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Ten students from the Huntsman School of Business have teamed up with the Cache Valley Reading Council to promote literacy in the community and created a goal to collect more than 1,000 books in a 3-week period. The Books for Hope drive will run until the last day of the month, with a door-to-door collection on March 26. On-campus drop sites include the business and education buildings, the TSC, the library entrance and the Edith Bowen Lab School. A majority of the books will be donated to the English Language Center of Cache Valley, a non-profit organiza-tion that offers a variety of English and basic life skills

classes. Katie Jensen, co-director of the center, said a book drive like this will effect hun-dreds of families in the com-munity. Many of the families who use the center are new immigrants or refugees from war-torn countries, she said, and want the ability to sup-port their families. “They arrive with nothing, so we get books for them,” she said. Jensen said the center serves around 1,000 people each year. With a combi-nation of people from 90 countries, the center requires more than 250 volunteers annually. This year the English Center’s biggest needs are dictionaries and children’s books. “They teach some who

U.S. Congressman Rob Bishop visited USU’s recently-constructed Emma Eccles Jones Early Childhood Education and Research Center on Monday to learn about its highly unique Sound Beginnings deaf education program. USU Provost Raymond Coward said he was glad to have the opportunity to show Bishop a program that USU administra-tors are so proud of. Bishop has served for 16 years in the Utah Legislature as well as 30 years in public education. “It’s fitting that we’re visiting an early education program that is literally chang-ing the lives of the participant children and their families,” Coward said. Utah Sen. Lyle Hillyard, Utah Rep. Jack Draxler, Tami Pyfer of the Utah Board of Education and Peggy Milligan from the Utah State Office of Education were also in attendance to hear about the fledgling

program. Coward said the graduate emphasis program attracts students from all over because of how cutting-edge the technology and research are. “These are young people that are being provided a service that is unique to our state, which is unique to our nation, which is unique to this world,” Coward said. “Yet at the same time what you’ll be observing is a very active research program which has brought in much more than $1 million in external funding.” Karl White, director of the National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management (NCHAM) and USU psychology profes-sor, presented the high-profile group with the vitals of Sound Beginnings and led

the group on a tour of the facilities. “It’s truly state-of-the-art, it’s amaz-ing,” Bishop said. “It’s one of the few that

does this type of sound listening projects in the nation. It’s great that they have been able to make the kinds of scientific improvements over the years so these kids can truly reach the kind of potential that’s within them.” White said Sound Beginnings provides teaching, care and assessment facilities for children. He said it is important to identify any hearing loss early with

universal newborn hearing screening. Sound Beginnings director Kristina

What started out as a student-run organization for families in Cache Valley has turned into a fundraiser relief program called STEPS to help the victims of the recent Japan earthquake, tsunami and nuclear power crisis. As of Tuesday afternoon STEPS passed the $6,000 mark toward the $15,000 goal. Wednesday and Thursday, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Logan’s Maximum Style Tec Cosmetology School will have students ready to cut or braid steps into students’ hair for $5 and hair cuts will cost $10. Jennifer Lee, a student at Maximum Style, said she volunteered her time because she has always loved Japan and their culture. Keenan Nuehring, one of the stu-dents who started STEPS but is now working as an ASUSU liaison for the organization, said they have been working on STEPS for more than a year but weren’t planning on launch-ing it until the fall. When the Japan

disaster hit March 11, he said the group felt it was appropriate to speed things up so something could be done to help and have the USU Japan Club

be involved as much as possible. Chisato Yanagisawa, a sophomore and member of the Japan Club, said since there is nothing anyone from the

Japan Club can do to help directly, a fundraiser that will go to the Red Cross was the best option. She said at first they wanted to send food and blankets

but it was going to be too expensive. Instead, Yanagisawa said the club decided to put up donation jars around campus and booths in the TSC and library. “We can’t do anything from here, but we felt very strongly about doing something, anything that we can do,” Yanagisawa said. Each “step” in STEPS represents something different, Nuehring said. The first step is relieving financial burdens, the second is educating community and third is unifying the community. He said it is a great way to raise awareness about what is going on. Nuehring said the group aims to meet their goal by April 9 with 100 percent of the proceeds going to the Japanese Red Cross. He said members of the organization are planning to go around to businesses to ask for dona-tions. Group member Jason Russell said some businesses have already approached them and asked how they can help.

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The Utah State University English department announced the winners of its annual creative writing contest last week. Charles Waugh, director of the contest, said one of the purposes of the contest is to encourage as many people as possible to write. He said the contest had 158 entries from 25 different disci-plines and encompassing four colleges. The winning submissions will be published in the depart-ment’s literary magazine, “Scribendi” in mid-April, Waugh said. The winning authors will also have a chance to read their work

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Lawyers argue Barry Bonds’ past drug useSAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Barry Bonds admits using steroids during his baseball career, his lawyer told a jury Tuesday. The catch is that Bonds’ per-sonal trainer misled him into believ-ing he was taking flax seed oil and arthritis cream. Assistant U.S. Attorney Matt Parrella called such claims “ridiculous and unbelievable” and portrayed Bonds as a liar during his first chance to present the government’s position. And so the crux of the criminal case against Bonds was laid before an eight-woman, four-man jury as the trial got under way. Bonds has pleaded not guilty to four charges of lying to a grand jury in 2003 when he denied knowingly taking steroids.

Ja Rule pleads guilty to federal tax evasion

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) – Rapper and actor Ja Rule admitted Tuesday that he failed to pay taxes on more than $3 million in income, and he faces up to three years in prison. The platinum-selling rapper earned the money between 2004 and 2006 while he lived in Saddle River, an upscale community in northern New Jersey. If the plea conditions are met, the government will dismiss two counts against him for unpaid taxes on about $1 million he earned in 2007 and 2008. He faces up to one year in prison and $100,000 in fines on each count. He is also scheduled to report to prison in New York to serve a different two-year sentence for illegal possession of a firearm.

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GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) – Air tank-ers and ground crews battled a wind-whipped wildfire in the foothills west of Denver as officials warned that eastern Colorado’s worst drought in nearly a decade makes that part of the state vul-nerable to more burning. Two helicopters, two aerial tankers and 200 firefighters kept the 2-square-mile blaze from growing substantially Tuesday, officials said. People were allowed to return to 17 homes evacuated Monday, but were cautioned to stay on standby in case the fire flared up. Tankers dropped 7,000 gallons of fire retardant and the helicopters dropped 9,200 gallons of water before they were grounded when the wind picked up in the afternoon. The winds were blowing from 25 to 40 mph with sporadic gusts as high as 60 mph, the National Weather Service in Boulder said. Firefighters were battling winds of 75 mph in some parts of the mountains, Jefferson County sheriff ’s spokeswoman

Jacki Kelley said. “I don’t care how many firefight-ers they have, they can’t control a fire that’s raging in wind like that,” said Keith Lowden, who was watching the flames with binoculars from a bedroom window in his nearby home. “That’s the scariest part.” The fire has been eating through grass, brush and trees in two rugged canyons outside Golden since Sunday. Authorities said they went door-to-door through the affected area Monday to make sure everyone had left. Residents of hundreds more homes were told to be ready to leave. Kelley said more evacuations might be necessary if the flames spread north. The fire, which officials suspect was human-caused, was 20 to 25 percent contained by Tuesday afternoon. No injuries have been reported and no structures have burned. Jefferson County sheriff ’s spokesman Mark Techmeyer said flames moved past two homes overnight but firefighters were

able to save both. Firefighting costs have totaled $680,000 so far. The sheriff ’s department said on its website the fire was “creeping and smol-dering” earlier Tuesday but could spread if winds picked up. Bob Kleyla of the weather service said the strong winds

were expected to continue at least until sunset. Although the Colorado mountains and their ski resorts have above-average snowpack, the lower foothills and high plains east of the Rockies have had little moisture since August.

WASHINGTON (AP) – Mitt Romney is the godfather of what Republican critics call Obamacare. Newt Gingrich is an adulterer on his third marriage. Tim Pawlenty is too green – environmentally, that is. Jon Huntsman works for President Barack Obama. And Haley Barbour comes off as insensitive about race rela-tions in the South. “If the primary concern of the American people is my past, my candidacy would be irrelevant,” says Gingrich, one of several presidential contenders who hope the coming cam-paign will turn more on the future than the past. Is any potential Republican presi-dential nominee without vulnerabilities that could alienate voters, especially those in the GOP primaries, and pro-vide ready-made attacks for opponents? Not this crop.

The 2012 Republican field is deeply flawed, lacking a serious GOP con-tender without a personal misstep or policy move that angers the party base. Each of those weighing bids has at least one issue that looms as an obstacle to White House ambitions, and that could derail the candidate if not handled with care. That explains why the would-be candidates are trying to confront their troubles early on, just as the nomina-tion fight gets under way. They’ll have to answer for black marks on their records – and insulate themselves from criticism – repeatedly between now and early next year when voters cast the first caucus ballot. Their aides are trying to figure out how to weather the attacks likely to show up in mailings, online or in television ads; responses are likely to be included in media interviews, debate

appearances and, perhaps, even in major speeches. Aides also are studying – and testing – the best ways to exploit their opponents’ weaknesses. Already, Internet sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are magnifying their woes, and every embarrassing docu-ment, speech or utterance is certain to appear online. Candidates can’t simply ignore their f laws or obstacles; their challengers certainly won’t. Just ask Democrat John Kerry. He was vexed in 2004 by questions about his service in Vietnam and about his reputation as an elitist. Only after widely debunked claims about his Vietnam record started to sink his poll numbers did the campaign effectively respond – and by then it was too late. “You really have to drive the boat into the fire and be fearless about your record,” said Michael Meehan, a

Democratic consultant on Kerry’s cam-paign. Romney, for one, has started to address his biggest policy problem: the health care plan he signed into law as Massachusetts governor, which Obama and the Democrats used as the basis for their national overhaul plan. The White House gleefully points out the similari-ties. “Our experiment wasn’t perfect – some things worked, some didn’t, and some things I’d change,” Romney said recently in New Hampshire. But, he added, “one thing I would never do is to usurp the constitutional power of states with a one-size-fits-all federal takeover.” Romney also will face a repeat of the 2008 criticism that he’s inauthentic, particularly after a series of reversals on gay rights and other social issues.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – Witnesses flooded authori-ties with calls pleading for help for screaming, blood-ied passengers of a derailed children’s train ride whose driver was quoted as telling police in reports that he was going too fast before the crash that killed a boy. “Hurry. There’s a whole bunch,” one frantic caller said in one 911 call, the audio obtained by The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act. “One kid’s leg almost tore off. One kid’s not breathing.” “The train fell off the bridge, and there were a bunch of little kids on it,” another caller said, screams filling the background. “It’s a bloody mess,” said another. The callers reported chaotic scenes from a park in Spartanburg in the state’s northwest, where a nearly 60-year-old train derailed Saturday and toppled off a bridge, killing 6-year-old passenger Benji Easler. A vigil in the boy’s memory was planned Tuesday night at the park. Authorities say 27 others suffered injuries from bumps and bruises to broken bones. Some children were carried off in stretchers. In one of the more than 30 calls, a woman describes a boy turning blue while two people perform CPR on the child. “He’s probably seven. It’s not good for him at all,” another caller said to the boy.

