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Three juniors in the race for ASUSU president the Presidents Cabinet chair. He is also an appointed member of the Executive Council, Academic Senate, Capitol and Support Committee, Academic Opportunity Fund and Tier II Tuition Committee.

“When it came down to if I was going to run or not I thought, of course I am going to run,” Nuehring said. “We have so many projects that require continuity. I feel like because I have been here (on the ASUSU executive council) for the last year, I literally understand the time commitment more than anyone else.”

Williams is a member of the Student Advisory Council, A-Team, and Student Involvement and

By KAYLA HALL staff writer

Three USU juniors, all dual-majoring in speech communications, are vying for ASUSU president in the 2011 elections. Campaigning begins Feb. 22.

All the presidential candidates – Ben Williams from Dallas, Texas, whose other major is business administration, Erik Mikkelsen from Bunkerville, Nevada, whose second major is human resources and Keenan Nuehring from River Heights, Utah, whose second major is political science – have a platform centered around students.

“My big thing is to put students first,” Mikkelsen said. “With that, I want to blow the doors of ASUSU wide open and make it more inclusive and open for people who don’t know how to get involved, but would like to.”

Mikkelsen said he plans on implementing his campaign by reaching out, recognizing and revitalizing. As president, he plans to reach out through programs like Aggie Blue and give presentations on a regular basis throughout campus. He wants to have a regular recognition of all clubs on campus by having more notoriety of club activities through the Utah Statesman and Utah State Today.

- See ELECTIONS, page 3 ERIK MIKKELSEN, KEENAN NUEHRING, AND BEN WILLIAMS (left to right) will begin campaigning Tuesday, Feb. 22 in hopes of becoming the next ASUSU president. TODD JONES photo

“I will use any way to get club names out there so people can see the things they can get involved in,” Mikkelsen said.

He also plans to revitalize ASUSU by ensuring that ASUSU is fiscally responsible with spending, especially because of the budget cuts the university faces.

Williams, the public relations chair for the Val R. Christensen Service Center and Nuehring, ASUSU administrative assistant both feel their previous and current ASUSU leadership positions will help them if they become president.

Nuehring currently serves as administrative assistant on the ASUSU executive council and as

CIL tests officially terminated

By STEVE KENT staff writer

A GEOLOGY BUILDING DISPLAY case contains empty places after valuable minerals were taken from it Feb. 12. USU police are taking precautionary measures to make sure this does not happen in the future. KATELYN BATTLES photo

Burglaries drive need for surveillance

By DAN SMITH news senior writer

An attempted burglary in Widtsoe Hall and a possible theft in the Geology Building have given faculty cause for heightening security measures.

Associate professor of biochemistry Joanie Hevel said after being out of town for the weekend, she sat down in her office in the

Eccles Science Learning Center on the morning of Monday, Feb. 7, and realized something was amiss.

“I had a biochemistry class that I was giving an exam to on Friday,” Hevel said. “On Wednesday, I let them know I was going to be out of town and the exam would be proctored by my assistant. Unfortunately that’s the same time it happened.”

Hevel said she notified police when she saw a gadget made from duct tape, electrical

wire and a coat hanger dangling from her office door handle. She and her colleagues attempted to speculate against an attempted burglary by guessing a janitor could have used it to prop the door open.

She said the biochemistry course is a twosemester course and both semesters are very tough. Students who are majoring biochem-

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Fieldhouse no longer accommodates indoor soccer “Soccer has just boomed on this campus, the problem we’re running into is space,” said Scott Wamsley, assistant director of Campus Recreation. He also said the protective nets that hang in the Fieldhouse are not adequate to prevent future accidents.

Due to a recent soccer-related injury in the Nelson Fieldhouse, “Those nets are probably 25 years old, they’re not made to stop the sport is currently not allowed inside the a soccer ball, they’re made to stop a tennis ball,” building. The rule was mandated after a jogWamsley said.

“We were playing and ger was struck by a ball while on the track.

He said similar safety concerns arose several somebody shot the ball years “We were playing and somebody shot ago when the women’s softball team pracand hit an older man the ball and hit an older man jogging on ticed there. the track.” said Bereket Tesfatsion, a graduWamsley said he has been talking with a jogging on the track.” ate student in water resource management. net company in Salt Lake City, and Campus – Bereket Tesfatsion, “Immediately they decided that we could not Recreation hopes to get new nets sometime in graduate student the near future. play.”

Tesfatsion said he feels the reaction was “We struggle in the winter to find a place to harsh, because his group of friends have been playing soccer in the Fieldhouse for the past year and have never had an accident or - See SOCCER, page 4 injury prior to this incident.

By KEATON REED staff writer

Inside This Issue

2/16/11 Former Aggie football star Anthony Calvillo visits campus and receives alumnus award.

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Students speak out about their personal struggles with eating disorders.

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The discontinuance of the Computer Information Literacy exams passed through the final stages of approval, and students will officially not need to take the exams beginning next semester.

In December, the Education Policy committee and Faculty Senate voted to remove the requirement, finalizing a decision long sought by many faculty members and ASUSU officers.

Students graduating this semester are still required to pass the CIL examinations.

The CIL tests were originally designed to teach students basic computer skills as well as providing information about the ethics of computer use, but many of those skills are currently being taught elsewhere, said professor Charles Huenemann of the General Education subcommittee.

Heunemann said he also preferred the idea of teaching students computer skills as needed, rather than all at once. “They might have to learn everything for the test in order to pass it, but then as soon as they pass the test then they don’t use that information again and they forget it.”

In their meeting last November, the General Education subcommittee said that they would like to keep the CIL computer lab (located in the Eccles Science and Learning Center) open as a remedial resource for students wanting to learn the skills now taught by the CIL program. Currently, the $30 CIL fee funds the lab, and if it is to continue, the CIL fee would need to be replaced by a new student fee, said CIL director Alex Potter.

Potter said he disagrees with the idea of teaching students computer skills as needed, and that the removal of the CIL requirement might now put more strain on faculty members.

“They’ll have to deal with students not knowing how to do a footnote, and how to do all these fundamental skills that are taught in CIL,” he said.

The changes in CIL requirement likely won’t cause any drastic changes, but students won’t benefit as much as they might have, Potter said.

USU sophomore Gabrielle George said she took two of the CIL exams as part of her USU Connections class, but that she doubts she benefited much.

“I don’t even remember what the test was on,”

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Corbett fires workers after scandal

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Some state employees have been fired and two agencies have overhauled their regulations in the wake of allegations that a doctor performed illegal abortions that killed a patient and viable infants, Gov. Tom Corbett announced Tuesday. “It happened because people weren’t doing their jobs, plain and simple,� Corbett said.

Corbett said that four attorneys and GOP mocks Obama’s two supervisors at the departments of and State were either fired or 2012 budget proposal Health resigned on Friday and that eight other WASHINGTON (AP) – Republicans employees involved in the internal are mocking President Obama’s $3.73 investigation remain on the state paytrillion budget for 2012 for waving fee- roll. Others had previously resigned, bly at historically huge federal deficits. he said. “This doesn’t even rise to the level As if to show how it should be done, of government run amok,� Corbett said they are ready to start muscling their at a Capitol news conference at which own package of deep cuts in domestic he described his administration’s spending through the House. actions in the month since Dr. Kermit Eager to please their conservative Gosnell and eight employees of his tea party supporters, Republicans are West Philadelphia clinic were charged championing $61 billion in cuts to hundreds of programs for the remain- criminally. “It was government not ing seven months of this federal fiscal running at all. To call this unacceptyear under a bill the House planned to debate Tuesday. AmeriCorps and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting would be completely erased, while deep cuts would be carved from programs WASHINGTON (AP) – The nation’s for feeding poor women and children blacks are leaving big cities in the and training people for jobs.

Northeast and Midwest at the highest levels in decades, returning to fastBahrain mourner growing states in the once-segregated South in search of better job opportukilled during clash nities and quality of life.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates The Southern U.S. region – pri(AP) – Security forces in Bahrain marily metropolitan areas such as fired tear gas and bird shot Tuesday Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Miami on mourners gathered for a funeral and Charlotte, N.C. – accounted for procession for a man killed in Egyptroughly 75 percent of the population inspired protests, killing at least one gains among blacks since 2000, up other person and sharply raising the from 65 percent in the 1990s, accordchances for further unrest. ing to the latest census estimates. The Officials at Bahrain’s Salmaniya gains came primarily at the expense Medical Complex – the meeting point of Northern metro areas such as New for more than 10,000 mourners – said York and Chicago, which posted their a 31-year-old man died from injuries first declines in black population since from bird shot fired during the melee at least 1980. in the hospital’s parking lot. The offiThe findings are based on 2009 cials spoke on condition of anonymcensus population estimates, with offiity because they were not allowed to cial 2010 results released Tuesday for speak to journalists.

Illinois reflecting much of that change.

The latest death raises the posIllinois had a 1.3 percent drop in the sibility of more rallies and challenges number of African-Americans since to the ruling Sunni monarchy in Bahrain – a strategic Western ally and home to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet.

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able doesn’t say enough. It’s despicable.�

Corbett said the Department of State, which licenses medical professionals, has changed how it handles complaints and now requires more detailed reports. It also will train lawyers on investigative procedures, rules and regulations, and on how to prosecute complaints, he said.

At the Department of Health, which was not performing systematic checks of the state’s abortion clinics for more than a decade before Gosnell’s clinic was raided last year, yearly inspections are now mandatory, and the results will be posted on the state website. “Laws are already on the books that should have prevented this situation,�

Corbett said. “The correction needs to take place inside the two agencies assigned to oversee them, so my administration has drawn up a set of guidelines or protocols.�

Gosnell was charged last month with killing seven babies born alive and with the death of a 41-year-old

refugee after a botched abortion at the clinic, which prosecutors have called a drug mill by day and abortion mill by night.

Prosecutors said hundreds more babies died in Gosnell’s clinic, and District Attorney Seth Williams called it a “house of horrors.�

A grand jury report said Gosnell “murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors.�

Gosnell, at his arraignment, said he did not understand why he was being charged with eight counts of murder.

In an interview with the Philadelphia Daily News after his clinic was raided, he described himself as someone who wanted to serve the poor and minorities in the neighborhood where he grew up and raised his six children, who include a doctor and a college professor.

An attorney who filed a malpractice lawsuit for Mongar’s family said the governor’s moves are a step in the right direction, but they come “too late for my client and for many others.�

2000, the first decade-long decline in the state’s history.

The recent census figures for blacks refer to non-Hispanic blacks, which the Census Bureau began calculating separately in 1980.

In all, about 57 percent of U.S. blacks now live in the South, a jump from the 53 percent share in the 1970s, according to an analysis of census data by William H. Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution. It was the surest sign yet of a sustained reverse migration to the South following the exodus of millions of blacks to the Midwest, Northeast and West in the Great Migration from 1910 to 1970. “African-Americans are acting as other Americans would – searching for better economic opportunity in the Sun Belt,� said Isabel Wilkerson, author of “The Warmth of Other Suns,� a detailed history of the Great Migration. “But there is also a special connection. As the South becomes

more in line with the rest of the country in social and political equality, many are wanting to connect with their ancestral homeland.�

The converts include Shelton Haynes, 33, a housing manager in Atlanta. He grew up in New York City and lived in Harlem for many years with his wife and two children before growing weary of the cost of living and hectic pace. After considering other places in the South such as Charlotte, N.C., the two settled on Atlanta, where Haynes’ brother, sister-in-law and parents now also live. “We have a great support network of family and friends here, and there is good community involvement, with our kids involved in swimming, tennis and basketball,� Haynes said. “In Atlanta, I also see a lot of AfricanAmericans do very well in a variety of professions, so it was good to see things changing.�

The findings, based on 2009 data, are expected to be highlighted in offi-

PENNSYLVANIA GOV. TOM CORBETT fields questions at a news conference about removing state employees as a result of an investigation into a Philadelphia abortion clinic. AP photo

Census: More U.S. blacks moving South

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cial 2010 results being released that show changes in non-Hispanic black populations in states such as Illinois, Texas, New York, Georgia and Florida.

