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USU students piloted canoes, kayaks and rafts at First Dam in Logan Canyon at the Outdoor Recreation Program’s Demo Day on the Water event Friday.

Walter Gould, who designs and executes student trips and courses for the ORP, said the event was a way to show students what gear is available to them through the ORP. “Right now, we figured, ‘I bet not a lot of students know what watercraft we have,’”

Gould said. “And so we came up with this idea that we would just let people play around on the pond down here for a while and get to know what we have.” For no charge, he said, stu-dents could test out a sampling of the ORP’s rental water gear. Kayaks, sit-on-top kayaks, sea kayaks, rafts, canoes and new paddle boards were all there for students to try out. Logan Milsap, an undeclared USU student, said Day on the Water was the first ORP event he has attended, and it may encourage him use the pro-gram’s services in the future. “We’ve talked about bringing kayaks or canoes and renting them from the ORP before,” Milsap said. “This is nice because they just have all of the kayaks and canoes out, and you can just go and try them out and see what you like.” Dominick Barratt, ORP shop employee, said Day on the Water is an introduction to what ORP will be doing this

summer at Hyrum State Park. “We’ll actually be running hourly rentals at the beach at Hyrum State Park,” Barratt said. The ORP was invited two weeks ago by the park manager to hold the rentals, and the ORP is also working with other state parks, he said. Another kickoff event the ORP is hosting is a crate stacking competition at 8:30 p.m. Friday in the Nelson Fieldhouse. Students will be on belay the whole time, stacking milk crates on top of each other to see who can make the tallest tower. There will be a live dee-jay, performances by local band F Dragon and prizes. The ORP has a lot of things planned this summer, said Paul Jones, student trip coordina-tor. One big event is a trip to Jackson Hole, Wyo., to run a whitewater section of the Snake River, something the ORP staff

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“As ASUSU officers, we saw stu-dent government as a great way to facilitate getting from college. With this in mind we set the goal to create more opportunities for more students to do just this.”1

Today’s Issue: A century of welcoming Aggies from abroad

Service Week, A-Week coincide to mix fun and service

Outdoor Rec Program touts summer events

The International Student Office was formed 100 years ago when USU President John A. Widtsoe’s Iranian friend sent his four nephews to USU, said Christian Orr, International Student Council president. International students attended USU before 1912, but there wasn’t an official place these students could go for assistance until this time, according to USU archives. Current Chinese, Indian, African and Armenian USU students, as well as a handful of other nationalities, gathered Saturday to celebrate a century of diversity and contribu-tions to USU’s academic and student life. The International Student Banquet fea-tured performances by members of interna-tional student communities on campus, from belly dancing to vocal performance. Before the talent acts began, a slideshow was played, showing the progression of USU international programs. The slideshow included images of past USU presidents welcoming international students at the airport and a montage of international events throughout the decades. “The Iranian nephews coming to USU was the event that started what led up to the Cosmopolitan Club in 1916,” Orr said. “And now we know it as the International Student Council.” For the second year, the ISC gave the International Educator Award. Following with tradition, an international student and inter-national organization received awards for their contributions in connecting a minority culture to USU’s campus. For the first time, both the International Student Organization of the Year and the International Student of the Year were from the same country — Saudi Arabia.

in recreational resource

management, slides a rental kayak into First Dam in Logan Canyon at the

Outdoor Recreation Program’s Demo Day on the Water. The ORP invited

students to try out their water gear at the event. DELAYNE LOCKE photo

BY ARIANNA REES staff writer

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at the International Student Banquet on Saturday in

the TSC Ballroom, and was dubbed Mr. International 2012-13. The banquet marked 100 years since the

International Student Office was organized in 1912 and showcased talent from several international

student communities. MELODY SANCHEZ photoSee BANQUET, Page 3

Students can find prizes while picking up litter and also win a pair of glow-in-the-dark under-wear as part of Service Week. This year, Service Week is combining with A-Week, making it an even bigger event with more service opportunities, according to Service Week com-mittee member Amanda Allen. “There’s so many oppor-tunities to serve,” Allen said. “There’s a project to fit everyone’s schedule. Anyone can make a difference on campus during Service Week.” Service was part of the origi-nal tradition of A-Week, and now service will be a focus of the week again, said Andrew Gooch, the A-Week vice president in the

Student Alumni Association. “When A-Week began 102 years ago, a focus was on cam-pus and community service,” Gooch said. “Through the years, it has evolved and more and more activities have been added.” Gooch said this year it was more sensible to combine the weeks because of limited resources. The week kicks off at 9:30 a.m. on the TSC Patio with pea-nut butter and jelly sandwiches and games, according to a sched-ule provided by the Service Week committee. The Red Bull chariot race begins at 7 p.m. at the cor-ner of 800 E. and 700 North, and students will compete for a trip to Austin, Texas. One of the big events of the week will be the campuswide

litter push, said Rickie Warr, a Service Committee member. Prizes will be given out during the litter push, in which teams and individuals will cover areas of campus to clean up litter, she said. Teams check in at the TSC Patio at 11 a.m. Tuesday and at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday. Tuesday night, A-Week orga-nizers will host a performance of mentalist Craig Karges, Gooch said. Karges performed on campus for the Mardi Gras celebration in 2011, he added. A Service Fair in the TSC International Lounge on Wednesday will showcase opportunities to serve at non-profit organizations on and off campus. The Glow in the Dark 5-kilo-meter Undies Race begins 11:30 p.m. Wednesday on the Quad,

and modest clothing is required. According to the schedule, the first 100 participants will receive glow-in-the-dark underwear. Warr said there are projects available to fit everyone’s schedule, during mornings and afternoons. At 7 p.m. in the TSC International Lounge, humani-tarian kits will be put together to send to Third World countries. A service fair will be held in the same place earlier in the day at 9:30 a.m. A beautification project of the steps by the Aggie Terrace near the Living Learning Center will be held at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, and then Saturday includes a highway cleanup in the morning at the Alumni House and a ser-vice day at the Logan Recreation

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Poet recounts time with scientists in Antarctica Not only was Katharine Coles willing to write poems about science, she traveled to Antarctica to observe sci-entists in one of their most exotic habitats, Coles said. Coles, a former Utah poet laureate, spoke on fostering understanding between science and art disciplines in an address to the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters at the acad-emy’s annual conference Friday, held at USU’s Eccles Conference Center. “I am not a scientist — I don’t pretend to be a scientist,” Coles said to the crowd of scientific and arts researchers, before she read poems written during an expedition to Antarctica with the National Science Foundation as a poet in residence. Coles said she drew from her experience traveling with scientists among research stations and observing the frozen world to write a book of poetry entitled Reckless. She often felt like an object of scientific observa-tion during the journey, Coles said, and she described sitting next to an oceanogra-pher on a bus through Chile on the way to their ship. “He was the first of many people who said, ‘Oh, you’re the poet,’” Coles said. Coles said she wrote a proposal to the National Science Foundation, asking it to send her to the world’s least-inhabited continent.

Such a proposal is different for a poet than it is for a scientist, she said. “It’s another matter entirely to pitch yourself as a poet or photographer or painter to a group mostly comprising of scientists — to persuade them they should send you down to Antarctica to hang out with the scientists there,” Coles said. Her proposal to the NSF was not in poetic form, but Coles said she later wrote a poetic version in which she wrote symbolically about feeding animals out of the palm of her hand. Coles said in reality, treaties forbid feeding the animals in Antarctica. After her lecture, an audi-ence member asked Coles, “What creatures did you feed?” “I fed no real creatures, but the creatures I was feeding in the proposal were the ones on the edge of the old maps where they say

‘There be monsters,’” Coles said. “You’re not allowed to feed the creatures, and I was quite obedient to the treaty.” When people heard about Coles’ planned trip to Antarctica, she said she dis-covered there are two kinds of people in the world: “The kind of person that says, ‘Oh, that’s a wonderful thing. I’m jealous, I would love to go with her,’ and the kind of person who says, ‘Of course I support her, but is she out of her mind?’” Made possible by a grant from the NSF’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, Coles sailed to Antarctica in 2010. To get there, the boat crossed the Drake Passage, which Coles said is a rough passage because it is where the Pacific and Atlantic oceans meet. “This is the best thing ever,” she read from her poem “Sailing to Antarctica,” attributing her stomach of steel to spending summers riding in the back of her father’s Jeep. Coles talked about the differences between poets and scientists. A poet tries to find one word that could mean many things, and a scientist uses a word with the intent that it can mean only one thing, she said. However, her goal in Antarctica was also to describe what she saw for the rest of the world, even if she had to be careful in what she said to comply with inter-national rules and treaties,

