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Countless students suf-fer from sleeping problems, and USU’s Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) is offering a workshop to help students understand the rea-soning behind sleep issues and tips to having a better night’s sleep, said Tom Berry, USU staff psychologist. Whether it’s not being able to fall asleep, waking up multiple times in the night or waking up early and never being able to fall back asleep, insomnia affects students all year. “Getting the Most out of Your Sleep” will have informa-tion about how to sleep better as well as experts there to answer questions. The work-shop will be held in the TSC Room 310B, Wednesday from 5-6 p.m. Berry said many students don’t have the medical defi-nition of insomnia, which is

a “prolonged and usually abnormal inability to obtain adequate sleep.” He said stu-dents have other things going on in their lives like stress, that affect their sleep, and as soon as those stresses are gone, sleep returns to normal. “Many students play fast and loose on their sleep and they can’t get back into a pat-tern, and then their schedule changes and it is hard to shift that biological clock,” he said. “Insomnia is something that you are finding even when there are not those other rea-sons going on.” Dr. Jim Davis, director and physician for the Student Health and Wellness Center, said it is important for him to figure out what type of insom-nia he is dealing with before he can help his patients. He said sleep disruption can be caused by depression, jet lag, a job, stress, anxiety and some diseases like thyroid disorders,

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Education college ranks in U.S. Top 50By KAYLA HALL

staff writer

Counselors hope to improve USU students’ sleeping habits

For the 12th consecu-tive year, USU’s College of Education ranked in the top 50 of the U.S. News and World Report’s 2012 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools” placing 29th. “We are the only college in Utah to be in the top 50,” said the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services Dean, Beth Foley. “It is very impressive to maintain a ranking in the Top 50 for that long of a time period.” Foley said most of the pro-grams in the college have 100 percent job placement. Some of those programs are psy-chology, early childhood and communicative disorders. The college also produces the most public school teachers, special educators, and communica-tive disorder specialists in the state. Although the college was ranked 29th overall, they

received the fifth most exter-nal funding, securing $33 mil-lion of grants and contracts over the past year. This puts the college above Stanford, Harvard and Northwestern in the amount of research dollars received. To give a comparison, Foley

said the University of Utah received $5.4 million and placed 66 in the overall rank-ing. BYU received $600,000 and placed 91st. The Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation had two programs ranked in the top 20: The Rehabilitation

and Counseling Program, which ranked ninth in the nation, and the Special Education Graduate Program, which ranked 17th. Department head of special education Ben Lignugaris-Kraft said, “Because we have a productive faculty and work

well with our students. If you ask our students – under-graduate through doctoral students – why they chose to come to USU, they will tell you is because of the quality of the faculty.” Foley said, “The U.S. News and World Report looks at

11 different things when ranking each school. Some of these include an assess-ment of the program by the super intendent, peer assess-ments between deans of other college’s of education grad

TYLENOL P.M. AND AMBIEN are two medicines prescribed to students by the USU Health and Wellness Center to those students’

having a difficult time sleeping. Students can learn more about improving the quality of their sleep by attending a workshop held by counseling

services. ARMEN HOVSEPYAN photo illustration

By MEGAN BAINUM

assistant news editor

-See UTAH, page 4

-See INSOMNIA, page 4

USU’s COLLEGE OF EDUCATION is currently tackling 200 research projects and received $33 million in grant and contract money in the last year. Dean Foley said nearly

every one of the students in the education school are able to land teaching jobs. JON LARSEN photo

Chapter warns about pornography addictionBy CATHERINE MEIDELL

news editor

The first ever Utah State University chapter of Fight the New Drug, a non-profit organization with the goal to warn about the dangers of pornography, was formed last week, and its members are already planning events that will improve students’ knowledge about the lasting consequences of viewing pornographic material. “Outside of a moral conversation, out-side of a legislative conversation, we talked

about this issue, and it really resonated with us,” said one of the organization’s founders, Clay Olsen. Lynn Walker, president of USU’s Fight the New Drug chapter, said it is crucial stu-dents and others in the community under-stand that their group does not use the word “anti-” in relation to the group. “This is a public health issue,” Olsen said, “if people want to take it to the reli-gious realm that’s f ine. Fifty years ago there

-See HEALTH, page 3MEMBERS OF FIGHT THE NEW DRUG participate in an activity created to attract the attention of

passersby in hopes of ultimately sharing their message about the harmful effects of viewing pornography. The

group stresses they are not affiliated with any religious or political stances. Photo courtesy Clay Olsen

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – A joint venture between three of the nation’s four largest cell phone carriers will soon offer the nation’s first commercially avail-able mobile fare payment program to a public trans-portation system. Isis, a mobile commerce joint venture between AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless, announced Tuesday it will roll out the pilot program in Salt Lake City in 2012, offering an alternative to credit and debit cards for Utah Transit Authority fare payments. “This is the evolution of moving off of plastic,” Isis CEO Michael Abbott said in an interview Tuesday. “This is the future of payments.” Abbott said the idea is to eventually make Salt Lake City, and other cities across the country, places where consumers don’t need to carry their wallets anymore, communities where your cell phone is as good as cash or credit. The idea sounds simple: Hop a train, swipe your phone, payment made. Grocery shopping? No cash? No problem. Not so fast, say industry watchers. “This is simply a silly claim on the part of these vendors,” said Charles Golvin, a principal analyst with Forrester Research, Inc. The chips needed to make the so-called Near Field Communications wireless technology work aren’t yet available in most cell phones. Many carri-ers will be rolling them out next year, but it will take time to get them in the hands of consumers. And

while the Utah Transit Authority is already equipped with the necessary technology to read the phones, retailers will also have to begin upgrading their sys-tems. “There are some out there already but not the majority and it won’t be the majority for quite some time,” Golvin said. “This is almost certainly going to be like most technology adoption, a slow and steady build over a long period of time.” However, the fact that three of the four largest wireless carriers are now supporting the program means it should gain momentum in the coming years. “They have their own incentives now to see profit and improve their business through NFC, and that means they will most likely demand that many of their suppliers include that function in the phones they sell,” Golvin said. BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd., has said most new BlackBerrys will have NFC chips by later this year. Google Inc.’s Nexus S already has one, and the company’s latest Android software for that and other phones has NFC support. Nokia Corp., the world’s largest maker of phones, has committed to putting NFC chips in all its next-generation smart phones. There’s also speculation the new iPhone model due this summer will have an NFC chip, though Apple isn’t commenting. Abbott acknowledged the move will take time to catch on, but said the industry is serious about

making mobile payments the future of purchasing transactions. “If you look back 10 years ago and wanted to get a phone with a camera, you might be able to find one. Today, you can’t buy a phone without a camera,” he added, noting NFC technology will also soon be standard. AT&T’s Mark Siegel said the companies expect the program to eventually expand nationwide, much like how text messaging became wildly popular once cell phone companies began allowing messaging between different carriers. “So what happened after that is text messaging exploded and really started to grow,” Siegel said. “That’s kind of similar to what’s happening now with Isis.” The industry has been talking about including NFC technology in phones for years, largely to do just what Isis is proposing, turn them into “elec-tronic wallets.” But beyond a few trials, not much has come to fruition except in places like Japan where a similar technology is in place and most cell phones are equipped with the needed chips. It works like this: A consumer attaches a specific account to their cell phone – a credit card or a check-ing account, for instance – and simply swipes it for purchases or to board trains or buses and the charge is automatically pushed through and paid. Still, Golvin said it will be a long transition on the path to persuading people they simply don’t need to carry their wallets anymore.

Utah cell carriers roll out ‘mobile wallets’

PHOENIX (AP) – Boeing engineers figured the joints holding the skin in place on their older 737 jetliners would begin to wear, but only as the planes neared retirement. They never expected it to happen in middle age. Caught off guard when a piece of the fuselage on a Southwest Airlines jet peeled away as it f lew over Arizona last week, they are rushing to create inspection and repair instructions for hundreds of similar planes in service worldwide. Federal aviation officials issued an emergency order Tuesday that requires inspections of certain types of 737s. Southwest, which operates nearly all of the U.S.-registered 737s requiring urgent inspections, inspected its planes and found five with the same types of cracks suspected of causing the 5-foot-long hole to open on Flight 812 last Friday. The failure raised concerns about the adequacy of safety inspections that failed to catch the prob-lem even though nearly two dozen other instances of metal fatigue were spotted during an inspection

of the Southwest plane a year earlier. And it also focused attention on the specific 737 model. That model was redesigned after similar joint problems caused a huge section of the roof of an Aloha Airlines jet to break off in 1988. A flight attendant was sucked out and fell to her death. “We want to understand why we saw the extent of tearing on the aircraft and this size of a rupture so that we can prevent it from happening again,” National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah Hersman told reporters Tuesday. Paul Richter, Boeing’s top engineer for older 737s, said Boeing also didn’t anticipate the need to inspect for cracking on the redesigned lap joints – where two pieces of the fuselage skin overlap – until it had reached 60,000 pressurization cycles, the number of takeoffs and landings. The Southwest jet, which made an emergency landing in Yuma, Ariz., had about 39,000 cycles and was 15 years old. Pressurizing and depressur-izing the cabin can weaken the aluminum skin and cause cracking.

THE PEELING AWAY OF A 5-foot-long hole recently on a Southwest Jet as the plane traveled at 35,000 feet raised questions about how vulnerable the world’s passenger air fleet is to similar cracks. AP photo

Boeing didn’t expect cracks so soon

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) – Ecuador said Tuesday it is expelling the U.S. ambassador over a diplomatic cable divulged by WikiLeaks that accuses a newly retired police chief of a long his-tory of corruption and speculates that President Rafael Correa was aware of it. Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino announced Ambassador Heather Hodges’ expulsion at a news conference. He said the ambassador, called to his office the previous afternoon, had not explained what led her to suggest in the 2009 cable that Correa knew of “supposed acts of corruption by mem-bers of the police leadership and more specifically the former commander of the institution, Jaime Hurtado Vaca.” “We have asked that she leaves the country as soon as possible,” Patino said. The State Department called the

expulsion “unjustified” and described Hodges as “one of our most experienced and talented diplomats.” The U.S. typically responds to such cases by expelling the country’s ambas-sador, but department spokesman Mark Toner said it would be premature to say how it would respond. Officials said it could jeopardize consulates that Ecuador has recently reopened or announced plans to open in New Orleans and Phoenix. Patino stressed that the expulsion was not directed against the Obama administration: “We hope this will not affect the cordial relations between our two governments.” “It is unfortunate that the published documents on WikiLeaks have made it impossible to continue collaborating with the current ambassador to Quito, but we hope to work with a new ambas-

sador,” Ecuador’s Washington embassy said in a statement. Hodges issued a statement saying the order “left me saddened tremen-dously, both personally and for this country.” “I will not speculate about what this can mean,” she added. Hodges is the second U.S. ambas-sador to fall victim to WikiLeaks, which has released more than 6,300 State Department cables since November through international news media. Correa has now expelled three U.S. diplomats since taking office in 2007. While a close ally of leftist Presidents Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Evo Morales of Bolivia, Correa has been far less antagonistic with the United States. Hodges’ expulsion will leave all three nations without U.S. ambassa-dors.