Historically, the South was home to roughly 90 percent of the nation’s blacks from 1790 until 1910, when African-Americans began to migrate northward to escape racism and seek jobs in industrial centers such as Detroit, New York and Chicago during World War I. After the decades-long Great Migration, the share of blacks in the South hit a low of about 53 percent in the 1970s, before civil rights legislation and the passage of time began to improve the social climate in the region.

The current 57 percent share of blacks now living in the South is the highest level since 1960.

The latest estimates show that the Atlanta metropolitan area added more than half a million blacks over the last decade, making it the metro area with the second largest black population.

NASA craft snaps pics of comet on V-day

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) – Nearly six years after an 800-pound copper bullet excavated a crater on a comet, a NASA spacecraft revisiting the site has seen evidence of the destruction in images snapped during a Valentine’s Day flyby, scientists said Tuesday.

Instead of a well-defined pit, the Stardust craft saw what looked like a crater rim that was filled in the middle – a sign that the plume of debris from the 2005 high-speed crash that created the crater shot up and fell back down. “The crater was more subdued than I think some of us thought,� said mission scientist Pete Schultz of Brown University. “It partially buried itself.�

Stardust zoomed past Tempel 1 Monday night, passing within 110 miles of the comet’s surface.

Along the way, it snapped six dozen pictures.

It was NASA’s second visit to Tempel 1, but the first time a spacecraft had imaged the manmade crater.

In 2005, another NASA probe, Deep Impact, fired a projectile into Tempel 1 that carved a football field-sized hole, but so much dust spewed out that it blocked Deep Impact’s view.

Astronomer Michael A’Hearn of the University of Maryland, who led Deep Impact, was pleased to come full circle. “It’s wonderful to go back and see the effects we had on the comet due to our impact,� A’Hearn said.

Revisiting with Tempel 1 also allowed scientists

THE MISSION CONTROL ROOM at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena,Calif. Feb. 14.

Barreling along at 24,000 mph, NASA’s Stardust craft will swoop in to take high-resolution images of the surface. AP photo

to examine changes on the surface since Deep Impact.

Tempel 1 has since made a full loop around the sun. Every time comets orbit the sun, they lose material from the surface and become less bright.

Scientists found evidence of erosion in then-andnow images of the Deep Impact site, said principal investigator Joe Veverka of Cornell University.

Stardust continued beaming back images from the Valentine encounter Tuesday. Scientists planned to spend the next several weeks analyzing the data.

Stardust’s trip to Tempel 1 was a bonus mission.

Launched in 1999, Stardust’s original target was comet Wild 2, where it collected dust samples that were later jettisoned to Earth.

The Tempel 1 flyby went off almost flawlessly.

Stardust got knocked several times by dust grains, but its protective bumpers bore the brunt of the blast and it came out unharmed.

A slight problem occurred during download.

Since Stardust’s antenna was pointed away from Earth during the flyby, it stored all the images and data in its memory, waiting to be played back at a later time.

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USU student-to-counselor ratio low Briefs Campus & Community

and very few clients being turned down, the counseling center has little downtime.

Berry said of students during Nationwide, there is approxithis time of the semester, “They mately one on-campus counselor get assigned to a therapist, but for every 1,600 college students, according to a survey conducted by they might not be able to get an appointment for two or three the American College Counseling weeks. That’s not always the case, Center in 2010. At Utah State University, that ratio is much more but we tell students it’s a strong possibility.” imbalanced, and psychologists According to CAPS’ demoare stretching their resources to graphics, the longest wait for accommodate what one counselor intake during 2009-2010 was a is calling the largest increase of whopping 12 weeks long. reported student cases in history.

The length of such waits may Thomas Berry, a licensed be due to the lack of psychologist for USU’s Counseling “There’s pretty free options in Cache Valley. USU provides and Psychological much nothing marriage and family Services (CAPS), that we don’t counseling, and sersaid, “We have one vices from the psycholsee. It used to permanent staff member for 2,357 be that students ogy department, but only the center in the students, and that’s who were relaTSC is free of charge, based on approxitively suicidal and Berry said that mately 16,500 they see a much larger students up on cam- were rare on range of problems pus.” college camthrough that service The university’s puses. Now it’s than in any other. student-to-counquite common.”

They’re also parselor ratio is sig– Thomas Berry, tially due to specific nificant on its own.

Add that to the USU psychologist requests, Berry said.

Students who look amount of cases for counselors with USU psychologists certain qualifications have seen in the past two years and must often wait for weeks to get it becomes an alarming number. in to see them, and that also limThe ACCA survey revealed that its the options for other students 91 percent of counseling direcneeding help. tors nationwide have noticed a The sudden surge in psychologitrend of increasing psychological cal cases has many causes, he said. problems, and from 2008 to 2009, The development of psychologiCAPS saw a 15 percent increase in cal medicines and their resulting the amount of student cases. That impact is one. number was doubled during Fall “There’s pretty much nothing 2010. that we don’t see,” he said. “It used “If you compare that to 2010, we had a 31 percent increase to the to be that students who were relatively suicidal were rare on college amount of students coming in,” campuses. Now it’s quite comBerry said, “There’s a lot of differmon.” ent information pointing to the The pressures of being a college fact that this has been the most student and the pressures students stressful time to be a college stuput upon themselves contribute to dent in history.” the increase of cases, he said.

Last week alone, the center “People feel overwhelmed, the saw 134 individual clients, ran stress builds, and it really starts nine therapy groups with 8-12 dragging down all parts of their members, and presented several workshops. Undergraduate REACH life. Some students react by avoiding and getting behind, and makpeers also gave several individual skills coaching sessions. With only ing themselves sick,” Berry said.

“Avoidance increases the anxiety seven permanent staff members

By ARIANNA REES staff writer

which increases the avoidance.”

He added that throughout all age groups students are pushing themselves to accomplish more, and many do not deal well with that added stress.

CAPS has attempted to shorten the amount of wait time for students. “We rearranged how we bring folks into the center this year which has allowed us to have much shorter waits for their initial contact. Right now it’s longer than we want it to be, but we can generally get scheduling a week out for initial consults,” Berry said.

He added, “We’re much better than we were before. Last year we got to the point where we had 50 on our waitlist, and so we don’t have anything like that now. Restructuring this has really helped with that, but the demand is still there.”

One of the ways students can help shorten wait time is to take advantage of free stress manage-

ment programs and workshops that CAPS offers, thus alleviating the amount of stress placed on the heads of counselors, Berry said.

“The more we can do that, the more breathing room we have for students who do need one-on-one counseling.”

Individual or group therapy sessions are also available campuswide to students enrolled in at least six credits on campus. CAPS is currently attempting to work out distance education students’ needs as well.

Economically and resourcewise, CAPS cannot function as an efficient unit without students taking advantage of the workshops offered, Berry said. He encourages everyone to attend the workshops and find out what they can do to help themselves and to also help the university’s counseling services.

– arianna.rees@aggiemail.usu.edu

Utah State University anthropology professor David Lancy is the 2011 recipient of the D. Wynne Thorne Career Research Award, USU’s most prestigious faculty research accolade.

Lancy will receive the award March 28 at the faculty research awards luncheon, part of USU’s annual Research Week.

“David has reached out across disciplinary boundaries, expanded interdisciplinary areas of study and has made an enormous global impact on a number of fields,” said Brent Miller, vice president for research at USU. “USU colleagues nominated excellent candidates for this round of the research career recognition. We are pleased to name David as the D. Wynne Thorne awardee for 2011. The award is well deserved.”

Named after USU’s first vice president for research, the D. Wynne Thorne Career Research Award is given to an individual on the USU campus who has completed outstanding research in his or her career. The award is given annually to one outstanding university researcher who is recommended by a committee of peers, all previous award recipients. National and international experts evaluate nominees for the significance and quality of their research and creative achievement and recognition.

Lancy has authored eight books and more than 60 articles, chapters and reviews in major, peerreviewed journals such as American Anthropologist. Two of his earlier books have attracted worldwide attention, one being cited more than 400 times and the other having more than 600 citations.

Center director to speak at seminar CHRIS CHAPMAN, a USU clinical therapist meets with one of many students who use psychological services offered in the TSC. There are currently seven permanent staff members serving USU students. ARMEN HOVSEPYAN photo

Semester: Students graduating in May must finish CIL’s -continued from page 1 George said. “It would be hard for me to go and … spend my time there trying to learn how to use Excel and all that, when really I could just go through Google, and they have easy stuff I could look up, too.”

If there were a student fee involved, George said she might use the lab to get the most from her money.

Potter said he hopes students graduating this semester won’t mistakenly believe the CIL requirement doesn’t apply to them and complete the exams as soon as possible.

“The sooner the better, because I don’t want to have 300 students coming to me in April, trying to finish the thing,” he said.

Lancy receives research award

The University will likely continue to offer the CIL tests, and individual departments may choose to keep CIL tests as a requirement to graduate from their program, Huenemann said.

Passing the tests may also continue to be a prerequisite for certain courses. The decision also may bring changes to courses like OSS 1400, which rely heavily on CIL material.

The online software used to administer CIL exams, iNetTest, was developed by programmers working for the CIL program. iNetTest is also used to administer exams for other courses at USU. Potter said that if the new student fee is approved, support for iNetTest will likely continue to be provided through the remedia-

tion lab. Even without the new fee, the software would likely be supported through other means.

The requirement elimination may also cause problems for students transferring to universities that have CIL requirements, Petter said.

Some other universities in Utah have programs similar to CIL, and the University of Utah is currently developing one.

“We’re getting rid of ours while they’re getting one, which is strange to me,” Potter said.

– steve.kent@aggiemail.usu.edu

Students pucker up for iPods

STUDENTS COMPETE IN THE ANNUAL Valentine’s Day iPod kiss off hosted by the USU Bookstore. The winners of the iPods were Joseph Pitt and Megan Sanders Smith. The runners-up are Collin Hodges and Michelle Hokanson. CARL R. WILSON photo

Dr. Michael Skinner, Director of the Center for Reproductive Biology at Washington State University, will be here on Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011 to give a seminar at 3:30 pm in the Merrill-Cazier library room 154.

Dr. Skinner’s seminar is titled “Epigenetic Transgenerational Actions of Environmental Exposures on Disease and Reproduction: The Ghosts in your Genome.”

USU’s Center for Integrated BioSystems, and the department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Science hosts the free lecture and all are welcome.

Concert hall shows world film festival Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour comes to Logan at 7 p.m., Feb. 1718, in the Kent Concert Hall of the Utah State campus.

The Banff Mountain Film Festival, a program of The Banff Centre, is the largest, and one of the most prestigious, mountain festivals in the world. Hot on the heels of the festival held every fall in Banff, Alberta, the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour hits the road.

With stops planned in about 350 communities and 32 countries across the globe, this year’s tour features a collection of the most inspiring action, environmental, and adventure films from the festival.