FORMER UTAH POET LAUREATE KATHARINE COLES speaks to researchers at the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters annual conference Friday. Coles read poems and anecdotes from her trip to Antarctica that are meant to illustrate bridging the gap between art and science. Coles recieved the John and Olga Gardner Prize at the event. KELSIE MASON photo

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would like to try more than once this summer. “We did that last summer,” Jones said. “It was really, really fun to take students out and to surf some waves in the rafts — even dump some people into the water.” Jones said during the daylong trips, students can rent gear from the ORP as well as split gas money to get there. In early May, students can participate in a Wilderness First Responder certification class in Moab, Utah, which Jones said is similar to a wilderness EMT but not as intense. The ORP will be sponsoring several hikes up Logan Canyon this summer, as well as “canoe-caching,” which Jones said is like geocaching but takes place in marshes with GPS devices, a partner and a canoe. “You can actually get pretty lost in there,” Jones said. Jones said accessibility to the outdoors is one of the biggest reasons students should partici-pate in ORP events. “If you want to really explore the outdoors and have a fun time, and you don’t know how to do it, come to the ORP and we’ll teach you how,” Jones said. Jones, Barratt and Gould said they agree that the rentals offered through the ORP as well as ORP clinics should be taken advantage of by students.

“The ORP is subsidized by student fees,” Jones said. “Because of that, we offer discounted rental rates. So if you want to rent a canoe, it’s going to be cheaper for you, as a student, at the ORP than it is at Al’s (Sporting Goods) or some other place.” Barratt said gear is avail-able for every skill level, and a variety of clinics are offered by the ORP that teach the basics of different outdoor activities and how to participate in them safely. “In my mind, there’s those who love the outdoors and those that don’t realize they love the outdoors yet,” Barratt said. “We’re just there to help every-body understand the biggest purpose of the outdoors, and that’s to be safe and have fun.” Gould said students new to a particular outdoor sport shouldn’t be hesitant to come on ORP outings. “You don’t have to be a great whitewater guide to come on our rafting trips in Jackson,” he said. “You don’t have to be a leave-no-trace master to come on backpack trips with us, or even day hikes. You don’t have to ever have gone snowshoeing to go snowshoeing with us.”

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of her father’s Jeep. Coles talked about the differences between poets and scientists. A poet tries to find one word that could mean many things, and a scientist uses a word with the intent that it can mean only one thing, she said. However, her goal in Antarctica was also to describe what she saw for the rest of the world, even if she had to be careful in what she said to comply with inter-national rules and treaties,

“He was the first of many people who said, 'Oh, you're the poet.'"

— Katharine Coles,

former Utah poet laureate

OUTDOOR ENTHUSIASTS ADJUST KAYAKS on the grass at First Dam in Logan Canyon during the Outdoor Recreation Program’s Demo Day on the Water. The ORP provides rental equipment such as kayaks, life jackets and paddles to stu-dents. Over the summer, the ORP will organize activities including hikes in Logan Canyon, whitewater trips to Jackson Hole, Wyo. and a Wilderness First Responder class in Moab. DELAYNE LOCKE photo

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ORP offers summer programs

Film revisits 1857 massacre in Utah

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USU’s department of art and design will present a showing of the film “Burying the Past: The Legacy of the Mountain Meadows Massacre” at 5 p.m. Thursday in the Manon Cain Russell Kathryn Caine Wanlass Performance Hall. The director of the film, Brian Patrick, will be at the showing and will host a Q-and-A session imme-diately following the film. Patrick made the movie to “heal some of the wounds” experienced by the descendants of the families involved in the 1857 massacre in southern Utah, he said. The movie details the history of the massacre, which involved a California-bound wagon train from Arkansas led by John T. Baker and Alexander Fancher. The group was camped in a val-ley near Cedar City, Utah, when for reasons not fully understood, a party of local Mormon settlers and Native Americans attacked and laid siege to the encampment. At least 120 people died in what became known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Seventeen children under the age of eight survived the ordeal and were eventually returned to Arkansas. For more information, contact USU’s Department of Art and Design, 435-797-3460.

Fox Business Network host to speak at USU Bestselling author and Fox

Business Network host John Stossel

will deliver his talk, “No, They

Can’t: Why Government Fails — but

Individuals Succeed,” from 10:30-‐

11:30 a.m Thursday at in the Eccles

Conference Center Auditorium.

The lecture is co-‐sponsored by the

university’s Project on Liberty and

American Constitutionalism and

the Jon M. Huntsman School of

Business. The public is invited to

attend and a book signing will fol-‐

low.

“We are hoping Stossel’s talk will

encourage people to think about

what the appropriate role of govern-‐

ment is,” said Anthony Peacock,

professor of political science and

co-‐director of the Project on Liberty

and American Constitutionalism.

“What should government do? What

should it not do? Are there limita-‐

tions to human knowledge that

make any attempts by government

to solve complex social and political

problems difficult?”

USU’s Museum of Anthropology will unveil its new multi-language tours for several permanent exhibits at the museum Saturday. Museum patrons can now view exhibits that include “Dine: Weaving a Tradition of Strength,” “Obsidian” and “Ice-Age Peopling of the Americas” in various languages, including English, Spanish and Navajo. Throughout the Saturday activi-ties, tours of the exhibits will be given in both Spanish and English and will take place every half hour between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Guests will also have the opportunity to learn how to weave using a loom. “As a museum, we want to be accessible to everyone in our com-munity and the bilingual program allows us to reach out to our neigh-bors in the Cache Valley community who speak other languages,” said Elizabeth Sutton, curator of the museum. The USU Museum of Anthropology is in the Old Main building, Room 252. Free parking is available in the adjacent lot, south of the building. For more information on this event, call museum staff at (435) 797-7545 or visit the museum Web site at anthromuseum.usu.edu.

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Banquet showcases talent of international students The Saudi Arabian Association was formed at the turn of this school year’s fall and winter semester. The president of SAA, Hassan Al-Ishaq, was announced as the stu-dent of the year for his efforts to help fellow Saudi Arabian students and make them part of campus life, Orr said. Because Saudi Arabian students don’t have the opportunity to attend SOAR, Al-Ishaq created a similar program that introduced them to USU, he said. “He organized a student orientation of his own and invited individuals from each department to tell them about the rules and laws of academics,” Orr said. Every year, four areas are taken into account when selecting International Student of the Year — academic success, cultural expression, service opportunities and leader-ship — and Al-Ishaq met each of these. African dance performers took the stage as the first act. The performing group included Ami Meite from the Ivory Coast, Changwe Ngosa from Zambia and Izzy Beyene from Ethiopia. As a part of their dance they held f lags from their native countries. “We have been active in the USU inter-national community and the international student council for a long time,” Ngosa said. “There are also very few African students at USU so we usually try to represent our culture if we have a chance to.” “Being in a place such as Cache Valley, with not so much representation of different cultures it always gives us pride to be able to put (our) culture on the map and give people a chance to be exposed to something a little different,” Ngosa said.

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Center. Clubs, food vendors and companies will set up booths Friday on the Quad for A-Day. This year, the Utah-based lip balm company Kisstix is sponsoring A-Day, including Day on the Quad and True Aggie Night. Students have chances to serve year-round in addition to the multiple oppor-tunities during Service Week, Gooch said, referring to the Val R. Christensen Service Center as one place in particular that spon-sors service. “There are so many great opportunities to serve here on campus,” Gooch said. “I think that’s what makes Utah State great, is our ability and ambition to help other people.” Allen said students looking for service opportunities should inquire at the Service Center on the TSC’s third f loor. “USU has so many service organizations, and it’s super easy to find one to join,” she said.


Dancing for lives

VOLUNTEERS KICK OFF THE USU RELAY FOR LIFE event with a flash mob on the TSC Patio on Friday morning. Relay for Life events are coordinated

nationally by the American Cancer Society to raise funds for cancer treatments and research. USU Relay for Life raised $19,500 through 405 participants. The top

three fundraising teams were Circle of Hope, the Relay for Life Commitee and USU Volleyball. KELSIE MASON photo

AFRICAN STUDENTS IZZY BEYENES, Changwe

Ngosa and Ami Meite

(above) dance in the

International Student

Banquet on Saturday.

