The Utah Statesman, September 4, 2009

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Aggies show signs of life, fall short For anyone who thought Thursday’s 35-17 loss to the Utah Utes was just another woodshed job, it was far from it. After a long spring and summer of talk about a new attitude with a new coach, the on-field product in Rice-Eccles Stadium bore the imprint of Gary Andersen’s personality in every aspect of the game. USU knocked the heavily favored Utes back on their heels with an opening drive which showcased the newfound aggression of USU’s playcalling. In the second quarter, the Aggies showed determination in keeping Utah out of the end zone in four tries from inside the five.

So what if Utah quickly collected two points from a safety after being stuffed on fourth-and-short? Focusing on USU’s difficulties against the Utes – 0-12 on third down, Borel’s passes repeatedly knocked down– misses the point of where USU has been and where the program is going. Unlike last year’s 58-10 wipeout in Logan, the Utes were in a football game for four quarters.

The Aggies’ blitzes were largely picked up cleanly by Utah’s experienced offensive line and backfield. But unlike previous coaches, Andersen didn’t get cold feet about the defensive package he had installed, even when Utah’s new starting quarterback, Terrence Cain, worked the slant routes for a 20-30 night with 285

yards, two touchdowns and one interception that came on a deflection. WAC foes beware: The USU pass rush is going to come hard and from multiple angles this year, and won’t be deterred by giving up a big play here or there.

Andersen looked most irritated with his new team after some ugly special teams plays, which is one of the main areas that really needs to be cleaned up for USU to compete with the rest of

its difficult non-conference schedule. But even if USU can’t get a win out of conference, except for against Southern Utah, notice has been served. Dates against USU are no longer walkovers. Fans who felt like they could call USU’s offensive plays in advance the last three seasons will love watching Aggies’ offensive coordinator’s Dave Baldwin, offense, which shows opponents everything from five-wide sets to the wishbone sets, along with complex shifts and motion on many plays.

– graham.terry@aggiemail.usu.edu

Boarders banned from tricks USU Distance

By MIKAYLA RICH staff writer

Many students on campus have skateboards they use to get around, to and from class, enjoying both the ride and speed of them. However, many students do not know where they can and cannot use their skateboards.

The university’s official policy states skateboarding is only allowed as transportation and not for recreational purposes.

This policy, however, raises the question: What constitutes recreation?

Utah State University Police Capt. Steve Milne said, “We define recreation with a skateboard as running the board on a bench, rail or doing tricks.”

Upon a first offense the violator will receive a verbal warning, a second offense is a $25 JAYSON BEVAN IS GIVEN A FINE from an officer for using his skateboard for other means than fine and impoundment of the transportation. All tricks on railing, stairs and other campus property are prohibited. Skateboards are skateboard, a third offense only allowed on roadways when crossing the street. STEVE SELLERS photo illustration results in a $50 fine and until it is up for bid. Students impoundment, and any addipus at all. aged property. also have the choice whether to tional offenses can be followed The University of Utah’s polIt is also important to note pay the fine. with criminal charges, accordicy on skateboards states, “No that Logan city code states no “In the past we’ve impounding to USU Police’s Web site. skateboards, scooters or roller skateboards or any similar ed boards and students have Milne also said when an indiskates may be ridden or used devices are allowed on the expressed that the board isn’t vidual is caught for a second on university property between roadways except when crossing even worth $25,” said Milne. time they may be tempted to the hours of 11:30 p.m. and 6 the street on a crosswalk. USU Not paylie and give the officer wrong a.m., except policy allows for the riding of ing the fine information. as necessary skateboards on vehicular travel doesn’t put “We usually ask for some for the transways on campus, but does not “In the past a hold on type of identification,” he said. portation of allow the riding of them inside we’ve impoundthe student’s “If they don’t have that, we ask university any building. ed boards and transcript. for their name, birth date and employees and Students are free to enjoy students have Milne said state where their license was students who riding their skateboards on they just issued. Our officers can call have legiticampus as long as they adhere expressed that don’t get the into dispatch and have them mate reasons to the policies set in place. the board isn’t board back. run the information. If they for being on It is popular among college even worth $25.” university Other catch the individual lying, students to use skateboards as universities the officer can bring them in – Steven Milne, property dur- transportation because they around the because they’ve taken someare inexpensive and an easy USU Police Capt. ing these thing that is just a $25 fine to a state have hours.” way to travel from one place to $250 criminal charge for giving different Utah Valley another on campus. policies. us false information.”

University’s –mikayla.rich@aggiemail.usu.

Brigham Young University’s If a student’s skateboard is policy is that if a citation is edu policy, for instance, doesn’t impounded, the owner will issued, the violator will be allow any skateboards on camhave 90 days to pay the fine responsible for paying all dam-

Inside This Issue

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USU alumnus creates Logan history book through photographs.

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Education names associate dean

By CANDICE MATTSON staff writer

Utah State University has recently hired Martha Archuleta as associate dean for the USU Regional Campuses and Distance Education Wasatch Front region.

Archuleta started her responsibilities in the beginning of August, following the acceptance of an offer from USU. Last September, Archuleta was contacted by university administrators to see if she was interested in applying. This position was available because of recent expansion and reconfiguration by the distance education program.

“Great universities have great leaders, and I’m confident we found one in Dr. Archuleta,” said Gary Straquadine, dean and executive director of the Utah State University Tooele Regional Campus. Her experience tells us she has the qualifications and experience for the job, he added. Straquadine, who recently moved from the Logan campus to the regional campus at Tooele, started his position as dean and executive director on May 1. He said administrators were looking for someone to be based in Salt Lake City to assist with the regional campuses.

Other duties as associate dean include supporting programs that meet the needs of the state. Archuleta will travel to regional campuses and centers to support and access the staff. USU Distance Education

is comprised of three regional campuses: Tooele, Uintah Basin and Brigham City. And it has smaller education centers scattered throughout the state.

“I’ll be working primarily with the Wasatch Front and the Southwest region,” Achuleta said.

Straquadine said he worked with Archuleta to establish three goals for their work together. The three goals are to build programs to serve communities, to stay within the confines of a research intensive university while delivering quality programs and to help regional student bodies feel more cohesive.

“I think the challenges are making sure that we’re working in many locations throughout the state and working closely with the Logan campus,” Archuleta said.

Another challenge will be to recruit students and inform them of the programs offered in the area, she said.

Archuleta refers to it as matching programs with people to help communities grow.

She is excited to offer opportunities to students who couldn’t come to Logan and who have economic challenges that make it hard to relocate for college.

“That’s the uniqueness of it, that USU can branch out over the state,” she said.

Archuleta was raised in western Oklahoma in a farm-

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Celebs&People RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – Police in Virginia say singer Chris Brown will remove graffiti, pick up trash and wash cars as part of his sentence for beating ex-girlfriend Rihanna.

The 20-yearold Brown was sentenced in California last BROWN month to a fiveyear probation, six months of community labor and a year of domestic violence counseling for the February attack.

He is performing the labor in Richmond near his home.

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Darfur says war is over

CAIRO (AP) – The outgoing U.N. peacekeeping chief in Sudan’s Darfur region said the world should no longer consider the long-running conflict a war after a sharp decline in violence and deaths over the past year.

Activists and Darfur residents disagree, and the comments by Rodolphe Adada heightened anxiety that there will be less international focus on resolving the root problems in the troubled region.

U.N. peacekeepers have recorded a sharp decline in fatalities from violence. There were 16 deaths in June, compared to an average 130 deaths per month last year.

“We can no longer talk of a big conflict, of a war in Darfur,” Adada told The Associated Press this week before stepping down as head of the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur, or UNAMID. “I think now everybody understands it. We can no longer speak of this issue. It is over,” he said.

The Darfur conflict began in February 2003 when ethnic African rebels took up arms against the Arab-dominated Sudanese government in Khartoum, claiming discrimination and neglect.

U.N. officials say the war has claimed at least 300,000 lives from violence, disease and displacement. They say some 2.7 million people were driven from their homes and at its height, in 2003-2005, it was called the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

President Barack Obama’s new envoy to Sudan, Scott Gration, caused an outcry in June when he said the violence in Darfur no longer amounted to genocide and then suggested easing sanctions against the

IN THIS THURSDAY, JULY 17, 2008 PHOTO released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, Joint AU-UN Special Representative Rodolphe Adada, left, greets members of the Chinese follow-up troop of engineering unit after their arrival in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur. Sudan.

