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RANDY WATTS, LEFT, was reelected as Logan City mayor in Tuesday’s election, beating out candidate Mike Morrill, right. The election was a close one, with Watts winning 52.82 percent of the vote. TYLER LARSON photos

Logan helps Watts deny Morrill the mayor seat

By RACHEL A. CHRISTENSEN news editor

Mayor incumbent Randy Watts was elected for another term during Tuesday night, along with Dean Quayle and Holly Daines for Logan City Council. Watts won with 52.82 percent of the vote, totaling 2,600 votes. Quayle won with 30 percent and Daines with 28.81.

Mayor candidate Mike Morrill won the majority in 9 of the 14 voting locations, but Watts was able to hang in the race by securing the majority of votes in the Eastridge and Lundstrom locations, both of which had high voter turnouts.

The city council race wasn’t quite as close as the mayor race, with Steven Stokes receiving 16.63 percent of the votes and Tony Wegener receiving 24.27 percent.

KUTA TV 8 ran the city election’s first live broadcast, making

Tuesday’s election historic, said Reed Morrill, campaign manager for the mayor candidate.

Watts said citizens should be more involved in city elections, citing the Adam’s Park voting location, which only had a 9 percent voter turnout, as an example of the lack of civic participation.

“I don’t know what runs people more than city government,” Watts said. “The rubber hits the road right here.”

Watts said the city ideally should be getting at least 50-60 percent of the residents to vote in local elections.

Quayle said the election results are a positive indication that the people of Logan want the government to continue doing what it has been doing. He said he will continue to work on issues such as the airport master plan and budgets while serving his next term.

Daines said the main issue she faces as a city council member

is “growth, growth, growth.” The transportation master plan needs attention, she said.

“It’s like a domino effect,” she said, because transportation affects other things such as traffic and air quality.

Daines attributed her success to her involvement in the community and the fact that the community members she was involved with came out and voted. She said the city needs more input from the citizens on important issues such as transportation and air quality.

Even though Morrill will not be serving Logan as mayor, he said students should remember to stay involved and become engaged. In the past, the Lundstrom Center – where many students vote – only saw about 80 student voters. The voter turnout for the Lundstrom area has been generally low in the past, he

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USU Press to merge with Merrill-Cazier Library

By RACHEL A. CHRISTENSEN news editor

Collaborations between the USU Press and Merrill-Cazier Library have already begun and the change will officially take effect at the start of the fiscal year, said Michael Spooner, director of the University Press and Scholarly Publications.

Spooner said the main purpose of the merger is to achieve a synergy between the missions of the press and the library.

“If we join our efforts together, we can achieve more,” he said.

John Elsweiler, associate dean of public services for the library, said the merger was logical because “libraries deal with written word and the press is a producer and publisher of those books.”

Raymond Coward, executive vice president and provost, said the merger will allow the USU Press to continue to publish in select areas of literature but at a lower cost to consumers through the use of open access and digital e-books.

Coward said the merger will benefit students, faculty and the state.

Coward said Spooner and Dean of Libraries Richard Clement brought him a proposal for the merger. Clement has been in discussion with his colleagues about digital scholarship since his arrival at USU, Coward said. Clement asked permission to talk to Spooner and the two put the proposal together.

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The merger will realize some savings in the budget that the university gets from the state legislature, Spooner said. Though the amount of money saved won’t be large, the savings will help in the big picture to contribute to what the administration is trying save.

Saving money wasn’t the main purpose of the merger, Coward said, but to “take two entities that exist on our campus and bring them together in a way that better serves” the university.

The merge will not change the way USU Press fundamentally operates, and Spooner said “rigorous peer review” will still be the way scholarly publications are chosen. The peer-review process is part of why the university created the USU Press in the first place, Spooner said.

Spooner said the library has better information technology resources than the USU Press and the merger will allow the press to collaborate with the library’s digital initiatives department.

Elsweiler said the physical move of the press to offices in the library will begin this spring and continue until July 1 when the merge becomes official. The USU Press has had to store USU PRESS STAFF WILL MOVE to offices in the Merrill-Cazier Library starting in the spring as the its materials off site, but Elsweiler said when it two entities take steps to merge. RACHEL A. CHRISTENSEN photo merges with the library it will be able to keep found the reorganization useful, Spooner said. more go this direction. those materials in the library’s barn.

The University of Utah has the same type of “We are finding some natural synergy The library has a larger staff than the press, arrangement between its press and library, and between library culture and publishing culture and Elsweiler said because of this the library can Spooner said about a dozen other universities as they are evolving,” Spooner said. “It makes provide the press with some secondary personalso have similar arrangements. sense to blend those enterprises.” nel.

While most university presses are not part – rac.ch@aggiemail.usu.edu Other university presses have merged and of their libraries, Spooner said he expects to see

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Celebs&People LOS ANGELES (AP) – Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will co-host the Oscars.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says the two Hollywood veterans will share hosting duties BALDWIN at the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony, to be held March 7, 2010.

Martin has hosted the show twice before. Baldwin is a firsttimer.

NewsBriefs Afghan president welcomes all KABUL (AP) – Afghanistan’s president says he wants people from “all parts of the country” in his government.

President Hamid Karzai told reporters Tuesday that he will welcome anyone from the opposition into his government and will institute reforms to stamp out corruption.

On Monday, he won a drawn-out election by default following a first-round vote that was marred by fraud.

Election officials proclaimed Karzai the winner of the runoff after his only challenger dropped out saying that the election could not be free or fair.

LateNiteHumor David Letterman, Nov. 2, – Top 10 Thoughts That Go Through Your Mind When Running The New York City Marathon.

10. “Wow, Staten Island is even more beautiful that I imagined.”

9. “Cool! MapQuest found a route that’s only five miles.”

8. “Am I experiencing a runner’s high or is it the bus fumes?”

7. “Is that the finish line or crime-scene tape?”

6. “Why can I run 26 miles in less time than it takes to play a World Series game?”

5. “Car!” 4. “Cramp!”

3. “Who’s that little boy waving at me? Oh, it’s Mayor Bloomberg.”

2. “I forgot to bring exact change for the Verrazano Bridge!”

1. “I really hope that was Gatorade.”

Gay-marriage vote in Maine upholds precedent PORTLAND, Maine (AP) – Maine voters repealed a state law Tuesday that would have allowed same-sex couples to wed, dealing the gay rights movement a heartbreaking defeat in New England, the corner of the country most supportive of gay marriage.

Gay marriage has now lost in every single state – 31 in all – in which it has been put to a popular vote. Gay-rights activists had hoped to buck that trend in Maine – known for its moderate, independent-minded electorate – and mounted an energetic, well-financed campaign.

With 87 percent of the precincts reporting, gay-marriage foes had 53 percent of the votes.

“The institution of marriage has been preserved in Maine and across the nation,” declared Frank Schubert, chief organizer for the winning side.

Gay-marriage supporters refused to concede, holding out hope that that the tide might turn as the final returns came in.

“We’re here for the long haul and whether it’s just all night and into the morning, or it’s next week or next month or next year, we will be here,” said Jesse Connolly, manager of the pro-gay marriage campaign. “We’ll be here fighting. We’ll be working. We will regroup.”

At issue was a law passed by the Maine Legislature last spring that would have legalized same-sex marriage. The law was put on hold after conservatives launched a petition drive to repeal it in a referendum.

The outcome marked the first time voters had rejected a gay-marriage law enacted by a legislature. When Californians put a stop to same-sex

KATHY STICKEL HOLDS a sign while joining supporters who turned out for a gay-rights supporter rally the day before election day in Maine on Monday. Gay marriage has lost in every single state in which it has been put to a popular vote. AP photo

marriage a year ago, it was in response to a court ruling, not legislation.

Five other states have legalized gay marriage – starting with Massachusetts in 2004, and followed by Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Iowa – but all did so

through legislation or court rulings, not by popular vote. In contrast, constitutional amendments banning gay marriage have been approved in all 30 states where they have been on the ballot.

“If we don’t win, then Maine will

have its place in infamy because no state has ever voted for homosexual marriage,” said Chuck Schott of Portland, who stood near a polling place in Maine’s biggest city with a pro-repeal campaign sign.

Another Portland resident, Sarah Holman said she was “very torn” but decided – despite her conservative upbringing – to vote in favor of letting gays marry.

“They love and they have the right to love. And we can’t tell somebody how to love,” said Holman, 26.

In addition to reaching out to young people who flocked to the polls for President Barack Obama a year ago, gay-marriage defenders tried to appeal to Maine voters’ pronounced independent streak and live-and-letlive attitude.

The other side based many of its campaign ads on claims – disputed by state officials – that the new law would mean “homosexual marriage” would be taught in public schools.

Both sides in Maine drew volunteers and contributions from out of state, but the money edge went to the campaign in defense of gay marriage, Protect Maine Equality. It raised $4 million, compared with $2.5 million for Stand for Marriage Maine.

Elsewhere on Tuesday, voters in Washington state decided whether to uphold or overturn a recently expanded domestic partnership law that entitles same-sex couples to the same state-granted rights as heterosexual married couples. And in Kalamazoo, Mich., voters approved a measure that bars discrimination based on sexual orientation.

New vaccine offers hope in Africa’s malaria battle SIAYA, Kenya (AP) – A mother watched with dread as a nurse inserted a tube in her baby’s head. Blood streamed into the anemic 4-month-old who already has malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that kills a million African children every year.

“Malaria is one of the deadliest sicknesses for children,” the nurse said – words that sent the young mother into a crumpled heap on the bed beside her wide-eyed baby boy, wrapped in a blue-and-yellow floral blanket.

There is new hope, however, in this verdant area where President Barack Obama’s relatives live. A vaccine that appears to be able to prevent the disease in about 50 percent of children, is now undergoing the final stage of testing.

If regulators determine the vaccine is safe, it could be on the market in three to five years – the first vaccine against a human parasite.

Tens of millions of Africans are plagued by malaria every year, and more than a third of the hospital beds in this rural Kenyan region next to Lake Victoria are dedicated to its victims.

More than 1 million children die of the disease in Africa annually, a crippling economic drain that prolongs a cycle of disease and poverty throughout the continent.

Malaria is also prevalent in parts of Asia, the Middle East and Central and South America.

This vaccine was developed specifi-

cally for Africa, however, and will only prevent the African strain of the disease. Experts say it would be a historic advancement.

“Some may say, ‘50 percent, that’s not great.’ And that’s true. If you get a measles vaccine, you’re not going to get measles again,” said Dr. Dave Jones, a U.S. Army colonel and director of a clinic in nearby Kombewa operated by the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and the Kenya Medical Research Institute.

“But at the same time, when you consider we lose 1 million kids a year, if you could cut that in half it would be a great step forward.”

Experts from around the globe are meeting in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, this week as part of the fifth panAfrican malaria conference, and a news conference on the vaccine trial is scheduled for Tuesday.

