The Utah Statesman, November 18, 2009

Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009

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Basketball player to do 100 hours service, 90 days in jail

By BENJAMIN WOOD senior news writer

A Minnesota high school basketball standout on his way to playing college hoops went to Wisconsin to rob a bank with a teenage accomplice. The ball player was to be the driver of the getaway car, the teenager would go in with a shotgun. At the bank the driver found himself waiting too long, wondering what is going on, and went in to the bank posed as a potential customer asking questions about accounts. No sure what had happened to his friend, he left the bank and drove to a nearby gas station to fill up.

While the driver was away, the gunman entered the bank brandishing a firearm and robbed it. Upon leaving, he found himself without a driver and without a car. The driver, meanwhile, finished filling his car and left the gas station without paying.

Police were nearby responding to a traffic collision and after receiving calls about a bank robbery and a gas station drive-off quickly apprehended both young men.

The juvenile accomplice initially said that he was working alone, but the authorities quickly put two and two together.

The above information was provided by Sheriff Dean Roland of Burnett County, Wis. According to Wisconsin court documents, USU redshirt basketball player Anthony Diloreto, the driver, plead guilty on Aug. 7 to possession of burglarious tools and was sentenced to 90 days in jail and 100 hours of community service to be completed in Burnett County. Of note is the provision in his sentence that allows Diloreto to serve three 30-day installments of his jail time during the summer break from USU, where he begins this year as a member of the men’s basketball team.

Chief criminal prosecuter Tony Baird of the Cache County Attorney’s Office said Diloreto’s sentencing was “highly unusual” and almost unheard of in Northern Utah.

“I’ve never seen that in my 15-year career,” Baird said.

Baird said the court has every authority to enact such sentencing, most likely attempting to accommodate Diloreto’s university attendance. It is not uncommon, Baird said, for courts to allow work- or school-release arrangements but those usually involve the convicted spending the weekends in jail, nowhere near approaching the year that Diloreto will be allowed between jail periods.

Roland, however, said at least in Wisconsin such sentencing has precedent. Another case in Wisconsin involves a vehicular collision fatality, where a driver, operating his

car under the influence of alcohol, was sentenced to one year in jail as well as one weekend per year on the anniversary of the accident for a space of 10 years.

“He’ll be about 40 when that gets done,” Roland said.

Roland said from what he has heard about Diloreto, it was a case of a one-time mistake.

“He was a really good student, a tremendous athlete,” Roland said.

While his summers will be spent in Wisconsin fulfilling the terms of his sentence, September through May will find Diloreto in Logan wearing Aggie Blue.

Men’s basketball coach Stew Morrill said Diloreto has the potential to be a great player. The 7-foot-1-inch center certainly has the height, but Morrill said Diloreto will needs to work on his strength and consistency. Diloreto is planned to red-shirt this year, Morrill said, which gives him an opportunity to adjust to Division 1 college basketball.

“He comes from a great high school program,” Morrill said. “I’ve been really pleased with his practice habits. He can run; he can catch and he listens.”

As far as his legal past is concerned, Morrill said he was able to learn firsthand from Diloreto’s high school coach, who Morrill has known for more than 20 years, about the player’s character.

“I had a lot of insight into the type of kid Anthony is,” Morrill said. “He’s a good kid that made a mistake.”

Morrill said Diloreto isn’t the first player with a legally gray past to get a second chance on the team. Those efforts by him and his coaching staff have worked out before, Morrill said.

“This will work out too,” Morrill said.

Roland said he was glad to see Diloreto’s sentence allow for school attendance.

“I think it’s kind of nice he’s getting a chance to prove he made a mistake,” Roland said.

In all, DiLoreto was charged with possession of burglarious tools and robbery with use of force to which he pleaded no contest. Charges of robbery of a financial institution as a party to a crime and possession of short-barreled shotgun-rifle were dismissed but read in during the court proceedings.

Wisconsin Clerk of Courts Trudy Schmidt said prosecution was deferred on the count of robbery with use of force until Diloreto’s probationary terms are fulfilled.

“If he successfully completes probation it will be dismissed,” Schmidt said.

Diloreto’s first jail term will take place during the com- RED-SHIRT BASKETBALL PLAYER Anthony Diloreto plays in the Blue and ing summer, followed by the summers of 2011 and 2012. White game above. Diloreto pleaded guilty to possession of burglarious tools Aug. 7.

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Experiencing Secondhand Serenade firsthand

Executive committee addresses request Faculty desires involvement in review of university administrators

By PETER BROWN staff writer

MEMBERS OF SECONDHAND SERENADE play for a crowd of Aggies at the Kent Concert Hall Tuesday. Local bands We Shot the Moon, Allred and Falk also played. The concert’s campus sponsors were the USU Bookstore and E Club. A guitar signed by Secondhand Serenade was given away at the concert. TODD JONES photo

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USU’s Faculty Senate Executive Committee proposed an ad hoc committee be formed to review and enforce faculty policy.

“Here we have this wonderful code,” said Ed Heath, president of the executive committee. “There are instances where the code is ignored, violated, whatever word you want to say, pretty consistently, and in some pretty big situations, that have an effect on all of us.”

USU President Stan Albrecht and Provost Ray Coward were not in attendance of Monday’s meeting due to prior obligations.

“I’m just wondering how our conversation might have been different if Ray and Stan had been here today,” said Steven Burr, associate professor in the College of Natural Resources.

Maria Cordero, associate professor of Spanish, said, “I’ve seen blatant violation, not just of the spirit, but of the letter of the code.”

Burr said, “It seems like some faculty are a bit frightened to call administrators on violations of code.”

Several committee members said that there wasn’t a proper channel for faculty to report grievances.

“We don’t have a mechanism to oversee this,” said Dave Wallace, senior lecturer in biology. “There’s no Supreme Court to tell us if something is unconstitutional.”

Heath said, “It (grievance process) is totally inadequate.”

Glenn McEvoy, professor in the College of Business, said, “We all know that if there’s an egregious violation of code, you can grieve it; but we all know that if you grieve something, then the

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Celebs&People LOS ANGELES (AP) – Nicolas Cage is being sued by his former business manager, who claims lavish spending is to blame for the actor’s financial problems.

Samuel J. Levin filed a countersuit CAGE in Beverly Hills on Nov. 12, less than a month after the “National Treasure” star sued Levin for fraud and claimed he was leading him toward financial ruin.

Levin’s suit says he tried to warn Cage when he was hired in 2001 that Cage was outspending even his large Hollywood paychecks.

NewsBriefs Mom gave up baby to drug dealer SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Authorities say a Salt Lake City woman told them she gave her 9-month-old daughter to a suspected drug dealer because she was homeless, addicted to methamphetamine and unable to care for the girl.

Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Lt. Don Hutson says deputies found the child Monday while searching a home as part of a drug investigation.

LateNiteHumor David Letterman, Nov. 16, 2009 – Top 10 Surprises In The Sarah Palin Book.

10. Cover photo is actually Tina Fey. 9. All proceeds from the book go toward a bitchin’ new snowmobile.

8. Nearly had to pull out of campaign after spraining her winking muscle.

7. Not interested in politics, is interested in joining “Dancing with the Stars.”

6. Includes fantasy sequence where she beats Katie Couric with her own microphone.

5. Someone’s got a crush on Jon Gosselin.

4. It’s a science fiction romance about moody teenage vampires.

3. Favorite Web site: YoubetchaTube.

2. Includes Levi Johnston centerfold.

1. Even Sarah doesn’t know what Todd does.

Barzee pleads guilty, apologizes in Smart abduction SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Seven years after she was abducted at knifepoint, Elizabeth Smart finally has an apology – and a guilty plea – from one of her kidnappers.

“I am so sorry, Elizabeth, for all the pain and suffering I have caused you and your family,” Wanda Eileen Barzee, 64, said Tuesday. “It is my hope that you will be able to find it in your heart to forgive me.”

The appeal came minutes after Barzee pleaded guilty to federal charges of kidnapping and unlawful transportation of a minor in U.S. District Court.

She also said she was “humbled as I realize how much Elizabeth Smart has been victimized and the role that I played in it.”

Smart, now 22 and preparing to serve a mission in Paris for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was not in court to hear the apology.

But her father, Ed Smart, said outside court that forgiveness was possible.

“Absolutely,” he said. “We all make mistakes in life ... and if we can’t forgive each other, heaven help us.”

During the hearing, he said he hoped Barzee realized what she did was “absolutely wrong and absolutely horrible.”

Smart was 14 when she was taken from the bedroom of her Salt Lake City home, sparking a search that riveted the nation. Nine months later, in March 2003, Barzee and her now-estranged husband Brian David Mitchell were arrested after they were spotted walking on a suburban street with Smart.

Elizabeth Smart has said that within hours of the abduction, Mitchell took her as a polygamous wife then raped her. Smart said Barzee washed the teen’s feet and dressed her in robes before the ceremony.

Barzee often became upset over Mitchell’s relationship with Smart, but that sentiment would never last, Smart said.

Barzee’s sentencing was set for May 19.

She could have faced a life sentence for the kidnapping charge and up to 15 years for the other count. However, under the plea deal, she is expected to receive 15 years in prison, with credit for about six years already served.

Barzee’s plea came several weeks after a Utah State Hospital report said 15 months of court-ordered treatments with anti-psychotic medications had restored her competency to stand trial.

She also will plead guilty in

state court under the plea deal to one count of conspiracy to commit aggravated kidnapping and will cooperate in state and federal cases against Mitchell.

Twice deemed incompetent in state court, Barzee had been diagnosed as delusional, called herself a “mother of Zion” and claimed to have been receiving messages from God through her television.

In court, the smiling Barzee looked more like a Mormon grandmother than the wildeyed homeless woman in white robes who was known on the streets by the name “God Adorn Us” and panhandled near the headquarters of the Mormon church.

Her defense attorney Scott Williams said Barzee has been transformed.

“Wanda is a person who is a different person than the person who was arrested,” Williams said after the hearing. “In the state she was in, she didn’t know (the kidnapping) was wrong, it was a commandment of God. Now it’s horribly wrong.”

In a statement, U.S. Attorney for Utah Brett Tolman touted the plea deal as an appropriate resolution and said the sentence would be just and fair.

WANDA BARZEE, Elizabeth Smart’s kidnapper, walks to a car following a hearing in federal court, Tuesday, Nov. 17, in Salt Lake City. Barzee pleaded guilty to kidnapping and illegal transportation of a minor across state lines for the 2002 kidnapping of Smart with her partner, Brian David Mitchell. AP photo

Relatives of rural Mo. family doubt sex abuse claims LEXINGTON, Mo. (AP) – If the tales they told police are true, a group of children in rural Missouri grew up in a house of horror, where some were raped by relatives, then told to write down their memories in little glass jars and bury them in the ground.

Two decades later though, as authorities work to piece together what happened, there’s no evidence the jars have been found and other relatives say police have offered little evidence to support their accusations.

Burrell Mohler Sr., 77, and his four adult sons appeared in court in western Missouri on Tuesday where they were charged with additional sex crimes including rape and sodomy, and in a bizarre twist, a search warrant claims one of the suspects forced their victims to help kill and bury a man.

“These fellas have all had respectable jobs, and for this to come up so many years later,” Ron Gamble, a relative of the accused family members said after Tuesday’s hearing. “In this country, you’re innocent until proven guilty. ... Have they found any evidence? I haven’t heard of any.”

Since authorities began their search of the Mohlers’ former rural property outside Bates City on Nov. 10, the case has moved nearly every day to a new and sometimes darker place. One early court record detailed allegations of rape that included claims the children were assaulted with sharp objects and one girl was forced to have sexual contact with a dog.