Sudanese government.

Adding to the complications, violence is on the rise on another front in semi-autonomous southern Sudan, more than four years after a 2005 peace accord ended a separate 21-year civil war that left 2 million people dead. If violence there escalates, it could potentially overshadow Darfur.

Adada said the decline in violence in Darfur is an opportune time to push forward a peace process that so far has had no success.

Obama speech to students draws conservative ire

Police investigate assault of child at BK WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) – Police say they are looking for a man who they believe sexually assaulted a 7-year-old boy in a restroom of a West Valley City restaurant.

West Valley police Capt.

Tom McLachlan says a mother and her two children went to a Burger King on Aug. 15. While she was placing an order, police say her 7-year-old son went to the restroom.

When the boy didn’t return after a while the mother walked toward the restrooms just as police say the suspect was exiting.

LateNiteHumor David Letterman, Sept. 2, 2009 – Top Ten Dumb Guy Tips To Combat The Swine Flu 10. Give your pigs and hogs Advil, vitamin C and plenty of liquids.

9. Let President Nixon figure it out.

8. Be extra vigilant when shopping at Piggly Wiggly.

7. Tax cuts for the rich.

6. Forget swine flu, you should be worried about the Obama death panels.

5. Lock yourself in Y2K bunker.

4. Spray your pork chops with Lysol.

3. Initiate talks with the leader of the pigs, see if we can’t work this out.

2. If you see a pig, run!

1. Those microscopic germs don’t stand a chance against Dr. Jack Daniels.

During a visit to Darfur in July, Gration appealed to refugees in one of the largest camps to return to their villages. He also suggested easing sanctions against Sudan, telling a Senate hearing that month there was no longer any evidence to support the U.S. designation of Sudan as a state sponsor of terrorism.

His comments were welcomed in Sudan, which has always maintained the death toll in Darfur was greatly exaggerated and said it was fighting a counterinsurgency, not a war.

U.S. SEN. ORRIN HATCH, R-UTAH (AP Photo)

Herbert, Hatch criticize federal energy SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch on Thursday criticized proposed federal legislation that calls for the nation’s first limits on pollution linked to global warming.

The Republicans released a report that said the price of electricity in Utah would increase under the bill, which has already passed in the House.

“Cap-and-trade legislation has the potential to have a significant impact on our economy,” said Herbert, who contends Utah’s energy prices would be disproportionately increased under the bill.

Hatch and Herbert spoke at a forum in a state office building where critics in the energy industry assailed the bill. No environmental groups were invited to be participants at the forum, although it was open to the public.

Hatch contends that the costs associated with the bill outweigh any benefits achieved from a reduction in global warming. Herbert, meanwhile, still isn’t convinced whether humans have an impact on global warming despite wide-

spread acceptance in the scientific community that they do.

Herbert is planning a conference later this year to have what he says will be the first legitimate debate on global warming.

In opening comments, Herbert didn’t mention climate change or global warming once in reference to the federal bill.

“All of us understand the benefit, at least being proposed, by a cap-and-trade piece of legislation, which is cleaning the air. Something that we all ought to lock arms on say ‘We all want to have cleaner air,’” said Herbert, who has received significant campaign donations from energy companies in the past three months. “But what is not talked about as much is, ‘What is the cost in proportion to the benefit that comes with a cap and trade piece of legislation?’

It’s not without controversy.”

The legislation would require the U.S. to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020 and by about 80 percent by mid-century.

DALLAS (AP) – President Barack Obama’s back-toschool address next week was supposed to be a feel-good story for an administration battered over its health care agenda. Now Republican critics are calling it an effort to foist a political agenda on children, creating yet another confrontation with the White House.

Obama plans to speak directly to students Tuesday about the need to work hard and stay in school. His address will be shown live on the White House Web site and on C-SPAN at noon EDT, a time when classrooms across the country will be able to tune in.

Schools don’t have to show it. But districts across the country have been inundated with phone calls from parents and are struggling to address the controversy that broke out after Education Secretary Arne Duncan sent a letter to principals urging schools to watch.

Districts in states including Texas, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Virginia, Wisconsin have decided not to show the speech to students. Others are still thinking it over or are letting parents have their kids opt out.

Some conservatives, driven by radio pundits and bloggers, are urging schools and parents to boycott the address. They say Obama is using the opportunity to promote a political agenda and is overstepping the boundaries of federal involvement in schools.

“As far as I am concerned,

this is not civics education — it gives the appearance of creating a cult of personality,” said Oklahoma state Sen. Steve Russell. “This is something you’d expect to see in North Korea or in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.”

Arizona state schools superintendent Tom Horne, a Republican, said lesson plans for teachers created by Obama’s Education Department “call for a worshipful rather than critical approach.”

The White House plans to release the speech online Monday so parents can read it. He will deliver the speech at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Va. “I think it’s really unfortunate that politics has been brought into this,” White House deputy policy director Heather Higginbottom said in an interview with The Associated Press.

“It’s simply a plea to students to really take their learning seriously. Find out what they’re good at. Set goals. And take the school year seriously.”

She noted that President George H.W. Bush made a similar address to schools in 1991. Like Obama, Bush drew criticism, with Democrats accusing the Republican president of making the event into a campaign commercial.

Critics are particularly upset about lesson plans the administration created to accompany the speech. The lesson plans, available online, originally recommended having students “write letters to themselves about what they

can do to help the president.”

The White House revised the plans Wednesday to say students could “write letters to themselves about how they can achieve their short-term and long-term education goals.”

“That was inartfully worded, and we corrected it,” Higginbottom said.

In the Dallas suburb of Plano, Texas, the 54,000student school district is not showing the 15- to 20-minute address but will make the video available later.

PTA council president Cara Mendelsohn said Obama is “cutting out the parent” by speaking to kids during school hours.

“Why can’t a parent be watching this with their kid in the evening?” Mendelsohn said. “Because that’s what makes a powerful statement, when a parent is sitting there saying, ‘This is what I dream for you. This is what I want you to achieve.’”

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican, said in an interview with the AP that he’s “certainly not going to advise anybody not to send their kids to school that day.”

“Hearing the president speak is always a memorable moment,” he said.

But he also said he understood where the criticism was coming from.

“Nobody seems to know what he’s going to be talking about,” Perry said. “Why didn’t he spend more time talking to the local districts and superintendents, at least give them a heads-up about it?”

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Fee gives stability to Aggie Blue Bikes Briefs Campus & Community

Museum of Art receives major gift

By HEATHER FOSTER staff writer

Aggie Blue Bikes has added a $1.25 charge to student fees this year, implemented to help support the program financially and to hire a program coordinator. The fee increase was voted on and approved by the student body last spring.

Program coordinator Adam Christiansen said, “The student fee is for stability, to hire a program coordinator whose job will be partly to actively look for grants.”

According to Aggie Blue Bike’s Web site, the mission of the bike shop is “to get more people on more bikes more often to promote health, sustainable communities, to better the air quality in Cache Valley and reduce vehicle congestion.”

The way the shop has aimed to do this is by keeping the bikes and tools free to students, the Web site states.

However, with the economy in recession and volunteering limits in place, Christiansen said the program has become increasingly hard to run without student contribution, so a charge of $1.25 was introduced.

The Aggie Blue Bikes program is now geared to faculty and staff as well as students. Christiansen said Aggie Blue Bikes has partnered with the university’s employee wellness program, “Be Well”, by making their resources available to university employees.

Among these resources are the tool boards, which Christiansen said provide students with tools and professional help with bicycle repair and

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University has received a major gift of 31 new works from the Kathryn C. Wanlass Foundation and the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation. The new works are on display as part of the exhibition “Uses of the Real,” an exhibit that explores what constitutes art in today’s world.

Newly remodeled gallery spaces have also allowed the museum staff to bring out the collection in a way that has not been experienced before. Walls have been knocked down and new fixtures have been installed to allow approximately 500 more objects to be put on display.

This includes more than 100 photographs and 250 ceramic works, usually stored away and inaccessible to the public.

