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Pumpkins, squashes and other unlucky gourds found formidable fates Saturday in North Logan’s Elk Ridge Park, as USU mechanical engineering students pro-vided the main attraction for the first-ever Pumpkin Toss. Alan Luce, the director of Public Works for North Logan, said he approached faculty of USU’s department of mechanical engineering to ask if they had any ideas for how to get rid of a few hundred pumpkins, which were left over from the annual Pumpkin Walk. “We’re just involved in sort of a recreation event here,” Luce said. “What we’re doing is — North Logan City, the recreation department — is trying to create a Pumpkin Days, to build around Pumpkin Walk.”

Dallin Jackson, president of USU’s American Society of Mechanical Engineers, said Luce contacted Prof. Byard Wood, the department head for mechanical and aero-space engineering, and proposed organizing a pumpkin toss. Luce said for the past few years residents have requested a pumpkin tossing event similar to those popping up around the country. He said Pumpkin Walk committee members agreed it would be a good idea to host one in North Logan. “Alan Luce, he talked to Dr. Wood, and he said that they have requests every year to have trebuchets,” Jackson said. “Dr. Wood came to me, because I’m the president of ASME. So then we advertised it to every-body and got a bunch of people that were interested in doing it.” A trebuchet is a medieval invention simi-lar to a catapult that was used to bombard castles with large, stone projectiles. Jackson

said the event, which was organized as a competition between three different teams of mechanical engineering students, attracted sponsorships from area busi-nesses such as Golden Corral, Best Buy and Walmart. Mechanical engineers and backyard building enthusiasts over past years have become part of the growing sensation called “pumpkin chunkin’,” which essentially involves formulating the best way to launch a pumpkin over the longest distance. “This here is a f loating-arm trebuchet,” Trevor Irish, freshman mechanical and aerospace engineering major, said of his team’s machine. “We suspend the weights in the air, approximately 14 feet. Right now we’re working on 265 pounds, and then we have a 20-foot throwing arm.” Irish, team leader for Team Frankie, said

Students from the physics depart-ment had community members spooked Friday, and not just because of the frightening atmosphere. The science behind “Haunted Labs: The Sequel” could be enough to make anyone scream. “This year Chemistry Club was incorporated into the mix of things, where previously it had just been the Society of Physics Students, and they did a really good job,” College of Science Senator John Watson said. The students of the American Chemical Society had several reactions to contribute regarding the haunted labs this year. President of ACS Heather Tarbert said, “We had glowing slime, the stoplight reaction, the methylene blue reaction and the fake blood.” “Slime is made by a reaction of two

components,” Tarbert said. “One is a polymer that dissolves in water. The other is a salt that causes the polymer chains to come together in a process called cross-linking. The polymer name is polyvinyl alcohol, and the salt used for cross-linking these polymer chains together is borax, or sodium borate.” The reaction of the borate and the polymers forms weak bonds known as hydrogen bonds. These hold the chains of the polymers together and add stiff-ness. The more borate molecules in the reaction, the more stiff the slime will be, Tarbert said. The reason the slime glows is due to a compound known as zinc sulfide, which is also a phosphor and exhibits what is known as phosphorescence — or a glowing effect. “This means that the compound, after being charged by absorbing energy, emits light slowly into the vis-ible spectrum,” Tarbert said.

College-aged individuals from throughout Utah and neighboring states were able to more easily move about the annual Howl Halloween dance party due to several logistical changes. This year no USU students were arrested at the Halloween dance party, however, 19 arrests were made, Capt. Steve Milne, assistant chief for the USU Police Department, said. He said this is the highest number of arrests he’s seen at the

Howl, and most of them were alcohol-related. “They appear to be all non-USU students,” Milne said. “We arrested students from U of U, UVU, Idaho State University and Weber State University.” According to Zach Larsen, vice president of ASUSU Programing, a new line system through the Taggart Student Center, as well as the looped pathway from the TSC to the Fieldhouse and back, made it easier to navigate through the crowds. “We didn’t have anyone wait-ing in line,” Larsen said. “People

were able to get to where they wanted to go without too much congestion.” Larsen said at last year’s Howl people waited in line for more than an hour, so this year they hired fire dancers to enter-tain students in line, but the line appeared to move quickly. Larsen said the line going through the basement of the TSC and having well-trained volunteers, sped up the process dramatically compared to last year. He said the line never got longer than a few hundred feet. Larsen said all 6,000 tickets for the event were sold out by

10:30 p.m., and none of the patrons had to wait more than 15 minutes in line. The number of people allowed into the Howl this year was reduced to help manage the number of people inside the event. The crowd management strategy underwent logistical improvements this year, but USU Police made a record num-ber of arrests. Milne said over the past five or six years almost all arrests at the Howl have been people visiting the valley and not USU students. “I don’t know if it’s because USU students know that this is heavily monitored by law enforcement, and those who choose to drink may go else-where,” Milne said. Milne said he thinks students from other schools may not be aware of how seriously USU Administration and Police take alcohol consumption. “The students work hard to put on a fun event for people, and then it’s marred by these people who are not students that come up here,” Milne said. Milne said there were no assaults reported to the police this year. He said last year there were several assaults, including arrests made for assaulting a police officer. Milne said there were also a few medical calls at the dance, including one in which a student was moving in and out of consciousness and vomiting from alcohol consumption. He said ASUSU hired paramedics to assist police with medical calls this year. “One of the things that ASUSU has done in the last several years, to try to increase

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the counterweights propel the arm, and subsequently the pumpkin, skyward. “The students here are all on board,” Luce said. “They wanted to compete, they wanted to go out. We set some rules so we didn’t have them crushing the surrounding homes around here. We set the axle at about 10 feet so they couldn’t launch them too far.” According to the Pumpkin Launch Rules and Regulations sheet devised by ASME, the launchers could not exceed 10 feet, by 10 feet, by 10 feet, and each of the three teams received a budget of $100 to construct its

device. Each machine was limited to “simple mechanics — no chemicals, combustibles or electronics.” “It’s a giant slingshot,” Rob Neibaur, member of Team Legit, said about his team’s creation. “We got the idea, there was another university that did one — George Fox University — we just saw it on YouTube. This one just seemed to fit within our $100 budget.” Colin Martin, another member of Team Legit, said the group wanted to create something “simple” and “effective.” He said with trebuchets there can be difficulties calculating the launch angle. He also said there is the risk of launching

backward, which Team Frankie experienced while practic-ing before the competition. “Teams must bring launcher to the field no later than 11 a.m.,” the rules stated. But the third and final team to transport its machinery to the field did not show up until minutes before the competition was set to begin at 1 p.m. The third team’s leader, who was unavailable for interview-ing, announced that his team was called The Butternut Bouncers. Each team experienced technical difficulties of some sort. The slingshot required multiple modifications due to a couple of faulty hair-trigger release mechanisms, which led to premature launches. The two trebuchet teams both had issues with vertical launches that had team members ducking for cover. The Bouncers also had to deal with a couple of misfires because the pumpkin would roll out of the firing pouch before it was launched. But eventually, ASME Secretary Shaun Hawley said The Butternut Bouncers won first place for best distance, with a shot that went 165 feet. “What we did is we have one that’s most accurate,” Jackson said, “and that’s going to be (Team Frankie), because they pretty much hit the same spot. (Butternut Bouncers) are the farthest one because they chucked theirs the farthest and then (Team Legit) are creative, because they have the most unique design.” Gift cards, candy, cookies and electronics were awarded to participants from all three teams. Jackson said he was pleased with the way the event came off. He said he’s hopeful the Pumpkin Toss will become a yearly tradition in North Logan. Next time, teams should have a whole year to develop ideas and work out all the bugs, instead of just a few months, he added. “This is the first year we’ve tried (the Pumpkin Toss),” Luce said. “A lot of people just started talking about different things we could do, and we’re still going to try other events in the future, but this is one that sounded really fun to a lot of the people that are involved in the Pumpkin Walk.”

