Joining the nation-wide effort to support Breast Cancer Awareness month and raise awareness among USU students, the Student Health and Wellness Center hosted a booth on the TSC patio Wednesday and Thursday. The objective of the Health and Wellness Center during this event was to provide infor-mation, answer questions and caution people of breast cancer risk factors. Karinne Van Wagoner, intern at the Student Wellness Center and a coordinator of the event said, “In 2002-2006 women ages 20-24 had the lowest incident rate of 1.4 cases for 100,000 women. Even though this number is really low, it still shows that younger women are at risk too. The most important thing a student can do is be aware of their bodies and realize breast cancer can happen to anyone, no matter their age, race or gender.” Pink ribbons, commonly seen in retail stores to support breast cancer, and each ribbon represents the lives that have been touched, destroyed and saved through the con-sequences breast cancer. According to www.breastcancer.org, “breast cancer occurs as a result of mutations, or abnormal changes, in the genes responsible for regulating the growth of cells and keep-ing them healthy. Normally, the cells in our bodies replace themselves through an orderly process of cell growth: healthy new cells take

over as old ones die out.” Once the cell has been mutated it can keep producing identical cells without any order, creating a tumor, the site states. Once a tumor has formed, it is common for it to spread to

nearby tissue and even infect the under arm lymph nodes, which can be a portal for the infection to the rest of the body, spreading the harmful disease even further. In 2010, 207,090 new cases of invasive

breast cancer were diagnosed in the U.S. which resulted 39,840 deaths, according to cancer.org. It is this type of cancer that is most common among women in the U.S., other than skin cancer, and is the second leading cause of death behind lung cancer. There are a combination of factors that cause and increase the risk of breast cancer. Lacy Fellows, a registered nurse for the radia-tion therapy department at Logan Regional Hospital, said heredity is one contributor to the risk of developing breast cancer. Other fac-tors include obesity, lack of exercise, intake of hormones for menopausal women and age. A pamphlet provided by the American Cancer Society states that “all women can get breast cancer – even those who have no family history of the disease.” “There is no sure way to prevent it,” Van Wagoner said, “however, there are four main things that can help lower the risk.” These four things include maintaining a healthy weight, avoiding hormone replace-ment as you get older, limiting alcohol con-sumption, and keeping a physically active lifestyle. “The older you are, the more exercise helps” Fellows said. Along with maintaining a healthy lifestyle, it is widely suggested by doctors and cancer specialists to do monthly self-exams as well as get a yearly mammogram and a Clinical Breast Exam (CBE).

The new USTAR Bioinnovations 650 Building was unveiled Oct. 7, complete with a ribbon-cut-ting ceremony. Utah Gov. Gary Herbert was among the notables that attended the event, and provided opening remarks. The facility should begin to be occupied in December.Part of the reason for the building’s name comes from its location, at 650 E. Grand Ave. in North Logan. Additionally, the facility will triple the size of UTSTAR’s current main research facility, located just down the street at 620 E. Grand Ave. “The research being conducted in this build-ing will change our lives,” said Raymond Coward, executive vice president and provost of USU. The purpose of the 110,000 square-foot facility is to provide research among all USU sciences and industry researchers, and other institutions at the university. Additionally, the occupations in the facility and the research itself will continue to cre-ate 100 new jobs, besides recruiting top-level scien-tists in their field to the state, Coward said. Gov. Herbert said the new facility not only improves the status of Utah State University, but also contributes to helping achieve three main goals currently being pursued on behalf of the state of Utah.That first goal, Herbert said, is economic growth. “With 2.3 trillion dollars on the side right now, there’s a lot of opportunities to research,” he said. Herbert said the new facility encourages such spending, and for a good cause of development of technology that will improve the everyday lives of people.The second goal of education is achieved, as Herbert said, “because students will have greater opportunity to work side-by-side with researchers,” many of whom will be on-campus professors, already teaching within the majority of both the undergraduates and graduate students, who will have the opportunity to work at Bioinnovations 650. The third goal is accomplished because much of the research is devoted to developing natural resources. Herbert described one of the already-in-place projects as a miracle, saying that conversion of algae to energy is just as remarkable as conversion of water to wine, and is part of a greater miracle that is impacting the outlook of the entire state, not to mention the increasing prestige that is building around the school. “There’s a lot of great things in the state right now that

relate to and surround Utah State University,” Herbert said. All of the speakers concerning the event were extreme-ly optimistic about its potential to generate employment and provide new innovational technologies, mainly within science, that can be applied to the world outside the laboratory.Scott Anderson, USTAR governing authority member and CEO of Zions Bank, was among these speakers. Anderson said the construction of Bioinnovations 650 will help to continue a major goal that was set when the university was established in 1888. “This university was founded with the idea that it would take its discoveries from the campus to the peo-

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Middle East club discusses Islam