As crews began their search for evidence, Lafayette County Sheriff Kerrick Alumbaugh said he believed

INVESTIGATORS WALK AROUND a home as they look for evidence on a rural property in western Missouri Wednesday, Nov. 11, in Bates City, Mo. AP photo

they may find a body or bodies and buried glass jars with notes written by children who may have documented sexual abuse. The children were told to write down bad memories and bury them there and “the memories would go away,” said Sgt. Collin Stosberg of the Missouri State Highway Patrol.

Even more shocking claims lay ahead.

A search warrant, filed Nov. 9 but released to The Associated Press on Tuesday, stated three of the alleged children observed “several murders” and were forced to help kill and bury a man in April 1988.

The warrant said one of the accused, Burrell E. Mohler Jr., and the children followed a large man from an Independence shopping center to his home. They parked outside, then the

children lured the man over to their car by telling him that their father was having a heart attack. When the man leaned over to help, Mohler Jr. allegedly “wrapped his arms around the victim’s neck” and subdued him, the warrant said.

Mohler Jr. then drove the man to his father’s property in Bates City.

There, Mohler gave knives to the children and ordered them to attack the man and stab him, the warrant said.

One of the children then jumped on the man’s back and stabbed him, but it was a stab wound from the adult that actually killed the victim, according to the warrant. The children were then forced to help dig a grave for the man and bury him.

But the warrant offers no details about the stabbing victim or why he

was targeted. Independence police say their department had no information about a person disappearing in April 1988 after driving away from an Independence mall. Nothing in the warrant suggests where the man lived.

The Highway Patrol’s online “missing adults” Web site lists only one active case from 1988, involving a man reported missing Dec. 11 of that year from the eastern Missouri town of Union about 200 miles to the east.

Authorities also have not provided additional details about the alleged stabbing and have declined to say what has been found on the property.

Authorities said they are taking all the accusations seriously, but they insist their focus is on the sexual abuse case and refuse to comment on the murder allegation. “We are focusing on the sex crimes investigation,” Stosberg said.

On Tuesday, relatives of the Mohler family were in the crowded courtroom as a judge read 15 new sex charges against the five men.

The charges added to 14 filed last week, accusing Mohler Sr., of Independence, of rape, sodomy and the use of a child in a sexual performance. His four sons, Mohler Jr., 53, of Independence; Jared Leroy Mohler, 48, of Columbia; Roland Neil Mohler, 47, of Bates City; and David A. Mohler, 52, of Lamoni, Iowa, were charged with rape.

During their brief court appearance, four of the five men said they still were trying to find attorneys.

Jared Leroy Mohler said he had hired a lawyer, who did not immediately return calls seeking comment.

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Stuff A Bus collects food for Cache pan-

By LIS STEWART staff writer

Volunteers for Associated Students of USU’s Stuff A Bus described the weather as chilly but hearts were warm as volunteers ventured on foot, with temperatures in the 20s, through Logan neighborhoods on the evening of Nov. 16. Volunteers went door-to-door asking for donations of nonperishable food items for the Cache Community Food Pantry.

Every Monday night during November, the volunteers collect food from residential areas of North Logan, Logan, River Heights and Providence.

The collected food is needed by many Cache Valley residents. The pantry’s needs have increased by 40 percent this year, said Brittany Ingalls, Stuff A Bus chair on ASUSU’s Val R. Christensen Service Council.

The increase in need, Ingalls said, is largely because families that used to stay with the pantry for three to five months now require assistance for up to eight. The pantry serves about 140 families a week.

“Last year we collected 22,000 pounds of food for the pantry, and this year our goal is to collect 40,000 pounds of food. And we are actually well on our way with that,” Ingalls said.

Other campus groups are helping reach the goal of 40,000 cans by holding their own fundraising events, such as requiring a can of food be donated in place of an entrance fee. Some groups schedule a night to volunteer to go around a part of Logan assigned to them. Ingalls said it is neat to see how many people are willing to help out. One of the goals for Stuff A Bus this year is to involve more groups from around campus than in the past.

Alden Erickson, Aggie Shuttle supervisor for the Department of Parking and Transportation Services, started the Stuff A Bus program about 10 years ago. He said he is impressed with the turnout from the student body.

Each Monday the Department of Parking and Transportation Services sends four Aggie Shuttles to Romney Stadium’s parking lot on 800 East.

Additional bus drivers remain on call, Ingalls said, in case more people show up than the event organizers planned for.

“I might say, ‘We need more of the buses than you’ve given us.’ (Erickson) just makes it happen,” Ingalls said. “He is really good to work with.”

Large groups of USU students, sometimes as many as 200, volunteer each week. One shuttle driver said he holds the record for the most people on his bus, 113. When volunteers arrive, they are required to sign in with their name and A number

Council updates made up the bulk of the Associated Students of USU’s Executive Council meeting Tuesday.

During his council update, Executive Vice President Spencer Lee announced that an e-mail, savehighered@gmail.com, has been launched to facilitate students in writing state legislators about upcoming budget cuts. Students are encouraged, Lee said, to send a one- to two-paragraph e-mail containing their name, county where family lives, parents’ names, major, year in school and a personal experience of how budget cuts at USU have negatively affected their education. The letters will be presented either personally or electronically elected officials in Salt Lake City.

“This e-mail can take you five minutes,” Lee said after the council meeting.

Lee has commented frequently, in meetings and at activities, on the importance of students being aware of the university’s financial concerns and again in an interview with The Utah Statesman, Lee detailed some

VOLUNTEERS PILE INTO AN AGGIE SHUTTLE to collect cans of food for the Cache Valley Food Pantry. This volunteer effort is called Stuff A Bus and is hosted by the Associated Students of USU. PETE P. SMITHSUTH photo

and nonstudents sign in with their name, address and phone number. Once volunteers have been given instructions by Ingalls on how to introduce themselves as ASUSU representatives and being respectful to the homes they visit, they get on the buses and head to the neighborhoods.

Kristina Morrey, junior in communicative disorders, said, “We went to this one family, and they had these three little kids. You could tell that they didn’t have a lot of money, and they went into their kitchen and brought out like five bags of food. It’s amazing to me that people may have nothing at all and they are still willing to give.”

Ingalls said, “There are some people that turn us away. I think the people that turn us away honestly can’t help us out. And even people that you can tell really don’t have much to give, typically they give us whatever they can. It’s a really neat experience to see.”

In addition to the Monday trips during Novomber, Stuff A Bus representatives will be on the Taggart Student Center Patio Nov. 23, with stations from the Cache Valley Radio Group to solicit donations of food, money and unwrapped toys.

Volunteers will be handing out hot chocolate and candy canes, Ingalls said.

Black Friday, Nov. 27, will be the transition point

for Stuff A Bus, Ingalls said. The Aggie Shuttles will be parked outside of ShopKo and the Wal-Mart in Providence to collect donations for Sub for Santa, a program that provides gifts for children and individuals in need. Last year, Sub for Santa provided 1,496 children in Cache County with presents, Ingalls said.

Erickson said Stuff A Bus has turned into one of the biggest private donors to Cache Community Food Pantry and Sub for Santa. “(Cache County Sub for Santa) doesn’t just give (the children) one gift,” Erickson said. “They spend anywhere from $45 to $75 per child. It’s not just one present. They give them their whole Christmas. We obviously collect as much as we can, but we raised $10,000 last year for Sub for Santa. And our goal this year is $15,000.”

The volunteers with the shuttles will be out collecting donations all day Dec. 5 in front of Fresh Market – formerly Albertson’s – Macey’s, Sam’s Club, Shopko and both Wal-Mart locations, Ingalls said. As people go about their Christmas shopping, Ingalls asks that maybe they pick up another toy or donate their spare change to the Sub for Santa fund.

“There’s nothing sadder to see than a kid who goes a Christmas without presents,” Erickson said.

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of the concerns surrounding budget cuts.

“If we are not cut additionally, to deal only with that $13 million (of existing reductions) we will have to cut 50-60 faculty,” Lee said.

Lee said he hopes to accomplish more with the student testimonials than the petitions that were given to state officials during last year’s budgetary season. In sending the students’ letters, Lee said that instead of saying “fix it,” he wants to give legislators clear, coherent options, namely utilizing some of the roughly $300 million in the Rainy Day Fund and reinstating the grocery tax that was reduced last year.

“We are saying ‘It is raining,’” Lee said of the Rainy Day Funds.

Lee spoke with noticeable urgency about the campaign he is undergoing to lobby for lower cuts. He said the state, through taxpayers, pays for twothirds of students’ higher education, which comes out to $8,000 to $9,000 a year for each full-time USU student.

Students who do not graduate on time, as a result of class decreases due to cuts, stand to cost the state more than it saves through budgeting.

“We will literally have thousands of students, statewide, who will not graduate on time,” Lee said.

Lee said he hopes every student will take the time to send their experience to the Save Higher Ed e-mail. He is planning to meet personally with as many state legislators as possible, and in those meetings he plans to present letters from students that live in the official’s particular county. Those legislators that Lee and his associates are unable to visit personally will be forwarded their constituents’ e-mails, as well as those exceeding what is personally presented.

“We are going to strategically forward on these e-mails little by little, a couple a day,” Lee said.

Lee said he hopes to present the hard copies in person to each legislator.

“Am I, Spencer Lee, going to able to talk to every one of them? No, but I’m sure going to try,” Lee said.

In other council business, Service Vice President David Knighton said the Val R. Christensen Service Center is looking for contestants for the USU’s Biggest Loser competition.

Students will learn about healthy liv-

ing habits and receive points for shedding pounds. A $30 participation fee is required and prizes, like a one-year membership at the Sports Academy, will be awarded.

Knighton also reported on Stuff A Bus, saying that around 20,000 pounds of food have been collected so far. An extra effort will be required in the remaining weeks to reach the 40,000-pound goal.

Athletics Vice President Jeremy Winn reminded council members that Friday’s football game against Boise State University will run on ESPN2. A tailgate party is planned from 5-7 p.m. before the game, where USU dancing group Velocity will perform and a dance-off may be held between USU and BSU students.

In a light-hearted moment during the meeting, Winn commented on his hopes for the football team’s performance.

“Hopefully we can hang in there during the game. If we win we’re tearing down the goal posts,” Winn said.

Lee replied, “If we beat them, we’re tearing down the north end zone complex.”

– b.c.wood@aggiemail.usu.edu

Childhood obesity causes health problems, says nutritionist to an obese nation,” Shugart said. “You could say we are de-evolving.”

Thirty percent of children are obese and another 30 percent are overweight and on their way to Making small changes in daily diet such as becoming obese, Shugart said. eliminating soda and junk food and watching por“An obese and overweight kid becomes an obese tion sizes can stop the growing rate of obesity in and overweight adult,” Shugart children, said USU’s Wellness coorsaid. dinator.

Excess body fat causes irreversCaroline Shugart spoke to jour“Junk food is ible damage such as hip fractures nalism students Thursday morning psychologically and knee and joint issues in young about the Be Well program at USU people, Shugart said. It also comand physically and stopping childhood obesity. presses and damages the heart and addicting.”

Shugart majored in biology and lungs. Obese children are more then got a master’s degree in sports likely to develop brain lesions like nutrition and certified as a dieti– Caroline Shugart, those seen in Alzheimer patients cian. She also went back to school USU’s Wellness and children that are obese have a to become a nurse and now works shorter lifespan than their parents, with dialysis patients. coordinator Shugart said.

Shugart said her main concern “It is unethical that we should as a nurse is to “keep people out of raise kids to have a shorter lifesthe dialysis chair” and “keep them pan than us,” Shugart said. healthy.” Nearly one-third of dialysis patients have Thirty percent of Caucasian children, 40 percent diabetes with high blood sugar and another third of African-American children and 50 percent of have high-blood pressure, she said.