More than $500 million has been spent on the combined efforts by drug maker GlaxoSmithKline and the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, which is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Phase III testing is being done at 11 sites in seven African countries on 16,000 children under the age of 18 months.

The goal is to immunize children against malaria during their youngest high-risk years, and then for them to develop their own natural immunities as they age.

At the spartan, open-air clinic in

Kombewa last week, Patrician Mrunde, a 34-year-old mother of six, sat in the hallway with her youngest, 6-monthold Linda, who was waiting to receive a shot as part of the trial.

Mrunde has seen her eldest child stricken with fever and lapse into convulsions from malaria, and a young relative die from it.

“I decided to join the study to get help for the disease,” she said.

Dr. Allen Otieno, a 38-year-old pediatrician, said “everybody is afraid” of malaria in the region. He called the new vaccine promising. “As scientists we have great hope that it will reduce the burden of malaria,” he said.

Joe Cohen, a top researcher for GlaxoSmithKline, said all the data collected during testing have been encouraging.

The 66-year-old Cohen, who has been working on a malaria vaccine for two decades, said the trial results will be submitted to regulators in 2012, and that a vaccine could be on the market shortly afterward.

No prices have been set for the vaccine, Cohen said, though families in Africa may not have to pay anything for it because the Gates Foundation, UNICEF, WHO and the GAVI Alliance would provide funds.

GlaxoSmithKline “is committed to making sure pricing will never be a barrier to access for this vaccine,” Cohen said.

The vaccine has been in devel-

opment for more than 20 years through the combined efforts of GlaxoSmithKline, the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and others.

“No single person could have ever achieved this,” Cohen said. “That’s the lesson that should be taken out of the collaboration.”

Malaria is caused by a parasite and spreads through a bite from an infected mosquito. The parasite travels quickly to the liver where it matures, enters the bloodstream and causes fever, chills, flu-like symptoms and anemia. The vaccine is designed to attack the parasite before it can infect the liver.

Until now, the main line of defense in preventing the disease has been distribution of bed nets and mosquito spraying.

Jonathan Odro Anyumba, chairman of the board of the Kombewa district hospital, said malaria is a huge burden in this verdant area of Kenya, where many live in mud huts and collect water in plastic jugs from flowing streams.

Families must sleep under nets to protect against the disease, though many don’t have any. Even half the beds at his hospital don’t have nets, Anyumba said.

“When you visit these areas you’ll find that each and every child has malaria. Thirty to 50 percent of the deaths in this community are from malaria,” he said. “I think this vaccine is going to be very, very useful.”

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ASUSU discusses next possible budget cut Briefs Campus & Community

By BENJAMIN WOOD news senior writer

Nearing the end of an otherwise uneventful meeting, Executive Vice President Spencer Lee of the Associated Students of USU took time to alert members of the Executive Council to the university’s impending budgetary concerns. A 30-minute discussion about student involvement and the severe situation of higher education in Logan and Utah ensued.

“I’m going to be frank and honest right now,” Lee said. “You have to be talking budget cuts with people.”

Lee initiated multiple events of last week’s Civic Awareness Week with comments regarding USU’s budget cuts and urging attendees to become involved in the efforts of saving higher education. He chaired Tuesday’s council meeting in light of President Tyler Tolson’s absence due to illness and took advantage of the time to repeat his comments to council members and request their assistance in involving students campus-wide in lobbying efforts to the state legislature.

“We were fat. We’re to the bone

structure now,” Lee said of USU’s recent cuts. “We’re to the minimum of what we can keep offering and remain renowned.”

Lee referenced USU President Stan Albrecht’s Sep. 15 State of the University Address, in that USU received a 21 percent budget cut coming into this academic year but due to federal stimulus money is currently operating as though only 9 percent had been cut. Regardless of what further reductions are made, Lee said, USU will have to make up the remainder of those cuts.

“We aren’t even all the way done with what we’ve already cut,” Lee said, adding that he has been told an additional 7 percent reduction is likely.

Vice President of Graduate Studies Rick Kelly said although he has heard mention of budget concerns, the effects have so far been abstract.

“I personally have not had anything change for me,” Kelly said. “I don’t think I’m alone in not seeing drastic reductions.”

Other council members agreed with Kelly, saying that for the most part the university’s financial woes have not been very publicly

addressed.

“Why are there no huge posters in the TSC? Why is it being quieted if it’s such a huge issue?” Natural Resources Sen. John Rentschler said.

Lee said while the issue is not necessarily being quieted, an increase in student involvement and awareness is necessary before any results would be seen. He said a cut of 1 percent less amounts to millions of dollars for the university.

“Everybody has to be on the same page,” Lee said. “A grassroots movement needs to have more blades of grass.”

Lee said his priority for the rest of the year is a campaign for saving higher education. He mentioned upcoming advertisements and events to encourage students and community members to write to their state representatives and asked that USU senators meet with their respective deans to find out from where funds have been and will be withdrawn.

The council discussed many ways to increase student awareness – including Web sites, letter-writing activities, on-campus information booths, classroom visits and student lobby-

ing in Salt Lake City. More concrete campaign items are to be discussed in future council meetings.

Lee said that in the past, the different Utah schools have competed for state money but the current economic situation has brought the various campuses together.

“This year for the first time ... higher ed is united. The whole state is coming together to say, Don’t cut higher ed,” Lee said. “In a world where every other country is increasing higher education, we are cutting.

It’s not just a poor Utah thing, it’s nationwide.”

Lee’s passion for the subject was often referenced by council members, who generally expressed their support for Lee’s campaign and desire to assist in whatever ways possible.

In next week’s meeting, the council’s meeting time for spring semester will be discussed and a final vote will be taken regarding the ASUSU Information Desk. A notice has been placed at the desk informing campus organizations that materials are to be removed and approval for use will be required in the future.

– b.c.wood@aggiemail.usu.edu

Kinetic sculpture back and standing tall

By PETER BROWN staff writer

USU’s only kinetic sculpture is back on display after three years of being out of commission. The “Tilting Arc” is a 20foot steel structure that stands at the face of the Fine Arts Building.

Due to extreme weather conditions, the structure had fallen apart, said Victoria Rowe Berry, executive director of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. “Just after Thanksgiving 2006 we saw pieces of the structure impaled in the ground,” she said. “The wind had completely destroyed it.”

Berry said the museum workers know a lot about every piece of art the museum owns because they go through and purchase it. The workers knew Ralph Wanlass had worked with George Baker, the structure’s creator. The museum contacted Wanlass and created a contract. Wanlass then took the pieces back to his studio in Los Angeles, Calif., to work on them.

Baker was an artist and professor at Occidental College and passed away in 1997, one year after the Tilting Arc was installed, Berry said.

“I had seen this piece before,” Wanlass said. “I know George’s aesthetic, and I’m intimately familiar with his final finish he liked to put on his pieces. It’s impossible to say what he’d be 100 percent OK with, but we didn’t add to it, only pieced it back together.”

Wanlass said the location was a challenge due to the considerable travel involved and that any piece that is kinetic involves new obstacles. However, he said the greatest challenge was “staying true to the artist’s original intent.” He said workers have to

take great care in restoring art so as not to alter the piece.

USU is known for the amount of diverse art pieces around campus.

“We’re one of the few campuses in the state of Utah that have this amount of public art,” Berry said. “People identify art pieces with the campus, and this structure particularly is an icon for the Fine Arts Building. There are many events here, and this building prominently showcases this structure at the entrance.”

Hundreds of students walk past the Tilting Arc on campus every day. Kelly Ralston, sophomore studying art, said having art pieces around campus really provides a creative atmosphere.

“Seeing these structures makes my artistic side think, I wonder what it’s purpose was or what meaning the artist had in mind,” Ralston said. “Because I’m an art major, I’m visually interested in things, and the Tilting Arc especially stands out because it moves.”

The school no longer has state funding to restore things like this, Berry said. It took three years of funding to afford the structure’s conservation.

“So these great structures are great, and we love to see people interact with them,” she said.

“But they’re not meant as recreational devices. They’re just not designed as playground equipment.”

Wanlass said the most rewarding part of the restoration procedure is when the work is done and everything is balanced again.

Berry said, “We’re very happy to have it back, and it’s never looked better. The light and the movement is 100 percent back and is a wonderful sight to see.”

– peter.brown@aggiemail.usu.edu

Associate Vice President for Research Joyce Kinkead was given the annual Library Faculty Award in recognition of her donations to the Merrill-Cazier Library. The award was presented to her on Oct. 27.

Kinkead endowed the May Swenson room and designated it as a place for students to study.

Swenson is a USU alumna who graduated in the 1930s and has since become a renowned poet throughout the U.S. and the world, Kinkead said.

The room displays Swenson’s poems, each coupled with an artifact – one being a Navajo blanket – which represents the topic of the poem.

John Elsweiler, the library’s associate dean of public services, said, “She has definitely been very influential throughout her career with involving undergraduates in the research process.”

The exhibits are designed by students in an English class taught by Paul Crumbley, Kinkead

The Women’s Studies Section of the 52 Western Social Sciences Association (WSSA) Conference announces a call for papers, panels and proposals. The conference will take place April 14-17 at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nev. Proposals are due Dec. 1 through the WSSA Web site, wssa.asu.edu/ conferences/default.htm.

Please be aware that the association cannot provide PowerPoint equipment.

The Women’s Studies Section provides a venue for scholars from many disciplines to discuss issues pertinent to scholarship and leadership among and between traditional disciplines involved in women’s studies. The richness of the Women’s Studies Section derives from its very nature as an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary program. For more information, please contact Diane Calloway-Graham at 797-2389 or diane.calloway-graham@usu.edu.

Guest soloist to play with orchestra The USU Wind Orchestra, under the direction of Thomas P. Rohrer, will perform its fall concert hosting two soloists of national prominence.

Joining the wind orchestra are Christopher Hayes, professor of trombone at Ohio University and Jason Nicholson, previously from the University of North Texas and the new professor of percussion in the department of music at USU. Hayes is featured in the Lars ErikLarsson “Trombone Concertino” and Nicholson will perform Joseph Schwantner’s “Percussion Concerto.”

The concert is Friday, Nov. 6, in the Kent Concert Hall of the Chase Fine Arts Center. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. Admission for the event is $8 for adults with USU and school music students admitted at no cost. More information can be found by calling 797-3004 with any questions. Tickets are available at the Caine School of the Arts Box Office in Fine Arts, 138-B, 7978022, or online at http://boxoffice. usu.edu. Tickets will be available at the door.

The Wind Orchestra is the flagship ensemble of the USU Bands and is a 45-member ensemble of the finest wind and percussion players in the school.

Chorus presents John Rutter music

THE “TILTING ARC,” stands newly rennovated in front of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. ERIN RHEES GABRIEL photo

Kinkead given annual Library Faculty Award

By CATHERINE MEIDELL assistant news editor

Women’s studies calls for papers

said. The study and exhibit hall has created a research opportunity for students, she said.

“I’ve always integrated library use in my classes,” Kinkead said.