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USU Eastern is in the heart of dinosaur country, where fascinat-ing discoveries are commonplace, said Ken Carpenter, associate vice chancellor of USU Eastern and director of the university’s Natural History Museum. USU Eastern has always had the most impressive paleontology pro-gram in the state, Casey Dooms, a geology major, said, and he said recent finds have even changed what’s found in textbooks. “Before we found this claw, recently, paleontologists thought this dinosaur evolved in Asia and migrated here,” Dooms said about a recent discovery. “Due to the dating of this claw, we now know it was the other way around.” Dooms said he personally found a handful of sites containing fos-sils. Other older sites are still full of undiscovered fossils, he said. The Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur quarry contains the densest con-centration of Jurassic-aged bones ever found — many of them still underground — and it is only a half-hour away from USU Eastern,

Dooms added. There is more real bone in USU Eastern’s museum than any other museum in the state, and there are dozens of dig sites close by, said John Bird, bone lab manager. The close proximity to dig sites is part of the reason Carpenter said he moved from his job at a museum in Denver, to accept the job in Price as museum director. “When I lived in Denver it took me six hours to get to an excavation site,” Carpenter said. “From Price it only takes about a half-hour.” The abundance of dig sites and the huge backlog of excavated fos-sils is a little overwhelming, Bird said. But because of the recent merger with USU, he said he hopes this summer students from Price and Logan will sign up to work together with the paleontologists. Anyone who volunteers will almost certainly get to excavate dinosaur bones, Bird said. Some of the most recent digs have unearthed therazinosaurs and nodosaurs. “My first semester I took a fossil prep class,” Dooms said. “I dealt with real fossils and got

them ready for display in the museum. Most institutions, you wouldn’t be able to do stuff like that until grad school.” Dooms said on his first dig he discovered eolambia, the missing link between bipedal and four-legged dinosaurs. “It’s a really unique opportuni-ty,” Dooms said. “Last summer we found a phytosaur — a crocodile that lived before the dinosaurs.” USU Eastern’s constant dinosaur discoveries have a long history of making news, Carpenter said. For example, USU Eastern students’ discovery of a stegosaurus spike in an allosaurus vertebrae proved to the world that stegosaurs did indeed use their tails as weapons, he said. The museum’s notoriety has brought plenty of guests, and Carpenter said he plans on renovating the museum to make it more exciting for the large slew of visitors that come annually. “We are currently refurbishing the Utah raptor, which will greet visitors when they first walk in the door,” Carpenter said. “We are putting it in a more dynamic pose, which gives people a f lavor of what

it was really like.” The museum houses the first Utah raptor discovered, Carpenter said. By changing the raptor’s pose as well as the poses of other dinosaurs, he said he hopes to more clearly illustrate to guests that these were once living, mobile creatures. “This elephant was found just east of Price—the highest elevation an elephant has ever been found in North America.” Carpenter said, pointing to an elephant fossil posed in combat with a human skeleton. “But when I got here this very real looking display was not done.” Carpenter said he was passion-ate about bridging the gap between the fossils and real life in the minds of people. He commissioned a large diorama that blends fossils and genuine looking plant and animal sculptures to recreate an ancient ecosystem, and he turned some of the storage rooms into fossil-restoration rooms, where guests can view USU students at work. However, the constant new discoveries are quickly filling up the museum, and a more large-

scale renovation will be necessary before long, Carpenter said. “We only have about 15 percent of our storage left,” he said. “There is a definite need for expansion.” Carpenter said he does not necessarily see this as a problem. “We’re trying to tell a story that people haven’t heard before,” he said. “Expansion is exciting.”


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THE BUTTERNUT BOUNCERS, one of three teams of mechanical engineering students who competed in Saturday’s Pumpkin Toss at Elk Ridge Park in North Logan, inspect their machine and prepare it for battle. USU’s chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers worked with Pumpkin Walk organizers to hold the first-ever Pumpkin Toss. D. WHITNEY SMITH photo

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“ ... it's a giant slingshot ... this one just seemed to fit within our $100 budget.”

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“... we're trying to tell a story that people haven't heard before ... expansion is exciting .”

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USU’s Graduation Success Rate (GSR), the now seven-year old met-ric to identify how student-athletes graduate, stands at 84 percent it was announced by the NCAA national office Tuesday. The rate is a four-year average encompassing the 2001-04 classes. Among Utah State’s 16 NCAA sponsored sports, two have a 100 percent GSR, including softball and men’s basketball — who has achieved that metric for four straight years. Other USU sports that excelled within the GSR framework were women’s basket-ball and soccer who both have GSRs of 94 and 91 percent, respec-tively. Currently, no Utah State team has less than a 75 percent graduation success rate.

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fellows honored Three exemplary faculty members who are fully engaged in teaching online courses are recognized at USUas Online Teaching Fellows. The designation — a new initiative at USU — recognizes and fosters out-‐standing online course development and instruction. The inaugural honorees were announcement by Robert W. Wagner, associate vice provost and executive director of Distance Education at USU. They include Anne Diekema and Heather Jensen from the Logan campus and Camille Fairbourn of the Brigham City cam-‐pus. USU’s Senior Vice Provost for Regional Campuses and Distance Education Ronda Menlove congratu-‐lated the first three Online Teaching Fellows. “We are pleased to recognize outstanding teaching in the online environment,” Menlove said. “This is yet another example of Utah State University’s commitment to delivering high-‐quality education and increasing access to our world-‐renowned programs.”

It all started as a simple class project, but a creative initiative launched by USU Brigham City student Heather Winegar is touch-ing lives on two continents in very personal ways. For her Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Management class, Winegar came up with an idea for a service project that would get she and her daughter and friends outside for exercise, spark awareness in recycling and help children in diverse circumstances struggling with life-changing chal-lenges. “I started collecting aluminum cans along the roadsides in Box Elder County with my 10-year-old daughter and a couple of her friends about a year or so ago,” says Winegar, an undergraduate recreation resource management major and resident of Bear River City, Utah. “We pull the tabs off the cans for Ronald McDonald House Charities and send proceeds from the recycled cans to Kenya’s Samburu Youth Education Fund.” Winegar chose RMHC because of her experiences with a loved one who benefited from the charity’s services while seeking treatment at Utah’s Primary Children’s Hospital. RMHC uses only the tabs from cans, as they’re easier, less costly and more hygienic to store and ship for recycling than the entire can.

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The Utah Statesman ran an article last week which stated hundres of illegal immigrants were attending school at USU. While several students have declared themselves illegal immigrants, the total number is not known.

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the safety and work with the problems, is they pay to have Logan paramedics on site,” Milne said. “Years prior to that, if we had a problem we’d have to call and we’d have to be waiting five, six, seven minutes for them to respond.” Milne said the other medical calls were for things such as stu-dents feeling dizzy or having their feet stepped on. USU student Mandy Maughan said this was her first Howl, and she felt that it was crowded. “I’m loving the Howl,” Maughan said. “I like all the options of things they have to do. I especially love the dance and trampolines. It is way crowded, but that’s good because that means they sold a ton of tickets.” The Fieldhouse was the dance

venue with DJ Marcus Wing and performances by Highpoint gym-nasts on trampolines. Director of Highpoint Gymnastics Thomas Theobald said performers did f lips and snowboard tricks, where they jumped with a snowboard attached to their feet, along with a variety of other stunts. “We jump all over the country for halftime shows and festivals,” Theobald said. “This is by far the biggest party we’ve ever done.” Theobald said the crowd was filled with a high level of energy the entire night. USU student Abbie Starkey also said this year’s Howl was crowded, but the loop from the TSC to the Fieldhouse facilitated f luid move-ment. She said having the main dance in the Fieldhouse instead of

the TSC Ballroom kept the dance area from getting too crowded. “I think moving the dance into the Fieldhouse was a really good idea,” Starkey said. “They had it in the ballroom last year, and it was really crowded.” Starkey said event planners were better at keeping students from leaving early out of boredom or being overwhelmed by the crowd size. She said she saw a lot of people leave early last year. “This one is worse than last year,” USU student Colton Keune said. “It’s just two big dances and a bunch of small things.” Keune said he felt last year had more big events staggered throughout the night. The other big events included live bands such as Cartel in the TSC Ballroom. There were also

carnival games, dance perfor-mances, stilt walkers and live snakes. Cory Drage of Voodoo Productions and Creature Encounters had a live snake for partiers to get pictures with. Drage walked around the event with a Dumeril’s boa constrictor around his neck. “You can trust them just like any animal, if you’re educated and know what your doing,” Drage said to students who asked why he wasn’t being choked by the snake. Drage said the snakes don’t mind the dance too much because they really don’t hear noise. He said they can still be over-stimulated, however, if there is too much commotion.