Matt Conrad, the 42-year-old train operator who also was injured, told police he knew he was driving too fast just before tragedy struck, according to docu-ments released Tuesday. “I was going too (expletive) fast,” Conrad told a police officer riding with him to the hospital after Saturday’s crash, according to incident reports released by the Spartanburg Public Safety Department. Authorities have not said what caused the crash, but Conrad’s statement bolsters comments from witnesses who said the train sped up during its third lap around a circuit.

Many of those on the train were members of Corinth Baptist Church in Gaffney, where Benji Easler’s father is a pastor. A minister acting as their spokesman said passengers told him the train was speeding up on its final circuit. “All of my people said the train got faster and faster,” the Rev. Nathan Ellis said. “They felt like it was increasing in speed and something was wrong.” The ride was supposedly checked by a state inspec-tor last Wednesday and allowed to open for operation. But after the crash, authorities say, the inspector came forward to say that he had falsified his report and had not checked the train’s speed because its battery was dead. State officials said the inspector was fired Monday. County parks officials disputed several of Conrad’s online assertions well before the crash that the train involved in the wreck hadn’t run in years. In a Dec. 4 posting on “Railway Preservation News,” Conrad said the nearly 60-year-old train was sold in 1961 and didn’t return to Spartanburg until 2003, at which point Conrad said the train “never really operated” and had a leaking transmission and broken brakes. Spartanburg County parks spokeswoman Nisha Patel confirmed that the train had been sold but said it was in operation during the summer of 2009.

RESCUE WORKERS ATTEND TO injured children after a children’s train ride at Cleveland Park derailed in Spartanburg, S.C. The ride crashed Saturday, March, 19, killing a boy and injuring dozens. AP photo

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Students involved with STEPS are also collecting money in the TSC. Matt Innes, a senior in liberal arts, said he isn’t having much luck getting people to donate. “I understand that it is a hassle for people to open up their backpacks for money. A few people have been generous but of course we are hoping for more,” Innes said. Innes served an LDS mission in Tokyo, Japan in 2008, and his connection to the Japanese people makes this disaster “heartbreaking,” he said. “This is such a developed country, it really hits

home to what can happen,” Innes said. On April 9, STEPS will be holding an event called “Peanut Butter and Japan Jam” to reach their goal. Nuehring said it will be “carnival style” with local bands and games. Advertising for the event will go out to the whole community. He said they are advertising in elementary and middle schools to try to appeal to as many people as possible. Entrance will be $5 and there will be more opportunities to donate throughout the day. Nuehring also said STEPS is working with the Logan School District to figure out how high school

students can be involved. He said they are meeting with the high school student body officers to go over some ideas. “We want them to come up with the ideas because we feel like if they are the ones with the idea, they will support it more,” Nuehring said. There are big plans for the future of STEPS, Nuehring said, and eventually they want to have three separate divisions of the organization: local, national and international.

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April 14 at Helicon West, the bi-monthly open mic night held at True Aggie Cafe in Logan. For many of the winners it was their second, third, and even fourth year submitting work to the contest. Students whose work placed for the first time, however, were pleasantly surprised. “I’m shocked,” said Tina Sitton, a junior majoring in English, “this was the first time I’ve ever entered anything, and to place in it is still surprising … I feel humbled.” Brian Brown’s poems took first place in the graduate poetry category, and he said this was his first time entering a creative writing contest. “To have (these poems) win was a sort of validation, like maybe my writing is worth something after all,” he said. The work of a writer tends to be personal, and many of the writers expressed their reasons behind their work. Many were directed toward family and friends. Other topics among the winning pieces include motherhood, friendship, a preoccu-pation with a Samba dancer and the death of a loved one. “Inviting a writer or poet to explain their work is like asking an over-affectionate parent to explain how cute or smart their kid is,” Sitton said. First place winner in graduate

nonfiction John Gilmore said his nar-rative was about his ex-wife’s fall into anorexia and bulimia. He researched the history and culture of an El Salvadorian food called a pupusa, which was one of the things she was willing to eat, and incorporated it in to his piece. He said, “The end result was, I guess, a sort of meditation on my wife’s and my own obsession with wanting to control things we can’t. Death mostly.” Though each winner expressed passion for his or her work, a major-ity said writing was not part of their after-college career. “I am an English major, but I actu-ally plan on going into law, where I’m sure I’ll have opportunities galore to develop my creative writing skills,” said Tim Clark, second-place winner in undergraduate poetry. For some, however, writing is all they want to do, and they said a day job was probably the most realistic option. “Put simply, I want to write and paint for a living. Not the most real-istic choice, I know, but I’m going for it. Otherwise, I’ll get a day job,” said Tessa Ryser, who placed in the under-graduate art and fiction categories. The contest also included an art category, with five winners taking 10 awards in the undergraduate and graduate categories.

Bernadene Ryan, who took the most art awards, said this was her first time entering an art contest, and she was surprised to win. She said she has been taking photographs for years. “It is often surprising, at least to me, what can be captured by a photo-graph,” Ryan said. “There are details in real-time you may not observe, but the photograph provides an opportu-

nity to really notice details.” Waugh said students should be working on something for the contest in advance of the deadline in the first week of February. “Some of the winning entries this year are the result of years of work, and that dedication really shows,” he said.


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Religious group celebrates bible The first King James Bible rolled off the presses in 1611. Four hun-dred years later it remains the most widely published text in the English language. In celebration of its 400th anniversary, the Religious Studies Program at Utah State University is hosting a panel discussion of the Bible’s virtues, precursors and limitations. Leading faculty scholars in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences will participate in the event March 29 at the Merrill-Cazier Library. “We hope to communicate that the King James Bible is important, whether people know it or not,” said Philip Barlow, director of Religious Studies at USU and the Leonard Arrington Professor of Mormon History and Culture. “The interpreta-tions and information in the Bible has affected more than just the belief systems of people, but the literature they read and the culture of today.” Panelists include Barlow; Norman Jones, an internationally recog-nized expert of the Elizabethan and Reformation era; Christine Cooper-Rompato, co-editor of the “Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures”; and Stan Larsen, professor emeritus at the University of Utah and theology expert. They will discuss the influ-ence of the King James Bible from both religious and cultural stand-points, as well as how it rose in popu-larity over the centuries.

In conjunction with Research Week at Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library hosts a display of recently published faculty books. The books can be seen on the sec-ond floor of Merrill-Cazier at the New Books Lounge. A reception to honor the USU faculty authors represented in the display will be held in conjunc-tion with a presentation by USU English Department faculty member Christine Cooper-Rompato, author of “The Gift of Tongues: Women’s Xenoglossia in the Later Middle Ages,” a book included in the display. Activities are planned Wednesday, March 30, from 4-6 p.m. and Cooper-Rompato’s presentation begins at 5:30 p.m. at the New Books Lounge. The reception is free and open to all. The display includes recent books by 33 faculty members representing the colleges of Agriculture, Natural Resources, Engineering, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences and the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business and the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services.

Museum looks at ages of rock art Archaeology and photograph com-bine in the next featured presentation at Utah State University’s Museum of Anthropology in its “Saturdays and the Museum Series.” The March 26 presentation is based on the book “Traces of Fremont: Society and Rock Art in Ancient Utah” by USU professor Steven Simms and featuring the spectacular photography of Francois Gohier. Photographers often leave it to their images to tell a story. In contrast, archaeologists usually don’t stray too far from a story reconstructed from ancient material remains. In the Saturday presentation, the museum explores the intertwined paths of both photographer and archaeolo-gist as Gohier’s photography explores and captures the nature of ancient Fremont society, religion and world-view. More than a recitation of Fremont artifacts, rock art and culture history, Simms’ presentation draws attention to the nuances of a long vanished cul-ture, highlighting the strides archae-ologists have made toward piecing together the many facets of Fremont life-ways. “Traces of Fremont” tells the story through Simms and Gohier’s collaboration.

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Theater students head to Washington

IN THE MORGAN THEATER USU student actors perform the play “Do Not Hit Golf Balls Into Mexico.” The set to this production will compete at a national

level against other student-designed sets. Brandee Jenks designed the set and will travel to Washington, D.C., for the second year in a row after taking first place in

regionals. Photo courtesy of Shawn Fisher

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JOHN GILMORE WON first place in the graduate nonfiction category of

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In “farm country” it may seem odd that USU theater design students are raking in awards for their sets and costumes for the fourth-straight year. But Shawn Fisher, professor of theater design, said location does not necessar-ily define the success of theater arts. Graduate and undergraduate stu-dents take their designs to the regional Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) every year, and in this year’s mid-February festi-val, USU students won two national and three regional awards against the design projects of approximately 100 college that attended. The winners – Brandee Jenks, Caroline Kennedy, Molly Hill, Milinda Weeks and Andrea Lyman – took their awards in set design, costume and make-up for pro-ductions that have appeared in the Fine Arts Center. “I think that our students are just getting really, really good training,” said Adrienne Moore, USU professor of directing and voice, “and not only do (the students) have design skills, they

know how to apply these skills in a real world situation.” Moore also believes USU theater stu-dents’ success could be attributed to the requirement that they have to produce 24 design projects in their coursework. “It’s not like winning a Tony Award,” Fisher said, “but (the students) get to see how they stand up against people they’ll be competing against in their careers.” Brandee Jenks’ “functional” set design for the USU production “Do Not Hit Golf Balls Into Mexico” will travel to Washington, D.C., in April to hopefully receive a national award, Jenks said. This will be her second year as a contender in the KCACTF national competition. She combined visual ele-ments of corrugated fields, mesh mate-rial and a barbed wire sun to set the mood of the play that took place in the area of the Mexican-American border. “There wasn’t a whole lot to it, but I did that on purpose because I thought the words of the play needed to be the focus,” Jenks said. “It was everything it needed to be and nothing that it didn’t need to be.” The set design for “Do Not Hit Golf