Kinkead not only started an undergraduate research endowment for the library, she has been involved in the English writing program for English 1010 and 2010 classes, Elsweiler said. She has also taken the time to work with English teachers’ assistants in the writing program process. In addition to her role as research vice president, Kinkead teaches upper-division English classes.

Elsweiler said Kinkead has been with the university for more than 20 years.

“In her tenure she has been supportive of the library and the library’s mission,” Elsweiler said.

The library deans take recommendations from the librarians to make the decision of who receives the Library Faculty Award. Elsweiler said this is done because librarians often work in closer proximity to the best candidates for the award. Once the candidates have been selected, the library admin-

istration makes a final decision on who will receive the award at the ceremony.

“I was surprised to get it,” Kinkead said.

She said the honor’s corner was named after her and the dedication was initiated by the honor’s program. Accompanying the Library Faculty Award is an award for service the library bestows annually, and the recipient this year is the Utah State Today editor, Patrick Williams.

Kinkeads successes include authoring the books “A Schoolmarm All My Life: Personal Narratives From Frontier Utah,” “Writing Centers in Context” and “Literary Utah: A Bibliographic Guide.”

Kinkead has also received an award for “Top Prof” Outstanding Faculty Member, Humanist of the Year and ASUSU Faculty Service. Throughout her career she has encouraged all of her students to invest themselves in meaningful research and utilize the sources the library offers in doing so.

– catherine.meidell@aggiemail.usu.edu

The American Festival Chorus opens its 2009-2010 season with “An Evening of John Rutter Choral Music” Nov. 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Kent Concert Hall of the Chase Fine Arts Center.

The concert is presented by the Caine School of the Arts at USU. Seating is reserved and tickets are $12, $16 and $18. Tickets are available in person at the Caine School of the Arts Box Office in the Chase Fine Arts Center 138-B; and at the Eccles Theatre Ticket Office, by calling the Caine School of the Arts Box Office at 797-8022 or online at boxoffice.usu.edu.

“John Rutter is one of the most famous living composers in the world today and certainly one of the most popular,” said music Director Craig Jessop.

The first half of the concert will highlight Rutter’s shorter works.

The second half will feature Rutter’s “Mass for the Children,” with guest performers, the Cache Children’s Choir. Jessop called the mass a beautiful and moving piece. The work was written after the untimely death of Rutter’s youngest son.

The American Festival Chorus is made up of 300 singers who live within a 50-mile radius of Logan. The chorus is a community music program associated with the department of music and the Caine School of the Arts at USU.

-Compiled from staff and media reports

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Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009

Girl scared by masked pranksters, calls cops

By RACHEL A. CHRISTENSEN news editor

On Oct. 27 around 2 a.m., police received a report of prowlers in the area just below the Aggie Terrace.

Upon arrival, Logan Police Lt. Rod Peterson said police discovered a small group of people socializing with their friends. Two men wore “scary masks and black clothes,” he said. A few members of the group told the two men where to find a key to their apartment and to go scare their female roommate.

The men went to the apartment, found the key, unlocked the

door and “scared the heck” out of the female resident, Peterson said.

“I can’t even imagine the poor fear this girl went through knowing her apartment is locked and these two guys come in wearing masks,” Peterson said.

Peterson said thanks to work by USU Police’s Travis Robson, the two masked men were taken to the Logan City Police Department where they were interviewed. The two have not been formally charged and the case is still under investigation.

– rac.ch@aggiemail.usu.edu

Nothing scary about free textbooks

November 5th 7:00pm-10:00pm November 6th 9:00am-10:00pm November 7th 9:00am-8:00pm

MADISON MILLIGAN, sophomore in nutrition, above, is the winner of the USU Bookstore’s Scary Face competition. She won free textbooks for spring semester by being able to pull the scariest face. The contest was judged by a peer vote, and Milligan’s picture received 111 votes. RACHEL A. CHRISTENSEN photo

Election: Watts edges out Morrill Tuesday night -continued from page 1

DYNASTY LOGAN CITY COUNCIL MEMBER DEAN QUAYLE, standing center, and other candidate supporters watch in City Hall as updates of the city election come in Tuesday night. TYLER LARSON photo

said. Morrill spent a day on the USU Quad and helped 510 students register and said he had hoped for more support from that district.

Morrill said he will devote his attention entirely to his company, which sells trampolines across the nation. He said he will also stay involved in the community.

The election results were close, Watts said. The results showed that just less than half the citizens felt that Morrill had a better approach, Watts said, and this means Watts now needs to look at

the issues the other half believe in and address them.

Watts said the landlord license issue is nowhere near settled, and neither is the parking strip issue. He said a student came to him during his campaign and said Watts hated renters. Watts said that isn’t the case and that his stance on renter’s rights doesn’t necessarily have to mean increased rent for the renters.

“When does the landlord take responsibility?” he asked.

– rac.ch@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Local charity impacts community Food pantry unveils plans for new facility, gears up for the holidays

By TAM ROUNDS staff writer

Rose Dhein and her husband work full time, even overtime. Their wages cover the bills but leave little in their budget to feed their family of eight.

Fortunately, Dhein has a good friend who told her about the Cache Community Food Pantry. The Dheins brought their paycheck stubs to the pantry, which established their need and qualified them to receive food aid.

Dhein said, “My kids love Tuesdays. I come to the pantry and fill my cart with fruits, vegetables, the necessities and always a little treat for them too.”

This week the treat was Halloween-decorated minicupcakes, donated by a local grocery store.

Dhein’s children range in age from kindergarten to college. She said all of them help out to support the family. Having to get additional help from the community is nothing to be embarrassed about, she said.

“The shameful thing is when someone is in need and doesn’t ask for help,” Dhein said.

Dhein said when money wasn’t so tight, she was able to contribute to the pantry.

“Receiving is just the other side of giving.

You can’t have one without the other,” Dhein said.

Matt Whitaker, director of Cache Community Food Pantry, said the economic downturn is having a direct impact on locals being able to put food on their tables.

“One hundred and forty-five families in Cache Valley utilize the food pantry for sustenance each week. That is a dramatic increase from the 100 families we served just one year ago,” Whitaker said.

Whitaker is grateful for the help that USU students offer the pantry.

“I can’t say enough about what students do, especially the Stuff A Bus program,” Whitaker said. “They deliver an enormous amount of food at a very critical time.”

Brittany Ingalls, chair for the Stuff A Bus program this year, said the program began Nov. 1 and it supports the Sub for Santa program, as well as the food pantry. Every Monday in November at 6 p.m., students ride

the Aggie Shuttle buses out into the community. Greeks, clubs and athletes also conduct their own donation-raising projects in conjunction with the program.

Students in the past have brought food from their cupboards, but their real impact is in asking other community members to donate. Besides going door to door, students campaign outside of local grocery stores.

Logan native Lisa Sheppard was shopping at Lee’s Marketplace last year when USU students were requesting donations.

“It made giving to a cause I support very easy for me,” Sheppard said. “They had a flier listing all of the items needed, and I was able to purchase some of them while doing my regular shopping. They even had me recycle the list back to them when I gave them my donations so they could give it to another patron.”

The food pantry operates from a well-maintained but inadequate warehouse that was built in 1952. It was never designed to store food, yet the volunteers and employees have made it work over the years. They have a new future to look forward to – a new building, designed by Thomas Jensen, at Architectural Nexus. The $400,000 project will provide the much needed additional space, including more refrigerators and freezers as well as proper ventilation.

Food pantry volunteer Mary Laine said, “We are always grateful for the generosity of the public, USU students and local businesses.

They are the reason we are able to give people what they need. We are asking for a little more right now to help us to continue and to better serve those in need.”

Laine said the undersized building that the pantry works from now forces people to wait in line outside.

“It really breaks my heart to see the people standing outside in ice-cold conditions, waiting for their turn to come in,” Laine said.

She said the capacity of the new building will eliminate this problem and allow them to properly store all donated foods.

“These are hard-working families, single moms, the disabled and the elderly trying to get by, and the new building will serve them with dignity,” Laine said.

– tam.r@aggiemail.usu.edu

ROSE DHEIN VISITS THE Cache Community Food Pantry. Dhein visits every Tuesday to fill her cart with fruits, vegetables and the necessities. One hundred and forty-five families in Cache Valley use the food pantry for sustenance each week. PETE P SMITHSUTH photo

Professor digs deep into students’ education

PROFESSOR BONNIE PITBLADO SPECIALIZES in archaeology from the Paleo-Indian era, or about 8,000 to 12,000 years ago. She is currently trying to help map where early inhabitants of North America lived by tracking their tools. photo courtesy BONNIE PITBLADO

By SETH BRACKEN features senior writer

While scaling a mountain face during an archaeological dig in southeastern Idaho, a USU professor was almost killed by a rolling boulder, kind of like Indiana Jones in “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” Bonnie Pitblado is a professor of anthropology and is an archaeologist.

Pitblado said she specializes in archaeology from the Paleo-Indian era, or about 8,000 to 12,000 years ago, which is when most archaeologists agree that there were humans on the North American continent. She focuses her studies on the Rocky Mountain regions and examines rock chips and rock tools because there wasn’t pottery in the Paleo-Indian area.

“I think there’s a perception out there that there are no jobs in anthropology,” Pitblado said. “But there are a huge number of jobs out there for anthropology majors.”

The USU professors of anthropology all have field-work experience and try to help their students learn the skills necessary for them to be competitive and land jobs when they graduate.

Pitblado helped USU bring in a grant from the National Science Foundation that totaled more than $500,000. The money was used to buy lab equipment.

“This lab will be the cutting-edge technology,” Pitblado said. “Normally schools can’t afford the same equipment that the private industry can. But with this grant we’ll be able to give our students the experience they need to be the leading graduates in the field.”

The anthropology department uses a mentor-like program to help its students through their education so they receive the necessary job training, not just the academic knowledge, Pitblado said.

Professors take students with them to study

in the field. Also, USU has a private program, USU Archaeological Services, and many students begin by working there, she said.

Deborah Neville, junior in cultural anthropology, said the professors are knowledgeable and helpful.

“Professor Pitblado is passionate about what she does, and she translates that into helping the students get excited too,” Neville said. “She helps me focus my ideas and bring them to fruition.”

Allyson Martin, sophomore studying archaeological anthropology, said there are aspects about anthropology for everyone.

“I love history but didn’t want to study books for the rest of my life,” Martin said.

Martin hopes to go on to graduate school and have her research funded so she can go on digs around the world.

While goals like these may seem difficult to attain, USU has a competitive program that helps students, like Martin, achieve their goals and helps graduates get jobs in their desired field, Pitblado said.

There are federal and state laws that state when a public works project is undertaken – such as putting up a power line – an archaeological survey must be done to study how the surrounding area would be impacted, Pitblado said. And because of the surveys that must be done, there are a variety of jobs available to anthropologists.

“These are recession proof, lucrative jobs,” Pitblado said.