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There is a possibility Haunted Labs may not continue in the future. “It’s very time intensive and we have not really made enough of a profit to justify the amount of work that gets put into the event,” Tarbert said. Although this may be the case, some students who attended said they thoroughly enjoyed it. Freshman and international business major Trevor Olsen said, “I thought it was really fun. They put it together really well. But it was really short. I wish there were more things to go through. If it had been the same, only twice as long, it would be perfect.” “There was a lot of chemistry stuff,” Olsen said. “There was glowy stuff everywhere. The vortex cannon was cool.” At the end of the queue, a brochure was available explaining the chemis-try behind some of the major experi-ments to help better educate people on the science behind the event. “I read the pamphlet they had, and I want to try and make some of that stuff, like the glow-in-the-dark slime,” Olsen said. Lindsey Kim, a junior majoring in music therapy said, “I thought it was so much fun, and it was really well done for students who have no professional background in theater or performance. I thought it was really impressive.”

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Zombies march to assemble food for pantry

COMMUNITY MEMBERS MARCH as a procession of zombies down Main Street Saturday night to raise awareness for the need to collect more food to fill

the Cache Community Food Pantry. The march has become a yearly tradition. CURTIS RIPPLINGER photo

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CHARLES SIM, A SENIOR MAJORING IN PHYSICS, ushers people to the top floor of “Haunted Labs: The

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Finding sales in everyday shopping is something most people have to hunt for, but with daily deal websites becoming more common, the sales find the buyer, instead. Chelsea Jepsen, a senior majoring in nursing, said websites like LivingSocial and Groupon contact buyers through email. “It sends you the email, and then tells you a brief description for the offer of the day,” Jepsen said. “There’s a lot of variety, and if you’re interested, you click on the link and purchase it.” The bigger companies give deals for cities around the country, but there are also local sites, like Cache Daily Deals. “One of the downsides for big sites like LivingSocial is that the closest city it has as an option is Ogden,” said Tim Hammond, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering. “You can still get deals for Logan, but it bases it out of Ogden.” Hammond said he looks for deals all of the time, which is why he shops for clothes at Deseret Industries, Ross and KSL.com. He also subscribes to both LivingSocial and Cache Daily Deals. “The way it works for Cache Daily Deals is they need a certain number of people to respond in order to make the deal available, so it’s kind of hit and miss that way,” Hammond said. “You can’t always get the deal, even if it’s advertised.” Another drawback, Jepsen said, is the websites don’t always provide deals

on things that students need. “There are not a lot of deals for basic necessities,” Jepsen said. “As college students, we try to be really frugal, but (the deals are) a lot of extra things that we students don’t always have the resources for.” Hammond also said sometimes the deals don’t apply to him. “I think some people don’t sign up just because it is random, hit and miss,” Hammond said. “The other day I got an email deal for a photog-rapher, but I don’t have any need for a photographer.” Jepsen said there were also advan-tages to getting these deals. “I think it gives you a lot of ideas for places, activity-wise,” he said. “It tells you things you wouldn’t know about normally and gives you a good discount on them.” Jepsen said her best purchase was a day pass to Seven Peaks Water Park. She said if she hadn’t seen the deal, she wouldn’t have gone. “I got it for 19 bucks, and it’s nor-mally 30-something, so it was a really good deal,” she said. “It also came with lunch and a free tube rental.” Hammond agreed, he said the emails come in handy. “When I first signed up, I didn’t get any emails confirming it or anything,” Hammond said. “But then I asked this girl to the corn maze, and the next day Cache Daily Deals sent a coupon for the corn maze. It was totally serendipitous.” There are more daily deal websites

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National Novel Writing Month has expanded from 21 participants to more than 200,000. Each November, writers across the globe attempt to write a 50,000-word novel in 30 days. KATRINA ANNE PERKINS photo

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It’s a chilly fall afternoon when the group trails into the bookstore, one by one. Laptops in hand, they take to one corner of the store where the smell of dark coffee hangs heavily in the air. Even though he’s never met anybody in the group, Justin Glauser immediately takes the lead. “Where do we want to meet?” he asks the half-dozen writers around him. Glauser is part of a group of more than 200,000 people around the world who spend the month of November trying to write a 50,000 word novel. Officially called National Novel Writing Month, or more commonly known as NaNoWriMo, the month-long word spree had it’s beginnings in San Francisco in July 1991. According to it’s website, NaNoWriMo started with 21 participants, six of those finishing an entire novel. “Our July noveling binge had little to do with any ambitions we might have harbored on the literary front,” said founder Chris Baty, on the group’s website history. “Nor did it ref lect any hopes we had about tapping more fully into our creative selves. No, we wanted to write novels for the same dumb reasons twenty-somethings start bands. Because we wanted to make noise.” Glauser’s fourth attempt at NaNoWriMo

starts this year. He said he tried and failed for two years, finally finishing a full novel last year. He said he accidentally stumbled across NaNoWriMo one day at Borders, when he was looking for a book on plot and happened to see Baty’s book. “I wanted to write a book, and I told myself, ‘I need to find a book about plotting and structuring a book that isn’t like these other books,’” Glauser said. “I saw ‘No Plot, No Problem’ and was like, ‘I don’t have a plot, character or setting, so this should really help me out.’” Although the idea of writing more than 1,600 words per day may be daunting, Glausner said: “Just do it.” “I think the whole spirit of NaNoWriMo is the law of exuberant imperfection,” he said. “It says to make something truly lasting, you have to risk making something horribly crappy. In reality, it’s one of the easiest things you can do. You pick up a notebook and a pencil, and you’ve got all the tools you need.” Unlike other Internet-based competitions, NaNoWriMo offers no incentive to finish. It is completely self-driven. For writer Kayla Parnin, writing a novel in 30 days presents a unique challenge, but it also allows her to adhere to deadlines that she wouldn’t other-wise set for herself.

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Every week, USU students skate their way into the past at Old Skool Skate Night hosted by the Cache Valley Fun Park every Tuesday at 8 p.m. People dress in costumes from every era, to dance and skate to the music of their parents’ college years. “I feel like a lot of people go roller skating for birthday parties when they’re little, but it fades out when they hit middle school and high school,” said Emily Esplin, a sophomore studying family and consumer science.She said that this skate night, which is directed toward college students, is a great way to “get back into doing the things we did

when we were young.” Jessica Larson, a Fun Park employee, said it’s a fun way to relax after the school week.“It’s something different than what normally goes on around campus,” she said. She said it’s fun to see what people dress like, because it creates a fun environment. Talysha Tingey, the deejay and creator of Old Skool Skate Night, said she has worked at skating rinks ever since she was 16 years old. She said it’s great to bring skating back to college students nowadays. “(Skating) has been around for a long time,” Tingey said. “It was very big in the disco era, but then it sort of died out. Because of her love for skat-ing, Tingey said she wanted to