Balls Into Mexico” catered to the mood and issues that were present in the production, Moore said, and the visual aspects were “evocative.” Jenks said Fisher encouraged her at last year’s national competition to go with her sights set on more than an award, but look at the other projects and learn from her competition. “We hold them to high standards,” Fisher said, “and we very much value the process of becoming a diverse art-ist. We don’t look at designers as serv-ers of the production and we value their creative part. It helps to drive their work.” Molly Hill will also travel to Washington, D.C., to show off her “Seussical the Musical” makeup design. She said she believes her design was successful at the regional KCACTF com-petition because of the labor that was required for the project and the profes-sional manner in which she displayed her work. The labor Hill needed to execute for this project involved shaping more than 20 wigs with glue and curling roll-ers, she said. Some other elements of makeup included colorful eyelashes for

the birds in the play and ‘60s-inspired face makeup for the actresses. “From the beginning we wanted them to be humans with animal-like characteristics,” Hill said.“The Zebra, instead of having a mane, had a ponytail that was spiked. We did that with every one of the characters.” In the regional KCACTF competi-tion there are five design categories: set, makeup, sound, lights and costume, Fisher said. A regional and national award are given for each category, so USU students claimed half of the total major awards distributed. There is a good balance in USU’s theater faculty, Fisher said, which is helpful to the students because they are able to get various design perspectives. “What this achievement really says is that the location of Utah State – it’s not in a major city and is in a less populated state – really comes down to the quality of students entering the pro-gram,” Moore said, “and Craig Jessop is set on creating a national appearance for Utah State in the national arts.”


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aren’t even literate in their own lan-guage,” said Tom Williams, a non-matriculated graduate student and member of Books for Hope project group. “Of course, some are very literate in their language and are learning English to help their job prospects.” Books will also be donated to the Whittier Community Center and the Family Information and Resource Center. According to its website, The Family Information and Resource center is an educational facility that provides workshops, classes, and activities for parents to learn to build confidence in their families. They have a small lending library where parents can take books out for two weeks at a time. The Whittier Center is home to more than 25 civic organizations and is a great community resource, Williams said. Melanie Hays, the staff facilita-tor of the project and member of the Cache Valley Reading Council, said although this is only a one-semester project for the students, its success may lead the council to use it as a platform for similar initiatives. “It was a perfect storm,” Hays said. “We were looking for a group to help us because we couldn’t do anything with our small numbers and they were looking for a project for their class.” The council consists of seven active members, many of whom already teach full-time. Hays said because of the council’s size, large-scale projects don’t have the manpower to succeed. The council mulled over many ideas before com-ing up with the thought of partner-ing with the university. She said the community and college partnership has been effective and the council

will continue to pair with students on future projects. Brad Rieben, a senior majoring in accounting and member of the Books for Hope project group, said pairing with the reading council has given the project legitimacy and has allowed the business students

to connect with elementary schools in two school districts to coordinate drop-off locations. “We wanted to do something that would have a greater impact in the community,” Rieben said. “We wanted to do something meaning-ful that would help a lot of people.”

Williams said while the group entertained several ideas for the class project, they felt that a book drive would ultimately be the most worthwhile to the immediate com-munity. He said it also represents the generosity of the student body as whole.

“The fact USU students are involved ref lects well on the university,” he said. “We can get a good response from students, and fill up the drop boxes on campus. It shows that stu-dents are community-minded.”


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LOCAL RESIDENTS IMPROVE their English by using donated materials in Logan’s English Language Center. The Books For Hope books drive will donate all books

to this facility in hopes of improving Cache Valley literacy. Photo courtesy Brad Rieben

Blaiser said their program offers early education for chil-dren from birth to six years of age. Listening and spoken language is the primary mode of communication the children learn. The pediatric audiology clinic, which is part of Sound Beginnings, also serves com-munity members from birth to age 22, said clinic coordina-tor Karen Munoz. The service provides hearing testing, hear-ing aids and cochlear implant mapping. “Most people don’t know about congenital hearing loss – children who are born deaf,” White said. “They’re surprised to learn that it’s the most frequent birth defect in the United States, 95 percent of deaf babies are born to two hearing parents.”

He said congenital hearing loss is often referred to as an invisible disability, because until a deaf child reaches about 12 months of age usually behaves the same way a hearing child does. When Sound Beginnings was opened in 2007, there were only nine students, White said. Now the facility pro-vides speech and communication skills teaching to 30 kids, while also giving grad-uate students valuable interdis-ciplinary, hands-on experience. “When I was teaching I never had a hearing-impaired

in my classroom,” Bishop said, “so it was unique to try and visualize how these kids will be in another 10 years or so.”

Amie Dunkley, the mother of a Sound Beginnings student named Matthew, said she immedi-ately began to see improve-ments and she said she was excited to see how familiar staff at Sound Beginnings seemed to be

with her son’s condition. She said now Matthew wants to learn, he asks ques-tions and she is incredibly thankful that the program is right here in Cache Valley. “As a parent, I think we want our kids to be as nor-mal as they can be, and you want them to be in the public schools,” Dunkley said. “He needed more specific help to what his specific problem was. So I decided to put him in the program last summer.” Sound Beginnings got off the ground largely by using state grants and does not rely on discretionary federal fund-ing. The Emma Eccles Jones Foundation funded the build-ing, Coward Said, and most of the tuition and stipend money for graduate students comes from federal funding. Bishop said it is good that the state has a better track record than the federal govern-ment when it comes to balanc-ing the budget. There are only a few lis-tening and spoken language schools in the country, White said. Sound Beginnings is highly unique and breaking new ground every day. Most schools for the deaf tradition-ally teach American Sign Language.


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– Amie Dunkley, mother of Sound

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The means to the great outdoors

JO KEMPER, SENIOR in environmental engineering, prepares to enter the river in her kayak. The outdoor recreation program stocks a variety of supplies for outdoor adventures in any season. BRECK

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Walter Gould leans in as he methodically scrapes a long, thin, strip of wax off of a cross country ski. The small room he works in could be called cluttered if it wasn’t so orga-nized. Snowboard boots and ski poles line the walls. A small backpacking tent is set up in a corner. A bright yellow raft sits on the edge of the room, as if waiting for the spring runoff from the Logan river to arrive. Back and forth, back and forth, Walter’s push-pull motion seems to fit the feel of the room perfectly. “What we’re all about is getting students into the outdoors,” said Gould, an employee of the Outdoor Recreation Program. “We pro-vide them with gear and instruction that they wouldn’t normally be able to afford. We pro-vide them with opportunities that the average person doesn’t get to do.” Those opportunities range from kayak rentals to a library of books that can be checked out and everything in between. Because student fees are used to run the ORP, all rentals are offered at discounted rates to students. Whether students have never set foot in a tent or they spend every weekend in Logan canyon, Gould said that the program provides resources for every skill level. Rather than learning the boy scout method, which he said is “learning not to be miserable,” he wants to

set students off on fun, safe, adventures. “I grew up with the boy scout method. That’s when I learned I hated being cold and wet,” Gould said. “We can help in every stage of planning a trip. We can help them with the guidebooks, with planning what food to cook, how much to carry, what size pack they need to have. Basically we can help people make good solid informed decisions and have a good time out there.” Brian Shirley, the ORP program coordina-tor, said whether students want to leave for a day or for a week, they can put their student fees to good use. “We just need them to get out there,” he said. Resting in the basement of the Distribution Building, the ORP, formerly the ORC, or Outdoor Recreation Center, has undergone numerous internal changes in the past year. Public relations intern Jesse Dredge said, as a staff, they want the program to be more than just a place to rent skis once a year. He wants students to see it as a place they can come hang out. “What we really want to do is put out the image that we’re open,” Dredge said. “We’re not closed to people just coming in here. We want people to be comfortable enough with us to come in here and see what’s going on. We’re not a standoffish type of organization.”

By ALLEE EVENSENstaff writer

Reading away the blues

Cycling team pedals

into physical fitness

The bright yellow “Store Closing” sign currently hanging over the Borders bookstore in Logan serves as a reminder that many Cache Valley residents will soon have to look elsewhere for their reading materials. However, there are many other places in Logan who aim to encourage those with a love of reading.

The Book Table The Book Table is an independent bookstore located at 29 S. Main Street in Logan. In 1974, Eugene Needham bought the store from its origi-nal owner, and it has been owned by his family ever since. Today it’s managed by his grandson, Jeff Needham and his wife, Candice. The Book Table, offers many products besides books. They have CDs, craft supplies and a vast array of musical instru-ments and sheet music. Candice Needham says she has been in touch with the store manager at Borders on a regular basis, learning things that will help The Book Table cater to Borders customers. “One of their top selling sections was children’s books, and we have the top selection of children’s books in Utah,” Needham said. “We’ve been told by manufacturers that we’re in the top 10 for the western United States as far as depth of children’s books.” Needham said many USU students come to The Book Table to purchase the scrapbooking materials they need for portfo-lios or other school projects. She said The Book Table is also the only education supply store in the valley. “One thing that sets us apart is diversity, we have more

than just books,” she said. “We have anything for entertain-ment or hobbies. We try to do things that take people out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary.”

Public Libraries

In addition to bookstores, there are several public libraries in Cache Valley; there are branches in Logan, North Logan, Hyrum, Smithfield, Richmond, Lewiston and Newton. The process of obtaining a free library card is the same for each branch. You must be a resident of the city where the library is located and provide two forms of identification that include your address, such as a driver’s license and a utility bill. Non-residents have the opportunity to purchase a card from any library. The fees range from $5 at the Newton Library to $163 at the Logan Library. The Richmond and Lewiston libraries offer cards to non-residents for free. The Cache County Library, located in Providence, offers all resi-dents of Cache County access to its materials free of charge. The Logan Library offers eBooks and eAudiobooks on their website, library.loganutah.org. eBooks are electronic books that can be read online from any computer with an Internet connection, while eAudiobooks are electronic audio books that can be downloaded and played on a computer or trans-ferred to a portable listening device such as an MP3 player. The eBooks are not compatible with Kindle, Nook, iPad or other tablet devices. Ronald Jenkins, director of the Logan Library, said, “Kindles are nice, but you’re limited to what they provide.” Jenkins said there are six major publishers with electronic books, and three of them won’t sell the library their products.

