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Underage drinking on USU’s dry campus

BY PAUL CHRISTIANSENstaff writer

It’s no secret USU had problems with

on-‐campus alcohol use in the past. Being

a “dry” campus, university policy doesn’t

allow any sort of alcoholic beverage on cam-‐

pus at any time.

But that isn’t to say problems don’t occur.

In fact, the largest part of liquor law viola-‐

tions in the USU community involve under-‐

age students.

“It makes sense, given the demographic,”

said Capt. Steven Milne of the USU Police

Department. “Kids come to college for four

or five years. They start at the age of 18

and three of those years are under the legal

drinking age. A lot of the arrests that we

make are in on-‐campus housing locations.”

The number of arrests for liquor law vio-‐

lations has increased slightly from the 50

arrests made in 2011. In 2012, USU police

made 58 alcohol-‐related arrests.

“If you’re underage and we find you,

you’ll be cited. That’s a criminal matter,”

Milne said. “If you’re of legal age and you’re

found to have alcohol on campus, that’s

a housing policy violation and more of a

civil violation. What we do at that point is

seize the alcohol and write a report. A copy

of that report goes to housing and they’ll

follow up with the individual and take the

proper action.”

USU POLICE made 58 alcohol-related arrests in 2012, up eight from 2011. MICKELLE YEATES photo See DRINKING, Page 2

BY TAVIN STUCKInews editor

USU’s engineering

program is loaded with

male students, something

evident to the Society of

Women Engineers.

Saturday, SWE hosted

an outreach event for

high school girls in the

Engineering Building in

an attempt to reverse that

trend.

According to enrollment

numbers from the Fall

2012 semester, approxi-‐

mately 10 percent of all of

USU’s 1,982 undergradu-‐

ate students in the College

of Engineering are female.

Women make up about

15 percent of all USU 413

graduate engineering

students, which offers a

doctorate degree in engi-‐

neering education.

“The percentage of

women in engineering

is relatively small,” said

Gilberto Urroz, an asso-‐

ciate civil engineering

professor. “These types

of programs are good to

increase the appeal of

prospective students and

entice women into engi-‐

neering.”

Professor Chris Hailey,

associate dean in the

College of Engineering,

said eventually she wants

to see women comprise at

least 50 percent of all engi-‐

neering students at USU.

“In the country, there’s a

shortage of engineers,” she

said. “Engineers make a

world of difference, wheth-‐

er it’s in the area of health

or environment or energy

or national security. All of

those areas require tech-‐

nological solutions. They

require engineers.”

Isabello Muffoletto, a

senior from Logan High

School who attended

SWE’s Engineering

Extravaganza, described

the stigma.

“Personally, I don’t

know any girls that

would feel comfortable

going into engineering,”

Muffoletto said. “They

don’t think they’re smart

enough or that it’s a man’s

f ield.”

Hailey said she thinks

one reason the female pop-‐

ulation isn’t participating

in the discipline is because

the College of Engineering

doesn’t do a good enough

job letting high school

students know the impor-‐

tance of the profession.

“By the time kids get to

college, they’re no longer

thinking about engineer-‐

ing because they never

Engineers recruit local talent

See SWE, Page 3

BY STEVE KENTeditor in chief

The annual College of

Agriculture Chili Cookoff

marked its sixth year with

a new location and a new

award Saturday in the

Junction.

Melanie Wilson, an Ag

Ambassador and a junior

studying nutrition science,

coordinated the event. The

Chili Cookoff ’s main purpose

is to bring members of the

agricultural community and

the college together, she said.

“It’s to remind people of

what we are and to get people

involved,” Wilson said. “It’s

something that’s really tra-‐

ditional, too, like everybody

has their recipe and they love

their chili.”

This year, the judges gave

an award in a new category:

the Best Department. The

trophy — a slow-‐cooker

spray-‐painted gold — went to

Michael Bishop, an academic

and student services coordi-‐

nator. Bishop represented the

School of Veterinary Sciences

with his entry, “Cadaver-‐ili.”

Next to his slow-‐cooker, a

piece of paper listed humor-‐

ous ingredients, correspond-‐

ing with ingredients actually

used, including “goiters,”

“intestines” and “lymph

nodes” as bell peppers,

stewed tomatoes and garlic.

“Don’t be thinking those

don’t add flavor,” Bishop said.

“Those add a lot of f lavor. I

went with the weaker recipe.

The general public — it’s a

Cadaver chili wins Ag cookoff

THE AG CHILI COOKOFF featured chili recipes of all sorts. Photo courtesy Lisa Allen

See CHILI, Page 3

LLC flooded

ADDISON M.T. HALLstaff writer

The USU Fee Board has met twice in recent weeks

and as Thursday’s final meeting approaches, four

groups are doing their best to gain support for their

Band, theater, Blue Bikes fees on the increase list

MEG CAMPBELL See FEE BOARD, Page 3

DRYERS AIR OUT Tyler Christianson’s LLC apartment, which was flooded by a broken pipe. Photo courtesy Austin Spence

BY TMERA BRADLEYnews senior writer

Water poured down

from the ceiling in Tyler

Christianson’s apartment

around 6:40 a.m. Thursday.

His room in the Living

Learning Community on cam-‐

pus was filling with water.

“I was still asleep,” said

Christianson, a freshman

majoring in mechanical engi-‐

neering. “There was a big

crashing sound. I thought,

‘Wow my alarm sounds really

loud.’”

Christianson said at first he

thought it was just a broken

sprinkler.

“After I saw water coming

out of the light fixtures, I real-‐

ized what was actually happen-‐

ing.”

Executive director of housing

Steve Jensen said the flooding

was called by a broken pipe.

“Water ran for 20 min-‐

utes, and it’s a big pipe,”

Christianson said. “It was a lot

USU Fee Board to propose new exspenses

Seven students temporarily evacuated to University Inn

See FLOOD, Page 3

respective fee increases. The music and theatre

department, Aggie Health and Wellness, Aggie Blue

Bikes and the Campus Recreation department are the

four main groups asking for an increase.

Meg Campbell, student representative of the music

and theatre department, said the extra fees would

help the band grow and get the department much-‐

needed upgrades. She said the total the department is

asking for is $4 with $1.50 going to the marching and

pep bands and the rest going to the department as a

whole.

Campbell said the fees for the band would allow

them to purchase more music to play during shows,

to hire a field coordinator to help with formations

and to increase the size of the band. In order to do

this, Campbell said the department would give sti-‐

pends and additional scholarships to the band mem-‐

bers.

“For a lot of people, the band’s a big time commit-‐

ment,” Campbell said, explaining the need for better

band benefits.

She said the money would help the band recruit

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In cases of underage drink-‐ing and on-‐campus viola-‐tions, campus police work closely with the Student Health and Wellness Center and the Housing and Residence Life department. Efforts by these USU agen-‐cies are meant to benefit students by helping them recognize their behavior affects not only them, but others as well. “If we talk to these students in question and teach them about the impact on their health, it lets them know that we are concerned for their health and well-‐being,” said Whitney Milligan, director of Residence Life. “Maybe they keep their roommates awake with loud and disrup-‐tive behavior or maybe their friends get worried because they come home drunk and sick. There are people around who are affected and who worry about them.” Underage students caught with alcohol are auto-‐matically referred to Ryan Barfuss, the Prevention Specialist at the wellness center. At that point, they are put through a series of questionnaires to gauge the level of their drinking behaviors. This process helps to identify if the stu-‐dent suffers from any drink-‐ing behaviors and tenden-‐cies that could be dangerous to them or others.

“We give the student an assessment to figure out if they have serious issues with alcohol use or if it’s just a one-‐time deal when they got caught,” Barfuss said. “The assessment gives me an idea of what will work best for the student and if they need educational classes or one-‐on-‐one counseling. Sometimes the individual might need treatment.”

Often times, depending on the court ruling, students are mandated by either the university or a judge to com-‐plete a series of educational classes. “The students will go through a four-‐week class consisting of about eight hours of classroom educa-‐tion,” Barfuss said. “But it’s much more than talk-‐ing about abstinence and saying ‘OK, you’re 18, you can’t drink.’ Instead of that approach, we talk about specific guidelines and skills they can use right now and also when they turn 21 to keep them at low-‐risk of having health problems. They’ll learn guidelines with drinking. They’ll learn what tolerance level and trigger level are. They learn what a standard drink is. They’ll

learn about family history and how that ties in and has an impact. It’s meant to ben-‐efit the student rather than chastise them.” Barfuss said students who take the alcohol education classes also learn how to look for and properly identi-‐fy symptoms of alcohol poi-‐soning, one of the primary problems affecting underage drinkers. “I know that underage drinking is taken very seriously in Utah, espe-‐cially in Logan,” said USU sophomore Manda Perkins. “There were times last year when my roommate would get really sick from drinking and that was always really sketchy. I know when to stop and I know what my limit is but I feel that a lot of the people I partied with didn’t

know what their limit was. My roommate would be puking and I’d be stressed that she had alcohol poison-‐ing.” Census data gathered by USU in 2011 shows 77 per-‐cent of students have never used alcohol while 23 per-‐cent use it casually or regu-‐larly. These numbers reflect an almost complete opposite of national numbers with those who use alcohol poll-‐ing at more than 70 percent. Milne, Barfuss and Milligan all agreed students most likely to take part in underage drinking are incoming freshmen. “I’ve been sober since halfway through last semes-‐ter,” Perkins said. “I stopped partying because it wasn’t the lifestyle I wanted any-‐more, but freshman year I

did quite a bit. There was one night last year when I lived in Richards Hall when I’d been smoking and drink-‐ing. I was really cross-‐faded and I remember laying in my bed feeling like I was having a heart attack, but I couldn’t tell anyone because if they knew I could have gotten in serious trouble.” Students who participate in alcohol consumption while in on-‐campus housing often take extra precautions to avoid getting caught. “Most of the drinking I did on campus we had to be quiet about,” Perkins said. “We’d have a bunch of us in someone’s room. If anyone got out of hand or too loud we’d kick them out. We tried to be smart about it but to be honest, I guess there’s nothing really smart about underage drinking.” The Student Health and Wellness Center encour-‐ages students who think they might have an alcohol-‐related problem to come in at any time. “There are tons of resources here,” Barfuss said. “We have pamphlets, books and videos on alcohol that students can get from us. We’re here to help and students can come to us at any time and we’ll do every-‐thing we can for them.” The goal of the university and the agencies therein is to help students to progress and grow as individuals. “It’s our goal to make students successful, well-‐rounded human beings,” Milligan said. “You learn your academic things in the classroom but you learn how to interact with other people, how to communicate and how to take responsibil-‐ity living in your commu-‐nity.”