USU is also starting a master’s program to help students become more competitive in their search for employment, Pitblado said.

Pitblado allows her students to accompany and assist her with studies. She is currently trying to help map where early inhabitants of North America lived by tracking their tools.

- See ARCHAEOLOGY, page 8

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The battle between faith and sexuality themselves so-called gays and lesbians ... If they do not act upon these inclinations, then they can go forward as do all other members of the church.”

MoHo: Mormon homosexual.

However, according to The Deseret News, MoHommie: A friend of Mormon homothe Mormon church’s stance has changed and sexuals. there has been extensive research to determine MoHo Chica: A Mormon lesbian or female whether gay people would be able to become friend to male Mormon homosexuals. straight. The Mormon church no longer There’s an entire subculture within the officially advises gay men to get married to Mormon church that caters specifically to women or that their attraction to men will go homosexuals, said Beau Rushton (name has away. The Mormon church advocates lifetime been changed upon request), a USU student, celibacy for gays and lesbians. who is a Mormon and a homosexual.

There are several organizations, such as “We are literally everywhere,” Rushton Evergreen, that try to help gay Mormons said. “We’re in your singles ward, we’re passeither diminish their feelings of attraction for ing the sacrament and we’re sitting next to you other men. The group Evergreen is not offiin priesthood meetings.” cially sponsored by the Mormon church, but Rushton has always known he was gay. the two are closely affiliated and Evergreen “I tried to avoid anything that would be has church officials on its council and closely associated with being gay,” Rushton said. follows the Mormon doctrine.

“I wouldn’t wear nice or colorful clothing. I Another group, known as the Matis would only talk about masculine things.”

Firesides, is not officially sponsored by the Rushton went on a mission for the Mormon Mormon church, but it also follows Mormon church and thought being attracted to men teachings. It’s monthly meetings in Utah was just a phase that would disappear.

County attract around 150 attendees, Rushton It didn’t. said.

“Sometimes I get so frustrated with God,” North Star is an online forum where gay Rushton said. “I wonder why he has put me Mormons can interact anonymously. It’s a through this, why I have to deal with it.”

Web site meant to help gay Mormons support After two years, Rushton came home one another, but it is not a dating site. North and started dating the same girl he dated in Star is where Rushton got the idea to start a high school, Jill Marychild (name has been blog recounting his struggles. changed).

His blog, www.hiddeninthelight.wordpress.

Despite being the best of friends and havcom, now has more than 75 followers and ing plenty in common, there was just one issue Rushton has started his own series of meetthat wouldn’t go away: ings called Logansides.

Rushton was still attractThe group meets monthly, ed to men. everyone is invited and “I don’t regret being “I decided to come around 40 people reguraised Mormon. I still out to her,” Rushton said. larly attend. The gatherrespect the Mormon “But it didn’t go over well. ings are announced on It was really hard for her.” the site www.logansides. church.”

Marychild felt like if – Tyler Okelberry, wordpress.com. she were skinnier or more “My struggle isn’t USU sophomore being gay,” Rushton said. attractive then Rushton wouldn’t be gay, he said.

“I love being gay. It’s the “The truth was, she conflict and finding a balwas a girl that’s what I ance in life. That’s what I wasn’t attracted to,” Rushton said. struggle with.”

After a relationship of five years, Rushton After Rushton realized that there are lots and Marychild broke it off. of other Mormons out there who are gay, he Rushton felt he was faced with the choice didn’t feel so alone. It can be a difficult posiof whether to keep going to church or to aban- tion to go to church and also be gay. don his faith and pursue a relationship with a “When I first realized I wasn’t the only one man. He said he didn’t feel like there was any like this, it was like a huge weight was lifted middle ground he felt like he could either “live off my shoulders,” Beau said. “I felt so good. I the gay lifestyle” or “live a lie in the church,” didn’t feel alone.” he said.

“I am gay,” Rushton said. “That’s not some- Another path thing that is going to change. But I also want to stay in the church. I could never let that go.”

Not all of those that are raised Mormon and The official Web site for the Mormon are gay try to live the doctrine of their church. church, www.lds.org, has this to say about Some people, like USU sophomore Tyler its stance on homosexuality, “People inquire Okelberry decide to leave their religion. about our position on those who consider There is extreme pressure in the Mormon

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THERE ARE SEVERAL ORGANIZATIONS that try to help gay Mormons diminish their feelings of attraction for other men. The group Evergreen and Matis Firesides are not officially sponsored by the Mormon Church, but they follow Mormon teachings. PETE P SMITHSUTH photo

religion to avoid all things gay, Okelberry said.

Okelberry recalls one particular morning when his mother brought in the local, Idaho newspaper and threw the wedding announcements down on the table.

“Read this,” his mother said. “It’ll make you sick.”

Okelberry’s father read the section and saw that it was the wedding announcement of a local news-radio anchor and his gay partner.

“My dad said that he was going to call the radio station and tell them he would no longer listen to the radio show because one of their DJs would chose to exhibit his homosexuality in that way,” Okelberry said.

The pressure and guilt placed on gay teens can be huge and at no fault of their own, Okelberry said.

It is not a choice to be gay, he said.

Homophobia and misunderstanding can cause tension between gay Mormons and their families and friends. Okelberry couldn’t understand why his father would stop listening to one of his favorite talk shows simply because an employee at the radio station is gay.

Okelberry didn’t tell his parents that he was gay when he was a teenager because of the dislike his parents and community displayed toward gay people.

“It was as much to avoid being the topic of gossip as anything,” Okelberry said. “There’s a name to uphold, and my family is well known in that area my dad is even a Bishop. They see it as a total abomination” In high school, Okelberry was involved in

Left and right brains will collide at Utah Symposium

By KUNIKO POOLE staff writer

Many people think of the arts, such as writing and painting, and the sciences, which include mathematics and physics, as completely removed from each other.

People who have these skills are termed “left brained” or “right brained,” with no inbetweens, no quintessential “Renaissance man” category.

Katherine Coles wants to change that.

Coles, who is the poet laureate of Utah and a creative writing professor at the University of Utah, is the founder of the Utah Symposium in Science and Literature.

“It was kind of my brainchild, just something that I wanted to do,” she said.

The theme of this year’s symposium is “Mathematics, Language and Imaginations.”

It is a three-day event that includes three keynote speakers.

“There is always a poet or novelist, a scientist – this year it’s the mathematician Barry Mazur – and some other appropriate person that arises out of the topic,” Coles said.

“The third person is the wild card, who sort of brings it all

together.”

The speakers are Alice Fulton, a poet and professor of English at Cornell University; Mazur, an MIT and Princeton graduate and author of the 2003 book “Imagining Numbers (particularly the square root of minus fifteen)”; and awardwinning contemporary classical composer Fred Lerdahl – the “wild card.”

It can be difficult to see what these people might have in common, let alone what they can contribute to one another’s work. The answer to this is found in the theme.

“Math is a language,” said Fred Adler, the symposium’s co-director. “All of our thinking is done in some language or other, whether that’s math, the ordinary language of English or music.”

The official Web site of the event, www.scienceandliterature.org, concurs with Adler’s statement, putting it in more poetic terms: “Words. Images.

Notes … numbers and equations. All of these are forms of language, vehicles for human thinking, expression and communication; all of them take on the shapes of our minds and shape our minds in turn.”

Still, the question remains, Why bring all of these people

together for a single conference? Adler gave an example of how the conference can make people see a side of life they’ve never experienced before.

“It can get people who don’t do math to appreciate what mathematicians do through a more familiar angle – poetry,” Adler said. “Math is very much an art form.”

By comparing these separate topics to each other, the symposium helps individuals understand and learn about new things.

The purpose of this, Coles said, is to get people back to embracing all kinds of different topics, to have a wellrounded education.

“The divisions between (the disciplines), like they are today, are not natural ones,” Coles said. “It’s really only in the last century that we’ve seen the kind of specialization we have now. The experts in different fields should be talking to each other all the time.”

She referenced the aforementioned Renaissance period as an example of what a good education should consist of.

“In those days, an educated person was educated in a number of different areas,” she said. “The bodies of

knowledge have gotten to be so vast that it’s really impossible to understand physics, writing, painting fully, which I think is really unfortunate.

I think it can close down creativity rather than opening it up.”

In the past, the symposium has been a success, with tickets selling out quickly.

“People are curious. They want to get a sense of what’s going on,” Adler said. “At this event, people who are specialists talk to you as an equal. I remain convinced that people

- See COLE, page 8

extracurricular activities. He was student body president, he ran for the cross-country team and played on the volleyball team.

“People used to ask me why I didn’t have a girlfriend, or they would try and set me up, but I had no attraction to women at all,” Okelberry said.

Okelberry said he knew other gay Mormon teenagers and when their parents found out, the teenagers had to go through long ordeals with church leaders and others in order to change their sexuality.

“All that would only make it worse for the guys,” Okelberry said. “It really messed with them.”

Slowly, Okelberry stopped going to church.

He decided that he was never going to change and he may as well embrace that part of him.

Okelberry said despite all the homophobic things that the church has done, he has no hard feelings toward the Mormon Church.

“I don’t regret being raised Mormon,” he said. “I still respect the Mormon Church.”

Okelberry stopped going to church, while Rushton decided to seek support from other gay Mormons because of the misunderstandings that they face within their own religion.

Many Mormons think that being gay is a choice, which it isn’t, Rushton said. They also think that all gay people are child molesters, which is preposterous, he said. Other Mormons think that gay Mormons are less

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Utah Statesman. Read A lass nears; summer joy. his columns every A sense of defeat slowly wrapped around Wednesday in The me. My original plan was to create a name Statesman. or a sentence that would strike fear into the hearts of men and women. Well I failed.

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Street Speak What was your favorite movie growing up? “‘Beauty and the Beast’ because Belle was the coolest and all the talking characters were awesome.”

“‘An American Tail: Fieval Goes West’ because of the dog who thought he was a cat.”

– Lisa Stoddard, junior, elementary education

– Eric Payne, sophomore, pharmaceuticals

“‘The Sound of Music’ because Julie Andrew looks like my mom.”

– Idena Ward, graduate student in law and constitutional studies

By JAIMIE RADCLIFFE staff writer

Entrepreneurship always involves some type of risk. This is the lesson that Daniel Holland, assistant professor of entrepreneurship, is trying to teach his students. In his class, Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship, Holland has instated something he calls the Abe and Andy Challenge. Abe for Abraham Lincoln on the $5 bill and Andy for Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. Each of his students must take $25 out of their own pocket’s and start a business. They need to create, market and sell a product that returns a certain amount of profit by the end of the semester.

The idea came to Holland from a colleague in California who had his students doing a similar project. He then adapted it to his own Entrepreneurship class.

“It gives them a small scale experience in starting a small business. And they have a grade hanging out there, so there’s some risk involved,” he said.