“We hope the next time our visitors walk through the gallerAGGIE BLUE BIKES FEE was approved by students last spring and was used to hire a program coordinator. The program ies they will be as delighted as we is geared toward students and faculty alike. STEVE SELLERS photo are because many of their favorite objects are now out of storage and maintenance. munity classes are also offered. will still fund the majority of the The tool boards are a big part of the Because of the variety of resources program, just as they have in the past, available to enjoy,” said museum director Victoria Rowe Berry. bike shop’s program, he said. They available, many students said they are Christiasen said.

The newly installed exhibition offer accessible bike tools and stands, supportive of the new fee.

“Up until this point, we’ve been of “Uses of the Real,” includes many as well as guidance from the student Freshman Katelyn Buttars said, “I’d lucky,” he said. new contemporary artists who employees who instruct rather than rather pay a couple of bucks to keep –heather.foster@aggiemail.usu.edu explore the themes of postmodernperform the repairs.

Aggie Blue Bikes the way it is than ism and reality. Artists in the exhiAs a result of this, students learn keep it free and watch it go downhill.” bition take objects from the everymore and are more likely to be able Even with the introduction of the day world and transform them into to help themselves in the future. student fee, Aggie Blue Bikes wants to art. From vintage upholstery fabric Christiansen said tutorials and comlet the community know that grants to a sparkling skeleton or chunks of cement to discarded musical instruments, museum visitors can see a wide variety of images and ideas.

Dean: Three goals for distance education -continued from page 3 ing and ranching community. She received her bachelor’s degree in animal science from Oklahoma State University and received her master’s in animal science from New Mexico State University – both degrees focused on animal nutrition. She earned her doctorate in nutritional science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaigne (UI), which focused on human nutrition. While attending UI, she also became a registered dietician.

“One of my interests or goals when I got my doctorate was moving back to the West,” she said.

Soon after receiving her Ph.D., she accepted a teaching and research position at the University of Utah in the area of community nutrition and public health. Archuleta enjoyed living in Utah for the first time and also met her now-husband in Salt Lake City.

She soon took a position at New Mexico State University as an extension food and nutrition spe-

cialist. Her focus was working with low-income families, teaching them how to prepare meals on a low budget. She also focused heavily on helping people in the community with diabetes. In that position, she managed a budget of $4 million a year that supported nutrition programs throughout the state. In 2005, she became the head of two departments, family and consumer sciences and extension home economics.

“I really enjoyed working with faculty and students and developing new programs in that position,” Archuleta said. When she was offered the job at USU, Archuleta was glad.

“My interest in coming back to Utah was that I was intrigued by distance education and the role it plays in helping provide education throughout the state,” she said. “The role of land-grant education is to make education possible for a wide variety of citizens.”

Rules to board by • The use of bicycles, skateboards and in-line skates shall be allowed only as a means of transportation on walkways and other vehicular travel ways of USU. • Anyone using a bicycle, skateboard or in-line skates on USU property shall give right of way to any pedestrian and shall travel at a reasonable, safe and prudent speed.

• Under no circumstance will bicycling, skateboarding or in-line skating be allowed on ramps, curbs, benches, steps or stairs and other such structures.

• The use of bicycles, skateboards or in-line skates shall not be permitted inside any building.

Information pulled from USU Policy Manual, policy 501.1

Herbarium hosts wildflower walks

MARTHA ARCHULETA

She also saw it as an opportunity to move closer to family and the outdoors that she enjoys with her husband, she said.

–candice.m@aggiemail.usu.edu

OFFICERS ARE GIVING STUDENTS ONE WARNING to stop using the campus as a skate park. After the warning, a $25 fine will be issued. On the third warning a $50 fine and the skateboard will be impounded. Students who do not pay the fines do not get their skateboards back. Any additional charges are criminal charges. STEVE SELLERS photo illustration

Laureate reads poem for first time

By MIKAYLA RICH staff writer

Utah Poet Laureate Katharine Coles visited Utah State University Wednesday by invitation of the English department. She read nine poems, including a never before heard poem, “The Tiger Swims Because She Wants To.” Coles was the first of the English Department Speakers Series through of the Caine School of the Arts. The reading took place in the Haight Alumni Center to an audience of students, professors and community members.

Shannon Ballam, an English department lecturer, opened for Katharine by reading five poems of her own. Ballam’s work was

nominated for inclusion in “Best New Poets” anthology, a non-profit literary magazine which exposes up-and-coming poets.

Coles said, “I find it much more fun to hear other people’s voices than my own.”

She said that she rarely reads unless other poets are showcasing their work as well.

Coles shared poems mostly from her recent published collection, “Fault.” She also shared a poem from a project she organized called Bite Size Poems, a collection of works from living Utah poets. Katharine’s “Out Like A Lion” performance, as well as the performances of all the Bite Sized poets, can be viewed at www.nowplayingutah. com.

–mikayla.rich@gmail.com

All wildflower enthusiasts are invited to participate in two late summer walks hosted by Utah State University’s Intermountain herbarium Saturday, Sept. 5, and Sunday, Sept. 6, in Logan Canyon. Both activities are free.

Saturday’s White Pine Lake Walk takes place at Tony Grove. Mary Barkworth, Herbarium director, will lead the four-hour tour and discuss flowers and plants along the trip.

Tony Grove is located about 20 miles northeast of campus on Highway 89.

Participants should take the Tony Grove turnoff from Highway 89, proceed northwest on a 7-mile paved road and gather at the Tony Grove parking lot. There is no charge for the walk but there is a $5 parking fee. The hike begins promptly at 9 a.m. Participants should bring water and a lunch.

On Sunday, Barkworth will lead a two-hour afternoon hike along the Limber Pine Trail. The trail features views of Bear Lake and winter ski areas, as well as wildflowers and a variety of plant associations. A highlight of the trail is a 2,560-year-old limber pine tree.

Participants should gather at the Limber Pine Trail head parking lot located on Highway 89 about 28 miles northeast of Logan. The trailhead, marked with a sign at the summit of Logan Canyon, is located at the point where Highway 89 begins its descent into the Bear Lake Valley.

Again, participants should bring water and snacks.

Because parking at the trail head is limited, participants are encouraged to carpool. The group leaves from the trail head for the hike promptly at 1 p.m.

Professor’s play to be produced in SLC The play “Faces on the Cutting Room Floor,” by Gene Washington, USU Emeritus professor of English, will be produced, along with other short plays, on the following dates: Friday, Sept. 11, 8 p.m.; Sunday, Sept. 13, 7 p.m.; Saturday, Sept. 19: 1 p.m.; Thursday, Sept. 24, 8 p.m.; Saturday, Sept. 26, 8 p.m. All productions, which will be performed by the Wasatch Theatre Company, will take place at the Studio Theatre at the Rose Wagner Center for the Performing Arts, 138 W. 300 South, SLC. Tickets can be purchased through www.arttix.org.

-Compiled from staff and media reports

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A weekend of spiritual healing Peruvian Shaman set to visit USU over Labor-day weekend

By CHELSEY GENSEL staff writer

Peruvian Shaman Oscar Miro-Quesada, an internation ally known Curandero (healer) and ceremonialist, will visit Utah State University for a labor-day weekend workshop called Sacred Space, Urban Grace. The focus will include topics of community, environment and healing arts, as well as multicultural and lifestyle elements.

Professor of anthropology Bonnie Glass-Coffin, who helped organize the event, said it is part of a series by the same title, which differs from Miro-Quesada’s tour in 2008 because it focuses on “our relationship to urban centers, what it means to be a citizen,” and remaining connected to that which is sacred.

Last year, events were focused on “honoring, and activating sacred sites, in nature,” Glass-Coffin said.

The event is sponsored by The Heart of the Healer Foundation (THOTH), a nonprofit organization that aims to preserve indigenous cultures and restore our earth. MiroQuesada founded THOTH and its regional chapters, of which there are five. The central region of which Utah is a part is called Chaupinsuyu and is the only region to host events in two locations, Glass-Coffin said.

She has been on the regional council of Chaupinsuyu for two and a half years, and helped to bring Miro-Quesada and his traditional teachings to USU. Council members nominate some spaces that would be good spots, and fertile ground for this work to occur, and our region nominated Salt Lake City and Kansas City, Glass-Coffin said.

“Oscar had never taught in Utah, and he chose both,” she said.

Glass-Coffin said because she lives and works here, and to encourage university and student interface, she asked if the Utah event could be moved to Logan, and Miro-Quesada said yes.

Miro-Quesada’s teachings and practices come from 17 years of apprenticeship with mentors in Peru, which he sought after

a near-death experience at the age of 10.