Traveling to exotic landscapes and remote cultures, and bringing audiences up-close and personal with adrenaline-packed action sports, the 2010/2011 World Tour is an exhilarating and provocative exploration of the mountain world.

From approximately 260 films entered into the annual festival, awardwinning films and audience favorites are among the films chosen to travel the globe.

Join USU’s Outdoor Recreation Program when the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour brings the spirit of outdoor adventure to Cache Valley. Ticket price are $10 for one night and $16 for two nights for USU students and $12 for one night and $18 for two nights for public.

-Compiled from staff and media reports

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Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011

College Libertarians form chapter on campus

By KEVIN MITCHELL staff writer

A group of students formed the new College Libertarians Club in December, which is now recognized as an official organization on campus.

The club was formed by four students – Justin Hinh, Chelan Rogers, Jared Arnell and Justin Jerez – who aspired to create an organization which allowed them to meet with other people who share their political views, and to inform the community of the true value of libertarianism.

Their mission, as stated by club president Justin Hinh, is “to allow (students) to truly embrace what true liberty is in this country and … to be aware that true liberty is for all.” “(The Libertarian Party) is the only political organization which respects you as a unique and competent individual,” states the official Libertarian Party website, www. lp.org.

Rather than being anti-government, as some would mistakenly view the movement, they would claim that they are pro-liberty, and are indeed in support of the U.S. constitution, Hinh said. The main element that sets them apart from the Republican and Democratic parties is their charge to minimize the government by emphasizing the Bill of Rights. Some of their core beliefs include limiting the government in all aspects of life, reliance upon personal responsibility, the support of limited and responsible government spending and the opposition of irresponsible wars.

Although their core principles are shared

by Republicans and Democrats alike, many people have a skewed image of this “cool older brother” approach to government, Jerez said.

Hinh said, “People get the image that we are an extremist party – we’re not. We take both sides of the legal spectrum and choose the best positions.”

Each week, the club meets at various locations to discuss the current issues the country is facing in light of the core values of libertarianism. These issues include immigration laws, privacy rights, government spending, foreign policy and many more.

JUSTIN HINH, PRESIDENT OF the College Libertarians leads the chapter established in December 2010, and said many believe Liberterians are extremists, when this perception is not necessarily true. He said their beliefs meet half-way between Republican and Democrat platforms. CARL R. WILSON photo

Along with discussing current issues, the Regarding their events, Hinh said: “Our club meets together to plan and execute proj- goal … is to have fun. We’re not affiliated ects that allow them with Democrats or to share their opinions “We’re not affiliated with Republicans so we with the community. have absolutely no For one of its projects, Democrats or Republicans restrictions on what we the club created a life- so we have absolutely no can do- only what the size Transportation restrictions on what we can school gives us. That Security TSA event, Democrats do, only what the school Administration (TSA) and Republicans may gives us.” security scanner out not have done that – Justin Hinh, because that may have of cardboard complete with printouts of College Libertarians president put their party in a images comparable to bad light. We’re the those that would be Libertarian party. We seen by an agent at an airport. The model are known for doing that. So we do it. That’s was then displayed on campus and brochures the biggest goal that I have for the club, to were passed out to illustrate the club’s dishave fun, and everyone gains by learning approval of the TSA’s privacy and financial what true freedom really is.” policies.

The next event is planned for Thursday,

Elections: Three to vie for Tolson’s seat in upcoming election -continued from page 1 Leadership Center Recruitment Team.

“I know ASUSU and have worked with student government for two and a half years now,” Williams said. I know our advisers, I know our administrators, they have a working relationship with me and I feel like we, together, can get a whole heck of a lot done.”

Nuehring cares about helping resolve students concerns. While holding an ASUSU executive position, he started a “start, stop” student campaign that consisted of suggestion boxes designed to find out what students concerns and wants were. He is also working on the proposed Student Recreation Center as well as continuing to establish a common hour designated for guest speakers, presentations, workshops and presentations.

“Students pay for speakers and tuition but don’t have the opportunity to go to both,” Nuehring said. “If this is something we want to keep, I want to give students a competitive edge to make it in the workforce. I want to have prominent alumni come, workshops and fairs.”

Nuehring is currently working on a communication certification program with Tolson through the Institute for Communication and Leadership.

“The communications program is designed to help students understand basic communication skills and understand that leadership is not based on position, but who you are, where you are, and how to face situations that arise,” Nuehring said.

Williams said he also aims to continue the organization and construction of a possible student recreation center.

“As president, I am going to do is continue campaigning and working on the Student Recreation Center that Tyler and James Morales are seeing through,” Williams said. “It will be my main job to see that the building and the whole product is produced in an economic and efficient manner, using my business background to do that. I want to make sure that whatever is put inside is what the students want.”

Williams’ other platform goals include increasing the transparency of ASUSU operations by personally writing in The Statesman on a monthly basis about what he is doing, the meetings he is attending, and money that is being spent. His third goal is improving relationships with the Greeks and multicultural students by giving them four seats on his cabinet, and his fourth goal is changing differential tuition.

“Differential tuition is where individual colleges have students pay additional tuition per credit that they take. I feel that there should be a happy medium because the last thing we want at USU

is for students to be deterred from a major because they can’t afford it.”

All three candidates expressed reasons for coming to USU with a main emphasis on the fact that they fell in love.

“When I came to Logan in November and took a tour of University, I absolutely fell in love,” Williams said. “I have fallen in love with the school even more every day since I have been here.”

“When I first came here, (administrator) Ross Peterson lived on my same street as me,” Nuehring said. “Ross was the person who always made sure I went to Aggie Basketball games. Since I was little, I was hooked.”

“Why did I come to USU? The question is ‘Why not?’”

Mikkelsen said. “(Admissions director) Jenn Putnam and her younger brothers are my neighbors from back home. I thought it was cool that a person from a small town could come to the university and be involved in upper leadership.”

Although each candidate feels that their weakness will be time management, they all feel they have ample strengths to compensate.

Nuehring said he feels that because he is at school everyday from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., working his two jobs or going to school, people already come to him when Tolson is not present. Nuehring said one of the main reasons he wants to run is because he has gained an immense amount of experience this past year, so when he is elected he won’t waste time getting to work.

Mikkelsen said he feels his three strengths will enable him to be president: speaking, meeting new people and understanding them. Mikkelsen said as president, he will take time to talk to students personally. He wants students to understand that he was not majorly involved in high school and was shy. It was when he came to USU that he decided to make a new identity and become involved. Mikkelsen attributes getting involved in ASUSU organizations to who he is today.

Williams said one of his biggest strengths as president would be that he already knows ASUSU extremely well. He has been involved in student government since his first semester at USU. Williams feels that as president he will be able to accurately represent the students and execute what they want, because he is already in a key ASUSU leadership position.

– kayla.barclay@aggiemail.usu.edu

Soccer: Sport put on bottom of priority list, student says -continued from page 1 play,” said Trey Leonard, captain of the USU men’s soccer club.

“We were playing in the Fieldhouse three to four times a week until we got kicked out,” he said.

His friends had been playing there for more than two months without complaint, he said.

“It’s just frustrating,” he said, “soccer always seems to get the shaft.”

David Castillo, a sophomore studying business, said as soccer players, it is a normal thing to be pushed aside to make room for more popular sports.

International studies major and soccer player Chris Ellsworth said, “That’s just the brutal reality in America, people aren’t very accommodating to soccer.”

Time has been allocated for soccer players in Gym 201

in the HPER building, from 5-8 p.m. on Fridays, and from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays. Wamsley said players who use the facility must play with a “Futsal” ball, which is less dangerous. These can be borrowed from the front desk in the HPER. Wamsley said he asks for students to bear with the situation until the weather improves.

“We’re trying to keep time open for soccer,” he said.

“What we need is an additional facility.”

According to the USU Campus Recreation website, there has been an initiative to build a new student recreation facility. Wamsley said he would like to see a multiple activity center (MAC) housed in such a facility to accommodate sports like indoor soccer.

Feb. 17 at 7 p.m. at the Quadside Cafe.

The club meets at least once a week and currently comprises about 15 students, whose majors range anywhere from Engineering to Political Science.

Hinh said, “Our ultimate goal is essentially to have students recognize that liberty is for all and freedom is the ultimate battle, and we hope to inscribe that within our members.”

Those who are interested in getting involved with the College Libertarians Club can e-mail Hinh at usulibertarians@gmail. com to be added to a weekly e-mail list. The club is also in the process of creating an official website, which will be completed in the near future.

– kevin.mitchell@aggiemail.usu.edu

Mineral: Stolen property value totals about $8,900 -continued from page 1 istry are encouraged to take the 5000-level course at their junior level. Sometimes students wait until they are seniors.

“One should – you would think – understand that’s something you ought not to be doing,” Hevel said.

“There were all kinds of suggestions about what I should do when I go to class on Monday. What I said was I more or less had CSI in my office, it was quite hectic taking pictures, fingerprints and all kinds of stuff.”

She said she figured if there was a guilty person present they would get the message, but she didn’t want to incriminate the whole class.

Capt. Steve Milne of the USU Police said pictures were taken of the base of the door, where grooving was present from what could’ve been an effort to hook the wire loop around the door handle.

He said there were also pictures taken of the contraption, and police urged Hevel to show it to her class in order to scare the person who made it.

“It’s education’s fault in general, there’s this massive amount of information we want our students to know,” Hevel said. “The easiest way to give it to them is to ask them to memorize it, and the easiest way to evaluate them is to ask them to spit it back.

“It’s gotten to the point where that has lent itself to, ‘What do I need to do to get the A?’” Hevel said she makes her exams extremely hard in order to get a good idea of who understands the material and who still needs help. She said students sometimes tend not to like her because of this.

She said the most recent exam took her at least 12 hours to write. A key to the exam was stored on her office computer, which is password protected. The exam itself was not in her office between Thursday, Feb. 3 and Monday, Feb. 7, when the attempted break-in would have happened.

“There are currently not cameras, but this incident is probably going to change all that,” Hevel said. “I think it’s very likely that we’ll have cameras. I know at other institutions’ biochemistry and chemistry programs the office doors are keyed (with electronic key-cards).”

Milne said, citing a police report written on Feb. 12, several minerals were stolen from a display case on the third floor of the Geology Building.

Geology department secretary Jean Daddow said Professor John Shervais valued the missing minerals upwards of $8,900.

Among the missing pieces are iron meteorite and stony meteorite specimens that are valued at $2,000 to $3,000 a piece.

“We are surprised that anyone would remove educational property,” said professor James Evans. “These specimens were on display not only for the students, but also for the community at large.”

Milne said that Daddow reported that she saw the door to the display case on the floor which alerted her to the absence of the 11 missing minerals.

The investigations remain open, Milne said that if anyone has any information regarding either of these incidents they should notify the USU Police immediately.

“We are taking steps to ensure that this does not happen again,” Evans said. “We have removed specimens which are of value and are installing security measures.”

– dan.whitney.smith@aggiemail.usu.edu

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

A student image obsession

By CATHERINE MEIDELL news editor

He clutches a white paper sack with his spindly fingers, purple from the cold – a bag containing a chicken sandwich to his liking: hold the butter, extra pickles.

“I have to ask for no butter. It’s partially hydrogenated liquid margarine,” said USU history senior Adam Nettina.

He plans to remove the bun later, or may toss the entire bag in a trash can, which happens regularly. Food consumes him, he said through teeth worn down from grinding. After shoving the food in his backpack, he follows his normal routine and walks two blocks north to the nearest grocery store to peruse the aisles, reading labels on discounted cinnamon rolls and Pop-Tarts to find evidence of partially hydrogenated oils. He purchases nothing.