“In the last 15 years, we’ve come from a lean U.S. Hispanic children will develop obesity-induced diabetes, Shugart said. For Native American children,

By SHANA SANDERS staff writer

Campus & Community

Science Unwrapped explores physics

Write legislators to save higher ed, says ASUSU VP

By BENJAMIN WOOD news senior writer

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it is “basically a done deal,” Shugart said.

One reason for obesity is that an environment of inactivity has been created and people are more dependent on cars and spend their time in front of a computer or television, Shugart said.

Portion sizes have increased and the marketing campaigns to “eat more” are everywhere, Shugart said, everything has become super-sized. The problem is that people don’t understand that “when you increase portion size, you increase calories,” Shugart said.

Adults should be consuming between 2,000 and 2,500 calories a day, and children should be consuming a lot less, Shugart said. Web sites such as CalorieKing and SparkPeople can help determine a more precise amount that a person needs based on height, weight and level of activity each day, she added.

High-calorie foods and inactivity are a “deadly combo,” Shugart said. For example, a double Whopper combo at Burger King has about 1,680 calories and would take a 17-mile walk to burn off, Shugart said.

“It’s impossible to exercise this stuff off,”

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Is it true that a high-pitched tone like an opera singer’s voice can shatter glass? Inquiring minds of all ages are invited to learn the answer to this question and more at USU’s second annual Physics Demonstration Show on campus Friday, Nov. 20.

The gathering begins at 7 p.m. in the Emert Auditorium, Room 130, of the Eccles Science Learning Center. Admission is free and open to all.

“We had so much fun last year that, again, we’re kicking off Thanksgiving week with an evening of fanfare, fascination and family fun,” says James Coburn, Teaching Laboratory supervisor in USU’s physics department.

“This is a great opportunity for scientists young and old to learn together.”

This year’s event focuses on waves and sound and features the exciting “Physics Fire Dance.”

For directions and more information, visit www.usu.edu/science/unwrapped or contact the USU physics department at 7972857.

Prof named to housing organization by gov Lucy Delgadillo, an associate professor in the family, consumer and human development department, was appointed by Utah’s governor as one of eight members of the board of trustees of Utah Housing Corporation. She is on the board representing the public at large.

The board of trustees of Utah Housing is comprised of nine members representing several counties of the state and many occupations.

The six appointed members of the board represent various business and industry groups and six different counties of the state. They are appointed by the governor and require the consent of the Utah Senate.

The Utah Housing Corporation was created as a public corporation

by Utah to raise funds to assist in the creation of affordable housing opportunities for lower-income Utah households across the state.

Delgadillo said the trustees basically authorize administrators of the organization to conduct all activities on behalf of the Utah Housing Corporation for its home buyer programs and multifamily programs.

Prof awarded Lady Davis Fellowship Department of English professor Steve Siporin will soon be leaving for Hebrew University as a visiting Lady Davis Fellow. There Siporin will teach American folklore and continue his research on Italian Jews, specifically Augusto Segre, whose memoir Siporin translated. The translation was published in 2008 by University of Nebraska Press.

The Lady Davis Fellowship Trust was established 33 years ago to provide the opportunity for leading scientists and scholars, post-doctoral researchers and doctoral students from abroad, regardless of nationality, gender or field of scholarship to teach, study and participate in research in Israel at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at the Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa.

To date, 623 visiting professors, 946 post-doctoral and doctoral students and 175 Israelis studying abroad have served as Lady Davis Fellows. The international impact makes it one of the most distinguished and sought after fellowship programs in the world.

In addition, over these 33 years the Lady Davis Fellowship Trust has greatly enriched the Hebrew University and the Technion by constantly introducing talent into their academic environment and by linking these two institutions.

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Students to battle for Mr., Miss International title

By CATHERINE MEIDELL assistant news editor

International students from Finland, Dominican Republic, France, China, Lebanon and other countries will perform in front of a panel Thursday, to best represent their homeland and take the title of Mr. or Miss International in the annual international pageant.

This year seven women will compete for the title of Miss International and two men for Mr. International in the Performance Hall from 6:30 to 9 p.m. The panel of six judges, composed of professors and other USU personnel, have been chosen to score the individual competitors in a number of categories, said International Student Council president Vaneet Lakhlani. The contestants will display a talent relating to their native country, be put to the test in a question and answer round and all the while be judged on the way they present themselves and their country, he said.

Lakhlani and his council chose the member of the panel because each member has a different background and interests, making the competition unbiased, he said. Those crowned Mr. and Miss International will win the claim to fame with a picture of them hanging in the hall next to the international office on the third floor of the Taggart Student Center. The winner as well as the first and second runner up will receive a trophy.

“International students want to bring diversity to USU’s campus and this week is our chance to represent our countries to the Logan community and interact with Logan culture,” said Satenik Sargsyan, vice president of international student council.

The pageant has been a tradition every year for multiple decades, she said.

Sargsyan said there are currently about 1,000

international student attending USU from 63 countries. The students affiliated with international clubs were each given the opportunity to participate in the pageant through and invitation sent to the various clubs. Each student who wanted to participate was told they must demonstrate a talent and showcase an outfit representing their country. Lakhlani said the contestant from Finland was able to acquire a traditional Finnish outfit. He said the talents will include Thai kickboxing, singing and dancing acts. However, the singing and dancing acts will be diverse. African dance will be contrasted

by Thai dance, so the performances will encompass all the different ways one activity is woven into many cultures, Lakhlani said.

“This is a pageant, but the people in it aren’t going to be judged on how good looking they are,” he said. “It’s more or less a talent show.”

Lakhlani said he met with the judges to discuss the attributes Internation Student Council would like to see in the winner of Mr. and Miss International. He said he conveyed to them that it does not matter whether a competitor is a prolific pianist if they have poor character traits.

Therefore, judges will be looking deeper than the talent performances. They will critique each competitor’s demeanor and how well they act as an ambassador for their country.

When Mr. and Miss International are crowned, it’s a proud moment for their fellow countrymen, Sargsyan said. She said international students are eager to share their culture in any way they can for the USU student body to see. All cultures should involve themselves in different background they are unfamiliar with, Lakhlani said.

He said, “When I came to USU, I wanted to know what American culture was all about. I went to church and church-organized activities.”

At the end of the pageant, the panel of judges will leave to a designated room where they will

Kids: Healthy eating helps -continued from page 3 Shugart said. “Junk food is psychologically and physically addicting.”

Junk food is nutritionally depleted and high in calories, fat, sugar and salt, Shugart said. One of the worst kinds of junk food is soda, Shugart said. Coke and Pepsi both contain 15 teaspoons of sugar in a 20 ounce container and Mountain Dew has about 17 teaspoons of sugar and each teaspoon is about 20 calories, Shugart said. If an individual consumed one soda per day for an entire year, that individual will have consumed 91,250 calories, 50 pounds of sugar and 26 pounds of body fat, Shugart said. Studies have shown that body weight is directly correlated to consumption of sugar sweetened drinks, she said.

“If we could get sugar water out of diet, we could change obesity,” Shugart said. “It’s the little things you can do to change.”

The marketing efforts of junk food have become extremely effective and relentless as the U.S. food and beverage budget for advertising has increased to $36 billion, Shugart said. For example, the campaign to market Cheez-Its to kids cost $32 million, Shugart said. The health of individuals and children can be protected by keeping junk food out of homes and schools and muting television commercials, Shugart said.

Different countries are reacting to the marketing of junk food and trying to combat the effects. France now has health warnings on television ads and Spain has tightened product labeling, Shugart said. England has been restricting ads and banned sugar beverages in schools, Shugart said.

School districts across the U.S. have also done research and implemented programs in the schools to promote healthy eating, Shugart said. One district in Oceanside, Calif., placed healthier drink options at eye-level and moved soda and juice down and found that eventually no one was purchasing the soda, she said. Various other studies have found that people will purchase healthy options if they cost less than junk food, Shugart said.

The Be Well program at USU is trying to make “healthy food more affordable,” Shugart said. In the Hub, students and faculty can purchase items from the Be Well Menu and receive 10 percent off as well as when they purchase 10 items, they get one free, Shugart said. The Be Well challenge also includes exercising 30 to 60 minutes a day, drinking water in a reusable container and eating fruits and vegetables with every meal or snack, Shugart said.

“I want to change the world, with small, consistent changes,” Shugart said. “It’s going to take a lot of effort.”

– shana.sanders@aggiemail.usu.edu

DURING THE INTERNATIONAL PAGEANT, students modeled their international outfits. The Mr. and Miss International pageant on Thursday will allow international students to represent themselves and their country. STEVE SELLERS photo

compare score and choose who will be crowed as Mr. and Miss International. While they deliberate, live bands will play for the audience. The sequence of pageant events will begin with a welcome ceremony followed by a fashion show, talents performed alphabetical to contestant’s

country and finally the question and answer session.

“This pageant is internationality in a nutshell,” Lakhlani said.

– catherine.meidell@aggiemail.usu.edu

Faculty: Committee would review faculty code violations -continued from page 1 administrative reaction is to circle the wagons and basically support each other.

And people that I know that have filed grievances in the past have said it was the worst thing they ever did, professionally, to their careers regardless of the outcome.”

McEvoy motioned to the executive committee that a recommendation be presented to the full senate to form an ad hoc committee to review university-wide reports of non-adherence to the faculty code.

Burr said, “I’m not aware of a lot of code violations, and I don’t think it’s malicious. I think it’s just that administrators and faculty around here are trying to make things work.”

“I actually think that in more cases it’s, perhaps, an honest difference in interpretation,” McEvoy said. “But interpreting the code in a way that serves the interests of the administrators, not the interest of faculty.”

In response to the faculty’s request, the executive committee discussed how there can be more faculty participation in the administrative reviews. The committee is trying to determine whether its approach should be cathartic or scientific. It also discussed the idea of selecting faculty to participate in the administrative review process by random sample.

“People are feeling excluded, like they don’t have a voice,” Cordero said.

On Nov. 2, there was a private faculty forum that excluded press.

Darwin Sorensen, research professor, raised concerns about the discussions brought up in the meeting and said he feels the forum is concerned with anonymity.

“Give them an opportunity to present their feelings anonymously and in a way that is available to all of the faculty,” Sorensen said. “Then they have their

opportunity to speak up. We get an opportunity to believe what they’re teaching or not, and they’re not at jeopardy.”

Sorensen said, “It seems to me there’s something to be said for allowing the rabble rousers and those who want the voice to have an opportunity to influence the rest of us who’d rather not have a voice.

And isn’t that part of what a university does? It’s this idea of a forum.”

Heath also discussed the topic of faculty input for budget conversations. Heath said Albrecht put these conversations out to the department heads, and they all handled them differently.

Renee Galliher, assistant professor in psychology, shared her opinion of the Nov. 2 faculty forum. She said many faculty members didn’t feel they were represented “well enough” on the six-member Budget Reduction Committee.

McEvoy said, “The way it worked in the College of Business was the dean waited until he had taken away all of the degrees of freedom by filling unfilled positions and then asked the faculty for ideas on how to save $2 million. Now, he would be able to say then, that he engaged the faculty in involvement in budget discussions, but it was a phony involvement.”

Also in Monday’s meeting, Tyler Tolson, Associated Students of USU president, reported the efforts of ASUSU to the executive committee. Tolson said he and the vice president of student services are looking into building a recreation center. Although the location is not yet determined, the campus plan calls for a signature building in the current location of the HPER field, which Tolson said the recreation center would satisfy.

Tolson said the computer labs are experiencing higher student traffic this year than years previous. Increased traffic flow is not causing an inconvenience to students; however, faculty members have

had to be bumped off computers at times to accomodate students.