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UNDERAGE DRINKING AT USU has been a concern for the USU Police Department. Though USU is a campus

where alcohol is not legally allowed, some students take extra precautions while flaunting alcohol laws. MICKELLE YEATES photo illustration

DRINKING: Illegal alcohol a part of college lifeFrom page 1

I know when to stop and I know what my limit is, but I feel that a lot of the people I partied with didn’t.”

Manda PerkinsUSU sophomore

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Interior designer Volpe shares successesBY JERA WOOD

staff writer

Steven Volpe, rated a top-‐100 interior designer by Architectural Digest, has traveled to many places such as Paris, London and Italy. This week, Volpe traveled to Utah for the first time, speaking to 17 third-‐year interior design students at USU on Thursday. “I was intrigued when I saw the list of prior speakers,” Volpe said. “It made me want to f ind out about what the school was doing.” Prior to his speech Volpe spent several hours with the interior design students. A month ago, these students received a hypothetical project from Steven Volpe Design. Their projects, which were displayed on a screen before Volpe’s speech began, were cri-‐tiqued by Volpe on Thursday. “Discussing their work that they were presenting, that was really ful-‐f illing,” Volpe said. Volpe spoke in the Performance Hall about some of the projects his company, Steven Volpe Design, has overseen. “I just thought it was really cool that

someone that famous would actually come here,” said Trent Yeates, a fresh-‐man majoring in pre-‐interior design. “It’s nice to have the interactions. I mean Utah’s pretty small, so knowing people that famous, I guess, is just really powerful.” Volpes speech was one of many events celebrating Arts Week. The Arts and Design department head, Laura Gelfand, introduced Volpe to the audience. “Stevens finely-‐tuned eye is the result of his work with several accom-‐plished designers,” Gelfand said. Volpe said such designers helped to inspire his projects. “I think it’s really important to have inspiration, because you need to grow from something,” Volpe said Following Volpe’s speech there was a reception in the lobby of the Performance Hall where students spoke with Volpe one on one. “I guess it’s cool to me that I can come see someone like this,” Yeates said. “I can learn from them when I’m just nobody right now, but hopefully I can become someone like him.”

– [email protected] ARTIST STEVEN VOLPE speaks with USU students in the Performance Hall

on campus Thursday. JESSICA FIFE photo

more members for the pep band too and could help form a total of three small pep bands, each with its own style. Campbell said the other $2.50 would go to the production department to offset the cost of students going to shows for free and toward buying better equip-‐ment for the theatre that she said was “many years outdated.” “We have so many pieces of equipment that are outdated in all of our facilities that we can’t keep up financially,” Campbell said. “We actually have people come to us saying that they want to perform on our stage but by the time we have rent all of the equipment to put on their show it’s too expensive and they go to the Eccles.” She also said the level of theatre education was hindered because of poor equipment. “Our students are being taught

on old equipment,” Campbell said. “They’re going out into the world having practiced on tech boards and on stages that are far outdated.” The fee is proposed to be ongo-‐ing in order to replace all equip-‐ment over the course of several years and to continue replacing old equipment as it’s seven-‐year lifespan ends. Zach Portman of ASUSU and James Davis, the director of the Student Health and Wellness Center, are helping the wellness center petition for a 50 cents increase in fees to fund better psychiatric care. “It would generate an esti-‐mated $15,000 a year in revenues that would go toward support-‐ing more psychiatric hours on campus,” Portman said. “There’s already psychiatric services offered through the health center and they’re really overloaded so this is proposing to contract out more hours for that.”

According to the proposal document, psychiatric service requests have increased by 45 per-‐cent since 2011 and any patients who wish to see the psychiatrist have to schedule one to two weeks in advance. The document reads that either more clinical hours for Dr. Kenneth Merrell, the current pro-‐vider, will be bought or an addi-‐tional doctor will be provided. The third petition is from Aggie Blue Bikes asking for $1.75. Elizabeth Kirkham, the student representative for ABB, said the group is losing a good portion of their money this year. “They’ve been funded a lot on Americorps grants up to this point,” Kirkham said. “A lot of those are ending this year.” Kirkham said they would have to cut bike repair staff down from six to three people if the petition didn’t pass, making it harder for them to be effective in helping students.

Kirkham said another reason they need the money is to pur-‐chase more storage room for their bikes and hire a shop manager to train staff members how to fix bikes and run the shop so the program coordinator, who had been doing this, could focus more on paperwork. The last petition brought before the fee board is for Campus Recreation, which is asking for $5.00 in order to hire an assistant director of facilities operations and an IT systems spe-‐cialist. According to the campus rec-‐reation fee proposal, the assistant facilities manager will be placed in charge of overseeing all recre-‐ational facilities at USU including the new Aggie Life and Wellness Center. The systems specialist will oversee all campus recreation computers and software in the new life and wellness center.

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knew about it to begin with,” Hailey said. In an attempt to win over the girls in attendance, cur-‐rent Aggie engineers gave presentations at workshops highlighting the six depart-‐ments within the College of Engineering with experiments ranging from testing the girls’ hair strength to discussing space shuttle launches. Urroz headed a workshop which taught recruits the effects of cavitation, a phe-‐nomena in hydraulics that can severely damage water pipes. “We actually had an old cas-‐ing of a valve that was heavily damaged by cavitation,” Urroz said. “I showed them one dem-‐onstration that they can see, actually, the cavitation occur-‐ring and then show them what the effect is.” Urroz said the recruits responded very well to the labs. “They were very engaged,” he said. “They were taking notes and taking measure-‐ments and interested in how to run the equipment.” Muffoletto said she enjoyed the workshops. “I just like how it’s kind of big and upcoming with a lot of problem solving, which I like,” Muffoletto said. “It’s kind of like futuristic.” Of the 34 who registered for the event, Hasbun said 28 high school girls attended Saturday’s all-‐day activities, compared to eight participants for 2012’s evening-‐only open

house. Indhira Hasbun, SWE’s vice president of corporate affairs who is also a graduate student studying environmental engi-‐neering, said girls just need to give engineering a chance. “Give it a try,” Hasbun said. “Even if they don’t know what engineering is, that’s what the whole event is about. They can get to know what it is.” While the spike in recruit-‐ing priority comes months after The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-‐day Saints changed official policy on age requirements for female mis-‐sionaries from 21 years of age to 19, Urroz said recruiting female engineers has always been important.

“I think we’re going to be affected as bad as the univer-‐sity,” Urroz said. “We’re going to see a drop in the number of students in the next couple of years.” But that’s short term. “Then I expect a shock wave as everybody comes back,” Hailey said, though she expects enrollment to stabilize in six or seven years. “I know within the Society of Women Engineers, we lose a couple really capable leaders who as soon as they heard they could go on church missions said of course they wanted to.” Either way, Urroz said there is still a need for engineers. “There is a high demand for people in science and engi-‐

neering coming up,” Urroz said. “We want to get the stu-‐dents engaged in their inter-‐ests in engineering and science at a younger age so they can start taking the proper classes they need to be successful in their college studies.” Urroz hopes recruiting early will be the key to open-‐ing career opportunities for women in engineering fields. “I think there’s a great opportunity for women in engineering and science,” Urroz said.


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Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013

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The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University presents “Industrial Ethos,” an exhibit focusing on the intrigue of the industrial environ-‐ment through the work of pho-‐tographer Chris Dunker, a faculty member in the Department of Art and Design at USU. “Many industrial sites and fixtures go unseen due to access restrictions,” Dunker said. “This exhibit provides a behind the scene glimpse into local industries that viewers may not have seen before.” With 25 years of experi-‐ence, Dunker has photographed local companies, including ThermoFisher Scientific, Icon Health and Fitness and Miller Beef. Dunker also collects anything industrial, such as illustrations of machines from early corporate reports. As part of the exhibit, highlights from Dunker’s personal collection will also be on display. His fascina-‐tion with urban decay is portrayed in his selection of industrial archi-‐tecture and the sculptural shapes of the machines inside. An opening reception is Friday, Feb. 1, at 5 p.m. in the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, located in the Chase Fine Arts Center on USU’s campus. The reception is free and open to the public, with light refreshments provided. “Industrial Ethos” is on display through the end of May at the museum, open Monday through Friday 10 a.m. -‐ 5 p.m. and Saturdays from 11 a.m. -‐ 4 p.m. For more information, contact the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum at 435-‐797-‐0163 or visit the museum’s website at artmuseum.usu.edu.