ECUADOR’S FOREIGN MINISTER RICARDO PATINO gives a press con-ference in Quito, Ecuador, Tuesday after expelling the U.S. ambassador. AP photo

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N.Y. politicians push to close Sing Sing OSSINING, N.Y. (AP) – Some New York politicians have no love for the infamous Sing Sing prison and sug-gest Gov. Andrew Cuomo close it to save money. Now a maximum security prison, housing about 1,700 inmates Sing Sing opened in 1826 on the Hudson River, about 30 miles north of New York City. The phrase “up the river” was coined for it. Convicted in a spy case, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed at Sing Sing in 1953. The prison often was portrayed in gang-ster movies. State and local officials said in a letter Tuesday that the prison is unwanted by the community. They said it contributes little to the econ-omy, and selling the riverfront site could bring in some revenue for the state. Cuomo’s office said he had no comment.

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MASON, Ohio (AP) – Police say an Ohio man has been charged with a misdemeanor for barking at a police dog. A police report says 25-year-old Ryan James Stephens was charged with teasing a police dog in the Cincinnati suburb of Mason. Officer Bradley Walker wrote that he heard the K9 dog barking uncontrollably inside his patrol car while he was investigating a car crash at a pub early Sunday morning. Walker says Stephens was making barking noises and hissing at the animal. Walker reported that Stephens said “the dog started it” when asked why he was harassing the animal. The officer said Stephens appeared highly intoxicated. There was no answer to calls to Stephens’ home in Mason. He is to appear April 21 in municipal court.

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Student improves athletic tutoring “Can you imagine a parent arriv-ing at a parent-teacher conference and saying ‘We’re not a reading family’?” said Utah State University undergraduate Morgan Summers. “For some reason, it’s okay to give up and dismiss mathematics as something at which only a few can succeed.” Summers, a USU Honors student who graduates in May 2011 with a degree in mathematics education and a minor in speech communica-tions education, understands math phobia. “I struggled with math in middle school and early high school and had severe test anxiety,” says Summers, who graduated from Utah’s Weber High School in 2007. “But I was determined to take advanced place-ment calculus.” Summers believes in the adage, “If you want to learn something, teach it.” During her USU career, she’s honed her math and teaching skills with fellow undergraduates. In 2009, she received the Athletics Department’s “Outstanding Tutor Award” for her years of work with USU’s student-athletes. From faculty member Brian Bornholdt, she’s learned to consis-tently ask her students if they under-stand a concept before moving to the next topic. As part of her Honors thesis, Summers completed a qualitative research project focused on issues determining middle and secondary mathematics placement. The proj-ect included a literature review as well as a case study she conducted of a local school district. Summers presented her findings at the 2011 Undergraduate Research Day on Utah’s Capitol Hill, the 2011 Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research and USU’s March 29 Student Showcase during the univer-sity’s 2011 Research Week. In the lat-ter, she earned the top poster award in the physical sciences category.

From April 6-8, Alpha Chi Omega will be running the Alphatraz Jail by the TSC Fountain, with all the proceeds going towards a scholarship given to a reentry student that has been affected by domestic violence. Warrants to have someone arrested are $3 each. We are ask-ing anyone that is arrested and put in jail to raise a bail of $10 to be released. Prisoners can raise bail any creative way possible. Although we will not force anyone to be in our jail or raise bail, we are ask-ing for everyone’s help in this f ight against domestic violence. This will be a fun and one-of-a-kind event to come check out while helping to raise money for those affected by domestic violence. Even if your not arrested or don’t have much free time in the busy school day, come by the jail and see who is arrested, and even try to help bail them out with your donations.

Connections book presented to Pres. As part of the tradition of Utah State University’s Common Literature Experience, students Amber Bowden and Rebecca Fitzgerald present USU President Stan Albrecht with this year’s selected book. Zeitoun, the story of one man’s struggles to hold on to the American dream after hur-ricane Katrina, will be read by the incoming freshman class of 2011 who are enrolled in USU 1010 – Connections. Members of the community are invited to also read the book and then attend the Common Literature Experience Convocation to be held Aug. 27, 9:30 a.m., in the Kent Concert Hall, Chase Fine Arts Center, on the Utah State University Logan campus.

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was a large debate about whether tobacco is harmful, and we are facing the same thing now with pornography.” Olsen, a USU alumnus, pioneered the group with Beau Lewis, Cam Lee and Ryan Werner, and in 2009 received sta-tus as a non-profit organi-zation. Fight the New Drug uses articles and research studies about the rela-tionship of pornography to drugs as educational tools. The studies suggest the same chemicals that cause addiction to drugs are present when viewing pornography, said Zach Smith, a member of USU’s Fight the New Drug chapter. Smith’s parents lead an addiction recovery program in Idaho, but he said this has not inf luenced his decision to become involved. “This problem is bad at any age, but at a col-

lege level, when you are looking for marriage, pornography affects what you are looking for in a relationship,” Smith said. Individuals who are addicted to pornogra-phy cannot love another person, Smith said,

because they expect their relationships to be a certain way that isn’t realistic. When students are making the steps from dating to finding their lifetime partner, the effects of pornogra-phy build walls in that process, he said. College students may be more likely to begin viewing pornographic mate-

rial, Smith said, because they are on their own, which makes temptation difficult to resist. The chapter hopes to get involved in the community by conducting high school assem-blies and other events that will grab Cache Valley citizens’ attention.

“Here, I feel people are so much more curi-ous, and they get addicted that way,” Smith said. Walker hopes the group will allow people to feel more comfortable about bringing pornog-raphy up as a serious issue. “Nobody wants to talk about it because it’s a taboo topic,” Walker said. “It’s uncomfort-able for people to talk about, so if we can be a resource for people to come to and see that it’s f ine to talk about.” From a female perspective, the club’s vice president Kylie Johnson said she became inter-ested in the organization after learning its stance on intimacy in relationships. Olsen and the other founders decided to stress the impor-tance of close relationships in contrast with the “disturbing” images contained in pornography, Johnson said. “We are all affected,” Olsen said, “I had a cousin who was affected and now he is in pris-on.”

– catherine.meidell@aggiemail.usu.edu

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“Fifty years ago there was a large debate about whether tobacco is harmful, and we are facing the same thing now with pornography.”

– Clay Olsen,

Founder of Fight the New Drug

ResLife, local volunteers and the Aggies Think, Care, Act (ATCA) campaign organized an event to forward diversity and help prevent social injustice within the commu-nity, Tuesday in the TSC Ballroom, and yielded a turnout of 705 peo-ple. The Light at the End of the Tunnel exhibit was created to confront issues of social injustice prevalent within our community. It was organized in a multi-staged, maze-like setup which took the viewer through many of the dif-ferent forms of discrimination including racism, sexism, religious discrimination, and discrimina-tion against those with mental and physical disabilities.

“I see a lot of religious discrimi-nation … people aren’t actively going out of their way to offend others but because there is one dominant religion, people aren’t mindful that not everyone is part of that religion.” At each stage, statistical facts were presented to create awareness of the existing problems within the community. One statistic dis-played in the sexism section stated in 2006, 69,107 women reported experiences of domestic violence. The section depicting religious discrimination said in 2008 one in five hate crimes were targeted toward religion. Participants were also invited to take part in activities like writ-ing down a common stereotype on a large poster or watching video clips to help students understand

the presence of these issues within the community. It was also orga-nized to show that many people are guilty of discrimination, said Becca DuPaix, the event’s coordi-nator. “I think a lot of times people just say things without really thinking about it like ‘that’s so gay’ or ‘that’s retarded,’” DuPaix said. “That is offensive to so many peo-ple and they don’t even think about it. They just say it … stereotyping and assuming without knowing.” Angie Batista, a student who attended the event, said, “I think we need stuff like this to make us realize that bad things are going on in our society like racism and classism … and that we all might be guilty of being racist or homo-phobic at some point.” Much of the event aimed at

inspiring change on the individual level. ATCA, a campaign orga-nized by the Student Engagement Committee, was utilized at the final stage of the event to ensure that students act on the informa-tion that was presented. The ATCA’s philosophy is to help students “make positive individual decisions about the activities they choose to engage in” and learn “what it means to be an Aggie,” their initiative states. Toward the end of the tour, stu-dents were given cards and invited to write down a goal of how they can better themselves personally. Wristbands were also given out to remind everyone that ‘We must be the change’ if we want to end dis-crimination. At 6 p.m., refreshments were served and the event turned into an open format where anyone could discuss their views on diver-sity and social justice. This is the second time the event has been organized. “We tried to give it a more hopeful spin, and it went really well,” DuPaix said. Many students left with a much better understanding of social justice and felt inspired to make a difference. “It turned out really, really well” DuPaix said, “A lot of people have come in and have been really respectful and are actually learn-ing something.” Cristina Medrano, a sophomore majoring in psychology, said, “It motivated me to teach and educate people about not calling people names … it helped me to want to speak up for those who are being judged or discriminated against. It gives me the motivation to (stand up) because that’s the right thing to do.”

– kevin.mitchell@aggiemail.usu.edu

Exhibit confronts national discrimination issues

By KEVIN MITCHELL

staff writer

BRIANNA OLSEN, AN UNDECLARED FRESHMAN and Pauline Jenkins, a junior majoring in interdisciplinary studies get involved in an activity set up for those who attended Tuesday’s Light at the End of the Tunnel exhibit. BRECK

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FIGHT THE NEW DRUG is a non-profit awareness group created by USU alumni that presents the value of intimacy in dating and marriage relationships. Photo

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studies, graduation and retention rates, faculty resources, student selectivity, CRE scores, per-cent of faculty who have awards and research expenditures.” Foley explained the tests make up the ranking and con-secutive rankings build a good reputation. It is mainly the reputation that brings students who want to attend the best college of education. She also explained many students are drawn because they want to do research with the faculty mem-bers who are well-known for their research. A first-year master’s student in USU’s special education pro-gram, Kerry Shea came to USU from Minnesota because of the diverse program and the desire to do research with Lillian Duran, an assistant professor in the education school. “I knew USU had a really great program and

I would be able to get experience in many dif-ferent ways in terms of focusing on behavior

analysis and culture diversity,” Shea said. “I had also done research with one of the pro-fessors, Dr. Duran, and was really interested in the work she was doing and I wanted to continue to work with her.” Lignugaris-Kraft said Shea came from Minnesota specifi-cally to work with faculty and had not originally intended to obtain a master’s degree in special education, but has now learned a lot. The Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services is currently working on more than 200 research projects.

– kayla.barclay@aggiemail.usu.edu

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“I knew USU had a really great program and I would be able to get experience in many differ-ent ways in terms of focusing on behavior analy-sis and culture diversity.”