By JAMEE DYCHESstaff writer

The coach of USU’s cycling team, Tommy Murphy, knows from years of experience that athletes must have a desire to train in order to remain physically fit as a lifestyle, and not just for a specific event. The cycling team consists of 30 students at various levels of fitness. The team has five weeks of events this season in prepa-ration for nationals in May. The current season, road season, is held in the spring, mountain season is held in the fall and cylo-cross is held during winter months. Each team member comes in at a different fitness level and progresses at their own pace. “We have two guys who we’re trying to get qualified: Mitch Heiner, who also teaches cycling and Ryan Ottley,” Murphy said. Collegiate cycling works differently than other profession-al teams, since anyone can become part of the team, and they each work at their own level. “That’s what is great about a college team. They don’t have to try out and can start as a newbie and improve,” he said. Murphy explained team members start out at level C and can progress to A and B levels. The A level is the most competitive. In competition, points from previous events are added together to calculate an individuals’ score. Murphy, who has been coaching at USU for seven years, founded the cycling team in 1999. He raced with the team for two seasons and qualified for nationals each of those years. After receiving his bachelor’s in exercise science from USU, Murphy was offered a four-month internship opportunity at Carmichael Training Systems (CTS) and has continued to work with the company since then. Murphy has been racing on and off for more than 10 years. He said he has taken time off for about a year after being hit by a car while biking. He is recovering from his injuries while coaching, which he said he enjoys as well racing. “Both have highs; you take pride when your athletes do well,” Murphy said. “But it is fun to win or do well yourself. You put your knowledge to use.” David Clyde, team president, manages and organizes each race for the team and the logistics involved. “(Murphy) is great to work with, even though he seems a little scary at first,” Clyde said. “He’s actually just the nicest guy you can meet. He does a lot to keep the team going.” Students of Murphy’s spin class mentioned the instructor’s “coolness” and that he is a “legit” teacher. Most of his classes are near capacity due to the popularity of his teaching style. Aside from coaching and teaching spin classes, Murphy also instructs weightlifting and conditioning classes, which he said he loves. He said one day he might go back for his master’s to get even more involved in the exercise science department. Murphy has been active his whole life playing football, ten-nis, cross-country and biking. He completed the Lotoja bike race eight times since turning 18 years old. He said he has had really good years, with his best time at 7 hours, 48 minutes. He finished in the top 15 twice and finished third in his category one year. He always completes the full length by himself. “It is something I enjoy and it is part of who you are,” Murphy said of physical fitness. “The older I get, the more indi-vidual my training becomes.” He said if you don’t do well in individual sports, it is differ-ent from having a team where you have to rely on each other. Clyde has been racing for about eight years.

By NATASHA BODILYstaff writer

-See BOOKS, page 7 -See CYCLING, page 7

-See OUTDOOR, page 6

AS THE RAINY SEASON approaches, many will be forced indoors and have to find other activities. Reading is just one way to fill time, and there are a variety of places in Logan to find inexpensive and even free books. JON LARSEN photo

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Gould said the name change was a huge step in ref lecting the ORP’s vision, which is to not just give students equipment, but to teach them how to use it. He said rather than just providing rentals, they want to provide experiences. “We’re trying to is give people all the resources they could possible need to head out into the back country and front country,” he said. “The guys who actually run the shop are extremely experienced and really amazing. They’ve passed that knowledge down to the staff.” One of the largest changes in the ORP’s new line of pro-gramming is a variety of recreation education classes. One of the first to be offered this spring is a swift water technician course, a class Gould said is good for anybody from budding raft guides to those who just want to rent a kayak for a day. The three-day class, which starts May 9, is $175 for students and $260 for the community. Shirley said classes like these not only teach people about the outdoors, but give them opportunities to be leaders. “Come take classes, learn about leadership,” he said. “They help you to identify yourself, to learn about yourself.” In coming years, Gould said students could see more pro-gramming changes to the ORP, including an expanded climb-ing program, a whitewater kayak f leet and courses in moun-taineering. “Brian has a great vision,” Gould said. “It going to take time, but this a step in a good direction. The future is bright.”


Outdoor: Discounted rentals -continued from page 5

Information is locked away in the Aggie Vault

In a bright red building with a domed roof, called the Janey Quinney Lawson building and located across the street from the Education building, is USU Information Technology (IT). Inside, computers hum and students at the Service desk are busy answering questions through phone calls and online chatting. The help desk is “dedicated to the students (and) is the basic resource we offer,” said Kevin Ausen, computer specialist at IT. Ausen also said, “We offer upgrade service, so if your machine is slow, we can do some-thing called optimization to make sure that programs are not running at speeds that your computer can’t handle. We can offer recom-mendations to increase RAM, and that is rela-tively inexpensive.” Some of the services offered by IT are free, but most cost money. Connections to the Internet, software installation and other basic features are free to students. Matt Ralphs, junior in mechanical engi-neering, said when he had to take his comput-er into IT for assistance in connecting to the Internet, and later to install McAfee, IT was “quick, easy, and efficient.” “We try to make good recommendations,” Ausen said. “When a student comes in for a

recommendation, we can give (one) that is smart, whereas the other (companies) have to stay in business.” Ausen said IT first runs a test to see what the problem is with the computer, then gives advice for how to proceed. “If the machine starts, we can do diagnos-tics on it; we can then make recommenda-tions for things (students) can do,” Ausen said. “It’s usually a lot of money to replace parts if your computer is not under warranty, and the general recommenda-tion is to just replace your laptop.” Ausen said students whose computers have warranties through Dell, HP and Sony can get warranty work done by IT. “If your computer is under warranty, then you’ll only have to pay for labor costs,” he said. There are times when IT will send students to local companies for help, Ausen said, such as if IT cannot get the machine to start at all. The newest service IT offers is AggieVault. “(AggieVault) is like having an external hard drive that you never have to worry about. It’s a great service,” said Ausen. Kevin Reeve, marketing and communica-tions coordinator for IT, said, “It’s a cheap backup that is available to anyone. Students, parents, faculty and alumni can all use that service,” he said. AggieVault costs $30 per year for 20GB of compressed file storage space, and $45 per year for 100GB of compressed storage space. “The space is not huge but it is sufficient for most of the things students are interested in,” said Ausen. “We’re living in a time when things just die.” This can create challenges to students who use their computers for homework and proj-ects, but it also creates problems when media files need to be retrieved. “You can get the apps back, but usually the music is difficult. If your hard drive crashes, you’ll lose that,” said Reeve. According to the AggieVault website each

AggieVault account may be used to backup two computers. The data stored in AggieVault is in a “mili-tary-grade, remote storage facility, where it is safe from tampering, power surges, viruses and physical harm,” the AggieVault website states. Ausen said you can never be sure how long your equipment will last, especially if that equipment is old or inexpensive. “The bottom line is that most students feel invincible, that ‘it won’t happen to me,’” Reeve said. However, in a survey conducted on campus by IT, only 47 percent of students polled said they back up their files to an external hard

drive, disks or an online backup system. “AggieVault will backup your ‘My Documents’ directory and other files you specify automatically. You can set a schedule to backup your files whenever you’d like,” said Reeve. AggieVault is available for Windows-based systems. AggieVault is not currently avail-able for Apple and Linux-based systems, and although it was due to be available last semes-ter, Reeve said that has been delayed. For more information about IT and their services, including AggieVault, visit it.usu.edu.


THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT) DEPARTMENT expanded the services they have by offering AggieVault, an online backup program. AggieVault is available for all Windows systems. BRECK

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By SPENCER PALMERstaff writer

IT Department Services

• Computer diagnosis• Windows load/reload• Windows load/reload with data backup• Apple system load/reload• Data backup/recovery• Warranty work• Help connect to the Internet• Software installation• Password help• McAfee Antivirus software installation

“AggieVault is like having an external hard drive that you never have to worry about. It’s a great service.”

– Kevin Ausen, IT computer specialist

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Information gathered by Ani Mirzakhanyan

“If the Jazz won the champion-ship! That would actually make my year and life.”

– Mike

Woodfield,

sophomore

business

“Morning cof-fee, running into

friends at the quadside cafe

and getting things done.”

– Anna

Harutyunyan,

senior

computer science

What would make your Friday?

“A phone call from my mom in the morning would

make my day per-fect.”

– Randa Yassine,

junior

nursing

“A beautiful woman waking me with a kiss and waffles.”

– Brian Jardine,

sophomore

business

Street SpeakTo my adoring fans I found out some-thing recently that made me laugh. Evidently, I have fans. No! I’m serious! In the last few weeks I’ve received countless e-mails and messages, been stopped on the street, and have even seen quotes from my past columns on Facebook pages and blogs. I even had a girl the other day tell me she and her roommate get together each Wednesday and read my articles together. People as far as St. George recognize me and give me insight on their readings. It’s been baffling to say the least. Truth be told, I’m flattered. It’s always fun to see people appreciate my work – in fact, I think the only thing that could possibly make me happier would be if adoring pass-ers by coupled their kind words by getting in groups and flapping their arms up and down a la “Angels in the Outfield.” Heck, if nothing else it could carry some leverage toward my dream of meeting Christopher Lloyd. As I sat, trying to make sense of such surprising attention, a brilliant thought came to me: Could it be at all probable that I have the means to create my own fan club? The answer seemed to scream at me with the vigor of Shamu and Mighty Joe Young com-bined. Nah. There’s no way. A hearty, reliable and triumphantly annoying fan club takes a lot more than simply a name and a few devot-ed admirers. Just ask Mel from “Flight of the Conchords” or anyone who likes Regis Philbin how it worked out for them. A successful fan club needs a few incred-ibly vital components to separate it from a few slightly insane people working together for the same meaningless purpose. First off – you need someone FAMOUS for gravy’s sake! What good is a fan club if there isn’t a notable name to connect it to, like Tom Hanks, Aretha Franklin or, the obvi-ous example, John Stamos? (Don’t worry, I usually just refer to him as “Uncle Jesse” too.) Maybe a few people know who I am after quick glance, but based on the fact that I spend most of my time in my Reeder Hall bedroom eating 3-week-old pretzels and being referred to in classes as “Hey, do you have a pencil?” I have the notion I haven’t quite hit that status yet. Second, it helps to have some cool T-

shirts going around. Bright colors are a must, even better if the shirt is accompanied by a play on the celebrity’s name. One can never go wrong with something akin to “Schwartzmania!” or “Big-nosed Columnist for President!” but nobody should be afraid for something risky like “He needs no power, he IS the Schwartz!” or my personal favor-ite, “Schwartzman: He’s incon-Steve-able!” Sadly, the best thing my constituents will accept at this point is, “Steve: He got us free Quiznos!” The third maneuver to ensuring a good fan base, get them free Quiznos. Trust me, it’s a gold mine. Finally, no good clan o’ celebrity followers can survive without some memorable public appearances. And I’m not just talking about showing up and signing a couple photos – make these suckers a spectacle. May I sug-gest singing a song you wrote about yourself, wrestling a live animal or doing anything on stilts? Whatever you do, make sure it’s some-thing that will connect with them. Last time I tried one of these, I hopped on the micro-phone and did my spot-on Omar Gooding impression. Once I realized I was the only one in the room who had ever watched Nickelodeon’s “Wild and Crazy Kids,” I had the feeling I might want to switch things up before the next go ‘round. Needless to say, my shot at an electrifying fan club seems pretty slim to none. But I’m bored, so lets give it a shot. Here’s the kicker – instead of celebrating my achievements with a hoard of adoring fans, I’m going to recruit just one. Effective immediately, I give you the “Spend a Day with Steve” campaign. All are invited to send me an e-mail or a Facebook message explaining why you deserve to be my one and only Mega-Fan. Feel free to attach pictures, videos, poems, jars of relish or whatever you feel states your case best. The handpicked winner will get to spend a day with me and will be the subject of one of my columns next month. So, are you prepared for the challenge? Do you think YOU have what it takes to be MY greatest devoted fan? Let the message-posting begin. Oh, and no automatic winners here, unless of course you are Christopher Lloyd.