A Health Fair, presented by Utah State University’s Student Health Services and the Employee Wellness Program, will be held Thursday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Taggart Student Center’s International Lounge. The fair’s organizers say the fair “provides the resources to make your 2013 New Year’s resolutions a success.” “As a joint effort with Student Services and Human Resources, this event’s purpose is to inspire others and engage people to fulfill their potential of living strong, successful and healthy lives,” said USU Wellness Coordinator Dayna Barrett. The Health Fair is open to stu-‐dents, employees and the community. The Health Fair aims to motivate individuals on their wellness journey during any stage of life, Barrett said. Interactive booths, displays and health screenings are available at the Health Fair, providing information about nutrition, fitness, relaxation, sustainability and financial health. Attendees can receive a free health screening to determine body mass index, body fat percentage, blood pressure, blood sugar, grip strength and f lexibility. Additional screening, including free diabetes and blood sugar screening, are offered thanks to generous support by Logan Regional Hospital. Those who would like to receive a free hearing test provided by the USU Hearing Clinic, please call 435-‐797-‐1375. “The USU Wellness Program strives to support and enhance the health and wellness of employees and their families and the broader com-‐munity by building partnerships, programs and policies that enrich lives,” Barrett said. “Many of our pro-‐grams are available to students and community members.”

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of water.” Jensen said the USU Police Department responded first, followed by the on-‐call mainte-‐nance crew. “We take safety very seriously on campus,” Jensen said. “We do our best to take care of our resi-‐dents.” The main flooding happened in Christianson’s bedroom, but Jensen said the whole suite on the first f loor of building C was affected. “We put some towels up so it

wouldn’t go into our room,” said sophomore Austin Spence, who lives in the affected suite. He said the damage wasn’t as bad in his room. Christianson said they evacu-‐ated the building and and took all of his belongings in the study area. “I ended up going to physics recitation in just sweats and a coat,” Christianson said. The seven residents in the suite were moved to the University Inn while the apart-‐ment is being repaired. All of the students returned to their rooms

Monday except Christianson, who will move back in at the end of the week. Christianson said they com-‐pletely ripped out the ceiling in his room. It is also getting new carpet and paint. Jensen said the repair costs are covered by the university’s insur-‐ance. The pipe cracked when the frozen water expanded. When it thawed, the water came gushing through the pipe, Jensen said. “It was an error in the con-‐struction,” Jensen said. “Because it was up above the insulation in the attic, it froze.”

Jensen said this is the coldest winter Logan has had since the buildings were constructed, and that’s why the problem hasn’t surfaced before. He said the sprinkler line had to be rerouted through all of the buildings of the LLC. “It was a pretty involved pro-‐cess, but it should never happen again,” Jensen said.


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little strong for them.” Though making chili from the joke ingre-‐dients is technically possible, Bishop said, he doesn’t think anyone would like it. The actual recipe is a family favorite from his mother, he said. “It is the only family chili,” Bishop said. “We like it so well, we don’t make any other.” The Best Department award was created to stir up participation and competition within the College of Agriculture, Wilson said. Wilson said in the past, the event was held in the Living Learning Community, but construction forced coordinators to consider other venues. The Junction is a better fit, she added, because it’s already set up for food

service and Junction management was very helpful. The panel of judges included Joyce Albrecht, wife of USU President Stan Albrecht. “She does this every year, actually,” Wilson said regarding Albrecht’s participation. “She’s really excited about it. She’s our most regular one.” Every year, coordinators pick a charity and donate the cookoff ’s proceeds, Wilson said. This year, they chose the Cache Community Food Pantry, which is raising funds to pay off a newly constructed building. Donald Donaldson, an executive chef with dining service, judged chili and helped with services in the Junction. Donaldson said the

event went well and he looks forward to par-‐ticipating in years to come. “We had a full dining room,” Donaldson said. “There were many, many chilis to be tasted tonight. I think it was an overall suc-‐cess.” Donaldson said he enjoyed judging the competition and was surprised by the variety in the recipes. Despite the variety, he liked them all, he said. “I discovered that there are no bad chilis,” Donaldson said. “There are just chilis that I don’t like as much as others. There wasn’t a bad chili tonight.”

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ALEX BALLYK TESTS HER HAIR STRENGTH at the Society of Women Engineers’ Engineering Extravaganza on Saturday. SAMANTHA BEHL photo

ABI NEWHOUSEstaff writer

Logan may be quiet many nights, but on Tuesdays and Fridays, the walls of the Whittier Community Center bounce with any number of differ-‐ent kinds of music: coun-‐try, samba and dance, to name a few. Erica Colvin set up the Free Style Dance Company as one of the tenants in the Whittier Center in 2010. She said she didn’t expect it to be as successful as it is now. She teaches salsa, ballroom, and country-‐western classes and has six dance teams of all ages. She likes teaching salsa and country-‐western because she said they have a lot of the same moves and styles. When Colvin went to BYU-‐Idaho and majored in writing, she found it was dance she really wanted to pursue. She moved to Logan and didn’t like it at f irst, but said leaving would mean she would have to go all the way to Salt Lake City to dance. “I decided while I was here, I might as well start some dance classes and

then it just kind of grew from there. Now it’s a really busy job,” she said. She said she knew com-‐ing to a college town would open up some great oppor-‐tunities. “I’ve just fallen in love with the community and all the university students that come are just so fun and so kind,” she said. Colvin started out by herself, but ended up meeting her business part-‐ner, Justin Bayles while they were at a country swing night. “He’s fantastic,” she said. “He’s more of the business mind of it and then I’m the one with the dance experi-‐ence.” She also has dance partners. Her partner for the country classes is Sam Steffanic. Steffanic said they country-‐danced together at the Cache Fun Park a couple times, and at f irst he was a little intimi-‐dated by Colvin because she was such a graceful dancer. She approached him one day and asked him to help her out with the country swing moves. “Not to toot my own horn, but she figures I was the best one out there,” he said. “In one class I’m actu-‐

ally on the team, as well as instructing.” Dance night has its own disk jockey, USU gradu-‐ate Trevor Knudsen. He was approached when he started going to the dance nights because he knew Colvin and Bayles. Bayles knew Trevor owned big speakers and asked him to help out. He said he mostly plays the music for the salsa nights and also helps out with some of the cen-‐ter’s events. “It took me awhile to know the music because it’s a whole different vari-‐ety that I hadn’t listened to before,” he said. Salsa nights are on Tuesdays. Dancing starts at 9 p.m., and the first hour is instruction. Afterwards, it’s open dance until midnight. Knudsen said he likes that the dancing is at night because it doesn’t interfere with other college classes and clubs students are usually busy with. He said it’s cool to see college kids come and catch the danc-‐ing bug and want to keep coming back to learn and have fun. Although it seems like this is a big college spot, people from all ages come.

Knudsen said older couples will come for date nights, and he hopes the company can branch out to anyone who wants to come. The group is trying to find separate nights for certain age groups to attract all

sorts of crowds, he said. He said he’s excited about the positive response in the community and he thinks the nights will con-‐tinue to grow. “It’s a lot of fun,” he said. “It’s cool because peo-‐

ple that go there are there to have a good time. If you go there with a mind will-‐ing to learn, you’ll have a fantastic time.”


BY CHELSEA HUNTERstaff writer

Camping in Antarctica can sound impossible. Add setting up and devel-‐oping high tech sensitive equipment in sub-‐zero temperatures and it sounds like a movie plot. A few USU alumni, including Chad Fish from the Space Dynamics Lab, were in Antarctica from Dec. 7 to Jan. 11 as part of a team researching space science at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station. “Since about 2005, scientists have been look-‐ing simultaneously at both hemispheres from the high latitude in Antarctica to watch the electrodynamic interac-‐tions that occur between the solar wind and the earth’s dynamic field that couple down to the ionosphere,” said Robert Clauer, the project’s lead scientist. These scientists are working to understand space weather from the south pole. Clauer put in a proposal to the National Science foundation, and once he won the pro-‐posal he was given a $2.39 million grant to begin research.

“Chad was very help-‐ful,” said Hyomin Kim, a post-‐doctoral scientist from Virginia Tech. “He is a great worker and a great engineer. First of all he is very physically strong, and we have all these sci-‐entists and physicists and

engineers that go down, but 90 percent of what we do is actually manual labor: snow shoveling, heavy lifting, moving things around.” The plan is to have six stations up and run-‐ning within the next

three years along the 40 degree magnetic meridian to mirror the magnetic meridian in the Northern Hemisphere where researchers already have magnetometers along the coast of Greenland. Once they have a similar chain

in the southern hemi-‐sphere in Antarctica, the team can see how the data from the two hemispheres relate. “For the last couple of years they’ve installed a couple of them, and they already had PG1 and PG2

installed, but this last year something happened to PG2, so we went down and fixed PG2 and then we also installed a new site at PG3,” Fish said. “We were hoping to also


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L o g a n ’ s P r e m i e r S t u d e n t A p a r t m e n t s

CLARKSBURG

Accepting Applications for Summer and Next School Year

#AggieLifeA selection of tweets from the

USU community“Snow day tomorrow? I wouldn’t mind at all.” @goochag

“Voice your thoughts to @ASUSU1888: Should USU’s Fall Semester start earlier, and add more holidays?” @jordancarlhunt

“Best part of the USU basketball game: when the ref ’s head blocked the old couple on the kiss cam & everyone freaked out. Haha.” @K_Shaughn

“Sometimes I wish my classes still had Channel 1 news. So informative and such a time waster.” @ryansnow125

“Sitting in the TSC listening to Doug Fiafia sing and jam out on his guitar. #MeltingAllOverThePlace #SoHot” @alleroonie