– Kerry Shea, graduate student

Big Blue dominates with big air

BIG BLUE SHOWS OFF during e-Week’s annual Rail Jam, Wednesday, an event in the Romney Stadium parking lot that invited student snowboarders and skiers to compete. STERLING BOIN photo

ders, and the first step is to find out as much as possible about the pattern of sleep disruption. Jeff Riches, a senior in marketing, said his bad habits contribute to his sleeping problems. “I’m pretty sure it is my own fault. I have horrible sleeping habits. My biggest problem though is when I have some-thing to get up for the next morning I get really anxious and can’t sleep at all,” he said. Berry said there are things that can be done before bedtime that help sleep patterns. He said if someone is having difficulty falling asleep, having a routine an hour before bed can help shut down the body so it isn’t wired up as soon as someone jumps into bed. He said turning down the lights and sounds will start to “calm you down psy-chologically.” He said all of that can signal to the body that it is time for bed. He said oth-ers find free writing helpful, a process where someone just writes down every-thing they are thinking with as little interruption as possible. “Some people take time to write down their thoughts, some make lists, it takes the stuff out of their heads and puts it down on paper,” Berry said. Doing things other than sleeping in your bed is something that can hinder sleep patterns, Berry said. He said if someone wakes up in the middle of the night and it is clear they won’t be able to sleep again for a while, to get out of bed and train their mind that their bed is for sleeping. “It’s also not very helpful to study in your bed because very often you are studying and falling asleep and falling asleep worrying about studying. Have separate places for separate things,” he said. Davis said the biggest misconception students have about sleep problems is their own contribution. He said if stu-dents examined themselves and their night behavior, they would normally be able to see why they are having a hard

time sleeping. “We are genetically programmed to sleep,” Davis said. “There are some genetic conditions that could result in insomnia, but by far, moods and emo-tions come into play. Most sleep disrup-tion we see is a result of sleep habits being disrupted on purpose.” He said many students can see their sleep patterns improved in as little as five days if the specific bad habits and stresses are addressed. When students come into the clinic, medication to help them sleep is seen as short-term, he said, never a long-term solution. When students do need a prescription for sleep he usually prescribes ambien or other sedatives, Davis said. He said sleep is a neurological function that every body needs and so it is rare to find someone who can’t sleep with the help of medication. He said the medication turns of the brain and allows the body to relax. Riches sometimes uses over-the-coun-ter drugs like Tylenol P.M., he said, but since they make him drowsy all the next day he doesn’t use them very often. He has also used Ambien, which he said he really liked, but didn’t like the side effects. The CAPS workshop is a way for stu-dents to learn and understand why sleep patterns are disrupted and how that can be prevented, Berry said. He said learn-ing relaxations skills and stress manage-ment at their workshops can be very helpful for a wide range of people. CAPS also offers handouts that have general information that students can pick up if they are unable to attend the workshop. Berry said some people have very strong biological clocks and can’t func-tion very well unless they get eight hours of sleep and others have more f lexible biological clocks that allow them to get various amounts of sleep throughout the week. Either way, he said, it is important to listen to the body.

– megan.b@aggiemail.usu.edu

Three Utah State University students are 2011 Goldwater Scholars and one Aggie received honorable mention in a prestigious national competition established by Congress that recognizes outstanding undergraduate achievements in science and mathematics. Linsey Johnson, Brooke Siler and Brian Tracy are recipients of the award, which is administered by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, and Karen Nielson received hon-orable mention. With this year’s honorees, USU boasts 18 Goldwater Scholars and seven honorable mention recipients since 1998. USU leads the state in the number of 2011 awardees and this year’s competition marks the most Utah State students to receive the honor in one year. “This is a tremendous honor for these students and a tremendous honor for Utah State University,” said USU President Stan Albrecht. “This award is a testament to the stellar achievements of these individuals in academics, research and service, as well as the outstanding mentorship provided by our fac-ulty members.”

“The Goldwater Scholarship rewards students who have a strong record of under-graduate research,” said Christie Fox, director of USU’s Honors program. “Our students’ fantastic showing in this year’s competition demonstrates the commitment of our faculty to give students exceptional opportunities to get involved in hands-on research very early in their academic careers.” Each year, USU may submit up to four nominations for the award; a process coor-dinated by the USU Honors Program that begins in November. Scholarship award recipients receive up to $7,500 toward annual tuition and expenses. USU’s 2011 honorees, who represent the university’s College of Science and College of Engineering, are members of the USU Honors Program and actively involved in undergradu-ate research. All also volunteer their time to community outreach in science education. A physics major, Johnson serves on the steering committee of USU’s Science Unwrapped public outreach program and founded the Science Unwrapped Student Corps. The Payson, Utah, native, who gradu-ated as Salem Hills High School’s f irst vale-dictorian in 2009, began organizing science

outreach activities as high school student. A USU Undergraduate Research Fellow and active member of USU’s Society of Physics Students chapter, Johnson plans to pursue doctoral studies in physics and pursue a career in science education. She is the daughter of Brent and Leslie Johnson of Payson. A native of Utah’s Cache Valley, Siler majors in biochemistry and economics. A 2009 graduate of Sky View High School, she pursues research in chemical and molecular signaling processes that take place at the neu-rological level. Siler participated in USU’s Go Global Study Abroad to Asia program and is a member of Rotaract, the Science Unwrapped Student Corps, the Society for International Business and Economic Development and USU’s Women in Science and Medicine orga-nization. The daughter of Jon and Marianne Siler of North Logan, she plans to pursue doctoral studies in neuroscience. Tracy is a 2006 graduate of Utah’s Lone Peak High School. The physics major entered USU after earning a scholarship at USU’s 2006 Physics Day at Lagoon.

At USU, Tracy studies the Earth’s equa-torial ionosphere and has been invited to present his research at two national physics conferences. The recipient of USU’s 2009 Distinguished Undergraduate Research Award in Physics, he plans to pursue doctoral study in theoretical materials physics and a teach-ing and research career as a university profes-sor. Tracy serves as vice president of outreach for USU’s Society of Physics Students chapter and has participated in more than 30 commu-nity outreach projects in science education.He is the son of J. David and Lucinda Tracy of Highland, Utah. A Las Vegas native, Nielson is a 2009 grad-uate of Nevada’s Silverado High School. The mechanical and aerospace engineering major is a USU Undergraduate Research Fellow and is conducting research in thermal f luids and tissue engineering. Nielson served as a team leader for a USU Engineers Without Borders trip to Mexico and is a member of the outreach committee of USU’s Society of Physics Students chapter. She is the daughter of Lynn and Becky Nielson of Las Vegas.

BY USU MEDIA RELATIONS

Congress commends three students’ achievements

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Giving up worldly vices

During the 40 days of Lent, a Christian tradition of 40 days of sacrifice, followers and participants fast and sacrifice a personal vice. Most know of Lent as a Catholic observation, but some followers of various religions, or no religion, also participate. Zachary Smith, a junior in speech communica-tion, said he thinks Lent is a good practice regard-less of your religion because you have to demon-strate self-control over your vices.“I think it’s impressive that people will take the teachings of their religion and practice them,” he said.

By NATSHA BODILYstaff writer

Brooke Siler

Some people attempt the sacrifice, but do not complete the entire 40 days. Brooke Siler, a sophomore in biochemistry, heard about Lent and said she decided it was a good idea. “I decided to give up caffeine for at least the month of March. I made it two weeks and it was good for my pocketbook,” Siler said. She said she was doing pretty well until her friend offered her caffeine as a gift. But she still feels Lent is a good sacrifice. “I think it’s a good idea because if you have a vice, having motivation to give it up for over a month can be liberating,” Siler said.

Allison Huntsman

Last year Allison Huntsman, marketing sopho-more, gave up Facebook as a Lenten sacrifice. “One of my roommates was celebrating Lent, so I figured I might as well give up something as well,” she said. “It’s a good practice for anyone of any religion. I decided to give up Facebook for Lent and it was a lot easier than I thought. I realized after the 40 days I didn’t need it, so I ended up deactivating it for a while.” She said she did it on a whim, but realized it was a good thing to do. Huntsman said it was like having a built-in support group. “It’s nice to know that so many other people are also giving up something. I thought, I can get through it if they are doing the same thing,” she said. After her social media sacrifice, Huntsman said she developed a respect for the Catholic church. “It’s a hard thing to do,” she said. “Even if you’re not Catholic, it’s a good thing to implement in your life.”

Lynn Walker and Kerian Ludeman

Lynn Walker, an environmental engineering senior, witnessed his Catholic grandmother observe Lent. He said she gave up chocolate, “but she still made brown-ies for everybody.” “It shows self control and dedication to give up something that you really enjoy,” he said. “It shows that you mean it and it shows that you’re serious about it.” Freshman Kerian Ludeman, who is studying dental hygiene, gave up sweets. She said she chose to become healthier during Lent because it gave her more motivation. “I am LDS, so Easter does have a significant place in my life, but it’s not in the traditional Catholic way,” Ludeman said.

Molly Austinson

Molly Austinson, who graduated in English educa-tion, said she would describe Lent as a preparation for Easter. “During Lent, Catholics reflect on Jesus and his teachings. We cleanse ourselves spiritually by prayer and by physically abstaining from things to remember the sacrifices Jesus made for our sins,” she said. Austinson said she participates in Lent, though she had not for a few years recently. She said she found it was one of her favorite times of the year. “During this time, I have a conscious reminder of my faith and why I choose to be Catholic,” she said. “First, I have given up wine. I am not a lush by any means, but I really enjoy a glass at dinner,” Austinson said. She said she also is participating in a traditional Catholic fast throughout the duration of Lent. “This means that I do not snack between meals, cannot have meat before dinner, and my breakfast and lunch cannot equal an evening meal combined,” she said. “I benefit from my Lenten sacrifices because it is a reminder that my trials are not impossible,” Austinson said. “It humbles me to feel small pangs of hunger, especially before dinner, and realize that many people feel this all the time and not by choice.” Austinson said she supports non-Catholics partici-pating in Lent. “I would hope that they are doing it for spiritual ful-fillment and they can connect their sacrifices to their beliefs,” she said. For Catholics in Cache Valley, St. Jerome Newman’s Center holds regular mass every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at noon. Tuesday and weekend masses are held at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Hyde Park.