The Middle East club met Tuesday to try to dispel some of the many misunderstandings associated with Islam. “There are a lot of misunderstand-ings,” said the club’s president, Allia Abu-Ramaileh. “Our goal is to gain a better understanding of Middle Eastern politics, religions and cul-ture.” Abu-Ramaileh is an American Muslim. Her father is from Palestine and her mother is from Utah. She said she got involved in with the club after it was founded last year by stu-dents in political science. She said she saw it as an opportunity to help oth-ers bridge the gap between American and Middle Eastern culture, a gap she was raised in. The club welcomes those with or without a background in either culture. “If we have a mixture of those who grew up in the Middle East and those who are interested in it, that’s the best combination to learn from each other,” she said. “We try to get a good representation of everyone.” After a brief introduction explain-ing how clear Islam can be to those who look into it, Tuesday’s discussion kicked off with an introduction to the five pillars of Islam, and moved to an hour-long question and answer session covering topics ranging from the religion’s history to scientific evi-dences found in the Quran. Questions were so numerous that the discussion eventually had to be cut short due to time constraints. The panel fielding the questions consisted of a student couple from Kuwait, a convert to Islam who was raised in Utah, and USU’s Arabic professor. Past discus-sion topics have included the role of women in Islam and Muslims in the media. In addition to discussions, Abu-

Ramaileh said the club regularly plans other activities including fash-ion shows, barbecues, and dances in order to spread awareness and deep-en understanding of Middle Eastern culture. “It was a really good start (to the year),” said Arabic professor Abdulkafi Albirini. “There were about 40 people, so there is some interest.” Bradford Hall, head of the lan-guages, philosophy and speech com-munication department, said he has noticed a shift in student interests towards the Middle East. “We just added Arabic this year,” he said, “and we would certainly hope for expansion.” He said Arabic is especially important because it is labeled as a “strategic” language by the defense department. Hall said while other “strategic” languages such as Russian are tight in enroll-ment and funding, Arabic is looking to expand. Professor Albirini explains that there are currently two sections of Arabic 1010. “I teach 65 students,” he says. “There were actually 22 students who were on a waiting list and couldn’t get into the class. We could have eas-ily offered another section if we could afford it.” He said students in the club and class are “respectful, enthusiastic and receptive,” qualities necessary for the Middle Eastern programs to thrive. “I could use all of the positive adjectives,” he said. “For us to grow and f lourish, support from the community and student body is important,” he said. “It’s an important language and cul-ture for the United States because it occupies a huge area.” The Middle East club meets every Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Old Main 121.

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Firearms and explosives train-ing at a Utah military base have ignited dozens of wildfires in the past three decades, including one that swept into neighborhoods and drove residents from more than 1,600 homes, according to a review of documents requested by The Associated Press. Camp Williams officials readily acknowledge the dangers that come from training with live rounds in tinder dry hills on the edge of a metropolis, but insist they can manage the risks and have no plans to move from the Utah Army National Guard base 26 miles from downtown Salt Lake City.

Four tornadoes tear across Northern Ariz. BELLEMONT, Ariz. (AP) – A rare swarm of tornadoes shoved semis off highways and destroyed homes in the pre-dawn dark-ness Wednesday, leaving startled residents wondering if they were in Arizona anymore or had woken up in the twister-prone Midwest. After one tornado rumbled through Bellemont around 5:30 a.m. with wind speeds of up to 110 miles per hour, residents armed with flashlights emerged from their homes to check on the dam-age – a house splintered, windows smashed, garage doors twisted, but no major injuries.

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10. Accidentally said something positive about a Democrat.9. News ticker reads, “Bosses crazy, send help.”8. Today’s top story: Is there any-thing more delicious than bacon?7. Been criticizing Obama for not doing enough to prevent World War I.6. Bill O’Reilly inviting guests to enter the “No Pants Zone.”5. Crime stories eerily similar to plot of most recent “Hawaii Five-O.”4. Spent five hours today breaking down the Mets playoff chances.3. Thinking about hiring Rick Sanchez.2. Since June, Glenn Beck has been barking nonstop.1. They’re thinking of giving the 10 p.m. slot to Leno.

WASHINGTON (AP) – Heavy U.S. reliance on private security in Afghanistan has helped to line the pockets of the Taliban because contractors often don’t vet local recruits and wind up hiring warlords and thugs, Senate investigators said Thursday. The finding, in a report by the Senate Armed Services Committee, follows a separate congressional inquiry in June that concluded trucking contractors pay tens of millions of dollars a year to local war-lords for convoy protection. Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate panel, said he is worried the U.S. is unknowingly fostering the growth of Taliban-linked militias at a time when Kabul is struggling to recruit its own soldiers and police officers. “Almost all are Afghans. Almost all are armed,” Levin, a Michigan Democrat, said of the army of young men working under U.S. contracts. “We need to shut off the spigot of U.S. dollars f lowing into the pockets of warlords and power bro-kers who act contrary to our interests and contribute to the corruption that weakens the support of the Afghan people for their government,” he added. The Defense Department doesn’t necessarily disagree but warns that firing the estimated 26,000 private security personnel operating in Afghanistan

in the near future isn’t practical. This summer, U.S. forces in Afghanistan pledged to increase their oversight of security contractors and set up two task forces to look into allegations of misconduct and to track the money spent, particu-larly among lower-level subcontractors. The Defense Contract Management Agency has increased the number of auditors and support staff in the region by some 300 percent since 2007. And in September, Gen. David Petraeus, the top war com-mander in Afghanistan, directed his staff to consid-er the impact that contract spending has on military operations. But military officials and Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee warn that ending the practice of hiring local guards could worsen the security situation in Afghanistan. They say providing young Afghan men with employment can prevent them from joining the ranks of Taliban fighters. Bringing in foreign work-ers to do jobs Afghans can do is likely foster resent-ment. Also, contract security forces fill an immediate need at a time when U.S. forces are focused on opera-tions, commanders say. “As the security environment in Afghanistan