USU alumnus makes 8,500-‐mile trip to Antarctica

snow from around an instrument. Photo

courtesy of Hyomin Kim

See SNOW, Page 6

Fast feet find a home at Whittier Center

DANCE PARTICIPANTS ARE INSTRUCTED at the Whittier Community Center. Photo courtesy of Erica Colvin

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Game develop-ers should be wary of angering their fan base. Companies can be made or broken based off word of mouth from their cus-tomers. The release of “ET” for the Atari 2600 nearly crippled the indus-try back in the 1980s and people abandoned Sega in droves after the short-comings of the Saturn. Give the gamers what they want and nobody will get hurt. OK, so maybe Capcom’s reboot of “Devil May Cry” won’t garner as much antipathy and agony as the pre-vious examples showed, but the idea is similar: Messing with a successful formula in any way can seriously come back to hurt you later. Capcom, in conjunc-tion with Ninja Theory, abandons some of the styles the previous entries had while maintaining the addictive combat sys-tem. While it’s certainly entertaining, “DmC: Devil May Cry” may seri-ously alienate longtime fans of the series. Dante no longer has white hair and his bad attitude has become downright unlik-able at times. Not to men-tion some of the other characters from previ-ous games are missing in action completely. Did I mention the game is sometimes in shockingly poor taste? Demons are in control of everything. The angry, obese demon leader named Mundus con-trols much of the world through debt and has a monopoly on the media. “Virility,” his energy drink for the masses, keeps them docile and weak. Hope is virtually gone, and the world as we know it seems destined to decay and regress per-

manently while Mundus becomes ever more pow-erful. Enter Dante: the foul-mouthed, cantankerous punk who is the son of a demon father and angel mother. After his trailer is trashed by a Hunter demon, Dante meets the mysterious and intel-ligent Kat. She helps him escape “Limbo”— think alternate universe or plane of existence similar to hell, a running theme in the game — and tells him that only he can rise up and fight against the demons due to his origin. Dante is then wholly apathetic to learn Kat is a member of the Order, an underground movement to fight Mundus. He then grows interested when he meets Vergil, the strange-ly familiar being who may know something about Dante’s past and who he actually is. Going for-ward, all three agree to fight and liberate man-kind from the demonic threat so all can live in peace. First, the good news. The combat is as exhila-rating and addictive as ever. It’s possible to string together massive combos with the classic Rebellion sword and Dante’s pis-tols, Ebony and Ivory. Or, you can go for straight-up damage with the hefty Arbiter war-hammer. Other weapons can be unlocked later and each has their own respective strengths and quirks, so variety is definitely not an issue. There are probably at least a dozen different enemy types, so difficulty can vary from easy to brutally tough. The pis-tols are great for slowing down smaller foes such as Pathos and Harpies, but they are practically worthless on the fatter, more substantive crea-tures like the Tyrants and Butchers, and those Witches have a nasty habit of sustaining too many hits. The controls are sur-prisingly intuitive and fun to learn. There is no blocking function, but Dante can evade attacks with ease. The “demon pull” and “angel lift” functions also allow you to physically manipu-

late the environment or take advantage of what it offers you to progress through levels in different ways. Overall, the game handles smoothly and the camera only occasionally spoils the journey. Now for some bad news. “DmC: Devil May Cry” is somewhat ham-pered by an inconsistent presentation. The story is serviceable enough, but Dante isn’t a par-ticularly likable lead this time around. This makes it more difficult to get invested in the proceed-ings. He swears like a sail-or — occasionally to the point where it’s absurd — and he’s a bit of a super-jerk. Plus, he makes way too many puns. The backstory we are treated to somewhat early in the game is admittedly pretty interesting, but it’s so lim-ited in execution that it doesn’t leave as indelible a mark as it could — and should. The visuals and tex-tures range from gorgeous to ugly. Environments are impeccably detailed and always offer some-thing cool to look at. The parts where Dante must unchain a giant statue are particularly impressive. However, some of the character models could use a lot of work. Mundus and his mistress in par-ticular look just awful. They look like they got worked over by a plastic surgeon pretty badly and it hinders immersion in the game to a degree, and Vergil has seen bet-ter days. Gaudy, rocking and addictive as it can be, “DmC: Devil May Cry” is very much a love-it-or-hate-it experience. Fans should proceed with cau-tion and everyone else should prepare them-selves accordingly. If you can get past some of the raw, tasteless humor and ultra-violence, it’s a good romp to get lost in.

– Sam McConkie is a

senior in the technical

and professional writ-

ing program at USU.

He is a keen writer and

has been a dedicated

gamer for years. Sam

can be reached at sam-

bonemcconkie@gmail.

com

‘Devil May Cry’ worth a try

Enter Dante: the foul-

the mysterious and intel-

Sam McConkie

“Devil May Cry”

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REGARDLESS OF HOW characters and events change, Ninja Theory stays faithful to the heart and soul of the “Devil May Cry” series with this reimagining. MCT photo

STACEY WORSTER

staff writer

In 2011, two USU track athletes combined their love of yarn and needles to create a club unlike other USU organizations. “Once you start knit-‐ting and crocheting, you find that the world of yarn is a vast and exciting place,” said Ruth Hilton, a senior majoring in math and physics education and founder of the USU Yarncraft Guild. “As we knitted and crocheted on track trips

and around campus, the whole team was interested in learning how to knit or crochet,” Hilton said. “We met all together a few weeks in a row and decided it was too much fun not to let other students know about it. The rest is his-‐tory.” The name of the club has a purpose. “There is knitting and crocheting, we didn’t want to exclude one or the other by focusing on just one,” Hilton said. “So we decid-‐ed everything we do is with yarn and it is a craft.

The guild part is a old folks way of saying group or club. We thought it was funny.” The guild started in Oct. 2011 and has advertised at Day on the Quad, universi-‐ty events, the USU calendar and at club rush events. “There is no price to be in the club, so we don’t necessarily keep track of our numbers,” Hilton said. “On any given week we have between five and twenty people just depend-‐ing on the circumstances. It is almost always a differ-‐ent group of people, which makes it fun.” Beginning, intermediate and advanced yarn craft-‐ers are all welcome at the weekly evening sessions. “We love having begin-‐ners come,” Hilton said. “We have plenty of people who have knitted or cro-‐cheted long enough that there are so many helpers and teachers available. Nobody is just here at the sessions to finish their project, they are also here to hang out and meet peo-‐ple with the same interests as they have.” Skyler Smith, a fresh-‐man majoring in environ-‐mental studies, joined the club with no experience knitting and said he has had a great experience attending the yarn craft nights. “I heard about the club through a friend who taught me the basics of knitting and she invited me to come,” Smith said. “People are always willing to teach and answer ques-‐tions. Not only do we knit at the yarncraft nights, we have good conversations and meet new people.”

Once the basics of knitting or crocheting are mas-‐tered, multitasking comes into play. Otherwise, it can be boring and the project started is more likely to not be finished or be prolonged, said Brooke Gledhill, an undeclared freshman and guild mem-‐ber. Gledhill is an interme-‐diate knitter and enjoys attending the weekly club craft nights. “Once you know how to do it, it really is something that you don’t want to just sit down and do,” she said. “It is a multitasking activity because it becomes second nature, that is why coming for the yarn craft nights is perfect.” On campus knitting and crocheting publicity has brought students to the yarn craft nights. “I’ll be sitting some-‐where knitting and some-‐one asks what I am doing and they are automatically interested in joining us and learning a new hobby,” Hilton said. For the experienced yarn crafters, it is a way to set aside a few hours a week to work on the project and have fun while doing it. “It’s just nice to have time set aside to come and knit,” Gledhill said. “It is also great because I am still learning and there are always people here who know more than me and are willing to help me out.” Projects vary from scarves, hats, socks, head-‐

bands and other clothing items. “I am in the process of making my very first pair of socks,” Gledhill said. “It is the first item I have done in the round rather than rectangles. I definitely needed some help figuring out the patterns and so it was nice to have assistance. I am really excited about them and I will probably never take them off once they are finished.” “Once you go hand knit-‐ted with socks, you will never go back,” Hilton

said. Learning how to knit or crochet can not only save money, but increase confi-‐dence level, Smith said. “It is really nice because you can customize it how-‐ever you want, it is cheap-‐er, more fun, and it’s cool when people ask where you got something you can respond with ‘I made it,’ and they think you’re way cool,” Smith said. “I guess I could say it definitely attracts the ladies.”