– natasha.bodily@aggiemail.usu.edu

Students lock out

domestic violence

‘Tis the season for furry little animals

The price was right

for one USU student

Alpha Chi Omega is locking out domestic violence, and for once it is recommended to send your friends to jail. The Alpha Chi Omega sorority built a jail for their spring philanthropy. Alpha Chi Omega is serving mock arrest war-rants and raising charitable bail from April 6-8. Warrants are $3 and the resulting arrest can be lifted after arrestees raise a $10 bail. The money goes toward a $1,000 scholarship for a reentry student who was a victim of domestic violence. “We’ll be selling warrants to arrest people all the way up to Thursday,” said Emma Shoaf, philanthropy chair for Alpha Chi Omega. The Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity helped construct the Alphatraz jail out of old ASUSU election a-frames, Shoaf said. The jail will sit outside the TSC near the fountain for the duration of the event. The jail has no door as the bars, made of PVC pipes, are set wide enough to allow for entry and exit, Shoaf said. Therefore, it is up to the arrestee to remain in the jail to creatively raise money to post his or her bail. “We’re not going to force anyone into the jail cell, obvi-ously,” said Sarah Korich, Alphatraz public relations represen-tative. Korich said arrested students and faculty are encouraged to allow themselves to be arrested and in turn raise bail in what-ever way they choose, because “whatever they want to contrib-ute helps.” Shoaf said one girl plans to bring her puppy if she is put in Alphatraz, and let 10 people play with her puppy for a dollar each to raise her bail. Alcatraz Island in San Francisco held some of history’s most notorious prisoners; Alphatraz will house some of the most well-known figures on campus, and anyone with mis-chievous friends. “We’ve asked people for help being in the jail,” Korich said, “Some of our campus’ more famous people.” Shoaf said a greater bail amount will be set for more well-known arrestees to escape from Alphatraz, such as ASUSU president Tyler Tolson. Korich said students, faculty and anyone around campus are free game to be incarcerated in Alphatraz. People will be notified by call or text that someone has paid for a warrant for their arrest. If professors allow, arrestees will be picked up during class, Korich said. “We don’t want to cause a scene or anything,” Korich said. She said Alpha Chi Omega does, however, want to increase awareness about Alphatraz and the prevention of domes-tic violence. Alphatraz shirts reading “I Helped Lock out Domestic Violence” will be sold for $7, with all proceeds going toward the scholarship. “Every year we give a $1,000 scholarship to a reentry stu-dent coming to USU that has been a victim of domestic vio-lence,” Shoaf said. The scholarship is then awarded at a special

By NOELLE JOHANSENstaff writer

-See ALPHATRAZ, page 7

Spring is swiftly approaching and with the warm change of weather comes another annual springtime event. Baby Animal Days, which has been running for more than 25 years, will take place April 7-9 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the American West Heritage Center. Each year this event brings baby ani-mals, American history, demonstrations, vendors and pony and train rides to Cache Valley. Nelda Ault, education manager for the American West Heritage Center, said Baby Animal days is “a festival that celebrates springtime through giving people a chance to pet and hold baby farm animals, learn about the history of the American West and come together as a community that remembers its agricultural past.”

Ault is responsible for the history education at Baby Animal Days. She will be running a historical treasure hunt and an art project booth, which will provide information about summer camp programs. “Everyone at the center contributes by doing the heavy lift-ing, fence building and other physical labor required to put on this event,” she said. All staff members work hard for this event, as its proceeds provide funding for all events for the rest of the year, Megan Darrington, True Blue Communication account manager said. Darrington has been helping with the PR for Baby Animal Days since January. “Our team has been working incredibly hard on reaching the USU student demographic, The SLC demographic and

COURTNEY MORALES AND ASHLEY BROUGH hold baby chicks. American West Heritage Center is hosting Baby Animal Days,

an annual event where participants can get up close to various baby animals. KYLE PETT photo

By NATASHA BODILYstaff writer

-See ANIMALS, page 6

Whitney Kofford is one student that can say she had a memorable spring break. This fourth-year student majoring in photography ventured out to the west California coast for her mid-semester break. Not knowing what was to come, Kofford said she sought a good time with friends in attempting to appear on the game show “The Price is Right.” Kofford said she was at the gym one morning when she saw the show air and thought to obtain tickets to a filming of the show. When she returned home, Kofford went online and got tickets but they told her that even with tickets, a spot in the audience was not guaranteed. On a sunny California morning, Kofford said she and her friends decided to arrive at the studio at 6 a.m. to receive an order-of-arrival pass. Kofford was number 22. With spots secured, Kofford and her friends returned around noon and found they had been bumped up in line. Kofford was then given the famous pricetag name badge and proceeded through the studio to participate in a pre-screening group interview. Kofford said one man would ask individuals questions while a woman would jot down notes about potential contestants. “I just had this feeling … I just knew I was going to make it up there,” Kofford said. From then on, the crowd of 200-300 was asked to wait until film-ing would begin. “It was way fun, even the line, because we met a lot of people,” Kofford said. Feeling antsy, Kofford ended up in the third row of the set and enjoyed music and old episodes of the show. She then said everyone was getting pumped up for the show to begin when “all of a sudden, it just started.” Because of all the excitement, Kofford said she did not actu-ally hear the announcer call her name, but she saw it on a cue card producers hold up to help contestants know when they have been selected to play. Kofford was the third contestant called to play. “I swear I was going to have a panic attack, I was like ‘oh my gosh!’” Sophomore Stephanie Romney, who was on the trip with Kofford,

By JESSICA SWEATfeatures senior writer

-See PRICE, page 7

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Information gathered by Breck Byington

“I always

watched Power

Rangers because

I had a crush on

the pink ranger.”

– Mac York,

junior

finance,

economics

“Spongebob

Squarepants, there

was an element of

humor in there that

few people under-

stood.”

– Megan Bell,

senior

graphic design,

defense against

the dark arts

What was your favorite childhood TV show and why?

“Jonny Quest. He

was 14 and saved

the world, how can

it get any better?”

– Jeff Oliver,

sophomore

ceramics

“Arthur, because

it was funny and

D.W. has the same

name as me.”

– Dora Poon,

junior

graphic design

Street Speak

Bad movies to fill the semester’s final days Consider me the act-ing voice of the Utah State University campus when I exclaim, “Charizard’s tail, it’s April already?!” Man, time sure floats when you’re having ... etc. All of a sudden we’re faced with the mother of all stress-ful months. I, of course am speaking of the study-laden, head-pounding, event-wielding, finals-gearing, hunger-paining, snow-drifting monster month of April – the month that comes in like a lion and, at least for college students, comes out like a much bigger and angrier robotic lion with minion piranhas. Yes, yes, sometimes it’s tough to endure, but let me assure you there are several ways to bust the stress and keep strong until we can put this semester behind us and move on to greener pastures and weeks of relax-ing and nervously gallivanting town search-ing for any place that will hire seasonal employees. In case you’re having trouble thinking of ideas, here’s a quick suggestion. In my expe-rience nothing clears the pressure-beaten mind much like sitting down and enjoying a good film. If you haven’t given it a shot, trust me, it works. In fact it works so well I’m

confident there is only one single better option: sitting down to enjoy a very, very BAD film. Anyone with a Netflix account can attest to the beauty of terrible cine-ma, and if you’re looking for some good examples, here are five:

5. “Sharkboy and Lavagirl” – This cult-children’s flick, originally intended for 3D,

fits into the famous “when good kids-mys-tery films go bad” movie genre. In this film you’ll join Max, a child dreamer who sleeps and dreams in class, dreams at home and possibly dreams in the tub, in dreaming up the perfect dreamy dream world, commonly known as, I’m dead serious, Planet Drool. Max’s dreams take a shocking dreamturn overtime as his two dream-laden superhe-roes, Sharkboy and Lavagirl, come to Earth in hopes Max will join them on the journey of saving Planet Drool with his wild and heroic imagination. Five words to prove the film’s quality: “Land of Milk and Cookies.” ‘Nuff said.

4. “Eegah” – Now, I’ll be frank, I’ve only seen 10-15 minutes’ worth of this film, and can’t quite remember what it’s about, and

the funny thing is, that’s the number one rea-son to watch this movie. Basically the movie cycles between this girl trying to find her dad after he is kidnapped by some Sasquatchie-type thing and her boyfriend wooing her with his guitar skills. There’s a chance the 80 minutes of the film I haven’t seen is cinematic quality, but let’s not bet on it.

3. “Santa Conquers the Martians” – You heard me right. Go ahead, read the title again. No, I’m serious, this movie exists! Now, I’d give you a full synopsis of the film except … well … I’ve never seen it. So why should you watch it? C’mon, for the strength of the hills READ THE TITLE! If this puppy isn’t gold I don’t know what is.

2. “Kazaam” – So, this movie is about Shaquille O’Neal as an urban rapping genie. Yep, that’s about it. Here’s the crux – it’s AWESOME! It’s as awkward as can be imag-ined and may have the greatest free-rhymed movie line of all time, “Let’s green egg and ham it!”

1. “Troll 2” – Holy crap … I mean, holy crap. This movie is, just ... holy crap. It is a little hard to explain. The Utah-filmed cult-classic transcender is a story of a family that

travels to the small town of Nilbog, an average micro-nug-get with no oddities – except for the fact that there are peo-ple who become vegetarian goblins who turn tourists into plants and eat them. This flick covers all the basics. Plotline: bad. Acting: horrendous. Cinematography: painful. Director: doesn’t speak English. If nothing else, this films deserves a spot on this list because a documen-tary was made on it literally entitled “Best Worst Movie.” And the best part about this

movie? There isn’t a “Troll1”! Priceless! I’m telling you, it’s epic. Watch it. Now. I’d finish this smoothly but I’m out of word space. Sauerkraut.

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on Facebook to enter the ‘Spend a Day with Steve’ campaign, going on now through

April.

Steve Schwartzman

Just a few laughs

Bad movies to fill the semester’s final daysJust a few

laughsJust a few

laughsJust a few

elementary school students,” she said.

“Baby Animal Days is the biggest annual

festival in Cache Valley. We have hundreds of

different baby farm animals, food vendors,

historical reenactments including a candy

cannon, outdoor adventure games and much

more,” Darrington said.

Darrington said the American West

Heritage Center strives to provide educational

and entertainment events for the community

throughout the year.

“Utah State is a stakeholder, so it is direct-

ly tied to USU, which is helpful,” Darrington

said. “It’s a vital organization.”

She said her main goal was to get USU stu-

dents involved and increase awareness of the

American West Heritage Center.

Ault said this event allows the community

to ignore their technological gadgets and turn

to something real.

“As fewer families have access to farms,

fewer families understand what it’s like to

depend on hard physical labor, the weather

and animals for their livelihood,” she said.

“Families can learn about the fragility of little

chicks and the relationship between mother

sheep and their lambs, all within the context

of Utah’s history.”

Ault said the community can enjoy many

aspects of the event.

“Not only are there animals to touch and

see, there are a lot of fun activities including

the Lil’ Buckaroo Rodeo, food and craft ven-

dors who all have to have some kind of tie to

the history of this area, non-profit organiza-

tions with presentations and activities, stage

performances by local musicians, storytellers

and animal tellers,” she said.

She said they have living history demon-

strations, which is what they do best. There

will also be wood burning stove cooking,

horse farming, sheep-shearing by hand,

woodworking and blacksmithing.

Ault said this event provides a unique

experience.

“It’s one thing to hold a chick in the

springtime and it’s quite another to hold a

chick while learning about the importance

of animals on a farm in 1917 Utah, about

the chores family members would have done

without the aid of modern conveniences and

about the relationship between people and

their food supply.

“Baby Animal Days places the joy of baby

animals in the springtime in the context

of Utah’s history and creates connections

between the present and the past,” she said.

The American West Heritage center has

a mission to celebrate and teach about the

history of the American West that took place

during the years 1820-1920, Ault said.

“We have thousands of school kids who

come by for field trips annually. Each of our

festivals and special events preserve historical

skills and knowledge through presentation to

the public,” Ault said.

Tickets are available for $8 for adults, $7

for students, military members and seniors

and $6 for kids age 3-11.

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Take a rain check on life

The month of April is notorious for being one

of the most rainy, gray and boring months of the

year. The saying, “April showers bring May flow-

ers,” almost seems to say it’s okay, because May

will be beautiful.