– Think you’re Steve’s biggest fan? E-mail steve.schwartzman@aggiemail or find him

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

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Books: Inexpensive and free reading -continued from page 5

Cycling: Men and women benefit -continued from page 5

HarperCollins will only allow their electronic materials to be checked out 26 times. “A hard copy at our library is checked out an average of 150 times,” Jenkins said. He hopes that in the future, pub-lishers will allow libraries the freedom to give their patrons unlimited access to electronic materials. In comparison to the Merrill-Cazier Library on campus, Jenkins said that city libraries tend to have more current popular fiction. “If you’re doing doc-toral research for a Ph.D., you probably want to go to Merrill-Cazier,” he said.

Used Books

Ten years ago, Steve Jenson bought a book at a library sale. He then sold it online for 10 times the price he originally paid for it. It was the beginning of Jenson Books, an online bookstore, with traveling warehouse sales on the side. Jenson Books is currently located in a warehouse in south Logan, near Providence, at 1766 Blacksmith Court Suite B. Jenson said he is looking for a permanent location, but will continue online sales through amazon.com until he finds one. He said he believes that his business is differ-ent from other bookstores because of their low prices and high volume. “This year alone we got over 7 million books in,” Jenson said. Jenson purchases books from libraries, state sales and thrift stores. “There’s a huge variety of books,” he siad. “Everything from children’s and mass-market paperbacks to coffee table books. That’s another thing that’s different and fun about us, you have to dig for books. We don’t know what

we’re going to have in.” At their last warehouse sale, books were sold for $1 during the first week. During the second week, customers were charged $10 for any amount of books they could fit into a bag. The third week the price was reduced to $7 a bag. He plans on having the same prices for their next warehouse sale, which will be held at the end of April. The Logan Book Exchange, tucked behind an unob-trusive doorway next to Somebody’s Attic in down-town Logan, is a bookstore that accepts used books for

trade credit in addition to selling books for as little as a couple quarters. The store opens into a small nook of paperbacks and a cashiers table, then extends back into room upon room of f loor-to-ceiling bookshelves holding every category from children’s books to Westerns. According to their Facebook page, the shop also takes requests and can arrange for special orders. The Logan Book Exchange is located at 29 W. 100 North.


“I’ve always been really competitive by nature. I go to a race with the intent to win,” he said. “I finish more in the top three now, but I used to finish in first place all the time.” Clyde said as he’s been more involved as team president, he has a different mindset. “I have become more patient and more team-oriented. As president, I want my team to win. You have to have a differ-ent mindset to win as a team.” Ben Lariviere, a senior in geology, joined the cycling team this year. “The guys in the cycling club are really great people. We’ve been training a lot during the winter and we just started to go outside,” Lariviere said. Lariviere is training for the Ironman triathlon and said bik-ing has been his weak point, so he joined the team to improve his bike racing ability. “It’s the first time I’ve done competitive cycling,” he said. Lariviere said although the team is mostly male, women can also benefit from the team. “Men on the cycling team have massive legs and in spandex, I’m sure lots of women would

enjoy that,” he said. Aside from humor, Lariviere has personal investment in his physical fitness. He said he

had never articulated his inter-est in health before. “Doing long endurance events makes you feel like nothing else can make you feel,” Lariviere said. “Pushing yourself to the limits makes you learn more about yourself and become a stronger person and you feel better.” The team is training to place first this year. “We compete in the Intermountain conference and we’re on our way to getting first,” Clyde said. “We’ll get sec-ond at least. We have one of the strongest programs in the area.” Each athlete mentioned their personal desire to compete and be fit. “One thing I’ve learned: You gotta love to train,” Murphy said. “If you love to train, you

won’t burn out, you’ll keep going. You have to have a desire.”


“Doing long endurance events makes you feel like nothing else can make you feel. Pushing yourself to the limits makes you learn more about yourself and become a stron-ger person and you feel better.”

– Ben Lariviere, cycling team member

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Aggie senior gymansts leave with no regrets

Compete with no regrets. Those are the words senior Lyndsie Boone has lived for the last four years. “You always get out there and think you can do things better or differently,” she said. “It’s so much better to compete with no regrets and go out and do the best you can do.” Boone is one of two seniors on the USU gymnastics team. She, along with Jackie Dillon, have spent the last four years of their lives devoted to the team and to representing the Aggies the best they can. “They have a great love for the sport,” head coach Jeff Richards said. “They’ve kept getting better and better and pushed through a lot.” Both Boone and Dillon came to Logan from far away, not knowing anyone. Boone is from Winthrop Harbor, Ill., and Dillon from Anderson, S.C. The girls agreed that being a part of the team made the adjustment easier. “Being on the team is like your own little family,” Boone said. “You come from the small town where you know absolutely no one in Utah, to meeting these girls and becoming friends with every-one.” Dillon said, “We were all so homesick, it was so much to get used to, from pre-season, when it’s really hard, through meets and every-thing, your teammates are always there for you.” Both Dillon and Boone have pushed through signifi-cant injuries in the past and were still able to compete most of their four seasons. Dillon had knee surgery dur-ing the summer of 2010 and has spent this season work-ing back from the operation. Boone has worked through

ankle and knee problems and maintained successful sea-sons. In 2008, the summer before their sophomore year, Raymond Corn, the former head coach of Aggie gymnas-tics, retired and Richards was brought in. Coaching changes can add to the challenges of a team, but the gymnastics team got through it and made the most of it. “Being a part of the team taught me how to get through things and I got to help the other girls keep their heads up when they come to tough times,” Dillon said. “We go through a lot in the gym.” Richards said both girls have been excellent examples for the rest of the girls and been strong leaders on the team. While they have similar personalities outside of the gym, their leadership and style in the gym is very differ-ent. “Jackie is the one who leads silently by example,” he said. “Boone is the eccen-tric and outgoing motivator. They have two very different styles.” Boone and Dillon will both be heading to the regional competition this year as all-around competitors. This will be Dillon’s third Regionals meet, having competed in both the bars and vault events. Boone competed on the beam her freshman year and as an all-around the last two years. “I think it will be a dog fight in there. They’re ready to go. They’re very excited,” Richards said. “Hopefully they can just go in relaxed and having a good time and not even worrying about the meet.” The girls haven’t had the most winning of seasons in their time at Utah State, but said they still think they’ve been successful.

“It’s kind of disappoint-ing when we don’t win, and looking back on things, there are times you know you could have done so much better,” Dillon said. “But seeing all the injuries, the coaching

changes, everything like that, we really stayed positive and kept going and did the best we could.” Boone said, “You always wish for more wins and a higher record, but you have

to look at it as a whole. Being an Aggie is the best thing I’ve done in my gymnastics career.” Dillon said she felt her career was successful and meaningful.

“I was a walk-on my fresh-man year, so once I got my scholarship I was like ‘Oh my gosh, I really do mean some-

By MEGAN ALLENsports senior writer

SENIOR LINDSEY BOONE seen here during a dual meet earlier in a the season, will be competing in NCAA North Regional champi-onships in the all-around competition on Tuesday, April 5 in Denver, Colo. CARL R. WILSON photo

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Men’s tennis notches home victory against in-state rival

Amid the groans and grunts of frustration, a much clearer feeling filled the air of The Sports Academy on Tuesday afternoon. It was a much-needed sense of accomplish-ment for the the Utah State men’s tennis team as they bounced back from a March 6 loss to Boise State with a home win over Weber State, 5-2 The Aggies (11-6) were anxious to compensate for their most recent defeat just prior to Spring Break, one that came in the form of a 6-1 loss to the No. 47-ranked, and Western Atheletic Conference-lead-ing Boise State Broncos. The loss to Boise was the Aggies’ f irst this season in conference play and took them out of f irst place in the WAC. USU opened by winning a clutch doubles point. The men are a per-fect 10-0 when winning that point this season, a stark contrast to their 0-6 record when the doubles point is lost. That point would prove vital as the Wildcats stormed back win-ning two of the first four singles matches. “That doubles win is always a big momentum booster,” head coach Christian Wright said. “When we don’t get it we have to regroup and go into the following matches with-out that extra confidence.” Sophomore Sven Poslusny played a tough match in No. 1 singles as he continually put pressure on Weber State’s Simon Unger. Poslusny pushed towards the net on every

point and kept Unger guessing as he wove finesse and power into every point he earned. Poslusny lost some tightly battled points and

eventually fell to Unger, putting the Wildcats even with the Aggies at 1-1. Jakob Asplund fought for a tough

No. 2 singles victory. Asplund turned the tables after falling behind and losing the opening set, 5-7. In the second set, Asplund used

a lengthy rally to fight back into the game, and won the set on a return that stayed just out of reach of Wildcats Landon Barlow, and just inside the line for the game winning point. Asplund would go on to win the third set, 7-5. “Jakob’s done a great job,” Wright said. “He’s been playing high in the line-up a long time and every match he plays tough. Match-up wise, he played a steady kid who frustrates his opponents and Jakob did a good job coming back and winning.” Fredrik Peterson battled tough against Wildcats’ Caio Poitena, but in the end was ousted, 1-6, 6-3, 7-6. Senior Bryan Marchant’s serves hugged the line time and time again as he dominated his match. Marchant’s aggressive play caused Wildcats’ Dave Hintze great frustra-tion and Marchant came out on top, 6-4, 6-1. Marchant continued to be a staple on the wins side of the col-umn for the Aggies. Senior Alex Thatcher came back after losing his f irst set to get USU their fourth point and seal the vic-tory. “It was good to see Alex battle back,” Wright said. Utah State’s next match is slated for Friday, April 8 in Moscow, Idaho, against University of Idaho. Senior Nikita Ryashchenko put a cherry on top as he defeated Oliver Good for the Aggies fifth and final point.