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install another site at PG4 but we just couldn’t quite get there.” They work to develop these instru-‐ments for simplicity and reliability so they will be able to withstand the ele-‐ments and harsh temperatures and be able to run for f ive years autonomously in the field on the Antarctic Plateau. “With PG2 they found that the system overheated and didn’t survive the win-‐ter,” Kim said. “It’s supposed to go into hibernation mode when the sun goes down, and when the sun comes back it’s supposed to wake up automatically, but it didn’t wake up.” Each station takes four to f ive days to install and test, so a minimum of four people are brought out in a small air-‐plane to the field to work. One of these people is a mountaineer who has a lot of experience in harsh environments. His responsibilities are to set up camp and makes sure that everyone is safe. “We would stay in tents everyday, but they never got warm,” Fish said. “It was always cold, so we’d have very thick sleeping bags. You have to drink a lot of water and eat a lot of food because you’re burning a lot of calories, and you have to have a lot of energy to avoid hypother-‐mia.” The biggest obstacle was the weather due to temperature and unpredictability. “Working in the weather conditions, it’s not that hard to get out there, but if the weather doesn’t cooperate then you basically have to wait for the weather to be in a state that you can work in and you can get the plane in and out,” f ish said. It’s also very high altitude at 10,000 to 11,000 feet above sea level, where 70 percent of the air is breathable oxygen. Kim said it feels much higher than that because the air is also so cold.Everybody who goes to the South Pole gets a level of altitude sickness that lasts

for a few days to a week with symptoms ranging from motion sickness to having a headache and losing their appetite. “Most people are able to get over that problem pretty quickly after a couple of days, but it depends on who you are and when you go there,” Kim said. “The symptoms were higher for me than I thought they’d be, but after a while I felt f ine.” Along with physical challenges, there is the mental challenge of realizing how isolated the team is in the middle of nowhere. They have to rely on the gov-‐ernment to support them with supplies and food. “You can look in any direction and it’s just white,” Fish said. “There is noth-‐ing. For hundreds of miles, there’s just nothing. There’s no bugs, no animals, no trees, but the air is very clear and it’s very clean. It’s like an off-‐world experi-‐ence.” The population at the South Pole is comprised of about 25 percent women and 75 percent men. The base can house up to 200 people where researchers can prepare gear and where the planes take off. There is a support crew that runs the cafeterias, performs maintenance and supports the science teams. There are 80 to 100 people there for science who come from all different parts of the world and usually come in teams of four to 10 that all work on instruments, radar and tele-‐scopes. Thirty to 40 people take things out to other places in Antarctica and use South Pole as a base. “Just because the work is challenging doesn’t mean it’s not fun,” Clauer said. “It’s a good experience doing this kind of work. It is challenging and sometimes it’s difficult, but all in all we have a success. It means a lot and you work with a great group of people, so all in all it’s a very fun and positive experience.”


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AggieLife Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013

Yarncraft Guild helps students create

YARNCRAFT GUILD MEMBERS meet at Knit Unique, top. A creation from one of the guild members, bottom. Photo courtesy of Ruth Hilton

In tale of two halves, the Utah

State men’s basketball team saw

its comeback fall short Saturday

against Louisiana Tech in a 51-‐48

loss despite a career-‐high 21

points from junior Jarred Shaw.

“I got no problem with our

effort, we played really really

hard,” said head coach Stew

Morrill. “La. Tech just seems to

find a way. They’ve won a lot of

close games lately. You have to

give them credit. They’ve won a

lot of games like this.”

Senior Brandon Gibson had a

hot night from the 3-‐point line

for the Bulldogs, connecting

on his f irst four shots beyond

the arc while scoring 17 points

in the first half. Gibson’s f ifth

3-‐pointer gave Louisiana Tech

an 8-‐point edge midway through

the first half, and the Bulldogs

shot 46.7 percent from the field

compared to 29.2 percent for

the Aggies en route to a 13-‐point

halftime lead.

The tide turned to start the

second half after an 8-‐0 USU run

over the first six minutes cut the

deficit to f ive. After forcing 10

turnovers in the first half with

its full-‐court press, the Bulldogs

forced just one Aggie turnover in

the second half.

“They couldn’t press us as

much because they couldn’t

score,” Morrill said. “It’s hard

to get in your press when you’re

not scoring, so our defense was

really why we weren’t turning

it over. They weren’t facing that

press every time.”

Louisiana Tech shot just 18.5

percent from the field in the

second half, and Utah State

pulled down 10 of its 19 offen-‐

sive rebounds to chip away at

the lead. Matters got even worse

for the Bulldogs when Gibson

caught an elbow jostling with

Ben Clifford for position under

the basket and left the game for

the final seven minutes.

An old-‐fashioned 3-‐point play

from junior Spencer Butterfield

pulled USU within one, and

on the ensuing possession

Butterfield knotted the game

at 48 with 1:42 to play. With

Gibson on the bench, the Aggies

held the Bulldogs to just three

points over the final seven min-‐

utes, but that’s all it took.

Sophomore Raheem Appleby

knocked down the go-‐ahead

3-‐pointer with 90 seconds left

and Clifford’s 3-‐point attempt at

the buzzer bounced off the rim

twice as time expired to give

Louisiana Tech its f irst victory at

the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum in

eight tries.

“I thought it was in,”

Shaw said of Clifford’s shot.

“Unfortunately, it didn’t go in.

We just have to learn from it,

just try and move on and stay

positive.”

Utah State fell to 14-‐4 all-‐time

Despite four consecutive losses, the Utah State men’s basketball

team is optimistic about its chances down the stretch in confer-‐

ence play.

“It’s a tough loss, but I’m proud to be a part of this team,” said

junior Spencer Butterfield. “I’m proud of our guys for the way we

battled tonight. Don’t give up on this team yet. We’ve still got a

lot of fight in us. We’re going to keep coming to work every single

day and we’re going to be doing some good things coming up. I

can feel it.”

With injuries to leading scorer Preston Medlin and Kyisean

Reed, a large load of responsibility has fallen to Butterfield. In

a loss to Texas-‐Arlington last Thursday, Butterfield rose to the

occasion with 23 points and 11 rebounds — his first career

double-‐double.

Butterfield also carried the Aggies down the stretch in

Saturday’s loss to Louisiana Tech, but got a lot of help from junior

Jarred Shaw.

“I think we fought hard and we got a little bit better today even

though we lost,” Shaw said. “We just got better as a group. We

just have to learn from this, stay positive and move on to the next

one.”

Shaw is a major part of why the Aggies aren’t dead.

The Texas native played his best game of the season against

the Bulldogs with a career-‐high 21 points and 14 rebounds for his

seventh double-‐double of the season.

“I thought Jarred was totally playing as hard as he could play,

which we needed him to do,” head coach Stew Morrill said. “It

was kind of a grind-‐out game, probably the kind of game that we

had a chance in. In our present situation, we needed to have that

kind of game.”

Even before Medlin and Reed went down to injury, Shaw had

been a driving force for the Aggies. His seven double-‐doubles are

the 41st most in the NCAA, and Shaw ranks near the top of the

WAC in a handful of statistical categories.

For the season Shaw is averaging 8.4 rebounds per game, put-‐

ting him in the top-‐75 in the country and second in the WAC in

conference only games at 8.0 rebounds per game.

Shaw also ranks in the top-‐10 in conference statistics win scor-‐

ing at 12.7 points per game, field goal percentage at 50.5 percent

and blocked shots with 1.21 per game. Despite the numbers,

Shaw said after the game Saturday he still feels room for improve-‐

ment.

“I’ve been in a bit of a slump and down on myself,” Shaw said.

“I just thank God I had a great game tonight.”

– [email protected]: @CurtisLundstrom


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Aggie comeback falls short vs top ‘Dogs

Butterfield, Shaw rise to occassionBY CURTIS LUNDSTROMsports editor

BY CURTIS LUNDSTROMsports editor

See AGGIES, Page 8

attempts to split two Louisiana Tech defenders during the second half of the Aggies’ 51-48 loss on Saturday, left. Louisiana Tech forward Michale Kyser crashes down on sophomore forward Ben Clifford after attempting to block a shot, right. DELAYNE LOCKE photos

drives past a UT-Arlington defender at the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum on Thursday. Butterfield recorded his first career double-double with 23 points and 11 rebounds – both career highs – in the Aggies’ 74-68 loss. DELAYNE LOCKE photo

Baseball number 1BY MARK HOPKINSstaff writer

With multiple starters

coming back from the

national championship

team last season, Utah

State’s club baseball team

isn’t looking to slow down,

and the nation has noticed.

The 2013 preseason

National Club Baseball

Association rankings were

announced this past week

with the Aggies retaining

the No. 1 position after

their strong finish last

year.

“Its a great honor,” said

club president and captain

Garrett Schiffman. “Its

something that obviously

is due to our success last

year.”

The Aggies received 13

of 19 first-‐place votes to

top the list. Rival Colorado

State, whom the Aggies

defeated in the champion-‐

ship game last year, was

ranked second. Utah State

will travel to Fort Collins,

Colo. in late March for a

four-‐game series with the

Rams.

Schiffman said he wasn’t

surprised with the news.

“We’ve returned a lot

of guys,” he said. “We do

deserve to be No. 1, we feel

like we are No. 1 and we’ll

continue to work hard so

that we can stay there the

whole year.”

The Aggies open the sea-‐

son Feb. 15 at the College

of Southern Idaho. They

are practicing indoors with

a focus to defend their

national title until then,

Schiffman said.

“Its something that we

have to go out and con-‐

tinue to earn each week.”

he said. “As long as we take

it one game at a time, we’ll

be f ine.”

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Utah State’s club hockey

team spent the weekend in

San Jose, Calif., and came

home with three wins out

of the possible four. The

only team in the San Jose

Showcase to beat the Aggies

was the hometown San Jose

State Spartans.

Utah State 14, UNLV 3

Utah State started the

tournament strong with a

decisive victory of the Rebels

of the University of Nevada,

Las Vegas. Forward Matt

Hamilton had his best game

of the season scoring twice

and adding four assists.

The Aggies’ special teams

was especially effective, scor-‐

ing four times on seven power

play opportunities scoring a

shorthanded goal during a

penalty kill. USU allowed just

one power play goal on nine

chances for UNLV.

Utah State scored seven

unanswered goals to put the

game out of reach down the

stretch.

Utah State 10, Texas A&M 2

Utah State captain Brian

Gibbons recorded his fifth

hat trick of the season and the

Aggies took a 3-‐0 lead into

the first intermission. In the

final 6:08 of the first period,

three different Utah State

players scored.

USU extended its lead to

8-‐0 by the end of the second

period including Gibbons hat

trick goal with seven seconds

remaining in the period.

Utah State once again took

a lot of penalties, but only

surrendered one power play

goal. Goalie Bryce Scherschel

made 45 saves, but was pulled

after he allowed the second

goal. Taylor Flandro made

seven saves in relief.