But the rain can be more than just wet – it

can be fun. There are many things to do in the

rain. Logan gets about 1.85 inches of rain a year

in April alone, which is approximately 9 percent

of the yearly rainfall, according to the Western

Regional Climate Center.

As long as there is no lightning and thunder,

there are many fun and safe things people can

do to take advantage of wet weather.

Dance: If you want music, you can put the

music indoors, and turn the volume up really

high, or you can just let the inner music of the

soul be the guide.

Kiss someone: Serious bonus points with

your girlfriends, here, guys.

Hot tub: It’s relaxing to have the cool rain

come down while hanging out in hot water.

Puddle jump: Most people don’t like being

soaked, but if the proper footwear and/or rain

gear are worn, puddle jumping can create many

hours of entertainment. Remember to wear

rainboots.

Build dams in the gutter, and watch the

water destroy them.

Play soccer: It’s a muddy adventure, but the

professionals do it, so why not?

Make yourself a work of art: Get washable

markers and bathing suits, and draw all over

yourself. Then go out into the rain and let the

water wash you off. Feel free to do another activ-

ity from the list while waiting.

Be a rain photographer: Buy a waterproof

camera and take pictures of the rain, the rain-

bows, the puddles, the clouds. Be creative.

Camp out: Put up a tent on the quad, in the

backyard or at a park. Bring books, pillows,

By APRIL ASHLANDstaff writer

-See RAIN, page 7

OFTEN THE RAIN CAN ruin students’ outdoor plans, but there are other ways to have fun. Both indoor activities and taking advantage of the rain for outdoor adventures can be ways to pass the time. ALISON OSTLER photo

“If nothing else, this film deserves a spot on this list because a documentary was made on it literally entitled ‘Best Worst Movie.’”

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dinner, where the recipient tells her story, Shoaf said. “We ask (applicants) to write a story about their situation,” said Michelle Bogdan, director of the Student Access and Diversity Center. “We take a look at the person’s f inancial situation, we look at their academic perfor-mance. The biggest part of that application process is their biography or their essay they write for that scholarship,” Shoaf said. Shoaf said Alpha Chi Omega is looking to have multiple scholarships in future years. She said the idea for Alphatraz came from another school’s chapter of the sorority. When Alpha Chi Omega learned about this idea it was too late in the semester to implement it successfully. “I’ve been trying to really run with it,” Shoaf said. “It should be good. This year, one of my goals was just to get the event out there and to get people to know that, as Alpha Chi Omega, we want to do this event and raise

money for domestic violence.” The monetary goal for Alphatraz is $1,500, with $1,000 going toward the scholarship and the remainder toward next fall’s philanthropy event, Korich said. Alpha Chi Omega has been advertising the event through a window countdown at the sorority house as well as through ASUSU and around campus. “Mostly our focus has been on social media advertising,” Korich said. “A lot of it has been word of mouth.” Members of Alpha Chi Omega have also been doing announcements in their classes. Shoaf said she hopes Alphatraz will turn into a memorable tradition, one where people reminisce on the time they had their friends arrested. “Hopefully it will be a big even that the whole campus can enjoy,” Shoaf said.

– noelle.johansen@aggiemail.usu.edu

blankets. Cuddle up and drink hot chocolate from a thermos and read or tell ghost stories. Break out the chalk: One of the coolest things is to use chalk to draw on the street, the side-walk or a driveway during a dry spell. When it rains, the artwork is washed away and you can do it again. Take a drive: Go for a drive, and make up songs by varying the speed of the windshield wipers. Make mud-pies: Get large amounts of mud, and, during breaks in the rain, play with it. Who can make the biggest pie? The grossest-looking?

Get out the slip-n-slide: Turn the hose on, and slip and slide like it’s summer. Go rainbow hunting: Some stores sell note-books that are waterproof or water-resistant. Buy one, and some of the pens that go with it. Take it with you when you go hunting around town or in the canyon for rainbows. Jot down where they are, how big they are or what they look like. Have a “rain-day” where everyone in the house stays home from work or school, and relax.

– april.ashland@aggiemail.usu.edu

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said, “We were completely surprised because we had been joking about Whitney being the one that would be called up on stage the whole day.” After arriving at her podium, Kofford saw host Drew Carey appear on stage before understanding it was her turn to bid on the first item, a plasma TV. Kofford said it was ironic because she had just been looking at plasma’s online, but she ended up losing the bid. Kofford also lost the second round of bidding. When the third round began, a free standing range was presented and it was time for Kofford to bid once again. “I looked back to my friends and this lady next to them that I had sort of talked to earlier was saying, ‘$2,400!’ then changed her mind and said, ‘$2,000’,” said Kofford. Kofford made her bid $2,000. The actual retail price was $2,400 and Kofford was announced the winner. “I ran up there (on stage) and and gave Drew Carey a huge hug then did a little dance,” Kofford said. “He kept kind of singing, ‘you’re on the Price is Right... you’re on the Price is Right,’ as I danced,” Kofford said. Carey then presented Kofford with the game “Switch?” where, according to www.thepriceis-right.com, the contestant is asked to decide wheth-er the price of two prizes are to be switched or to stay as they are. If correct, the player wins both prizes. Kofford said she turned to the audience and tried to make her decision. She said to Carey that she would switch the prices of the products. Carey exclaimed that Kofford was a winner and would take home a large steam shower and a home gym. Kofford ran to check out her prizes and Carey said, “Do you realize you just won $12,000 worth of prizes?” Kofford said she was then directed off stage

where producers explained she would advance to be part of the big wheel spin after the commercial break. Kofford ended up being second to spin the wheel and spun a total of about 85 cents, the high-est amount yet. “The whole thing is so fast-paced,” she said. It was the third contestant’s turn to spin, and as luck would have it, the contestant spun the highest amount possible, one dollar, ending Kofford’s win-ning streak. When Kofford exited the stage, she had to fill out paperwork and was then able to return to the audience to watch the rest of the filming. After the show, Kofford was taken aside back-stage to fill out more paperwork and was surprised to find her prizes would be delivered to her home within 90 days. She would also have to pay taxes on her winnings. “The whole thing was so fun,”Kofford said. “It was like I had this little ‘Price is Right’ fam-ily because everyone was saying ‘Way to go Whitney!’” Despite not appearing on stage, Romney said, “It was so much fun and I’m going to go again. I would recommend it to any college student because it is free and a great experience.” After leaving the studio, Kofford said she called her family to tell them her news. “They didn’t believe me!” Kofford said. Kofford said she plans on selling her prizes to buy a new camera that Nikon will soon release, as well as paying for some school. “The possibilities are endless,” Kofford said. Kofford will appear on the Thursday, April 7, episode of “The Price is Right,” which airs at 9 a.m., and she will be hosting a potluck breakfast to celebrate.

– jessie.a.sweat@aggiemail.usu.edu

Price: Paying taxes on the winnings -continued from page 5

WHITNEY KOFFORD SPENT part of her spring break being a contestant on “The Price is Right.” Although she did not last until the end, she won $12,000 in prizes. ANI MIRZAKHANYAN photo

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MEMBERS OF ALPHA CHI OMEGA construct the “jail” to be part of their latest event raising money for a scholarship given to a victim of domestic violence. Participants will be locked up and will have to raise $10 for their bail in order to be released. CARL R. WILSON photo

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Turbin ready for the gridiron after a season away

It has been a rough year for Robert Turbin. Now, the fully-healed running back is preparing to make it a rough year for opposing defenses. After tearing his anterior cruciate ligament and missing the entire 2010 football sea-son, Utah State’s No. 1 offen-sive threat is ready to return to his dominant self. Turbin, a junior and team leader, hurt his knee early last year during spring practice. The initial plan was for Turbin to attempt to return for the conference portion of the schedule, but he ended up sitting out the remainder of the season to let his knee heal entirely. Now, as the Aggies enter the third year in the Gary Anderson era, Turbin is ready to revisit his record-setting ways. Only halfway through his already impressive career as an Aggie, Turbin has put up some notable stats. In his two seasons, Turbin has displayed his consistency. With 1,798 career yards rushing, Turbin is the most recent player to gain over 1,500 yards on the ground since Emmett White, who graduated in 2001. The dynamic athlete from Fremont, Calif., has also dem-onstrated his explosiveness as a ball carrier. Turbin owns the school record for the longest run from scrimmage, as he scored from 96 yards out against Utah in the 2009 season opener. Turbin has garnered respect from oppos-ing coaches and players. In 2009 he was named second team all-Western Athletic

Conference (WAC). However, in spite of his many awards and achievements, Turbin has one simple goal for the upcoming season. “I just want to win the WAC,” he said. “Of course, I have individual goals in my own mind that I want to do, and individual accolades that I want to accomplish. But when I step on the field and when I get in the locker room, it’s about the team. As a team, we want to win the WAC championship. And then, we want to win whatev-

er is after that.” With spring practice under-way, Turbin and the Aggie coaching staff are choosing to play it safe. So far, Turbin’s participation in full-contact scrimmages has been limited. The plan is to work Turbin into contact drills slowly, as he gets acclimated to

taking and giving hits with his aggressive running style. “In the short amount of practices and the short amount of live reps that we’ve seen, it’s been good to keep Robert Turbin out of a lot of things, just to keep him healthy,” said Aggie running backs coach Ilaisa Tuiaki. “We know what he can do, so we will just keep him healthy and bring him back in the fall.” Turbin is aware the impor-tance in not taking any chanc-es on re-injuring himself. “I guess (Anderson) just wants to keep some of the players safe,” he said. “Bobby (Wagner) is also limited, and he’s perfectly fine. We’re just trying to keep guys safe, because the most important part of this season is the season, it’s September and October. That is what we are

working towards.” While he has not been fully active in practice, that is not to say that Turbin has completely missed out on the physicality of the game that he loves. “On the first day of pads, I got tackled when we were going nine-on-seven,” Turbin said. “Coach Anderson came up to me and said, ‘How did that feel, Turbin?’ and I said, ‘It felt pretty good. It felt reg-ular.’ You know, it’s obviously

a great feeling to be out here with the guys in full pads, just having fun.” As spring practice contin-ues, Turbin will fill two roles, one of which he developed last year. Turbin may not have been on the field in 2010, but he was definitely valuable to his football team. He spent the entire year as a player-coach, traveling with the team and mentoring the fleet of young Aggie running backs. Turbin will continue to

guide his teammates this year, something Tuiaki is grateful for. “The young guys look up to him,” Tuiaki said. “They can always turn to him in the game or out on the sideline for questions and everything. He is just another set of eyes for me.” One of those young backs Turbin is mentoring is sopho-more Robert Marshall, one of the players that filled in for Turbin last year.

“It’s still good, because last year he was still coaching us, but this year when he’s not in he is still coaching us,” Marshall said of Turbin. “He’s still doing his thing when he’s on the field, but when he’s off he is helping those guys that are off the field. He balances both the playing field and coaching us, so that he can do both.”

By WESTON MANGUM

staff writer

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JUNIOR ROBERT TURBIN is fully healed and ready to lead the Aggies in what he hopes to be a successful 2011 campaing. The junior running back holds the record for the longest run in Aggie football and was the first Aggie to record 1,500 yards on the ground since Emmett White in 2001. STERLING BOIN photo

“I guess (Anderson) just wants to keep some of the players safe. Bobby (Wagner) is also limited, and he’s perfect-ly fine...”

