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Student services for allBy Amanda Davies news reporter I The Signpost

Solar panels at the Davis campus are making a big difference in the amount of energy consumed by the building on a daily basis.

WSU saves energy

By Thomas Albertsasst. news editor I The Signpost

Campus solar panels help WSU take a step toward the green revolution

amount of energy consumed by the building on a daily basis.

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By Spencer Garneditor-in-chief I The Signpost

$200,000 remodel project completed for fall

When students pay their tuition at Weber State Univer-sity, they are paying for many things to enrich their college experience in addition to classes.

One of the resources avail-able in the Student Services Building is the WSU Student Health Center, a clinic where students and faculty can be diagnosed and treated for minor maladies and injuries. The center is also actively in-volved in common disease prevention through informa-tive gestures. For a nominal fee, even X-rays are available when necessary. All currently enrolled students with a Wild-card are eligible for free care.

Next on the list is the Den-tal Hygiene Clinic. The Dental Hygiene Clinic is a learning center where students work-ing toward degrees in the den-tal field can hone their skills in regular dental upkeep, while students who have den-tal needs receive affordable care. Under the supervision of qualified experts, students can have their teeth cleaned and inspected right on cam-pus.

The Stress Management Lab is one of the services lo-cated in the Swenson Com-plex on the main WSU cam-pus. Complete with massage chairs, a Chi Machine, a Bio-feedback Machine, an inver-sion table, a light-and-sound machine, and iPads and iPods, the Stress Management Lab offers ways to unwind before or after a large exam or just a long day at class.

Besides the Stress Manage-ment Lab, the Swenson Com-plex offers other services to students a Wildcard. Students have access to a fully equipped gym, which includes a rock wall, racquetball court, full-size basketball court, and a track.

Adam Richardson, a soph-omore at WSU, said he is an active participant at the gym.

“I really like the gym," he said. "I’ve done the rock wall, and it was a great workout. It was ac-

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The Shepherd Union Build-ing was designed with large windows to bring the outside in. After going through a re-cent remodel, the building now brings the inside out.

“I think it adds another di-mension to the building and extends the building into the outdoors,” said Bill Fruth, di-rector of the SUB. “Now we’ve kinda taken the inside out. It’s really an extension of the Union; it just doesn’t have walls.”

The new 2,700-square-foot patio area is covered by a large pavilion that includes six fans to keep it cool in the heat and heaters to keep it warm in the cold. It’s located just out-side the south entrance of the building.

“I think it would be hard to be out there in 10 degrees and a snowstorm,” Fruth said.

Weber State University is hoping to harness the power of the sun with new solar panels that are rising across campus.

With the support of stu-dents and the will of the uni-versity behind them, WSU’s Energy and Sustainability Department is trying to put a dent in the university’s con-sumption of both money and energy. Sustainable energy systems are being installed at both the Ogden and Davis campuses. The Davis campus alone now holds 84 solar pan-els, allowing it to save 1.9 per-cent of its energy consump-tion. An interactive kiosk set up in the lobby of the Davis building will track the amount of energy produced there.

The WSU Environmental Club supports installing solar panels on the roofs of all the buildings on campus. Leroy Christensen, a WSU senior and president of the Environ-mental Club, explained why he thought this would benefit the school and its students, as

well as the environment.“On all the buildings that

are new, solar panels would be a good idea,” he said. “It would be kind of a waste to have an open roof, when we could be saving money and returning that money back to the students by lowering tuition or offering new, bet-ter programs with the extra money we save.”

Christensen and Environ-mental Club members were amongst many students who supported the new addi-tions in energy production on campus. Jennifer Bodine, WSU’s sustainability special-ist, talked about how pleased she was by the reaction of

students and fac-ulty.

“I’ve also been excited by how ex-cited other folks on campus have been,” she said. “The faculty and the students, and the staff that I get to talk to, (say) how ex-cited and proud that they are about the fact that Weber State is moving in this di-rection. . . . I feel very lucky and privileged to be a part of it all.”

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When Dewey Clayton real-ized the plume of smoke billow-ing from his neighborhood was created by his burning home a month ago, he fi rst thought, ‘What am I going to do?’

“It’s sort of surreal, because you sit there and you think it would never happen to you,” Clayton said. “It was a total loss.”

A month later, the former cornerback of the Weber State University Football Team watched University President Ann Millner fall into the water of a dunk tank during a fund-raising effort Tuesday for his displaced family.

“I feel like I was just a stu-dent here at Weber State, but after today, ‘just a student here at Weber State’ has a different meaning,” Clayton said. “Being a student here at Weber State means you’re part of a family.”

It only took a throw to dunk Millner. Student Body Presi-dent Kyle Braithwaite was the first to hit the mark.

“I’m just totally impressed with President Millner,” Braith-waite said. “There’s not a lot of presidents of universities who would get up there and put themselves out there and re-ally just give it all for a student for a university. What a fun op-portunity for the student body president to dunk the presi-dent of the university.”

He said it was that sense of community he felt while visit-ing the campus on a recruiting trip a decade ago that drew Clayton to the university.

“I’m just really grateful to be a Wildcat,” Clayton said.

Millner donated $50 to the fundraiser and matched the donations of anyone who misfired when attempting to dunk her for the $1 price of

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Wildcat Block Party “Blast Back to the ’60s”

The seventh annual Wildcat Block Party, “Blast Back to the ’60s,” will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. outside at the Moench Mall, Stewart Bell Tower Plaza and Tracy Plaza. This event is free. For more information, call 801-626-7850.