“These things look so good,” he said while scanning the shelves over protruding cheekbones.

Lifestyle A study by the National Institute for Mental Health states an estimated 1 million men, like Nettina, suffer from an eating disorder, and these numbers are on the rise. In addition, 10 percent of college females face clinical or sub-clinical eating disorders. More than half of these females have bulimia nervosa, a disorder that involves multiple methods of binging and purging in order to lose weight.

“I’ve worked at USU for nine years, but this year by far I’ve had the most referrals from counselors,” said Brooke Parker, USU dietician. “This semester my numbers have shot up, and this is just the people who are seeking help. Who knows how many more are out there.”

Barbara, whose name has been changed, is a USU senior who smokes in part to curve her growling stomach. Her best friend was anorexic in the seventh grade, and Barbara’s disorder began because of her influence. What started as anorexia in her teenage years transformed into bulimia in college, Barbara said.

“Honestly, I don’t now, I really don’t mind that I think I look fat sometimes because it helps me to stay lower in weight,” she said. “On the east coast, they are more at ease with weight. But in Utah, I feel like there is a lot of competition.”

USU Health and Wellness Center director and physician Jim Davis said he believes the majority of eating disorders begin in high school while bodies are still forming skeletally and those individuals begin to feel uncomfortable in their own skin. They also become increasingly aware of media and are greatly influenced by its messages, and these mentalities may follow these individuals to college.

Eri Bentley, a USU psychologist, said “I think being in a college setting where people are away from home and under a lot of stress, makes them

vulnerable to develop things, maybe a more significant eating disorder.”

In an college environment that allows for a loose schedule, Nettina said he finds himself wandering around campus and Logan to distract himself from his anxiety. Since plans in his early college life did not unfold the way he had hoped, he felt the need to take back control, which is when the food and exercise obsession began, and has led him to feel more out of control than ever.

“You have to deal with food every day, you have to keep coming back to the very thing you’re trying to get away from,” he said. “For someone like me who relies on dining services, it almost becomes this extremely uncomfortable focus to cope with the anxiety of those eating situations while you’re trying to make progress.”

Pressure Barbara said she believes eating disorder tendencies will continue to follow her, but she is not opposed to it. She does not want her family to become involved in her “eating issues” in any way.

After eating Taco Bell she said she feels uncomfortable until she purges, and relies on that vice the majority of the times she goes out to eat.

Much of the pressure to be thin comes from the dating world, she said, which is also competitive. She said relationship status can be a large influence in the severity of an eating disorder.

Davis said, “I see some pressure at USU on dating and that may relate to some self-appearance issues.”

The initiative to maintain healthy students on campus has been a recent goal of many institutions on campus through a slew of specialized events that promote guzzling water, exercising regularly and eating foods rich in nutritional value.

“There is always a table at those health events that has this big globule of fat, these tables and charts telling us how much sugar is in this and that,” Nettina said. “We have all these messages, and maybe they are appropriate for a lot of college kids, but for people like me who don’t guzzle down Cokes at lunchtime and we have this message presented as to what health is, it’s just a trigger that puts us into these walls, this prison that we’re held into.”

However, Jessie Clark, a junior majoring in elementary education, finds the programs beneficial to her health. She said she participated in the Be Well program, which offered prizes to students who committed to healthier living. She and her roommate would check up on each other to see if the other met their goal to drink a set amount of water in a day, and because of it she “just felt better.”

Parker said, “The message out there is a blanket statement. Soda will kill you. The target group for that is not this entire population, this entire age group. It’s put in a very black and white, good and bad way. That’s why so many of my (patients) say, ‘that means it’s for me.’”

Humans today tend to need to lose weight,

ROB CLARK ATTENDS YOGA to find his inner peace and relax from a busy day. With midterms approaching, stress can be high for students, but there are many ways to avoid letting stress affect performance. ALISON OSTLER photo

MANY STUDENTS SUFFER from eating disorders, which can cause an obsession with food and self appearance. Athletes are among those with disorders, and the Aggiettes have health requirements to maintain good standing in their sport. ANI MIRZAKHANYAN photo illustration

Davis said, and he feels confident that those with disordered eating know how to lose weight and are not overly affected by USU health programs.

“They’ve already crafted their plans,” he said.

“That’s how they get skinny in the first place.”

Davis said all the university specialists who deal with eating disorders see issues in USU “performers” or athletes, mainly gymnasts and track athletes. The Aggiettes have heath requirements they must maintain in order to affirm they are in healthy standing, he said.

Effects It’s about time for dinner, and Nettina heads to the Marketplace, a student eating community with food, from Aggie Ice Cream to steak, spread out in stations. Students wait in lines hugging their bowls and plates to their chests, contemplating their cravings.

Nettina wanders until he decides on the perfect thing to eat, and often ends at the salad station. He said he often sees other males picking at a lone chicken breast on their plate or a pile of egg whites. He understands, he said, and wishes he could find the courage to eat the amount of calories he knows he should. There is less anxiety sticking with the usual pattern, though.

“I know I don’t look good, I know girls don’t like skinny little guys, I know that,” Nettina said.

“I look in the mirror and I don’t like what I see.”

However, he said his obsession with food and exercise has nothing to do with his appearance, it

has to do with control, structure.

Barbara said, “It’s really hard to look at Victoria Secret models because I am just like ‘damn,’ and I feel really bad about myself.”

She said she has contemplated the metamorphosis of body image and has looked at pictures from the Victorian era and the Romantic era when it was beautiful to dwell in a soft, curvy body.

“Let’s be honest though, it’s just not attractive anymore,” Barbara said.

Bentley facilitates USU’s “Every Body Rocks” program, which promotes healthy body image to students bothered by their appearance, and said many of them tie their worth as a human being to the state of their body.

“We live in this culture of ‘fat talk,’ referring to how we somehow learn to talk about body and appearance based on size and weight and make comments like ‘Oh, I feel so fat.’ Or positive comments like ‘Oh, you look like you are losing weight,’” she said. “We internalize these things.”

At the end of the day, Nettina sits alone in his apartment, restless, attempting to put a dent in his capstone history project, but isn’t making much headway. He laces up his running shoes, pulls a knit hat over the wispy hairs on is head, slides his fingers into a pair of gloves and heads into the thick, cold breath of Cache Valley winter.

He runs to exhaustion and heads home.

“It just gets tough to keep going through; it per-

- See EATING, page 6

De-stressing your world

By NATASHA BODILY staff writer

For most college students, stress is a familiar concept. Students encounter anxiety-inducing situations daily, from studying for an upcoming test to worrying about a date. This stressful time of life can lead to an accumulation of negative symptoms, but fortunately there are ways students can relax and work toward overcoming anxiety.

Senior Shalyn Maxfield said anxiety can be rough and gets in the way of doing what you want.

“I do breathing exercises, play sports and listen to music to relax,” she said. “I find that taking a step away from what I am doing helps.”

Students have numerous resources on campus to promote relaxation, ranging from the nap-inducing lounge furniture situated throughout campus to USU Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) for those dealing with serious stress or anxiety. CAPS offers workshops for relaxation, meditation and anxiety skills training.

USU also has an extensive cadre of physical activity options for those looking to relax through playing and exercising. A multitude of suggestions and instructions for relaxation can be found online or in books – several are available at the Merrill-Cazier library on campus.

According to the book “Learn to Relax,”

by English author and spiritual teacher Mike George, “The routes to relaxation are winding with many turns.”

His books says that in Tibetan medicine, stress is related to an imbalance of three “humours” – wind stress, which causes muscle tension, bile stress, which shows itself as impatience and irratability and phlegm stress, which leads to depression and fatigue.

“If we are out of balance, then stress is a classic consequence,” George’s books states.

If students are looking for specific activities and classes to regain balance or minimize stress, there are numerous options. USU offers yoga, pilates, tai chi chaun, karate, aikido, tae kwon do, ballet and modern dance classes.

Haley Hayes, a yoga instructor at USU, began taking yoga classes in her freshman year at the University of Utah. She began training six years later; it started as a hobby and said she grew to love it.

Hayes said she began practicing more seriously when her mother-in-law was diagnosed with terminal cancer.

“It got me through a horrendous time and I see how it benefits other people,” she said.

Hayes said it is hard for her to turn off her thoughts, and yoga helps her relax. She recommends taking a step out of ordinary life to “stop and do nothing.” By doing nothing, she said you can “just breathe and calm yourself down.”

She said meditation can be hard, and for many people it is a scary place to sit, without distraction, and be alone with your thoughts.

Hayes reads inspirational quotes to her students during shavasna (meditation). She collects

- See RELAX, page 6

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Behind the scenes of a humor columnist

CHILDREN IN AFRICA suffer hunger every day. This year, the Hunger Banquet is narrowing its scope to focus strictly on African food shortages. MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE photo

The hunger games are real

By ALLEE EVENSEN staff writer

Kate Ochoa knows about hunger games.

Not the young adult book flying off bookstore shelves, but the 925 million people around the world who fight to have enough to eat on a daily basis.

“Americans and Europeans step in and just start giving handouts,” Ochoa said. “It doesn’t prompt the people in those countries to make a change. It doesn’t show them how to work. They just learn how to beg even harder.”

Ochoa, a freshman in psychology and a volunteer at this year’s Hunger Banquet, has firsthand experience in dealing with the effects of malnutrition and global poverty.

After spending more than four months in Ethiopia last year helping at-risk children, she said her views of poverty have taken drastic turn.

Working through the Village of Hope, a Utah-based organization, she said she helped run a feeding center that provided nourishment to more than 40 impoverished village children daily. This, she said, is what helped her to feel inspired to become involved with the banquet.

Organized by STEP (Students To End Poverty) and Oxfam, an international human rights group, the Hunger Banquet has been a become tradition at USU. Ochoa said it’s one of the easiest ways to get involved and raise awareness about global poverty.

“It’s very simple to take two hours of time,” she said. “This is a way for them (stu-

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dents) to be able to make a donation, and to come out and do something really neat put on by their university.”

Lisa Vaughn, community service coordinator, said as people walk through the door they’re given a small card labeled either high, middle or low class. The distribution of the cards is based entirely on hunger statistics in Africa.

Those who get a high class card are served a three-course meal on a fully furnished table. Those who are part of the middle sit in folding chairs and get generous servings of rice and beans. The lowest class, and the biggest group, she said, sit on the floor and get whatever is leftover - most likely a small serving of rice and some water.

Vaughn said that often people hear statistics or stories about poverty without seeing the whole picture.

“What the hunger banquet does is make that a little more tangible,” she said. “The idea is that I can work full day’s work here, and somebody can do a full days work in another country but it gets us very different outcomes. It’s really hard to think about it when we just see it as numbers.”

In charge of this year’s banquet is Sadie Crabb, a sophomore in international studies and economics. Crabb took on the project midway through the year, and she said the goal of the banquet has stayed the same, though she has implemented a few changes.

Crabb said she has teamed up with the African Student Association, and instead of focusing on the world as a whole, those in charge of the banquet collectively decided to narrow the theme to Africa. Two ASA stu-

dents who are African natives, Joyce Mumha and Makda Gebre, will speak on growing up in poverty.

“This year we wanted to work closely with our African Student Association to really learn more about issues that face students,” Vaughn said. “That’s probably something we’ll look at doing in the future so we can really feel the connection to our student body here and work with students here that come from impoverished countries.”