San Jose State 4, Utah State 3

Utah State’s comeback

attempt against the home-‐

town Spartans came up short

after the Aggies scored two

third-‐period goals.

After an efficient penalty

kill performance in the first

two games of the tourna-‐

ment, penalties finally caught

up with the Aggies. Playing

shorthanded prevented any

offensive rhythm and in the

final seven minutes of the sec-‐

ond period, the Aggies only

played 2:10 of five on five

while being down a man the

rest of the time.

With 2:29 left in the sec-‐

ond period, the Spartans

scored what ended up being

the game-‐winner on the

power play.

The Aggies won the third

period, but not decisively

enough.

Brian Gibbons scored

shorthanded and Hamilton

scored on the power play, but

the Aggies fell short of tying

the game and forcing over-‐

time.

The Aggies and Spartans

have now split the season

series 1-‐1.

Utah State 3, San Diego State 2

Utah State ended the San

Jose Showcase on a good

note, beating the Aztecs 3-‐2,

despite trailing for a large

portion of the game.

San Diego State struck

first with 1:24 left in the first

period to take the 1-‐0 lead

into the second period.

Neither team scored in the

second period, so the Aggies

started the final period of the

tournament down by one.

Utah State then scored three

unanswered goals to take the

lead.

Late-‐game heroics has the

Utah State women’s basketball

team back at .500 after win-‐

ning their season-‐high fourth

game in a row. The Aggies

were in action Saturday night

when they took on Louisiana

Tech on the road. USU defeat-‐

ed the Lady Techsters 76-‐75 in

overtime.

“The style of the game sta-‐

tistically wasn’t real pretty as

far as shooting percentages,”

said USU head coach Jerry

Finkbeiner. “I give credit to

both teams defense. It was a

good defensive game.”

The star of the night was

senior Jenna Johnson, who

hit the game winner with

five seconds remaining in

the overtime session with the

Aggies down one. Johnson

finished with 15 points to go

along with seven rebounds.

Sophomore Franny Vaaulu

was USU’s leading scorer with

20 points and eight rebounds.

The Lady Techsters were

led by Brittany Lewis, who

had a double-‐double with a

game high 21 points and 10

rebounds.

With the win, the Aggies

are back at .500 for the first

time since the start of the

season. USU is 10-‐10 and holds

second place in the WAC at

7-‐2. The Lady Techsters, who

were picked to finish behind

the Aggies in the WAC this

season, are having a disap-‐

pointing campaign so far at

9-‐10 and 5-‐4 in conference

play.

“7-‐2 is the best start the

women’s Aggies have had in

the WAC, so we are proud

of that accomplishment,”

Finkbeiner said.

It was a rough first half as

neither team could get an edge

on the other. USU shot 23 per-‐

cent in the first half, so it was

their strong defense that kept

them in the game. The Aggies

forced 10 steals and two blocks

in the first 20 minutes.

At the start of the second

half, the Aggies took their

first lead of the game after a

3-‐pointer by Schlott.

The second half played

much differently from the first

as both teams traded baskets

and the lead. Louisiana Tech

took its biggest lead of the

game 56-‐47 with six minutes

remaining.

“They opened up a nine

point lead with about six min-‐

utes to go and that’s when we

clawed back,” Finkbeiner said.

“Elise Nelson came up big and

Franny came up big down the

stretch. Both of them got the

majority of our points in the

last two minutes of regulation.

They provided us getting back

into the game.”

USU fought back and even-‐

tually tied the game 62-‐62

after a layup by sophomore

Elise Nelson.

The Techsters took the

lead 66-‐64 after a jumper by

Lewis with 19 seconds to play.

The Aggies responded on the

next possession with Vaaulu

tying the game with nine ticks

remaining on the clock.

Louisiana Tech had one

final shot to win the game in

regulation but Kelia Shelton

missed the shot at the buzzer.

“The second half opened up

a lot more,” Finkbeiner said.

“Both teams got some fast

breaks that’s why the score was

so much more in the second

half.”

In overtime, USU struck

first with a basket by Vaaulu.

Louisiana Tech overcame the

deficit and took a three point

lead after made free throws by

Shelton.

Schlott came right back and

made a pair of free throws to

cut the lead to 75-‐74 with 2:10

to play.

“We ran an out of bounds

play for Devyn but they cov-‐

ered her, so Jenna was the

counter and we threw it to

Jenna,” Finkbeiner said. “She

hit a really tough shot under

the basket to give us a one

point lead.”

Neither team would score

again until Johnson hit the

game winning shot with five

seconds to play. The Techsters

got one final shot for the win

but Kendra Andrews 3-‐pointer

as time expired was no good.

USU will look to ride this

momentum into a huge three-‐

game homestand where they

will welcome first-‐place Seattle

University and second-‐place

University of Idaho. They will

also play San Jose State, who

defeated the Aggies 103-‐80.

“These three games are big

because we could move into

first place with a home sweep,”

Finkbeiner said.

The first game will be

Thursday at 7 p.m. when they

play Idaho at the Spectrum.

– [email protected]: JBorba15

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Sweepless in San Jose

Johnson lifts Aggies to win in final secondsBY JASON BORBA

staff writer

BY SEAN O’SULLIVAN

staff writer

JUNIOR GUARD JENNIFER SCHLOTT puts up a shot over a Denver defender during a Jan. 19 conference game. DELAYNE LOCKE photo

SENIOR BRIAN GIBBONS wins a faceoff during a home game against Brigham Young University on Jan. 19. CURTIS RIPPLINGER photo

and 7-‐1 at home against

the Bulldogs and dropped

to 14-‐5 overall this season

with its fourth straight

loss — the first such

streak in school history

under Stew Morrill.

The Aggies hit the road

for a 3-‐game road swing

starting at Idaho on Jan.

31 with tipoff scheduled

for 8 p.m.

“It’s a tough loss, but

I’m proud to be a part of

this team,” Butterfield

said. “I’m proud of our

guys for the way we

battled tonight. Don’t give

up on this team yet. We’ve

still got a lot of f ight in

us. We’re going to keep

coming to work every

single day and we’re going

to be doing some good

things coming up. I can

feel it.”


Twitter: @CurtisLundstrom

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We’ve all heard and read the alleged signs and endured countless predictions from numer-ous groups about when the world will end — many of which have come and gone without occurring. I think it’s safe to say that no one knows for sure. With that being said, I give you the Top 5 Signs the End of the World is Nigh: Sports Edition, with the disclaimer that each of them has been verified and vouched for by F.A.L.S.E. — Fictitious Accusations and Libelous Signs of the End — Incorporated.

5. Ed Hoculi pulls a Tim

Donaghy

Hoculi is the Peyton Manning of NFL referees. He’s the poster boy for the NFLRA — National Football League Referee Association — and a great all-around guy that would never let power or greed get the better of him. Donaghy was convicted for his role in a gambling scandal in 2007 in which he bet on games in which he was officiating. He was

imprisoned for two 15 month sentences, served concurrently and fined $217,000 after resigning from his position. So the day Hoculi is in the news for betting on the games he is officiating like Donaghy did, be weary. Because who believes the saying, “Everyone has a price they can be bought for?”

4. Manti Te’o gets a real

girlfriend

Ironically, this isn’t that far-fetched. I mean, what girl wouldn’t want a studly football player who was runner-up for a national award? Yet somehow, we spent how long listening to the national media rant about Teo.

3. Skip Bayless renounces

his man crush on Tim

Tebow

Seriously, was there broadcast of ESPN’s First Take in which we didn’t suffer through a rant from Skip about “The Holy One?” Talk about an extremely unhealthy, and honestly creepy, man-crush. You know why he’s such a Tebow-fanatic? Because his precious Oklahoma Sooners got shredded and taunted by Tebow in the 2009 BCS title game. Yeah, Tebow had a solid college career, but he’s not an NFL quarterback. Let the past

go Skip.

2. Chicago Cubs win

World Series

It’s been 105 years. Not since 1908 have the Cubbies won it all. They haven’t been to the World Series since 1945, and have only reached the NLCS three times since then. The most recent came 10 years ago when Steve Bartman interfered with Moises Alou on a foul ball. The city of Chicago demonized Bartman in the days following and still does today. Sorry guys, but you blew it yourselves. Steve Bartman, The Curse of the Billy Goat, and bad management: three reasons the Cubs are the laughing stock of Major League Baseball. And the No. 1 sign the world is coming to an end:

1. Abbott and Costello fig-

ure out who’s on first

Who? What? I don’t know. Why? Because, Today and Tomorrow, I don’t give a darn. Naturally. When they figure it out, we’ll know.

– Curtis Lundstrom is

a proud husband and

father and aspiring sports

journalist and referee. His

life ambition is to bowl a

perfect 300. Follow him on

Twitter @CurtisLundstrom

or send comments to cur-

[email protected].

The top 5 signs the world

will end — sports editionimprisoned for two 15 month sentences, served concurrently and fined $217,000 after resigning from his position. So the day Hoculi is in the news for betting on the games he is officiating like Donaghy did, be weary. Because who believes the saying, “Everyone has a price they can be bought for?”

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DreamDream

All-‐Around Success

FRESHMAN HAYLEY SANZOTTI performs a routine on the balance beam during USU’s home meet Friday. Sanzotti and the Aggies led most of the meet, but ultimately fell to Southern Utah 194.025 to 192.875. Sophomore Sarah Landes took home first-place honors in the all-around with a final score of 39.125. DELAYNE LOCKE PHOTO

Cooper Limb scored first for the Aggies three and a half minutes into the third period, and Brian Gibbons scored less than three minutes later to give USU its first lead of the game. Defenseman Mike Trimboli

added the eventual game-‐winner on the power play. Utah State went on another power play but surrendered a short-‐handed goal with six minutes left. San Diego State cut the lead down to 3-‐2. The Aggies held on to fin-‐ish the tournament 3-‐1.