The grading for the assignment consists of two parts. First, the students will be graded on how much profit, or return on investment, they make. To get an A, they must make a profit of $500. The second part of their grades will be on keeping a journal of the experiences they had while doing the project. Each student must also keep track of all expenses and returns.

Many of Holland’s students found the news of this project nerve wracking. Erin Whyte, junior double majoring in civil engineering and liberal arts, said the first time she heard about it she was stressed.

“The first time I heard about it, I wanted to throw up,” Whyte said.

Whyte has chosen to do cleaning for student dorms. She is targeting students in apartment-style housing who are preparing for apartment checks, do not have time to clean or simply would rather pay somebody else to do it. Although she finds the challenge quite intimidating, Whyte is focusing on just getting it done.

“I’m scared out of my mind, but I don’t really have a choice,” she said. “I already asked.”

Not every student feels the same as Whyte, however. Will Christensen, senior double majoring in entrepreneurship and marketing, feels the opposite.

“My first thought was, Whoa, cool. I immediately started thinking of ideas that I could do,” he said.

Christensen developed an idea that he calls the Aggie Buck. It is a money substitute that students can use at any of the 22 locations that are sponsors of the Aggie Buck. The sponsors must pay to be on it, which is how he plans to make his profit.

Christensen seems not at all worried about making enough profit to get an A grade.

“I’m probably already close to where I need to be,” he said.

He plans to circulate the Aggie Buck by inserting it into two issues of The Utah Statesman.

Holland’s goal in assigning this project is to impart some knowledge of what the real world is going to be like. That message seems to come across to students.

“It’s good for growth experience,” Whyte said. “It’s just not something I’m good at, so it stresses me out.”

Christensen has a more technical view of things.

“It really does a good job of weeding out the ones who really want to be in this field and makes you ask, Can I really hack it?” he said.

– jaimie.marie.radcliffe@aggimail.usu.edu

Good health equals better grades

By JOSEPHINE MARCOTTY Star Tribune

“The Smurfs because I like the color blue.”

– Tracy Cowley, graduate student in English

Archaeology: Tracking history -continued from page 6 ogy graduates to help when the company deals with international business, Pitblado said.

Federal and state governments also hire anthropologists to work on national and state parks.

“People are interesting,” Neville said.

“Everyone should take at least one anthropology class so we can all at least start to understand one another.”

– seth.bracken@aggiemail.usu.edu

Conflict: Students find support -continued from page 7 faithful or righteous.

“I have heard some of the most un-Christ like things inside a church,” Rushton said. “I once heard someone say in a church meeting that all gay people should be shot.”

Rushton advises gay Mormons to realize that they aren’t monsters, that they are normal people just like everyone else. Next, he tells them to interact with other gay Mormons, through blogging, online forums or events.

“There’s a whole community out there,” Rushton said. “We just normally don’t talk about it. It’s hidden, it’s too taboo.”

When members of the Mormon church realize someone they’ve known all their life is

Students take on the $25 challenge

Mom and Dad are right

information and photos by Pete P Smithsuth

“We use tools and techniques like they do on ‘CSI,’” Pitblado said.

Despite budget cuts and a struggling economy, the anthropology department and job market is growing, Pitblado said.

Some anthropology jobs are in the private sector – firms that deal with archaeological studies and government contracts. Also, because anthropology is the study of people and cultures, many businesses hire anthropol-

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gay, it really changes their perception, Rushton said.

“We’re everywhere. In your average singles ward up here in Logan, there are probably about 15 gay guys,” Rushton said. “We love God too.”

And although Okelberry has chosen a different path than Rushton, their desired message is similar.

“We’re not out to get anybody,” Okelberry said. “We’re not going to hurt anyone. We’re just people, there’s no reason for anyone to be afraid of us.”

– seth.bracken@aggiemail.usu.edu

Quit smoking. Turn off the computer. Go to bed.

It could improve your grades. Of course, parents have always known that. Now, in the first study of its kind, researchers at the University of Minnesota have proved it. They matched grade point averages with the typical health problems such as smoking, drinking and stress reported by nearly 10,000 Minnesota college students.

They found a clear connection between student health and academic success.

“Health is important,” even for young adults who seem to be in the prime of their lives, said Dr. Ed Ehlinger, director of Boynton Health Services at the University of Minnesota and a lead author of the study. Both parents and college administrators “need to make sure that students have access to health care.”

What affects grades the most? Stress (lots of it), excessive screen time, binge drinking and gambling.

Students who reported eight or more emotional stresses – anything from failing a class to credit card debt to a conflict with parents – had an average GPA of 2.72. Those who said they had no significant stress reported an average GPA of 3.3.

“Stress is one of the biggest factors,” said Marcus De La Garza, a senior from Duluth, Minn. A year ago, just before finals, he had to go home to take care of family members with serious health problems, and it showed in his grades, he said.

“I was out of the game,” he said Friday. “Now I’m bouncing back.” His GPA is up to 3.5.

The ability to handle stress was equally important, the survey found. Those who said they could effectively manage it performed much better than those who said they couldn’t. That’s an important finding, because it can persuade colleges to provide students with the resources

they need to learn how to manage stress, Ehlinger said.

Earlier surveys showed that students who spend a lot of time on the computer, watching TV or playing video games were more likely to engage in other unhealthful habits such as eating fast food, Ehlinger said. Now it’s clear that these activities cut significantly into their grades as well. Four or more hours of screen time a day resulted in an average GPA of 3.04 or less. Less than an hour a day bumped it up to 3.3 or better.

The same pattern held with binge drinking.

Teetotalers reported an average GPA of 3.31, compared with 2.99 for students who drank excessively at least once in the previous two weeks.

Ben Flatum, a university senior from Stillwater, Minn., just completed what he called “the year of being healthy.” He stopped the regular partying, started eating better and began training for a race in Chicago that he ran last week.

“My time and energy has been exponentially better,” he said. His weight is down 25 pounds, and his GPA is up to 3.3 from the 2.5 he had as a partying freshman.

There were some surprises, especially in how resilient young adults can be, Ehlinger said.

Students who said they had been sexually or physically abused at some point in their lives had no significant differences in their GPA compared with other students. It shows, he said, that with time, young adults can overcome such trauma, at least as far as their grades are concerned. Those who reported being sexually assaulted or abused in the previous 12 months reported lower grades.

Working to earn money had no effect on grades, another surprise, Ehlinger said. That was true regardless of whether students spent one or 40 hours a week at work.

“There must be something else going on that is protective of folks that are working,” Ehlinger said. “It might be a matter of time management.”

But Mom and Dad probably knew that, too.

Cole: Showing different sides of life -continued from page 7 want to learn – that’s why I’m a professor. I think that people appreciate seeing an actual person there.”

Coles added, “I think that people are hungry for these conversations. It can be very mind-expanding.”

Coles said many undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Utah volunteer their time to help with the organization

of the symposium, and though she and Adler do not actively recruit from other campuses, anyone who would like to volunteer would be welcome.

The symposium will be from Nov. 5-7 at the University of Utah. Those interested can register by visiting the Web site, and tickets are free of charge.

– kuniko.poole@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Leading by example

By ADAM NETTINA staff writer

There are only a few times in the course of the college football season when an entire stadium lets out a collective gasp of amazement. Yet that’s exactly what happened late in the second quarter as the Aggies (2-6) defeated Louisiana Tech (3-5) two Saturday’s ago, when linebacker Bobby Wagner made an acrobatic interception worthy of SportsCenter’s “Top 10.”

“At first I was like, ‘Oh man, that’s going to be a tip or a jump ball,’” said fellow linebacker Adrian Bybee. “But the next thing I know, he pulls it down … It was just an amazing play.”

Wagner, a sophomore who stands 6-foot-1 and weighs just 217 pounds, leapt in the air and snagged the ball with one hand. His effort and athleticism stunned even his coach, who called the play one of the best he has ever seen.

“It was amazing,” said USU linebacker coach Kevin Clune.

“He can jump higher than any of the linebackers, and he grabbed that thing with one hand. It was a great interception, and one of the best ones I’ve seen in a long time.”

How important was the interception? Not only did it serve to pump up the entire Utah State sideline, but it stifled a late second quarter attempt by Louisiana Tech to put points on the board after the Bulldogs had fallen to an early 17-7 deficit. Instead, Wagner’s interception led to more USU points by way of a Chris Ulinski field goal. Those points would prove to be the difference as the Aggies won the game – their first and only conference win of the season – by a final of 23-21.

But then again Aggie fans have come to expect such heroics from the sophomore from Ontario, Calif., who currently ranks second in the WAC in tackles per game, averaging more than nine per contest. A

USU LINEBACKER BOBBY WAGNER, 9, tracks down a BYU player during the Aggie’s game in Provo earlier this year. The sophomore is second in the WAC in tackles. PETE P. SMITHSUTH photo

high impact defender who is seemingly always around the football, Wagner is nevertheless reserved when discussing his superb play in 2009.

“It’s a great accomplishment, especially as a sophomore,” Wagner said. “There are a lot of good linebackers in this conference, and to be at the top is a good accomplishment.”

Wagner was one of the few bright spots on Utah State’s defense a year ago and continues to be the marquee player on a unit that ranks 102nd nationally in terms of yards per game allowed. Amazingly, the talented but undersized defender almost never got the chance to play Division I football. The Aggies were the only team that showed serious interest in him following his high

school career.

“Utah State was the only school that was interested in me, and I was going to go anywhere that would give me a scholarship,” Wagner said.

Utah State’s current coaching staff is more than happy to have Wagner, who makes up for his lack of size with a high football IQ and tremendous athleticism. Such traits are just what head coach Gary Andersen’s defense stresses in its attack-oriented scheme and have helped Wagner blossom into one of the conference’s best.

“The new style of defense is all about speed,” Clune said.

“Ten or 15 years ago, Bobby might have been a safety, but now you keep moving forward and he’s playing linebacker. He

has great quickness and good strength. On top of that he has got very good ball instincts and great use of his hands. So all these things put together have kind of created what you have seen on the field.”

Clune dismissed those who say Wagner’s success is due only to the change in coaching schemes and cited the sophomore’s near constant play on both defense and special teams as factors that set him apart from many of the WAC’s other premier defenders.

“He didn’t come out of the game against Louisiana Tech, and he played on special teams – he was up over 100 plays,” Clune said. “He just keeps battling and keeps battling. I can’t say it’s scheme. I’d say it’s just more his desire of wanting to

get to the ball every play.”

Defensive coordinator Bill Busch, who coached safeties at Nebraska prior to coming to Utah State, said while Wagner’s athleticism makes him a good linebacker, it is his competitive drive and leadership that make him an excellent defender.

“His competitive skills are what he takes the most pride in,” Busch said. “Obviously he has a lot of natural athleticism, but those competitive skills are what drive him the most.”

Wagner may only be a sophomore but he’s already earned the respect of his coaches and peers when it comes to his actions on the field. Described as quiet and reserved by many who know him, Wagner lets his actions speak for themselves on gameday.

“Bobby is a great person on and off the field,” Bybee said.