SATURDAY AUG. 27

Small Business Center hosts startup seminar

The Weber State Uni-

versity Small Business Development Center will offer a “Start Smart” busi-ness start up seminar from 10 a.m. to noon at the WSU Davis campus in Room 117 (2750 North University Park Blvd. in Layton). This event is free. For more information, call 801-626-7232 or e-mail [email protected].

MONDAY AUG. 29

Alumni Association sponsors its weekly Toastmasters meeting

Weber State Univer-sity’s Alumni Association will sponsor its weekly meeting of Toastmasters International at noon in the Lindquist Alumni

Center. This event is free. For more information, call 801-393-4836.

Community Involve-ment hosts the Adrian Maxson Day of Service

The Weber State Uni-versity Community In-volvement Center will host the second annual Adrian Maxson Day of Service, “Weaving Art into Service,” which will consist of assisting the Ogden Nature Center with trail maintenance, cleaning bird cages, re-pairing areas damaged by high spring runoff and more from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Ogden Nature Center at 966 W. 12th St. in Ogden. This event is free. For more informa-tion, call 801-626-7737.

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I’ve com-mented on the economy in previous col-umns, but, in all honesty, my words, despite their genius,

have no effect on the actual eco-nomic future of the United States. After all, I am just a measly, poor college-student nobody whose opinion means little to nothing in the ‘real world’.

In fact, the next time I’m with friends or family discussing pos-sible solutions to the world's problems, I should just stop the meaningful conversation in which I’m engaged and go watch WWE or play some mindless vid-eo game (neither of which I do . . . ever). What’s the point? The world is going to hell in a hand-basket and there is absolutely nothing any of us can do but hang on and hope to fi nd a smidge of happi-ness and a couple of bucks along the way.

At times I fi nd myself feeling that hope for a bright future is some far and unattainable fanta-sy. How can I pay for school? How will I get a job after graduation? How will my future family survive with an economic outlook like this? All of these problems and ambiguous questions and we can’t do anything to change it! Or can we?

Believe it or not we — all We-ber State University Wildcats — are now involved with the single most important driver of the economic recovery and hope for the future of the United States.

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whether to attend school or not, but is inspired by your success and decides to make the invest-ment. She also gets a top-notch education at WSU and becomes a high-school chemistry teacher, inspiring a future Nobel Lau-reate who discovers a cure for cancer, thus saving millions of future lives, and all can be traced back to your decision to get edu-cated.

Our education is having and will continue to have a serious effect on the economic pres-ent and future of the United States. I have a family member who quit school and said that he isn’t convinced that you have to be educated to make money. I would agree with him to a cer-tain degree — Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates have done pretty well, I suppose. But in order to make a truly prosperous and ro-bust economy, we need men and women who are honest, ambi-tious and, above all, educated. The more educated people we have in the work force will make for a better overall economy and a brighter future.

I reiterate that we are all vital to the economic recovery and future of this great nation, and if we really want to make a dif-ference and contribute to the creation of a hope-fi lled future, we will do all that it takes to walk across the stage at the Dee Events Center with our WSU di-ploma in hand. This, above ev-erything, will make the biggest difference of all.

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Making every day the fi rst day of school The Signpost Viewpoint

The fi rst day of a new semester of college is not the earth-shattering experience it was for us in elementary, junior high and high school.

Remember how, on the fi rst day of a new school year, we’d be up an hour and a half early? Our outfi ts were brand-new and carefully selected for maximum impression-making on our new teachers and any potential best friends or crushes a new class might yield. We ate robust, delicious breakfasts for the fi rst time in months (those of us who could keep food down, anyway) and triple-checked that we had every item we’d never need in their designated backpack pockets.

After eyeballing the mirror one last time to make sure our appearances were impeccable, we still had 20 minutes, which

we spent fi dgeting in the living room, exchanging tense or falsely confi dent words with our parents and/or siblings until we could justify heading out. We’re getting butterfl ies just remembering it.

At the bus stop, we greeted old friends and tried out our new and improved personality strategies (remember the year you vowed to be so perky, talkative and adorable that you’d be massively popular within weeks?) or images (like that year you were Gothic, or a redhead). We took meticulous notes in every class, organized our papers into folders by subject, and whizzed through our negligible bit of homework the moment we got home.

Fast-forward a few months, and we were in the “so what?” stage. We got up 10 minutes

before the bus left, threw on an outfi t from the pile on the fl oor, and left all homework to the morning it was due.

The fi rst day of a college semester does not strike our hearts and stomachs with that same nauseous anticipation that the fi rst days of grades 1-12 did. Perhaps it’s because our whole world for the next nine months is not as dependent on our school life as it was when we were children and teenagers. We have social circles outside of school. We might have time between classes to do homework, take naps or touch up our appearances. We can be done with our classes in time to go home for lunch. Most of our classes are much more geared toward our personal strengths and interests. And, best of all, if we must miss a class, we don’t

have to ask our moms to call the secretary with an excuse.

Undoubtedly, there are perks and privileges to being college students that we didn’t have in our lunchbox days. It’s even easy to slip into the mindset that less is expected of us than it was in those days. Some of us are in the “so what?” stage right out of the starting gate.

However, many of us at Weber State University have already learned the hard way that much, much more is expected of us here. Many classes require a staggering amount of outside work, including nightly journal entries or reading a novel a week — and that’s just if you want to pass with a ‘C’. That’s not taking into account your other classes, extracurricular activities, the 1-3 jobs many of us need to make ends meet, the spouses

and children of a signifi cant percentage of our students, and — almost laughably at this point — the need for some semblance of a social life. When the list of demands gets this overwhelming, students can’t be blamed for losing enthusiasm.