In addition to being ordained to the Peruvian Shamanic preisthoods, he also has studied Western psychology, medical anthropology and comparative religion. His travels and education programs and humanitarian work have been featured on television, including the Discovery Channel and CNN. Glass-Coffin became involved in THOTH and with MiroQuesada’s work after he invited her to be a keynote speaker at a 2005 international gathering of THOTH. “He invited me to speak because of my published work on Peruvian shamanism and because I am considered an expert in the tradition that his Pachakuti Mesa tradition comes from,” GlassCoffin said.

Glass-Coffin has studied shamanism for over 20 years as an anthropologist, and said when asked whether she was apprenticing with the healers and shamans, she had always said no.

“At that 2005 gathering,” Glass-Coffin said, “things began to change for me. I experience some of the magic Oscar brings with his presence and teachings ... I began to shift my perspective from that of just a researcher, to one of being deeply touched by the experience.”

She mentions compassion, love and support that connect members of the community of people that have been changed as a result of Miro-Quesada’s teachings.

After that, she worked with Miro-Quesada on several occasions. She said during one of them, she had “an intensely personal experience of the Sacred.”

“I peeked behind the veil of ordinary reality for the first time,” she said.

Glass-Coffin has worked more intensely with Miro-Quesada and his organization since that time, and began organizing this event in March. It is being co-sponsored by the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, USU’s Religious Studies program, Utah Bioneers and The Cosmic Nudge. Glass-Coffin said she reached out to these local partners because their work “resonates so beautifully with the work that Oscar is facilitating.”

This includes principles of interconnectedness, environmental consciousness and, as Glass-Coffin put it, “waking up and engaging in life.” Those who attend the workshop – Glass-Coffin expects 50-70 for the full weekend of sessions – or the free afternoon in the park should expect “pure magic,” Glass-Coffin said, as all of Miro-Quesada’s workshops are unique.

“He tailors each event to the needs of the moment, and is completely guided by his visions ... as an instrument of spirit,” she said. “Yet, he is also an extremely grounded individual, who can connect and engage with those present in very heartwarming ways. Each of these events is very much influenced by the gifts of those who show up.”

Glass-Coffin explained that Miro-Quesada’s calling in life is teaching, to awaken people to the “reality that our intentions and our actions do have tremendous power to restore the earth.”

Traveling and teaching, Glass-Coffin said, “as the Buddhist saying goes, is his ‘right livelihood.’”

Other projects Miro-Quesada is involved in include vari-

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Opening students’ eyes through the camera lens

By JEN MILLET staff writer

When Pat Barfuss heard someone say, “The skies in Scotland will make you weep,” she agreed. “They were so beautiful at times I found myself tearing up with joy as I watched them change constantly from one cloud formation to another,” she said.

Thirteen lucky students, including Pat, who is returning to Utah State University for her second bachelor’s degree, not only saw the country of Scotland outside the normal bounds of tourism, they captured their experience in more than 100 photographs to share with Logan. Traveling in rented vans, the students stopped where and when they pleased to best discover their individual visions, with all of Scotland as a canvas.

The aspiring photographers studied contemporary photographic processes and the rich cultural heritage of Scotland.

As they traveled through Glasgow, Edinbrich, and the Orkney Islands, their subjects included glens, highland mountains and moors, coastal beaches and cliffs, as well as ancient ruins, castles, local celebrations and people.

The breathtakingly diverse landscape had a special effect on senior photography major Taisa Thompson. “There is nothing like hiking the heather-covered highlands; one look and it is enough to take your breath away,” she said.

While the students’ description of the experience is beautiful, the photographs taken by Tasia and her classmates are even more telling.

A PIPER PLAYS AT a wedding in Glasgow, Scotland. The photo is one of many from the thirteen photography students who traveled to Scotland over the summer. An exhibit showcasing their work is available Sept. 2-19 in the Tippits Gallery in the Chase Fine Arts Center. photo courtesy TASIA THOMPSON

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The lesson learned from a bicycle

I tried to brake by pedaling backward, A friend started to mega-brag about her new bike as I participated in a conversation but was unable to complete the revoluwith some cohorts in my homeland of El tion because my pants were hindering the motion. Yikes.

Paso, Texas.

I dragged my left leg on to “Ooh,” I exclaimed excitthe cement until I skidded edly. “Does it have low to a stop. I tried wiggling scooping handlebars that I I situated the my right leg free, but it was can sit upon?” bicycle and I pinned to my bike. I was a She gave me the funniest prisoner in my own pants. look. Everyone in the group into a position It was a delicate balancing stopped talking and stared where I could act as I situated the bicycle at me blankly. vigorously tug and I into a position where “Y’know,” I explained, I could vigorously tug at my “It’s called ‘pumping.’ It’s a at my pant leg. pant leg. It was stuck. I was splendid way for moochers It was stuck. I stuck. But I refused to subto hitch rides.” mit to my fate.

If possible, their confused was stuck. But I Continuing to live my faces became even more refused to everyday life with a bicybewildered. submit to my cle attached to me was an Then one girl’s eyes lit option I wished to avoid. up. As she patted my shoulfate.

(So was the alternate option der, she spoke with a conof having to take off my descending tone, “Honey, pants.) we’re talking about a motorI slowly and carefully began to pull evencycle.” Everyone burst into peals of belly ly at my pant leg with surprising success. giggles.

It was slowly and surely becoming loosHmph. I sure felt sheepish.

“You’ve been in Logan way too long,” ened from the monster-grip of my bicycle’s chain. my friend with the new bike said.

But, as I am only human, I started to Maybe, maybe not. One thing I know is that Logan has taught me a few things panic because I needed to get somewhere, so I, regrettably, gave my pants a solid about bikes, the non-motor kind.

I learned this summer why cyclists roll yank. I heard the inevitable rip and stared up one pant leg. I used to point and laugh sadly at the bottom of my grease-stained at how ridiculous these types of people pants. looked, especially the ones that tuck their I humbly bent over and rolled it up. It jeans into their socks, but I laugh no more. was not even a matter of pride. It was not It is a serious and solemn thing. even a matter of saving my pants. It was a “Haha.” I used to laugh sneeringly at the matter of keeping my skeleton intact. kids in my classes with the stereotypical Please, my dear readers, I implore you to pant cuff, as if I had better fashion sense. (I roll up your pant leg before you sit on your don’t.) bicycle. Teach your children to roll up their Forgive me, cyclists, for I have never pant leg. Teach them that people who tuck realized the dismal gravity of a situation their pants into their socks where one finds one’s pants sucked into are noble, life-respecting the chain of a bicycle – until recently, when souls. Save them from my it happened to me. grief. Learn from the misI was cruising down campus, dodging takes of others. people, swerving as I hung onto tight turns, Melissa Condie is a pretty much thinking that I was too cool for senior majoring in music school on my Aggie Blue Bike daily rental, education. Questions or when, sstthnk, the bottom left side of my comments can be sent pants got caught in the chain and jammed to her at m.condie@ my ride. aggiemail.usu.edu

OSCAR MIRO-QUESADA

Shaman: Weekend conference -continued from page 4 ous earth-stewardship programs such as the Rainforest Sanctuary Initiative and indigenous language revitalization and grass-roots community development.

“For me, Oscar provides a sort of bridge,” GlassCoffin said “I’ve found a way to awaken to the precepts I’ve been studying all these years. With my academic background, you can imagine I was a pretty tough nut to crack, but knowing Oscar has been nothing short of life-transforming for me.”

The event, which will take place at the Eccles Conference Center, features five sessions included in registration and one session that is free to the public on

Sunday afternoon at Merlin Olsen Park from 2-6.

To attend, call the ECC at 797-0423 or visit www. chaupinsuyu.org. The registration-only sessions will take place Saturday, Sept.

5, from 2-5 p.m. and again at 7-10 p.m., Sunday from 9 to noon and 8-10 p.m., and Monday, Sept. 7, from 9 to noon.

Glass-Coffin would encourage students as well as faculty and community members to attend. “(Oscar) is as knowledgeable about ancient Sumerian cultures as he is about Peruvian cosmologies,” she said. “He is fascinating to listen to as well as a joy to be around.”