Kelly Kopp, assistant professor of plants, soils and climate, said faculty go into student computer labs for purposes of convenience.

Galliher said faculty members often use the lab computers because they have software that the faculty do not have on their office computers.

Computers in these labs are paid for by student fees.

Tolson reported to the committee on recent school activity attendance. There were about 2,000 attendees at the Mr. USU competition, filling the Kent Concert Hall to capacity, Tolson said. Four thousand students attended the Homecoming Dance, which Tolson said was “enormous” compared to years past. There were 6,000 in attendance at The Howl, where 11 people were arrested, none of which were USU students.

Tolson informed the committee that he and his cabinet are working on a trash and recycling initiative on campus.

Several routes across campus do not have trash cans, Tolson said. He said part of that program will include a hand-sanitizer initiative, which is being practiced on campuses across the country.

In other matters, Noelle Call, director of the Retention and Student Success Office, said within the three years the office has been in existence, it’s done much more than just retain first-year students. Because of this, Call changed the office name to Retention and Student Success. There is an 85 percent rate of returning students from the leave-ofabsence students, Call said. The primary reason students state they leave and don’t return is financial reasons.

– peter.brown@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Avoiding the dangers of prescription drug use

By SETH BRACKEN features senior writer

It could start off with a question as simple as, “Can I use your bathroom?” Or when a friend has a headache and knows you have been to the dentist recently he might ask to borrow Lortab or some other pain medication.

Some of the requests may seem innocent enough said Ryan Barfuss, prevention specialist at USU’s Student Health and Wellness Center. But it’s questions like these that get people into trouble, he said.

“It’s not something we normally talk about,” Barfuss said. “We attack alcohol abuse, especially underage drinking, and we are always trying to help people quit smoking and become aware of the dangers of tobacco.

But we never hear about prescription drug abuse.”

Barfuss is a member of a community board called the Northern Utah Substance Abuse Prevention Team (NUSAPT). The board recently received a grant from the group Drug Free Communities to focus on prescription drug abuse.

Drug abuse usually starts with limited use and while alcohol, tobacco and marijuana were known as gateway drugs, prescription drug abuse is now considered a gateway into the more dangerous drugs, such as heroine, Barfuss said. After getting hooked on prescription drugs, users may turn to heroine, which can be as much as eight to 10 times cheaper on the street than prescription pills, he said.

An addiction to prescription drugs often begins with good intentions, Barfuss said.

When a family member or friend is sick or in pain, pills are often given, even though the person that is ill does not have a prescription.

This type of self-medication is dangerous and should be avoided, he said.

“Some people save prescriptions,” Barfuss said. “They don’t realize that the pills go bad or that some people may try to steal the pills.”

Even a friend or loved one attending a holiday party or family get together may slip into the bathroom and look through a medicine cabinet to find painkillers, such as OxyContin, Lortab and other types of pills, Barfuss said.

Jim Davis, director for the Health and Wellness Center, said the most commonly abused drugs are pain killers, stimulants and

antibiotics.

The misuse of prescription drugs can lead to high-blood pressure. They can have adverse reactions with other drugs that can be harmful and even deadly, Davis said. And after becoming fully addicted to harmful drugs, it is nearly impossible to continue scholastic achievement and most drop out of college, he said.

Some addicts do what is called doctor shopping, where they go to several doctors complaining of the same ailment or pain in order to get more than one prescription, Barfuss said. While there are increased attempts being made to stop this practice, it is still being done and difficult to monitor, Barfuss said.

Too often doctors prescribe too many pills and people can become addicted, Barfuss said. Even though the pain medication may be needed for five days or so, a 30-day prescription is written and people keep the pills because they paid for them, he said.

According to a national survey on drug use and health, approximately 5.2 million Americans have used prescription drugs for non-medical purposes. In 2007, the last year with available data, Utah was fourth in the nation for prescription drug abuse, which is an improvement from 2005 when Utah led the nation in per-capita abuse of prescription drugs.

Students often abuse prescription drugs for performance enhancement, such as Adderall or Ritalin, in order to stay focused and study longer, Barfuss said. Also, euphoria or peer pressure may influence students’ decision to begin abusing prescription drugs, he said.

In the next six months, NUSAPT will be launching a campaign to educate the public on the dangers of prescription drug abuse and how widespread it has become, Barfuss said. It is essential that expired and dangerous drugs be thrown away and, if possible, crushed, Barfuss said.

For those that are taking prescription pills for non-medical use, the Student Health and Wellness Center offers free counseling and medical help.

“It’s a dangerous road,” Barfuss said.

“It can lead to a variety of health concerns, including heart problems, organ failure and the mixing of drugs can even cause death.”

Abusing prescription drugs can be just as deadly as becoming addicted to hard narcotics, Barfuss said.

– seth.bracken@aggiemail.usu.edu

Sixth annual Bioneers Conference comes to USU

By TAM ROUNDS staff writer

USU celebrates its first ever Sustainability Week, Nov. 16-19. Events on campus throughout the week are designed to promote sustainability awareness and demonstrate the achievements that USU faculty, staff and students have made and are making in this area.

The week culminates with the sixth annual Utah Bioneers Conference, Nov. 20-21. Attendees will hear speakers from the National Conference, as well presenters from USU, Weber State and Mary Ann Wright from Gov. Herbert’s Energy Advisory Office. She will speak directly to the economic implications of energy efficiency and renewable energy for Utah.

Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons hosted the first Bioneers conference in 1990.

Students may recognize Ausubel from his appearance in Leonardo DiCaprio’s 2007 documentary “The 11th Hour.” This year, Ausubel and Simons celebrate the 20th anniversary of their organization, which has grown from a narrow focus on biological and diversity and natural medicine to a broad discussion on practical environmental solutions and innovative social strategies for restoring the Earth and communities.

According to www.bioneers.org, the term “Bioneers” was coined by Ausubel to describe the “engaged citizens from all backgrounds and fields who focus on solving our world’s most urgent problems.” The Web site also states that it represents the idea that they are “biological pioneers”

who are creating “pragmatic strategies that effectively address our most pressing ecological and societal challenges.”

A national convention is held each year in San Rafael, Calif.

In 2008, 12,000 people attended the function. In 2001, the singular conference went nationwide with Beaming Bioneers, which combines the speeches from the national convention with local topics and experts. The USU Bioneers Conference is one of 19 satellite conferences held nationwide.

Attendees this weekend will see 10 of the speeches from the national conference, including one from Almir Narayamoga Surui, tribal chief for the Surui people of the Amazon forest. At 32, he has been fighting to save his tribe and the rainforest for more than 15 years. According to the Web site his efforts are credited with “almost singlehandedly bringing his tribe back from the brink of extinction.” His opposition to development has also made him the target of death threats and violence.

His speech touches on his people’s struggles to survive and protect their culture and native forests since they first made contact with the Western world in 1969. He will also tell of the unusual partnership that he forged with Google and how Google Earth’s high-tech tools have been an ally in the Surui people’s fight.

Michael Pollan, contributing writer to New York Times Magazine and author of the best-sellers “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto” and “The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals,” will address the issues surrounding industrialization and agriculture and what that means for the healthiness of food.

Noted holistic physician, Andrew Weil, MD, will explore the relationship between health care and the environment and how the communities supporting

these issues should combine forces to accomplish the needed reform that will benefit both.

Highlights also include workshops by USU faculty. In “Sustainability: Asking the Right Questions,” Joseph Tainter will ask four specific questions to provide a clear definition of the term “sustainability.” Tainter’s work on sustainability concerns began long before the topic was commonly talked about by the media. He has authored several books regarding the issue and also appeared in DiCaprio’s “The 11th Hour.”

Robert Davies will host a lecture on “Earth’s Changing Climate: An Unfortunate Update,” summarizing the most recent projections and the science behind the predictions.

He will relate the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change from two years ago and how the evidence since then points to the acceleration of global warming. Davies teaches physics at USU and works for the Utah Climate Center.

“The Economic Impacts of Wind Development in Cache Valley” will be addressed by USU graduate student Austin Coover. He will focus on the economic benefits of wind power and how investment in wind energy is beneficial to a state, its political body and its citizens beyond the environmentally friendly aspects.

This year’s Bioneers symposium is co-chaired by Jim Goodwin and Jack Greene. Goodwin is the senior program officer for the Western Rural Development Center (WRDC), located at USU, and participates with the USU Sustainability Council.

Greene, former Logan High School science teacher and long-time local advocate for sustainability, has brought environmental issues in Cache Valley to the attention of its citizens and policy makers, as well as to his students.

Bioneers is one of the increasing number of opportunities that USU participates in with regard to conservation of the environment. As the land-grant university for this state, USU has a rich tradition in emphasizing programs involving the interaction of people and the land, including the research and education involved, as well as disseminating the information to Utah’s citizens.

The conference will be held in the Eccles Conference Center from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday. The student discounted price is $20 for the full registration or $15 each day, including lunch catered by Culinary Concepts. To register and to obtain complete program information visit http://sail2. ext.usu.edu/Bioneers/2009/UtahFullProgram.cfm – tam.r@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Don’t turn up the heat, save some money As winter sets in across Cache Valley, students and community residents are fighting the cold by turning up the thermostat. But, there are myriad ways to avoid the high utility bills associated with heating your home during the winter months.

Robert Schmidt, associate professor in the environment and society department, offered some suggestions.

1. You’re not at the beach, wear appropriate clothing. This might include wearing wool socks and changing them if your feet get cold or wearing a knit cap, even at home.

“A lot of heat loss is through the head,” Schmidt said. Staying bundled up when you can means you can keep your heat without paying more for it.

Instead of dressing in a T-shirt and a big parka or pea coat, you should layer sweaters or sweatshirts between a shirt and outerwear coat and use scarves, gloves and hand-warmers to seal the openings that let cold in. That way, you can take off the outer layers while inside and still have the sweater or jacket to keep you warm inside.

2. Keep a fleece blanket in every room. By layering clothing, adding a fleece, wool or other blanket between the sheets and comforter it will keep you better insulated when you’re in bed. They are also great lap blankets for naps, reading and homework.

3. Close doors and windows to keep cold air from rushing in. Additionally, cover windows and glass doors at night with curtains, blinds or blankets to keep heat in and cold out. Uncovering windows during the hours when the sun basks the windows can help warm a room, too.

4. Set the thermostat down to 55 at night when you are under the comforter and to 68 during the day. But don’t forget to turn it back down while you are at school and work. Every degree that the thermostat is lowered will reduce the utility bill by about 3 percent – so going from 72 degrees during the day to 68 will lower your cost by 12 percent. Lowering it even more, by about 10 degrees or so, at night will further savings at the end of the month.

5. For students living in older homes, heat can escape from the space between the floor and the bottom of the door, so you can use

a rug, doorstop or a rolled-up towel to prevent that. There may also be drafts around windows that could be caulked or covered.

“Old homes may have an unused fireplace,” Schmidt said.

If that is the case, hot air is escaping up the chimney, so close the damper.

“Or burn old homework in the fireplace,” Schmidt said.

Students who don’t live in a traditional house may have a smaller space to heat but it can still be costly to stay warm.

Questar gas and Logan both offer rebates for energy efficiency and weatherization of a home, according to the Logan City Light & Power Web site.

“Simple solution: live in the dorms,” said freshman and Bullen Hall resident Drew Vaughn. “We manage our own thermostats. It’s always warm. Supposedly we have the best heating, along with Richard Hall and the towers.”

The USU dormitories include heating and other utilities in their fees, so students living on campus won’t need to worry about the high costs. However, those students can still take precautions to conserve energy by lowering thermostats at night and covering windows.