Those of us who have fallen off the wagon in the past do experience some of those fi rst-day jitters, knowing that our determination to succeed is everything. Maybe we should revert to our new-year vigor that made us do our homework two weeks early and come to school bright-eyed and ready to learn. The stakes are higher than they were, and there’s no time like the start of the school year to reignite our passion for school.

Pragmatic Perspective

We don’t always realize it, if ever, but as we suffer through our TBE 1700 class, or as we’re learning and discussing the French Revo-lution in our history class, or as we’re practicing quadratic equa-tions in our math class, we are all contributing to the economic recovery and hope of today and tomorrow.

How are we doing this? We’re getting a fi rst-class education, that's how. Education is the key to both societal and individual economic success and, as WSU students, we are in the driver’s seat of the economic recovery vehicle. A recent Deseret News article written by Geoffrey Fat-tah cited a recent Dan Jones & Associates poll which found that “Utahns with a degree or certifi -cation have an income level 75 percent higher than those who do not, and are also two-and-a-half times more likely to hold salaried positions.” If someone came to me with an investment opportunity that would increase my income by 75 percent, I would say, “Sign me up!” Thank-fully, I did choose to make that investment, as did all of you. And don’t think the dividends stop at a 75 percent pay increase, be-cause the returns are practically limitless.

Say you’re a business man-agement major and, with your quality education from WSU, you decide to start a business. Your business grows and makes you millions, and in the process you’ve created more than 500 jobs. One of your employees is a young lady who has debated

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“Ambassadors are here for the students; that’s our job and we all love to do it.”

—MichelleGarrett,student ambassador

WSU helps newcomers to adjustAmbassadors introduce new students to WSU

By JerricaArchibaldfeatures editor I The Signpost

Back to schoolThe returning nontrad

Between navigating the campus, buying textbooks and registering for classes, being a new student can be a little intimidating. The Weber State University student ambas-sadors are one resource to new students that make all of those things easier to handle.

“Ambassadors are here for the students; that’s our job and we all love to do it,” said student ambas-sador Michelle Garrett. “If anyone has any questions, they can come up and see us in the Student Re-cruitment and Orientation office and we’d be more than happy to help them.”

On Friday, Aug. 19, the student ambassadors held an orientation for new students from out of state and some even out of the coun-try. Along with a new school, these students also have new homes on campus they need to adjust to.

“The tour of campus has been the most helpful part,” said sophomore Aaron Roth, who recently moved from Indiana to attend WSU. “I didn’t really know where any-thing was so it was good to see all of the buildings.”

The students were divided by their majors and then

Some students may have noticed the difference between the younger students who come fresh and eager out of high school and the middle-aged college stu-dents with families who are trying to start a new life.

Often, they come to class early, eager to learn. They ask questions frequently and without shame. They share personal ex-periences with the class often and seem to be friendly with most everyone.

Many people would consider coming back to school a difficult task because they might fit in or because of their other re-sponsibilities, but I would argue that they are the most prepared and receptive of all of us.

People who have come back to school after already being out in the world have the benefit of having seen what it’s like to live without a stable career, whether in their own life or in the lives of their friends and families. They have come back to school for a reason, to gain an education and, ultimately, a job. They’ve developed a renewed appreciation for the impor-tance of education. Because of this, they have a stronger motivation to succeed in their classes. This may be why they often aren’t afraid to ask questions when they need clarification.

These returning students don’t have parents breathing down their neck to at-tend school and maintain a certain GPA. They’re here because they want to be. They’re taking control of their destiny and deciding to live the life they want to live.

These returning students also have a greater scope of life experience to draw from. These experiences help them to make connections between what they already know and what they’re learning, thus increasing their ability to retain the knowledge. This experience also gives them a unique perspective to class discus-sions which enrich their learning experi-ence and the learning experiences of oth-ers.

This greater length of experience would also make it so that they know how their minds work better. They know how their brain absorbs knowledge, what’s impor-

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Preparing for the rushBookstore gets ready for busy buyers

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This semester, Lindsay Argyle is taking on the Master of Science in Nursing pro-gram. This program is only in its second year at Weber State University, so students like Argyle must buy all new books for her courses.

“I have to buy six for this semester,” Ar-gyle said. “As a master’s student, full-time is only nine credits, so six books for three classes. I was the only one in the nursing section buying nursing books, but I had to wait about 10 minutes in line.”

Argyle joined many other students the week before fall semester by purchasing her textbooks from WSU’s campus book-store. Because so many students are mak-ing their last-minute book purchases, the bookstore refers to this week as Rush Week.

“Rush is upon us; we have so many stu-dents coming through at the same time,” said Amber Robson, managing marketer for campus stores. “It only happens twice a year, so it’s kind of like our Christmas sea-son.”

The bookstore must prepare weeks in advance for Rush Week by hiring tempo-rary employees and getting them trained. These employees stay on at the bookstore for about five weeks, with the possibility to stay on longer if they work hard and show quality customer care.

“We want to make sure we’re always staffing those hourlies that are the most helpful and customer-friendly,” Robson said. “Benefits get added on as they go. If they’re with us for one complete semester, then we have a textbook scholarship of-fered the next semester and for as long as they’re working for us.”

Along with added staff, the bookstore also extends hours the first week of the se-mester and is opened on the Saturday be-fore to help accommodate busy or strag-gling students.

Even with the extra help, the bookstore process can be long for some students. Bookstore employees encourage students to be prepared with their class schedule and textbook lists before they make their stop to purchase so the process can be as efficient as possible.