–pulcre.puella@gmail.com

PHOTOGRAPHY STUDENTS STAND in front of Hostital Field House in Arbroth, Scotland. photo courtesy CRAIG LAW

Travel: Students photograph abroad -continued from page 4 “Not only did I have the opportunity to see ancient castles, men in kilts, rolling fields of barley and colorful harbors in Scotland,” junior in law and constitutional studies major, Jade Little said. “I also learned how to capture it with a camera.”

Kay Forsyth, study abroad director, knows the advantages an experience such as the one in Scotland can have for a student. She said not only is it a way for the students to grow and expand in unique ways individually, the atmosphere within the group expands far beyond what any classroom experience could foster.

“You get to know one another on different levels,” she said. “You are eating, traveling and bonding with your professor and your peers who may even be your future colleagues.”

Craig Law, professor of photography, accompanied the the students. He explained how he watched the students’ curiosity expand: “They got to see what contemporary Scotland is like. It’s full of beautiful imagery.

It’s challenging. It’s intriguing. It’s a different parameter.”

The students photographed anything and everything. Law commented on how the subject matter helped the students sort out their different individual personality by each taking

a completely different approach to the artistic experience.

Practical learning wasn’t the only benefit to the study abroad program, however.

“The depth of history is amazing,” Law said. “Some of these things are 5,000 years old and we’re seeing them in the 21st century and it still has an impact upon the culture.”

Kauhiwai Ablao, senior photography major, had a similar response: “My study abroad experience in Scotland was awesome. The lush green hills and beautiful skies are just unique.

I enjoyed that you get a strong sense of culture everywhere you go.”

Experiencing the country enlarged the students scope of appreciation for their own life.

“The way the Scottish citizens cherish their heritage has increased my desire to make my own Scottish ancestry and American heritage a large part of my life,” Jade said. “This trip was one of the best months of my life.”

To celebrate the rich cultural experience and the phenomenal work they did, an exhibit is available Sept. 2-19 in the Tippits Gallery in the Chase Fine Arts Center. A reception will be Friday night, Sept. 4, from 5-9, with music provided by the celtic band, Leaping Lulu, at 7-9 p.m.

–jen.millet@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Book brings something unique to its readers

Do you love coffee? Do you feel a need to be unique? Do you compulsively recycle? Do you own a pair of wire-rim glasses or a plaid shirt?

Did you answer yes to these questions? If so, congratulations. You are definitely white, at least that’s what Christian Lander stated in his book, “Stuff White People Like: The Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions.”

Written as a guide for those trying to befriend “white peoKasey Van Dyke ple,” this book offers staff writer a satirical view of Americans, often playing off stereotypes, such as the perfect vegetarian or the pseudointellectual college Grade A graduate.

As far as literary “Stuff White People Like: merit is concerned, The Definitive Guide this book is lacking, to the Unique Taste of but it brings someMillions” thing new to social commentary. Lander’s writing is both cutting and poetic, luring the reader to his guide.

As college students, we barely have time to think and eat – forget about reading. But this 211-page book is great for the few minutes between class and work. Broken up into page-long sections, with titles like “Beards,” “Reusable Shopping Bags” or “Liberal Arts Degrees,” you can burn through a few topics each day just waiting for class or the bus.

After you’ve finished the book, take the quiz at the end to see how “white” you really are (I’m 76 percent white).

Not enough room in your backpack? Check out www.stuffwhitepeoplelike.com for your daily fill, as well as more information about the book and its author.

–k.vandyke@aggiemail.usu.edu

Book

Review

THE MERRILL LIBRARY SAT UPON THE QUAD before it was torn down in 2006. The library was built over part of an existing library that was erected in 1930. photo courtesy DARRIN SMITH

By COURTNIE PACKER features editor

The only thing constant is change, and a Utah State University alumnus said that is exactly what his book is all about.

From the late 1880s to the present time, the City of Logan has changed in many different ways. Hyrum resident Darrin Smith gathered these changes and created the book “Logan Reflections: Photographs Then, Now and in Between.”

Smith said the book is filled with 190 pages of photographs of Logan and Logan Canyon from as early as the late 1880s.

Each page is filled with historical information regarding the photographs, as well as a modern-day shot of every historic photo.

Smith said he has always enjoyed local history and knowing it was Logan’s sesquicentennial this year, he wanted to do something. He said he knew he wanted to help update Logan’s history, yet make it fun.

“I have always been fascinated with time and how it changes things,” he said. “I knew it took time and effort, but I wanted to give this gift to the community. Creating this book takes someone who is half-crazy and half-anal, and I am both.”

Smith said the idea for the book came after a quick visit to Sam’s Club. He said a book capturing then-and-now photos of Salt Lake City caught his eye and it struck him hard. He knew this is what he wanted to give back to the community of Cache Valley. And after a timely process, Smith was able to team up with The Herald Journal and create the book.

“It was chaotic,” Smith said. “The way we did things was not

the way you write a book.”

Smith said he would gather photographs and give them to the editor who worked with the placing of the images. Smith would then research and write about the photo and fill as much of the allotted space as possible. However, Smith said that is why he was grateful for such a wonderful editor, Charles McCollum.

“I wanted more information, and my editor wanted less,” Smith said. “He wanted more of a pictorial and I wanted more of a history book with pictures. His wisdom was better than mine. He was fantastic and he made this book shine.”

Smith said he had many challenges when putting together a pictorial book, especially with issues regarding copyright for many of the photos. Smith had to call a postcard company and ask for the use of the images on its postcards. He also found images at Brigham Young University and many through USU special collections, which he says he is grateful for.

“USU bent over backwards to help me with this book,” he said. “I received a lot of help. This is my payback to the community.”

Smith said he has been collecting photos and other memorabilia for many years. He said he collects a lot of Mormon memorabilia and Utah-related postcards.

However, Smith said his main focus is photos of Logan. He feels he can relate better because it is something he constantly sees.

Many of the historic photographs found within the book are from his collection of nearly 300 postcards. Many also

- See BOOK, page 7

THE QUAD CURRENTLY LIES VACANT where the former Merrill Library sat. In 2005 the library moved to its new location on campus. photo courtesy DARRIN SMITH

Love that bites This week’s article is dedicated to relationships, or the lack thereof. I have heard a lot of disappointing stories of people with not enough dates, or in one guy’s case, far too many. I wish I could claim not knowing what to do because I have so many dates.

Enjoy.

1. I heard this from a guy walking into the business building. “All these girls like me and it’s so hard, because I’m too nice to say no.”

Hmmm … Too nice to say no or too desperate?

2. “I don’t know why he still won’t go out with me. It’s not like I’m still a slut. I got a job at the mall.

That totally makes me a nice person.”

3. Two freshman girls: “Oh my God, I’m so mad.”

“Oh no, why?”

M. Johnson “Because I still haven’t staff writer been asked out on a date. Isn’t college about dating hot guys and lots of them? Ughhh.”

“What we’re hearing” She sits back in her chair with frustration, folds her arms and says, “My mom so lied to me. She told me guys would, like, line up around the block waiting to date me. I’m so done with college.”

Right, this could be a legit concern, but school has only been in session for two weeks. Calm down honey.

4. Young girl talking on the phone: “I don’t know, maybe if I like starve myself for like a week he’ll start to notice me. I could stand to lose a couple pounds anyway.”

Please keep in mind this girl is not taller than 5-foot-1-inch and can’t weigh more than 100 pounds.

5. “I won’t get married till after my birthday, so I don’t contribute to the teen bride statistic.”

6. And lastly, to kill the curiosity of a table full of girls at High Stakes Bingo I have answers for you.

1. “Yes, Brady is taken – engaged for that matter.

And no, not even in your dreams will he sing you a love song.”

2. “Tai, taken as well. His girlfriend is cute, it’s perfect so don’t mess. As for the little plan your girls conjured up … don’t even try. I promise you it won’t work.” Sorry ladies.

3. “As for Bill, I cannot answer. I’ll see what I can find out.”

Never forget, in the words of Thornton Wilder, “There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.”

And with that, please remember there is someone listening.

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A love story lacking the love “500 Days of Summer” is advertised as a movie about love, one of the best soundtracks ever created, the movie weaves an but not a love story. The story follows, un-chronologically, the artistic masterpiece of scenes using elements from animation courtship of Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Summer (Zooey to cityscape cinematography.

Deschanel), who are two coworkers at a gift card company.