see it brought back. “When I got here they had a disco night going, but it wasn’t taking off,” she said. She said she strongly advocated for improving the existing disco night, by dedi-cating herself to Old Skool Skate Night and giving it her best. Esplin said Skate Night is not only good exercise but a great indoor activity to do during the winter. She said it’s much more fun than the typical group winter activity — watching a movie — because it gets people out of their apartments to move around, instead of just sitting on their couch. “If people just stumble in and don’t know it’s Old Skool Night, I start to watch them and notice whether or not they get drawn

into it, and most of the time they do,” Tingey said, Larson said skate night attracts all kinds of people. She said, it gives people a chance to goof off, which is one of the reasons it is so popular. “Once people try on skates or blades and they start getting into the music, they just let themselves go,” Tingey said. Esplin said her favorite part of skate night is trying new tricks. She said, “I fall a lot, but it’s character building.” “It’s just a crowd that really loves to have fun,” Tingey said.Esplin, Tingey and Larson all agreed, the most popular part of the night is “black out.” Black out is the part of the night dedicated to top 40 music. Tingey said she has noticed a

major rush toward the end of the night because of this. “It has popular songs that people are used to hearing and dancing to,” she said. She said sometimes there is a sort of discomfort with disco and other older music, because participants are unfamiliar. “Sometimes people will say ‘Oh, I’ve heard that song before,’ but they still don’t know the words, and they don’t know how to dance to it,” Tingey said. Tingey said the unfamiliar-ity is not a bad thing, overall, because the music is what makes

this skate night unique. “It’s what makes it fun, because you’re experiencing something knew,” she said. Esplin said everyone should give it a chance, because the first time she was invited, she was skeptical, but eventually thought it was fun. Esplin said she has been back almost every Tuesday, unless she has a test the next day. “Once you go, most people really like it,” she said,


EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT THE CACHE VALLEY FUN PARK invites patrons to take a blast to the past with Old Skool Skate

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200,000 novel writers emerge every November “I’ve done it both ways, and I feel I do better under pressure,” Parnin said . “If I don’t have a deadline, I get writer’s block horrifically bad, and I stop for months before I continue. If I do it in one month, it’s like I got to keep chugging, chugging, chugging, until I get there.” Unlike most others in the group, Parnin is a NaNoWriMo veteran. She said this year will

mark her seventh year of participation.Parnin said she heard about NaNoWriMo in seventh grade, when her English teacher offered 500 points extra credit and an automatic A, if anybody in the class would complete a novel. Along with Parnin, near-ly 40,000 K-12 students now participate in NaNoWriMo, according to the website.

Group member Katie Larson said she hopes to be published in the near future, but in the meantime she’s just focused on getting through the month. For her second year of NaNoWriMo, she’s working on a fantasy novel based on a few characters who each have a superhuman power. She said one of her only problems is her inability to decide how old her protago-

nist is. “My characters are driv-ing me insane,” she said. Larson said NaNoWriMo is more than just a goal. She said it’s who she is. “It’s not a hobby, it’s a lifestyle,” Larson said.


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With the sight of hoodies, coats, scarves and rapidly rubbing hands flocking on campus, it is easy to note that Cache Valley cold is quickly upon us. Most who experience this all too notable climate would say that now is the time to huddle up with a nice cup of coffee, cocoa or anything warm and try to brave the frost. This phenomenon makes life pretty busy for warm-drink suppliers like the Quickstop or the Quadside Cafe. A quick word with Sage Sisam, however, will tell you that those days have already begun. “We actually start getting rushes on the first day it rains,” said Sisam, who is in her third year working for the Quadside Cafe. “We get a big rush for hot chocolate or any hot drinks. It can get pretty crazy.”

Sisam, a 21-year-old senior, said she has thoroughly enjoyed her time working at the Quadside, because it gives her a ample time to focus on her studies, and it’s a relaxing and fun place to work. “I love it here,” she said. “I didn’t expect to love a job like this as much as I do. I just expected I’d have a cafe job just to keep for a semester or two, but it’s become something I’ve been very attached to. It’s surprised me how much fun it is.” Shifts at the Quadside usu-ally go in short bursts, she said, as employees work between busy class schedules. Sisam said most shifts start out fairly basic — get an apron, clock in, wash hands and fill in for whoever has to leave. From here Sisam is sta-tioned wherever she is needed. There are several different posts that need to be filled:

areas for making sandwiches, preparing hot drinks, taking care of customer needs, cleaning and organizing, and controlling the cash registers. Although a shift requires juggling numerous responsi-bilities with frequent spurts of people, she said she enjoys the work. If she had to choose, Sisam, a self-proclaimed fan of white hot chocolate and peppermint cocoa, said she especially loves preparing drinks for customers. “It’s just a little more relax-ing making drinks,” Sisam said. “It’s fun, too, because you get a bit of different exposure to people, because you can hand them a drink and talk to them a bit. It can wget really busy at times, but I really like it.” When shifts aren’t too busy or there is down time during breaks, employees do their best

to take time with customers who sit in the dining area, something Sisam said she feels is a an added perk to her job that most don’t normally get. “It’s a fun place,” she said. “You always have the regulars come and sit at their tables. In school you usually only meet people in your major and things like that, and it’s cool that here I get to meet people I normally wouldn’t.” Outside of work at the Quadside, Sisam said she’s especially grateful to work, go to school and live in an area that supports her studies.A long-time dog lover and owner, she said she hopes to become a veterinarian and work with animals. Doing her best to broaden her horizon with animals, Sisam said she’s been volunteering at the Willow Park Zoo.Sisam is also sectretary of the USU equestrian team and

works summers in Vet Clinics where she said she has come to truly enjoy the trade. “I remember taking my dogs to the vet as a kid,” Sisam said, “and I always had so much respect for the vets back then. From their I just always wanted to work with animals.” After a more-than-full experience at her cafe shifts and experiences with animals at USU, Sisam gives a piece of advice to those looking to enhance their own college experience. “The biggest thing you have to do is love it,” she said. “It’s hard to put in the work of grades, test and graduation stuff, if it’s not something you are really into and you aren’t having as good of a time as you want. You have to really love what you do.”


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Cache Valley cold no match for Quadside employee

Lou Reed and Metallica

are not only two of the

more exalted names in

music _ pioneers of punk

and thrash metal, respec-

tively _ they’re among the

most perverse.

Though “Lulu,” their first

studio collaboration, is a

work that invites derision,

an album that wallows in

a tarpit of ugliness, any-

body who has followed

the careers of its makers

shouldn’t be too surprised.

They’ve both gone off the

deep end before, though

never quite so spectacu-

larly.

Metallica alienated its

hardcore fans by wrestling

with a ‘90s identity crisis

and refashioning itself as

an alternative-rock band,

reworked its music with

a symphony orchestra,

released a 2003 album (“St.

Anger”) with a defective

drum sound and lyrics that

sounded like a cry for help,

and financed and released

a damning and unintention-

ally comical documentary

(“Some Kind of Monster”)

detailing the quartet’s inter-

nal squabbling and desper-

ation.

In theory, the notion

of rock stars taking some-

times ridiculous chances

with their music has appeal.

And some of the work cited

above did have a payoff.

Reed’s “Berlin” is master-

ful, and his Lollapalooza

performance demanded

a reaction, good or bad,

amid a sea of pandering.

Metallica’s “St. Anger” and

“Some Kind of Monster”

at least qualify as brutally

transparent self-portraits.

But the worst of Reed and

Metallica is unlistenable.

Which brings us to

“Lulu.” Even against that

backdrop of ignominy, this

“Loutallica” Frankenstein

stands alone. It all began

innocently enough. After

performing together

briefly in 2009, Reed and

Metallica agreed to further

collaborate. Reed eventu-

ally suggested recording

songs he was develop-

ing for the “Lulu Plays,” a

production by playwright

Robert Wilson that inter-

prets the century-old work

of German expressionist

Frank Wedekind about the

horrible, short life of an

abused dancer.

This sort of subject mat-

ter is nothing new for Reed,

who has been on intimate

terms with transgression

since he wrote Velvet

Underground classics such

as “Heroin,” “Sister Ray”

and “Venus in Furs.” He cre-

ated a poetic lexicon of vio-

lence, perversion and suf-

fering unequaled in rock.