Utah State returns home on Friday Feb. 1, against Weber State at the George S. Eccles Ice Center in North Logan at 7 p.m.


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College is a time when young adults are weaned from their dependence on Mom and Dad and learn to survive on their own. While this is Utah, where many do not drink, it might be time for USU to reconsider letting students and faculty drink on campus. From a logical standpoint, it makes sense

to allow alcohol on campus. For start-ers, alcohol could bring revenue to the school. Imagine if the Skyroom had a bar in it, sponsored

by a major brewing company like Budweiser, or supported by a local business like Wasatch Brewery. It would be a place for the 23 percent of students who do drink to drink safely on campus while giving money to the school. The bar could have a cut-off limit in case students get too tipsy. By allowing alcohol in certain places on cam-pus, an environment is created for individuals to learn responsible drinking behavior. Too much of the bad rap surrounding alcohol use is due to the “frat party” stereotype shown on television. Go ahead and put restrictions on places like the dorms, but by restricting alcohol altogether not only are freedoms being prohibited, but individuals and groups from other backgrounds are being kept from living their preferred life-style. This isn’t limited to just students; there are plenty of professors who don’t come from an Latter-day Saint background, yet they aren’t out partying on the weekend either. Easing alcohol restrictions would create a more welcome environment for out-of-state and international students who may often feel alienated by their peers. This would also attract more out-of-state students, which would cer-tainly ease the financial impact of the admis-sions shortfall soon to come. It’s not like USU will become a top-10 party school. Allow consumption and monitor the results. If administration opens an avenue and things start downhill, revise the policies again and tighten the ropes. A good place to start would be at USU’s sports arenas. Fans already tailgate and drink in the Romney Stadium parking lot: Why not let them buy a beer at the game? Again, this would raise revenue for the school and show students that the university wants them to be responsible by giving them the opportunity. Most of all, allowing the consumption alcohol shows trust in students. Students are further driven toward rebellion when restrictions are placed upon them. Revising the alcohol restric-tions on campus is the first step to expanding — or hopefully removing — the bubble that metaphorically encompasses us.

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Martin Luther King Jr. once said that a genu-ine leader is not a search-er for consensus, but a molder of consensus. As we celebrated the holi-day honoring that great man, we also witnessed President Obama rise to that challenge of leader-ship at the outset of his second term. His inaugu-ral address, sobering yet

hopeful, mindful but determined, laid the foundation for his next four years in office. Obama’s first term was marked with countless suc-cesses and struggles, but he was still gaining experi-ence as a leader. With each crisis weathered, from economic recovery to health care reform, to ending the wars, he learned. But something changed for the President after his victory in the 2012 election; he came of age.

as a passive viewer or even his favored position as a mediator, but an active and determined leader. He has been very clear about his policy goals. He plans to continue his push for immigration reform to ensure that there is a road to citizenship for those who want to come to the U.S. and equal rights for all of our citi-zens, regardless of race, gender or sexual orientation. He looks to improve our environment and address global climate change rather than ignore the problems that threaten not just our nation, but the world. He will continue pressing on guns to reduce the violence and extremism that fuel the debate. Success in the fiscal cliff negotiations show that his economic plan is mov-ing forward, emphasizing deficit reduction, economic

President Obama was officially sworn in to his second term last week, and he dropped some hints in his inaugural speech about what his sec-ond term may be like. He was very bold in many of the points he made, signal-ing to me that he intends to be more aggressive with the traditional liberal agen-da. He mentioned climate

change, women’s rights, gay rights and immigration along with several others. What I found very interesting is the fact that he didn’t seem to hold back very much. I expect a similar term to the first but with more aggressiveness on the issues I mentioned above. I don’t expect any significant changes in the economic situation in our country and I certainly don’t expect any significant changes in our country’s fiscal situation — both issues that affect every single American citizen. From his speech, I would expect the President to execute a similar strategy moving forward: divide and conquer. He has seen great success by going after single-issue voters and culturally diverse voters. I think that we can count on the President to concentrate his efforts in areas where he will appeal to these single-issue voters and traditionally liberal voters, all while ignoring the economic and fiscal situation of our country. He proved he can get reelected with a crappy economy and mountains of debt, so what incentive does he have to deal with those problems during his

The biggest difference this time around is that, in his own words, he has more “flexibility.” I would assume

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How will Obama’s second term play out? President Obama was officially sworn in to his second term last week, and he dropped some hints in his inaugural speech about what his sec-ond term may be like. He was very bold in many of the points he made, signal-ing to me that he intends to be more aggressive with the traditional liberal agen-da. He mentioned climate

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Martin Luther King Jr. once said that a genu-ine leader is not a search-er for consensus, but a molder of consensus. As we celebrated the holi-day honoring that great man, we also witnessed President Obama rise to that challenge of leader-ship at the outset of his second term. His inaugu-ral address, sobering yet

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by the people is likely to be made on this day.

readers, probably do not even know what I’m talking about. With sol-emn regard, I do. Some 150 years ago on this day, Jan. 29, the U.S. Cavalry under General Patrick O’Connor was being lead by Mormon scouts, principal among them Porter Rockwell, to a Shoshoni village. It was a cold bit-ter day. At dawn, they attacked. The Shoshoni warriors under their chief, Bear Hunter, repulsed the charges time after time until their ammunition was

have not heard of this day because of the ensuing slaughter.

has a subject been so hard but necessary to discuss. With their ammunition gone, the Shoshoni were swept down like dirt over a wood floor into the dust pan. Regardless of age and gender.

Most were shot trying to escape. The women were raped, children and infants had their heads bashed against trees because “nits make lice” and so they could save bullets. Chief Bear Hunter fought gallantly, bravely for his people. Always telling them to get to safety and urging the warriors to protect the women and children. Unfortunately, he too was caught. He was tortured, but he never screamed out in pain and that was no fun for the Mormon scouts and the cavalry, so, they heated up a bayonet and thrust it in between his ears. The number killed ranges from the Military’s report of 250 (that they could count) to more than 500, as is generally accepted by the Shoshoni. That makes this one of, if not the largest Indian massacre west of the Mississippi. Larger than even Wounded Knee. After the massa-cre, the troops wore the body parts of the women and children as trophies and were celebrated as heroes throughout north-ern Utah, including Cache Valley. Maybe this is why you’ve never heard of it. The Mormon/White-Indian conflict was summed up in this event. With their resources con-stantly being depleted

by the settlers and the thousands of people with their horses and cattle moving along the Oregon Trial, it became necessary for many of the Shoshoni to beg or starve or steal. For this, even though the settlers were on Shoshoni land without permission, they were deemed savages. The only land, to my knowl-edge, that was agreed upon for the Mormons to settle into was the Salt Lake Valley. Cache Valley was to be off limits. This valley once was very sacred to my people. Who am I that I should write so boldly? I am Jason Brough, I am a descendent of Poe-pe-hop who was shot in the chest on that fateful day and car-ried the bullet with her till the day she died. I am a Shoshoni Indian from that very small parcel of land known as a Reservation out at Washakie, Utah, and I am tired. I am tired of whites telling me to get over it and that it is in the past. Have you ever seen a massacre? I have. Every time I write or talk about the Bear River Massacre such a scene is presented before my eyes it takes all I have not to weep for the fallen of my People. Telling me to forget

Remember Bear River MassacreMost were shot trying to escape. The women were raped, children and infants had their heads bashed against trees because “nits

could save bullets. Chief Bear Hunter fought gallantly, bravely for his people. Always telling them to get to safety and urging the

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it and to get over it is like telling you, the American people, to get over 9/11, or World War II, or the Mormon exodus and per-secution in Missouri. When you bury something in the past you are doomed to forget it, and in your forgetting you are doomed to repeat it. Forgiveness does not come by running from the problem. It comes by opening it to the eyes of all people and rec-ognizing the tragedy and heart-ache that was felt on both sides. But do not believe my words. Find out for yourself whether what I have spoken is true. For most of you, I fear, will pass by this article as thing of naught and this will be like any other ordinary day. Remember, how-ever, that while you sleep, my ancestors walk this land and will

not leave it, because they love it and so do I. Many have said, and still say, the American Indians were and are ruthless savages. I am a ruth-less savage: Ruthless, in defending The People and freedoms we once had and the few we still retain. Savage in my words only because you do not understand them or have the ability to take them to heart. Uncivilized in my thoughts and actions. For if civility means the utter desecration of Mother Earth and no respect for living and inanimate objects, then I am truly uncivilized. Wild, because I choose real freedom over your illusions. I am all of these things, and yet I am happy and at peace with the Master of Life, for I do what the Old Ones ask of me —

despite the consequences and subsequent heartache that often follows for my fellow man. I am Jason Brough and I have spoken. For all my relations. Ayondanamnamana. Aho.

– Jason Brough is president of

the Native American Student

Council at USU. Send comments

and questions to jasbrough@

gmail.com.

BEAR: Massacre must be rememberedFrom page 10

that means he will be more flexible to pursue his agen-da without the worry of an upcoming election. I would expect he’ll get away with a majority of the things he sets out to do. He generally gets what he wants out of Congress. On that note, I’ve been very disappointed recently with many Republicans in Congress because they seem to be on the losing end of every negotia-tion. Until they can find some credibility, the president will always win. Although I do not agree with President Obama on a majority of the issues, I honestly do hope that he can lead our nation back to growth and prosperity. I hope that the president will be willing to work with those not of his political persuasion to do what’s in the best interest for a majority of Americans. I love my country and I respect President Obama as the leader of it. With that said, my hope is that he will put his hyper-partisanship aside and be a leader, not a divider, for the sake of our country.