Also among the night’s

performers, Crystal

Mason and Ritu Bisht

(left) performed an act

entitled “Bollywood

Dance.” The International

Student Association

provided entertainment

and presented awards

at the banquet. MELODY SANCHEZ photos

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Lip balm company to sponsor A-Day events

Coles said. Visitors to Terra Lab — one of the places Coles visited — have to gain security clearance and sign a waiver saying they won’t reveal any secrets about the instruments housed there, Coles said. She wrote a poem about the instruments being able to hear lightning strikes and tell when a nuclear bomb goes off anywhere in the world. The lab has highly sensitive machines measuring weather, seismic and other phenom-

ena, she said. “This, I believe I’m allowed to tell you. I’m not allowed to show you how it’s done,” she read from the poem about her visit. The academy presented Coles with the John and Olga Gardner Prize in the Humanities at the conference. Erin O’Brien, the academy’s president-elect, introduced Coles to the group. “(Coles) is the epitome of the interdisciplin-ary nature of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters,” O’Brien said.

Academy President Nichole Ortega said the academy creates an environment of support and mutual understanding. “The Utah Academy promotes distribution of knowledge across all disciplines, allowing members to strengthen their academic scholar-ship and individual roles in society,” Ortega said.


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Poet mixes art and science in book about trip to Antarctica

Monday, April 1610 a.m.- A-Week of Service Kick-

off with free PB&J sandwiches on

the TSC Patio

7:15 p.m.- Red Bull Chariot

race starting at 760 N. 800 East.

Showing starts at 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 1711 a.m.- Campus-wide Litter Push

on the TSC Patio

7 p.m.- Kraig Carges mentalist

show in the TSC Ballroom

7 p.m.- Humanitarian Project

Night in the TSC International

Lounge

Wednesday, April 189:30 a.m.- Community Service Fair

in the TSC Sunburst Lounge

2 p.m.- Campus-wide Litter Push

on the TSC Patio

11:30 p.m.- Undies Run midnight

5K, meet on the Quad

Thursday, April 198:30 a.m.- Aggie Terrace walkway

clean-up, meet on the TSC Patio

9 a.m.- Senior Day breakfast on

the TSC Patio

7 p.m.- Senior Hawaiian Luau

Party at the Alumni House

Friday, April 2010 a.m.- Day on the Quad

11 p.m. - True Aggie Night

11 p.m.- Cover the Night


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A summer job that gives students field experience

This summer, hundreds of USU stu-dents will leave Logan to work as interns in a variety of fields across the country. Though the title “intern” often implies get-ting coffee and making copies, many USU students have found internships that allow them to do practical work in their chosen fields and explore their future careers. Taryn Rowe is a junior majoring in biol-ogy and a self-professed “germ freak,” who said she loves bacteria. This summer she will intern at Virginia Tech. There she will be working with a project that monitors E. coli transmission in cattle and other hydroponic projects, she said. Rowe said she was anticipating entering dental school after graduating, until she discovered her passion for microbiology in a class she took. She said internships can be a great opportunity for students to explore different careers before choosing one to stick with. “It can be like a trial run for your career,” she said. Though many students think intern-ships mean unpaid work, Rowe said her program pays for housing, food and travel, as well as a stipend. “The chance to work on something that I really love is the most exciting part,” she said. Carlie Morrison, a senior majoring in marketing and economics and Huntsman Scholar, Morrison said she’ll spend four weeks in Prague at the University of Economics. Her time will be spent learning about marketing and management in post-socialist Eastern European bloc countries. “I’ve wanted to go to Prague for so long,” she said. “This just seemed like the

perfect opportunity.” Morrison said she found her program through searching the Internet, then enlisted the help of the Huntsman Scholars program to help fund it. She also her employer to help pay for airfare. “I anticipated the whole process of applying and then getting everything ready would be a huge headache,” she said. “But I haven’t had to do it alone. So many people have been really willing to help.” Morrison said she hopes her work in Prague will give her an advantage and a unique perspective as she pursues her future career in either foreign policy or veterans’ rights. “Everyone learns in the classroom,” she said. “The real advantage is for people who find a way to work outside of it.” Amy Rohman, a junior majoring in conservation and restoration ecology, will take her third internship since coming to USU as part of the Research Experience for Undergrads (REU), a National Science Foundation program. She said she will research questions about climate change on plants in the West, primarily in Idaho and Logan. She said the project was conceived when her mentor discovered old drawings that mapped plant plots’ change over time. When her mentor went to check out the location of the plots, she said he discovered they were still there. Rohman applied to several REU pro-grams across the country, but she said she believes being able to interview in person helped her stand out to Logan researchers. “It’s important to do anything that makes you memorable,” she said. “Know your professors and talk to them, so that they can write you good letters of recom-

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Albrecht loves valley’s landscape, is True Aggie Almost every USU student knows who President Stan Albrecht is. Some students may have seen him getting his hair cut at the Aggie Barber Shop while others may have spoken brief ly with him in the library or in passing on Quad. Students may understand that being the president of the university is a demanding, stressful occupation, but what they may not understand is just how much of Albrecht’s total week is spent thinking and breathing USU. Albrecht said, as president of a university, there is never a dull moment. Though every day throws him different projects to tackle, each day is busy and full, he said. Albrecht said his days usually begin with breakfast with community mem-bers or students, followed by a range of tasks that include administrative plan-ning meetings, meetings with donors and dealing with student and faculty issues. In the evening, he usually enter-tains guests and dignitaries visiting the school or the community. Because students don’t often see Albrecht, they may feel disconnected to him, but Albrecht said he feels as much of an Aggie as every USU student. His favorite Aggie Ice Cream f lavor is cookies and cream, though he has developed a recent love for the newest f lavor — Sunshine and Chocolate, cre-ated to celebrate the opening of the new

Agricultural Sciences Building. When on campus, Albrecht said his favorite part of the Aggie experience is attending basketball games in the Spectrum. “Athletics isn’t the most important room in the house, but it’s the window through which many see what we’re doing,” he said. “You see the commit-ment and enthusiasm of the university through the basketball fans.” Albrecht’s career began as a sociol-ogy professor at USU after completing an undergraduate degree at BYU and master’s and doctorate degrees at Washington State University. After a few years on the faculty, he left Logan for 25 years — during which time served as a academic vice president and associate provost at BYU. Before being appointed dean at USU, he also spent six years as an administrator and professor at the University of Florida. “We left Florida and came to Logan in January,” Albrecht said. “There were a few bitterly cold days that I asked myself if we made the right decision.” Since that cold winter in 2005, Albrecht said he has never looked back. He said he is confident that he made the right choice in coming back to serve as president of USU, and the beautiful landscape of the valley never fails to amaze him. “I never come through Sardine Canyon without saying ‘Wow,’” he said. “The beauty of the valley is really remarkable. Whenever we entertain guests, they say how lucky we are to live

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Pop-folk band spurred through campus event Since their first performance at Poetry and a Beverage on the USU campus, the Logan music scene has given pop-folk band Children of the North an enthusias-tic welcome. Tyler Andrews, who plays keyboard in the band, said fans showed their enthu-siasm shortly after the Children of the North Facebook page went online last November. “We had almost 100 likes in the first night or something,” he said. “It was like, ‘Oh, maybe we should start this band.’” Currently, the page has around 250 likes. The band started when singer and gui-tarist McKay Felt returned from an LDS mission last fall and persuaded his girl-friend, Emily Andrews, to sing with him and her brother, Tyler, to play keyboard. “We’ve dated for a long time,” Felt said. “I’d always heard her sing in Tyler’s songs, and I always tried to get her to sing with me, but she never would until I came back. So I had all these songs written, so we just put it together with us three at the start.” Joe Hill joined the Children of the North in January 2012, playing electric guitar in most of the band’s shows. Hill said the band usually plays with a drum-mer, but it hasn’t added a percussionist as a permanent member. All four band members are students at USU. Tyler Andrews is a junior studying graphic design, Emily Andrews is a sopho-more studying interior design, Felt is a freshman studying art, and Hill is a junior majoring in agriculture. To date, the band has played six shows, including two appearances at Poetry and a Beverage and an acoustic set at Logan City Limits on Saturday. Felt said despite the band’s popularity, it doesn’t look to play too often.