“He is kind of a quiet leader, but when it comes down to it he’ll be vocal when he needs to be. But he likes to lead by example and likes to show everyone what they’re doing.”

Busch agreed, saying “He does his verbiage out there.

He’s not a real big talker but he has his fun. He’s quiet, but it’s kind of a controlled quiet.”

Utah State’s 2009 season may not have gotten off to the dramatic start many in Logan had hoped for, but the current staff is hopeful that leaders and playmakers like Wagner will provide a solid base to build around for future success.

“He is definitely the kind of guy you build around,” Clune said. “First of all, he’ll do anything. He moved from linebacker to defensive end and then back to linebacker.

Second, he has embraced what we have asked him to do, and he is holding himself more accountable each week, and that’s exactly the kind of ballplayer we want.”

– adamnettina@aggiemail.usu. edu

WOMEN’S RUGBY

Aggies slugged by Salt Lake City

By TYLER HUSKINSON staff writer

One week removed from a 77-point explosion against Weber State, the Aggies managed only 12 points as they lost to the Salt Lake City Slugs Saturday, 22-12.

The first half was a close, defensive struggle as play went back and forth for most of the first half with both teams’ defense dominating the field.

Kyra Madsen made a huge defensive play in the first 20 minutes when the Slugs were knocking at the door and appeared to have a scored. The play was called back, and on the second attempt Madsen tackled the ball carrier, saving a potential score.

The only Aggie scores came from loose forward Tabitha “Mo” Morin and scrum half Jessie Trina. Shannon Woolley went 1-for-2 on the day for conversion kicks after converting 6-of-9 last week and scoring 23 points overall.

Prop Tiffany “Tippy” Gourley, who had been out with a leg injury, played strong in her comeback and made her presence known. Gourley played a key role in helping the Ags win as many scrums as they did in the first half.

“It is good to have Tippy’s experience back in the front row,” said USU head coach Dennis Kohler.

The second half played out much as the first half had for the first few minutes. Then the bigger Slug team continued to pound the ball and was able to keep it moving.

“It is an absolute truth of the game of rugby that if a team keeps knocking at the door, eventually they will wear down the defense and score,” Kohler said.

After the Slugs first try, the Aggies let up a little as the Slugs scored two more times with each score meeting less and less resistance. In a game where continuous play is important, the Slugs kept the ball moving and did a good job at avoiding rucks.

Madsen, who stopped a try attempt in the first half, was consistent all day in the tackles category. The Ags couldn’t seem to wrap up the visiting Slugs and were even hesitant and apprehensive to hit on defense.

“The Salt Lake Slugs run hard and as a general rule are a bit harder to bring down,” Kohler said.

Kohler attributed this lack of aggression to a few players playing hurt as well as those who have a history of getting injured.

“No excuse really, just another area where we can show some improvement,” he said.

Up next for the Ags are the Provo

Steelers and Kohler said that team is much like the Slugs. The Steelers run hard and outweigh the Ags in every area of the game. The last meeting between the Aggies and Steelers resulted in 22-8 Steelers victory.

Teamwork and speed will be the focal point as the Ags prepare to face the Steelers.

“After the game I spoke with the team leaders, and told them that we really need to ramp things up a bit,” Kohler

said.

Amid the challenges, Kohler remains confident that things are coming together for the team.

“It takes a long time for a team to start playing smarter, and when it clicks, we are going to be a very formidable team,” Kohler said. “Until then we just have to take our knocks and keep getting up off the ground.”

– ty.d.hus@aggiemail.usu.edu

SENIOR FLY-HALF Shannon Woolley causes a knock-on during an alumni game last spring. The ball carrier was a Salt Lake City Slugs player who joined the alumni for the game. USU lost to the Slugs Saturday, 22-12. CODY GOCHNOUR photo

TouchBase McKenna earns POW honors

BY USU ATHLETICS

Utah State cross country athlete Brian McKenna has been named the America First Credit Union Utah State Student-Athlete of the Week for the week of Oct. 26-31, it was announced on Monday. The award is voted on by a state media panel.

McKenna a sophomore from Farmington, culminated the cross country season with a first-place finish at the Western Athletic Conference Championships in Reno, Nev., Oct. 31. McKenna completed the 8-K course with a time of 26:00.1, leading the Aggies to a first-place overall finish. McKenna earned the WAC Men’s Cross Country Athlete of the Year honor and was also named firstteam all-WAC. Utah State is the fivetime repeating WAC champion, earning the title every year since joining the WAC in 2005. McKenna has also been the Aggies’ top finisher in every race thus far this season.

The USU men are now ranked fifth in the Mountain Region, as released by U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Monday.

Jazz blow big lead, fall to Mavericks

BY USU ATHLETICS

DALLAS (AP) – Dirk Nowitzki scored a clubrecord 29 of his 40 points during a frantic fourthquarter comeback and the Dallas Mavericks beat the Utah Jazz 96-85 on Tuesday night.

Nowitzki broke the franchise record of 24 points in any quarter set

by Mark Aguirre against Denver on March 24, 1984.

Dallas was down 72-56 after Utah’s Wes Matthews hit a layup with 9:51 left.

The Mavericks then trailed by 13 before Nowitzki’s three-point play triggered a 19-6 run capped by his layup with 2:41 remaining to tie it at 83.

Nowitzki’s inside basket on Dallas’ next possession put the Mavericks in front for good, 85-83 with 2:05 left. Carlos Boozer’s basket with 3:49 to play had given the Jazz an 8378 edge, but Utah wouldn’t score again until Boozer’s hoop with 35 seconds remaining.

Deron Williams scored 22 points and Mehmet Okur added 14 points and 14 rebounds for Utah.

Jason Kidd had 19 points for the Mavericks (3-1).

Nowitzki went 12-for22 from the field, 15-for16 from the foul line, and added 11 rebounds and five blocked shots.

Dallas was able to follow up on victories over the Lakers and Clippers in a two-game weekend trip to Los Angeles with its first home win.

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A different point of view

I

t seems like every time I think USU basketball fans could not possibly be more rowdy, more involved and more dedicated, I get proven terribly wrong. Last season was filled with dominant performances by traveling Aggie fans in what has come to be known as “The Spectrum on Wheels.”

The SOW made appearances at a total of nine road games last season, exerting its dominance on home crowds all over the states of Utah, Idaho and Nevada. Most notably of those trips was the hostile takeover of the University of Nevada’s Lawlor Events Center, where 350 or so blue-clad Aggie students took over the arena for three days en route to a WAC tournament championship. The crowd performance in Reno for those three days was possibly the most impressive showing of crowd dominance that I have ever seen.

Based on just the Blue-White scrimmage and an exhibition game that saw more than 8,600 fans show up – including a near-packed student section – it looks like that crowd momentum has more than carried over from last year and apparently built upon itself. The end result appears to likely be an even more dominant home-court advantage for the Aggies, which is an impressive feat considering that a year ago an ESPN.com writer said in an online chat that USU’s crowd was easily top five in the nation.

Basically what everything comes down to, is that the best part about going to school at Utah State is Aggie basketball and the Spectrum. If you ask me, there are few things in life more enjoyable than throwing on a blue shirt, getting together with your friends and going nuts for our basketball team. A team that seldom, if ever, lets any of us down. There was a sign at the game against Northwest Nazerene that said, “It’s the most wonderful time of the year.” That’s damn right if you ask me. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been enjoying this year’s Aggie football team. They’ve been competitive in every game they’ve played, and are a grand total of 13 points away from being undefeated in WAC play.

Possibly the most exciting aspect of this past weekend was the dominant play of junior college transfer Nate Bendall. This year it appears that Nate Bendall will be replacing reigning WAC Player of the Year Gary Wilkinson with tough interior defense, some excellent passing and an apparent improvement in post play around the basket. Also helping Bendall is the fact that he played for the Aggies as a true freshman during the 2006 season, so his learning curve of Stew Morrill’s complicated offense will be much easier than a typical junior college transfer.

With Bendall appearing to be a more than solid replacement at the center position, coupled with another year of progression from the rest of what was surprisingly a very young team a year ago, this season could likely turn out to be a very special one for Aggie basketball, which seems crazy to claim when we’re fresh off a school record 30-win season.

Regardless of wins or losses, keep it up Aggie fans. The louder the Spectrum gets for home games, the more fun it is for everybody out there.

If it is possible to take the crowd to a higher level, we appear to be on the verge of that.

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Ags must stop trying to avoid losses S aturday’s loss at Fresno State showed, once again, that despite a lot of improvement, the USU football team still has a ways to go.

For the third time in as many games the Aggies took a lead into the locker room at halftime. It was also the third time in the last four games – all in the WAC – that USU has had a lead going into the fourth quarter.

Despite putting themselves in a position to win, the Aggies have dropped three of those four games, with the lone win coming at home against Louisiana Tech.

There is no doubt that the 2009 version of the Utah State football team is not only exciting to watch, but competitive on the field as well.

The team’s biggest losses of the season have come to ranked in-state foes Utah and BYU, and those were by the same score, 35-17.

As mentioned above, every game the Aggies have played in the Western Athletic Conference has been close. The loss at New Mexico State to open conference play was a surprise, but that is the only bad loss on the Aggies’ schedule.

Since that loss on a last second field goal, USU lost by three at home to Nevada – the No. 1 rushing team in the country – beat Louisiana Tech by two and lost on the road at Fresno State by four.

The culprit of all these close games? The Aggies’ inability to execute in the second half of games.

There are multiple reasons for these second half collapses. One of the biggest may be that, despite valiant efforts, the USU defense does not have a lot of depth – especially on the defensive line – and is prone to wearing down in games.

Another reason could simply be due to the task of getting the USU football program over the hump.

For many years a tradition of losing has been evident in the football program. Even with the newfound optimism this year with the addition of head coach Gary Andersen and his staff, changing the mentality of a program takes time.

However, I think the best description was given after the Fresno State loss by junior wide receiver Eric Moats. He said once the Aggies have the lead, they need to continue to play for the win instead of playing

USU’S ROBERT TURBIN, 6, eludes a defender and cuts up field during the Aggies’ game against Nevada earlier in the year. PATRICK ODEN photo

not to lose.

USU has scored 10, 21, 20 and 27 points in its last four first halfs, respectively. In the second half of those games though, the Aggies have only managed seven, 11, three and zero points.

It’s true that winning is a habit, and I do believe the USU football team is on the verge of making it one of their’s. However, to aid them in that goal, either a change of mentality or a change in game planning needs to take place over the final two quarters.

Bottom line is, the Aggies could be 4-0 in the WAC and 5-3 overall – one win away from being bowl eligible. Instead USU is 2-6 and must accomplish the unlikely task of winning-out if the Aggies hope to go to the school’s first bowl game since 1997. This stretch includes a home game against Boise State, which is currently ranked in the top 10, and a road game at upstart, 7-2, Idaho.

If USU wants to have any chance of ending the season with an even record, it needs a new attitude starting this Saturday at Hawaii.