If nothing else, his work

reminds us that society’s

most misshapen misfits are

humans too, for better or

worse, and his empathy for

these characters, his refusal

to judge or dismiss them, is

what puts his work in the

discussion not just with the

greatest songwriters, but

literary visionaries such as

Nelson Algren and William

Burroughs.

Yet his lyrics for “Lulu”

verge on self-parody,

a series of blunt objects

that make “Saw IV” seem

nuanced and humane.

The album opens with a

description of sexual muti-

lation so vivid it can’t be

reprinted here, and the trail

of depravity deepens with

each song. “Use a knife on

me!” “Blood spurting from

me!” Reed croaks. “I beg

you to degrade me/Is there

waste that I could eat?” “I

puke my guts out at your

feet.” “Why do I desecrate

me?” “Pathetic little dog.”

The graphic images

are tied to equally dis-

mal, unrelenting music.

Metallica settles into dirge

tempos, one-chord stomps

or monotone ambiance in

tracks that stubbornly over-

stay their welcome. The 10

songs weigh in at 87 min-

utes, and with the excep-

tion of “Iced Honey” and

“The View,” they offer little

in the way of melody or

anything resembling a cho-

rus.

There’s a sliver of ten-

derness in the first few

minutes of “Junior Dad,”

Reed’s voice dropping to a

near whisper as the narra-

tor tries to cope with “the

greatest disappointment”

over a glimmer of guitar

melody and slow, steady

drums. Then the music dis-

solves into more than 11

minutes of brain-numbing

drone, snuffing out what-

ever remaining hope of

redemption this album

might have had.

Given their history, that

might be the point.


Lou Reed and Metallica fall off the deep

end with ‘Lulu’

than just the kind that send email updates. Eric Larsen, a sophomore majoring in computer science, said he subscribes to Cache Daily Deals, but his favorite sites to check are Woot and Whiskey Militia. “I like Woot.com because I’m kind of a nerd, and they sell a lot of electronic or technology-oriented stuff,” Larsen said. “And Whiskey Militia usually has more clothing-type stuff.” Larsen said he heard about Woot a few years ago from friends but didn’t begin checking it regu-larly for a while. Now, he said, he uses the sites more often, but the frequency of his visits depend on his finances. “How often I check them depends on how poor I am at the moment,” Larsen said. “If I have extra money, I check them quite often. If I don’t have extra money, I

don’t.” Larsen said these types of sites have both advantages and disadvantages. “One of the best deals I’ve got-ten was an $80 HDMI cable for $8,” Larsen said. “You can save a lot of money, and college students are generally broke. But sometimes you’re tempted to buy stuff that you don’t need because it’s cheap.” Regardless of where students go for deals, Hammond said it’s important to be sure to use cred-ible sites. “Definitely make sure they’re legitimate,” he said. “Make sure they’re not just ripping you off. There are a bunch of legit ones, like LivingSocial, Groupon and Cache Daily Deals; you just have to find them.”


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Students find deals with websites Groupon, Living Social

STUDENTS USE DAILY DEAL WEB-SITES such as Woot.com to buy discounted

gadgets. Recently Eric Larsen found an

$80 HDMI cable for $8. KATRINA ANNE

PERKINS photo

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“Lulu”Greg Kot,

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KERSEY DAVIS, A SOPHOMORE majoring in family consumer science and human development with an emphasis in deaf education dressed up as a pirate ship for the Howl. TJ Treasure, a junior majoring in finance, dressed up as Hook. DELAYNE LOCKE photo

FANS BELT THE LYRICS of their favorite Cartel songs as the band takes center stage. Cartel was the last band that played, wrapping up another one of Utah’s biggest Halloween parties. AMANDA DUNN photo

WILL PUGH, LEAD SINGER for the band Cartel performed at USU’s Howl on Saturday in the TSC Ballroom. Cartel’s show began at 10 p.m., and the crowd cheered for an encore performance when they left the stage. DELAYNE

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HOWL ATTENDEES JUMP up and down to blaring music in the Fieldhouse. Green and purple lights flashed as gymnasts flipped and twirled on trampolines. The dance was held in the Fieldhouse to keep the temperature cool and give dancers more room. AMANDA DUNN photo

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RSL defeats Sounders in first legBY TAVIN STUCKI

sports editor

There was just one thing written on a locker room whiteboard after Real Salt Lake’s 3-0 vic-tory over Seattle Saturday night, in the first leg of the second round of the Major League Soccer play-offs. “A lot of people need to be proven wrong about us,” the board stated. “I Believe.” The Salt Lake side did not look at all like the squad that struggled since the match against Monterrey last April. “We could’ve asked for 4-0,” Real Salt Lake head coach Jason Kreis said regarding what he would’ve like to see in a match. “No, obviously we’re very, very pleased with the result. We’re very, very pleased with the guys we put into the match.” Forward Alvaro Saborio scored two goals and midfielder Ned Grabavoy added a third, as Real put the first leg of the first-round playoff game away in Sandy. Saborio put his first goal away in the 41st minute. Defender Chris Wingert took a pass from captain Javier Morales to the left side and slid a ball past Sounders keeper Kasey Keller. Saborio managed to stay onside, as he stole the goal from his teammate and tapped the ball in from an inch away from the line to put RSL up, 1-0. Wingert did not seem upset about his teammate taking the goal from him. “If we just win the series, then that’s awe-some. I could care less,” Wingert said. “Sabo was back post, and I thought, ‘If I can hit it far post in front of the keeper and behind the defense, then it’s going to be a really tough ball for them to handle. That was the key. I figured it was going to

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Cross-country men WAC champs, women take thirdBY TAVIN STUCKI

sports editor

And just like that, Utah State continues its domi-nance in Western Athletic Conference cross-country. The men’s team won the title, while the women’s team took third place. Senior Brian McKenna won the men’s individual title as both teams had four athletes earn all-WAC honors. McKenna said it feels phenomenal to win. “We did really well today,” he said. “We’ve got five seniors who’ve been at it together the whole time at Utah State, and to carry away the trophy really means a lot.

We’re glad we could make it here and do so well.” McKenna’s win is his second conference champi-onship in three years as he finished the 8-kilometer race with a time of 24 minutes, 46 seconds to also earn the WAC Athlete of the Year award. The native of Farmington said the course was more technical than he expected. “We thought there was just one little hill, and instead it was one big hill and the rest was ups and downs,” he said. “We had a pretty good headwind com-ing across the island. That was actually probably a good USU MEN’S CROSS-COUNTRY poses after clinching the WAC title. The men’s team has won

the WAC title in six of the last seven seasons. USU’s women’s team placed third overall. Photo courtesy of USU Media Relations

Soccer takes WACUSU defeats SJSU,

ties Fresno to clinch regular season title

BY CURTIS LUNDSTROM

staff writer

Back-to-back, regular season Western Athletic Conference Champions. This is the title the Utah State women’s soccer team earned after a pair of weekend home match-es against San Jose State University and Fresno State University. After finishing the regular season as co-champions with the Spartans last year, the Aggies made sure there was no repeat, disposing of SJSU in a dominant 3-0 win Friday and holding Fresno State long enough to earn a 0-0 tie. “It’s amazing,” head coach Heather Cairns said. “Anytime you win a championship it’s not easy. It’s a long road — there’s a lot of games. This team is all about seizing those opportuni-ties.” The championship is USU’s third regular sea-son title in four years. Junior defender Natalie Norris, senior for-ward Shantel Flanary and freshman forward Jade Tarver each netted goals for the Aggies in a match that saw Utah State controlling the ball from start to finish against San Jose State. The Aggies’ offense was relentless against Spartan goalkeeper Meghan Maiwald, blasting 27 shots for the day — 14 of those on goal. It didn’t take long for the Aggies to strike. Just four minutes into the match, Norris found the back of the net off of a corner kick from Kendra Pemberton. It was Norris’s fourth goal of the season, and it was just the beginning of a busy afternoon for Maiwald, who recorded eight