Crabb said the event is an interactive experience that will give students motivation to help eliminate global poverty by acting locally. She said even when students don’t have much time to give, they can sign petitions and send letters to politicians, which may seem small, but can have a wide impact.

“You are forcing yourself into this real life situation rather than reading from a page,” Ochoa said. “I think the more people that are able to do that, the more we can make steps to making changes in the future.”

After the event, Ochoa said she wants students to realize what they take for granted and give back to the community.

“My hope is that people will start to realize that it’s a pretty low percentage of people in the world that are actually able to go to bed at night with a full stomach,” she said.

“It’s just changing the morale of the people there by doing as much as we can here.”

The event will be held Wednesday, Feb. 16 at 6 p.m. in the Evan N. Stevenson Ballroom. The cost is $5 and all proceeds go directly to OxFam. – allee.evensen@aggiemail.usu.edu

For those who are avid followers of my columns – I believe that number has leaped to a staggering seven by now – you’ll remember my column “The Hard Knock Life of a Columnist” last semester. This original comic piece was birthed when I sat at my bedroom desk, an hour before deadline, with seemingly nothing to write about.

Since the column was published, I have been asked on numerous occasions if that experience actually ever happened. It’s time to set the record straight: you bet your Jim Brown hind parts it did.

I guess I just got desperate. I specifically remember looking at my screen after 20 minutes or so and all I had typed was – and I’m dead serious - “Kobe got game.

Dem Chili Peppers play da bass!” six or seven times in a row. Sometimes I just love my job.

The funniest thing is, these moments on the street generally come with another inquiry, “so, how do you go about writing a humor column anyway?”

It’s an interesting process from start to finish, really, and I’ve found over time my game plan for writing columns has become highly more evolved from the original outline: “Step 1: Write Stuff.”

Now, the column-scribblin’ experience has formulated into much more of a science recently. It’s natural.

Just a few laughs

SteveSchwartzman

At some point as a writer, you tend to hit a groove, clad with more subconscious routines in practice than Wade Boggs before a baseball game – without the whole “eat an entire bucket of fried chicken” thing. Before you know it, you’re following your own micro-managed step-by-step protocol.

Still confused? I’m sure you are – after all, it isn’t exactly as simple as being rescued by a Care Bear Stare (best rescue method of all time, by the way. Take that, Gadget Copter!). Let me break it down by giving you an insider’s view of my average humor column writing experience. I’ll call it the “Footpath to Funny.”

Generally I start by putting on some comfy pants. I don’t know about you, but for me nothing says “lack of literary inspiration” much like the core-crushing restriction that comes from denim jeans. For this reason, and in an order to keep my constituents happy, I see to it I have a hearty pair o’ jammie-pants within arm’s

- See WRITING, page 7

Eating: Students live in fear -continued from page 5 petuates itself,” Nettina said, shaking his head while looking at his feet. “I have a goofy spunky side of me, you know?”

He said he often feels that passersby look at him as if he’s a lunatic, but he’s tired of it, and tired of being an anonymous wanderer that few people know personally. He said he is starting to believe that he is a more capable person through his consistent meetings with USU medical personnel who are trained to assist students in this capacity.

“I think too many people with ED’s stereotype themselves and beat themselves up and worry, constantly living in fear of ‘what if?

What if I gain weight?’” Nettina said. “But at the end of the day you can’t live in that fear. You have to turn the question around and say ‘what if?’ back. What if I can prove to myself that I’m more than just a need for food and control and order?”

– catherine.meidell@aggiemail.usu.edu

Relax: Even athletes use yoga -continued from page 5 quotes from everyday life to share. Some come from well-known figures like the Dali Lama and Mother Teresa, others are proverbs. She said ideally in shavasna you are supposed to quiet your mind completely, but as this is a hard concept to master, she likes to give students something positive and uplifting to focus on.

Meditation can take years for people to master; Hayes recommends guided meditation to achieve a meditative state. She said she likes to pray in meditation; others talk to themselves or go to a higher mind.

Hayes uses her training to help athletes deal with athletic pressures and to prevent injuries. She currently works with USU’s football and softball teams. She said at first, the football players were hesitant to participate, but now, they enjoy it.

Hayes has taught drug addicts, as well, and plans to volunteer for Alcoholics Anonymous and for veterans. She wants to help those suffering from PTSD and addictions overcome their heightened stress and struggles.

Jessica Odland, a junior in engineering, said, “Yoga helps me calm down after a stressful day. I’m not the kind of person that is always anxious or stressed out, but I do internalize everything.”

She said when she is dealing with negative emotions, yoga allows her to let go of bottled up emotion.

“It helps me clear my mind and replenish my strength,” she said.

Odland said regular yoga practice improves her physical health as well.

“I never get sick – not even a cold. It’s amazing,” she said.

To avoid anxiety and reach relaxation can seem a difficult task. George’s book assures the process is possible for any who seek it.

“Relaxation cannot be hurried. We must have faith that our slow journey will take us, in the end, to the land of calm perspectives, the place we dream of in our hearts,” he said.

– natasha.bodily@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Those who pick USU over any other college

By MAX PARKER DAHL staff writer

Utah State routinely places high in rankings of universities nationwide. Headlines include: “USU named one of the top 100 public institutions of higher education in the Best Colleges of 2011,” U.S. News and World Reports, August 2010; “No. 1 highest-ranked public university in the West and No. 5 highest-ranked public university in the nation in America’s Best College Buys” in Forbes magazine and “‘Best in the West’ College” in thePrinceton Review, August 2010. But why do students who aren’t from Utah attend USU? “It comes down to cost in all reality,” said USU Recruitment Specialist Corey Mikkelson.

“Particularly on the East and West Coast, we are very affordable. It is cheaper to come here and pay out-of-state tuition than attending some schools, and the residency laws are relatively lenient to reduce costs even more.”

Mikkelson also cited the campus ambiance and experience.

“We have a beautiful outdoor campus where students away from home can have the full college experience, especially skiing and outdoor winter activities,” he said.

But more than affordability and activities, what draws students away from home to Utah State?

“The question wasn’t ‘why?’ in my mind but ‘why not?’ come to Utah State,” said Brian Gleason, sophomore in Engineering from Wyoming. “I came to school because of the engineering program, but there was a lot of cool people and Aggie

basketball; that’s why I stayed. I had never been to campus, but friends encouraged me to apply for a scholarship and I got it.”

Gleason said USU is an institution that can’t be beat.

“The price is right, the people are right, the girls are hot, and seriously, you can’t not like Utah State after going to an Aggie basketball game. It has everything that a ginger needs to survive,” the redhead said.

Utah State focuses on bringing new students to tour the grounds, and works to find a scholarship or payment plan that will reduce tuition or waive costs to bring them down to in-state prices, Mikkelson said.

“The message we try to get across to incoming students is getting a great education that is affordable and having fun doing it,” Mikkelson said.

“Students want to come here once they’ve seen it. If they commit to coming on a campus tour, they will come to USU.” Mikkelson said recruitment efforts involve online videos and tours, as well as the upcoming “out-of-state weekend,” Feb. 26, where students will tour campus facilities and file into the Spectrum to watch an Aggie basketball game.

Gentry Nielson, from Pennsylvania, toured campuses across the state, filming his tours for the Utah Council as an ambassador, before coming to Utah State: “I visited a lot of schools. My brother was at BYU and my sister was attending Utah State, and I visited USU after being at BYU. The contrast was amazing. It was the visit and getting to know how the atmosphere was here that really did it for me. “

Street Speak Which president are you celebrating on President’s Day? “Justin Bieber ... because he will be president one day!”

– Kelli Pyle junior sociology

“Uchtdorf of course! And you?”

– Steve Cannon, sophomore biology

“President Albrecht. Then again Benjamin Franklin had a pretty impressive three terms in the oval office.”

“John F. Kennedy, the best zombie slaying president of all.”

– Jashon Bishop, sophomore political science

– David Pyle, junior elementary ed.

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Nielson said campus was more down-to-earth than at other schools.

“I saw what I was looking for at Utah State, on campus and off, that I didn’t see at other campuses,” he said. “Being from the east coast, I didn’t want to stay, I wanted to get away and experience something new and different that what I was used to. The engineering program is stellar, and the scholarship opportunity that I could get my hands on definitely helped.”

Another key recruiting tool for out-of-state enrollment, Mikkelson said, is word-of-mouth referrals from current students and alumni.

“The biggest determining factor was the familiarity with Logan,” said Oregon native David Peterson. “I have family in Logan, and both of my parents went to Utah State. I needed to choose somewhere to go, it was affordable, I got a scholarship and it felt safe.”

Peterson visited campus before committing to attend.

“I remember going to Aggie ice cream and the student center, I liked the atmosphere here,” he said. “Good memories and good feeling at Utah State. I’m also going into medicine and Utah State has awesome acceptance rates into medical school.”

Students that transfer from other universities also report feeling comfortable at USU. “I had two brothers that graduated from USU and Aggie basketball was always a huge reason,” said Jake Frisby, who is from Arizona. “I came up on a visit, watched a basketball game, went ice skating, went on a campus tour and fell in love; I knew that this was where I needed to be. I hated SUU, I can only think of swear words when I think about

my stay at SUU.” Utah State has been recognized for excellent teaching, with 10 of the last 16 Carnegie Professors of the Year in Utah coming from USU. Buildings and facilities keep expanding, programs on campus continue to develop, and students from other states continue to choose Utah State for their higher education.

– m.p.dahl@aggiemail.usu.edu

BRIAN GLEASON CHOSE USU over colleges closer to home for many reasons. One of USU’s main draws is low tuition costs. ANI MIRZAKHANYAN photo

Writing: It takes a system of success -continued from page 6 reach at all times, and if I’m in need of a really sturdy creativity boost I make for my deep blue basketball shorts. Somehow airing out the legs just seems to set the brain in order as well.

I like to organize my journalistic jammies by seeing to it I never wear the same pair twice in a row. If any Saturday morning cartoon show taught me anything it was choice of attire is in direct correlation to ever changing ideas – if the clothes never look different, then the train of thought won’t either.

Just look at “Doug.” He never veered from that unholy green vest, making it only proper that without fail, each episode he’d get beat up by Roger Klotz, embarrass himself in front of Pattie Mayonnaise, somehow fall into a puddle of something, get upstaged by his awesome purple dog and log it all in his journal, excluding the part where his annoying artsy sister Judy makes some reference to Andy Warhol.

Say, this leads really well right into my next point. Once the “trade of the trousers” takes place, it’s time to insert a just-as-vital piece into our column-writing quest: watching clips of TV shows from my childhood on YouTube.

This sector of the process is incredibly important as it gives my brain some warm up time to loosen and formulate material deemed humorous to the reader. It’s a common fact that the focused brain of a writer can be easily distracted.

So until I kill hours of jogging my brain to finally find out that Artie was the name of the superhero guy on “The Adventures of Pete and Pete,” then this 700-word laugh-induced glass of Nesquik will just have to wait. It’s only

proper.

This is usually the point where I get a drink, for every good writer’s brain needs a whet whistle.

Now, getting the drink isn’t nearly as important in the process as choosing the drink.

A bad choice of beverage can really put a damper on the writer’s groove. As a template, something fruity always helps. Or you can never go wrong with a consistent cola, and if you’re lucky a good ol’ fashioned Gatorade could do the trick.

But whatever I do, I am sure to clear the way from the dreaded glass of milk, an author’s palate-hosted death dagger. I haven’t tried it myself, but legend has it the mix of the milk aftertaste - the literal Britannica definition of “nasty-bo-basty” - and writers’ block could swiftly lead to puncturing of vital organs and possibly instant death via being forced to watch the Britney Spears movie “Crossroads” against your will. It’s always best to be safe.