–Robert Turbin, USU Football

Sometimes

it’s difficult

to know for

certain how

good a team

really is.

Look at the

softball team.

These women

have played

some of the best collegiate teams in the

country, but have scraped out a meager

five wins in the 28 games they have played

thus far. 11 of those losses ended early

in the dreaded mercy rule. To be fair, 17

of their losses have been decided by just

three runs or less; it’s not like our girls are

falling over dead every time they take the

field. Besides, I doubt anyone else on the

USU campus could do better.

I’m not saying I’m an expert judge of

talent. I didn’t pick a single final four team

correctly and I don’t envy the job of those

on the selection committee. There were

no 1-seeds or 2-seeds in the final four this

year. If people knew Butler would be in

the championship game again, they would

not have been ranked eighth. If people

knew Virginia Commonwealth would be

in the final four, they would not have been

ranked 11th. Charles Barkley said some-

thing like that will never happen again.

Is the success other mid-major teams

have good or bad for Utah State basket-

ball? Aggie fans everywhere remain ever-

confident Stew Morrill’s crew is among

the elite powers in college basketball year

in and year out. Yet, year after year, we are

disappointed when our boys almost pull

off an upset to a team with a less-than-stel-

lar resume. Butler and VCU have proven

it is possible for a mid-major to cut deep

into the madness, but will Logan ever get

a chance to celebrate?

I don’t mean to rub salt into wounds

again and get another F on my report card

(thanks a lot JFFR from Salt Lake City), but

how good was the team this year? I know

all the achievements and accolades; 30-

plus wins, four conference championships

in a row, 90-something percent home

winning percentage ... . I’m not saying the

team is bad, I’m just saying Raegan Pebley

has as many post-season wins at Utah

State as Stew Morrill.

Ok, time for all of Section F and Adam

Nettina to calm down now, this is not

about hating on the basketball players

behind their backs. Like I said, it’s tough

to tell for sure how good a team really is. I

watched the games as closely as the next

Aggie and I saw how good Tai Wesley was.

I was there in Provo when Nate Bendall

couldn’t play and the BYU win could have

come down to one momentum-swinging

flagrant foul called. I remember Stew talk-

ing about being lucky to play poorly in

Boise and come out with a win. Yes, the

WAC was bad this year but losing only

three games over the course of an entire

season is impressive in any conference.

I have been an Aggie all my life, and it

is painful to know the rest of the country

judges the quality of USU basketball by

the shortage of NCAA tournament wins.

Unfortunately for you and I, the win/loss

scale, specifically in the postseason, will

ever be the be-all, end-all of determining

the best of the best in any sport at any

level. It’s up to us to support our teams

when the rest of the county won’t.

Tavin Stucki is a freshman majoring in

print journalism. He can be reached at

matt.sonn@aggiemail.usu.edu.

Success carefully measured

Tavin Stucki

Word from the little guy

Utah State’s golf team got back in action this week, play-ing in the Wyoming Cowboy Classic in Scottsdale, Arizona. The Aggies finished 17th in the 20-team tournament, with a score of 33-over 873. USU was led again by junior Chanse Godderidge, who shot a 5-under 65 on Tuesday to give him a total score of 5-over 215, and a tie for 30th place. The team champion was Baylor and the individ-ual champion was Tarquin Macmanus of Arizona. “After his good perfor-mance last weekend, he (Godderidge) came out totally different,” USU head coach Dean Johansen said. “He’s always had a good attitude, but he seemed a little more fired up.” The tournament started on Monday, when the teams played 36 holes, followed by only 18 on Tuesday. Godderidge came out to play as he carded a 2-under 68 through the first 18, but then struggled a bit shooting a 12-over 82 through the next 18. The Aggies as a team were in 17th place after the first day, mainly due to senior Benjamin Schilleman, who

finished the first day tied for 25th after rounds of 72 and 71. “It helped that we were able to practice this week,” Johansen said. “We were a little bit sharper than we were then we were at Cal Poly. We’re still not as sharp as we’d like to be, but we’re get-ting there.” Similar to their perfor-mance at Cal Poly, the Aggies came out strong on the sec-ond day of play. On Tuesday USU shot a 3-over 283, 11 shots better than the previous day. Johansen also talked about the mental and emotional dif-ference between this tourna-ment and their last. “There’s a difference when you come to a tournament and it’s not raining, it’s not cold, and you’ve been able to practice. You feel like you can compete,” he said. Tuesday was also a his-toric day for Godderidge and the Aggies. After struggling through the second round, Godderidge came back with the best round of his career, and the best performance for an Aggie since Devin Daniels shot a 64 during the 2007-08 season at a tournament in Palm Springs, California “He had a real good prac-tice round and both Barry

(the assistant coach) and I felt like after the practice round that he was going to play well this week,” Johansen said. “He struggled on the second round for about four or five holes, but other than that he played a good week of golf.” Tuesday’s performance was also very good for USU as a team. The Aggies score of 283 was the ninth best of the day, an accomplishment with which Johansen was quite pleased. “That is probably the strongest field we’ve seen in years.” Johansen said. “It’s good for the guys to see that, for the day, they beat some really good teams.” USU now has just one more tournament before the WAC championships. They head down to Provo, Utah for the PING Cougar Classic on April 15-16. As it is their last tour-nament before the conference tournament, Johansen is look-ing to use it effectively to get them ready. “We’ve got to get sharper from 100 yards and in,” Johansen said. “That’s one of the first things that goes when the weather turns bad. We need to keep getting bet-ter and better.”

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TouchBaseSoftball post-pones twinbill against UVU

LOGAN, Utah – Expected snow and wet field conditions have led to the postponement of Utah State softball’s doubleheader with Utah Valley in Logan on April 6. The Aggies and the Wolverines are looking to reschedule the games for, May 9 at 1 p.m. Utah State returns to the diamond on April 5 for a doubleheader against Weber State in Ogden at 2 p.m. The game was origi-nally scheduled for March 22. Following the games with the Wildcats, USU will remain on the road for a three-game Western Athletic Conference series against San Jose State. The Aggies will begin the series against the Spartans with a single game on April 8 at 4 p.m. (MT). Utah State softball (5-30, 0-6 WAC) looks to snap a 17-game los-ing streak this week. The Aggies are led by fresh-man Kassy Uchida who is hitting .307 this season. Fellow freshman Krista Bava has come on of late and is hitting .288 for the Aggies, including hitting her second home run of the season last weekend against New Mexico State. Weber State is 5-19 this season and has yet to start Pacific Coast Softball Conference action. Weber State took two of three games against North Dakota last week in Ogden. The Wildcats are led by Erika James who is hitting .362 this season with 25 hits. In the circle, Weber State has had four different start this sea-son. Kelsie Vallies has the most starts with 10 and holds a 0-8 record. The Aggies hold a 27-9 overall series record against the Wildcats. Last season, Utah State swept Weber State in Logan, 11-1 in five innings and 9-3. The dou-bleheader in Ogden was cancelled due to inclement weather.

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A n o t h e r season in the books, another 345 dreams that didn’t come true, and another year that the little guys came up short. I know it probably seems brutally redun-dant at this point for me to still be talking about the hopes and dreams of the mid-majors, but it is important to know that all of the emotion poured into hoping to see the other mid-majors of the world like Butler succeed is based around the hope that Utah State will be the team in that position. Would I be content with back-to-back losses in the national championship game? Probably. Would I be forever haunted by the idea of “what if?” Of course. Regardless of that though, the ride to get to even one Final Four or champion-ship game would be one hell of a roll-ercoaster, and it’s a ride I would get on every time. Yes, Butler fans had their dreams shat-tered on the final day of the season once again, but don’t think for a second that they won’t remember these past two years for the rest of their lives and tell stories about the players whose names will undoubtedly go down as legends. Don’t think that the memories for those fans won’t live on forever and don’t think that the students who were there through the thick and thin of the past two seasons won’t be forever bragging that Butler’s best year (I assume) came while they were packing student sections. It’s almost unfair to future Butler play-ers because chances are Bulldog fans will forever compare them to the likes of Shelvin Mack, Matt Howard and Gordon Hayward, no matter how accomplished of a career they put forth shy of actually winning the title game. Not to make Butler fans sound fickle or anything, but it seems to be a universal idea carried throughout humanity that “things just aren’t as good as they used to be.” Regardless, it’s been an amazing past

two years for Butler, and even though I shouldn’t be writing them off for next year just yet, losing Howard and Mack alone should be too much to put together another Final Four run. Then again, who knows? Maybe head coach Brad Stevens just instills that sense of mental toughness that gets teams through March, which his teams have demonstrated each of the past two years? Either way, the right group of players came together for Butler and made all the right plays at all the right times to put together two incredible back-to-back seasons. And for everyone scoring at home, Butler has the best average finish of any team in the country over the past two years with two straight second-place finishes. Utah State is currently on that same fringe of big time success that Butler was on just three or four years ago. Not to say back-to-back Final Fours will happen for USU anytime soon, but carving out their own unique and exciting story of NCAA Tournament success doesn’t seem too far off for the Aggies. Two years ago we thought that it would be the likes of Gary Wilkinson, Jared Quayle and Tai Wesley elevating their names to household status much like Hayward, Howard and Mack have for Butler, but USU came up just short. Now all three of those players’ careers in an Aggie uniform are finished, and that epic story of March Madness has yet to show itself for this USU team. With this college basketball season officially over, and the past generation of staples in USU’s starting lineup graduated, it’s time for the next group of guys to take their shot at writing Utah State’s success story just like Butler has had written for them. Brockeith Pane, Brady Jardine and Preston Medlin, it’s your turn now.

Matt Sonnenberg is a senior majoring in

print journalism. Matt is an avid fan of

Aggie athletics and can be found on the

front row of every home football and

basketball game. He can also be reached

at matt.sonn@aggiemail.usu.edu.

Butler’s run gives hope

Matt Sonnenberg

The View from

Section F

The View

Section F

This year, Turbin will not have to be on the sideline to make his teammates better. His on-field example inspires his fellow Aggies to perform better. “Every time that I am out there, I just look at him to get bet-ter,” Marshall said. “Looking at him is like a blessing in disguise, because while he’s doing his thing, it feels like I’m out there doing it. Whatever he does, it just motivates me to do better as well as the other guys. We just look at him to bring us along because he is a veteran. He knows what he is doing, and he knows how the system should be ran. It’s a good thing to have (Turbin) back out there.” With more than 140 days before he will take the field against defending national champions the Auburn Tigers on Saturday, Sept. 3, Turbin has a lot of time to prepare. Already a force to be reckoned with, Turbin is looking to improve each and every day. “As an individual, the thing I want to focus on the most is being consistent. We have 15 practices in the spring, and I want to make sure that I am better on day 15 than I was on day one,” he said.