“We don’t want it to be over accessible,” Felt said. “If you’re always playing it, peo-ple can get bored of it.” Felt said he would rather play fewer shows and focus more on preparation for each gig. “I think it makes it a good experience, because we put more into it,” he said. “It brings a lot more energy to it.” Hill said he agreed with the quality-over-quantity strategy. “If we play less frequently but prepare more for each show,” he said, “people will kind of get this attitude of ‘When I go see Children of the North, their shows are always awesome, but they don’t come around that often, so I need to go when there is an opportunity.’”

More time to prepare means the band can introduce more variety into its songs, Felt said. For some songs, members play different instruments, such as bass gui-tar and ukulele, and Emily Andrews has played electronic beats in some shows. “When we do have shows, we’re think-ing of any way that we could make them exciting and unique,” Felt said. Rather than drawing musical inspira-tion from a particular band, Felt said Children of the North’s sound is a product of the variety of musical inf luences each member brings. Tyler Andrews’ style on the keyboard in inf luenced by electronic pop, Hill brings blues and rock-and-roll inf luences, and Felt is inf luenced by more calm inf luences like folk music, Felt said. Hill said the band’s sound wouldn’t be the same without each member. “There’s kind of a structure of the song, but the song would sound very different if, individually, we were different people,” Hill said. “If you look at the keyboard parts of the song, if (Tyler) didn’t come from the background he did, musically, the keyboard sections of the songs, even though chords and basic stuff would be the same, they would sound very differ-ent.” A few of the band’s tracks are avail-able online, but it has yet to release any albums. Felt said the band has been recording an EP, but because of Tyler’s busy schedule it has yet to be completed. When an album is released, Felt said he would like to make it available both as a CD and as a digital download. “We’ll definitely do both,” Felt said. “I think there’s an appeal to a digital album, but I think there’s always something more lovable about a handmade, physical copy.” The band will take a break over the summer, as two members will be out of state, but Hill said they plan to resume in the fall. “Ideas are going to be festering for the next four months, and then there’s going to be a big explosion. And an album,” Hill said. None of the band members said they had long-term plans for Children of the North. Hill said recording companies and others wishing to use the music for pro-motional purposes have approached him, but they haven’t made any deals. The band came together because of a shared love of music, not because of a desire for fame, he added. Felt said he agreed. “We’re serious about our music, but we’re not serious about becoming famous,” Felt said. “We do it because we love it.”


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The Mountain Meadows Massacre is not a topic works of art are usually based on, however, that didn’t stop Julie Jensen, the playwright of “Two-Headed.” Jensen, a USU graduate, wrote the play with two characters on stage to tell the story of those affected by the massacre, a highly contested event in Utah’s history. The Mountain Meadows Massacre was a series of attacks on an Arkansas emigrant wagon train that passed through Iron County in 1857. Local men disguised as Native Americans killed more than 100 men, women and children. The play focuses on two women — Hettie and Lavinia — who are friends, but oftentimes at odds, due to their religion, the practice of polygamy and the emotions surround-ing how the massacre affects them each personally. Those producing the show at USU have adapted it to incorporate 12 people on stage — 10 actresses playing the two characters in five different decades, with two males playing instruments on stage. The show includes many other aspects besides just acting, said Mary Alley, a senior playing the part of 30-year-old Hettie. “This has been a fun, artistic endeavor,” she said. “I’ve done a lot of productions at USU, but this one has so many different elements smashed together in one show.” The show comprises a regular stage set along with a film shown on the wall behind the stage to depict certain additional aspects of the story, Alley said. “We are playing with music, dance, film and just the overall aesthetics for the show,” Alley said. “We turned it into a 12-person cast with men and music. It’s a rollercoaster of awesomeness.” The show used to be presented in the Black Box Theatre, but this time it is being presented in the Morgan Theatre, said Jackson Simmons, the show’s stage manager. “It’s been a really interesting experience, because we are doing an interesting spin on the show,” Simmons said. “It’s not just with two characters. We’re doing it with what is now a large cast — musicians, singers, people making sounds.” One especially impressive part of the set is the tree piece used on stage, Simmons said. It started as a metal frame the actresses could use to climb on and use dur-ing rehearsals and is now a massive bunch of branches and wood twisted together. “There is a lot of action surrounding the tree,” Simmons said. There is a ladder on the back of the tree actors can climb, Simmons said.

“This is meant to show that pioneer life was physical — they were washing clothes, sewing,” Simmons said. “At one point the sewing becomes very physical. It’s as if the quilt is attacking and suffocating one of the girls. They are girls in conf lict, and they just got physical with those things. “I think people hear Mountain Meadow and definitely have a reaction because of how we look at what happened,” Simmons said. “But (the play is) not so much about the event itself but how it affected people.” Younger and older performers play vari-ous roles in the show, and one of the biggest challenges for the actresses was being able to portray the same person, just at different points in time, Simmons said. “The process was very interesting to make them appear like the same person,” Simmons said. Despite this, Simmons still said the show’s producers still wanted to illustrate the changes that took place throughout each of the character’s lives. “People evolve throughout the years, though — and not just over 10 years — but every year people change,” Simmons said. For Katie Marsh, a junior majoring in theater performance, playing the part of 10-year-old Lavinia was the hardest thing to work out between all of the actresses, she said. “At the beginning of the production we got together to see what we could bring that was similar for the character,” Marsh said. “We all wanted to bring an essence of the character — it was a challenge.” One thing that helped those involved in the production figure out the details of their parts was meeting the author, she said.

“It was a real treasure to talk to the author and to dig into the details from her,” Marsh said. “We got stuff from her that we wouldn’t have gotten otherwise.” “Two-Headed” opens at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Morgan Theatre at the Chase Fine Arts Center. General admission tickets are $13, senior citizens and youths are $10, faculty and staff are $8, and students with ID get in free.


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President makes time for studentsin such a beautiful place. Sometimes we forget to appreciate it because we’re used to it.” Aside from the landscape, Albrecht said his favorite part of living in Logan is working for what he calls a “world-class” university. “Sometimes our students don’t understand how good the place is,” he said. “To have an institution of this qual-ity, sitting where it is, is really remarkable.” As president, Albrecht said he focuses on “elevating Utah State from an already great university to an even bet-ter one.” He is working hard to maintain communication with students, which he said is the best part of his job. “I love going for a walk across the Quad or through the student center and seeing the students,” he said. Albrecht said he has an interest in hearing the voice of every student and holds weekly office hours when students can meet with him and bring any kind of question or concern to him. “I thought I would hear stories about classes they couldn’t get into or roommate problems,” he said. “It’s never been that. The students really want to talk about life and careers and where to get where they want to be.” Albrecht said he also meets with international students on campus, learning about their cultures and how they add to the USU community. He spends a substantial amount of time traveling, including three days a week spent in Salt Lake City, when the Legislature is in session. He works at the Capitol each year to increase Utah politicans’ commitment to higher education. He also works closely with USU donors, as well as Utah senators and representatives in Washington, D.C. And is he a true aggie? “Of course,” he said. “Though that goes back long before I was ever president.”


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mendation when you apply for internships.” She said knowing professors on a personal basis can also help students secure internship positions, some of which they won’t have to apply for if professors who need interns are already familiar with their work. Rohman said within her major, internships provide her with research experience that will be essential when she applies to graduate programs. Students interested in obtaining internships, either next school year or for the summer, can find assistance at Career Services inside the lower level of the University Inn. Donna Crow, executive director of Career Services and Student Success, said the Career Services center is expand-ing this year to include student employment. The new pro-gram will help students at every level of the employment

process, from finding their first job on campus to finding internships and preparing for grad school or careers. “We are becoming a one-stop shopping destination for careers and employment,” Crow said. Students seeking internships or advice on how to compile strong cover letters, resumes and references can schedule appointments with Career Services at any time, she said. Students can also use the Career Aggie account, a free career and internship Web search service for all USU students. Crow said all students should visit the Career Services office or website, where they can find helpful resources for becoming stronger internship candidates.