– Casey Saxton, a junior majoring in business

administration, is the president of the USU College

Republicans. He can be reached at caseysaxton@hot-

mail.com.

RIGHT: Prez. to push his agenda

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growth, and shared responsibility and benefit for all. For the first time in recent history, each of these pro-posals has received the support of a strong majority of Americans. Beyond policy, we can also look to Obama’s sec-ond term nominations for insight. It will be impossible to fill the shoes of Hillary Clinton as she leaves the State Department, however the choice of John Kerry demonstrates a pragmatic approach to foreign policy. Continuing his impressive track record of bipartisan appointments, the nomination of Republican Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense can be read as a com-mitment to ending the war while remaining strong on national security. Hagel’s confirmation will be difficult, but shows that Obama has no intention of shying away from difficult circumstances. Nearly five years after the economic collapse, the nominations of budget-savvy Jack Lew to the Treasury and Mary Jo White who prosecuted Mafia bosses to the Securities and Exchange Commission signal a focus on economic growth and toughness on the recklessness of Wall Street. Like many before him, Obama is looking to his sec-ond term to shape his legacy. His inaugural address drew many lessons from history with the spirit of moving forward while remembering the past. Though he recognizes the challenges of divided government, he has adopted new determination to lead the nation toward genuine progress. To echo the President, “We are made for this moment, and we will seize it — so long as we seize it together.”

– Mike McPhie is a senior from Toole, Utah, majoring

in law and constitutional studies. During the spring

semester, he interned in Washington, D.C. Send him

comments at [email protected].

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Free SpeechZone

1.Earl Lambeau was the firstcoach of the Green Bay Packers,and a charter member of the profootball Hall of Fame. He found-ed the pre-NFL Packers in 1919and eventually won six leaguetitles. Lambeau Field is namedafter him. His nickname was:

A. LarryB. CurlyC. MoeD. Field

2.The active player with themost touchdowns has 157, fourthon the all-time list. He is:

A. Tony Gonzalez, AtlantaB. Reggie Wayne, IndianapolisC. Wes Welker, New EnglandD. Randy Moss, San Francisco

3. Jim Brown led the NFL inrushing yards eight times in nineseasons, then retired in his prime.In college at Syracuse, though, hewas also an all-American atanother sport in addition to foot-ball. That sport was:

A. LacrosseB. BowlingC. BaseballD. Frisbee golf

4.How close was Minnesotarunning back Adrian Peterson tobeating Eric Dickerson’s NFL sin-gle-season rushing record of2,105 yards this season?

A. 3 yardsB. 9 yardsC. 6 yardsD. 12 yards

5.Almost every team has beento the Super Bowl, right? Well,no; actually four current teamshaven’t gotten their shot yet.Houston, Detroit and Jacksonvillehaven’t been to the “Big Game.”Name the other franchise that isstill waiting:

A. CincinnatiB. Kansas CityC. ClevelandD. San Diego

6. Penalty flags, of course, areyellow. But prior to 1965, theywere this color:

A. ChartreuseB. RedC. BlackD. White

7. If your name was Elroy, youwould likely opt for a nicknameas soon as possible (“hey, call meBubba”). Elroy Hirsch of the LosAngeles Rams was one of thegreat receivers of the 1950s andhad an equally great nickname. Itwas:

A. The Hirschy BarB. Yo MamaC. CrazylegsD. Roy

8.One coach, and only one,has led his team to four consecu-tive Super Bowls. He is:

A. Vince Lombardi, Green BayB. Don Shula, MiamiC. Marv Levy, BuffaloD. Tom Landry, Dallas

9.Kicking up a storm; back in1970, less than 60 percent of fieldgoal attempts were converted.Since then, that figure hadimproved considerably. The 2012mark was:

A. Over 80 percentB. Over 70 percentC. Over 85 percentD. Nobody missed

10.The AmericanProfessional Football Associationchanged its name to the NationalFootball League on June 24,1921. When the new NFL beganplay that fall, which of theseteams was not a member:

A. Muncie FlyersB. Dayton TrianglesC. Rochester JeffersonsD. Harrisburg Steelmen

11. In 1993, this quarterbackled his team to the greatest come-back in NFL history, wiping out a35-3 third-quarter deficit andpushing his team to a 41-38 winin overtime. Hopefully, he stillhas the videotape:

A. Danny White, DallasB. Frank Reich, BuffaloC. Steve Young, San FranciscoD. Warren Moon, Houston

12.You can’t stop him; youcan only hope to contain him. Hewas the first running back in NFLhistory to rush for more than1,000 yards and top 1,000 receiv-ing yards in the same season:

A. Marshall Faulk, Indianapolis,1998B. Abner Haynes, Dallas Texans,1960C. Roger Craig, San Francisco, 1985D. Thurman Thomas, Buffalo, 1992

13.At the Detroit Lions’ 1957preseason banquet, their coachabruptly announced, “I can’t han-dle you guys, and I quit.” Not a

wise move; those Lions went onto win it all. Who was the guywho bailed just in time to miss allthe good stuff?

A. Tom LandryB. Weeb EubankC. Buddy ParkerD. Hank Stram

14. Every NFL city wants tohost the Super Bowl, but untilrecently it was usually reservedfor burgs in warm climes. Whichof the cities listed below has hadsport’s biggest glamour game awhopping 10 times?

A. New OrleansB. Los AngelesC. TampaD. San Diego

15. The last team to win itsdivision without having a winningrecord — and this is almost ashard to do as going undefeated —was:

A. Washington, NFC East, 2001B. Cincinnati, AFL Central, 1970C. Detroit, NFC Central, 1993D. Seattle, NFC West, 2010

16. Early in the league’s his-tory, football teams often took thename of their city’s more-estab-lished baseball franchise. Whichof these teams did NOT play inthe NFL?

A. Brooklyn DodgersB. New York YankeesC. Atlanta BravesD. Cincinnati Reds

17. Today everyone lovessacks. But for most of its history,the NFL didn’t even keep track ofthem, much to the frustration ofdefensive linemen. When did thesack become an official leaguestat?

A. 1982B. 1976C. 1985D. 1979

18. Which one of these activeNFL quarterbacks is not in theall-time top 10 for career passingyardage?

A. Drew BreesB. Peyton ManningC. Tom BradyD. Eli Manning

19. This defensive backreturned a remarkable 12 inter-ceptions for touchdowns duringhis career, making him somethingof an offensive weapon ondefense. That’s a record, ofcourse. Who is he?

A. Deion SandersB. Rod WoodsonC. Everson WallsD. Dick “Night Train” Lane

20. When San Francisco’sJim Harbaugh faces Baltimore’sJohnHarbaugh inSuper BowlXLVII, itwill markthe firsttime a pairof brotherswill coachagainst eachother in theNFL cham-pionshipgame.Which team did Jim play quarter-back for during his professionalcareer?

A. Indianapolis ColtsB. Denver BroncosC. Philadelphia EaglesD. Atlanta Falcons

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USU Campus Recreation, Facilities, and Blue Goes Green Grant money are jointly supporting the development of a campus Open Space and Rec Plan. Students will have opportunities to contribute to the vision through focus groups and surveys. Although the focus groups have not been scheduled yet, students can stay updated through our Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/USUOpenSpaceRecPlan Spend the day trying new winter activi-‐ties or compete in a snowball biathlon. Visit stateparks.utah/gov/parks/hyrum for more details. Managing ADHD Workshop: This workshop is set to help students learn skills to maintain attention and focus, both in academics and in their personal lives. Attendees will learn skills that will help them to improve their attention, listening skills, learning strategies, and scheduling in order to make their lives easier and more organized. Workshops run Jan. 29 12:30-‐1:30 p.m. in TSC 310 B. Please call 435-‐797-‐1012 to reserve a seat. Relaxation Workshop: College can be a very stressful time to be a college student for many reasons. To be successful, stu-‐dents need well developed skills to manage their stress in addition to just taking time to relax. In this workshop, you will learn some basic ideas about taking care of your-‐self and specific exercises you can practice to reduce the wear and tear that stress has on your mind and body. You will have the opportunity to experience these exercises as part of this workshop as well as discuss ways to integrate these techniques into your daily life. The workshop runs Jan. 29 2:00-‐3:30 p.m. in TSC 310. Please call 435-‐797-‐1012 to reserve your seat Study Abroad Fair -‐ Jan. 30 from 10-‐2 p.m. in the TSC International Lounge (2nd Floor). There will be prize drawings for participants. The Study Abroad Fair is a great opportunity to learn about study and volunteer opportunities abroad. Stop by to learn about what international study options are available to you as a USU stu-‐dent. Study abroad for a semester, a year or on one of our short term or summer

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study abroad programs. Students can study in English in many locations or develop lan-‐guage skills by studying in another language. Programs are open to any major, but courses taught vary by location. Senior University is a 10-‐week program taught by various professors for Cache Valley Senior Citizens ages 62+. It is held every Wednesday from 2:00 -‐ 2:50 p.m. on the 3rd floor of the TSC, room 336 (the Senate Chambers). There is a $10 fee for the entire program. Contact Kelsey Kushlan at 801-‐897-‐8623 or [email protected] for more information. Club M.ed is hosting a Principal Panel for all secondary education students Jan. 31, 6-‐7 p.m. in ENGR 101. Administrators from our community will be available to talk about what they look for when hiring and discuss any questions you might have while you enjoy some free food.

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