“Generally, customers encounter mul-tiple employees asking them if they need help,” said bookstore employee Nathaniel Versey. “We’re usually really good at getting right to the customers and asking if they need to be helped out. If they have their class schedule we can get them out in 30 seconds to a minute. If they come unpre-pared it usually takes about five minutes. We’re usually pretty quick.”

After rush is over, the bookstore will continue focusing on their 100-year an-niversary commemoration and has many new projects to celebrate. Programs like the rental kiosks, with more than 800 titles and online textbooks price comparison, are new features for students at the book-store.

“We started back in 1911 when we were just a little window basically — cash, no credit,” Robson said. “We had one staff member. We were a very watered-down version of what we are today. Faculty then requested that we grow, and we’ve adapted and continue to adapt.”

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talked to their counselors. After that, they were taken on tours of the campus, shown how to register and told where to go to buy books and parking passes.

“I like giving the campus tours and getting them ex-cited about Weber,” said admissions ambassador Kellie Aldridge. “I had a kid in my group who had never seen mountains before. It’s fun to see them in this whole new world.”

Along with the tours, the students had to move into their dormitories and meet their new roommates as well.

“Today is their orientation, their move-in date, every-thing,” said admissions ambassador Shalese Kapp. “It’s fun to see them get excited, and they leave feeling like it’s a going to be a good year.”

Several orientations are held each year for both fall and spring semesters. Over the summer, the ambassa-

dors hosted nine orientations, including one at the Davis campus. It is estimated that around 300 new students attended each of these, which means the ambassa-dors need to be well organized.

“They take a few months to plan be-cause you have to get everything on cam-pus involved,” Garrett said. “You have to notify all 230 clubs, and plan with Sodexo for the food and the event planners for the ballrooms. We also have our 22 ambassa-dors that we have to get on board.”

Planning and attending orientations aren’t the ambassador’s only tasks, though. Their process of helping new students of-ten begins far in advance at the recruiting

stage. The ambassadors visit local high schools to help promote WSU.

“We see the students in the high schools when they’re first learning about Weber and they come and are ad-


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the Shepherd Union Building are part of a se-ries of projects that have been set up over the last summer, with solar pan-els also being installed for the Swenson Gym swim-ming pool and the Davis campus. WSU’s Climate Action Plan, endorsed by University President Ann Millner, aims to make WSU carbon-neutral by 2050 and was inspired by the projects. According to Bodine, this is only the beginning of WSU’s ener-gy-saving measures.

“The four solar proj-ects we’ve got going this summer are just the start of what will be solar proj-

ects all over campus,” she said.

The latest solar proj-ects cost $220,000 for the Swenson Gym, $220,000 for the Union Building and $133,000 for the Da-vis campus. There will also be 15 solar panels positioned on the roof of the new Wildcat Village housing building. The projects were paid for with grants and energy loans that will be paid back through energy sav-ings made by the solar panels and the American Recovery and Reinvest-ment Act championed by President Obama. Ac-cording to WSU Energy

and Sustainability Man-ager Jacob Cain, who oversaw the solar proj-ects, $525,000 was saved over the last year as a result of WSU’s new com-mitment to renewable energy.

“We’re making a lot of progress,” he said. “And we’re seeing some good impacts and Weber State’s starting to be rec-ognized as a leader in the sustainability and energy efficiency realm in the State of Utah.”


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Students were already us-ing the space Monday and Tuesday as minor tweaks were made to the pavil-ion’s electrical system.

“Right now, it is actu-ally cooler than inside where all the students are,” said WSU senior Kelly Jensen. “So it’s kinda nice to get away and still be nice and cool. It was kinda like hot and really busy and loud. Kinda like when you get out on your porch at home.”

Fruth said that the pa-tio’s furnishings were pur-chased to give it a homey, nonindustrial feel. The four round tables and chairs are wooden.

“It’s something that you would maybe have on your back deck,” Fruth said.

There’s also a fire pit on the southwest corner of the patio and an opening in the ceiling above.

“That would be really cool, like in the winter,” said Kurt Jensen, Kelly Jensen’s twin brother.

The pavilion cost a little more than $200,000 and was funded through a Capital Refurbish and Remodel Fund. Construc-tion on the pavilion was started midsummer and crews intensified their efforts in August to com-plete it in time for the start of fall semester.

“I know that sounds like a lot, but it’s not a pa-tio for a backyard,” Fruth said. “It’s an industrial patio that has to be able to withstand all the same building codes that we have inside the building. We wanted it to be real quality. It’s meant to be there for a long time.”

Many concepts for the pavilion were discussed before Fruth chose archi-tecture intended to com-plement the Union Build-ing.

“We thought we had an attractive entrance and we wanted to enhance that,” Fruth said. “That’s why the architecture is the way it is.”

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tually really stress-re-lieving.”

A writing lab in Eliz-abeth Hall is open for students that might or might not be struggling with writing their pa-pers. A group of experi-enced tutors can proof-read student papers and provide tips for future writing with students on a drop-in basis. Stu-dents can also schedule appointments with tu-tors.

Located in the Stu-dent Services Building, the Career Services Cen-ter provides students with preparation for the future, which in-cludes mock interviews, resume-writing, infor-mation for choosing the correct major, intern-ships available by ma-jor, assistance with on-campus job placement, assistance with job placement after gradua-tion, and access to other career-related material a student could possibly need. Counselors have made themselves acces-sible by appointment for any anxiety-induc-ing questions students might have.

“I really think there is (a student service) for everything you could need while going to school," said WSU am-bassador Ashley Ulrich.