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With an amicable tap of the gloves, the fighters square up and the fight starts. A combi-nation of punches and kicks draw bloodfall as the mixed martial arts fighters face off at Castle Manor in the second Cache Valley Clash. Boasting eight total fights,

the Clash has been gaining rec-ognition as the premier MMA event to debut as an amateur fight. Bringing in fighters from across the state, as well as California and Colorado, the event has been introducing the sport of MMA to Cache Valley. Co-producers Travis Chambers and 2000 Olympic gold medalist Rulon Gardner both said they were pleased

with the turnout of fighters. “It was a great success. The fights were really good, we had a large variety and we had a lot of good takedowns and submissions,” Chambers said. “We had fights that went just seconds and fights that went all three rounds.” Starting off the Clash, Tim Cook and Matt Jackson met each other in the 155-pound

class but what started out promising ended just 24 sec-onds into the first round. The referee called the bout after Jackson took a heavy right hand to the head, snapping his head backwards. Anthony Miller, a Richmond, Utah, native, went three rounds with Tanner Cohen also at the 155-pound weight class. After submission could not be gained, the deci-sion went to the judges’ score cards which gave the win the Cohen. Emmanuel “The Spider” Mendoza used his street fight-ing background to eliminate Andrew Christensen in the 170-pound weight class. Christensen started out strong, lifting Mendoza off the ground to throw him to the mat. Emmanuel Mendoza was not affected and came back to use a traditional boxing style to beat Christensen around the cage. The referee called the match for repeated strikes at 2 minutes, 49 seconds into the first round. Utah State student Ivan Pacheco tapped out to Nick Swenson after Swenson straddled Pacheco to deliver punches to the face. Just 2:17 into the first round, the 6-foot, 170-pound fighter had the lighter fighter pinned to the ground, with a bloodied nose. Pacheco’s original opponent backed out just a week before the fight, giving Pacheco the option to fight in a heavier class. “My fighter dropped out but they offered me a fight in a

heavier weight class and I took it because I wanted to fight. I have just been eating pretty much the past week,” Pacheco said. “I was at my top physical-ity point because I was trying to gain weight.” Pacecho weighed in at 161 pounds and 5 feet 7 inches, whereas Swenson weighed in at 9 pounds heavier. “Nine pounds doesn’t seem a lot, but when it comes down to it, it matters,” Pacheco said. “Swenson had a good fight and I want to give him props.” Brady Garner traveled from Bakersfield, Calif., to participate in the Clash. A Preston, Idaho, native, Garner’s background is in wrestling. Fighting in the 185-pound weight class, Garner wasted no time pounding Javier Mendoza

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The Aggies suffered a couple of road losses, losing both games in the doubleheader Friday and dropping a lead going into the seventh inning Saturday.

USU 6, BYU 15

The Aggies started things off right, but the Cougar bats proved too much to fight off. In the top of the first, senior Lindsey Marquez doubled to right field, driving in freshman outfielder Hailey Froton and junior first baseman Christine Thomsen. The lead lasted one inning. Aggie pitcher Mandy Harmon walked two batters after BYU shortstop JC Clayton singled to right-center, loading the bases. Harmon hit second baseman Stacie

Toney in the next at-bat, gifting a run to the Cougars. It was the first of eight straight runs for BYU. The Cougars scored three from a bases-clearing double by right fielder Delaney Willard, in the bottom of the second, to go up 4-2. BYU’s Megan Arnold hit a two-run shot to center, extending the lead to 6-2. Utah State got its turn in the top of the fourth. With runners on first and second, freshman Jolene Koons hit a sacrifice grounder to second, which allowed outfielder Amburlyn Orozco to score. In the next at-bat, sophomore Christina Cummings did the same for junior Katie Bowdidge to cut the lead to 8-4. Froton homered over the center-field fence in the top of the fifth to give the Aggies two more runs. “We had to move our lineup around because of an injury, so Hailey was moved into the number four

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The No. 18 USU men’s baseball club swept its three-game series against Utah Valley University last weekend in convincing fashion, heading into its series against Weber State next week. The defending Northern Pacific East Conference champions began the twinbill Friday with a 24-0 routing of the Wolverines in the first game and a 11-1 victory in the second game. USU finished the sweep Saturday afternoon with an 18-1 victory. With the wins, the Aggies claim at least a share of first place in the conference. “The big thing is that we won conference games, and it puts us 6-0 in the conference,” senior center fielder Matt Stranski said. “The fact that we were able to stay undefeated in conference and take care of business is a big deal.” An 18-run fourth inning put USU in complete control, en route to the blowout victory in game one. Senior outfielder Gavin Johnson had a grand-slam home run as part of the 18-run frenzy. Johnson also had a solo home run and a double, to round out his five-RBI performance. “I don’t think I’ve ever been part of a team that has done that before,” Johnson said of the 18-run inning. “It

was a good week for everyone.” Fifth-year senior first baseman Jake Bartholomew and junior pitcher Robert Garrett finished with three RBIs apiece. Also finishing with a multiple-RBI day was Stranski. “We had great pitching, very solid defense and just had a ton of hitting,” USU head coach Norm Doyle said. “All aspects of the game were working, especially the offense. They were just pounding the ball all over the place.” Junior pitcher Kyle Durrant pitched a seven-inning shutout, allowing four hits in the first game Friday. “All three pitchers pitched super well this weekend,” Stranski said. “Kyle Durrant pitched a shutout in the first game. Robert Garrett and Sixto Cabrera also pitched well. All three of those guys were fantastic. They only gave up two runs all weekend.” Garrett allowed two hits and one run in the second game Friday, and Cabrera allowed four hits and one run Saturday. “Our pitching staff did an amazing job,” Johnson said. “They were hitting their spots, and when a player put the ball in, we did a good job of getting them out.” Wolverine Jonathan Proper drove in UVU’s only run in the second game Friday, and William Fajardo drove in a run Saturday for the Wolverines. trots

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The Utah State men’s tennis team took to home courts this weekend against University of Idaho and the University of Hawaii. Dropping both matches, USU

is 4-11 in the season and falls 0-3 in Western Athletic Conference action.

USU 1, Idaho 6

USU jumped ahead in dou-bles action, but the Bengals roared back to capture two of

the three pro-sets. “It was a lot closer than the results show. It boiled down to inch here, inch there, point here, point there,” head coach Chris Wright said. “It was a few key points, but overall we competed well.” Junior Sven Poslusny and freshman Marcus Fritz defeat-ed Jose Bendeck and Cristobal Ramos-Salazar for the only doubles win of the day at the No. 1 doubles position. Down three games, the duo made a comeback to win the pro-set in a tie breaker, 9-8. “We played well. We were down 6-3 and came back for the win,” Poslusny said. “We play really good together, and we are really comfortable playing with each other.” The pairing of brothers junior Lenny Whiting and sophomore Andrew Whiting fell to Abid Akbar and Andrew Dobbs in the No. 2 doubles position 5-8. Senior Nate Ballam and freshman Matt Sweet rounded out doubles action with a loss to Marius Cirstea and Filip Fichtel in the No. 3 doubles spot. The Aggies fell in a tie breaker, losing the match 8-9. Poslusny was the only one to carry momentum over from the doubles matches, as he dismissed Cirstea in straight sets at the No. 1 singles spot. The German native took the win 6-4, 6-3. “I played really well, very consistent and played very well in the big points,” Poslusny said. “I served

really good and just played my game.” The rest of the Aggies recorded losses, but it was not without a fight, as two three-set battles highlighted the rest of the day. Ballam lost the first set 5-7, the Logan native coming back to win the second 6-3. With the match already decided, the third set was replaced by a super tie breaker to 10 points. A fight to the finish ensued, as neither player gained an advantage over the other. “It was a heartbreaker — very disappointing,” Ballam said. “It’s a little bit of a mental block now, because it is time after time (of tie breakers). But it gives me more experience than every-one else in those third-set tie breakers.” The Aggie dropped his third straight third-set tie-breaker 11-13. “It would be better for me if we played the third set, but it’s a very mental thing, the tie breaker,” Ballam said. “I had the bottom hand, and it was very disappointing.” Lenny Whiting also found himself in a three setter against Bendeck in the No. 4 singles position. The Aggie dropped the first set 3-6 but came back to claim the second 6-2. Whiting’s efforts were not enough, as the deciding set went to Bendeck 2-6. Fritz was defeated by Akbar in the No. 2 singles position 2-6, 1-6, and Sweet also lost in straight sets to

Ramos-Salazar 2-6, 3-6 in the No. 3 singles position. Freshman Curran Wearmouth wrapped up singles action with a loss to Alan Shin, dropping in two sets 3-6, 4-6.