improves, our need for (private security contractors) will diminish,” Petraeus told the Senate panel in July. “But in the meantime, we will use legal, licensed and controlled (companies) to accomplish appropriate missions.” Levin says he isn’t suggesting that the U.S. stop using private security contractors altogether. But, he adds, the U.S. must reduce the number of local secu-rity guards and improve the vetting process of new hires if there’s any hope of reversing a trend that he says damages the U.S. mission in Afghanistan. His report represents the broadest look at Defense Department security contracts so far, with a review of 125 of these agreements between 2007 and 2009. The review concludes there were “systemic fail-ures” in the management of the contracts, including “widespread” failures “to adequately vet, train and supervise armed security personnel.” The panel’s report highlights two cases in which security contracting firms ArmorGroup and EOD Technology relied on personnel linked to the Taliban. Last week, EOD Technology was one of eight secu-rity firms hired by the State Department under a $10 billion contract to provide protection for diplomats.

Senate slams Afghan security contractors

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) – A Southern Baptist leader who is calling for Christians to avoid yoga and its spiri-tual attachments is getting plenty of pushback from enthusiasts who defend the ancient practice. Southern Baptist Seminary President Albert Mohler says the stretching and meditative discipline derived from Eastern religions is not a Christian pathway to God. Mohler said he objects to “the idea that the body is a vehicle for reaching consciousness with the divine.” “That’s just not Christianity,”

Mohler told The Associated Press. Mohler said feedback has come through e-mail and comments on blogs and other websites since he wrote an essay to address questions about yoga he has heard for years. “I’m really surprised by the depth of the commitment to yoga found on the part of many who identify as Christians,” Mohler said. Yoga fans say their numbers have been growing in the U.S. A 2008 study by the Yoga Journal put the number at 15.8 million, or nearly 7 percent of adults. About 6.7 percent of American

adults are Southern Baptists, according to a 2007 survey by the Pew Research Center Forum on Religion & Public Life. Mohler argued in his online essay last month that Christians who practice yoga “must either deny the reality of what yoga represents or fail to see the contradictions between their Christian commitments and their embrace of yoga.” He said his view is “not an eccentric Christian position.” Other Christian leaders have said practicing yoga is incompatible with the teachings of Jesus. Pat Robertson has called the chanting and other spiritual components that go along with yoga “really spooky.” California megachurch pastor John MacArthur called yoga a “false reli-gion.” Muslim clerics have banned Muslims from practicing yoga in Egypt, Malaysia and Indonesia, citing similar concerns. Yoga proponents say the wide-ranging discipline, which originated in India, offers physical and mental healing through stretching poses and concentration. “Lots of people come to yoga because they are often in chronic pain. Others come because they think it’s a nice workout,” said Allison Terracio, who runs the Infinite Bliss studio in Louisville. And some yoga studios have made the techniques more palatable for

Christians by removing the chanting and associations to eastern religions, namely Hinduism and its multiple dei-ties. Stephanie Dillon, who has injected Christian themes into her studio in Louisville, said yoga brought her closer to her Christian faith, which had faded after college and service in the Army. “What I found is that it opened my spirit, it renewed my spirituality,” Dillon said. “That happened first and then I went back to church.” Dillon attends Southeast Christian Church in Louisville and says many evangelical Christians from the church attend her yoga classes. She said she prayed on the question of whether to mix yoga and Christianity before opening her studio, PM Yoga, where she discusses her relationship with Jesus during classes. “My objection (to Mohler’s view) personally is that I feel that yoga enhances a person’s spirituality,” Dillon said. “I don’t like to look at religion from a law standpoint but a relation-ship standpoint, a relationship with Jesus Christ specifically.” Mohler wrote the essay after read-ing “The Subtle Body,” where author Stefanie Syman traces the history of yoga in America. Syman noted the growing popularity of yoga in the U.S. by pointing out that first lady Michelle Obama has added it to the festivities at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on the front lawn.

Southern Baptist leader: yoga not Christian

STEPHANIE DILLON conducts a yoga class in Louisville, Ky. on Sept. 24. Dillon’s practice of yoga puts her at odds with Southern Baptist Seminary President Albert Mohler, who feels the stretching and meditative discipline derived from Eastern reli-gions is not a Christian pathway to God. AP photo

KOLONTAR, Hungary (AP) – Red sludge f lowed into the Danube River on Thursday, threatening a half-dozen nations along one of Europe’s key water-ways. Monitors took samples every few hour to measure damage from the toxic spill and emergency officials declared one Hungarian tributary dead. As cleanup crews gathered deer carcasses and other wildlife from the villages in southwestern Hungary f looded by the industrial waste, environ-mental groups warned of long-term damage to the farming region’s topsoil. Conflicting information swirled about the dan-gers posed by the ankle-deep muck coating the most seriously hit areas after the collapse of a waste-stor-age reservoir at a nearby alumina plant Monday. The Hungarian Academy of Sciences maintained that while the material was a continued hazard, its heavy metal concentrations were not considered dangerous to the environment. “The academy can say whatever it wants,” fumed Barbara Szalai Szita, who lives in Devecser, one of the hardest-hit villages. “All I know is that if I spend 30 minutes outside I get a foul taste in my mouth and my tongue feels strange.” Hungary’s environment minister, Zoltan Illes, said the henna-colored sludge covering a 16-square-mile swathe of countryside does have “a high content of heavy metals,” some of which can cause cancer. He warned of possible environmental hazards, particu-larly if it were to enter the groundwater system. With rain giving way to dry, warmer weather over the past two days, the caustic mud is increasingly turning to airborne dust, which can cause respira-tory problems, Illes added. “If that would dry out then ... wind can blow ... that heavy metal contamination through the respira-tory system,” he said. Amid the conflicting reports, officials had one piece of encouraging news: The mighty Danube was apparently absorbing the slurry with little immedi-ate harm beyond sporadic sightings of dead fish.