The Warriors are 2-6 just like the Aggies and are a dismal 0-5 in conference play. If the Ags hold a lead in the fourth quarter for the fifth-

straight game, they need to go for blood.

If the offense can put up 20 points in the opening half, then it can put up just as much over the final two quarters and take any pressure of a final defensive stop out of the equation.

This game should not come down to the fourth quarter. It should be over by then. The Aggies need to do exactly what Moats said: quit playing not to lose and start playing to win.

A winning mentality and tradition has to start somewhere. Against the Warriors, the Ags have a good chance to not only equal their win total from last season but to start that winning tradition. First, they just need to win the second half.

Tim Olsen is the sports editor, and a senior majoring in print journalism. Comments can be sent to him at t.olsen@aggiemail. usu.edu, or statesmansports@aggiemail.usu.edu.

Matt Sonnenberg is a junior majoring in print journalism. Matt can be found on the front row of every home football and basketball game. He can also be reached at matt.sonn@aggiemail.usu.edu.

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Saturday at Fresno State •Rushed for 105 yards, 1 TD •Threw for 240 yards, 1 TD

Diondre Borel FOOTBALL

Nate Bendall BASKETBALL

Borel became the first Aggie quarterback since 2005 to rush for more than 100 yards when he did so Saturday at Fresno state.

The junior signal caller rushed for 105 yards and a touchdown, as well as completing 20-of-31 passes for 240 yards and a touchdown.

Bendall made his return to the Spectrum in fine fashion, connecting on a perfect 7-of-7 from the floor.

He finished with 17 points, tied for the game high.

The junior transfer and former Aggie also recorded six rebounds and one block in USU’s first exhibition game.

Friday vs. NNU •7-of-7 shooting, 17 points, six rebounds in 2009 debut

Shantel Flanary SOCCER

Against La. Tech and NMSU •Scored the game-winning goal against LTU

Flanary led the Aggies to two home wins as the Aggies locked up the No. 2 seed for this weekend’s WAC tournament in Boise, Idaho.

The sophomore recorded two goals, one in each game, including the only goal in the Aggies’ victory over Louisiana Tech.

Brian McKenna CROSS COUNTRY

At the WAC Championships •Led USU men to their fifth consecutive WAC title

Named WAC Men’s Cross Country Athlete of the Year after leading the Aggies to a fifth consecutive WAC title last weekend.

McKenna finished the 8-K course in a time of 26:00.1. He was also named to the all-WAC team.

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t’s that time again. The scramble to see an adviser, the rummaging to find a four-year plan and the absolute madness that registering at midnight brings. For those of you new to this process, we wish you luck. Determining what classes to take and registering for them is not an easy process, and it’s becoming more difficult to find the classes we need as budgets are being slashed and departments are being tapered to bare bones.

The first qualm most students have with registration is the time. Why must it be at midnight?

We wait at home, ready to go to bed and as the clock turns to midnight, we try, along with every other student at USU, to log on to Banner and register. It’s like a crowd of first graders trying to shove down the tube slide on the playground at the same time. It’s painful, time consuming and totally ineffective. Most students aren’t able to get through the system and register until around 1 a.m., and if they are freshmen or sophomores, chances are most classes they need are already full. This leaves most students tired, frustrated and absolutely irritated with both the Internet and the university. Although we understand midnight is the only time most students are available – which gives students an equal chance at registering and getting into classes – we don’t think many students would mind changing the registration to a time that doesn’t harp on our sleeping schedules.

Another problem students are experiencing is a lack of classes and sections offered. Budget cuts are thinning the selection of classes and professors available. Many classes are only being offered every other semester or not at all or only one section of a class is being offered. Elective classes are essentially nonexistent, leaving many juniors and seniors wondering how they will fill up their schedules with relevant courses and graduate on time. Because of the lack of classes, courses are filling up twice as fast or students aren’t given the options to fit classes in with the rest of their schedule. Will this postpone students’ graduation dates, costing them more money in an already financially difficult time? Are students forced to fill their schedules with “fluff” classes to reach 12 credits and qualify for financial aid because the courses they need aren’t offered? Is our education still top notch, even though classes that added depth to our education are being dropped? Is the quality of our education ultimately being hurt by budget cuts?

Whatever your registration problems may be, we wish you luck and understand the frustrations you face. After all, we’ll be right there with you at midnight, wishing we were asleep and that there was a less frustrating way to register for classes.

Interest abuse

W

hen Congress passed the Credit Cardholders’ Bill of Rights last May, we called it a long overdue response to the abuses of predatory credit-card issuers who have used every trick in the book to extract money from cardholders. As it turns out, we underestimated the greed and craftiness of the credit-card industry.

In a well-meaning effort to give issuers time to adjust their practices, Congress set a compliance deadline of next February. Instead of seeing the law as a clear signal that consumers are fed up with abusive practices, however, leading bank card issuers used the time to squeeze more money from the public.

Not only have they done next to nothing to stop practices deemed unfair by the new law, but some of the practices that hurt consumers the most have become more widespread.

According to a report issued Wednesday by the Pew Charitable Trusts, “credit card interest rates rose an average of 20 percent in the first two quarters of 2009, even as banks’ cost of lending declined.” Every credit card offered online by leading bank card issuers was tied to rules and conditions that will be outlawed once the compliance date arrives, Pew said.

Among other things, nearly all of the bank cards allowed issuers to increase interest rates

on outstanding balances and permitted issuers to apply payments in a way the Federal Reserve found likely to cause substantial financial injury to consumers.

Although arbitrary rate changes will no longer be allowed once the law takes effect, the higher rates that consumers are being hit with before then will remain in place. Many consumers with good credit scores and a history of paying their bills on time are shocked to discover that they are on the receiving end of this sort of treatment.

Instead of being rewarded for handling their finances sensibly, they are being treated like deadbeats and smacked with rates that were once deemed strictly punitive.

Increased rates that reach 29.99 percent have been widely reported in the case of some Citibank customers, for example. It has also been reported that Bank of America and Citibank were introducing new fees on consumers who don’t use their cards enough or don’t carry minimum balances.

Spokesmen for the banking industry say consumers always have the option of refusing the higher rates,. But if they do, they run the risk of having their card revoked, either immediately or when the expiration date arrives. First of all, this

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Men’s track team deserves more credit

To the editor:

I was a bit disappointed with the coverage of the cross country teams this past weekend.

I believe the men winning a fifth-straight WAC title deserves better than the second page in the sports section with no photo and little recap from some outstanding student athletes and their exceptional coaching staff.

Sean Damitz

Dear Miss Jones Dear Miss Jones, I have come to the conclusion that being the best friend officially sucks. Here is the deal: I have been best friends with a guy for more than five years. We seem to do everything together and tell each other everything, including our latest relationship developments.

We first met in high school, and I sat on the sidelines as he dated one of my closest friends, which ended quickly after graduation. When he was on an LDS mission I wrote him but only on a friend level. And now that he is home I feel that I have officially been placed in charge of finding him marriage prospects.

For years it has never bothered me when he tells me about the latest girl he is crushing on or asks for a little advice on how he can swoon some girl until recently.

Lately, I tend to get jealous and can’t stand to listen to him go on and on about all these girls he seems to be chasing or vice versa. I am tired of being the best friend, and I’m ready to be the girlfriend. How can I let him know that I am interested in dating him without it being awkward and without our long established friendship being placed on the line?

Filled with Jealousy Dear Filled with Jealousy, I know just what you mean. I feel like I have been the best friend to a dozen guys, when in fact I want it to be more. But through the years I have really come to value my friends.

Friends are something special and can be an extremely important part of life. Too often I think friends are put on the side-burner when things are going well and then, when the land falls out from beneath you, your friends are always the first ones there to catch you. I know that I always give the “go ahead and tell the person your true feelings” advice, but for this situation I’m going against it.

There’s a TV show that some of you readers may know. It’s called “Dawson’s Creek.”

Dawson and Joey were friends since before

they could remember. They knew everything about each other – their habits (good and bad) and even their thoughts at times. When the hormones began to flare the two realized they had some feelings for one another, and what did they do? Like any good made for TV drama, they decided to give it a shot. They dated and it went well for a little while, but in the end it wasn’t a good thing. They not only hurt each other, but they pulled in their potential partners and ultimately made a huge mess.

One thing that I learned is that there’s no fun in a relationship when you know exactly what’s going to happen next. It’s important to find out some of these spicy things that best friends already know about while you’re dating. I admit that Dawson’s and Joey’s relationship was a great thing for a while. I remember before they got together – when they were still in the innocent friend stage, yelling at the TV – they would have sleepovers in Dawson’s bed. I yurned for them to be together and knew something great was going to happen when Dawson went with Joey on her birthday to visit Joey’s father in prison. I cried tears of joy when they had their first kiss in front of his bedroom window during the finale of season one. For me, the next six seasons of love and pain were bliss, but I knew that they were doomed, and no matter how many pints of cookie dough I ate in front of the TV, nothing was going to change it.

Sweetie listen to me. Sometimes it’s just better as friends. Continue to give him advice and setting him up on dates. If your feelings do nothing but grow, feel free to tell him but don’t expect the response you want – it rarely comes.

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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is an inconvenience, especially for card users with a good record. Secondly, abandoning a credit card for any reason can have a negative effect on credit scores. For the consumer, it’s a losing proposition either way.

The Pew Report recommends that the Federal Reserve, which is developing detailed rules for

credit card issuers, ensure that there will be no unreasonable or disproportionate penalties in the future, including penalty rate increases.

Congress should go one step further to stop this last-minute effort to milk consumers before the remaining provisions of the law take effect by freezing rates

as soon as possible, as Sen. Chris Dodd, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, has proposed.

Given the traditional deference shown to the banking industry in the Senate, his proposal is unlikely to make headway unless consumers contact their representatives in Congress. It’s their money that’s at risk.

This column first appeared in the Oct. 29 edition of The Miami Herald.

ick a conservative pundit. Any conservative pundit. I chose Rush Limbaugh.

This past Sunday, Limbaugh went on “Meet the Press” and spoke out against the health care bill that is making its way through the U.S. House.

His exact quote was, “And when they get this health care bill, that’s the easiest, fastest way for them to be able to regulate every aspect of human behavior, because it will all have some related cost to health care – what you drive, what you eat, where you live, what you do – and there will be penalties for violating regulation.”

Limbaugh, along with all the other conservative talking heads on Fox, has called the health care reform America’s path toward socialism and is literally calling it the demise of American independence.

But this last week, the Associated Press published a bipartisan budget-office report that is getting little press coverage. The report stated that if the health care

reform is passed with the public option, a mere 2 percent of Americans will sign up for the government-run plan.

Two percent.

This underwhelming statistic puts into the question all the time and energy being spent on both sides of the political aisle on a bill that would affect so few Americans.

Even if the House’s bill is passed, most people seeking to sign up for the public option would have to wait until 2013. And by 2019, about 6 million people will be insured through the government.