At times the movie portrays the inner thoughts of Tom’s Tom is the romantic, down-to-earth young man looking for mind, like a dinner party magnificently done by split-screen“the one.” Summer is the skeptical, independent, free thinker ing his expectations and reality, or a communal dance number who shuns the relationship labels put on someone by society down the streets of downtown L.A. to the tune of Hall and and doesn’t care much for, or believe in, love.

Oates’ “You Make My Dreams Come One might be tempted to think of this movie True,” arguably the best scene of film this senior news writer year. as a simple chick-flick, but what sets this movie apart is that instead of bogging itself down Benjamin Wood The absence of a linear timeline makes in the “aww-shucks” mundanity of unrealistic you stop and look at the pieces of what meet-cutes, it strips the story down to the skin makes a relationship. Why is it that some and bones uncertainties of real life and real fail and some succeed? Is it merely an people. No tricks, no gimmicks, just cold, hard effort by the people involved, or are there life. warning signs in the entire process that “There are only two kinds of people in the lead to cataclysm? world,” a narrative voice says during a scene.

Gordon-Levitt’s Tom is the quintes“There are women, and there are men.” sential every-man: the perfect blend of Grade AThe first glimpse we get of Tom and thinking and quirky eccentricity.

“500 Days of Summer” logical Summer is on day 488, registered by a dayHe hates his job while succeeding, is ometer that skips forward and backward charming without charms and is unique throughout the movie for effect and clarity, sitwhile average. ting on a park bench hand in hand.

Deschanel is both intoxicating and infuriating as the femiImmediately after that, the count zips back to before 300 ne-idealist Summer. In the space of two hours her character where Tom is being consoled by friends and family after bounces from sexy eccentric to cold-hearted Siren and back his and Summer’s abrupt break up. Confused? Don’t worry, without ever losing credibility. you’ll have all the details eventually as their story is related in This is the romantic comedy for today’s generation. It is patchy segments that jump from twitterpated bliss to daunting a sharp, witty, endearing look at modern romance and the depression. non-fairy-tale frustration and pitfalls into which we all fall. If The magic of this movie is not the story itself; all of us have you’ve ever been in love, or plan on being in love, this is your either participated in our own version or know someone close movie; after all, it’s not a love story, it’s a movie about love. to us that has. It is the “how” not the “what” in the storytell–b.c.wood@aggiemail.usu.edu ing that makes you remember this movie. With the backing of

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come from Ray Somers, who Smith said after pestering him for ly hit the exact spot where the photographer was.” years, gave him permission to use his photos shortly before his Smith said finding information took a longer amount of death. time. He said he would use Polk directories. Smith said these Because of the quality of many photos, Smith said he would are similar to phone books and began in Logan in 1904. Polk optimize the photos. He said he would directories gave information, such as work with the photos as much as he could where things were located, the proprietor “It was like playing a and even added a sepia tone to some. and the person’s occupation.

“I didn’t have a problem with adding Networking was also a method of game of treasure hunt. the tone because it left a flavor of the Old gathering information Smith used. He Once you find it, you West, which I thought was important,” he said he would call an individual and they stand in the exact spot said. would refer him to another individual and Every modern-day photo in the book, the process would be repeated. and that is where you Smith took himself. He said some photos “Everyone I contacted was very kind get the most satisfache had taken were 20 years ago. to me and helpful,” he said. “Without tion and the biggest “The reason why I took them so long these people giving me information here ago was sheer randomness,” he said. “It rush. It is fun to finally and there I couldn’t put the book together. was to show that things change. I was curiI needed to get the knowledge that others hit the exact spot ous how things would change and I had no had that I did not. I am very appreciative, where the photograidea how they would. I didn’t know that and I couldn’t have done this by myself.” now there would be houses, apartments or Smith invites everyone to take a look pher was.” storage sheds in the way.” through his book. He challenges to read it –Darrin Smith through alone and then with a friend. He However, Smith recently took many of the photos. He would study the picture said there will always be something found and recreate the photo by standing in the within to talk about. same spot with the same angle as the photographer in the his“I wanted this book to be fun,” Smith said. “History can be toric photo. fun. I put in quirky things, interesting tidbits and little funky “It was like playing a game of treasure hunt,” he said. “Once things as well as serious. I would like to see people indulge in you find it, you stand in the exact spot and that is where you it. If that book ropes any type of emotion then I have accomget the most satisfaction and the biggest rush. It is fun to final- plished what I have set out to do.”

Questions, comments or to buy a copy of the book, contact Smith at darrinkaysmith@gmail.com. The book is also available through The Herald Journal or found at the Cache Valley Visitors Bureau Gift Shop, located 199 North Main, inside the Historic County Courthouse.

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THE FOOT OF OLD MAIN HILL is one of the drastic changes over the years at USU. Above, the building to the right was a residence hall for male and female students built in 1891. The building to the left was the heating plant for USU. It was demolished in 2003. Below, the parking terrace currently occupies the foot of Old Main HIll. photo courtesy DARRIN SMITH

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GAME 1: UTAH 35, USU 17

Progress not perfection 12th-consecutive Game-1 loss for Ags

Matt Asiata had a night to remember for the Utes, powering his way to a career-high 156 yards and The Utah State two touchdowns on the University football program had a saying this off- ground. He did most of his season: See It. Hear It. Feel damage in the red zone while also taking direct It. Believe It. snaps at the quarterback For the first half of position.

Thursday night’s opener The Aggies began the at Utah, new head coach night with promise, taking Gary Andersen’s team the game’s opening drive lived by this motto, 70 yards to the Utah ninehanging tough with the yard line before failing to 19th-ranked Utes before convert on third-and-one. eventually falling 35-17 Utah State settled for a before a sellout crowd of field goal, but quickly 45,333 fans at Rice-Eccles came into possession of Stadium.

The win was the twelfth the ball once again when Asiata fumbled at the USU straight in the interstate 28-yard line on the ensuseries for the Utes, who ing Ute possession. now hold a 77-28-4 advanIn what would become tage in the rivalry, which a reoccurhas been ring theme played every UTAH STATE LINEBACKER QUINN GARNER gets held egregiously during Utah’s throughout year since hard-fought win over the Aggies Thursday night. TYLER LARSON photo • Third down the evening, 1943. despair: USU finthe Aggies Making son’s Sugar Bowl, became Brindley interception of The Utes quickly capiished the game 0-12 were unable to his first FCS only the third head coach Cain deep in Utah territalized, driving 76 yards in third down situa- capitalize on start, Utah in NCAA history to make tory put the Aggie offense in 10 plays to get an Asiata Utah’s miscue, quarterback tions his debut against his forin position to score with touchdown run to increase • USU rushed the with the Aggie Terrance mer team when he took just over a minute left to the lead to 33-17. The ball nearly as well as offense stalling to the field on Thursday Cain complay in the second quarAggies were forced to play again after only night. pleted 20 of Utah, carrying the ter. Aggie quarterback catch-up the rest of the 29 passes for ball 34 times for 221 three plays.

Bright spots for the Diondre Borel, who ran for night, with Borel and the Despite yards, though 96 of 286 yards Aggies included an impres- 48 yards on the evening, offense unable to sustain falling behind and two those yards came sive display of rushing by weaved his way into the their early – albeit inconby scores of touchdowns, on a single Robert sophomore running back corner of the endzone to sistent – success against 14-3 and 23including Turbin carry Robert Turbin, who had cut the lead to 26-17, givthe Utah defense.

10 during the a 65-yard • USU handed the a career night by rushing ing the Aggies a boost of While the Aggie defense first half, the strike to Utes four points on for 148 yards on just 13 momentum going into the stood tall throughout the Aggies showed receiver safeties carries, including a school locker room. second half, Borel and resiliency David Reed record 96-yard touchdown It looked as though Utah State missed their under their first-year head sprint in which he split the the gap might be further which gave Utah an early chances when in possescoach, who was making 7-3 lead. Cain, a junior Ute defense to close a secclosed after USU stopped sion of the ball, failing his return to Salt Lake City ond quarter Utah lead to college transfer, hit his Utah on the first possesto convert on a critical after serving as defensive first seven passes on the 14-10. sion of the second half, fourth-and-one play at the coordinator for the past evening, leading a Utah While the Utes would but a key sack of Borel by beginning of the fourth offense which amassed 519 four seasons at Utah. expand their lead to 26-10 Utah strong safety Joe Dale Anderson, who helped total yards working against by the waning moments halted the first Aggie drive - See OPPORTUNITY, engineer Utah’s victory Utah State’s defense. of the first half, a James of the third quarter. over Alabama in last seapage 10 Senior running back

By ADAM NETTINA staff writer

Fast Stats

New era, same results

The Gary Andersen era officially kicked off Thursday night along with the 2009 football season. However, an all to familiar bedfellow haunted the Aggies: Missed opportunities and execution problems.