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SENIOR BRYAN MARCHANT had a strong performance Tuesday afternoon at the Sports Academy and Racquet Club in Logan against the Weber State Wildcats. Men’s tennis will face the University of Idaho Vandals on Friday, April 8 in Moscow, Idaho. CARL R. WILSON photo

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Just like that, it’s all over. Just like that, basketball season ended with only the fourth loss suffered all sea-son. Just like that, a school-record 31st win fell just short of happening in the first round of the NCAA Tournament for the second time in three years. Just like that, the best senior class in Utah State history have had the books closed on their playing careers. This is where college sports start to real-ly sting. Aside from all the immediate sting from the loss to Kansas State, the fact that USU was horribly under-seeded for the tournament and how Thursday was one of those games where Tai Wesley seemed to get a foul called on him any time he even breathed on an opposing player; this is also the end of one hell of an era for Utah State basketball. Even though player turnover is one of the fundamentals of college sports, it just has a different feel than normal with this current class. In Stew Morrill’s 13 years at Utah State, only three players have been four-year starters. Tyler Newbold and Tai Wesley are two of those, with the third being the school’s all-time scoring leader Jaycee Carroll. Pooh Williams is joined by only Tony Brown, Spencer Nelson and Nate Harris as other players who been starters for three seasons. In other words, all of the players men-tioned above represent a who’s who of Utah State basketball over the last 13 years, and that is all without even yet men-tioning Brian Green, Nate Bendall or Matt Formisano. All three of those players are responsible for their own epic moments in recent USU basketball history wheth-er its Bendall’s domination in the WAC Tournament championship game this year, Green’s record-setting shooting perfor-mances from behind the 3-point line or Formisano’s game-winning basket back in the 2008-2009 season that seemed to be the first real instance of swagger demon-strated by this senior class. Safe to say, things are definitely going to have a very different feel to them next year without the unprecedented continu-ity that Aggie fans have seen in this pro-gram throughout the past four years. Not to get all Semisonic on everybody, but every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. For the first time in years now, there are going to be multiple new faces in the starting lineup. For the first time in three years, a WAC championship Utah State doesn’t seem like an overwhelming certainty from day

one of the season. After two-straight season’s of returning

four starters each year, USU gets to experience the flip-side of that, returning just one starter from this season. Yes, that starter is Brockeith Pane, who as of right now looks like a strong candidate for WAC Player of the Year next year, but it still leaves a lot of ques-tions to be answered. Even though he eventually

landed behind Bendall in the rotation of big men this past season, Brady Jardine showed at the start of the year that he is more than capable of producing at a high level starter’s minutes. Through the first seven games of the season, each of which Jardine started, the junior big man averaged 10.4 points and 8.8 rebounds per game. In comparison, Bendall’s sea-son averages were 6.5 points and 5.8 rebounds per game. And although Bendall was playing through injury for the entire year, Jardine’s games as a starter included the two toughest games of the year on the road at BYU and Georgetown. Aside from Pane and Jardine though, the 2011-2012 Aggies look to be load-ed with questions. And much like every other season, Stew Morrill will provide the answers to those questions. It might not be another 30-win season next year, but who’s to say that’s out of the realm of possibility? Next season will probably be a struggle at times, but the 2006-2007 team had plenty of star-power to replace as well, with fewer pieces to fill the voids than next year’s team appears to have. And anybody who remembers that 2007 team will tell legendary tales of the games they won off of heart alone, rather than size, strength or talent. In other words, it’s time for a new generation of Aggies to take their shot at WAC dominance. Obviously with another first-round exit in the books, the rest of the nation is still waiting for the Aggies to prove something to them, regardless of how brutally the Aggies have run a train on the rest of the WAC. This last generation of now-graduat-ing players proved three years ago that they owned this conference, so for the first time in a long time, USU has some-thing to prove to the WAC too.

Matt Sonnenberg is a senior majoring in

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LOGAN, Utah – Veteran Utah State men’s basketball coach Stew Morrill was honored Monday as he was named the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) District 6 Coach of the Year as selected by his peers. It is the second year in a row that Morrill has been named the NABC’s Coach of the Year for District 6 as he shared the award a year ago with Northern Colorado’s Tad Boyle. Morrill was also named the Western Athletic Conference Coach of the Year for the third-straight season in 2011 after leading Utah State to its fourth-straight regular season WAC title with a 15-1 league mark to go along with its sec-ond WAC Tournament Championship in the last three years. USU finished the year with a school-record tying 30 wins and and played in its third-straight NCAA Tournament. Its 30-4 end of season record this year is the best in school his-tory. As a collegiate head coach, Morrill has been named conference coach of the year six times, win-ning the award in 1991 while at Montana, in 2000 and 2002 when Utah State was a member of the Big West Conference, and 2009, 2010 and 2011 as a member of the WAC. During Morrill’s ten-ure, Utah State has won at least a share of seven regu-lar season league titles to go along with six tourna-ment championships. Utah State also owns the nation’s fourth-best win-ning percentage during the last 12 years (.774), and has posted 12 straight 23-win seasons and advanced to 12 straight postseasons (8-NCAA, 4-NIT), both of which are school records. Morrill, who just completed his 13th year at Utah State and 25th season as a collegiate head coach, has a 324-103 (.759) record with the Aggies and a 542-241 (.692) over-all mark. Among active Division I coaches, Morrill ranks 18th in the nation in wins and 26th in win-ning percentage. He is also one of just 18 active coaches with 500 career victories and one of just 10 active coaches to post 20 or more wins at least 16 times.

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thing to the team,’ and that really made the difference,” she said. “As a senior it finally all came together and I had the best year I’ve ever had.” Boone said “I think I’ve been very consistent. I’m not going to go and say I’m the best at anything, but I’ve been a very consistent competitor.” Being a part of a collegiate athletic team has taught the girls many real-world lessons that they think will stick with them for life. “I’ve learned time man-agement, and just to let the little things go,” Dillon said. “There’s so much going on, that you can’t waste time stressing out about the little things.”

Boone said, “The biggest thing I’ve learned is to not procrastinate. Maybe it’s stu-pid, but it’s been a huge one for me.” As Boone and Dillon get ready to move on with life, neither are entirely sure where they are headed. “The only thing I’m sure about is that I’m 100 percent up in the air right now,” Boone said. Dillon said, “I’m excited to start a new chapter in my life, but it’s scary to have the change of scenery and move on to new things. I’ve been in this zone for four years, so it’s weird.” Boone is trying to decide whether to return to Illinois

or stay in Logan and be the graduate assistant for the team next year while working on her MBA. Dillon is planning to return to South Carolina and work for a year before going to graduate school. “I definitely need a break before I do more school,” she said. “Plus, it’s too cold here, I need to go home for awhile.” Dillon and Boone said they are hoping to leave a legacy for the team and want to see them succeed. “I feel like if we keep grow-ing like we have, we can just keep going up,” Dillon said.


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Randolph leads Grizzlies past Jazz 103-85 MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Zach Randolph scored 19 points and grabbed 13 rebounds as the Memphis Grizzlies maintained their hold on the final Western Conference playoff spot with a 103-85 victory over the Utah Jazz on Monday night. Seven Memphis players finished in double figures as the Grizzlies won for the third time in four games. Darrell Arthur scored 14 points on 7-of-11 shooting from the field, while Tony Allen had 12 points. Paul Millsap led Utah with 15 points, while Al Jefferson scored 12. While the Jazz shot 49 percent for the game, they com-mitted 19 turnovers. Utah was outscored in the paint 66-40 and outrebounded by Memphis 40-30, including 14 offensive rebounds for Memphis. The win solidified Memphis’ hold on the final playoff spot in the Western Conference, while

the Jazz dropped three games behind the Grizzlies. Memphis had a season-high 33 assists on 45 baskets in the game and weathered a slight rush by the Jazz early in the fourth. Utah built an early lead as the Grizzlies came out of the gate shooting poorly. Memphis’ defense began causing turnovers, leading to transition baskets. The Grizzlies built their own lead, eventually reaching 15 points in the half. But Utah chipped away at the advantage as its defense tightened. The Jazz defenders doubled Randolph and Gasol in the post to try and cut down on their effectiveness. Meanwhile, Millsap was per-fect on his five shots in the half, en route to 11 points. Jefferson, who averages 19 points a game, was held scoreless until a hook shot with 2:22 left in the half. The Jazz had cut the lead

to single-digits, but Mayo’s 3-pointer at the halftime horn gave Memphis a 54-42 lead at the break. Utah was still shooting

well in the third period, but unable to make any headway on Memphis’ advantage. The Grizzlies, who lead the league in points in the paint at 50.7 a

game, already had surpassed their average by the end of the third quarter, helping Memphis carry an 80-65 lead into the final frame.

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Within hours of the earth-quake in Japan, humanitarian and relief groups were mobi-lizing. Individuals all around the world were praying for help and support to come to the people of Japan in their hour of need. It has never ceased to amaze me how in the face of destruction, peo-ple seem to take on a higher calling. Hurricane Katrina, Haiti’s earthquake and the Indian Ocean tsunami are just a few recent examples of when nations have joined together in a common cause of selflessness and service. However, it is in moments of trial that I wonder if we are really living up to our potential as a society or as individuals. True, it is a marvelous thing to watch as so many people from so many countries band together to help those in need. I will never grow tired of seeing that unity, that strength. I think that is what makes us human. But between the calls, between the storms, between the chaos, where are we? When the dust settles and we have met our goals, we retreat back to the ho-hum of our everyday lives. We for-get about that desire that so recently filled our hearts. We forget about the love that brought us together. Where were you the day before Japan’s earthquake hit? I can tell you where I was. I was sitting in my apartment, thinking about what work I had to get done. Like most students, I was thinking about how I was going to balance my homework with my extracurricular activities and my social life. I was thinking only of myself. It’s a sad truth, but a truth nonetheless, one that I have been pondering on as of late. The moment I heard about the earthquake,

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The earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan is the latest calamity to have brought the world community together.