FRESHMAN JADE TARVER battles Fresno State’s Kendall VanDine for possession at Chuck and Gloria Bell Field Sunday. USU secured its second consecutive WAC regular season title. CURTIS RIPPLINGER photo

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Volleyball shuts down Lady Techsters in straight sets

serves against Louisiana Tech in the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum Saturday. USU defeated LTU in straight sets. CODY GOCHNOUR photo

BY CURTIS LUNDSTROM

staff writer

The Utah State women’s volleyball team made quick work of Louisiana Tech University Saturday, sweeping the Lady Techsters in straight sets, 3-0. Senior All-American Liz McArthur led the Aggies with 11 kills and two service aces, while the Lady Techsters were unable to claim their first Western Athletic Conference win. “Our entire back line passed really well,” head coach Grayson DuBose said. “Overall it was a very nice match.” The Aggies started a little slow, falling behind early, 3-1, before settling in and controlling the match. Leading, 12-9, midway through the first set, USU went on an 8-1 run to open up a 10-point advantage, at 20-10. Utah State cruised from there, as junior outside hitter Josselyn White recorded two kills to finish off the set and give the Aggies the 25-15 win. “We missed a lot of serves, and a lot of unforced errors,” McArthur said. “We have to clean it up for our next match.” While neither team played particularly well, Louisiana Tech never really threatened Utah State throughout the first two sets. The Lady Techsters led only once in the first set and never in the sec-ond set, while finishing the night with a negative hitting percentage.

Freshman libero Ashlan Rogers had a solid night on defense for the Aggies, as she finished with a team-high 10 digs. It was the ninth time Rogers, who has played in 22 matches in her first year at USU, has recorded double-digit kills. “I don’t think we were very focused,” Rogers said. “I think we were just going super fast, and we needed to take our time. It kind of became a disease after awhile.” USU started quickly in the second set, and after McArthur’s third kill of the set, the Aggies led, 13-7. Louisiana Tech used a 4-0 run to crawl back to within three, but the Lady Techsters were unable to slow down the Aggie offense. Plagued by errors, Louisiana Tech finished the second set the same way it did in the first — with an error. Utah State took the set, 25-17. Junior outside hitter Shay Sorensen added plenty of offensive help for McArthur, record-ing six kills on the night. Sorensen also caused Louisiana Tech plenty of problems on defense, finishing with three block assists and only one blocking error. Louisiana Tech took its second lead of the match to start the third set, and they weren’t going to be swept quietly. Getting help from five of the Aggies’ 14 total service errors, the Lady Techsters fought to a 14-14 tie, before Utah State would take the lead for good.

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saves on the day. Flanary came into the match needing three points to tie the Utah State scoring record set by Lauren Hansen. Flanary’s goal four minutes into the second half left her just one point shy, at 83. Flanary put on a dribbling exhibition, carving up the Spartan defense before rocket-ing her 10th goal of the season past Maiwald, into the bottom-right corner of the net. Tarver came in off the bench midway through the first half and immediately made her presence felt. On her first touch, Tarver dribbled through a pair of SJSU defend-ers and rifled a shot on goal. Maiwald got a touch on the shot and pushed the ball wide of the net. Tarver didn’t waste her sec-ond chance. In the 83rd minute Tarver capitalized, taking a ball from a Spartan defender in the attacking half, dribbled across the top of the six-yard box and put a well-placed shot into the bottom-right corner of the net. It was Tarver’s first goal of her collegiate career. “It was amazing. I’ve been wanting it for so long,” Tarver said. “It’s great to finally put it away.” The win set up the show-down with Fresno State Sunday, in a winner-take-all match. Trailing Utah State by two points in the WAC standings,

thing for us, because we’ve been on uneven courses most of the year. We took control of the race pretty early and got our team in front.” Following an injury-ridden, second-place finish last season, McKenna said, to get the victory this year was “really sweet.” “As I crossed the finish line and looked, everybody looked like they’d put out a pretty good effort,” McKenna said. “I think Coach couldn’t be more happy about what we did. USU head coach Greg Gensel said his team executed a great plan to get the win. “That was pretty awe-some,” Gensel said. “Brian’s plan was to take it out hard and make the people that were racing him work hard at the beginning of the race. He knew coming from altitude that he would have the ability to recover from that, and he was hoping they — coming from sea level — wouldn’t be able to recover, and that’s exactly what happened.” The men’s team finished with 35 points and narrowly

go in or (Saborio) was going to tap it in. Saborio struck again in the 53rd minute when he def lected a Morales pass from the 6-yard box, behind his own and Seattle defender Jeff Parke’s back, with a heel kick toward the net and in. “I think that it’s taken me a long time to come back like normal,” Morales said. “I’m really happy for the team. I think it’s a very good win. We won, so 2-0 we come to win.” The match was almost completely dominated by Real Salt Lake. Keller saved

Sophomore outside hitter Tamua Entimani came up with a big block to put the set away, and the Aggies completed the sweep, 25-22. With the win, Utah State improves to 6-5 in WAC play, and 11-13 on the year. The Lady Techsters fall to a WAC-worst, 0-10, while dropping to 9-18 on the season. The Aggies travel to Orem this week to play a non-conference match against the Wolverines of Utah Valley University Nov. 3 at 7 p.m. USU then returns home for Senior Night, playing host to Idaho University Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. “We want to get a lot of momentum going into the con-ference tournament,” DuBose said. “So that we’re confident and can move forward.”


Aggies cruise past Tritons, 74-42BY TYLER HUSKINSONassistant sports editor

The Utah State men’s bas-ketball team cruised to an easy victory over the University of California-San Diego in its first exhibition game Friday. Brockeith Pane finished with 12 points and three oth-ers finished in double-figure scoring as the Aggies defeated the Tritons, 74-42, at the Dee Glenn Smith Spectrum. For USU head coach Stew Morrill, the exhibition served its purpose. “In these exhibition games, all you can play is non-DI schools,” Morrill said. “The other thing you can do is scrimmage and not have a crowd. You take your pick there. “I thought it was good to get everybody some minutes,” Morrill added. “When we get a chance to evaluate the film, we’ll know more. We played hard. We made some mistakes, but I’m glad we played hard.” USU played solid offensive-ly, shooting 54 percent from the field and 58 percent from the 3-point line. The Aggies shot 7 of 20 from the free-throw line, which is one of the many spots where the Aggies feel they can improve. “We’ve still got a long way to go,” Pane said. “That wasn’t very good competition. I think we can get better. Six for 20 from the free-throw line is something we can get better at. At halftime we were losing the rebound battle, so that’s

something we can get better at, but otherwise I think we played good.” USU went on an 11-0 run to start the game and never looked back. Preston Medlin hit three of his 10 points as part of that run, and Pane came up with a steal and easy layup. UC-San Diego was without two of its best players, and despite the victory Morrill had some concerns. “My biggest concern, we were being out-rebounded at half,” he said. “We barely out-rebounded this team and this is not a WAC team. In our ability to guard, we lost a lot of stoppers, and they got a lot of good looks out of their stuff and didn’t make them.” Brady Jardine finished the night on 5-of-7 shooting from the field and grabbed seven rebounds, while Adam Thoseby finished with 10 points on 4-of-7 shooting from the field and 2-of-3 shooting from the 3-point range. The Aggies led by as much as 38 points in the second half off a jumper from Medlin, and UC-San Diego head coach Chris Carlson left impressed by the new-look Aggies. “I know there’s been a lot of talk on Utah State and the newness of the program,” c said, “but I’d hate to have to come play them in January, I can tell you that. “They did a lot of good things tonight, a lot of good things that we weren’t quite up to the task on, in terms of

guarding especially,” he said. “They are a very well-coached group, and they’re going to be fine. Logan, Utah, doesn’t need to worry about the Aggies.” Defense still remains the main concern, despite USU’s ability to score easily. “We had a lot of different guys in double-figure points,” Pane said. “Brady is going to play a big role in what we do. We’ve got a lot of people that can score. We’ve got a lot of people that can put the ball in the hole, but that’s not our main focus. We’re going to get wins by getting stops and getting rebounds and running the break.” In the end, the scrimmage served it’s purpose for Morrill and his team. “In our scrimmages,” Morrill said, “we’ve been mak-ing close to 80 percent, and that tells you a lot of the jitters the new guys have and some of the veterans have, even.” Questions still remain as to who will get playing time for the Aggies. Morrill rotated 12 players into the lineup against the Tritons, which is something he hasn’t done very often. Last season the Aggies had an eight-man rotation. “It’s hard when you’re play-ing 12 guys,” he said. “You’re just running guys in and out. I’ve only done this four or five times in my career. I’ve got so many new guys, I’ve got to get them time and see what they can do.”