All of the options listed here are good options for students who don’t have as much control over their building or complex’s energy use and efficiency, said Michael Dietz, USU sustainable living specialist and associate professor.

“Students aren’t going to replace windows or insulate their walls,” Dietz said. “It’s hard to be at the mercy of the whole building when you rent.”

He said heating costs and energy-saving measures depend on the building. While there isn’t one easy fix for students that will drastically cut their bills, he said lots of little things can add up to a lot.

Turning off lights and nplugging computers when they aren’t in use can help save energy – or use the laptop as a heater.

“If you’re using it and it’s warm, that is going to suck less energy than turning up the thermostat, so I say go with it,” Dietz said. information gathered by Chelsey Gensel,

Gender identity workshop presented to USU noun they prefer because they appreciate the question.

“At least in my experience they will be grateful,” she said.

“I’m pretty sure people know that’s not easy. They care that you care enough to find out and understand that the questions come from a place of love.”

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Ally (GLBTA) Smith and Robertshaw decided to hold two sequential Services and allies on campus recently held a pair of workworkshops for people with varying degrees of experience shops, Trans 101 and Trans 102, to inform the campus with the transgender community. Trans 101, the first workcommunity about gender identity and make people who shop, was designed to discuss the notion of gender as conmay have a transgender friend, coworker, family member tinuous along a scale rather than strictly dichotomous and or classmate aware of the challenges associated with being to learn the terms associated with the community and how transgender. to become an ally.

Held Nov. 2 and 16, the workshops were presented by Smith said the workshop included a “basic gender experiGLBTA services program coordinator Maure Smith and ential activity,” handouts and questions and answers. About Ph.D. student and research assistant Brooke Robertshaw.

10 people attended the hour-long workshop and consisted “If you know someone who is trans, what do you do?” largely of those who know someone that is transgender and Robertshaw said. “People need to be educated on how to wanted to learn more about them. welcome and include that person.”

She said another Trans 101 Transgender can mean a variworkshop will be offered next “It’s not university-wide, ety of things, Smith said. It’s an semester, and people who are but faculty are held to a “umbrella term” for transgender, curious but still somewhat uncomtranssexual, cross-dressing and fortable about the subject matter higher standard, and it’s a androgynous individuals and anyshould attend. step in the right direction.” one who has surgically or hormonTrans 102 delved more deeply ally made changes to their anatomy, into the rights and political issues – Maure Smith, GLBTA services of the community and discussed Smith said.

According to a document Smith director more about how to be an ally. read from, transgender is a “broad People were encouraged to attend term used to describe the cononly if they were familiar with diftinuum of individuals whose gender ferent notions of gender identity, identity and expression, to varying which is different from sexual oridegrees, does not correspond with their genetic sex.” entation, Smith said. Because the terms “sex” and “gender” Smith said she noticed last year that many people, even are often used interchangeably, they can be confusing. within the GLBTA community and allies on campus, were Smith said there are two important aspects to gender: confused about the terminology and issues related to the sociological and biological. The biological gender is what transgender community. one is born with – male, female or intersex. The sociological Robertshaw said to ask transgendered people what proconstructs of gender are how men or women are expected to

By CHELSEY GENSEL staff writer

behave and can vary by geography, Smith said.

“Gender identity is how the heart and mind feel about the body, not about others. It doesn’t necessarily match the anatomy,” she said.

The workshops aims were to explain how it feels different and what kind of discrimination people face because of their gender identity. Robertshaw said specific issues might be ones specific to this community or issues like which bathroom someone will use or in what states the GLBTA community has protection under the law.

Smith said one step forward was a recent amendment to the faculty code so that it now includes gender identity and expression. Gender expression is the outward appearance that you present to the world, Smith said.

“It’s not university-wide, but faculty are held to a higher standard, and it’s a step in the right direction,” Smith said.

Smith and Robertshaw said they still had more to learn even as a part of the GLBTA community. Smith said when she began working with students as the GLBTA services director, she began to feel as though she wasn’t as prepared to serve the “T” part of GLBTA as she was the GLBA part.

Robertshaw also said that although she has known transgender people since 1995, she is continually learning more about them.

“It’s about how to be a good friend and neighbor to someone who is transgender,” she said.

The Trans 102 workshop included a panel of three students who were “out as transgender,” Robertshaw said, “and they each had a very different gender identity.”

About 15 people attended the Trans 102 workshop and Smith said she felt both workshops went well.

“We had thoughtful discussions and began to think about ways we can make life easier for trans students, faculty and staff on campus,” she said.

– chelsey.gensel@aggiemail.usu.edu

Back in two shakes? I think not.

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ou may have heard it before. It may have crossed your ears one sundry afternoon, as your friend was hurrying to retrieve a hastily forgotten item somewhere and, without thinking, used the phrase. The fact of the matter is, it’s not true. And now, now I have proof.

For quite a long time, I’ve tolerated the phrase “I’ll be back in two shakes of a lamb’s tail.” From my grandparents, various old people who are still under the illusion that this phrase makes any sense whatsoever and, oddly enough, my roommate Aaron. He’s 23. Don’t judge him.

But recently, my friend Stu and I had heard enough of this ridiculous claim that one could somehow travel just as fast or faster than a lamb could shake its tail twice.

Preposterous. Over the top. No good. Fallacy. Farce. And as our blood boiled and our rage was further enraged, we set out to debunk this saying, once and for all.

First, I suppose a little background as to how this phrase came about would be helpful. You see, one fine day in the year 1819, in the little town of Hanbaobao, England, whilst two sheepherders were in the middle, yea even in the very midst of herding their sheep, one of them had forgotten his cheese and butter sandwich. He turned to the other sheepherder, and feeling rather sheepish, said, “Oi, Dave. Ah fogot me sandwich at the fence post.”

“Yeh wot?”

“Fogot me sandwich. The Mrs. made it for us. If ah don’t eat it, she’ll be right cross.”

“Martin, ye’d foget your own knickers if yeh had any.

Well, go on then. When you seein’ to be back now?”

Now this is the point where Dave -- being a simple sheepherder and possessing little mental fortitude -- looked down at one of the newborn lambs, gave it a blank stare, looked up at Dave and said, “I’ll be back in two shakes of a lamb’s tail.”

And there you have it, kids. The start of it all. The saying became viral and spread across the British Aisles, then like a bilge rat, took to the seas and floated over here to America. But, as you will remember, it’s not true, no not at all. And here’s why: Stu and I, calming down from our rage, took to the World Wide Web in search of every single video of a lamb shaking its tail: YouTube, Vimeo, Google Videos, some guy’s agricultural blog, etc. What we found will shake the world forever.

Taking a case study of about 20 lambs, we used precise instruments (a stopwatch) to time how many times a lamb shook its tail in a specified interval of time. The results were shattering. The average amount of time it took for a lamb to shake its tail twice was 0.2332 seconds, or 0.1166 single shakes per second.

So doing a little arithmetic, we took 0.1166*X = 60, X being the number of times a lamb shakes its tail in a minute, and voila. X = 514.57 shakes in a minute. Glowing with pride, we began to use this new metric of time, “the

shake,” in our daily routines and conversations. “I’ll be back in 2,572 shakes.” (About five minutes.) “My fastest 5k time is 8,490 shakes.” (About 16:30.)

So next time someone tries to tell you they’ll be back in two shakes of a lamb’s tail, you can give them a smug, haughty smile and say, “Yeah right. That’s like one-fourth of a second. Pfft.” Isn’t that great? How useful. It’s much more accurate than these seconds we use now.

I’ve completely abolished the traditional time metrics from my life. No more hours or minutes for me. And don’t tell me I can’t do it. I’ll be 6,360,234,616 s h a ke s old this December. I’m an adult now for heaven’s sake.

Questions or comments can be sent to James at jamesrasmus@googlemail.com

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A tribute to the men and women before us T o become a prisoner of war is most any words or any other movements other likely one of the most terrifying things than the ones rehearsed. Distractions such that could happen to an American sol- as students walking, biking or longboarding dier. To be taken prisoner, stripped of your through the middle of the routine did not weapons and stripped of your freedom is a deter the cadets. soldier’s nightmare. Prisoners of war have As an Air Force ROTC cadet, I parbeen tortured both mentally and physically. ticipated in the tribute. My shifts were at Words cannot describe the brutality that 1 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 4 a.m., 8 a.m. has been put upon them. and 10:30 a.m. None of us got much sleep During the Vietnam War at Hoa Lo, a that night, but it was a small price to pay to prisoner camp, severe torture methods honor those who have sacrificed so much were used not only to get military informa- more for our freedom. tion but to break the will of the prisonThis was my first year taking part in the ers. Rope bindings, tribute, and I felt more irons, beatings and than honored during my They do it out of loyalty prolonged solitary first shift. However, words confinement were cannot describe the pride to their country and its included as methand emotion that flooded citizens. It is our job to ods used. through me when, durDespite the rules ing my 7:30 p.m. shift, a honor the pain and of the treatment of gentleman and his girlsuffering they have been prisoners of war, friend stopped for a few through for us. unfair acts of punishmoments and stood in ment are still carried silence. out. Our soldiers, Cadet Fenn, my fellow however, have held guardsman during this and still do hold shift, and I kept performstrong against the abuse. Some soldiers ing our facing movements without hesitawill never see the light of day again or be tion. We thought they had walked away, allowed a basic right as an American citi- across the Quad, when, from out of the zen. Prisoners of war have been harassed, darkness we heard the words to “The Star malnourished, raped, abused and even exe- Spangled Banner” being sung. Cadet Fenn cuted. Some will never be accounted for and I continued with our facing movements again and will be determined as “missing in in silence, but we both were overwhelmed action.” Through all this, they do not write by the pride we heard from this particular or say anything harmful to their country or gentleman. their country’s mission.

Cadet Isaac Fifield was my fellow guardsThe prisoners of war take this punish- man for the 4 a.m. shift. He said he was ment in order to protect our freedoms as cold and tired but a sense of pride drove Americans. They do it out of loyalty to him to complete his shift. their country and its citizens. It is our job “Every time I looked at the POW flag, to honor the pain and suffering they have I was reminded of the trials and hardships been through for us. that they went through,” Fifield said. “It Out of respect and honor for those who made me realize that I had nothing to comhave sacrificed so much for us, the Air plain about. I was happy to do it and it was Force ROTC held a POW-MIA tribute on no big deal to lose sleep after participating Tuesday, Nov. 10, until Wednesday, Nov. in such an honorary event.”

11. Flags posted at 11 a.m. on Tuesday I had a similar feeling run through me were guarded for 24 hours straight by two right before my shift. My alarm clock went cadets at a time. There was a POW-MIA off at 3:30 a.m., and I thought to myself flag standing next to an American flag in that I was crazy for having signed up for the middle of the Quad. Cadets performed that shift. I immediately changed my mind a routine for half-hour shifts to watch over when Fifield and I walked onto the Quad to the flags. take the place of the previous two cadets.

If you have ever seen the guarding I stepped into my post feeling humble. of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in During that half hour, I realized just how Washington, D.C., then the POW-MIA trib- important the event was. ute done by the Air Force ROTC cadets I realized during my participation in the would seem familiar to you. The routine POW-MIA tribute that we should not skip a began with one cadet on either side of the day without thinking for just a few seconds flags, 10 paces out. A 10-second count about what the men and women before us would be their cue to march 10 more paces have sacrificed. toward the flags and hold another 10 seconds.