Events like these remind humankind of the greater forces which can not be controlled. These weave nations together under common ground: Helping their fellow man. Students are doing their part with a fundraiser. USU’s Japan Club and ASUSU are hoping to raise $15,000 to donate to relief funds. One of the most talked-about ways of rais-ing the money has been the STEP’s initiative. Students can pay to have “steps” shaved or braided into their hair. The organizations are also selling paper cranes and T-shirts. This recent disaster is reminiscent of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Hurricane Katrina or the tsunami in 2005. In each of these instances, every nation appeared to turn their hearts and minds to those affected. Resources, time and manpower were lent to bring order back to the small nation. Another nation, another opportunity for charity. In this day and age, how incredible is it to have college students band together in an effort to help a culture which many have never had contact with? How inspiring is it to have strangers show compassion for those in pain simply because they are human? Yes, there are wars. Yes, there is violence. But how can we lose faith in humanity when so quickly young people will jump to help a people thousands of miles away? Unfortunately, it seems to often take hei-nous events to bring the world together. Perhaps it is the reminder that we are fragile that causes our drive to help. Maybe we are all looking for an excuse to serve or show some fragment of emotion. Are we so caught up in our day-to-day duties that we can’t take five minutes to enjoy the safety and beauty in our own Cache Valley? Can we not spare a few moments to help someone who has slipped on the ice or open a door for a mother carrying two children on her hip and pushing another in a stroller? What about just the couple seconds of awareness it takes to smile at someone? We applaud students organizing relief efforts and those seeking and giving dona-tions for their time and energy. We send our sympathies to any effected by this tragedy. We encourage students to explore ways they can offer support, both during this time of hardship for our neighbors across the ocean and everyday. Together, we can create a world of peace and love if we treat everyone as though they are in need of our help.

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Dance is over, back to reality I believe that Tai Wesley said it best when he called it a “slap in the face.” He was referring, of course, to the Utah State men’s basketball team receiving a 12 seed in the NCAA Basketball Championship, affectionately known as the Big Dance. Like many of you, I was watching the NCAA Tournament Selection Special on CBS and was relatively shocked to see Utah State draw the same seed they did last year, having won three more games, and lost four fewer. Furthermore, we won both the WAC regu-lar season and t o u r n a m e n t championship. I was expect-ing an 8 or a 9 seed. It seemed further strange after learn-ing that our own athletic director, Scott Barnes, was one of the 10-member com-mittee chosen to determine seeding. But, as it turned out, we got the shaft and were forced to play a very talented Kansas State team that had previously beat the no. 1 team in the country, in-state rival Kansas. Now, there are plenty of arguments for Utah State to receive a higher seed. At the time of the tourna-ment selection, Utah State was ranked 17th in the country with an RPI of 15. As far as winning, we had the fourth best record in the nation. However, due to unfortunate scheduling and a weak conference, our strength of schedule rank-ing was a dismal 102. We all wish it had gone differ-ently. We all wish we could have achieved that elusive

tournament win. Our guys fought hard, but in the end it just wasn’t enough. So, the seeding snub argu-ment has been discussed to death. I now see it as a healthy way for all of us die-hard USU fans to go back to reality. We may never

be among the perennial elite in college bas-ketball. The fact of the mat-ter is we simply do not have the resources. I know full well that our ath-letic director had very little leverage on what seed we got. This same AD has cho-

sen to keep at our univer-sity one of many successful sports. He has chosen not to let our school go the way of those one-horse schools that have a single show-case sport and let the rest fall to the wayside. If you need an example of this, look no further than the University of Utah or Boise State. We also don’t have the resources of a church-owned school, but let’s not get into that. As a member of the WAC, considered one of the “mid-major” conferenc-es, we are not seen by the rest of the nation as a threat to the elite. Taking recent experience into account, this just might be true. I am not without hope, I promise,

but I truly love the Aggies where they are right now. I would much rather be winning consistently then play against much superior teams only managing to pull out a handful of wins. We are one of the best teams at our level. We dominate our conference and are pretty much unbeatable at home. Who could possibly ask for more? Our Aggies put on a show every time they set foot on the hallowed floor of the Spectrum. We have a situation where we can make fun of teams without holding back because the scoreboard never ceases to back us up. The Refraction writers can say what they will without fear of having to eat their words. Clearly this season was an enormous success. The seniors that led the team were some of the best to put on the blue and white. We showed the nation in our tournament game that we were not about to lay down and die, but would fight until there was no more time to fight. We had our opportunities to shine this season, and largely capitalized on them. Our rousing victory at St. Mary’s was only made sweeter by Jardine’s epic slammer. I don’t have to regale the highlights of the sea-son. You were all there. The reason why we should all be content with the success of our team is their consis-tency. Stew has managed to win at least 23 games a sea-son for all but his first sea-son here in Logan. This has made Utah State one of the most winning programs of the past decade. Hopefully we will continue to improve

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“Clearly this season was an enormous suc-cess. The seniors that led the team were some of the best to put on the blue and white.”

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Serve: Help before the rallying cry -continued from page 10I was ready to do what-ever I could to help. But the moment before, it was the last thing in my mind. Why do we need the rallying cry? Yes, it warms my heart that we answer so quickly and readily each time, but do we really need to be called in order to answer with service? The answer is no. We are ready, we are able, so let us do. Around the globe, one billion people go to bed hungry each night. Two bil-lion cannot read. Three bil-lion have to live in fear of oppressive governments, limited freedoms, exploita-tion, torture and death on a daily basis. Fortunately, there are humanitarian efforts work-ing to solve these problems today. These are the quiet laborers that work even after the news dies down. These are the servers that help out even though no one asked them to. They took the selfless initiative. However, these labors are small in comparison to the large-scale disaster reliefs that we hear so much about in every headline and on

every channel. They are small because there is no disaster. These issues can be seen on both a national and an individual scale. Personally, I think the individual scale is the more saddening occurrence. Sometimes it’s a complete stranger, other times it is a close friend in need of help. We glance over them because there is no red flag. We don’t care to look past the obvious and see the inner struggles that we all in no doubt face every day. These are the kinds of problems that we can have the most impact on if only we take the initia-tive to serve without being called. Imagine what the world would be like if we were always as eager to help oth-ers as we are now, no matter what was happening in the world. Even if there was no immediate outcry, imagine if we were there anyways, lending a helping hand to those who could use it. We certainly have the capacity to do so; all that is missing is the desire. This is where we must

take the responsibility. When we have the ability to help, how can we sit back and do nothing? We don’t need a catastrophe to alert us to the sufferings. If each of us kept on the offensive, always seeking out oppor-tunities to help and serve, not only would the world be a much better place, we would be much better people for it. I can promise that there is no greater joy in life than serving. It doesn’t matter if the need is dire or if it is sim-ply a personal wish. Service is the rent we pay for living life, and we shouldn’t have to wait for adversity to pres-ent itself before we make our move. Do what is in your ability to ease the burdens of oth-ers, regardless of the severi-ty of the burden. Don’t wait for catastrophe. If you wait to serve, you’ll miss out on crucial opportunities where your help could make all the difference.

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Game: Aggies fans are well-treated -continued from page 10as the years go by and eventually get the tournament wins we have been fighting to attain for years. Overall, life is good as an Aggie fan. The Spectrum is still a party. We still get to trounce BYU whenever they make the trek up to Logan. We still have one more year to beat on the WAC-stabbers, and the addition of another tournament team to the WAC, Texas San Antonio … let’s just forget that they got blown away by

Ohio State. I thank the seniors leaving us for a job well done, and couldn’t be more excited to see the senior leadership efforts of Jardine and Pane, as well as seeing lots more playing time from this year’s young bench. Go Aggies!

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The nuclear crisis in Japan has laid bare an ever-growing problem for the United States – the enormous amounts of still-hot radioactive waste accumulat-ing at commercial nuclear reactors in more than 30 states. The U.S. has 71,862 tons of the waste, according to state-by-state numbers obtained by The Associated Press. But the nation has no place to permanently store the material, which stays danger-ous for tens of thousands of years. Plans to store nuclear waste at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain have been abandoned, but even if a facility had been built there, America already has more waste than it could have handled. Three-quarters of the waste sits in water-filled cooling pools like those at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex in Japan, outside the thick concrete-and-steel barriers meant to guard against a radioactive release from a nuclear reac-tor. Spent fuel at Dai-ichi overheated, pos-sibly melting fuel-rod casings and spew-ing radiation into the air, after Japan’s tsunami knocked out power to cooling systems at the plant. The rest of the spent fuel from com-mercial U.S. reactors has been put into dry cask storage, but regulators only envision those as a solution for about a century and the waste would eventually have to be deposited into a Yucca-like facility. The U.S. nuclear industry says the waste is being stored safely at power-plant sites, though it has long pushed for a long-term storage facility. Meanwhile, the industry’s collective pile of waste is growing by about 2,200 tons a year; experts say some of the pools in the United States contain four times the amount of spent fuel that they were designed to handle. The AP analyzed a state-by-state summary of spent fuel data based on information that nuclear power plants voluntarily report every year to the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry and lobbying group. The NEI would not make available the amount of spent fuel at individual power plants. While the U.S. Department of Energy previously reported figures on overall spent fuel storage, it no longer has updated information available. A spokes-man for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which oversees nuclear power plant safety, said the capacities of fuel pools are public record, but exact

inventories of spent fuel are tracked in a government database kept confidential for security reasons. The U.S. has 104 operating nuclear reactors, situated on 65 sites in 31 states. There are another 15 permanently shut reactors that also house spent fuel. Four states have spent fuel even though they don’t have operating com-mercial plants. Reactors in Colorado, Oregon and Maine are permanently shut; spent fuel from all three is stored in dry casks. Idaho never had a commercial reactor, but waste from the 1979 Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania is being stored at a federal facility there. Illinois has 9,301 tons of spent nuclear fuel at its power plants, the most of any state in the country, according to industry figures. It is followed by Pennsylvania with 6,446 tons; 4,290 in South Carolina and roughly 3,780 tons each for New York and North Carolina. Spent nuclear fuel is about 95 percent uranium. About 1 percent are other heavy elements such as curium, ameri-cium and plutonium-239, best known as fuel for nuclear weapons. Each has an extremely long half-life – some take hun-dreds of thousands of years to lose all of their radioactive potency. The rest, about 4 percent, is a cocktail of byproducts of fission that break down over much shorter time periods, such as cesium-137 and strontium-90, which break down completely in about 300 years. How dangerous these elements are depends on how easily can find their way into the body. Plutonium and uranium are heavy, and don’t spread through the air well, but there is a concern that plu-tonium could leach into water supplies over thousands of years. Cesium-137 is easily transported