– [email protected] BROCKEITH PANE drives past UC-San Diego guard Matt Bailey at the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum Friday night. Pane scored 10 points and dished out four assists in USU’s 74-42 victory. CODY GOCHNOUR photo

edged out New Mexico State’s 47 and Idaho’s 59. Senior Daniel Howell finished fourth, in 25:32.5, and sophomore Kyle McKenna took fifth, with a time of 25:43.8. “It was pretty close, but we ran a great race,” Gensel said. “Brian was able to pull out the win, and our other guys ran well enough to get us a team win. We have some good runners on our team.” Gensel also won the WAC Coach of the Year award for the sixth time in the last seven seasons. “The thing that speaks for that is the quality of the runners that we get — both as people and as athletes,” Gensel said. “They’re great student-athletes. They’re quality people. That’s a base to continue having success when you have those kind of people.” The women’s team finished third in an even closer race than the men’s. Idaho won with 38 points and New Mexico State took second with 53. Running without their No. 1 Hannah Williams, due to an injury

sustained Wednesday, the USU women’s team took third with 60 points. Senior Ruth Hilton fin-ished as USU’s top finisher, in ninth place, with a time of 18:59.3 The Aggies had a 16-sec-ond spread between their top five finishers, which Gensel said was “pretty phenomenal.” “(Williams) was here trying to get ready to run and she just couldn’t go,” Gensel said. “The other girls stepped it up and ran really good and ended up running a great race as a team. They could have tanked it. They could have said ‘Oh, our No. 1 runner’s not here, we’re not going to do it as good as a team,’ but they did a great job in the way they raced. I was proud of them.” The Utah State cross-country teams will next com-pete in the NCAA Mountain Region Championships Nov. 12 in Orem, in hopes of qualifying for the NCAA national meet Nov. 21.


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the Bulldogs needed a win to capture the regular season title. Conversely, a win or a tie would seal the deal for USU. The Bulldogs seemed to come out playing with urgency, determined to come away on top.Senior goalkeeper Molli Merrill would have none of it. Merrill, who holds the best goals-against percentage in the WAC, came up with five saves for the Aggies, including a huge save in the final 20 sec-onds of overtime. Fresno State’s senior mid-fielder Molli Nizzoli suddenly found herself in the middle of the 18-yard box with the ball and plenty of space. Nizzoli torpedoed a shot at the bottom-left corner of the goal, and it appeared to be on it’s way into the net as the Bulldog bench started celebrat-ing. Merrill made a near-impos-sible save to thwart Fresno State’s last-gasp attempt at the win, and the Aggies were able to come away with the tie, and the regular season title. Merrill was bombarded by the Bulldog’s offense consis-tently, especially in the wan-ing moments of regulation and overtime. Fresno State was unable to capitalize on two corner kicks in the final 30 seconds of regulation, and while the Aggies had their chances in overtime, the Bulldogs weren’t letting up. Cairns spoke highly of her

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Cross-country continues dominancesenior goalkeeper’s effort. “Every save Molli made today was a game-changing save,” Cairns, who is now in her eighth season as head coach, said. “She was huge in the game today. I think we owe a lot of our success to her.” Merrill and fellow seniors Chandra Salmon-Christensen, Shantel Flanary, Summer Tillotson and Marissa Sanchez have left a legacy for future Aggies to follow. Salmon-Christensen said that was a goal of she and her fellow players had coming into the program. “I think we came in with the attitude that we wanted to have an impact — we wanted to leave our mark on the pro-gram,” Salmon-Christensen said. “We wanted to make a good program great. I think we’ve left our mark, and it feels really good.” With the regular season fin-ished, the Aggies now prepare for the WAC Tournament in Reno, Nevada, Nov. 4-6, where they will be the No. 1 seed. “I think it gives us a little bit of a target on our backs going into the WAC tourna-ment,” Salmon-Christensen said, “which feels really nice. Our team is the type of team that loves a challenge. We love rising to a challenge, we love the opportunity going in as regular season champions.”


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RSL scores three goals against Seattleeight of RSL’s 11 shots on goal. Seattle did not put a single shot on frame. Morales was credited with two assists in the match and appears to be close to, if not at his pre-injury form but was still subbed out of the game. Grabavoy came into the match for Morales in the second half. The 5-foot-7 American midfielder added the extra insurance goal, in the 88th minute, on an unassisted rocket of a shot, after the Seattle defense cleared a cross out of the box. Kreis was wary about the

injuries of both his center backs Jameson Olave and Nat Borchers, but said he also hopes the team will not look too much into the win and forget about the second half of the showdown. “We’re also very cognisant of it only being halftime,” Kreis said. “There’s another match in Seattle. We know how difficult it is to play there. We’re going to need 90 more minutes of very com-mitted soccer to make sure we advance from this round.”


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Halloween as an excuse to wear their nude-colored briefs in public. Annually, the TSC transforms from academic institution into a quagmire of body odor, grinding and freshman girls’ high-pitched squeals. There are usually so many people who attend the event it takes one hour just to get inside, and then once you are inside, it takes another hour to travel from one end of the hall to the other. Although many seniors share a feeling of ambiva-lence toward this, our last Howl experiences, some of us decided to create spooky ensembles anyway and brave the halls for the last time. Let us start of by saying it took approximately five minutes to get inside, another five to get our wrist bands fastened and off we went. For those who may have waited longer, it seemed they hardly noticed, because men breathing fire stood between the two lines. Yes, everyone, there were two lines. We aren’t sure why this brainy trick was not implemented before. ASUSU Executive Council members handed out petitions, which students were urged to complete, petitioning higher education budget cuts in this year’s legislative session. In exchange for filling out a petition, each individual received a can of soda. Brilliant. It’s safe to guess thousands of those surveys were completed. Who doesn’t want a caf-feine- or sugar-laced can of pop to begin a long night of jumping up and down? We ventured upstairs waiting for the heat plague, but didn’t find it. Instead, we reached the top of the stairs as a man on stilts with face paint and a top hat sauntered past. A woman with a boa constrictor wrapped around her waist, neck and arm stood in the middle of the hall. Breakdancers performed a few feet from her, and we could see all of these things while standing in one place. To our amazement, we could breathe and move. There were pockets of empty space all over the place. Perhaps, the Howl wasn’t so popu-lar this year? Wrong. Apparently the Fieldhouse was the place to be. This is where the biggest annoyance came. People were moving from the TSC to the Fieldhouse like mules. We stood in a small hallway for 10 min-utes trying to get there, before a few event facilita-tors jammed their way into the crowd and began directing traffic.The dance party in the Fieldhouse was complete with acrobats and colorful, billowy pieces of mate-rial that resembled a circus tent. DJ Marcus Wing — whom we’ve heard spin one too many times — blared his typical beats, but once again we could move, and because the doors were left open, the air was breathable and cool. The Cartel concert was equally comfortable, and spec-tators could leave the TSC feeling as comfortable as they did entering. The Howl is not our style, but this year, we can truthfully say it was a major logistical improvement. We found ourselves able to enjoy the entertain-ment, without the lingering anxiety of suffocation and finding our way through a thick of sweating bodies and accompanying vapor cloud.