Alrighty. Now that we’ve chosen the proper pair of snuggly leggings, engrossed ourselves in childhood pop culture and found a tasty liquid that is just right for the occasion, we finally get to the main event. And it goes a lil’ somethin’ like this.

I write stuff.

And just like that voila! A bona fide humor column is born. Now you’ve seen a little of what I do. Needless to say, it’s pretty awesome.

Or better yet, it “plays da bass!” Like the new catch phrase? Me too. Use it on your friends.

– steve.schwartzman@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Aggie great Anthony Calvillo, 17 years later

By TAVIN STUCKI staff writer

You probably don’t know who he is. You probably don’t know he has played professional football for 17 years. You probably don’t know he has won three championships. You probably don’t know he has nearly 1,000 more passing yards than Dan Marino and 86 more touchdowns than John Elway.

Right now you’re wondering why you’ve never heard of him. If you’re like most Americans, you probably won’t even care after you realize he played in the Canadian Football League instead of the NFL. You probably don’t know he was MVP of the only bowl game Utah State football ever won. You were probably too young to remember the students storming the field and tearing down the goalposts at Romney Stadium after his record-setting five touchdowns the last time the Aggies beat BYU in the 5856 win of 1993 – before this season’s long-awaited victory.

He has only been back to the campus of Utah State University once since he graduated 17 years ago. Last weekend, Anthony Calvillo returned to Cache Valley with his wife to be honored during halftime of a basketball game and speak to several sports psychology classes about his time playing professional football.

“They had some questions,” Calvillo said. “I

think a lot of them didn’t Calvillo said: “As we got know much about the closer to the end of the seaCanadian Football League son, I knew that I had this and probably didn’t know coming up, this surgery. much about me so it was a Before that I wasn’t thinkgood opportunity to share ing about it much because I my story with them.” had football to distract me, Calvillo said he never my family. But as we got thought he would play closer, I started getting a professional football and bit emotional talking to my wanted to coach at the high teammates, talking to the school level. After leavmedia. It was pressing my ing Utah State, however, mind. After that game, I was he spent 17 years in the excited, we had just won the CFL, all but four with the championship and we’re just Montreal Alouettes. He led going crazy and the reporter his team to the championasked me just some kind of ship game eight times, with questions like, ‘What does Grey Cup victories in 2002, your future hold now?’ and 2009 and 2010. Calvillo was right there it just clicked.” the Grey Cup MVP in 2002.

Once doctors found the He was a CFL all-star many cancer, Calvillo underwent times. a second surgery to remove Calvillo was also diagthe remainder of his thynosed with thyroid cancer. roid. Doctors had him “When I got hurt in undergo a radioactive iodine August, they found the treatment and remain in lesion isolation in my from Alexia “I’ve been playing throat,” and their Calvillo two daughthis sport since I was said.

5 years old. It’s a job, ters Athena “Initially and Olivia I did not but it doesn’t feel like for a week. want to “Now a job. I have nothing say anyI’m doing else to do right now. I thing, great,” he but it did really enjoy this game” said. “I’m –Anthony Calvillo back into come out and I’m Montreal Allouettes our normal kinda routine.” glad it The did.”

Calvillos are no stranger Three different specialto cancer. Doctors found a ists told Calvillo he could large mass of b-cell lymphowait until the end of the sea- ma in Alexia’s chest cavity son before having surgery to shortly after she gave birth remove half of his thyroid to to the Calvillo’s second determine the extent of his daughter Olivia in 2007. cancer. Calvillo and his wife “Her’s was very severe,” Alexia said they did a lot of Calvillo said, “very liferesearch on the topic and it threatening, where mine is gave them a lot of comfort. not very life-threatening,

FORMER AGGIE QUARTERBACK ANTHONY CALVILLO recieved a recognition at halftime during the Utah State-Fresno State basketball game. Calvillo played for Utah State from 1993-1994. He led the Aggies to a victory to the Las Vegas Bowl in ‘93. That was the Aggies’ only bowl victory. ANI MIRAZAKHANYAN photo

very treatable. Her’s shook our whole entire family and our entire life.”

Calvillo said he and his family appreciated things much more after his wife got sick and started talking

about life after football.

Other retired players he knew from the CFL told him to keep playing for as long as he can.

“I’ve been playing this sport since I was 5 years

old,” Calvillo said, and he will likely play for a couple more seasons before retiring from football. “It’s a job,

- See LEGEND, page 10

Aggies gear up for NAIA Western–Montana Bulldogs

By TYLER HUSKINSON assistant sports editor

The Utah State Aggies (22-3, 12-1 WAC) will step away from conference play this week. Their first opponent is the Montana-Western Bulldogs (19-7) from the NAIA Frontier Conference.

Some may question why Morrill would schedule a non-Division I team in February, but due to scheduling issues, the game benefits the Aggies more than some may think.

“As I look back on when we scheduled this Montana Western game I remember thinking that I have never had back-to-back, one-game weeks this late in the season,” Morrill said. “That is what we had going when we scheduled our bracketbuster game and it just so happened that it was our week in league play to only have one game the following week, and I just didn’t want that. Honestly, it is really difficult to find a non-league game in the middle of February.”

The Aggies could have opted for more days of practice than to have a game against a non-Division I school, but felt playing an extra game would be the better choice.

“If I am a player I would much rather have games than just more practice time, and we took that into consideration as a staff,” Morrill said.

“Our team knows the value of practice, but this late in the season we would much rather

SENIOR FORWARD POOH WILLIAMS seen here being congratulated by his teammates after a solid performance against Fresno State, will be taking a trip down memory lane as the Aggies host the Western–Montana Bulldogs. Williams had his first career-start against the Bulldogs as a freshman during the 2007-08 season. STERLING BOIN photo

have our guys in a game situation over additional practices. That’s how this situation came to be and how it happened.”

The Aggies could easily overlook the Bulldogs and focus on their upcoming Bracketbuster against the No. 23 St. Mary’s Gaels, but Montana-Western has the

Aggies’ full attention.

“If you look at MontanaWestern, they are 19-7 and they are playing for a chance to win the Frontier Conference,” Morrill said.

“They are shooting the ball well from 3-point range, they are defending teams well, and they are a good nonDivision I team. It’s not like

we are playing a team that has won only a few games, they are having a very good year and I know that they will play well.”

The Bulldogs are a familiar opponent for Utah State, as the Aggies hosted the Bulldogs four years ago in the Spectrum. Current seniors Tai Wesley, Matt Formisano,

Tyler Newbold and Pooh Williams all played as freshman against the Bulldogs back in 2007, but it was Williams who made the most of his outing, as he started the game and finished with eight points in 21 minutes of play. Unfortunately for the Aggies, the Bulldog roster has completely changed.

Junior guard Brandon Brown is leading the Bulldogs in offense with an impressive 19.9 points per game, and the Aggie front-court will have a sizable challenge in defending him. “(Brandon) Brown is Montana-Western’s (Mickey) McConnell- or (Jimmer) Fredette-style player,” Morrill said. “Watching Brown on tape I can see that he is a Division I-caliber player, there is not much doubt about that when you watch him play. He is averaging 20 points a game, his athleticism and quickness make him very capable.”

The Bulldogs are averaging about 76 points per game and have a similar offense to St. Mary’s. The Aggies will get a chance to see how they will react to a high-powered offense.

“As we prepare for these two teams, there are similar preparation things that we are doing to prepare for their outside shooting,” Morrill said. “Obviously they aren’t the same team and there is a real difference in personnel, but there are still some similarities between the two. Hopefully we will get a little preparation by playing Montana Western that will help lead us into our game on Saturday.”

Tip-off against the Bulldogs is slated for Feb. 16 at 7 p.m. in the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum.

–ty.d.hus@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Legend: Football alum visits campus and recieves award -continued from page 8 but it doesn’t feel like a job. day before going to football I have nothing else to do practice to train for another right now, I really enjoy the two or three hours. In the game.” warm-up period before the Reflecting first practice, on his time Calvillo was so “... I’m thinkin Logan, exhausted from ing to myself, Calvillo told ‘I wonder what a full day’s work reporters combined with these coaches about his first are thinking; the first half summer after here they are hour of lifting transferring expecting me that he vomited to come in and in the weight from Mt. San Antonio play and here room.

College where I am throwing “I was he attended up on the first done,” Calvillo his first two day of working said. “I will years of col- out.” never forget lege. His – Anthony Calvillo, that because scholarship at there in my Utah State did Montreal Allouettes mind I’m thinknot take effect ing to myself, ‘I until August, and Calvillo wonder what these coaches had to take a job cutting fat are thinking; here they from steaks at a meat factoare expecting me to come ry. He worked eight hours a in and play and here I am

throwing up on the first day of working out.’”

Despite later being MVP of the Las Vegas Bowl and helping his team to a Big West Conference championship, Calvillo said “without a doubt,” his favorite memory at Utah State was beating BYU his senior year, a game his family was able to visit from California to attend.

“The fans kept on reminding me that it wasn’t (just another game),” Calvio said, admitting he didn’t think he appreciated the rivalry at the time. “We had lost like four straight games and the season was going right down the tubes and that got us right back on track again.”

Calvillo said he often jokes with Alouette teammate and BYU graduate Ben

It’s crunch time for the Aggies I feel like it is an injustice to the Aggies to dub last Wednesday’s loss at Idaho a wake-up call. It seems to imply that this team was dreaming in the first place to have been at a 22-2 record, which is simply incorrect. USU is still justified in their top 25 ranking, and are already holding on to a share of this year’s Western Athletic Conference title.

Yes, there is still the argument that Utah State has not beaten anybody of merit, but that is due almost entirely in part to USU not having a chance to play many teams of merit. The losses at BYU and Georgetown are all anybody could point to, but there’s not exactly an overwhelming expectation for top 15 teams to lose games at home, even if the competition is only ranked No. 24, which is where the Aggies currently stand after last week’s loss.

The reality of how things are this season is that Utah State has played a handful of bad games throughout the course of this season and still managed to pull out victories despite a poor performance. This is a point I’ve been hammering all year, and for the first time this season, a bad game against a team that the Aggies should have beaten finally came back to bite them.

It’s one of those injustices that works both ways over the course of a season. USU played a terrible game on the road at Boise State last month and still won by double-digits, but earlier in the year they played a great game on the road against BYU and lost.

In other words, that’s why they play the games.

Keep in selection committee will mind probably be friendly to The View USU that lost the Aggies again this year from by a mere if USU were to stumble Section F six points in the WAC Tournament at BYU, in again, seeing as how USU’s the second RPI is still well within the game of the range of a team worthy of season, in a an at-large tournament bid game that selection, but if USU adds the Aggies played without a top 50 RPI win to that starter Nate Bendall. No. resume, then the ticket is 6 ranked San Diego State practically punched. was only able to come Much of the same can within 13 points of That be said for Saint Mary’s Team Down South when and their need for a qualthey visited there several ity win. Lucky for them, weeks ago. they have this game at This is the same BYU home. Unlucky for them team, by the way, that is that they are without big narrowly avoided their man Omar Samhan, who own version of last essentially dominated the Wednesday’s loss at Idaho action down low against back in December when USU each of the past two they escaped years. Subtract with just a six- “No. 24 at Samhan from point win at No. 23, with the mix, and the Weber State, game seems to while the a chance to be a wild card.