by air. It is cesium-137 that can still be detected in a New Jersey-sized patch of land around the Chernobyl reactor that exploded in the Ukraine in 1986. Typically, waste must sit in pools at least five years before being moved to a cask or permanent storage, but much of the material in the pools of U.S. plants has been stored there far longer than that. Safety advocates have long urged the NRC to force utility operators to reduce the amount of spent fuel in their pools. The more tightly packed they are, the more quickly they can overheat and spew radiation into the environment in case of an accident, a natural disaster or a ter-rorist attack. Industry leaders say new technology has made fuel pools safer, and regula-tors have taken some steps since the 9/11 terror attacks to reduce fuel pool risks. Kevin Crowley, who directs the nuclear and radiation studies board at the National Academy of Sciences, says lessons will be learned from the crisis in Japan. And NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko says his agency will review how spent fuel is stored in the U.S. A 2004 report by the academy sug-gested that fresh spent fuel, which is radioactively hotter, be spread among older, cooler assemblies in the spent fuel pool. “You’re buying yourself time, basi-cally,” says Crowley. “The cooler ones can act as a thermal buffer.” First Energy, which runs two nuclear power stations in Ohio and one in Pennsylvania, was able to reconfigure the spent fuel rods in its pools to make more room. Still, the company is now running out of space, says spokesman Todd Schneider. Ohio has 1,136 tons of spent fuel in pools and 37 tons in dry

casks. The casks in the U.S. are kept out-doors, generally on concrete pads, but industry officials insist they are safe. Unlike the pools, the casks don’t need electricity; they are cooled by air circula-tion. One cask model, selling for $1.5 mil-lion, places spent fuel inside a stainless steel canister, which is placed inside an “overpack” – an outside shell composed of a layer of carbon steel, 27 inches of concrete and another layer of carbon steel. When in place, the system stands 20 feet tall and weighs 150,000 pounds, said Joy Russell, a spokeswoman for manufacturer Holtec International of Florida. Russell said engineers have designed the system to withstand a crash from an F-16 fighter jet and survive the resulting jet fuel fire. Plant operators in some states have moved aggressively to dry cask storage. Virginia has 1,533 tons of nuclear waste in dry storage and 1,105 tons in spent fuel pools. Maryland has 844 tons in dry storage and 588 tons in spent fuel pools. Utilities in Texas, though, have not. There are 2,178 tons kept in spent fuel pools at reactor sites there, and zero in dry casks. In New York, 3,345 tons are in spent fuel pools while only 454 tons are in dry storage. No cask is totally invulnerable, but the academy report found that radioac-tive releases from casks would be rela-tively low. “If you attacked a fuel cask and man-aged to put a hole in it, anything that came out, the consequences would be

very local,” Crowley said. Casks can be licensed for 20 years, with renewals, said Carrie Phillips, a spokeswoman for the Atlanta-based Southern Co., which has a dozen such casks at its two-reactor Joseph M. Farley plant near Columbia, Ala. She said officials have “every expectation” the casks could last “in excess of 100 years by design.” But not the needed tens of thousands of years. For long-term storage, the gov-ernment had looked to Yucca Mountain. It was designed to hold 77,160 tons – 69,444 tons designated for commercial waste and 7,716 for military waste. That means the current inventory already exceeds Yucca’s original planned capac-ity. A 1982 law gave the federal govern-ment responsibility for the long-term storage of nuclear waste and promised to start accepting waste in 1998. After 20 years of study, Congress passed a law in 2002 to build a nuclear waste repository deep in Yucca Mountain. The federal government spent $9 billion developing the project, but the Obama administration has cut funding and recalled the license application to build it. Nevadans have fiercely opposed Yucca Mountain, though a collection of state governments and others are taking legal action to reverse the decision. Despite his Yucca Mountain deci-sion, President Barack Obama wants to expand nuclear power. He created a com-mission last year to come up with a long-term nuclear waste plan. Initial findings are expected this summer, with a final plan expected in January.

THE DEFUNCT MAINE YANKEE nuclear power plant in Wiscasset, Maine,

April 14, 1998. The nuclear crisis in Japan has laid bare an ever-growing problem

for the United States. The enormous amounts of still-hot radioactive waste accu-

mulating at commercial nuclear reactors in more than 30 states – nearly 72,000

tons of the stuff. AP photo

THE TROJAN NUCLEAR POWER PLANT cooling tower is reflected in a

pond near Rainier, Ore. AP photo

BOSTON (AP) – Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin is apologizing for f lubbing the most anticipated Statehouse story of the week: the release of key 2010 city and town census numbers. Galvin called reporters to his office Tuesday morning to tell them that Boston’s population had declined by nearly 15,000 – or just under 2.5 percent – since the 2000 count. He also said Springfield’s population had dropped by 1.6 percent, enough to bring it under 150,000 – a key figure for qualify-ing for certain federal aid programs. The news was disappointing. It was also wrong. Soon after news outlets started reporting the numbers, Galvin said he real-ized his error. Computer filtering software had apparently erroneously counted some census tracts that had few residents as hav-

ing no residents at all. Many of those census tracts were in areas considered urban. Galvin called an afternoon news confer-ence to announce the correct census num-bers. Those showed Boston’s population rising from 589,141 in 2000 to 617,594 in the 2010. It also showed Springfield’s population remaining above 150,000 residents. The numbers are critical to drawing new Statehouse and congressional districts. Galvin cautioned that it was too early to speculate on how the population fig-ures would affect the redistricting process. (Massachusetts is losing one of its 10 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives because of overall population shifts announced ear-lier by the U.S. Census Bureau.)

Mass. secretary sorry for flubbing census

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USU Art Guilds Seventh Anual Warehouse Show, “Please Touch the Art” an interactive art exhibit. Located in the Tippets Exhibit Hall in the Chase Fine Arts Center. The exhibit will be open from 4-8pm and is one night only, Mar. 24.

The Elevator Pitch competition allows students the opportunity to present their business plans and win $13,500 in cash prizes. Executive summaries are due by midnight of March 28 to [email protected]. After submis-sion, students are automatically registered for competition partici-pation.

Utah currently leads the nation in prescription drug abuse, and in 2007, unintentional prescription drug overdose was the number one cause of accidental deaths in the state. Visit booths located in the TSC basement Mar. 23, and the Merrill-Cazier Library entry Mar. 23-24 for more information. Expired, unused, and unwanted drugs can be dropped off at the new disposal site located in the Campus Police Department (850 East 1250 North).

The following are upcoming events at the Performance Hall: Jazz Combo Concert on March 23. Brazilian composers from the Bossa Nova movement perform at on March 25. Caine Chamber Ensembles Concert on March 28 and Cypress String Quartet on March 31.

Spring fever? It is time to get started with seeding and trans-planting. Get weekly up dates on what you can do to help at the Student Farm. Always a blast [email protected].

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- Book Drive, TSC South Door or Business Building- Prescription Drug Abuse Awareness, Library and TSC, 10-2 p.m.- Current Works, Chase Fine Arts- Principle-Centered Leadership Seminar, Eccles Conf. Center, 8:30 a.m.- Japan Fundraiser, Library, 10 a.m.- Meditation Club, TSC, 1:30 p.m.- Biology Dept. Research Seminar, Library 101, 2 p.m.- Sadhill Crane Lecture, Swaner EcoCenter, 6 p.m.- Master Gardeners Workshop, 7 p.m.- Real 2 Reel Film Festival, 7 p.m.- Jazz Combo Concert, Performance Hall, 7:30 p.m.EcoCenter, 6 p.m.

- Mountain West Regional PR Conf., Eccles Conf. Center, all day- Principle-Centered Leadership Seminar, Eccles Conf. Center, 8:30 a.m.- Biology Dept. Research Seminar, Library 101, 10 a.m.- Japan Fundraiser, TSC, 10 a.m.- Social Skills Workshop, TSC, 11:30 a.m.- Weigt Watcher Class, TSC, 11:45 a.m.- Poetry Reading by Maria Melendez, Library 101, Noon- Scholars Day, TSC, 12:30 p.m.- Weigt Watcher Class, TSC, 11:45 a.m.- Mindfulness Workshop, TSC, 4 p.m.Library 101, Noon- Please Touch the Art, Tippets, 4-8 p.m.- Medical Unity Club, 4:30 p.m.- Leading Scholars Debate, Library- Learn Social Dance, FAC 104, 8-11 p.m.

Today’s Issue

Today is Wednesday, March 23, 2011. Today’s issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Greg Otterstrom, a sophomore majoring in mechanical engineering from Lindon, Utah.

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The Utah State University Public Relations program (USUPR), in association with the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA), is pleased to present this years Mountain West Regional Public Relations Conference at the Eccles Conference Center Mar. 24-25. Leading scholars of education reform will debate the state of the American higher education system in a three-part series on March 24, 31, and April 7, at the Library. The events feature a Pulitzer-Prize win-ning author and New Yorker colum-nist Louis Menand. Former English faculty member and poet Maria Melendez will give two readings on Thursday, March 24. The first will take place at noon in the library, room 101. Ms. Melendez will also read her work at Helicon West (7 p.m., True Aggie Cafe 117 N. Main). Benefit concert for USUs SEED program March 30 from 7-10 p.m. in the TSC Auditorium. The bands that will be performing are The Old World formerly Matt Ben Jackson, Welcome to the Woods, and American Attic. Cost will be $5 in advance and $7 at the door. To buy tickets contact Colby at 435-764-0513 The Cache Valley Reading Council is conducting a book drive March 14-31. This will benefit the English Language Center of Cache Valley. Drop off location: TSC or the south door of the business building. Our Living With Wildlife service project group wants to hear about your coyote and cougar sightings, etc around campus and throughout Cache Valley. Tell us what you’ve seen,heard and found. Through your accounts we hope to be able to both inform and protect the public while living with wildlife in a positive way. Contact us via email:[email protected] Come learn social dance or expand your already amazing skills! Cha Cha, Swing, Salsa, Foxtrot, Waltz, ect. Thursday nights from 8-11 in FAC room 104 (the band room). It’s free your first time but every time after that it’s $2 for non members.

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