledge, the self immolation of Hercules on a pyre to atone for his great sin or the near murder of Isaac by his father Abraham’s hand to fulfill his covenant with God. From profound loss to immeasurable joy, along with my deep intellectual revelations, I have learned of their truths regardless of any prejudice.

These stories are about the deep truths of our existence, the cost and impact of our decisions. Religion can be subject to mistaken reasoning, which often is, with devastating consequences. However, this takes nothing away from its wisdom and truth, and the guidance and hope it seeks to give us in our dark hours. The billions in the world who have devoted their lives to faith of any kind, I realized, are no different than I was, looking to explain what they could probably never grasp through reason alone, what they could never understand. In the words of St. Anselm, “For I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand. For this also I believe, – that unless I believed, I should not understand.”

Will Holloway is a senior majoring in philosophy from Salt Lake City, Utah. His column will appear every other Wednesday.

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Recession sparks modern-day gold rush 40 miles west of Yosemite National Park. The bearded man helping him drag the mining gear into the water was a jobless logger who lost his home to foreclosure.

Fifty feet downstream, an unemployed concrete-truck COLUMBIA, Calif. Maybe it was the nail in Ray’s head. Maybe driver scoured the river bottom beside a laid-off furniture it was the economy. His wife said one as much as the other drove mover, back to prospecting after a day spent wrestling with the the decision to auction off everything that wouldn’t fit in the unemployment office. trailer and leave Vermont for the mother lode.

“You have to consider the economy,” said Gary Rhinevault, “Thought we’d try to make a living at it,” Kim Lague said, caretaker of the Lost Dutchman’s Mining Association standing in a mining camp that was busier during the Great Depression than it was in the Gold Rush of 1849, and is busy once campground, where 45 prospectors pay as little as 30 cents a day to pitch their tents. “In 1932, there were more prospectors out again. trying to make a living than in the 1850s.”

And so, 18 months after a co-worker’s pneumatic hammer Even in the trough of today’s great recession, most of the drove a 2 1/2-inch stainless-steel nail into Ray Lague’s skull — prospectors still double as hobbyists. The Lost Dutchman’s “the plunger of the gun brushed my hat and discharged” — the club allows members to camp for six months at a time, and its once-thriving contractor took his place among the prospectors dozen or so claims are crowded first with the motor homes of lining the steep banks of the South Fork of the Stanislaus River, freewheeling retirees.

But as the economy soured, their ranks were swelled by adults of working age, pulled by gold prices flirting with $1,000 a troy ounce — the highest in more than two decades — and pushed by unfortunate circumstance.

While there is no way to quantify the trend, anecdotally it is clear that the jobless are showing up not only in California but also elsewhere around the country where gold has been found in the past.

“I have been seeing a lot of it this year, with so many people getting laid off or hours cut way back,” said Tim LeGrand, owner of TN Gold & Gems in Coker, Tenn. Permits for prospecting in the nearby Cherokee National Forest, BERNARD CRUZ, left, and Scott Greene sift through sand for gold in Columbia, Calif. The price of named for the tribe pushed the precious metal is at its highest level in decades. Post photo by Katherine Frey.

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Both are out of work and say they have nothing better to do. Post photo by Katherine Frey.

westward after gold was discovered in early 1800s, have more than doubled since 2007.

“People come out with high hopes and don’t realize the work that is involved until they get into it,” LeGrand said. “ Most try a few days and give up. Many struggle on and learn to pan. Very few get enough gold to do them any financial good.”

On the South Fork, everyone claims to know this.

“No one’s making a living down here,” said Tony Stroud, an unemployed machinist who, like the other prospectors repeating the phrase, surely believes the words.

And yet, here they all are, investing $1,500 to $5,000 for the suction dredges that vacuum up gravel, for the sluices that separate the gravel from the black sand, and, not least, for the big plastic pans that, after the machines have done the heavy work, reveal the glimmers of color that set hearts to racing and render reason irrelevant.

“You didn’t hear it from me,” Stroud went on a moment later, “but a guy in Columbia said downstream he took 14 ounces out in 48 hours. And we’re going to jump his hole.”

Robert McFadden, seated to his right on a picnic table, set down his morning beer.

“What’s the appeal of prospecting?” he said. “Hope I can get rich, number one.”

The river is cluttered with the miners’ gear and the boulders they constantly rearrange in the search for a spot not already groomed of flakes. Yet the feeling is orderly, tents and motor homes lined around a rustic clubhouse that evokes familiar notions of prospecting as reliably as the bushy beards sported by many of the men.

In a shady bend a mile downstream, DeWayne and Nick Shepard labored in frustration beside the Michigan flag, planted upon arrival 30 days earlier on a trip planned for three years.

Their vision of prospecting was informed by repeated viewings — “must be hundreds of times,” Nick said — of “Gold Fever” and other cable television programs produced by members of the family that owns the camps.

“He shows you, in his pan, what must be $15,000 in gold he says he got in two days,” said Nick Shepard, 28, who left his masonry job to come west with his retired father.

“We wonder if there aren’t people who got sucked in worse than us,” DeWayne said.

The Lagues watched the same shows.

“Realistically, when we first started out, they say you can make an ounce a day,” said Kim Lague, in the 31-foot trailer the couple now calls home. “Now it’s down to, we just want to make an ounce a month.”

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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Crossword Puzzler • MCT Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis

ACROSS 1 Absorbed 5 Snake with a puff variety 10 Shakespeare’s Avon calling?

14 Become equitable in the long run 16 One with regrets 17 Remote measuring devices 18 Cheese coated in red paraffin 19 China’s Zhou __ 20 That, in Madrid 21 Museum in Madrid 22 “Tea for Two” for two, e.g.