Wildcats were essentially If this playing with- punch the ticket year’s Aggies out superstar are the type of and potential to the NCAA team that plays f i r s t - r o u n d Tournament for up or down NBA draft whichever team relative to its pick Damian competition, as Lillard. Add comes out on plenty of eviLillard into top.” dence suggests, that mix, and then the Gaels BYU would should be gethave a loss to ting USU’s best Weber State hanging over this Saturday. their heads rather than This game is the premier dodging that bullet that mid-major match-up of this whizzed by their heads in season. No. 24 at No. 23, Ogden. with a chance to essenBut enough about tially punch the ticket to BYU. They were just one the NCAA Tournament for example of another team whichever team comes out with an outrageous record on top. Basically, tournaright now who luckily man- ment time starts now. aged to avoid a similar loss to the one USU suffered Wednesday.

Matt Sonnenberg is a What this week comes senior majoring in print down to is USU’s third, and journalism. Matt is an avid final, chance at a quality fan of Aggie athletics and RPI win for this season with can be found on the front Saturday’s game at Saint row of every home footMary’s. At this point, as ball and basketball game. far as NCAA Tournament He can also be reached at resumes are concerned, a matt.sonn@aggiemail.usu. win against Saint Mary’s edu. helps USU a lot more than a loss at Idaho hurts. The

Matt Sonnenberg

Aggie golfers take sixth

By TAVIN STUCKI staff writer

Sophomore Benjamin Schilleman led the Aggies to sixth place at the Pat Hicks Thunderbird Golf Invitational yesterday, finishing at one under par.

Schilleman was tied for first after the first round of the twoday tournament at five under par. Junior Chanse Godderidge shot 71, one under par. The Aggies were in fourth place after the first day, only five shots out of the lead.

Aggie head coach Dean Johansen said after one day his team was doing okay. “(Godderidge) played really well,” Johansen said. “He had a stretch of a couple bad holes or he would’ve been right there with Ben.”

On the second day, no Aggie golfer shot better than 75, and the team dropped to its sixthplace finish at 16 over par.

Schilleman finished tied for seventh at 143. Godderidge finished tied for 23rd at 146, two over par.

“I think we’ve got some kids who haven’t played a whole lot of events, they’re actually doing quite well,” Johansen said.

“Something you’ve got to do is learn how to finish a round and those guys are just a little bit inexperienced so I think over all we’re in good shape.”

Senior Tyson MacFarland, normally USU’s top golfer, tied for 46th overall with a score of 153 and nine over par, which Johansen said wasn’t a normal round for MacFarland.

“Tyson didn’t play as well as he normally does,” Johansen said. “He’s getting a little refo-

cus; I don’t think you’ll see him shoot the same number as he did today.”

The Aggie golfers will next compete in the Snowman Invitational at the Whirlwind Golf Club in Chandler, Ariz., hosted by Washington State on Monday, Feb. 21.

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Cahoon about the game.

After seeing highlights from the Oct. 1 game of 2010 between the two rivals, Calvillo remembered the students rushing the field and tearing down the goalposts after the last time Utah State beat BYU, 17 years prior.

“He’s definitely sick of the story,” Calvillo said of his Montreal teammate.

“There’s always an occasion at least once a year where it comes up and he gets to hear it again. That game is always gonna stand out in my mind.”

–tavin.stucki@aggiemail.usu. edu

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Frye’s career-high 31 leads Suns past Jazz PHOENIX (AP) – Channing Frye scored a career-high 31 points and grabbed 11 rebounds and the Phoenix Suns kept Utah winless in the post-Jerry Sloan era with a 102-101 victory over the short-handed Jazz on Tuesday night.

Al Jefferson scored 32 and C.J. Miles 19 for the Jazz, who led by eight in the fourth quarter before an 11-0 run put the Suns ahead for good.

Steve Nash had 20 points and 14 assists for Phoenix, which has won seven of its last nine. The Suns playmaker passed Gary Payton for seventh on the NBA’s career assists list. With three 3-pointers, Nash also moved ahead of Eddie Jones into 10th on the career list.

The Jazz, with four players out with injuries, has lost 12 of 16 and fell to 0-2 since Sloan resigned and was replaced

by Tyrone Corbin, both losses to the Suns.

For the second game in a row, the Suns led entering the fourth quarter, only to have the visitors take command with a big run. Unlike Sunday’s loss to Sacramento, Phoenix came back this time.

Down 76-73, Utah opened the fourth quarter with a 16-5 run to go up 89-81 when Jefferson made one of two free throws with 7:12 to play. But Phoenix scored the next 11, including a pair of 3-pointers by Mickael Pietrus and one

by Frye, to regain the lead 91-89 with 3:35 remaining.

Deron Williams, who made just 2 of 11 shots, sank a 3-pointer to cut the lead to 99-98, then Frye missed one of two free throws with 9.9 seconds to play to make it 100-98. After a timeout, Paul Millsap found himself trapped inside and lost the ball to Nash, who was fouled.

Nash’s two free throws put Phoenix

ahead 102-98 with 2.9 seconds left.

Miles’ 3-pointer at the buzzer made it a one-point finish.

Frye scored 19 in the first quarter on 7 of 7 shooting, five of them 3-pointers.

He made his first eight shots before missing a 3 near the end of the first half. Still, the Suns trailed 53-50 at the break.

Utah’s 9-2 spurt at the start of the second quarter put the Jazz up 36-31.

After Nash committed the 13th of Phoenix’s 14 first-half turnovers, Miles’ layup put Utah ahead 47-39.

Frye’s 22-footer capped an 8-0 run that put Phoenix ahead 70-63 and the Suns led 76-73 entering the fourth quarter.

Utah was without Andrei Kirilenko (sprained right big toe), Raja Bell (strained left calf ), Ronnie Price (sprained right big toe) and Mehmet Okur (strained lower back).

UTAH JAZZ GUARD DERON a bu Utah Jazz guard Deron Williams (8) drives against Phoenix Suns guard Steve Nash during the first quarter of an NBA basketball game, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011, in Phoenix. AP Photo

Ellis leads Warriors past Hornets 102-89 OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) – Monta Ellis scored 21 points and Dorell Wright added 16 to help the Golden State Warriors overcome an early 15-point deficit to beat the New Orleans Hornets 102-89 on Tuesday night.

David Lee also scored 16 points and Stephen Curry had 14 and eight assists for the Warriors, who have won six of eight games.

Five of those wins have come against teams with winning records as Golden State heads into its final game before the AllStar break Wednesday night in Utah playing its best basketball of the season.

All-Star point guard Chris Paul was held scoreless for the final 39 minutes for the Hornets, who are limping toward the AllStar break without injured center Emeka Okafor. New Orleans has lost eight of 10 heading into the final game before the break at Portland on Wednesday night.

The Warriors turned a 15point first-quarter deficit into a 12-point lead heading into the fourth quarter. Golden State began the turnaround with little-used backup guards Charlie Bell and Jeremy Lin in the game in the second quarter with Ellis and Curry sitting with two fouls apiece.

Vladimir Radmanovich made two 3-pointers to start the comeback and then Ellis came back in and capped a 15-3 run with a 3-pointer that gave the Warriors their first lead at 47-46. Golden State increased the advantage to 58-53 at the half and then started to pull away in the third quarter.

Curry hit back-to-back 3pointers as part of a 19-6 run that gave Golden State a 79-67 on a 3-pointer from Wright. Curry added another 3-pointer late in the quarter to make it 83-71 heading into the fourth.

A three-point play by Lee

and breakaway dunk by Reggie Williams helped increase the lead to 91-72 early in the fourth and the Warriors cruised from there.

The turnaround was possible as much for Golden State’s usual prowess on long-range shots as it was the defense against Paul, who missed his final eight shots. Paul finished with 11 points and 10 assists.

Former Warrior Marco Belinelli and David West each scored 15 points to lead the Hornets.

This game was emblematic of the problems the Hornets have had since leaving here Jan. 26 with a 10-game winning streak.

New Orleans has won just twice in 10 games since then with coach Monty Williams saying the downfall started late in that final win in the streak.

Williams hoped a return to Oracle Arena would get his team back to playing the way it did

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during that January run. It looked as though his wish would come true at the start of the game as the Hornets made 11 of their first 13 shots from the field and all nine free throws as they broke out to a 32-17 late in the first quarter.

Paul was in the middle of it all by hitting his first four shots and handing out five assists, including the pass that set up a 3-pointer by Belinelli that capped the 9-0 run to give New Orleans a 15-point lead.

Notes: Curry made one free throw, extending his consecutive make streak to 40. ... The Hornets hope to have Okafor back from a strained muscle in his side after the All-Star break. ... The Warriors honored former owner Franklin Mieuli, who died last April, as part of their Hardwood Classics Month.

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The Western Athletic Conference remains just as confusing as it has been all season. The Utah State Aggies did lose a road game to the Idaho Vandals, but they are still holding on strong to the top spot.

Everyone else in the WAC is struggling to find consistency. With the entire WAC stepping away from conference play this week, there won’t be any movement in the standings.

1. No. 24 Utah State (22-3, 12-1) –The Aggies proved to be mortal in WAC play this past week, as they lost to the Idaho Vandals in Moscow, 64-56. The Aggies bounced back quickly after the loss though, and claimed at least a share of their fourth consecutive WAC title with a 71-55 victory over the Fresno State Bulldogs.

The Nevada Wolf Pack lost to Hawaii on the road Monday, and the Aggies are guaranteed a bye to the semifinals as at least a two seed during the WAC tournament.

2. New Mexico State (14-12, 8-4) – Until another team proves otherwise, the other Aggies in the WAC are in the second spot.

The Aggies have won four of their last five games, and they have three road wins this season, which is second only to Utah State. New Mexico State has four games remaining, including games at San Jose State and Hawaii and games at home against Nevada and Utah

State.

3. Nevada (10-15, 7-5) – It was really hard to put the Wolf Pack in the third spot, but at this time of the season, road wins are really worth their weight in gold. Nevada has picked up two road wins compared to New Mexico State’s three. After losing to Utah State in the Spectrum, the Pack seemed to be on a roll as they picked up back-to-back victories against the San Jose State Spartans, but they faltered on the road against Hawaii in overtime.

4. Idaho (14-11, 7-6) –The Vandals shocked the Aggies and the WAC last week with a 6456 victory over the then-No. 17 Aggies. Three days later they lost on the road to Boise State, stopping their winning streak at two. The Vandals still have three road wins, which favors the Vandals remaining WAC schedule with road games against Nevada and Utah State and a home game against Fresno State.

5. Boise State (14-11, 7-6) –The Broncos defeated Fresno State and Idaho at home last week to stop a four-game losing streak. The Broncos are currently in fourth place and control their destiny as far as seeding in the WAC tournament goes.

6. Hawaii (14-10, 5-7) – The Warriors are one of those teams that are struggling to find consistency.

After reeling of three consecutive WAC wins in mid-January, the Warriors are 2-2. With that

kind of play the Warriors should probably stay right where they are, as they have two road games and two home games remaining.

7. Fresno State (1114, 5-8) – After starting February with three consecutive WAC wins, the Bulldogs dropped back-toback road losses. The Bulldogs first win in conference play was on the road against Louisiana Tech. Ever since that victory, the Bulldogs haven’t been able to win on the road.

8. San Jose State (1112, 3-9) – There really isn’t much to say about the Spartans, but they are really difficult to figure out. Back-to-back losses to Nevada doused their chances of distancing themselves from the Bulldogs, and things don’t look to get any easier.