"Just the Student Ser-vices Building is incred-ibly important. Most people just go in to use the Testing Center and don’t even know about all of the things in there to help you through school. Incoming (and current) students should definitely know about all the help that is available, because there is just so much.”

Student Natasha Kooyman said she was surprised after learning about just some of WSU’s attributes.

“The only reason I haven’t really partaken in many student services is because I didn’t know about all of them," she said. "I have been to the writing lab, and I feel it was really helpful. They were also really nice.”

As a sophomore at WSU, Kooyman said she is familiar with the apprehension incom-ing freshmen face while starting college.

“I think incoming stu-dents should be able to be comfortable at school,” she said. “It’s not as bad as it’s made out to be.”


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Soccer split games last week

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Weber State University’s Kierstin Raught goes against a Utah State University defender. WSU lost to USU at Rio Tinto Stadium last Friday with a final score of 1-0. Their first home game is Sunday Sept. 18.

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Weber State University’s Women’s soc-cer team has started their season off on a strong note. They beat Southern Utah University on Tuesday, Aug. 16 with a fi nal score of 5-1. On Friday, WSU took on Utah State University down at Rio Tinto Stadi-um and fell short with a fi nal score of 1-0.

First, the Wildcats traveled down to SUU. WSU out-shot SUU 8-4 in shots on the frame. WSU jumped out to a quick 1-0 lead in only the eighth minute of play when sophomore forward Felicia Sortor scored one off a corner kick.

After another eight minutes, sopho-more Sarah Mager scored another one, nailing the right side’s back upper corner.

Five different players found the back of the net during that game. Besides Mager and Sortor, seniors Victoria Anderson, Ky-lie Johnson and Jessie Baddley scored in the second half to solidify the victory.

WSU then traveled to Rio Tinto Stadi-um to play in its fi rst league game against USU. The Wildcats have lost to the Aggies for the second-straight year. The Wildcats really struggled to keep hold of the ball during the fi rst half and constantly found themselves playing defense.

“We were starting four freshmen, and we struggled in the fi rst half,” said WSU Head Coach Tim Crompton. “The fi rst 20-25 minutes of the second half we played really well. If we did that in the fi rst half, it could have been a different game.”

Goalkeeper Kirsten Anderson said the reason they were playing defense so much is because they were taking too long to pass the ball. She also said that possession will be something the team will work on in practice this week.

“We are going to work on possession,” Anderson said. “We are going to work on passing the ball quickly and passing it without taking too many touches and los-ing the ball. That’s why we were defending the entire game.”

I grew up in a small town. Every fall in this small town, the local high school foot-ball season starts. From a very young age, all kids learn that being at that high school stadium is the only place to be come Fri-day night.

The entire town would practically shut down on Friday night because everyone would be at the fi eld. Everyone in the town who has ever been a fan is still a huge fan of that school. Every person in that town knows the starting line up and which teams will be the biggest competition that year.

We were all taught at a very young age to love and adore that school and their athletics. We have been trained to cheer and be fans for that team and that team only. These days, people will ask me why I care so much about my high school’s foot-ball team now, long after I have graduated. The answer is simple — it’s the way I was raised.

It takes a community to raise a child, and my community has raised me to al-ways love that team and that group of boys.

When I was little, I had countless neigh-bors, good family friends and two older brothers who played football in that royal blue-and-white jersey. I went to every game. I did not start watching them until I was in junior high and could fi gure out what was going on on the fi eld, but I was still there every game.

A lot has changed since the last time Weber State Univer-sity and Brigham Young University met on the field. Gas was less than a dol-lar a gallon, Jimmy Carter was president and the No. 1 song on the radio was The Knack’s “My Sharona.”

Last week, the WSU ath-letic department announced that for only the third time in the two schools’ history and the first time since 1979, WSU and BYU will face off in football next year.

“I was somewhat sur-prised to learn that BYU and Weber State have only met twice in football," said BYU Director of Athletics Tom Holmoe. “Coach McBride is an excellent football coach and has added a lot to the great tradition of college football in the state of Utah. We look forward to renewing this in-state rivalry.”

The two teams have only met on two occasions, and BYU blew the Wildcats out in both games, winning 45-14 in the first meeting on Nov. 17, 1973, and 48-3 in the only other game on Sept. 15, 1979. The Wildcats will hope to fare better next season, but regardless, WSU Direc-

tor of Athletics Jerry Bovee said that he is excited for the game and for the chance to further Weber State athletics.

“We are very excited to have the opportunity to play BYU,” said Bovee. “It’s great for our program to play in-state schools, and having BYU on the schedule will be exciting for our players and our fans. We look forward to developing a rivalry with BYU.”

McBride said that he is excited to play BYU again since McBride was the head coach of BYU’s biggest rival, the University of Utah. While McBride was at U of U, he won several games against the Cougars, and saw the in-state rivalry grow in inten-sity. He said that he is look-ing forward to returning to Provo.

“Lavell Edwards Stadium should be like a home game for me,” he jokingly said.

“I’m sure I’ll have plenty of fans there.”

McBride said that he is look-ing forward to the game and expects a good challenge for next year’s team.

While BYU will be the favorite coming into the game, Bovee said that WSU isn’t go-ing into the game expecting to be the Cougars whip-ping boy. There have been a few Football Bowl Se-ries schools in recent years that have lost games to lower teams. A few years ago, Appa-lachian State Uni-versity knocked off NCAA powerhouse Uni-versity of Michigan.