The Aggies gave up 14 points in the first quarter (and the Utes scored on the first play of the second), whiffed on every third down conversion that presented itself and stalled drives with miscues. The competitive level was a marked improvement over last year’s battle, but the overall result was the same.

Utah adds another year to its bragging rights and the Aggies are left to wonder what could have been.

“I think they could be a good football team,” Andersen said of the Aggies. “But I’m extremely disappointed. I think we had our opportunities to stay in the game, there’s no reason why this game shouldn’t have gone down to the fourth quarter and we have an opportunity to make a play.”

One big Achilles heel for the Aggies in their season opener was their special teams play. USU had a punt blocked for a safety and struggled early on to bring down the Utes return men, helping them jump out to the early lead.

“We had way too many missed opportunities,” Andersen said. “Balls are on the ground on a punt and we can’t find it, we get a nice drive put together and UTAH’S MATT ASIATA BULLS HIS WAY for extra yardage as Aggie defendcan’t convert, we miss a field goal, gave up ers Kejon Murphy and Kyle Gallagher close in. Asiata was a beast Thursday night, rushing 36 bruising times for 156 yards and two touchdowns. TYLER LARSON photo points on special teams. Overall it’s just not nearly clean enough.”

Special teams weren’t the only place where the Aggies had problems though.

Penalties, missed assignments and the offensive line’s inability to keep pressure off quarterback Diondre Borel who struggled under the pressure.

Borel finished the game completing only 38 percent of his passes, with at least eight of his incompletions coming due to Utah’s defensive line knocking them down. The elusive QB was able to run for 68 yards and one touchdown on the night, but was also sacked late in the fourth quarter for a safety.

“Guys were open and he was seeing them, but we had eight bat downs, we can’t have that, you can’t do anything,” said USU running back Robert Turbin.

“The offensive line has to do a better job keeping those hands down and they know that.”

After giving up 26 first half points to the Utes, the Aggie defense rebounded in the second half holding the Ute offense to seven second half points. It was that second half performance that left the USU D wondering what could have been.

“It should have came down to the last few drives, but we gave up 21 points in the first quarter. It definitely could’ve been a game, and should’ve been a game,” said senior safety James Brindley. “We were in situations, then a facemask pen-

-See RESULTS, page 10

TouchBase Lady Aggies face second Big 12 squad For the second time in as many weeks, the Utah State soccer team will take on a tough Big 12 opponent. This week, the Aggies will host No. 19 Oklahoma State on Friday, Sept. 4 at Chuck and Gloria Bell Soccer Field.

USU is off to its best start in program history with a 3-0-0 record. Last week, the Aggies won the Miner Classic with victories over Texas Tech and Stephen F. Austin. The Red Raiders were the first Big 12 opponent for the Aggies. The Cowgirls are 21-0 with wins against SMU and Louisiana-Lafayette and a loss to No. 15 Colorado to start the season.

Utah State will also be trying to win its hundredth match as a program. The Aggies are currently 99133-14 in 14 years of competition.

Gwacham is one of 30 up for CLASS LOGAN, Utah – Utah State student-athlete Nnamdi Gwacham was named one of thirty NCAA football student-athletes that were tabbed as candidates for the 2009 Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award, for excelling both on and off the field, announced Wednesday by the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award committee.

To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be classified as a senior in the NCAA’s Football Bowl Subdivision and have notable achievements in four areas of excellence – classroom, character, community and competition.

CLASS is an acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School™.

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CROSS COUNTRY

Cross-country team ready for home meet

By CONNOR JONES sports senior writer

Back-to-back to back-to-back WAC champions look to keep their domination running in the 2009 men’s cross-country season, while the defending WAC champion women’s team looks to match the men’s success.

The Aggies bring back 10 runners from the women’s side and 13 members of the men’s squad of last year’s championship campaign.

Along with the athletes comes veteran 28-year head coach Gregg Gensel, who has coached Utah State track and field and cross country teams to winning over 20 conference championships and has won Coach of the Year accolades over 24 times.

Less decorated but only for lack of recognition

is assistant coach Steven Todd Reeder who has stood alongside Gensel for the past 27 years.

Among the returning runners for the women are two seniors, three juniors, four sophomores and two freshmen. The men have two seniors, five juniors and six sophomores looking for another ring.

The Aggie men will be competing against athletes from the University of Utah Ski Team and Weber State while the women will be facing U of U and Weber.

“Hopefully we will start off where we left off last season and just run really well,” Gensel said.

USU’s men’s and women’s cross country teams will begin defending their 2008 WAC champion status this Saturday at the American West Heritage Center at 9 a.m.

– c.h.j@aggiemail.usu.edu

Utah State’s women’s cross country runners take off at the American West Heritage Center last year. The women’s team is a good bet to repeat as WAC champions this year, as is the men’s side.

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NFL commissioner Goodell clears Vick to play ball ahead of schedule

NFL COMMISSIONER ROGER GOODELL approved former pro bowl quarterback Michael Vick to play for the Philadelphia Eagles sooner than he had previously said, saying Vick is making “real progress” since being released from prison for his role in running an illegal dogfighting ring. The Eagles have been using Vick in their own version of the ‘Wildcat’ package while third-year pro Kevin Kolb remains the backup to Donovan McNabb. AP PHOTO

NEW YORK (AP) – Michael Vick got the green light for full reinstatement in the NFL on Thursday when commissioner Roger Goodell said the disgraced quarterback could play later this month instead of waiting until October.

Vick, recently signed by the Philadelphia Eagles, will now be able to play in the Sept. 27 game at home against the Kansas City Chiefs. It would be his first regular-season game since he was sent to prison for his role in operating a dogfighting ring. The former Atlanta Falcons star was released from federal custody July 20 after serving 18 months of a 23-month sentence.

Originally, Goodell said he would consider Vick for reinstatement no later than the sixth week of the season — Oct. 18.

“I think he’s making real progress,” Goodell said at a news conference. “I think he has a better feel for the challenges ahead of him.

“He understands he has very little margin for error, that people are watching him.”

Goodell met with Vick earlier Thursday at the Eagles’ hotel near Newark International Airport. Philadelphia played the Jets in an exhibition game at the Meadowlands at night.

“He met with Michael this morning and I think he came out of it feeling very confident that Michael’s doing the right things and is on the right track,” Eagles president Joe Banner said before the game. “I think Michael wants to play as soon as he can. On the other hand, I think he thinks this was fair.”

A three-time Pro Bowl pick during six seasons with the Falcons, Vick was a surprise signing by the Eagles on Aug. 13. He received a one-year deal for $1.6 million with a team option for a second year at $5.2 million.

Vick started practicing with the Eagles on Aug. 15, but did not travel with the team to its second preseason game a week later in Indianapolis because he could not play.

He played six snaps in Philadelphia’s home game against Jacksonville last week, lining up at quarterback and receiver. He

completed all four of his pass attempts, but the Eagles’ offense scored just three points in the possessions he played.

“We thought that if Michael did the right things, somewhere — probably one to three weeks — would be the likely outcome.

So this is certainly in the range we expected,” Banner said. “We appreciate the commissioner’s thoughtfulness and I think this is a good outcome and we look forward to having him.”

Coach Andy Reid was also present at Goodell’s meeting with Vick.

“He definitely provided me with useful feedback,” Goodell said. “He’s very open about the challenges, you know, from his own personal experiences.”

Reid’s two sons have been jailed on drug charges.

“He told me how Michael’s doing and how he’s incorporating into the team and the judgments he’s making,” Goodell said.

Former Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy, who has served as a mentor to Vick at Goodell’s behest, also helped the commissioner with his decision.

The Eagles plan to use Vick in their version of the wildcat offense, and Reid has stated that Kevin Kolb remains the backup to Donovan McNabb.

Vick’s familiarity with the West Coast offense has expedited his learning process with Philadelphia. He’s said he’s content doing whatever he can to help the team win and wants to learn from McNabb how to become a better quarterback.