–w.mangum@aggiemail.usu.edu

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CONNECTICUT’S KEMBA WALKER HOLDS the net after his team won the men’s NCAA

Final Four college basketball championship game against Butler, 53-41 April 4, in Houston. AP photo

UCONN Huskies headed home with hardware HOUSTON (AP) – Seen as little more than a one-man novelty, Connecticut wasn’t given much chance in the brutally tough Big East. A national title contender? Please. With a bruising finish to an improbable run, the Huskies have a message for all the doubters: Shhh! Connecticut wrapped up its third national championship Monday night, pushing Butler around for a 53-41 victory to secure a spot in history for coach Jim Calhoun and star Kemba Walker. “In the beginning of the season, we were hearing a lot of negativ-ity: too young, all we have is Kemba Walker, no true post presence,” sophomore forward Alex Oriakhi said. “With this team, we just worked hard. I’m happy the hard work has paid off and we were able to prove people wrong when they said we couldn’t.” The doubt started in the preseason, when Connecticut was picked 10th in the Big East and an afterthought in the polls. Calhoun wasn’t even sure what he had in this group of mostly underclassmen, joking before the Maui Invitational he was still try-ing to learn everyone’s name. Walker raised the Huskies’ profile – not to mention his – with a carry-on-his-back performance in Maui and did it again in the Big East tournament after 9-9 run through conference nearly derailed their season. The Huskies (32-9) were a nearly unstoppable combination of star power and grit in the NCAA tournament, riding Walker’s scor-ing bursts and body-bruising defense into the program’s fourth Final Four. Connecticut capped it off with two eye-of-the-beholder defensive gems, swarming Kentucky in the national semifinals, followed by a body-blow takedown of Butler in the title game, holding the Bulldogs to a championship-game low 18.8 percent shooting. “We were unstoppable. That’s why we’re national champions,” said Walker, who fought through a tough shooting night to lead UConn with 16 points in the final. “We’re the best team in the coun-try.” UConn’s run rejuvenated Calhoun after one of his most difficult seasons in 39 years as a coach. Coming off a trip to the Final Four the year before, Calhoun looked worn down in the 2009-10 season, the toll of an NCAA inves-tigation and the death of his sister-in-law and college roommate exacerbating the difficulties his team had on the court. But, after missing the NCAA tournament for one of the few times in his career, Calhoun seemed to have the bounce back in his step this season, pulling off one of the best coaching jobs of his career. Relying on his entrenched basketball wisdom, Calhoun always seemed to know what move to make and precisely when to make it. He handed the reins of the offense over to Walker, his coaching extension on the floor, and brought the young players along with his own brand of tough-love nurturing. When it was over, Calhoun had won his third title since 1999, joining John Wooden, Adolph Rupp, Mike Krzyzewski and Bob Knight as the only coaches to cut the final nets of the season three times.

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This column was written

in response to “To the single

ladies of Logan,” a guest col-

umn that appeared in The

Utah Statesman on Monday,

April 4.

You seem to have a dating problem. The problem is that you keep dating “witches.” You seem to think that every single woman on campus is a “witch,” a word it feels like you are trying to substitute for one from a less professional vocabulary. Not every girl is a witch and not every guy is Prince Charming. We are not all psycho, lying, lazy, selfish and arrogant witches as you say we are. After all, you may have dated some rude women in the past who have not handled the situation in the most pleas-ing way but it is inaccurate to take those experiences and generalize them for all the ladies in the area. Let’s be honest, we are busy, not being able to go out because of a legitimate excuse does not give you the right to pin us down to “ditching” you. Maybe offering multiple scheduling options would garner you more dates. Perhaps “douche guy” at Charlie’s was able to give an option that

To the editor:

I’m writing to clarify a few points in the otherwise well-written and extremely insight-ful opinion piece “To the sin-gle ladies of Logan.” I’m sure that in rushing the Monday newspaper went to print, the author forgot to include a few points. After all, he must not have learned the lesson the rest

Rejection is a

part of dating

of us learned in high school: rejection is a part of dating. Maybe the author would do better to focus on the one constant variable in all of his failed relationships – himself – and less on the enormous perceived defects in every-one else. And I’m sure he’s tired of taking the initiative in dating; after all, any rea-sonable guy would surely be exhausted after planning and inviting a girl to three con-secutive dates. Wow. And by the use of fabu-lous phrases like “lying with,”

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Forty days and 40 nights. The Bible tells the story of Jesus Christ spending that time in the wilderness fasting, praying

and resisting temptation. In commemoration of this event, the Catholic church began the celebration of Lent in which people do essen-tially the same thing, preparing themselves for Easter Sunday, celebrating the resurrection of Christ. Lent participants choose something they see as harmful or too excessive in their lives, and they give it up. Candy, soda and Facebook are all common things that are cut from people’s lives in this time of fasting. However, these days, Lent has become more and more common among those out-side of Catholicism and other Christian tradi-tions. And we say, props to them! We live in a complicated, busy and stress-filled world. We all have a lot going on in our lives, yet we still find things to waste time or live slothfully. Facebook is a place we proba-bly all spend more time than we should. Many students spend most of their time on campus where we are often limited to very selected, and not-so-healthy meal options, so we resort to a Happy Hour soda and some M&Ms. There are also more options and interpreta-tions to the spirit of Lent than the strict defini-tion of fasting. Some choose to donate mon-etarily or give their time to a cause related to what they have given up – or unrelated. No harm in an excuse for a little charity. Some choose to implement a policy such as attend-ing church, studying or eating five vegetables a day in their version of Lent. You know, something along the lines of ‘it takes so many repetitions to form a habit’ and ‘you have to replace a bad habit with something else.’ By definition, it’s a chance to reflect on your faith and how you implement that faith in your life. But it’s also a chance to reflect on where you are and where you want to be and pour some effort into making the changes that oth-erwise you’d never find the motivation for. Forty days? That’s hardly anything. There are less than 40 days until our semester is over. Compared to the 365 days in our nor-mal year, 40 of those seems like nothing. To give something up from our lives for 40 days would not be that hard. To give up something “important” in our lives teaches valuable life-lessons. Everyone needs a little sacrifice in their lives. It can show us how much we really do value that thing, or let us see that it isn’t actually some-thing vital and we can, in fact, live without it.

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Differential tuition’s true costs The word u n i v e r s i t y o r i g i n a t e s from the same word as universe and universal. It seems that what we con-sider to be a university is far from the idea of a universal education for all those who attend. While general education courses are still required for graduation, the gap between students in different colleges continues to widen. In this world of specialization and exclusivity that we live in, one can attend a university, graduate, and learn very little about subjects outside of their narrow-minded major. To me, this seems like a waste of a wonderful opportunity to learn a bit of everything from those who have, by definition, mastered the subjects. A university is often a place where dreams come true. Students from low-income childhoods or even outside the country are given the opportunity to come get an education and return home to make a differ-ence with the knowledge and experience they gain from a university education. Limited resources are a fact of life for most students. When differen-tial tuition is factored in, how-ever, the limited resources of a given student may prevent them from achieving their dreams and hav-ing a fruitful and successful life providing for themselves and their family. Sure, this may be a rather drastic view, but there is some underlying truth. In the coming years, dif-ferential tuition will make a business degree cost up to $1,500 more per semester than any other degree at our fine university. Considering the big picture, business stu-dents are paying upwards of 50 percent more than the rest of us for their education. This seems like the perfect breeding ground for the development of a serious superior-ity complex among the fine scholars of the Huntsman School of Business. Most of the arguments that I have heard in favor of differential tuition come from business students themselves. They agree with the idea, and see it as a way to become a more competitive institution. More money allows for the hiring of “better” professors. Another argument that I heard is that a school has to be able to pay competitive wages to bring in successful businesspeople to become teachers. I am forced to ask what makes a quality business person a quality teacher. It doesn’t seem logical to hire an entrepreneur that struck gold with a brilliant idea to try to teach students how to do the same. One either gets the ideas or they do not.

Perhaps if the Huntsman School of Business had some bigger names, they would attract more students, but at what cost? If new, better-qualified professors are brought in, there are going to be plenty of current professors that lose their jobs, especially if these new professors cost so much more. The university may be trading three capable professors for one presti-gious name. If logic holds true, this will lead to larger class sizes. I would rather have a smaller class with a “no-name” professor than sit in a 300-seat lecture hall with a hot-shot egomaniac. All of us are students. It is clear that we have different interests and are better at certain things than our peers. That’s why we specialize. We choose something that we are interested in and pursue it. Perhaps art is your forte. Maybe you want to become an elementary school teacher. Who is to say that a degree in business is worth more than a degree in industrial hygiene? The Huntsman School of Business is

one of the wealthiest colleges on campus. They take pride in their accomplishments and their rising status among the nation’s universities. By charg-ing differential tuition, they will in effect discourage stu-dents from other colleges from taking both lower and upper division courses in business. Furthermore, those seeking a business minor in addition to their major can expect to pay more than $1,000 in additional

tuition just to broaden their horizons. This is not a call to action. I don’t see any way for differential tuition go to away. I just find it unfortunate that we can’t all just come to school and take the classes we want. In an ideal world, we would all come to school, take classes that interest us, learn a little bit of everything and get a degree in what we are best at. Unfortunately, it is much cheaper to decide your major before attending the first day of school. I person-ally declared my major nearly three years before my first day of school. I hope to be the exception rather than the rule, but I fear that too many commit the same error. Luckily I happen to enjoy my major. In that regard, I hope to be the rule rather than the exception. Take some thought as to what you want out of your university education. Diversity in education is a wonderful thing. Narrow-mindedness rarely leads to success

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fit her scheduling needs better. Dating is a nice, fun thing to do but you have to understand that it cannot be a prior-ity over things that are more pressing like homework and prior commitments. Are you saying you would rather have a girl flake out on someone else to be with you? Who is the selfish one again? Yes, backing out of a date is rude but sometimes there is no other option. Both parties should express the desire to reschedule in the case of cancella-tion. You obsess about whether or not a girl is going to turn you down. Most guys I talk to have a major fear of rejection right off the bat. You want girls to be honest but you want them to give you a chance for the “man inside” so what are we supposed to say: Okay I’ll go out with you even though I don’t really want to just so I can give you a chance? That is ridiculous! From most of my female friends, who are not witches by any means, most of us have a one-date policy: If a guy has the guts to ask us out we will respect them and give them at least one date to see if any compatibility is there. We know it is scary to ask a girl out, we understand that, so we are not going to be cruel and instantly turn you down. Yes, there are girls out there that will not follow up because they do not want to turn you down. Yes, I agree that is wrong on their part. Communication is essential for a relationship. How are you supposed to potentially start a relationship if you do not talk? I also say that women are not the only ones at fault for this. Many girls I have talked to get the cold shoulder from guys after they have gone on a single date or hung out once or twice. Both sides just need to get over it and be honest. You know that fear in your gut when you are getting ready to talk to a new girl or ask a girl out? Guess what? Girls have that exact same fear. Why do you think so many girls DON’T ask guys out? We have been told for a long time that it is the guy’s job, not that I agree with that. Now we have grown up and realize we do have some power,