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With 13 minutes left in the fi rst half, USU senior forward Shantel Flanary head-ed the ball into the upper left post of An-derson’s net. USU out shot WSU 10-1 and WSU out-fouled USU 5-1 in the fi rst half.

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“It’s great for our program to play in-state schools, and having BYU on the schedule will be exciting for our players and our fans.”

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Just last season, BYU lost a game to Moun-tain West cellar dweller, Utah State University.

BYU embarks on its first sea-son as a football independent in 2011 after leav-ing the Moun-tain West Con-ference last year. They have an eight-year exclusive broad-cast agreement with ESPN. The Cougars earned 23 conference titles and ap-peared in 29 bowls as mem-bers of the West-ern Athletic and Mountain West conferences.


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In the second half, the Wildcats were able to shake off their nerves and pick up their game, but it was too little, too late. USU’s defense held strong and the ’Cats were unable to score. The ’Cats also tightened up their defense in the second half. With 36 minutes left in the second half, USU was really pounding the ball at WSU’s net. WSU came through and cleared the ball leav-ing USU with no chances to score. The Aggies still out shot the Wildcats 22-8.

Throughout the entire game, both teams played a very physical game. An-derson said that the team came into the second half with a rejuvenated atti-tude.

“It was a disappointing result,” Anderson said. “We defi nitely came out better in the second half. We were pushing better than we were in the fi rst half. I think the entire team realized that we were down one, nothing, and it was the second half, so we decided to do some-


Because I have known so many of these young teen-age boys who have gone through that football pro-gram, I have seen that once you have been a member of that team, you will always be a member of that team.

There is something magi-cal about being on a small-town football team. There have been a few authors and artists who have touched base on the connection ath-letes get when they are a part of the small-town football club.

Kenny Chesney’s song “The Boys of Fall”, for in-stance, is an example of one of the pieces that has cap-tured the emotions of that

experience. Even though the boys don’t know that’s how they are feeling, that song conveys the message.

One of my favorite books is called Bleachers by John Grisham. It talks about a small town and the favor-ite high school football coach who is passing away and how the town is griev-ing about it. Every athlete who ever played under him comes back to town. They all meet on the bleachers every night to rehash all the mem-ories they had playing under that coach.

I think that book captures the phenomenon known as small-town, Friday night football. I don’t know and

couldn’t go into detail how it feels to be on a team like that. I wish I could, but I can’t. Just having played in the small role I played as a fan and adorer, however, I can only imagine.

This Friday, the local high school in my town has a home game. I can guarantee that I will be there. I will prob-ably be sitting on the 40-yard line under the light, the same place my family and friends have sat for years. I am look-ing forward to watching the team. Going to the game at least gives the town some-thing to talk about.


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thing. It was not the result we wanted, but we did not just give up.”

WSU is about to start a six-game road trip play-ing schools like Utah Val-ley University, Gonzaga University, Washington State University and Uni-versity of Utah. The Wild-cats will return home to the P.E. play field on Sept. 18 to play New Mexico State University.


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Weber State University’s Sarah Mager competes with Utah State University’s Taryn Rose for a ball during a game last week at Rio Tinto Stadium. WSU lost 1-0.


Weber State University’s Kevin Halfhill blocks a kick in a game last year. WSU announced that next year they will play Brigham Young University for only the third time in school history.

WSU has been a mem-ber of the Big Sky con-ference since 1963. The Wildcats compete in the Division I Football Cham-

pionship Subdivision, for-merly known as Division 1-AA. WSU will start this season on Sept. 3 against another Mountain West

Conference school, the University of Wyoming.

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tant to them, and what they struggle with. This would help them to develop study skills that are customized to their personal learning needs and, therefore, can sometimes achieve more success in their classes.

Since these students have not been attending school for their entire lives, I feel that they are not sub-ject to many of the social pressures that come along with being a younger col-lege student. They don’t tend to care about whether or not they’re wearing the latest fashions, where the next big party is going to be, or what everyone else thinks of them. They have seen how little these things matter outside in the real

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It’s also pretty nifty that older students have a retreat in the union build-ing at the Nontraditional Student Center, where they can gather to discuss their studies and drink free coffee.

Returning students generally already have an established household. Unlike their younger coun-terparts, they generally don’t have to worry about such things as fi nding

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On the other hand, this perhaps gives them a great deal more respon-sibility to deal with than some younger students. There is always a trade-off. All in all, though, it seems as though being a returning student has just as many academic ben-efits, if not more, than it does hardships.




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CLEVELAND (AP) — Hours after shock waves from an earthquake quiv-ered Progressive Field's upper deck, Shin-Soo Choo rocked the ballpark by himself.

Choo's three-run hom-er in the ninth inning Tuesday gave the Cleve-land Indians yet another dramatic win, 7-5 over the Seattle Mariners in the first game of a day-night doubleheader that was briefly shaken by the major earthquake on the East Coast.

Choo, who nearly missed the game follow-ing the birth of his daugh-ter, hit the first pitch from Mariners closer Brandon League (1-5) over the wall in left, helping the Indians end a four-game losing streak and avoid falling further behind first-place Detroit in the AL Central

Choo was mobbed at home plate by his team-mates, a fitting welcome for the versatile outfielder who has had a rough sea-son on and off the field.

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"As I rounded the bas-es, a lot of things were going through my mind," said Choo, whose wife gave birth to 7-pound Abigail on Monday. "I thought about my fam-ily, my wife, my newborn daughter. I'm not an emo-tional person, but it was a great feeling."

Chris Perez (3-6) got the win despite giving up a two-run double in the ninth to put the Mariners up 5-4.