USU 0, Hawaii 7

USU’s woes continued as it met up with WAC rival Hawaii on Saturday. The Aggies were blanked by the Warriors, losing the contest 0-7. The Aggies got off to a rough start in doubles, dropping all three pro-sets to Hawaii. Going into singles action, USU could not find the momentum to make the come-from-behind win. “We came out strong in doubles, but we got broken, and that took the wind out of our sails a little bit,” assistant coach Bryan Marchant said. “We were deflated and came out a little flat in singles after that.”

Poslusny had the best effort against Jonathan Brooklyn in the No. 1 singles position. Poslusny and Brooklyn battled to gain the upperhand in the match, but neither did so successfully. The Aggie dropped the first set 5-7, as he scrambled line to line to stay in the rally against Brooklyn. “(Brooklyn) doesn’t have a really big weapon — not a great serve or a really big shot — but he is really good on footwork,” Poslusny said of his match. “I wanted to be aggressive and use my serve, keep the ball in and look for my chances to come in.” The Warrior began to unravel in the second set, screaming out in frustra-tion at the conclusion of multiple points he lost. Poslusny worked the court with well-timed drop shots and defensive lobs to take the second set 6-3.

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slot and has done a good job,” said Aggie head coach Carissa Millsap-Kalaba said. “She has good power and speed and has been effective in moving the runners and getting runs across the plate.” BYU answered back imme-diately in the next two innings. First baseman Katie Manuma singled in Willard, and Toney hit a two-run homer to left field on the next at-bat. Those three runs invoked the mercy rule, and the umpires called the game with a score of 15-6. Thomsen led Utah State offensively with three hits in as many at-bats and two runs scored. “Christine is a tough out and has been consistent in her execution and adjustments at the plate,” Millsap-Kalaba said. “She proved that again this weekend.” Harmon pitched two innings for the Aggies and was credited with the loss — her 14th of the season. Hannah Howell pitched six innings for the Cougars in the win. She gave up six runs on eight hits and struck out three batters in 28 faced.

USU 0, BYU 2

Utah State looked to be in a position to score in the top of the first inning. Second base-

man Allison Lenzora singled up the middle, and Froton singled through the left side, two batters later. However, Marquez swung at strike number three, for the third out, and left her team-mates stranded on first and second. The Aggies held BYU scoreless through the first two innings of game two. In the bottom of the third inning and with bases loaded, Manuma grounded out to second base but knocked in left fielder Tiffa Messerschmid and moved runners over to second and third. Aggie pitcher Dani Chaplin walked Toney on four straight pitches in the next at-bat, again loading the bases. Arnold hit a grounder back to Chaplin, but the Aggies couldn’t turn the double play, and Clayton crossed the plate to put BYU up 2-0. In the top of the fourth, Utah State had another chance to score when Froton singled to left and was bunted over to sec-ond by Marquez. Catcher Sam Miller watched strike three go past, and Koons grounded out to third on the next two at-bats to leave Froton on base. Froton had two hits in three at-bats. Lenzora and Thomsen both went 1 for 3. The Aggies had four hits, three errors and six runners left on base.

Chaplin (3-5) struck out five batters, surrendered four hits and two runs, and walked four more in 29 batters faced. “Dani pitched well,” Millsap-Kalaba said. “Her game on Friday night was impressive. She allowed us to stay close and kept us in the game. BYU is patient at the plate. Dani did a good job of being effective with her pitches and keeping BYU off balance. Overall, Dani did an excellent job against them in both of her outings.” BYU’s Tori Almond improved to 9-2 on the season, as she pitched seven innings, struck out six batters and gave up four hits in 27 batters faced.

USU 4, BYU 6

The Cougars got started early in game three. After a pair of walks in the bottom of the first, Willard doubled to right-center, scoring Dugas and Clayton, to go up 2-0. Willard scored two pitches later when Manuma popped Chaplin’s 1-0 pitch into right for an RBI single to extend the lead 3-0. In the top of the third, Thomsen singled and was driven in by Froton, who doubled to right-center. Froton crossed the plate on an error by Toney, two batters later, to make it 3-2.

The next inning with runners on second and third, Lenzora reached on a fielder’s choice and was credited with an RBI as Day crossed the plate. Outfielder Annie Thomas ran home when Manuma made an error on the play to put the Aggies up 4-3. The lead lasted until the end of the seventh inning, when a pair of home runs by Willard and Toney put the Cougars up for good 6-4. “I am proud of my team,” Millsap-Kalaba said. “I am especially proud of the way they came out to play today. To be honest, though, it is always disappointing to lose, especially to an in-state rival. We battled well against a good team this weekend and did a good job of putting ourselves in a position to succeed, leading most of the way 4-3, and came up just short in the bottom of the seventh.” The losses drop USU down to 14-28. The Aggies will next face Idaho State at 4 p.m. Wednesday in Logan.


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3. Kylie Hirschi, 2:11.28; 11. Jessie Chugg, 2:15.04; 19. Alisa Sheffer, 2:19.951,500m - 4. Kim Quinn, 4:35.72; 12. Brittany Bushman, 4:53.47; 14. Jessie Chugg, 5:00.524x100m Relay - Utah State A, DNF (Shaleen Richardson, Aubrie Haymore, Bailee Whitworth, Katelyn Heiner)4x400m Relay - 1. Utah State A, 3:45.54 (Camille Fehlberg, Aubrie Haymore, Bailee Whitworth, Katelyn Heiner)3,000m Steeplechase - 2. Stephanie Burt, 11:09.78; 3. Kaylee Campbell, 11:21.39Triple Jump - 3. Sam Nielson, 11.95m (39-02.50);

5. Julia Stewart, 11.53m (37-10.00)Pole Vault - 1. Sonia Grabowska, 4.10m (13-05.25); 3. Rachelle St. Jeor, J3.85m (12-07.50); Amber Thompson, NHShot Put - 2. Lindsey Spencer, 14.93m (48-11.75); 4. Spela Hus, 14.59m (47-10.50); 14. Melanie Heslop, 12.28m (40-03.50); 15. Keeley Eldredge, 12.04m, (39-06.00)Hammer Throw - 2. Lindsey Spencer, 57.63m (189-01); 9. Keeley Eldredge, 50.25m (164-10); 10. Spela Hus, 50.15m

(164-06); 14. Melanie Heslop, 46.63m (153-00)Discus - 1. Lindsey Spencer, 54.48m (178-09); 9. Spela Hus, 39.29m (128-11)Javelin - 3. Sam Nielson, 43.00m (141-01); 5. Aubriann Bosen, 38.56m (126-06)MEN: Team Scores - 1. Utah State 158.5 2. Sacramento State 153 3. UC Davis 104100m - 1. Nic Bowens, 10.49; 2. Silas Pimentel, 10.57; 3. Will Henry, 10.59; 8. Xavier Martin, 11.08

110m Hurdles - 2. AJ Boully, 14.59200m - 1. Silas Pimentel, 21.62; 2. Nic Bowens, 21.67; 16. Xavier Martin, 22.75400m Hurdles - 1. AJ Boully, 52.84; 3. Dan Mosman, 55.98; 4. James Rohwer, 56.17800m - 4. Tyler Killpack, 1:53.541,500m - 3. Daniel Howell, 3:51.36; 4. Hunter Nelson, 3:51.69; 5. Aaron Clements, 3:54.27; 7. Devin Lang, 4:00.254x100m Relay - 1. Utah State A, 41.04 (AJ Boully, Nic Bowens, Silas Pimentel, Will Henry)3,000m Steeplechase - 4. Eric Shellhorn, 9:37.93;