23 Country singer Yearwood 25 Geometric fig.

26 Show featuring agents 86 and 99 28 Web search tool 30 Lumberjack, at times 31 1980s-’90s Buick sports car 32 “See?!”

37 1993-2001 White House maiden name 38 Symbol on a staff 39 Like most piano technician services 40 Football setting 45 Peg under a dimpled ball 46 Legal term that’s French for “on a bench” 48 Sushi wrapper 49 Chelmsford’s county 51 Blood typing letters 52 Photons’ family, in physics 53 Elec. supplier 54 2002 film for which Adrien Brody won a Best Actor Oscar 56 Ruse 57 Used car dealer’s spiel, say 58 Dict. offerings 59 Clay bakers 60 Southwestern art colony town

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By Don Gagliardo

DOWN 1 OK for kids, filmwise 2 Michigan in Chicago, e.g.

3 Bit of buckshot 4 Dog training aids 5 Time of your life 6 Checked 7 “Sound familiar?”

8 Continental currency 9 ACLU concerns 10 Rabbit or Bear’s title 11 Gall 12 Interpret by inference 13 H.G. Wells’s island researcher 15 “__ losing it?”

21 Like some den walls 23 Cabbies in Canterbury 24 One seriously straying from the flock?

27 Sargent portrait of a mysterious Frenchwoman 29 Guy’s partner 32 Newspaper accounts 33 With no deception

Thursday’s Puzzle Solved

Answers found elsewhere in this issue of The Statesman!

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34 Bonding 35 Even if, informally 36 Like gift wrap on Christmas morning 41 Like con artists’ shills, e.g.

42 Bilingual Muppet 43 Pitcher Jesse, who had the most career appearances

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44 Final innings 47 Mideast religion that preaches equality 50 Bridge expert Culbertson et al.

52 “Southern” relig.

54 “For shame!”

55 Unit of Time: Abbr.

Today’s Issue

StatesmanBack Burner Page 16

Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009

Wednesday

Student Deadlines You need to know....

Sept. 2

- Celebrate America Show, TSC

Today is Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009. Today’s issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Chris Plowman, junior majoring in biochemistry from Seattle, Wash.

Almanac Today in History: In 1945, aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Japan formally surrenders to the Allies, bringing an end to World War II. Japanese foreign minister, Mamoru Shigemitsu, and the chief of staff of the Japanese army, Yoshijiro Umezu, signed the “instrument of surrender.”

Weather High: 88° Low: 52° Skies: Clear

Ballroom, 7 p.m.

-College Democrats Opening Social, Quad, 5:30 p.m.

Thursday

Sept. 3 -USU @ Utah Football Pre-Game Party, Rodizio Grill, 7 p.m.

-Celebrate America Show, TSC Ballroom, 7 p.m.

-Football @ Utah, 7 p.m.

Friday

Sept. 4 -Car-Free Fridays, All-Day -Women’s Soccer vs. Oklahoma State, 4 p.m.

-Celebrate America Show, TSC Ballroom, 7:00 p.m.

-True Aggie Night, Quad, 11:30 p.m.

Registrar’s office deadlines Sept 4: Last day to receive 100% refund, Tuition and Fee due.

Sept 5: Registration Purge. Sept 7: Labor day (no Classes)

GRE & LSAT prep GRE & LSAT prep course.

Courses run Sept. 8-Oct 15.

LSAT is T/Th 4 - 6 p.m. and GRE is T/Th 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

For more information contact Melanie Klein at melanie. klein@usu.edu or cal 797-0452.

Childrens music

MUSIC FOR THE Small and Tall 2009 Fall Session starts Sept. 15. This is a program for young children, ages 6 months to 6 years old. All classes take place at the Book Table and include a Family Class at 10:15 a.m., a Babies and Tots Class at 11 a.m., and a Preschool Class at 11:45 a.m.. For more information contact Ewa Wilczynski at: 755-0853 or email at music4st@comcast.net.

USU Lacrosse

THE USU MEN’S Lacrosse team will be holding an informational team meeting on Sept. 2 at 6 p.m. meet in the lobby of the HPER building. All those returning need to attend or contact Coach Mercer. All new students wishing to participate this year need to be in attendance.

Live music Fictionist live: Popular Salt Lake band returns to Why Sound (30 Federal Ave) Thursday Sept. 3, 8:00 p.m. They will be joined by locals Libbie Linton and Armorie. $6. myspace.com/ whysound.

Come take a look at photographers work from the study abroad program in Scotland.

Runs Sept. 2-19. Reception on Sept 4 from 5-9 p.m. in the Twain Tippetts Gallery in the Fine Arts Building.

Women’s Resource Center and Reentry Student Center scholarship reception Sept.

3 in the TSC Sky Room. 6:3010 p.m. Donors and recipients invited. Please RSVP. Questions call 797-1728 or womenscenter@ usu.edu.

Come practice with the Institute choir for the CES broadcast in the Institute building Sept. 1 8:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Aggie mountain bike race: Short track @ Renegade Sports Sept. 18 @ 5 p.m., cross country @ Sherwood Hills Sept. 19 @ 9 a.m., Check out www.usucycling. com for more info.

Study abroad fair and passport fair. Learn about study abroad options at USU. Sept. 15 in the TSC Sunburst Lounge. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more info contact 797-0601 or studyabroad@ usu.edu.

Ever wonder who you can talk to about classes, but want someone that can relate to you? Find out who is your peer advisor at usu.edu/peers Touch lives and lift spirits. If you are interesting in becoming a hospice volunteer and making a difference in someone’s life, call Sabrina at 435-752-3355 for more info.

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