If not for Choo's hero-ics — Cleveland's sixth walk-off homer and 15th win in its last at-bat at home this season — the Indians were in danger of dropping below .500 for the first time since April 3 and effectively kissing what has been an unex-pected season of thrills goodbye.

Ezequiel Carrera opened the Indians' ninth with a double, and then made a baserunning blunder that could have been costly. He hesitated going to third on Asdrub-al Cabrera's grounder to the right side, but second baseman Dustin Ackley's throw to third was high

and Carrera was safe.Moments later, Choo

was taking a trip around the bases to savor. He's been slowed by injuries all season and he ac-knowledged a DUI ar-rest affected his play. He missed Monday's game to be with his wife, and as of late Tuesday morning he wasn't sure if he was go-ing to play.

But with his wife's blessing, he arrived at the park 90 minutes before the first pitch. He hit the last one over the wall.

"It's like a movie," the South Korean said. "It's the first walk-off homer of my baseball career and one of the biggest. That's the perfect present, right?"

Shock waves from magnitude-5.9 earth-quake centered in Virginia swayed the upper deck and press box for nearly one minute in the fourth inning.

The Mariners, who have dropped six of sev-en, were batting when the tremors made for some scary moments.

"My first thought was, 'That's weird, I can't move

this seat,'" said Tim Ham-mond, who attended the game with his wife and three kids. "I thought it was the wind. I know the stadium is made to move, but I didn't know what was moving it. I was thinking maybe they blew some-thing up on that movie set. A lot of people got up and were like 'We're out of here.'"

The game was not in-terrupted, and the Indi-ans reported no structural damage to the 43,000-seat ballpark.

Mariners manager Eric Wedge didn't feel the tem-blor, and none of his play-ers noticed any shaking.

"I didn't feel anything, but I'm from California," said Seattle rookie out-fielder Trayvon Robinson.

Cleveland's fading playoff hopes didn't de-velop any more cracks.

The Indians can thank Choo and starter Justin Masterson for that.

Masterson deserved better than a no-decision. He was two outs from be-coming the first Cleveland pitcher to go nine innings this season before Perez came on and gave up Rob-

inson's two-run double. Masterson allowed three runs, 10 hits and protect-ed the Indians' bullpen.

Their chances slipping with every loss and injury, the Indians' day got off to a rough start when it was announced designated hitter Travis Hafner's sea-son could be over.

Hafner may need sea-son-ending surgery on a sprained right foot he originally injured in April. Hafner's tendon gave out Sunday when he was run-ning out an RBI single against Detroit. Trainer Lonnie Soloff said Hafner has been fitted with a pro-tective boot, and the team will a wait a few days be-fore deciding if an opera-tion is necessary.

"He will be out at least 15 days and it could be longer based on the out-come of our medical pro-cess," Soloff said.

The Indians will likely take a cautious approach with Hafner, whose career has been slowed by an as-sortment of injuries.

There still not sure if they'll get Grady Sizemore back. He was scheduled to do agility drills in the out-

field between games and then take batting practice Wednesday. Sizemore has been sidelined since July 18 with a right knee injury.

Down 3-2, the Indians tied it in the sixth on Matt LaPorta's sacrifice fly.

The Mariners, who have been out of contention for weeks, took a 3-2 lead with a two-run fifth. Ichiro Su-zuki hit an RBI single off Masterson to tie it, and scored on Franklin Gutier-rez's RBI double.

Notes: The Indians and Mariners have experience with earthquakes. In 1996, their game at Seattle's Kingdome was suspended after a quake knocked tiles from the ceiling. The game was resumed the following day. ... The Mariners have lost 21 of 25 on the road. ... Cleveland has 30 come-from-behind wins. ... The Mariners will add LHP Anthony Vasquez to their roster between games to make his major league de-but in the night game. ... The Indians are recalling RHP Zach McAllister to start against Vasquez. He was up earlier this season.

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Republican candidates’ odds are rising for re-election and possible presidential election

WASHINGTON (AP) — The odds of getting re-elected have gotten better for Rep. Renee Ellmers and other Republican fresh-men in the House — thanks to GOP calculations in redrawing congressional maps.

The 47-year-old nurse who ousted seven-term Democrat Bob Etheridge by fewer than 1,500 votes last November will be running next year in a newly drawn North Carolina district that’s less swing and more Republican. The outlook is brighter too for Texas Rep. Blake Farenthold, a conservative talk radio host who edged 14-term Democrat Solomon Ortiz by just 797 votes. Far-

enthold will fi nd more Republicans in a Corpus Christi-based district that now stretches north.

Republicans romped last November, gaining 63 House seats to secure the majority, winning 11 governorships, including Ohio and Pennsylvania, and seizing control of the most state legisla-tive seats they've held since 1928. The GOP is capitalizing on its across-the-board control in 26 states — governorship plus leg-islature — in the census-based drawing of a new political map that will be a decisive factor in the 2012 elections and beyond.

“Republican freshmen are fi nding the ground harden be-neath them as their current swing districts become less compet-itive for Democrats,” said Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, chairman of the National Republican Campaign Committee. “Even seem-ingly small changes in district political leanings can mean big returns at the ballot box.”

Nearly half of the states have fi nished redrawing House lines based on population changes, although lawsuits and Justice Department reviews loom. The immediate post-election claims that the GOP could add 15 to 30 seats in the U.S. House through redistricting have proven unfounded, in large part because Re-publicans captured so many seats last November. Instead, the

GOP has used the redistricting process to shore up its most vul-nerable lawmakers, people like Ellmers and Farenthold.