6. Austin Neuner, 9:46.79High Jump - Eric Follett, NHTriple Jump - 5. Travis Johnson, 13.97m (45-10.00); 8. Reagan Ward, 13.69m (44-11.00); Kenny Hamlett, FoulPole Vault - T-8. Dallas Singley, 4.55m (14-11.00); Jason Allred, NH; John Johnson, NHShot Put - 3. Bryce Hall, 16.39m (53-09.25)Hammer Throw - 3. Bryce Hall, 56.40m (185-00)Javelin - 6. Devin Wright, 52.91m (173-07)

and earned the win with repeated strikes, 36 seconds into the first round. Tiffany Anderson and Mackenzi Allen stepped into the ring at the 125-pound female class. Anderson, a mother of seven who debuted in the first Cache Valley Clash, tripped Allen on the inside to bring her down for the tapout 2:47 into the first round. Anderson’s road to the Clash started 11 months ago when she decided to lose weight. “Last year I decided to lose some weight, I started at 180 pounds and now I am 125 pounds and have abs,” Anderson said. “I feel great, I trained really hard and came here to win and feel good about it. I was confident that I was ready for whatever Allen could dish out.” Gardner said that involving women into the MMA world has been positive for the sport as well as the women who participate in it. “This Anderson’s second fight and Allen’s first fight and to have them come in here and put themselves out there is great,” Gardner said. “I think

it’s a great sport to see the evolution in and it empowers women.” The fight of the night came from Dustin Jenkins and Jelani Smith in the 155-pound weight class. Smith, from Denver, Colo., and Jenkins were the most technical MMA fighters in the event, and exhibited a higher level of skill. After three rounds, the fight went the judge’s scorecards which, unanimously gave the win to Jenkins. “The best textbook match, evenly matched going toe-to-toe was Smith and Jenkins,” Chambers said. “They went back and forth and they both spent equal time trading blows and I feel like it was an evenly-matched fight, which is what we look for in MMA.” Gardner said the fight was not just about fighting, but about a comeback for Smith. “To see Smith and Jenkins go at it was great,” Gardner said. “This is Smith’s first fight back after a death of a friend and having him die has really affected Smith. To see that makes you realize what you have to live for. Although it was only a fight,

it symbolizes what we put into it and what we get out of it.” Mike Foster and Robert La Cruix wrapped up the Clash, fighting at the 185-pound weight class. La Cruix

came into the fight undefeated, but Foster took the fight within seconds. “The fights were stopped a little early in a few of them, but in the end of the day the fights were phenom-

enal,” Gardner said. “They are still at an amateur level. It’s a starting progress and a lot of debuts tonight.”


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With the momentum seemingly on the junior’s racket, the match went into a third set tie breaker. Brooklyn and Poslusny battled at the baseline until an unforced error gave the Warrior a 7-5 lead. From then on, the Aggie could not break back to win the match, losing 5-7, 6-3, 7-10. “I think I fought hard. If it had been a regu-lar set, it would have been different,” Poslusny said. “(Brooklyn) came up with some really good tennis in the tie breaker.” Straight set losses plagued the Aggies in the other matches, as Hawaii routinely dismissed USU’s young team.

“Hawaii came out fired up today from a loss yesterday (to UI), we just got outplayed in that last part of the match,” Marchant said. “The effort was good, but just getting more experienced.” Fritz was dismissed by Dmytro Kovalyov 6-0, 6-1 in the No. 2 singles position and Lenny Whiting, filling in for injured Sweet, lost to Chas Okamoto 6-2, 6-1 in the No. 3 singles spot. Ballam fell against Nils Schuhmann 6-0, 6-1 in the No. 4 singles position and Wearmouth was defeated by Jared Spiker 6-2, 6-3 at No. 5 singles. Seeing action for the second time this spring

season, sophomore Brandon Nielsen lost in two sets against Danilo Casanova in the No. 6 singles position. The Logan native was served a bagel in the first set and lost the second set 3-6 to conclude singles action. Utah State will conclude their regular season with three matches this week, starting with a rivalry matchup against Weber on Tuesday. “We just have to be ready mentally, come out fired up,” Marchant said. “We are looking to beat them, always a good rivalry, looking to go down and get it done.”


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USU’S WHITING BROTHERS take a breather during a match against Idaho on Friday. CURTIS RIPPLINGER photo

USU had a total of 57 hits over the three-game series, and there were at least five players who Doyle said deserve conference player of the week accolades. “We had five guys who were really tough at-bats,” Doyle said. They just couldn’t get them out.” Fifth-year senior center fielder Brett Jensen went 5 of 7 with a home run, while scoring 11 runs, and Stranski went 7 of 11 with a home run and six RBIs. Johnson totaled five hits in eight at-bats, including two home runs and eight RBI’s, and Garrett went a perfect 7 for 7 with a double, home run and seven RBI’s.

Bartholomew rounded out the solid performances with eight hits in nine at bats, to go with a triple, a home run and four RBIs. “When we had runners in scoring positions, we came through,” Johnson said. “We were able to get big hits to score them. People were coming through with timely hits. It made a big difference.” USU has the goal of remaining undefeated on the season and repeating as conference champions, which may prove to be daunt-ing task, Doyle said. “It puts somewhat of a target on our back,” Doyle said. “Everyone knows that we’re the defending champions of the con-ference, and everyone gets up for us a little bit more. It puts a little

more pressure on us, but I think we have a team that is capable of defending that title.” USU faces Weber State on Friday and Saturday with a twinbill the second day at Lindquist Field in Ogden. “We’ve just got to remember not to get complacent,” Johnson said. “We’ve gone on a stretch of winning, and we need to not let it get to our heads. We’ve just got to keep focused for these next games to do our very best and continue to have that momentum.”


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This year has been an exciting year of growth and innovation in ASUSU. First, I want to thank all of the officers for the tireless effort they have put into serving the student body. Their dedication, which often extended late into the night, is what made the successes of this year pos-sible. I also want to thank the countless students who volunteered their time and energy to run each program and event. We have found that the secret to success in anything is having good people to plan, prepare and

carry out the events, and that is exactly what we had this year. In my first column this school year I talked about the importance of not only getting “through” college but getting “from” college.

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In the wake of the shooting of Trayvon Martin, Florida’s Stand Your Ground law has received increased scrutiny. The law — also referred to as a “Shoot First” law — gives a person more legal latitude, if they decide to use lethal force rather than retreat, when physically threatened. There are a few things I wish to say about such mea-sures, which are not limited merely to Florida but have been enacted in more than

ously, almost the very same wording, which I will address later. Guns are not in and of themselves evil, and I am not against gun ownership per se — though I see very little justification in owning automatic weapons or other heavy weaponry — nor am I against the use of protective force when defending your-self or your family from real danger and threats. Nevertheless, the burden of proof for the necessity of violence — let alone lethal force — is very high and always requires sufficient justification from its perpe-

One evening while walk-ing home alone you notice a large man following you. After picking up your pace to make sure you aren’t being paranoid, you see him pull out a weapon and start running after you. You have a pistol in your bag. Do you a) try to run, b) use your fire-arm, or c) stop and consider whether local laws permit you to fight or require you to flee and act accordingly? There’s no right answer to the above scenario, but there is a wrong one. I couldn’t find conclusive evidence as to whether Stand Your Ground gun laws reduce crime or sim-ply result in more fatalities. For every statistic, there is another that supports the opposing view. If these laws — which permit individuals to use lethal force when under attack, without the obligation to retreat first — do affect crime or fatality rates, they are negligible. Why? Because the wrong answer to the above ques-tion was the third option. When you’re under attack, are you really going to stop

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Sam Taylor made some good points in his recent letter “USU Sustainability Doesn’t Cut It,” published on Wednesday, April 11, but I’d like to correct a misperception about the role of the Sustainability Council in the process. Taylor wrote, “The last round of projects approved by the Sustainability Council are hardly leading us forward.” The Sustainabil i t y Council does not review, endorse or approve proj-ects funded by the stu-dent Blue Goes Green fee. The Sustainability Council does not receive and cannot allocate or spend student BGG fees. Proposals submitted for BGG funds go directly to the Student Sustainability Office and are reviewed by a committee chaired by

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and consider state legis-lation before determining your course of action? Of course not. When you feel yourself in life-threatening danger, safety is your pri-mary concern. Let the law sort itself out later. Stand Your Ground laws are not about reducing crime or fatalities; they’re about basic human rights. That humans have the right to defend themselves in an area they are legally permitted to be in, while engaging in activities they are legally permitted to, is a premise that needs no explanation. Nor is self-defense a right granted by the state; it is intrinsic to all human beings. Stand Your Ground gun laws have wrong-fully come under scrutiny recently because of the Trayvon Martin shooting. Instead, some have pro-posed Duty to Retreat laws, which require indi-viduals to flee from assail-ants before using force.