While McNabb is an excellent scrambler, he prefers being a pocket passer. Vick always has been far more inclined to take off and run than stay in the pocket and find an open receiver. His career completion percentage is only 53.8 percent, and he has more career 100-yard rushing games (8) than 250-yard passing games. Vick has 71 career touchdown passes, but 52 interceptions.

Animal-rights activists in Philadelphia have opted not to protest the player, but to use Vick’s signing to spotlight their work.

Goodell predicts labor unrest, uncapped 2010 NFL season

NEW YORK (AP) – NFL commissioner Roger Goodell foresees an uncapped 2010 season as the league and the players’ union negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement.

Goodell said Thursday owners are preparing for no salary cap next season, citing the lack of progress in talks with the NFLPA. Last year, owners opted out of the CBA that was reached in 2006. That agreement included no salary cap in its final year, which both sides believed would spark serious negotiations toward a new contract.

“Because of the timing, we recognize there’s a strong reality there will be an uncapped year, and the owners have planned for it,” Goodell said.

Goodell met with union chief DeMaurice Smith on Tuesday over lunch, but no negotiations took place.

“I told De, ‘Let’s start negotiating,’” Goodell

said, “and that’s our intent.”

But there is no timetable for beginning significant talks, and the union says the onus is on the owners to present an offer.

According to league figures, the players have received about 75 percent of revenues since 2006, while the other 25 percent has gone to costs, plus another 6 percent over that which owners have absorbed because of rising costs.

The union disputes those numbers.

“The CBA explicitly restricts player costs to just under 60 percent,” NFLPA spokesman George Atallah told The Associated Press. “That is fixed. They’d have to provide relevant information to support that wild claim, because we certainly don’t have it.”

Goodell insisted the union knows everything about the teams’ finances.

“The union has incredible information with respect to the teams. They have audit rights,”

Goodell said. “I think that’s a distraction from the real issues. We don’t want to get into rhetoric. I told that directly to De on Tuesday.”

Citing a recent survey by Forbes magazine showing 19 franchises are worth at least $1 billion, Atallah said: “Average team profits last year increased by 31 percent and labor costs by only 4 percent. Historical reports by Forbes also reveal that team values have increased exponentially. The Patriots, for example, increased in value from $172 million in 1994 to $1.4 billion today. That’s 713 percent in the past 15 years.

Doesn’t seem like a broken model to me.

“Just tell us directly the specifics of why this CBA is not working,” he added. “We can’t be forced to negotiate a proposal that doesn’t yet exist.”

Goodell also noted several early-season games are not sold out and could be blacked out locally, although he said “our worst-case projec-

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The commissioner also said the video boards in the new Cowboys Stadium won’t present a significant problem for punters.

After Titans punter A.J. Trapasso hit the video board at the $1.3 billion facility in Arlington, Texas, on Aug. 21, the league altered its playing rules. The boards hang at 90 feet, which is 5 feet higher than NFL guidelines.

When asked how concerned he was about punters consistently hitting the bottom of the video screens, Goodell responded: “One kick in a preseason game? What’s become clear... is that up to 85 feet (is a maximum), and that’s our guideline,” he said. “Above that is not supported by our research.”

But he recognized the need for a rule for such situations, and how game officials should handle them.

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Opportunity: USU lets Utes off the hook in game one -continued from page 8 quarter.

Driving to the Utah 20-yard line, Borel attempted a pass to running back Michael Smith off of play action. The pass was batted down short of the endzone however, giving Utah the ball and effectively closing the door on any Aggie comeback attempt.

Among the many factors which undid the Aggies included multiple failed third-down conversions and missed opportunities off of Utah turnovers. Utah State’s offense finished the game without making a third down conversion (going 0-12), while Utah was able to convert four critical third downs.

The Aggies also failed to convert two Utah turnovers into points, and committed five penalties for 40 yards.

Coach Andersen said of his team’s mistakes, “They made plays when they had to and we didn’t, and that was the difference. At the end of the day that was the differ-

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Utah State also struggled on special teams, surrendering an average of 23.2 yards per punt return to Utah, while also allowing a second half punt block by Utah special teamer Matt Martinez that led to a safety.

Senior safety Brindley led the Utah State defense with 14 tackles and an interception, while sophomore defensive end Bobby Wagner chipped in with 12 total stops, including one for a loss. He was also credited with forcing the fumble in the first quarter.

Utah State will be off next week before traveling to College Station, Texas to play the Texas A&M Aggies on September 19. Utah State and Utah will take a two year hiatus in their rivalry, but will resume play in Logan during the 2011 season.

-adam.nettina@aggiemail.usu.edu

JUNIOR RUNNING BACK MICHAEL SMITH congratulates junior quarterback Diondre Borel after a big play in the first half of Thursday night’s game. Borel finished the game 10-26 passing for 121 yards and also carried the ball 14 times for 48 yards and a touchdown. TYLER LARSON photo

Results: Andersen era officially kicks off with loss to Utes alty or bobbled snap and stuff like that just killed us so we’ve got to work on those things and execute better across the board.”

Utah State has a lot of improvement to make before its next game at Texas A&M, luckily for the Aggies they have a lot of time with a bye week next week.

And, now they know what they need to work on.

Andersen said he saw flashes of where USU can be: Turbin’s school record-setting 96-yard touchdown run, and James Brindley’s interception return being a couple examples. After being gouged for the second year in a row by Matt Asiata – 36 rushes, 156 yards and two touchdowns – the Aggies must improve their run defense and execute in critical situations, especially on third down.

“You can’t go 0-12 on third down and really have a chance to win a game,” Andersen said.

He, Brindley and Turbin all said they must learn everything they can from this game, and

improve for the Aggies to be competitive in their next game.

“We will watch the film, we will learn a lot from it and we will evaluate it as much as possible,” Turbin said. “We’ll learn from it, get better and focus our minds on Texas A&M.” Tim Olsen is a senior majoring in print journalism. Comments can be sent to him at t.olsen@ aggiemail.usu.edu or at aggietownsquare.com

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Not when Melanie was 7, hitting buckets of tennis balls with Grandma Mimi back home in Marietta, Ga. Not a couple of years later, when Melanie and her twin sister began taking lessons together. And certainly not when Melanie lost her first two Grand Slam matches.

Still, there was Oudin at the U.S. Open on Thursday, ranked all of 70th, dealing with a painful leg and an overwhelming occasion on a supersized stage — and stunning No. 4-seeded Elena Dementieva 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 to set up a third-round match against 2006 champion Maria Sharapova.

All the while, Oudin sported this word stamped near the heel of her pink-and-yellow sneakers: “BELIEVE.” The idea for that bit of inspiration came from her boyfriend, Austin Smith, a 15-yearold who helped Melanie prepare for her Arthur Ashe Stadium debut by practicing together in the 23,763-seat arena at 9:30 a.m.

Thursday.

“During the match, I had confidence, and, I mean, I was right there with her the entire time,” Oudin said. “She wasn’t blowing me off the court. She wasn’t hitting winners left and right on me.”

Don’t, though, get the mistaken idea that Dementieva played poorly or showed the sort of nerves she has in the past.

Dementieva played rather well — displaying the stinging groundstrokes that carried her to two Grand Slam finals and an Olympic gold medal — and graciously gave credit to Oudin, who now will face the scrutiny that comes with being the “Next Great American Hope.”

After the Williams sisters at No. 2 and 3, you have to scan all the way down to Oudin to find the next U.S. woman in the WTA rankings.

“It’s just the beginning,” Dementieva cautioned, “but it looks like she has a good future.”

Truth is, Oudin — pronounced “oo-DAN,” owing to her father’s French ancestry — has a pretty good present, too. This was not, after all, her first such upset at a major tournament: Oudin reached the fourth round at Wimbledon by beating former No. 1 Jelena Jankovic.

“She knows,” said Brian de Villiers, Oudin’s coach, “that she can play with these girls now.”

Next comes what figures to be a stern test against three-time major champion Sharapova, who eliminated another 17-year-old American, Christina McHale of Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 6-2, 6-1 at night. The 381st-ranked McHale was a wild-card entry who didn’t really challenge Sharapova.

Looking ahead to facing Oudin, Sharapova said: “I mean, I’ve got a tough round ahead of me. Also somebody that I’ve never played against before, someone that has nothing to lose.”

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