“Redistricting starts with Republicans at a peak,” said Tim Storey, an elections analyst with the nonpartisan National Con-ference of State Legislatures. “They hold a solid majority of seats in the House. It’s hard to gain much more.”

In the last election, Republicans took control of the governor-ships and legislatures in Michigan, Wisconsin and Indiana. That grip on power is refl ected in the latest congressional lines. The GOP improved the political landscape for freshman Rep. Todd Young in southern Indiana, for example. And two of Michigan’s newest members, Dan Benishek in the north and Tim Walberg in the south, got a boost, as did Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, who’s also running for president. Wisconsin’s Paul Ryan and Sean Duffy also are looking at districts with more Republicans.

Republican optimism aside, Democrats are making the most of their opportunities. They’ve drawn favorable district lines in Illinois. And they’re hoping several political realities will help the party pick up the 25 net seats needed to recapture the House. Next year is a presidential election year, with the promise of higher turnout and an electorate with a greater number of Dem-ocratic-leaning younger voters and Hispanics. President Barack Obama will head the party ticket against a still to-be-determined Republican, who could either win over independents or send them running toward the Democrats.

Candidate recruitment and fi nancial resources also will be factors in 2012. In Illinois, Democrats ensured that the new po-litical map makes life extremely tough for half of the state’s 11 House Republicans. The Democrats focused on competitive dis-tricts close to Democratic strongholds, carving up huge swaths of GOP territory and creating some diffi cult matchups for GOP incumbents. Freshman Republican Robert Dold is suddenly in a race against seven-term Democrat Jan Schakowky. Freshman Republican Adam Kinzinger's hometown of Manteno is now in nine-term Democrat Jesse Jackson Jr.’s district. Two Republican freshmen, Joe Walsh and Randy Hultgren, are now in the same district.

Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y., who heads the Democratic Congres-sional Campaign Committee, calls Illinois the party’s “center of gravity” in the campaign to take back the House.

“Cook County still rules,” observed Thom Serafi n, a political communications analyst in Illinois. “Everything around them may be getting redder.”

In California, Democrats have the potential to gain 3 or 4 seats based on the map drawn by the 14-member Citizens Re-districting Commission, an independent panel that paid more attention to geography and ethnicity than incumbency. Long-time Republicans Gary Miller and Ed Royce face uncertain fu-tures as does David Dreier.

The Democratic outlook is the mirror opposite in North Car-olina, where Republicans took control of the legislature last year — the fi rst time since 1870. The new GOP-driven map makes the districts of conservative to moderate Democrats Heath Shuler, Larry Kissell, Mike McIntyre and Brad Miller more Republican. Miller loses the urban sections of Wake County while Shuler los-es a good chunk of the city of Asheville.

And even though Democrat Bev Perdue is governor, she has little say in redistricting. The political parties in North Carolina agreed years ago that the governor couldn't approve or reject the map.

Not surprisingly, Robin Hayes, chairman of the North Caro-lina Republican Party, was gleeful as he looked ahead to 2012 and the prospect of the GOP reversing the Democrats’ 7-6 edge in House seats. Not only does the party have the new map, but Hayes argued that the economic policies of Obama and Perdue's support for the president will help boost the GOP.

“It’s a buffet line of reasons to vote Republican,” Hayes said.Miller and Kissell, however, bucked the Republican wave in

2010, a remarkable feat considering how many conservative Southern Democrats were knocked out. Favorable factors for the Democrats include Obama’s plentiful resources, aimed at again winning a state he captured in 2008, and the choice of Charlotte for the Democratic National Convention next summer.

Paul Shumaker, a Republican political consultant, said noth-ing’s certain: “North Carolina is a swing state.”

Several states still must fi nish their maps — Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania and Florida, the latter expected to be completed next year. Florida voters last year backed an ini-tiative that requires redistricting that favors geography and compact districts over incumbency, which could improve Democrats’ chances. Florida Republicans currently hold 19 House seats, Democrats six.

In this Nov. 8, 2006 fi le photo, then-Rep. Robin Hayes, R-N.C. speaks in Concord, N.C.


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students at Weber State, and we know that they go through diffi cult and chal-lenging times, and this is one way that we can show that the Weber State com-munity cares about each and every individual stu-

dent,” Millner said. “What’s really wonderful is to see everybody here and partici-pating and having fun with this, as well as raising mon-ey for a very good cause.”

Clayton stayed at his mother-in-law’s house with his family for a few days af-ter his Herriman home was

burned. His family is cur-rently renting a home near Ben Lomond High School, but he said he feels like he’s taking steps to becoming a homeowner again.

Earlier Tuesday, Ser-vice Vice President Dal-las Saxton led an effort to make kits for low-income

students at Odyssey Ele-mentary School in Ogden. They fi lled about 50 draw-string backpacks with notebooks, pens, crayons and other school supplies.

“I feel it’s important to show these kids that their education is valued and that it is cared about, be-cause they don’t get that a lot,” Saxton said. “It shows that the kids’ education is valued by others in the community.”

It also helps them be-lieve in themselves, Sax-ton said.

“(It shows them) they are somebody and they can achieve anything they want if they put their minds to it,” Saxton said. “I think if we go out lend them a hand by supply-ing them these things that they can see how much we care about them. They’ll also maybe see a little bit of how important higher education is.”


Above: Dewey Clayton and President Ann Millner speak after Millner was dunked to support a fundraiser effort in behalf of Dewey and his family. Dewey, a student-athlete at WSU a decade ago, lost his home to a fi re a month ago. Below: Students play volleyball after making kits for low-income children at Odyssey elementary school in Ogden.



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