The red sludge, a waste product of aluminum pro-duction, reached the western branch of the Danube early Thursday and was f lowing into its broad main stretch by noon. By evening, it was moving south-ward toward Serbia and Romania. At monitoring stations in Croatia, Serbia and Romania, officials were taking river samples every few hours, though experts hoped the river’s huge water volume would blunt the impact of the spill. Hungarian rescue agency spokesman Tibor Dobson said the pH content of the sludge entering the Danube had been reduced to the point where it was unlikely to cause further environmental dam-age. The waste, which had tested at a highly alkaline pH level of 13 soon after the spill – similar to lye or bleach – was under 10 by Thursday. A neutral pH level for water is 7, with normal readings ranging from 6.5 to 8.5. Each pH number is 10 times the previous level, so a pH of 13 is 1,000 times more alkaline than a pH of 10. The tributaries feeding the Danube from the area around the spill were not so fortunate. The Marcal River, stained ochre and devoid of fish and other aquatic life, was declared a dead zone. “Life in the Marcal River has been extinguished,” Dobson said of the waterway, which is fed by streams around the accident site and carried the waste into the Raba River, which then f lows into the Danube. He said emergency crews were pouring plaster and acetic acid – vinegar – into the area where the Raba and Danube meet to lower the sludge’s pH value. “The main effort is now being concentrated on the Raba and the Danube,” he said. “That’s what has to be saved.” An AP television crew watching cleanup efforts at the confluence of the Raba and the Danube said neither river showed visible signs of pollution. An environmental group that monitors threats to the Danube said the breached reservoir was on

a 2006 watch list of some 100 industrial sites that were at risk for accidents that could contaminate the 1,775-mile-long river. The International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River coordinates conservation efforts in the nations bordering the waterway and its tributaries. Prime Minister Viktor Orban, visiting the village of Kolontar, where homes and fields were coated with sludge, described the reservoir break as a disas-ter unprecedented in Hungary.

Toxic red sludge reaches the Danube River

A FISHERMAN PULLS a net on the Danube River near the city of Bezdan, Serbia, Oct. 7. The toxic red sludge that inundated three Hungarian villages reached Europe’s mighty Danube River on Thursday. AP photo

The Oct. 6 Statesman article on concealed weapons on campus did not include comment from the college Democrats. Anna Harris, the group’s president, sent the following statement to The Utah Statesman:

I feel that the second amendment, like all rights guaranteed within the Constitution, is important and was envisioned originally as a vital part of American society, but like with all rights should be exercised with a level of tact. Hopefully the individuals that choose to carry on this campus fully understand their respon-sibilities and this class will help them do that.

TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) – If Tijuana is safe enough for Al Gore, Nobel laureates in chemis-try and economics and co-found-ers of Twitter and Wikipedia – not to mention a 100,000 danc-ing residents – shouldn’t it be safe for anyone? City leaders, with the help of President Felipe Calderon, made that point Thursday as Tijuana kicked off a two-week festival to showcase the city’s economic prowess and cultural riches. The “Innovative Tijuana” festi-val at the gleaming cultural cen-ter is a $5 million victory party.

Tijuana makes strides amidst the drug war

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A national initiative to simplify the grant applica-tion process and encourage students to apply is in pro-cess, said U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. “We want to help students not just go to college, but graduate,” Duncan said. “Because of investments the president has made in the PELL Grant office, the average grant has gone up by $1,000.” President of the College Board Gaston Paperton said 56 percent of college students graduate in six years, and 27 percent of those students do so in a com-munity college. He said he is sure this is because of students’ inability to pay their tuition. This school year, almost half of USU’s population relies on some form of financial aid to pay for college, said Steve Sharp, USU’s director of Financial Aid. It is President Obama’s goal for the U.S. to again be No. 1 in the world for percentage of college graduates, Duncan said. Currently, the U.S. is ranked No. 9 glob-ally in percentage of the population who are college graduates. Duncan said college graduation will be more easily achieved when more students know how to dip into the $70 billion of financial aid the government allots each year. “Historically, we haven’t been creative enough in making college affordable and accessible,” Paperton said. Duncan and Paperton are teaming up with MTV to create collaboration amongst students, encouraging them to help solve these problems. The Get Schooled College Affordability Challenge is one way govern-ment officials plan to create excitement amongst col-lege students to join in the effort to improve students’ financial barriers, said Jason Rzepka, vice president of MTV Public Affairs. “We need to be realistic in that there is not any one silver bullet,” Rzepka said. “What we are trying to do here is get some momentum going.” The challenge asks college students to think out-side of the box and find interesting “digital tools” that will ease confusion in the financial aid process. The winning proposal will be awarded $10,000. Though the initiators of the challenge are opti-mistic, Sharp said he is skeptical that this new pro-gram will solve financial aid complexities. He said many programs similar to the College Affordability Challenge have been attempted without any profound results. “The Department of Education has continually asked for suggestions of how to make financial aid more accessible,” Sharp said, “But it’s a congressionally mandated thing, so the department is hampered. They don’t have the power to pass anything.” Paperton said he is pleased that this challenge is creating some tension by making students face the financial issues they must face. He said it will make them think critically about how they can improve their own situation, and they will be motivated to do so with the $10,000 prize. Sharp said in his experience, simplifying the finan-cial aid process for students creates more rules and