Games against Boise State and New Mexico State will push the Spartans, but a cellar-dweller match-up against Louisiana Tech on Feb. 26 may decide who goes to the WAC tournament and who doesn’t.

9. Louisiana Tech (1115, 2-10) – If it wasn’t for the Spartans losing games, the Bulldogs would be completely out of consideration for the WAC tournament.

The Spartans keep losing however. With back-to-back wins against Boise State and Idaho two weeks ago, the Bulldogs seemed to have a glimpse of life, but are currently riding a three-game losing streak.

–ty.d.hus@aggiemail.usu. edu

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ypically, campus police at USU deal with some of the tamest incidents we can imagine – malfunctioning toaster ovens, water balloon bombs, the occasional drunkard – and typically, we appreciate living in one of the safest, most secure communities in the country. This week, reports of two incidents, one of attempted burglary and one straight-up burglary, have left us wondering if that sense of security is a false one, if we have become too complacent and forgotten that even in on the safest places on earth, there are those ill-doers without regard for other people’s rights and property.

An office in the ESLC showed signs of an attempted break-in, using a makeshift coat-hanger and wire contraption. The professor who occupies the office in question returned after the weekend to find the device from the presumably failed break-in still hanging from the inside of her office door. It is suspected that the culprit was seeking a copy of an exam announced on short notice by the professor. While I am tempted to suggest that the professor just give students more notice so they feel prepared for tests instead of the need to steal the answers, the fact of the matter is that it’s scary that a student would go to such lengths.

Cheating is wrong no matter how hard the class is, and breaking and entering is against the law no matter how benign the intent.

In a separate incident several days later, roughly $9,000 worth of minerals were stolen outright from the geology building. Who wants $9,000 rocks from an educational display? It’s not like they were diamonds! But even if they were, again, property damage and theft are against the law no matter how pretty the rocks look in your garden.

We are concerned that these incidents occurred in the first place, but also so close together – is theft and other crime on the rise at USU? We are reminded of the recent theft of a grad student’s pottery from the Fine Arts building, among other incidents. How many other crimes have gone unreported? It’s a shame, but it may be time to take a good look at what we do to prevent crime and make our campus more secure.

Many people in Logan are content to leave front doors unlocked the majority of the time, and even on campus many locations have locks but seem to lack security systems like cameras and alarms – which makes sense, there are a lot of places that you wouldn’t think would need extra security. The departments affected by the recent crimes are now looking into security cameras and other measures, which we hope will deter would-be thieves or vandals. We urge students and departments across campus to take a look at their own precautions against crime and question whether they are sufficient. There is a thief out there – so hide your keys, hide your laptops, hide your tests and hide your geodes, ‘cause they’re stealing everything out here.

Vote or die So there was a pretty The ’Low big football game that went down last week. Most refer Down to it as the Super Bowl. I choose to call it the modern American pastime. To begin the extravaganza, there was a tribute during which celebrities along with current and former NFL players read the Declaration of Independence. One of the key catalysts for the founding fathers’ declaration was the issue of taxation without representation. Today, every tax-paying American is represented in Congress.

Each one of us at this fine university is represented by elected officials that make up ASUSU. Sure the comparison was a bit of a stretch, but in our sphere of influence these elected officials are just as important to our future as students at USU as the elected members of Congress are for the citizens of their respective districts. So, with ASUSU elections upon us, the time has come to choose our destiny. If anybody out there had any problem with how things were run this year, this is your chance to do something about it.

To vote effectively, one must be informed. You will be seeing all sorts of candidates around campus handing out pamphlets, candy and even some awesome coupons.

While this is fantastic if you are a fan of free stuff, it is also an opportunity to see what the candidates are all about. Ideally, everybody would attend the debates, take

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February, a month of learning E a c h native Americans, and African Americans Faculty February I am the last twenty years of the 19th cenreminded of tury witnessed an erosion of the rights Voices why I chose and opportunities that most Americans to become enjoyed. a teacher of The Supreme Court did not uphold the American civil rights acts, the government passed his tor y. laws excluding Asian immigrants, and the P r e s i d e n t ’s proposal to create restrictive reservations day, a celfor Native Americans became a reality. By ebration of Washington’s and Lincoln’s 1900, the nation had moved away from birthdays, has much to do with my affin- expanding the definition of the people. ity toward the shortest month. As a young Teaching in February is an opportunity to student, these two great Presidents were tell the stories of those who battled against always honored. February is also Black discrimination, exclusion, segregation, and History Month. Any teacher has a great poverty. It reminds us of how public educaopportunity to explore and explain why his- tion is a great creator of opportunities for tory is about the heart and soul of a nation all citizens and how the land grant college – of all the people. concept expanded opportuWhen the authors of the nity for higher education. The Constitution wrote the pre- “The classrooms classrooms of America are amble to that hallowed docu- of America are the laboratory for questions, ment, they wrote, in a very ideas, answers, and a determipresumptuous manner, “We the laboratory nation to seek tolerance and the people, in order to form for questions, understanding. a more perfect union.” Only ideas, answers, The civil rights revolution 39 white, male, property own- and a determiis an absolutely fascinating ers signed the constitution, period of American history but they historically did speak nation to seek to teach. Idealistical leaders for “the people.” February tolerance and emerged and catapulted the reminds citizens we have spent understanding.” concepts of equality and fair222 years defining the “We” in ness into the national conthe preamble. science. Whether it was George Washington is Jackie Robinson, Thurgood revered because, as the original president, Marshall or Rosa Parks, they all battled he established a stable new government segregation in a variety of ways. Robinson against overwhelming odds. Abraham on baseball diamonds, Marshall in court Lincoln is remembered as the President, rooms, Parks on buses – the nation cried born in poverty, who presided over one of for action and people acted. The dramatic the most devastating civil wars in history, decade of the 1960s is punctuated by the preserved the union and sealed it with his triumphs and the tragedies associated with blood. As a consequence of their actions, the quest for equal rights as guaranteed by the United States of American emerged “a the Constitution. more perfect union.”

In a very short time, the Civil Rights Washington’s personal slaves were freed Acts were passed, a Voting Rights Act, Pell at his wife’s passing, and four million African grants, Head Start, the Job Corps, and other Americans were freed by the Emancipation programs designed to increase opportunity Proclamation and the Civil War. However, and expand the “We” in the preamble. The the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments were battle has always been difficult, but the necessary to constitutionally document the results are worth the struggle. results of the war. Civil rights acts were John Lewis, currently a Congressman from passed in the aftermath of the war to Georgia, wrote an autobiography, “Walking guarantee protection of all citizens by the in the Wind,” in which he chronicles his federal government. young life during this period. Lewis is very Americans celebrate and honor those close to my age, and his story is a compilawho have continued to expand the “We” in tion of the period. As an 18-year-old freshthe preamble. Nevertheless, citizenship has never been easy and for many immigrants, - See MONTH, page 12

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Next week gives you the chance to do barlow@aggiemail.usu.edu. better. Fulfill the intent of a university and invest in your future. Vote, or die.

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- Meditation Club, TSC 335, Noon - Perfectionism and Procrastination Workshop, TSC 3:30 p.m.

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- Ecology Center seminar, ENGR 101, 6 p.m.

- Hunger Banquet, TSC Ballroom, 6 p.m.

- Ecology Center Seminar, ENGR 101, 6 p.m.

- Heart Healthy Eating, 7 p.m.

- Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Basketball vs. Montana Western, 7 p.m.

Theater production

Feb. 16 Today is Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011. Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Chanae Weller, a sophpomore majoring in public relations from Kamas, Utah.

Almanac Today in History: In 1923, in Thebes, Egypt, English archaeologist Howard Carter enters the sealed burial chamber of the ancient Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamen.

Weather High: 47° Low: 29° Skies: Few showers, wind.

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Feb. 21 is Presidents day. Attend Liz Williams, PharmD, has Monday class schedule on agreed to come speak about Tuesday Feb. 22. pharmacy as a career and the pharmacy school/application experience Feb. 17 at 6:30 p.m. in EDUC Our Countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Good theater 131. She is currently working as production on Feb. 17-19 a clinical pharmacist in the inpaand 23-26 at 7:30 p.m. in the tient pharmacy in Logan Regional Morgan Theatre. A historic Hospital. drama about the lives of English ASUSU Election Set-Up Feb. 21 convicts in 18th century from 12-4 p.m. Primary Elections Australia. campaigning begins Feb. 22 at 7:00 a.m. Primary elections run until the 23rd. Primary winners will be Tickets on sale for the 7th announced on the 23rd at 4:00 p.m. annual Jazz Night at the Sky in the TSC Hub. Club. Enjoy a night of Jazz music Feb. 17 Mindy Merrill will share and great food. Tickets are $46. wonderful Crock Pot Cooking Overnight packages for two ideas at Maceyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have available. Event will be held Feb. a lot of time, but you still gotta feed 17-19 in the Skyroom. For more the family, then this class is for you! information about Jazz Night at 7-8 p.m. the Sky Club contact Ann Marie Reuse, Reduce, Recycle Wallace at (435) 770-4963.

(RRR) Auction held weekly on Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. 244 S Main.

Live auctioneer, food vendors, and Egypt Q & A with professor J. lots of goods to be sold and fun to Johnson on Feb. 17 at 7:30 p.m. be had. Please stop by early and at the TSC Center Colony Room browse the auction and sign up to (by the Auditorium). Come and be a bidder! learn and discuss the current A concert, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Center Stage: situation in the middle east. The Music by Women Composersâ&#x20AC;? event is free and refreshments presented by women musicians of will be provided. If there are any USU and Dr. Cindy Dewey as part questions email laura.anderof Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s History Month on Feb. son@aggiemail.usu.edu.

18. The event is free and open to all.

Performance Hall 7:30 p.m.

The USU Wind Orchestra Perfectionism and and Symphonic Band present Procrastination Workshop Feb. their annual winter concert.

16, 2011, in TSC 335 from 3:30- Performance will be in the Kent 4:30 p.m. You do not have to Concert Hall Feb 25 at 7:30 p.m. register to attend. For additional Tickets are $8 for general admission information, please contact the and free for USU students.

Academic Resource Center at Spring fever? It is time to get (435) 797-1128. started with seeding and transplanting. Get weekly up dates on what you can do to help at the The CSSA will host a Chinese Student Farm. Always a blast! stuNew Year Banquet on Feb.19 dentfarm@lists.usu.edu. at 6 p.m.. Authentic Chinese Come enjoy a night with Tom Dinner will be served along Jensen, Chairman of Architectural with great entertainment!

Nexus Feb. 17 at 5 p.m at BUS 322.

Tickets are now available at TSC He has received design awards for Card Office. the Logan Regional Hospital and the Abravanel Hall addition.

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- Recent Alumni Exhibit, Tippetts Gallery - Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tennis vs. Portland State, Sports Academy, Noon - Deaf Education Conference, ESLC Auditorium, 7 p.m.

- Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hockey vs. Utah, 7 p.m.

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- Recent Alumni Exhibit, Tippetts Gallery - Body Image Fair, TSC, 10 a.m.

- Mandalit Del Barco address, Eccles Conf. Center, Noon - Ecology Center Seminar, ENGR 101, 3 p.m.

- Tom Jensen Lecture, BUS 322, 5 p.m.

- Banff Mountain Film Festival, Kent Concert Hall, 7 p.m.

- Friends of Merrill-Cazier Library spring lecture, Library room 101, 7 p.m.

- Terrible Poetry Competition, Ray B West Room 214, 7 p.m.

- Jazz Night at Sky Club, Skyroom 7 p.m.

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