Doniell Mojazza is a freshman majoring in A simple cluster of what are called “facpublic relations. Questions or comments ing movements” were performed in order can be sent to her at doniell.mojazza@aggito change the rifle from one shoulder to the email.usu.edu next. This routine was carried on without

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Aggie basketball teams get an upgrade

By DAN FAWSON staff writer

At last Saturday’s ribbon cutting, unveiling the new men’s basketball and women’s basketball and volleyball facilities, former Aggie basketball great Nate Wickizer spoke on one aspect of Aggie basketball that had changed since his time with the program and another that, until Saturday, hadn’t.

Wickizer, a 1989 USU graduate and second all-time in block shots at Utah State, said Aggie fans would pack the Spectrum when he used to play and litter the arena floor with rolls of toilet paper after the Aggies’ first bucket.

With the toilet paper celebration certain to draw a technical foul in today’s game, Wickizer said Aggie fans now regale the players with the words, ‘Show me the Scotsman who doesn’t love the thistle. Show me the Englishman who doesn’t love the rose. Show me the true blooded Aggie from Utah who doesn’t love the spot where the sagebrush grows.’

“Neither the toilet paper nor the song make a whole lot of sense to me,” Wickizer said jokingly. “But you know what, they both work.”

He then addressed something that hadn’t been working.

Now the chief operating officer for Cache Valley Electric, Wickizer said he and his wife, Heather recently decided they wanted to do something to make a difference in Aggie basketball. He just didn’t know what to do.

After touring the locker rooms, Wickizer found his answer.

“Quite honestly, I was shocked,” he said.

The growth and improvement of the basketball program was not reflected in the team’s off-court facilities, as Wickizer said the locker rooms hadn’t improved in the 20 years since he’d left the program.

Initiated by a lead gift given by Wickizer’s to Utah State athletic director Scott Barnes and with the assistance of many other donors and contributors, namely MerLynn Pitcher of the Alumni Association Executive Board, what followed was the major facilities renovation unveiled Saturday morning.

Barnes said the Nate and Heather Wickizer Men’s Basketball Locker Room and Lounge and the MerLynn Pitcher Women’s Basketball Locker Room and Lounge fulfill the two main principles he and the university wanted to emphasize with the project: first, to continue to provide resources for student athletes to succeed in athletics and school; second, provide the “wow-factor” necessary to strengthen recruiting.

Prior to Saturday’s ribbon cutting, Barnes commented on that wow-factor.

“I came to Utah State from the University of Washington, a Pac-10 program that’s been perennially ranked in the top 25 (in men’s basketball),” Barnes said. “We did a project very similar (there). What we did here is very comparable. So, what we have is a Pac-10 quality locker room-lounge facility.”

Barnes and men’s head coach Stew Morrill, along with women’s head coach Raegan Pebley, hope the new facilities will not only be beneficial to current student athletes but will also help attract future recruits to Logan.

“When prospective student athletes come to campus, there’s a couple things they want to know about,” Barnes said. “They want to know how many times we’re on TV, (and) they want to know what the facilities are like.”

Both the men’s and women’s new study and lounge areas are complete with computer stations, flat-screen televisions and leather couches embroidered with USU logos.

USU’S MEN’S AND WOMEN’S basketball locker rooms recently received some much needed upgrades. (Above) The new men’s locker room, (below) the lounge area just outside the men’s locker room. Photos courtesy of RYAN TALBOT

- See UPGRADE, page 9

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Ags looking for redemption in Salt Lake

By TYLER HUSKINSON staff writer

Utah State’s performance against the Weber State Wildcats was far from pretty but the Ags got the victory, 66-60. Tyler Newbold led the team in the season opener with 15 points. USU shot 47.7 percent from the field for the game and 33.3 percent from the 3-point line.

It was enough though, as the Ags held the Wildcats to a 33.3 percent shooting performance from the field and a 10 percent performance from the 3-point line. The Aggies (1-0) continue their season-opening road trip against the Utah Utes (0-1) tonight in Salt Lake City.

The Utes did not enjoy the same success in their home opener that the Aggies did, losing to the Idaho Vandals, 94-87. The Utes were the victim of a well-balanced Vandal attack, as the Idaho bench scored more than half of the team’s points with 49.

The Utes shot 48.5 percent from the field but couldn’t match the Vandals 47.6 percent 3-point shooting. In the Utes loss to Idaho, freshman center Jason Washburn led the team with 20 points, and freshman guard Marshall Henderson was close behind with 18 points of his own.

The Ags led most of the game against the Utes in the Spectrum last year. Jared Quayle hit a 3-point shot to put the Aggies up by 11 with 6:40 left in the game, but the Utes came storming back with an 18-7 run. Ute guard Carlon Brown hit a layup with 29 seconds left to tie the game at 64.

The Aggies took a time-out and on the ensuing possession, Quayle missed a jumper that went out of bounds off the Utes. The Ags

took another time-out, and Newbold missed a jumper off the in-bounds play, but Tai Wesley was there for a tip-in layup with 0.1 seconds left, giving Utah State the victory, 66-64.

In 2007, the two teams met in Salt Lake City and the Utes blew-out the Ags, 72-48. The Utes held Utah State to a mere 37 percent from a field and 23.5 percent from the 3-point line. Aggie stand-outs Jaycee Carroll and Gary Wilkinson combined for 23 points on the night and the rest of the team only outscored the duo by two.

The Utes did not have trouble on offense, hitting 53.7 percent of their shots from the field and 50 percent from the 3-point line. Center Luke Neville led the way for the Utes with 20 points and senior forward Kim Tillie chipped in 16 of his own.

The Utes are averaging 85 points over their first two games, and their opponents have averaged 82 points per game. Utah State is averaging 72 points per game, but Aggies opponents are only averaging 50 points per game.

The Aggies have not been victorious in the Huntsman Center since 2001, when they beat the Utes, 58-57. The Aggies were stingy on defense that night, allowing the Utes to shoot only 38 percent from the field and 34.8 percent from the 3-point line.

If the Ags want a victory tonight they need similar defensive outing to stop the high-octane Ute offense. The Ags will also need a better bench performance and better game overall from junior forward Tai Wesley, who finished with four points, two blocks and two steals against Weber State.

Game time is at 6 p.m. in the Huntsman Center.

– ty.d.hus@aggiemail.usu.edu

Medlin to face familiar foe

By DAN FAWSON staff writer

When in-state rivals clash there’s expected to be a certain amount of familiarity shared between opposing veteran players.

Throughout the course of a rivalry, plays, players and moments often become immortalized by media and fans alike.

Friendships are forged, much to the chagrin of blood-thirsty fans and player rivalries are formed as both sides fight for in-state supremacy.

There is bound to be some emotional carryover from season to season.

For example, it could be assumed the majority of returning Utah players have Aggie forward Tai Wesley’s late-game heroics from last season stored somewhere in the back of their minds. Aggie fans won’t soon let them forget. It’s likewise doubtful USU forward Matt Formisano has forgotten when Utah’s Carlon Brown ... well ... jumped.

Sufficed to say, the familiarity-induced tension and competiveness expected when the Utes and Aggies square off tonight is not uncommon amongst rivals. It is rare, however, to find it among a pair of out-of-state freshmen.

Such will be the case tonight, though, when Aggie freshman guard Preston Medlin meets up with Utah freshman guard Marshall Henderson

to do battle on the floor of the Jon M. Huntsman Center.

The two last played against each other Feb. 24, 2008, in the first round of the Texas 5A High School Basketball Playoffs. Henderson, one of the most prolific scorers in Texas 5A basketball history, and currently the starting shooting guard at Utah, scored 19 points to lead L.D. Bell to a hard fought 67-66 victory over Medlin’s Hebron High.

Despite the loss, however, the night ultimately belonged to the future Aggie. Medlin had a gamehigh 34 points in arguably the best game of his prep career, scoring from the perimeter, off the dribble and in transition as he fought to keep Hebron’s season alive.

“It was a tough game,” Medlin said. “We were fourth in the district and they were first, we were expecting it to be a tough game. We just fought, and I was just feeling it that night.”

The two players finished one-two in 5A scoring last season, with Henderson averaging 25.8 points per game, and Medlin averaging 22.5.

According to Medlin, the two have similar skill sets, with each player able to both catch and shoot coming off screens and also able to score off the dribble.

“I think we’re about the same player,” Medlin

- See MEDLIN, page 9

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Best start in 30 years

By LANDON HEMSLEY staff writer

Freshman point guard T. J. Goddard lit up the nets for 17 points, and four Aggies finished the night scoring more than 10 points in USU’s 63-57 win over Portland Monday night.

Goddard made all eight of her shot attempts, three of which were from 3-point land. She raked in four more points at the charity stripe and finished as USU’s leading scorer. Not far behind her was junior guard Amber White with 10 points, junior guard Alice Coddington with 11 points and senior center Lydia Whitehead, also with 11 points.

This win comes on the heels of the monster upset against the University of Utah – only the second Aggie win over the rival Utes.

“The Utah win was a definite confidence builder for our program, one that I think shows our team’s potential,” said USU head coach Raegan Pebley. “But I think we have to keep working hard to get better.”

If USU women’s basketball history is any indicator of greatness, the Aggies seem to be on sure footing. USU is 2-0 for the third time in the history of the program, and the last time USU started its women’s basketball season 2-0 was 1979. Clearly, the program appears to be headed in the right direction.

USU’s backcourt has been a tremendous source of strength so far in the season. Pebley praised her guards’ work in the win.

“Our guards played really well,” she said. “T. J. and Amber had great scoring in the first half.

Alice had to play one of the best players in the West Coast Conference, Laiken Dollente. She did a really good job on her. We were able to play deeper in our bench tonight, getting some of our younger guards some more experience, and they did well with their minutes.”

Coddington’s defense was excellent against Dollente, who is one of Portland’s leading scorers.

Coddington and her teammates held Dollente to 2-

11 shooting and 1-3 from 3-point land. More than half of her 11 points were from the charity stripe.

Portland stayed fairly steady with the Aggies until the 4:28 mark, when a Jenna Johnson steal was converted into an Alice Coddington 3-pointer.

USU played solid defense and crashed the boards on defense, then Goddard knocked down a trey in USU’s half-court offense. That put the Aggies up by 11 with 3:49 left in the first half, and USU retained the lead until halftime as the Aggies led 37-26.

The Pilots didn’t give up in the second half.

Pebley said the 11-point lead was needed heading into the locker room.

“In the first half we took care of the ball pretty well,” she said. “In the second half we turned it over too many times, and that allowed them to cut into that lead.”

Portland went on a 8-0 run spurred by turnovers in USU’s backcourt and offensive rebounding.

Portland came out and put USU in what Pebley said was a rotating, trapping and agressive press.

The hard defense paid off. With 16:13 remaining in the game, Portland scored the first two of its 8-0 run off a Goddard turnover. USU went scoreless for three and a half minutes and Portland managed to cut the deficit to two points after obtaining two consecutive offensive rebounds. Then, USU tooks its turn with a quick run that extended the lead back to eight points. Back and forth the game went, but checkmate wouldn’t come for the Aggies until the final minute of play.

With 20 seconds remaining, Portland’s Lauren Angel sank a 3-point shot that pulled the Pilots to within two once again. Portland immediately called a timeout and was forced to foul Alice Coddington. She hit both free throws. Portland missed its next shot, Nicole Johnson pulled down the rebound and Coddington took the pass. She was immediately fouled and sent to the line where, again, she hit both shots to extend the lead to six and put the game out of reach.

USU will next face San Francisco on the road Sunday.

– la.hem@aggiemail.usu.edu

Medlin: Familiar freshman to face off -continued from page 8 said. “I might be a little taller, that’s about it.”

While playing styles coincide, the personalities of Medlin and Henderson could not be more different. While Medlin comes across as humble, gracious, and soft-spoken, Henderson is known for his brash, fiery on-court demeanor. As evidence, the Utah guard picked up a technical foul in the first half of the Utes’ season opening loss against Idaho last Friday, after tossing the ball at a Vandal player during a timeout.