regulations for Financial Aid to abide by. Some aspects of this process have been simplified recently, he said. Rather than fill out an entire form, students can check a box allowing Financial Aid to gain access to their IRS paperwork. Also, loans and grants now come straight from federal funding and are not accessed at all through banks. Sharp said one of the biggest things that creates confusion in accessing loans and grants comes with deciding who deserves the money. “Welfare is a very unpopular program and people believe only the deserving poor should receive assis-tance,” Sharp said. “Who are the deserving poor, though? Figuring this out is where everything gets complex.” At this point, Sharp said all he and the rest of the Financial Aid staff can do is act as intermediaries in the complexity because all changes made by the government don’t take action for years. The option to change a FAFSA form’s status from single to married in the same year was only recently approved after 10 years of debate. “Our job is to make the student’s experience

acquiring financial aid as simple as legally possible,” Sharp said. Though Secretary Duncan said he realizes the road to a simpler financial aid system is hopeful, he also said it will be full of hurdles. “The honest answer is there isn’t an easy answer on this,” Duncan said. “We are seeing horrendous cuts all over the country. We need to challenge states to invest every little dollar we put into them.” With ideas from students who are aware of finan-cial aid stresses, Rzepka is hopeful that interesting and effective ideas will be produced through MTV’s chal-lenge. Rzepka said: “One thing I’ve seen here at MTV in our efforts with education is a paralysis, and I think with this challenge in particular we will come up with a tool that will help students understand their options.”

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USU’s Academic Resource Center offers a series of weekly workshops on perfectionism and procrastination, test anxiety and math anxiety. The workshops are offered Oct. 6-Dec. 8, every Wednesday from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in the Taggart Student Center Room 335. Workshops are offered on a rotating schedule, featuring a dif-ferent topic each week. Students, staff and faculty are welcome to attend any or all workshops. Registration is not required simply attend the workshop(s) of interest. For questions or additional information, contact the Academic Resource Center, (435) 797-1128, e-mail Jesse Crosby at jesse.crosby@usu.edu, or refer to the ARC web-site.

“Aggie Blue Sky

Night” opening All are invited to the inaugu-ral public opening of the USU Observatory Friday, Oct. 8. The observatory sits atop USU’s Science Engineering Research ‘SER’ Building. Physics faculty member James Coburn, USUO coordinator, dis-cusses the university’s new 20-inch telescope. All are invited to “Aggie Blue Sky Night,” the inaugural pub-lic opening of the Utah State University Observatory Friday, Oct. 8, on campus. The free gath-ering begins at 7:30 p.m. with a brief dedication ceremony in the Engineering Building, Room 103. Following the ceremony, guests will have the opportunity, in small groups, to visit the roof of the Science Engineering Research building, upon which the observa-tory is located. Weather permit-ting, guests will view crisp, clear images of Jupiter and the Galilean moons through USUO’s new 20-inch PlaneWave Instruments tele-scope. For more information, contact the Department of Physics, 435-797-2857.

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MTV to help ease grant process

ALMOST HALF OF USU STUDENTS rely on some form of financial aid to pay for college – MTV is helping students find ways to more easily achieve help. CATHERINE MEIDELL photo illustration

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With enrollment of about 2,100 students during Summer semesters, USU has decided to take action and hopes to double this number in the next five years. Now feeling some pressure from the Legislature, a Summer Enrollment Committee was assem-bled to identify key issues and bar-riers preventing full utilization of facilities and resources. Heading this committee is Vice President of Student Services James Morales. According to a presentation given by Morales, the Logan cam-pus has experienced a 45 percent decline in undergraduate students enrolling for summer semesters since 1999. The committee has identified factors contributing to the decline as increased pressure to work, issues with incentives for faculty, the proliferation of online courses, and a lack of clarity about scheduling as well as not meeting students needs. The committee has been at work compiling a report of recom-mendations and presenting them to various organizations across the campus including ASUSU and University President Stan Albrecht. “So far the response has been really positive,” Morales said. “We realize this is just the framework for discussion and ideas and not the final product.” The first recommendation made

includes better scheduling. Instead of three sets of four week sessions and one eight week session that overlap, sessions will be realigned into two parts. Immediately fol-lowing Spring commencement will be a four-week workshop session followed by a seven-week main ses-sion that will end early enough to give students a month break before Fall semester begins. The schedul-ing will all include the same stan-dardized bell times and the seven-week session will include no Friday classes. Recognizing the need for stu-dents to work, the committee recommended offering student employment opportunities and internships to students as part of summer enrollment. Tuition incen-tives may be offered, such as dis-counts to accompany current offers being made. One incentive already being given is all students only have to pay in-state resident tuition for summer semester regardless where they are from. A large factor keeping students from campus is online classes. Originally implemented to keep students on track to graduate, for prerequisites, and classes not avail-able, online classes have gained popularity for their f lexibility and convenience. While they may keep students off campus, their fees sometimes work in favor of the uni-versity.