Most people would be unable to sign up for the public option. Those older than 65 sign up for the already existing Medicaid.

Only those that are insured by small companies and those that purchase their own insurance would be able to jump onto the government-run care. But premiums would also be much higher in the public option than most private companies, so many Americans will choose to stay in the

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And that’s just about the proposed health care reform. The bill would still have to pass in the House and move to the Senate where the Majority Leader, Harry Reid, D-Nev., has a plan that would allow for states to opt out of the public option, in which case even fewer than 2 percent of Americans would sign up for government insurance.

So what is so threatening about this bill? Why are Republicans so afraid of such a low-impact bill?

Republicans seem to be floundering to find direction in the political world and the health care debate is a perfect opportunity for them to capitalize on the fear that could drive voters to the ballot box. It’s too late to win the presidency, but Republicans are making a move in local elections and referendums. And elections this year can be an indicator of how the midterm elections will play out next year when most governors, more than half the Senate and all of the House will be up for re-election.

The conservatives are building up a base, founded on fear, for these elections.

The Tea Party protests and demonstrations at town halls against health care reform are building up anger that the Republicans hope to translate into votes.

The debate is no longer about health care, it’s about politics. But enough from me. What do you think? Should we be spending so much time debating an issue that only will affect 2 percent of our nation?

Seth Bracken is the senior features writer for The Utah Statesman. His column appears every Wednesday.

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Judge orders redaction of polygamist documents ELDORADO, Texas (AP) – A Texas judge ordered Tuesday that a document showing a member of a polygamist sect had at least four wives who were pregnant or nursing at the same time should be excluded from his trial on charges of child sexual abuse.

In a hearing without the jury in the trial of 38-year-old Raymond Jessop, District Judge Barbara Walther ordered that several documents demonstrating his multiple marriages be redacted to show jurors only information about the alleged victim.

Jessop later will face a separate trial on bigamy charges, and his attorney Mark Stevens sought to prevent any mention of polygamy in this case. Jessop is charged with sexual assault of a child – a teenage girl he allegedly married and fathered a child with – and could face up to 20 years in prison. He has pleaded not guilty.

Walther said a list taken from a records vault at the Yearning For Zion Ranch should be redacted to remove the names of other families and three other alleged wives who were pregnant or nursing shortly after the alleged victim gave birth to a girl in August 2005.

The judge also ordered prosecutors to hold back any dictations of Warren Jeffs, the jailed leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a breakaway Mormon sect, to include only information about Jessop and the alleged victim before offering them into evidence.

Jeffs, convicted previously as an accomplice to rape in Utah, is regarded as a prophet by the sect, and he recorded rambling daily dictations covering a range of religious teachings and orders regarding the YFZ Ranch.

The judge did not immediately rule on several documents

RAYMOND JESSOP, the first man to face criminal charges following the raid of a polygamist sect’s ranch, returns to the courtroom during jury selection on Oct. 27, AP photo

that could demonstrate Jessop’s polygamist marriages, including photos of two wives in prairie dresses alongside him and church marriage certificates for the alleged victim and another woman on the same day. Prosecutors have argued that the evidence of multiple marriages was being used to prove an element of the alleged crime, which requires them to show the defendant was not legally married to the alleged victim.

Authorities allege the girl, now 21, was married to Jessop at age

15 and gave birth at 16. Church records that defense attorneys are fighting to keep out of the trial indicate the girl had previously been married to Jessop’s brother before being reassigned to Jessop, who authorities allege has nine wives.

Forensic expert Amy Smuts had testified Monday that the probability of Jessop being the father of the alleged victim’s daughter was 99.999998 percent.

Jessop’s trial is the first since Texas authorities raided the YFZ Ranch in April 2008, sweeping 439 children into foster care. The children have all been returned to parents or other relatives, but thousands of pages of documents and DNA tests taken in the raid have been used to build criminal cases against Jessop and 11 other sect men, including Jeffs who is seeking to have his Utah conviction overturned in an appeal before that state’s Supreme Court.

In afternoon testimony in Jessop’s case, Texas Ranger Sgt. Jesse Valdez told jurors that authorities made numerous attempts to access a vault with 2-foot-thick cement walls and a bank vault-style steel door before busting a hole in the cement large enough to allow Valdez to crawl through. “I made myself as skinny as I could and I went through with a flashlight and a handgun, not knowing what was in there,� said Valdez.

At the time, authorities were still searching for someone who called a domestic abuse hot line claiming to be an abused underage girl – a hoax caller whose reports triggered the massive raid.

But once in the vault, authorities found only rows of cabinets and stacks of file boxes with family photos and documents and church records.

Man sentenced to 2 years for flying stolen plane into U.S. ST. LOUIS (AP) – A Turkish-Canadian man was sentenced Tuesday to two years in federal prison for stealing a plane in Canada and flying over three states before landing along a dark southern Missouri highway.

Adam Dylan Leon might have received only 12 to 18 months. But U.S. District Judge Charles Shaw went beyond federal sentencing guidelines in deciding punishment.

Shaw said the 31-year-old’s actions posed risks to himself and others, cost the government $230,000 to keep fighter jets in the air for seven hours tracking him, and caused the Madison, Wis., capitol to evacuate.

He also had some advice for Leon who said he had hoped to be shot down. His attorney, Lucille Liggett, had asked for leniency, saying her client suffered from severe depression from the death of his parents in 2002 in Turkey.

Shaw told Leon it would be worth his while to see “It’s a Wonderful Life,� the classic Frank

Capra film starring James Stewart, about a despairing man who comes to know through an angel what life would have been like if he never had lived. Leon said he hadn’t see it.

Assistant U.S. Attorney John Sauer said the sentence was fitting for a “dangerous and harmful course of conduct,� and hopes it will deter others from such behavior. “Law enforcement response was excellent, competent and swift,� Sauer said. “It never ended up being a serious imminent threat to anyone’s security.�

Brady Randus, a friend from Confederation College Flight School in Thunder Bay, Ontario, where the plane was stolen, wrote in a letter to the judge that he knew Leon was “honest, trustworthy and dependable� and an intelligent student who was at the top of his class and wellliked by others in the program.

He wrote that Leon’s actions were “shocking� and “totally out of his character.� The friend’s

father, Karl Randus, agreed, saying in his letter that Leon’s actions came on the anniversary of his parents’ death. “We can’t imagine what he was thinking, but we care about Adam, he is a good person, and we hope there will be a chance for leniency for him.�

Leon, who was born Yavuz Berke in Turkey before moving to Canada, changing his name, and becoming a naturalized citizen, admitted that on April 6, he stole a four-seat Cessna 172 from his flight school and crossed the U.S. border. Leon landed the plane more than seven hours later on a road off of Highway 60 near Ellsinore, Mo. U.S. Department of Defense aircraft intercepted the plane after it entered American airspace and tried unsuccessfully to contact him.

Authorities said the plane was nearly out of fuel when Leon landed it near Ellsinore.

The Highway Patrol said Leon got a ride from a passer-by to a store, where he bought a

ADAM DYLAN LEON is shown in this April 7 file booking photo released by the Butler County, Missouri Sheriff’s Department. AP photo

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Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009

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Student deadlines You need to know....

Nov. 4

-Business Week.

-Jazz Combos Concert, Performance Hall, 7:30 p.m.

Today is Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. Today’s issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Hanah Gillman, junior in parks and recreation, from Vernal, Utah.

Almanac Today in History: In 1922, British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered a step leading to the tomb of King Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. Thus began a monumental excavation process in which Carter explored the four-room tomb over several years, uncovering an incredible collection of several thousand objects.

Weather Thursday’s Weather High: 65° Low: 35° Mostly Sunny

Thursday

Nov. 5

-Business Week.

-Tip Toe Into Asia, TSC Ballroom, 7 p.m.

-Volleyball at San Jose State, 8 p.m.

Friday

Nov. 6

Registrar’s Office deadlines: Nov. 9 is the last day to submit petition for late drop forms.

From Nov. 10 through Dec. 11 no dropping of classes will be permitted.

Aggie Passport The 2009 Aggie Passport Experience is coming to a close.

Please submit your passport with 6, 8 or 10 stamps to TSC 314 no later than Nov. 23. For more information call 797-1132.

Chemistry

The Chemistry and Biochemistry Departmental Seminar will be held Nov. 4 from 4-5 p.m. in ESLC 046. The speaker will be Akif Tezcan from UC San Diego.

Meet contest

-Business Week.

-Women’s soccer at WAC tournament.

-Wind Orchestra Fall Concert, Chase Fine Arts Center, 7:30 p.m.

On Nov. 12 at 6 p.m. in the ASTE building the Collegiate chapter of the Utah Farm Bureau Federation Young Farmers and Ranchers will be holding its annual Collegiate Discussion Meet contest. The contest is designed to simulate a committee meeting regarding current agriculture issues. Prizes include a trip to the National Collegiate Discussion Meet contest where scholarships are given out to participants. Come watch or get involved and compete. For more info contact 797-2167 or brettevans@pcu.net.

Senior gift

The senior gift is a century-old tradition that helps seniors gather together and leave their legacy at USU. Students are asked to donate $20.09 toward the campus maps. Donate online at www.usu.edu/seniorgift, click on make a gift online or visit Old Main Room 106.

Stokes Nature Center will host its 12th annual dinner and Auction Fundraiser at 6 p.m. on Nov. 7 at the Copper Mill Restaurant. Celebrate ‘60s culture and color with this year’s theme: Flower Power. The even includes dinner, music, entertainment, live and silent auctions and more.

Tickets are $40 per person and can be purchased at Fuhriman’s Framing and Fine Art, College of Natural Resources dean’s office or by calling SNC at 755-3239. For more info visit www.logannature. org.

Religion in Life class will be held Nov. 6 at 11:30 a.m. in the LDS Institute cultural hall. Our speaker is James Swink who is the Cache County Attorney and graduated from USU. The IWA Fall Dance will be held Nov. 6 from 8:30-11 p.m. and the theme is, I Spy. IWA will be collecting cans of food at the door to help support Stuff A Bus. Ladies hurry and get your dates.

Helicon West will host an open microphone reading Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. at True Aggie Café, 117 North Main, Logan. Creative writers are invited to share up to seven minutes of original poetry, fiction, nonfiction or other writing. The event is free and open to the public.

On Nov. 4, Common Ground Outdoor Adventures will be leading a hiking activity at 3:30 p.m.

Cost is $3. Join us while we explore Smithfield Canyon. Volunteers are always needed. Common Ground has been providing outdoor recreation for people with disabilities since 1993. Visit us on the Web at www.ogadventures.org or call 7130288.

The Undergraduate Research Office would like to announce the following dates: Nov. 9, Abstracts due for the Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research. Dec. 4, Abstracts due for the National Conference on Undergraduate Research. Visit http://research. usu.edu/undergrad for more info.

Brain Waves • B. Streeter

Moderately Confused • Stahler

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