Not only are these laws dangerous because they can unnecessarily expose a victim, they are morally backward. Requiring an individual to flee from an assailant before attempting to use force essentially places the life of the assailant above the victim. There are, in fact, stories of criminals suing their victims for retal-iating with force under Duty to Retreat laws. Do I need to explain why that’s wrong? But what of the Trayvon Martin case? Should charges against Zimmerman be dropped because of Florida’s Stand Your Ground law? While the facts are still being released, the law would probably provide no pro-tection to Zimmerman. Stand your ground laws do not protect those who initiate the conflict and are engaged in illegal activity. Based on current facts, we know Zimmerman was

pursuing Martin, even after he was told by the police not to, and he was most likely the assailant, not the victim. In reality these laws will have no impact on this case. So why are we fuss-ing about it? Providing legal justifica-tion for self-defense will rarely, if ever, determine the actions of a defen-dant against an assailant. It does, however, clean up the legal mess that’s sure to follow. Our laws should pro-tect victims, not assailants. Enacting laws that require victims to flee, rather than giving them the option to defend themselves, is sim-ply backward.

trator. For example, shoot-ing someone who jumped your fence and began swimming in your pool late at night is not sufficient justification, though, your property it may be. But someone breaking into your house and threaten-ing your wife or husband is something else. In the case of George Zimmerman, Trayvon’s shooter, he was explicitly told not to pursue Trayvon by the 911 dispatcher. He claims he shot Trayvon in self-defense, even though he was the one following Trayvon. If Trayvon really did attack Zimmerman, he must’ve equally thought he was acting in self-defense. Can one really instigate a confronta-tion and then claim self-defense when they begin to lose the fight? It is because of laws such as Stand Your Ground that Florida prosecutors

waited nearly 45 days to charge Zimmerman with Trayvon’s murder. I am against these laws for many reasons, the main reason being they are superfluous. There are plenty of legal precedents for avoiding prosecution if someone were in dan-ger. And as I implied ear-lier, it is no accident that each state with Stand Your Ground laws has similarly worded legislation. The reason is because it was drafted with sub-stantial input and lob-bying from the National Rifle Association by the highly secretive American Legislative Exchange Council. ALEC is essentially a right-wing legislation mill that formulates bills and, because of its huge corpo-rate base, is able to pres-sure legislators to vote in favor of them. Among its biggest donors are AT&T and Verizon, as well as Coca-

Cola, Pepsi, Wendy’s — who recently rescind-ed their support — and major media companies such as Comcast and Time Warner. This may explain why you’ve never heard of ALEC. Some of their many proj-ects have included mea-sures to privatize Social Security and Medicare and enact restrictive voter ID, which curtails the vot-ing rights of minorities and poor people. Stand Your Ground is yet another indication of how much sway corpora-tions have in our political system and an indication that establishing checks on their power is neces-sary.

effort to provide a more diverse range of events that more students would enjoy. To further expand opportunities in their office they developed a brand new marketing team, which has provided more opportu-nities and a more efficient way to get the word out about events. As I stated earlier, this year has been full of innovation. When this year’s ASUSU Council members took office we took a long, hard look at everything that was done in the past. With each past decision made we had to make one of three choices: Keep it how it is, throw it out or keep it and make it better. Many of the things we looked at

fell in the No. 3 category. Throughout the year we made many changes to the previ-ous outdated ASUSU Constitution, updated Student Fee Policies, reworked the structure of officers, re-allocated budget money and revitalized ASUSU programs. No matter what the officers were told about what was possible and what was not, they kept fight-ing to put students’ interests first. They were never satisfied with what had been “good enough” in the past. We are lucky to have a team of advisers and administrators as USU who know that if you want to have the best organization, you listen to the consumer and fulfill their needs.

A perfect example of this came in a meeting discussing rebranding USU. Provost Raymond Coward said, “When we are looking for professors to hire, we ask them how they feel about teaching under-grads vs. graduate education and research. If they ask how they can quickly get out of the classroom and focus on research, that person does not find a home at Utah State.” This is the type of dedication that our administrators have to our success. Because of this, all the officers have been able to go to administration and let the student body’s voice be heard. As this year ends and we transition to

a new set of ASUSU officers, there is still a lot to be done and a lot of needs to be met. We have not been able to accomplish everything we wanted to do because we have spent as much time as possible training the new officers to take over right where we left off. Our goal is for them to accomplish more than we did and continue to develop the quality of students’ experience at this great institution.

– Erik Mikkelsen is the current ASUSU President. Comments on his column may

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sions, cut costs, achieve efficiency and address all three aspects of sustain-ability pointed out by Taylor — environ-ment, economics and social equity. The university has worked diligently to lower its operating costs by insti-tuting energy efficiencies to reduce fuel and electricity costs, retrofitting older buildings, and ensuring that new construction meets LEED standards.

Unfortunately, due to heavy cuts to higher education over the past few years, these savings have not resulted In reducing tuition costs. But they have played a major role in preventing tuition from rising even faster that it would have otherwise. In closing, I offer an observation on the $3 BGG fee that students imposed on themselves. Students have a choice.

Anyone who chooses to refill a water bottle just two or three times a semes-ter instead of purchasing bottled water will recoup their cost of the $3 GBB fee. Can you say that about any of the other initiatives that are supported by your student fees?

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“Remembering Lynch Victims” is an event taking place Monday, April 16, TSC Fountain area, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Lynching took the lives of thousands of Americans during the Jim Crow era, yet the victims of this hate crime are largely lost to history. Join us to remember this victims. Details: [email protected]. Sponsored by the Sociology Honors Society and Black Student Union. Write Now at your Library: Is your final paper, presentation, or final project due soon? You can get personalized help at the Merrill-Cazier Library from writing tutors, librarians and computer lab assistants April 16-19 and 23-26, 6 to 8:30 p.m. in Library room 122. No appoint-ment needed! Religious Studies Department is having a Religious stud-ies social for any current or interested students and faculty. Spaghetti dinner at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 18, in Building B lounge of the Living Learning Community. RSVP: [email protected] Service Week info: Did you know the Cache Valley Volunteer Center was created to provide service opportunities for indi-viduals, groups and agencies in Cache County ... and for those who want to share volunteer opportunities. Check the website for details: www.cachevolunteer-center.org Common Ground is host-ing a movie night on Monday, April 16 at 6 pm. Come enjoy treats and a fun flick! Common Ground is a non-profit organiza-tion that provides outdoor recre-ation for people with disabilities. For more information about our program, call (435) 713-0288. The Old Barn Community Theatre, a non-profit theater in Collinston, is opening a show called “Remember the Magic: A Musical Tribute to Disney”.! April 13th-28th, Every Monday,

Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Matinees on the 14th, 21st and 28th at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $8 for adults and $7 for children and seniors. Royal Princess Tea Party on Saturday, April 21st at 1:00 p.m.! Tickets for the Tea Party are $15 and include admission to the matinee that follows at 2:30 p.m. You can purchase tickets online at www.oldbarn.org or make reser-vations by calling 435-458-BARN “Something Bigger Than Me” is a fundraiser page to help keep a student alive who attends USU. Please go to the page, read about it, share it with your friend, put it on your walls, donate, and “like” it. She needs a life saving Lung Surgery.This is a person’s life at stake! https://www.facebook.com/pages/Something-Bigger-Than-Me/140352786090840 If everyone got involved and donated just $5 to help keep her alive, she could have a chance. USU students have created a Pre-Occupational Therapy club. !If students “like” USU Pre-O.T. club on facebook, they’ll find out when our meetings are, what service projects were doing, and information that we’ve provided about Occupational Therapy. They can also visit the website at http://usupreot.weebly.com/. Going into the field? Get informed about it. The “Walk to Cure FM” !on Saturday,!!May 12,!brings people in the community together to increase awareness and educa-tion of fibromyalgia.! The 1K & 5K walk commemorates National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day to raise awareness of those who suffer with this illness and those who support them. !Several local “Walk to CURE FM” events will be held around the U.S.! The NFMCPA’s national “Walk to Cure FM” will be held at Willow Park in Logan, Utah, on Saturday May 12!from 1- 4 p.m. with regis-tration starting at noon.!

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p.m. Bullen CenterCollege Night at Chick Fil A- 5 to 9 p.m. Stress Management and Self Care Workshop- 5 to 6 p.m. TSC 310Write Now, Library assistance-6 to 8:30

p.m., Library 122.The Mentalist, Craig Karges- 7 p.m.

BallroomAggies for Christ- 8 to 10 p.m. HubTwo Headed- 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Morgan

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Service Week-All DayArt in the Afternoon: The Nude-11 to

Noon Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art

The Joy of Depression- 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. TSC 310

Capture Design BFA Exhibition- 4 to 9 p.m. Bullen Center

Religious studies social- 4:30 p.m. LLC Lounge of Building B

Write Now, Library assistance-6 to 8:30 p.m., Library 122.

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