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The strategy behind our ini-tial invasion of Iraq was known as “Shock and Awe.” The basic idea was we would over-whelm and break the will of the opposition with our vastly superior air power, and then march in with the minimum amount of troops possible to take Baghdad. It appeared to work won-derfully; U.S. troops were vir-tually uninhibited in their cap-ture of the Iraqi capital city. In the next several months, however, we began to realize what a mistake it was to rely so heavily on our Air Force. The lack of boots on the ground made it impossible to secure the borders of Iraq, and insurgents began pouring into the country. We were also unable to handle the domestic threats from Saddam Hussein’s loyalists, Shiite fundamental-ists and northern Kurds. For the past eight years the issue in Iraq has been the same. We have never had enough boots on the ground. To be fair this error goes partially beyond the com-mander in chief and is largely due to U.S. military culture and the mercenary rather than a draft recruitment style. Now that President Barack Obama ordered a follow through with the complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, blame can no longer be placed on the military or the president; it falls on us. Let me be clear, I am not opposed to withdrawing troops from Iraq. The time for U.S. military operations in that country is coming to a close. The Iraqi government voted for our withdrawal, but should we completely wash our hands

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years later, President Barack Obama last week declared an official end to the war with all American troops pulling out by

high, proud of their success.” He will spin the pullout as a political victory for himself and a fulfillment of his earlier cam-paign promises for his upcoming election. But for the last three years his campaign promises of “change” have amounted to more of the same Bush doctrines and policies that turned the U.S. into an aggressor and tarnished our human rights record. Obama, being the Nobel Peace Prize winner he is, deserves neither credit nor applause for his role in ending the conflict, as it would have continued unabated had the Iraqi government refused to give in to White House pressure and grant American soldiers immunity from war-crime prosecution. Essentially, we are being kicked out. Iraqis, tired of the vio-lence and frustrated by the lack of progress, now view Americans more as occupiers than libera-tors. However, the American mili-tary’s presence in the Middle East is far from over, as the adminis-tration plans on keeping large numbers of American forces in neighboring Kuwait and Bahrain. In addition, thousands of corpo-

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It is a fact — graduate school is difficult. Most of us can iden-tify with being overwhelmed, confused and unsure about many things relating to university policies during graduate school. Luckily, the Graduate Student Senate at Utah State University aims to alleviate concerns that grad students have regarding university-related topics, such as grants, health insurance, traveling for conferences and other activities. The senate’s overarching theme is enhancing the overall experience of graduate students attending USU. On this theme, currently, GSS is achieving the following goals: being the go-to resource for graduate-related USU and com-munity information; serving as the voice for graduate students; providing financial support for graduate students; establishing the GSS as a repository of information on USU seminars; providing meaningful lectures and networking opportunities; continuing to build the Intermountain Graduate Research Symposium and drawing participants from across the Western U.S. In order to better serve the unique needs of graduate students, GSS offers several unique grants and awards.

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rate soldiers — or mercenaries — from American firms such as Xe will con-tinue in Iraq. American troops will still be sta-tioned in the Muslim holy land of Saudi Arabia, home of the holy city of Mecca, which was a reason for the 9/11 attacks. The quagmire of Afghanistan still continues as the longest conflict in which America has been involved. Moreover, “all options are on the table,” to use the President’s words regarding Iran, as the war hawks eagerly await another round. This questions remains in the back of every person’s mind: Should we leave before the country is complete-ly stabilized? Let’s not forget the war was a sham from the beginning, and we should not be there in the first place. America cannot be the world’s policeman.

Our Constitution does not allow it, we cannot afford it and our military meddling in the affairs of other coun-tries breeds resentment and hatred from the people whose lands we occupy. It leads to what the CIA terms “blowback,” or unintended negative consequences. The same people who tell us it is a mistake to pull out are the same peo-ple who told us that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, that he supported al-Qaida and pre-dicted the Iraq War would be a “cake-walk,” according to Bush’s adviser Kenneth Adelman. What makes us think we should believe them now?

of their still-broken country? I believe we are still liable for much of what happens in Iraq. Obama himself recently requested the Iraqi government allow U.S. troops to stay through New Year’s and continue stabil-ity operations. He knows that complete withdrawal is not ideal for either Iraq or the U.S., so why did he back off his request? He’s up for re-election and knows the con-stituency wants out. Politicians are at our mercy, and unfortu-nately we refuse to acknowl-edge the mess we made. Much of the instability that Iraq is currently facing can, in part, be traced back to the carelessness of the U.S. mili-tary under the Bush administra-tion. After negligently leaving the door open for insurgents by

not securing Iraq’s borders, we might as well have sent oppos-ing forces personal invitations when we completely disbanded the state’s military and police forces, kicking 300,000 Iraqis to the curb. My faith in the ability of cur-rent Iraqi peacekeeping forces to maintain control is shaky, at best. Since it’s our mess they are left to grapple with, we are responsible for seeing that Iraq’s forces succeed. This is not to say we should impose ourselves upon them if we aren’t wanted. Insisting that we stay, even when we have been asked to leave, would only add to the aura of imperialism that unfortunately surrounds the U.S. at the moment. I do, however, feel very strongly that we should con-

tinue to aid Iraqi forces in what-ever areas they need. Whether it’s financing, arms, training or logistical and technical support, we should assist the transition-ing nation however they allow us. If there comes a time when additional men are needed, we should go back. It is a common opinion in the U.S. that what happens beyond our borders is of no concern to us; I find this to be foolish and extremely short-sighted. The world is a much bigger place than we comprehend; the least we can do is pick up our trash.

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We have designated funds for fall and spring semesters — first come, first serve — for students to travel to academic conferences. Students must be first or second author on the presentation, as funding is limited. What funding is available should support first and second authors who put the most effort into the research being presented. Importantly, students must apply for funds prior to traveling. It is recommended to apply at least one month before traveling to ensure there will be funds available and your application will be pro-cessed in a timely manner. Funds of up to $300 are available up to two times for master’s students and up to three times for doctoral students, during the course of your academic career at USU. Research and Projects Grants applications are currently being accepted for fall semester until Nov. 4. This grant is specifically designated for gradu-ate students who are not able to secure grant funding through other means and are in need of funds to purchase materials, etc. Funds do not cover stipends or traveling for data collection, and applications including these items may not be considered for final review. Funding up to $1,000 can be awarded. Applications are evaluated based on scholarly merit and the impact the research will have on society; applications are reviewed by the GSS vice president for Research and a committee of several GSS senators. Enhancement Awards are another type of financial service offered by the GSS. This award

is unique, as it is not a research or travel grant. The purpose of this award is to enhance the quality of life of graduate students and thus logically increase their ability to succeed, while recognizing their outstanding contributions. These awards are based on scholarly merit, student involvement and demonstrated financial need. Enhancement Awards total $4,000 for each student selected. The Intermountain Graduate Research Symposium (IGRS) is held annually at USU and is a place for graduate students to present their research at a regional conference promoting a friendly academic environment. This year, IGRS is scheduled for April 5-6, 2012. Graduate students will be judged on their pre-sentation and will be provided an opportunity to review feedback in order to improve their skills and abilities. First and second place winners in each con-ference session will receive a designated prize. As IGRS is a two-day conference, students have the opportunity to attend multiple ses-sions and seminars. A small registration fee will be assessed of $25, but it is recommended that graduate students check with their departments and/or advisers to see if this fee can be covered. As you can see, GSS is a valuable and impor-tant resource for graduate students on campus. Make sure to connect with the GSS Senator for your college — they are there to serve you.

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— Mike Burnham is a junior majoring in international relations and eco-

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— Andrew Izatt is a sophomore major-ing in religious studies. Comments can

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