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Part of the Wellness Center’s Breast Cancer Awareness movement this month is the slogan “The best kind of protection is early detection.” “If you catch it early,” Van Wagoner said, “it is that much bet-ter.” “You have to be really proactive” Fellows said, “because the doctor doesn’t feel your breasts every day so it is up to you to take care of it your-self.” Michele Plogh, a USU student and employee, caught a small lump in her breast early thanks to a mammo-gram. “It was so small,” she said. “I wouldn’t have felt it myself.” Plough was diagnosed with tubu-lar carcinoma, a rare form of breast cancer diagnosed to only 2 percent of all women with breast cancer. In order to remove the cancer from Plogh, a lumpectomy was required. In a lumpectomy, the tumor as well as the tissue surrounding it is removed. Plogh’s infection had not spread to the lymph nodes, and with one surgery, she was clear of cancer. Chemotherapy and radiation were not required in the recovery process. Having a family history of breast cancer, Plogh said she was lucky to have such a short period of cancer. However, though her experience was brief, she said it still affects who she is today. “I had a lot of emotions,” she said. “You just kind of wonder what I could have done. I would recommend that all women and even some men, because it can affect them too, give themselves self-exams and make sure that women get their regular mam-mograms.” In an effort to support those women with breast cancer, Smith’s

Food and Drug store participates in a national sales effort across the coun-try during October. In Utah alone, Smith’s raises $20,000 to donate to Race for the Cure and $10,000 to the American Cancer Society. Marsha Gilford, vice president of Public Affairs and spokesperson for Smith’s, said: “All of our stores par-ticipate in a sales promotion called Giving Hope a Hand. We ask many of our vendors to participate in this event and throughout our stores we have about 1,800 ‘pink’ items. Fifty-seven of those items each feature what we call a sharing-courage story.” On the back of these “pink” items is a story of a cancer survivor from somewhere in the country, said Gilford. “Breast cancer is a very pervasive disease and we’re hoping by drawing awareness that we can create healthier women. With every sharing courage story that is shared, these women have admonished other women to do monthly self-exams and annual mammograms. We’re all very busy as women but we need to do that for our health.” Through this event, the vendors of Smith’s contribute money towards those “pink” items, totalling around $3 million nationally, which is then donated to the breast cancer aware-ness program. “Supporting the good health of women is one of our very top priorities,” Gilford said, “and now that breast cancer now touches one in eight women, it tends to impact the entire family.”

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The jazz bands from Utah State University’s Caine College of the Arts and the Department of Music kick off their 2010-2011 concert season with a Big Band Jazz Concert Wednesday, Oct. 13, 7:30 p.m., at the USU Performance Hall. The jazz bands include the USU Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Todd Fallis, and Jazz Orchestra, under the direction of Jon Gudmundson. A guest singer and small combo groups will also perform. Tickets are $8 for general admis-sion and free for USU students with presentation of ID. Tickets are available at the Caine College of the Arts Ticket Office, Chase Fine Arts Center, Room 139-B, or online (arts.usu.edu<http://arts.usu.edu>). Tickets are also available at the door performance night. The Jazz Ensemble also per-forms contemporary music, includ-ing Chick Corea’s “Electric City” from his 1980s Electric Band. The concert features guitar solo work by Clovis Ward and Greg Newbold. “It is an exciting year for USU Jazz,” said Gudmundson, who also is director of jazz studies at USU. “We are offering our usual series of concerts in October and December and will have our Jazz at the Sky Club dinner and dance fund raiser in February. Our slate of guest art-ists for our April concert includes the great saxophonist Dave Pietro and two guest artists from Italy, bandleader Marco Renzi and clari-netist Bepi D’Amato.” For more information about upcoming music events at the Caine College of the Arts, visit arts.usu.edu<http://arts.usu.edu> or call the Caine College of the Arts Box Office at 797-8022.

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“I dropped my online summer classes because of the online fees,” said Kylie Jones, a Junior in Family Consumer Human Development. They also didn’t offer the courses I needed on campus.” To compete with online courses, the committee had the ideas of offering bundled courses to cater to different learning styles, additional training courses for teachers, co-curricular summer activities, and even letting students participate in a short study-abroad for the May session. To promote these potential changes will be a marketing campaign that will highlight the benefits of a summer semes-ter. The main highlights will be the new schedule, cost, oppor-tunity for college transition and quality of the experience. “More student activities during the Summer would make it more likely for students to come to campus,” Jones said of entic-ing students to stay. “‘Yes, college students are here to get an education, but they also think of college as a social aspect,” Jones said. Morales said that while education is a priority, student needs are never forgotten and that a summer concert series may be one of many activities that could be started in the future. While all recommendations are subject to change, no offi-cial action is said to take place until summer 2012. “We want to take the time and do this right; it is an impor-tant change,” he said. “We are confident that the recommendations will make Summer more attractive.”