“He’s a real good player,” Medlin said of Henderson. “When he starts hitting shots and he starts talking a lot, he just gets rolling.”

While there is a good chance Medlin and Henderson will find themselves guarding each other at some point tonight, they will enter tonight’s game assuming vastly different roles for their respective teams.

Utah is currently in the midst of trying to replace its top four scorers from last season’s NCAA tournament team, a dilemma that has allowed Henderson to not only secure a starting spot for the Utes but to also emerge as a key offensive contributor early on in the season. In the loss to Idaho, Henderson’s 18 points came on a teamhigh 14 shots.

Medlin, on the other hand, began his freshman campaign on one of the most experienced teams in the country and will likely be counted on to provide the Aggies with a spark off the bench.

“I’ve been trying to get better on my (defense),” Medlin said. “I’m just going out and trying to hit shots, hit the open shots that I have and try to make plays for everybody else on the team.”

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Upgrade: New digs at the Spectrum -continued from page 8 The men’s locker room had three of its eight showers removed in order to make room for a new therapy pool. The women’s locker room was renovated to include individual showers, and electrical outlets are provided at each individual locker to allow for the use of hairdryers and the like.

Individual player lockers are available for donor sponsoring at $10,000 apiece, with a number of notable Aggie alumni having already stepped forward to claim one. Junior Tyler Newbold will be using the locker sponsored by Aggie alum and current Utah Jazz assistant coach Phil Johnson, and junior Brian Greene will be occupying the locker sponsored by former Aggie great Marv Roberts.

Three men’s lockers are still available for sponsoring.

A new women’s film study room has been added, complete with 20 leather chairs featuring the USU logo, new tables, a projector and a dropdown screen. The women also received a coaches’ staff locker room, as well.

The new training room, formerly occupying the space now used for the men’s study and lounge area, has been moved down the hall closer to the women’s locker room. The room has a new therapy pool exclusively for women and, according to Barnes, is now a bigger, more functional space than what it was previously.

Barnes stressed the men and women have been represented equally in both the type and number of facilites provided.

This project is one of a number of athletic facility upgrades at USU in the past year, and Barnes said it may be a little while before anymore are completed.

“What we’re doing is we’re taking a breath,” Barnes said. “We’re partnering with the department of landscape architecture on campus to create a master-plan process. What we want to do is take a step back and look at a long-term vision for our needs, and while we’re doing that we’ll be looking at some other potential facilities.”

– majerusforpresident@yahoo.com

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CHELSEA FOWLES, 2, AND LORI WILSON-BECKSTROM, 17, pick themselves up off the floor during their match against Hawaii Monday. PATRICK ODEN photo

No. 3 Wahine too much for Ags

tually getting up by eight, before putting the set away with a powerful kill by senior outside hitter Kanani Danielson. Danielson finished the night with a career-high 32 kills.

Third-ranked Hawaii overpowered the “You just have to get in the right spots and Aggies Monday night in a four-set match (25try to do everything you can,” Durrant said of 19, 22-25, 25-29, 25-13), dropping USU to an defending Hawaii’s physical play. “Sometimes even record of 14 wins and 14 losses and ultiyou can’t control what they’re going to do so mately taking USU’s hopes for a post-season you just have to control what you can and hopeberth away. fully in the end it works out for you.”

Hawaii continued its quest for a national Hawaii showed its dominance in the fourth title with its 26th win of the season – its only set, jumping out to a 8-2 lead, placing its kills two losses came in September against Texas on the Aggies at will. The Wahine went on a and California.

10-3 run to end the set 25-13. Hawaii had 14 After Hawaii jumped out to an early sevenmore kills than the Aggies, with 20 and six, point lead in the first set, the Aggies climbed respectively. The fourth set was USU’s worst hittheir way back into contenting percentage on the night tion with kills by juniors “We’re catching with a .067 (6-4-30). Hawaii Christine Morrill, Shantell hit a .368 (20-6-38). glimpses of our Durrant and Katie Astle Durrant finished the potential. It’s just and help from service and night, leading the Aggies attack errors by Hawaii. The unfortunate that with a career-high 12 kills, Rainbow Wahine regained hitting a .429 (12-3-21). Liz it’s coming at this control near the end of the McArthur and Kortsen both point during the set to pull out the win 25-19. had eight kills, Kortsen with season; that we’ve USU had a .091 hitting perone error on 17 attempts centage (10-7-33) in the set caught the vision and McArthur 10 errors on while the Warriors hit .333 45 attempts. Morrill led the this late in the sea(17-5-36). match with 17 digs while son.”

The Aggies held the secHawaii’s Dani Mafua led ond set close, never allowing – USU head coach the match in assists with 61.

Hawaii to break away with a “We competed well Grayson Dubose lead of more than one. The tonight,” said USU head hard-hitting Wahine were coach Grayson DuBose. kept in check by the blocking of USU. Astle led “We’re catching glimpses of our potential. It’s the set in team blocks with four, while sophojust unfortunate that it’s coming at this point more Emily Kortsen had three and freshman during the season that we’ve caught the vision Josselyn White had two. The Aggies had 10 this late in the season. But we have a young blocking assists in the set with two blocking team, and it’ll help us prepare for next season. errors while Hawaii had no blocks with two We have to continue to work hard and improve. blocking errors. Although the Aggies had four We have one more match this season so we have less kills in the set they were able to pull out to come out and defend the Spectrum.” the 25-22 win for their first-set victory against USU is 8-37 against women’s volleyball powHawaii since the 2007 season. Hawaii had 17 erhouse Hawaii, with half of those wins coming kills on 35 attempts with eight errors (.257 hitat home. The last home win came more than ting percentage) while the Aggies had 13 kills two decades ago on Nov. 12, 1981. USU’s last on 33 attempts with three errors (.303 hitting victory over the Wahine was on Nov. 11, 2007, percentage). Durrant led the Aggies in kills breaking a 108-match conference home winwith five, followed by Kortsen who had three. ning streak for the then 10th ranked Wahine.

“I thought we played really well in the secThe Aggies play their final match of the seaond game,” Durrant said. “We just got them son Thursday, Nov. 19, at 7 p.m. against Nevada out of system a lot, and we were just doing the in the Spectrum. things we needed to do.”

– c.h.j@aggiemail.usu.edu The Aggies hung with Hawaii early in the third set before the Wahine pulled away, evenBy CONNOR JONES sports senior writer

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he concept of a “Sustainability Week” is inherently untenable.

The planet we are confined to has a finite carrying capacity. While it’s probably beyond the scope of modern science to determine exactly what that capacity is and express it as a number, we can all agree that with a global population of 6.797 billion, we surely must be nearing that capacity. It is not difficult to calculate the number of glasses of water in the Nile and divide that by the number of parched throats in the region.

To continue down our ruinous path with respect to a host of issues as divergent as overuse of antibiotics and overfishing is to court disaster in the form of mass die-off. Ecological calamity has never threatened our earth more urgently or on as many fronts.

Laugh if you want at the plight of the pygmy rhino – or any of thousands upon thousands of threatened and endangered species – and dismiss it as insignificant. Or disregard the disturbing reports of enormous swarms of jellyfish choking out the schools of fish, which Japanese fishermen have depended upon for centuries.

After all, you’ll always just be able to eat fish by opening up a box and nuking a few frozen bricks of Alaskan whitefish, right?

The rush of roughly 2.36 billion Chinese and Indians to emulate our American lifestyle of disposable luxury and conspicuous consumption demands that the citizens of the world’s wealthiest country take a leadership role in global stewardship. Sadly for our national pride, this will mean wresting that role from many other countries, which have left us looking like a thoughtless dinosaur, or rather, a spoiled child bereft of foresight.

This means sustainability 365 days a year. This means riding your bicycle to school, not putting a “bikes are the answer” sticker on your Subaru wagon. This means personal responsibility, a concept that most in heavily Republican Utah claim to pay fealty to. Apropos of that, it also means voting for candidates who will take real steps to introduce sustainable practices at all levels of government and not dismiss any and all legislative efforts to curtail environmental devastation out-of-hand.

Please use Sustainability Week as an opportunity to learn more about the concept of sustainability and steps you can take in your own life to be more sustainable. But do not confine your efforts to one week out of 52 in a year. Unlike most of the issues that consume us, this one actually matters.

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Do you remember on “Bambi” when it’s spring time and everyone is “Twitterpated?” Well, let’s just say I can relate a lot to that particular scene.

Let me explain: My roommates – bless their lucky hearts – all have boyfriends with whom they are very much in love with. Since the happy couples couldn’t stand to spend a second apart, the boyfriends are always at my apartment. Don’t get me wrong. I like having them around, but sometimes I feel a little bit depressed about it, since I’m the only one in the apartment that’s without a man in her life. And having PDA-ing lovebirds hanging out in my living room only reminds me of what I am lacking – a good man.

Which brings me to another problem: I am not very good at nabbing a man. I’m timid and socially awkward when it comes to talking to guys, so let’s just say that guys aren’t exactly lining up at the door for me. I’m more than aware of my dating handicap and have all but given up on dating, but when I see my roommates, my friends and even my little sister happily in the arms of steady boyfriends, it drives me absolutely nuts.

Miss Jones, how does a single person keep her sanity when she is surrounded by disgustingly happy couples?

Victory for Rule of Law he American system of justice has won an important vote of confidence from the Obama administration, signaling an overdue return to due process and the rule of law.

By deciding to move the trials of five Guantanamo detainees accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to New York City for trial in a civilian court, the administration reaffirmed confidence in a system of justice that has repeatedly shown itself capable of handling terrorism cases.

That’s what happened with the terrorists who bombed the World Trade Center in 1993, “shoe bomber” Richard Reid, Zacarias Moussaoui, and scores of other terrorism suspects tried in open court. Some 347 convicted terrorists are being held in American prisons after facing justice in U.S. courts, by the count of Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. There is every reason to believe that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his cohorts will eventually join them. The obligation to stand trial in an open court of law is a defeat for the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, who once expressed a desire to plead guilty in the military commission system established in Guantanamo.

Because the trial venue has been discredited around the Islamic world _ and among U.S. allies _ fulfilling his wish would have solidified his status as martyr on behalf of a distorted version

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of Islam.

Wisely, the plea was disallowed.

Mohammed and the others will have to face a judge and jury, hear the evidence against them, and be given the opportunity to offer a defense _ all the features of a legal system that they reject precisely because it is emblematic of the rule of law and a civilization they despise.

Trying the accused conspirators in New York obliges them to return to the scene of the crime, a fundamental tenet of American jurisprudence. It gives the trial a transparency it never could achieve in Guantanamo and offers families who lost loved ones the chance to see justice done.

From the outset, the decision to create a separate system of justice rested on the mistaken notion that Americans could not simultaneously uphold the rule of law and remain safe from terrorism. As a result, mass murderers and common criminals were elevated into a special class, an exalted warrior status they do not deserve.

Attorney Gen. Eric Holder made a valid distinction between this set of accused conspirators _ accused of the mass murder of civilians _ and others like Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged mastermind of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, who are accused of violations of the rules of war. He and another group of Guantanamo detain-

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Welcome to Utah; the land of if you’re not dating or engaged, you’re an outcast.

I know your pain. I’ve been single for most of my life.

I’ve dated a lot, but for the most part I’ve avoided longterm, serious relationships.

For a while I was happy with that life. I would jeer at my roommates who didn’t go a day without seeing the boy they’ve been dating, and I openly mocked my girlfriends who got engaged after four months of knowing the boy and three months of dating him. I lost many good friends this way, and while at first I was content with my relationship status, I soon became bitter and cold. In my senior year at USU – what should have been my greatest hour – I found myself alone in my room with a pint of delicious cherry chocolate Aggie Ice Cream. I didn’t do anything productive in my life that year – sure I graduated from school, but I don’t remember going out once.