Students attend uni-versities for a variety of reasons – maybe you’re here because you hope your degree will reward you with money, per-haps your parents are paying and you feel pressured to attend, or maybe you really just love to learn. Whatever your reason for engaging in scholarly studies may be, there is one principle that is consistently held throughout universities worldwide and is even included in Utah State’s mis-sion statement: Academics come first. What is academia? Loosely defined by the Oxford dictionary, it is the compila-tion of teachers, students and learning in an academic environment. This should be the foremost priority for all college attendees, but there is a particular breed of students for which the principle of aca-demics coming first is consistently untrue: Our beloved athletes. As a former high-school athlete, I’ll be the first to admit that I’m crazy about an exciting basketball game. It’s fun and powerful and winning boosts the school morale. However, athletics should not be the priority for the players. They are stu-dents, first and foremost, and especially prominent students because they rep-resent the school through their athletic involvement. An average of 85 percent of student athletes are on scholarships (NCAA stan-dards only allow 13 full scholarships per basketball team); so in men’s basketball and football alone, we have about 120 male athletes on full scholarship. This includes tuition, food and housing, books

and a monthly stipend of around $400. Altogether, in these two men’s sports, this is well over $1 million spent every year on schol-arships alone – and that’s estimated using the cheap-est meal plan and in-state tuition. It’s nothing short of

incredible that this much money is being spent on their education when you con-sider that a majority of players do not come close to the national average GPA, which, according to MSNBC, is 3.22. Not even half of USU’s student athletes have met that range, and our school brags an unusually high athletic GPA. As a group, athletes are no less intelligent than any other random sampling of college stu-dents. Why, then, are they consistently given lesser academic standards to mea-sure up to, and then rewarded with full scholarships? Very little effort is required with classes and assignments to get a 2.0 GPA, and that’s all it takes to keep an athletic scholarship. Some say that the sports programs make money for the school, but the NCAA financial report I obtained from Indystar.com states that the difference between the revenue spent and the rev-enue made from sports was a grand total of $502 for USU. This is disgustingly unjustifiable; especially because the bot-tom line is that the school’s responsibility is not to make money off the athletes. It is to give them an education. All students should be earning scholarships based on their academic achievements, not ath-letic prowess. You may ask, “Well, isn’t the money

spent well worth them getting their edu-cation?” According to Thesportjournal.org, “College athletes earn fewer bache-lor’s degrees than do students in general, they take longer to do so, their grades are lower, and their curricula are less demanding.” I think that’s a pretty solid no for an answer. Universities do a great disservice to athletes by demanding less of them academically; only 2-3 percent of athletes go on to play professional sports. The rest are generally left with a BA in an area you can’t get a good job in without a master’s degree (psychology, sociology, etc), but their GPAs are too low for gradu-ate school admission. If athletes had to take out loans or meet scholarship criteria, just like the rest of us, and if they were held to the same academic standards that their non-ath-letic peers are, their grades would shape up real fast in order to keep a scholar-ship and they would have to take school more seriously. And what if they don’t? What if these athletes don’t want to pay to be a student? There are so many oth-ers who want to play college sports that finding those who are willing to pay for it themselves or meet a higher academic standard will not be a problem. I understand that the athletic programs of colleges are not going to change any-time soon, and maybe they will never change at all. But for an institution whose top priority is supposedly educating stu-dents, I find the double standard between athletes and other students’ academic expectations to be, quite frankly, bullshit.

Liz Emery is a senior majoring in English. She can be reached at liz.emery@yahoo.

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we can initiate, but what if we are turned down? You talk about girls being arrogant and ridiculing guys but girls aren’t the only ones. Many girls have felt the shamed and belittled because some guy out there has acted like he is king of the world so why should he go out with a girl like her? My point? Girls are not the only ones out there making dating mistakes. There are just as many mistakes being made on the guy’s side. So maybe you should look at who you are dating and realize the mistakes that you are making. Then, maybe, we will all be able to grow up a bit more and date as if we are adults instead of immature high school students.

Carly Crosby is a freshman majoring in English. She can be reached at carlycrosby@live.com.

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ATLANTA (AP) – Eight young illegal immi-grants were arrested Tuesday for sitting in the middle of a busy street in front of the Georgia Capitol, protesting their lack of access to higher education in a scene reminiscent of civil rights demonstrations decades ago. The group, made up of mostly students, believe their plight is similar to movement the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led, and they met with former activists from the 1960s to hash out their civil disobedience plan. As the for-eign-born youngsters sat in the road, at times holding hands, hundreds of supporters lined the street and cheered in support as the illegal immigrants were led away in handcuffs. Before the sit-in the youngsters, their voices trembling, each stood before the crowd, took a microphone and announced: “I am undocu-mented, and I am unafraid.” In telling their stories, they took a risk like many of their parents made when they came to the U.S. to find a better life. Many said that, despite their grades, they have found their immigration status might prevent them from going to college, in part because they can’t afford costly out-of-state tuition fees. Most also don’t qualify for federal aid and at times, state help. The Rev. Timothy McDonald was one of the activists who met with the students at Ebenezer Baptist Church in the room where King and other preachers founded the Southern

Christian Leadership Conference, the organiza-tion that led the movement for equality and justice for blacks. “We felt the connection,” McDonald said. “We pointed out that there has never been a successful movement of any kind without young people, and that was especially true of the civil rights movement. It was the students who filled up the jails, not the preachers.” The group protested in an effort to bring

national attention to the issue of equal access to education. They are also upset with what they see as anti-immigrant legislation in Georgia and elsewhere across the country. South Carolina passed a law banning illegal immigrants from attending state colleges and universities, but a similar measure in Georgia failed. However, Georgia’s university system late last year approved a rule that essentially bans illegal immigrants from the five most

competitive public schools in the state, if those colleges had rejected academically eligible stu-dents because of a high number of applicants. The protest was not unlike the lunch coun-ter sit-ins led by students in Greensboro, N.C., more than 50 years ago, and was similar to efforts staged recently across the country, including a sit-in at the Tucson, Ariz., offices of U.S. Sen. John McCain. The protests are part of The Dream is Coming project, which was created to advocate for the DREAM Act, legislation that would provide a path to citizenship for certain young people who were brought here at a young age. It has failed to pass Congress several times, most recently in December. One of the protesters in Georgia, Dulce Guerrero, said she was done being afraid. “I’ve been living in fear for years, not know-ing what’s going to happen to my family,” said the 18-year-old. “I’m tired of it. Today, I’m here to tell the world that I’m undocumented. I’m here for a lot of my friends who are still in the shadows. They need to step up and step out. There is no more being neutral.” The protesters were charged with obstruct-ing traffic. Atlanta police do not participate in a local-federal partnership that empowers local law enforcement to enforce federal immigra-tion law, so the likelihood of the students being turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was low.

VIRDIANA MARTINEZ IS ARRESTED during a protest for rights for higher education for ille-

gal immigrants that blocked traffic Tuesday in Atlanta. AP photo

Illegal immigrants detained at Atlanta protest

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – A 2,700-acre fire in central New Mexico was caused by sparks from a hand-held metal grinder that ignited grass and weeds, authorities said Tuesday. State Forestry Division officials were looking for a person or persons they believe stripped steel parts from a bulldozer, an act that led to the fire near the Sevilleta Wildlife Refuge. Authorities found parts of the machine missing and hand tools left at the scene, forestry spokesman Dan Ware said. They believe that whoever was using the tools left the area quickly once they realized a fire had started. The fire that broke out Saturday afternoon led to the evacua-tion of about 50 people from the New Mexico Boys Ranch. Fire officials have lifted that evacuation and a second evacuation in southern New Mexico that forced people from their homes and the Ruidoso Downs Racetrack and Casino.

Evidence suggests the stripping activity started several other small fires that were put out with a shovel before the larger fire escaped. The fire was listed as 50 percent contained Tuesday. Boys Ranch residents were allowed to return at noon Tuesday. Most of the ranch’s 25 young people went to their families or stayed with a counselor at a motel. About 18 staff members and their children also left the ranch along the Rio Grande near Belen, about 60 miles south of Albuquerque. Crews were working on the flanks of the blaze as vegetation inside the fire lines continued to smolder, fire information offi-cer Vicky Fox said. No structures burned, she said. Barricades were lifted Monday from neighborhoods evacu-ated in the Ruidoso Downs area of southern New Mexico. Residents had been forced out Sunday by a wildfire that offi-

cials said burned five homes and seven outbuildings, damaged two other homes and two outbuildings and burned numerous vehicles. That fire, which has burned more than 10,000 acres, was 20 percent contained Tuesday. The fire broke out Sunday in steep, rugged Gavilan Canyon and grew rapidly, pushed by winds estimated at 50 to 60 mph. As of Tuesday, it had burned nearly 16 square miles of grass, brush and pinon and juniper trees on private, state and federal land about 200 miles south of Albuquerque. Lighter winds and cooler temperatures helped the battle, fire officials said. A third fire that blackened about 2,000 acres of brush in the Uvas Valley in southwestern New Mexico along N.M. 26 did not burn any structures, authorities said.

Evacuations lifted on wildfire near N.M. Boys Ranch

Tribe of Yemen president clashes with army, 3 dead SANAA, Yemen (AP) – Tribesmen loyal to Yemen’s embattled president on Tuesday clashed with a group of soldiers whose com-mander has sided with the opposition, and the fighting in a suburb of the capital Sanaa left three tribesmen dead, according to tribal elders and military officials. It was the latest violence in weeks of turmoil in Yemen, where President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s military and police forces have cracked down on protesters demanding he step down after 32 years in power. The clash erupted as a convoy of about 30 cars with armed tribesmen from Saleh’s Sanhan tribe arrived at the headquarters of the 1st Armored Division in western Sanaa to meet with its com-mander, Maj. Gen. Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, who had earlier joined the opposition. Tribal members and army officers at the scene said al-Ahmar, who also hails from Saleh’s tribe, met a tribal chief, Ismail Abu Hurriya, who tried to persuade the renegade commander to return to the president’s camp. It was unclear how exactly the shooting started at the gate of the army compound. Some said a group of government supporters appeared at the scene and opened fire, but conflicting reports could not be clarified. Several tribesmen were also wounded by the gun-

fire, witnesses said. Al-Ahmar said gunbattle was a failed attempt to assassinate him. In a statement from his office, he accused a group of infiltra-tors among the mediator’s guards of being behind the violence. He would not say who sent the alleged assassins. The powerful Sanhan tribe is split between those remaining loyal to Saleh and those who have crossed over to the opposition. Al-Ahmar’s troops have stationed themselves close to the central square near Sanaa University to protect thousands of anti-Saleh pro-testers who have been camping for weeks, refusing to give up their protest until Saleh leaves office. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told Yemen’s president Ali Abdullah Saleh in a telephone call Tuesday that he sent a small team to determine how the United Nations could best help quell tensions. The U.N. chief’s office said Ban “expressed strong concerns for the dead and the injured, and urged utmost restraint from both gov-ernment and opposition’s forces.” Yemen’s opposition parties urged the international community, regional powers and human rights groups to help stop the blood-shed in the country. More than 120 people have been killed and 5,000 injured since Yemen’s protests started in Feb. 11, inspired by the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.

AN INJURED ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTOR ges-

tures as he arrives to a field hospital during clashes in Sanaa,Yemen,

Tuesday.Opposition parties in Yemen have urged everyone to help

stop the bloodshed in their country. AP photo

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