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River research attempts to increase safety Extensive research on the Le Sueur River, also known as the Minnesota River, is under-way to develop a sediment budget and deter-mine the cause of heavy sediment deposits in the river. Patrick Belmont, USU assistant professor of watershed sciences, is studying what sort of potentially devastating effects that the deposit will have on nearby lands and inhabitants. Belmont’s findings are reported routinely in national settings including the Geological Society of America and the American Geophysical Union. The final results of the project’s first leg is a continuation of a post-doctoral project Belmont began more than two years ago and will be submitted to the Pollution Control Agency in Minnesota in six to nine months. The research is also part of a collaborative effort with the National Center for Earth-sur-face Dynamics, where Belmont studied before joining the Utah State staff. Jack Schmidt, professor of the department of aquatic, watershed, and earth resources, said Belmont’s project has great value on a national scale. “(The research) has national significance because they are trying a lot of innovative techniques to find sources of sediment yield, sources of eroding sediment, and ultimately how to control them,” Schmidt said. Belmont himself said the extensive research itself involved a lot of time and energy, but it is for a great purpose. “I have been studying erosion and sediment

transport in the (Le Sueur) river, particularly trying to figure out where all the mud comes from, so we can determine the most effective way to restore the watershed and improve water quality,” Belmont said. Belmont will be in Minnesota doing this research until Oct. 17. He said he will put in 14-hour days and routinely start field work at 7 a.m. He said his out-of-town, on-site research this week couldn’t have come at a better time. “Last week, Southern Minnesota received 10 to 13 inches of rain in 24 hours and experi-enced the worst f loods by far since we started tracking f lows in the 1930s,” he said. Due to the f loods, the river has become very susceptible to testing, and tests can more easily be read as the water table rises. Barbra Utley, a post-doctoral research fel-low and Schmidt’s teaching assistant, said the reasons why the river is full of sediment are due to problems beginning 13,000 years ago at the end of the Ice Age. A break in the glacier where south-central Minnesota now rests had a major slip that resulted in a large “nickpoint” or “headcut,” which are descriptions of rapid changes in elevation that propagate through a watershed. This nickpoint, and the location of much of the river, has caused the watershed to be 70 meters below the level of most of the land-scape. For this reason, the river is susceptible to erosion not just from the glacier, but from a second dilemma: the watershed lies below a surface that is routinely feeding into the river and other lakes further downstream. “We care about water quality. We care about how it affects bio-industry. We care

about how water is affected downstream, and the filling in of sediment, which effects (people),” Utley said, “There are really two dif-ferent landscape processes occurring – how do you identify which one is the problem?” Utley said that though the base of the watershed has since stabilized, the erosion problem remains. Belmont has taken the role of identifier, and is one of the reasons why the research garners attention, she said. “That’s where (Belmont) comes in: to do a budget of where the sediment is coming from in this watershed. As this project is part of the Mississippi River, it gets a lot of publicity, (and) it gets a lot of money thrown at it,” Utley said. “Are we wasting the money? Will the affects of the river be any different in five, 10, or 20 years? What scale are the changes occur-ring, and where is the watershed change com-ing from? That’s part of what Patrick and others are trying to identify,” said Utley, a Virginia Tech and Georgia graduate. The one currently assisting Belmont to identify those questions is Justin Stout, a watershed science major who is currently in his first semester of graduate school. The eroding of the river can alter its course as well, and Utley said that’s where nearby res-idents and their lands could find themselves in the greatest potential peril. This will also affect the corn and soybean yield that grow in the rich soil of the Minnesota River Basin deposited by the Mississippi River. “We have, as humans, changed the land-scape and then have said, ‘we want to get more production out of these agriculture fields. So

now we’re changing the hydrology in the head-waters of the river,’” Utley said. She said drain tiles were installed 150 years ago to lessen the effects of the river’s altering course, but that hasn’t been enough to defer the river from being a danger and demanding the research to fix the problem. “Instead of having the soils drain slowly so there’s a long retention time, it now permeates the soils and hits the drain tiles, and quickly makes it to the river. So it totally changes the landscape process,” Utley said. Because of the quick drainage and possible change of course of the river, homes and life there today are potentially threatened. “Residents are not worrying about f lood-ing, but if the watershed started moving, and the river started moving toward the bluff, I would start caring about it a lot,” she said. While human residents nearby the river are affected, potentially dangerous particles within the material, pesticides and other sub-stances released into the surrounding area by humans and carried by the erosion also pose a threat to those living within the waters. “On a larger scale, as all the sediment makes its way downstream, we as citizens care because we care that there are fish alive, that the fishing industries are maintained, that it costs less to clean water for drinking water, so there’s lots of reasons why we care about water quality,” Utley said. “That stuff can re-enter the water and can poison fish. It can poison us.”

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ple,” Anderson said, while describing that this purpose was particu-larly set forth since USU is largely a research school. Fred Hunsaker of the Utah House of Representatives, who Anderson described as “one of USTAR’s heroes,” was among those optimistic about what all speakers and event notables recognized as something that can be revolutionary to the advancement of biological innova-tions and more. “(Bioinnovations 650) is tremendous not just for the university, not just for Cache Valley, but it’s a tremendous thing for the entire state and the entire world. What will come out of here will have the potential to change lives for the better and make a tremendous dif-ference in people’s lives. And that’s what it’s all about,” Hunsaker said. Hunsaker, a former USU business and finance professor, added that due to the university’s heavy involvement in research programs, the facility is only tailoring to what the school does best, and what it offers its students with regards to on-site and on-campus employ-ment opportunities related to their fields. “USU does more than almost anybody in undergraduate research, so this will have a very positive effect on undergraduates,” he said. “The graduate students will have a first-hand experience of discovery, and that will give them a leg up when they go into the marketplace or continue the education. They are going to be way ahead because they’ve had this kind of experience and research.” “The entire theory of the USTAR program is economic develop-ment and improvement of quality of life. And the economic develop-ment is really all about jobs. By utilizing the talent in the faculty, it opens up new jobs. It’s not just people finding jobs and shifting around; (the opportunities at Bioinnovation 650) creates jobs. And that creates jobs for everyone, including students.”The audience at the dedication were told the facility will provide not only employment opportunities in the midst of the recession, but will also bring new light and invention to already-established truths in the science fields.“This is a great day for the state of Utah and certainly USTAR, as well as Utah State University. Today, we are all Aggies,” Herbert said.