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Good luck and remember: “With as many times as Miss Jones has been around the block, her directions must be good.”

E-mail your questions to be answered by Miss Jones to statesman.miss.jones@gmail. com

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ees will also be brought to the United States, but instead of civilian trials they will face military commissions.

These panels have been revamped by Congress, which has barred them from using statements obtained from harsh interrogations and made it harder for them to use hearsay evidence. Still, they fall short of conventional standards of due process. Trying terrorists in this venue remains problematic.

Given the extensive fear-mongering over the issue of trying terrorists here at home, it took courage for the Obama administration to step forward. Within

minutes of Holder’s public announcement, House Minority Leader John Boehner repeated charges that the administration had acted irresponsibly and put Americans in danger.

Boehner should have more faith. The American system of justice has served this country well for more than 200 years and will no doubt show that it is up to the task of dealing with the likes of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

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he note simply read, “At exactly 10:37 everyone in the class is going to start humming. No matter what Mrs. Rotter does or says, just keep humming. She can’t get us in trouble if we’re all doing it. Pass this note along.”

I didn’t know who had started the note that was making its way through my seventhgrade English class. Mrs. Rotter was one of the worst teachers in the school. I really didn’t care for her at all, and I was more than willing to join in on the rouse to annoy the teacher.

At exactly 10:37 everyone in the class began to make a humming noise. We weren’t half-bad either; we managed to hit the same note and soon there was a class full of harmonizing seventh graders. At first she looked annoyed, but that annoyance soon grew to anger as she realized she had no control over the class. What was she going to do, suspend us all?

“Stop it,” Mrs. Rotter said. “Stop that right now or I’ll go to the principal.”

She stormed out of the room and down the hall, and the class erupted with laughter.

While she was gone we all swore a pact of secrecy and no matter what the principal said we wouldn’t own up to anything. When Mrs. Rotter came back with the principal we all kept our silence and escaped punishment.

At Danvers High School in Massachusetts last week, the principal, Thomas Murray, has attempted to pre-empt a similar situation and has had automated phone calls to the students’ homes to tell them they will face suspension if they use the word meep.

Murray said the students were using Facebook to escalate the use of the word.

While he insists that the ban on the word has nothing to do with the word itself, the newest four-letter word in Massachusetts does seem silly, to say the least.

Murray took anticipatory action in order to stop students from supposedly using a word that a Muppet uses instead of English

and the Roadrunner uses on occasion.

While in junior high school, I was an accessory to the escalation of the process of humming. But it wasn’t the word meep or the action of humming that caused students to cause problems. Those words could easily be replaced with other nonsensical words.

Murray created a problem where there was none. By punishing those who say meep, Murray escalated its meaning.

As a principal, Murray acted within his authority. However, unless Danvers is a haven of angel children, wouldn’t there be much larger problems to deal with?

And while all four-letter words are just words, society has decided such words as the F word and others are inappropriate. When was the last time that Murray sent home a message that threatened students with suspension if they dropped the F bomb?

But I suppose meep could easily be considered a gateway word that could lead to other nonsensical words such as zoinks, jeepers or any other word that could be picked up on a Scooby-Doo rerun.

Murray said he stumbled on a Facebook group called Meep that had about 370 members, four of which were members of his school, according to Salem News.

What do you think? Should educators be able to restrict the freedom of speech in order to pre-empt a possible disruption? Log onto www.aggietownsquare.com and let me know what you think.

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Pirates get ransom, free 36 hostages MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – As a Spanish warship looked on, a $3.3 million ransom was delivered by boat Tuesday and Somali pirates freed a Spanish trawler and its 36 crew members.

Spain’s prime minister did little to deny paying off the hijackers – one reason the lucrative attacks are on the rise.

“The government did what it had to do,” Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero told a news conference in Madrid. “The important thing is that the sailors will be back with us. The first obligation of a country, of the government of a state, is to save the lives of its countrymen.”

Somali pirates attacked two more ships on Monday and still hold about a dozen ships with more than 200 crew, including a British couple who were taken from their 38foot sailboat last month.

Ali Gab, a self-described pirate, told The Associated Press the hijackers of the Spanish tuna boat Alakrana were paid $3.3 million in ransom, delivered by boat as sailors aboard a nearby warship watched.

After being freed, the trawler steamed away under the protection of two Spanish warships. All crew members were reported to be in good health after more than six weeks in captivity.

Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega told a news conference the Alakrana was headed for the Seychelles, where U.S. surveillance drones and several warships belonging to a multinational force are based.

The pirates had been pressing for the release of two colleagues captured by Spanish naval forces a day after the hijacking. The Spanish government had been trying to find some sort of legal formula that would allow it to try them and send them back to Somalia.

The two were charged with kidnapping and related charges Monday. De la Vega declined to say if Spain might seek some sort of agreement with Somalia.

“Now is the time for justice,” she said. “Our prosecutors are acting in line with the principle of legality and impartiality, and our judges, who are an independent branch, will issue the verdict they deem appropriate.”

Somali villager Ali Ahmed Salad said 12 armed pirates left the Alakrana shortly after noon on Tuesday and joined colleagues near the pirate-controlled town of Haradhere.

In April 2008, the Spanish government reportedly paid a ransom of $1.2 million to win the release of another Spanish trawler seized by pirates off Somalia with 26 crew members on board. That ordeal lasted a week.

Pirate attacks have been on the rise because the millions of dollars a successful hijacking can bring is a windfall in impoverished and war-ravaged Somalia.

The recent end of the monsoon season has brought calmer seas, allowing easier sailing for pirate skiffs that continue to take vessels despite the presence of an armada of warships from the United States, the European Union, NATO, Japan, South Korea and China.

The trawler had been seized Oct. 2 with 16 Spaniards, eight Indonesians and 12 crew from five African countries on board.

The sister of the second-in-command of the Alakrana spoke to her brother after his release.

“It took them by surprise and they still cannot really believe it,” said Argi Galbarriatu, the sister of Iker Galbarriatu. “He told me the word to describe it is that they are relieved, and eager to get to port and come home.”

Britain has refused to pay ransom for Paul and Rachel Chandler, whose boat – the Lynn Rival – was taken by pirates on Oct. 23.

Authorities believe the Chandlers, who are in their 50s, are being held on land in Somalia. Pirates have demanded $7 million for their release – money the Chandlers’ relatives say the couple doesn’t have.

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Koreans, the EU anti-piracy force said. In the second incident, pirates attacked a Ukrainian cargo ship with AK-47 rifles and rocket-propelled grenades.

Cmdr. John Harbour, a spokesman for the EU’s antipiracy force, said the Ukrainian vessel got away after private security guards on board fired on the pirates, wounding two. However, a purported spokesman for the pirates, Gedi Ali, said the ship was captured.

Pirate attacks in 2009 already have exceeded last year’s

total off the Horn of Africa, an international maritime watchdog group reported last month. A total of 306 attacks were reported between January and September, surpassing the 293 incidents recorded throughout 2008, according to the International Maritime Bureau’s piracy reporting center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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Surrogates PG-13 Daily 4:10, 7:15 Sat. Mat. 12:00, 2:15

Today’s Issue

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Nov. 18 Today is Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. Today’s issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Nils Nelson, sophomore in math, from South Jordan, Utah.

Almanac Today in History: In 1978, People’s Temple leader Jim Jones leads hundreds of his followers in a mass murdersuicide at their agricultural commune in remote northwestern Guyana. The few cult members who refused to take the cyanidelaced fruit-flavored concoction were either forced to do so at gunpoint or shot as they fled. The final death toll was 913, including 276 children.

Weather Thursday’s Weather High: 42° Low: 23° Sunny skies

Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009

-Clean Drive, all day.

-Diversity Week, International Dress Day. -Sustainability Week, free emission testing.

-Movie “Food Inc.” Library, 5 p.m.

-Men’s basketball at Utah, 6:05 p.m.

Thursday

Nov. 19 -Clean Drive, all day.

-Diversity Week, Study Abroad photo contest.

-Sustainability Week, forum, Library 101, 5 p.m.

-Mr. and Ms. International Pageant, TSC Ballroom, 6:30 p.m.

-DESA Silent Thanksgiving, Housing Support Services, 6:30 p.m.

-Volleyball vs. Nevada, 7 p.m.

-USU Hockey vs. Eastern Washington, 7 p.m.

Monday

Nov. 20 -Clean Drive, all day.

-Diversity Week, Study Abroad photo contest.

-Bioneers Conference, Eccles Conference Center, all day.

-Diversity Week: International Brunch, TSC Patio.

-Football vs. Boise State, 7:30 p.m.

Thanksgiving

You need to know....

Brain Waves • B. Streeter

The Registrar’s Office would like to remind everyone that Nov. 2527 is the Thanksgiving Holiday and no classes will be held. Nov. 30 through Dec. 4 is No Test Week.

DESA invites everyone to its annual Silent Thanksgiving Dinner. Sign language skills are not needed to attend this event. It will be held Nov. 19 at 6:30 p.m. at Housing Support Services. DESA members and children under 12 get in free and $5 for all other The 2009 Aggie Passport guests, or a dish of food. Sign Experience is coming to a close. up on the ASL Lab door in the Please submit your passport Lillywhite building. with 6, 8 or 10 stamps to TSC The Undergraduate Research 314 no later than Nov. 23. For Office would like to announce the more information call 797-1132. following date: Dec. 4, abstracts due for the National Conference on Undergraduate Research.

USU Sustainability Week takes Visit http://research.usu.edu/ place Nov. 16-19 in the Merrill- undergrad for more info.

Cazier Library. Events during On Nov. 21, there will be the week celebrate the success a recital for students from and promote awareness of susthe music department in the tainability efforts campus-wide. Performance Hall beginning at See activity schedule at www.

7:30 p.m. sustainability.usu.edu. Prizes There will be Mini Fitness are for the first 150 people.

Assessments on Nov. 18 in the library from 4-5 p.m. Check out your grip strength, blood presSlow Food on Campus - Join us sure and body fat. There will also for our next meeting Nov. 18 be a Bioneers Conference Nov. at 7 p.m. in the Cache Valley 20-21 in the Eccles Conferences Unitarian Universalists Building Center all day both days. Info can located at 596 East 900 North. be found at http://extension.usu.

Come enjoy some tasty local edu/bioneers. food and learn how you can get John Worley, CEO of Cache involved with the Slow Food Valley Specialty Hospital, will be Movement at USU. speaking on the future of health care Nov. 19 at 6:30 p.m. in BUS 211. Everyone is welcome.

Full Circle and Velocity Dance The annual Study Abroad Companies present nationally photo contest. Come vote for recognized Kelli Leighton for your favorite photo from Nov. 16an intermediate and advanced 19 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. across workshop Nov. 21 from 10 a.m. the TSC Ballroom. Winners will to 1 p.m. in the fieldhouse. For be announced Nov. 20. Prizes for students it’s $5, $15 for public. both winners and voters.

A bipartisan watch party will be held Nov. 19 at 7 p.m. in Old The movie “Food Inc.” will be Main 326 to view Michael Moore’s shown Nov. 18 in the library at health care documentary “Sicko” 5 p.m. (there will be free popby the College Democrats and corn). Learn about “Big Food” College Republicans. “Sicko” is a and its effect on the family farm, must-see and is especially relevant consumer hearth, work safety given the current debate over and our environment. A must health care reform. see movie.

Aggie Passport

Sustainability

Moderately Confused • Stahler

Slow Food

Kelli Leighton

‘Food Inc.’

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