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All around the worldStore sells handicrafts from 30 countries

PAULA DAVIS HAS been a volunteer at Global Village Gifts since their opening. Global Village Gifts is a non-profit fair trade shop that sells goods from artists in struggling countries. BRECK BYINGTON photo

The quaint, butter-yellow Victorian house just east of Federal Avenue is much more than an ordinary dwelling. Global Village Gifts, located at 146 N. and 100 E., is a haven of handicrafts from around the world and home to a strict standard of equality and fair trade. The nonprofit establishment started off as a Christmas bazaar; Sally Keller, manager of Global Village Gifts, sold products from the fair trade vendor Ten Thousand Villages over a weekend at the First Presbyterian Church. Fueled by much success, Keller said she opened the store under the name and umbrella of Ten Thousand Villages, specifically the Salt Lake City location. In September 2005, Keller said the store became Global Village Gifts, opting to become independent from Ten Thousand Villages and therefore increase vendor opportunities. The store is run by Keller and Julie Barker, as well as numer-ous other volunteers committed to the duty of fair trade. “Our mission is to educate about fair trade and to help the artisans,” Barker said. Though Barker said her first occupation is that of a mother, she has learned valuable business and retail skills through her service. “This is a way I can help these artisans and still live in

Cache Valley,” she said. Barker said Global Village Gifts recently gained member-ship in the Fair Trade Federation, allowing future promoting and networking opportunities within the community of fair trade. According to the Global Village website, the store is stocked with artisan goods from 30 different countries spanning Africa, Asia and South America. The store offers everything from woven scarves and bags to authentic instruments and children’s toys. They carry rings made from telephone wire and animal bones, and intricately beaded necklaces and bracelets. A trip to Global Village Gifts is an educational adventure. Spotlights on specific artists give a face and meaning to other-wise nameless merchandise. According to the Global Village website, “Focus is on educating the public on the principles of fair trade and learning about the artisans.” Barker said fair trade works like so: artisans in various countries throughout the world, the majority of them mothers, are hired for their fine handiwork skills. She said with contrac-tors like Ten Thousand Villages and SERRV International, arti-sans are paid in full for their materials and labor even before the product leaves the country. “The buyers seek out the poorest of the poor and try to find

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Rise over run

THE WELLSVILLE MOUNTAINS lie 10 miles southwest of Logan. The Wellsvilles, though not exceptionally tall, are almost completely lacking in foothills, making them very thin. DUSTY NASH photo

Here is a formula to make things sound impressive: first, choose the thing that you want to describe. Then choose the com-parative adjective that you want to describe it with. Then, plug it into the following sen-tence formula. “The (proper noun) is the (descrip-tive adjective) (general form of the noun) in the world.” These last three words – “in the world” – are of utmost importance in establishing the legiti-macy and force behind your state-ment. It conjures visions of grandeur and greatness in a way that few other verbal descriptions can attain. Check it out. Watch how impres-sive this sounds. Last weekend, I back-packed across the steepest mountain range in the world. All right, every-one please replace your pants, which have just been impressed off. It turns out that hiking the steepest moun-tain range in the world doesn’t even involve leaving Cache Valley. The Wellsville mountains lie some 10 miles southwest of Logan. If one casts their view outwards from the top of Old Main Hill, they provide the westernmost border to the south end of Cache Valley. As everyone who has ever had the pleasure of being enrolled in a Math 1010 class can inform you, steepness, or the slope of a grade, is a measurement of how much height

is gained over a certain vertical distance. The Wellsvilles, though not exceptionally tall, are almost completely lack-ing in foothills, making them very thin. Plug this into the rise-over-run equation, and you get the most elevation gain over the shortest dis-tance of any mountain range in the world.

Don’t blow this out of proportion, though. The Wellsvilles are certainly no Patagonia, definitely no Himalayas. Box Elder Peak, the highest point on the range, has an elevation of 9,372 feet. From trailhead to peak, one gains 4,000 feet, all of it on well maintained trail. Still, one cannot deny the mys-tique and thrill brought on by the hiking of the steepest mountains on planet earth. It is 3:24 on a Friday afternoon. I am just walking out of Old Main, having finished my last class of the week. In addition to my books in hand, I have my full overnight pack – complete with a sleeping bag and pad, two headlamps, five liters of water, 12 granola bars, a freeze-dried meal, and three pieces of fruit – on my back. I had been instructed to take my pack to campus with me that day, as we were in such a hurry to leave, that I didn’t even have time to go home. I

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Chorus takes stage once again

Mack Wilberg, director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, will be guest-conducting the final four numbers of Saturday’s American Festival Chorus concert. The concert will take place in the Kent Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m. and will feature music composed and arranged by Mack Wilberg. The American Festival Chorus was created in the fall of 2008, as a part of the Caine School of the Arts, according to Craig Jessop, dean of the Caine school of the Arts and director for the chorus. Jessop said he wanted to do Wilberg’s music because he has always been a fan of Wilberg, and believes he is one of the most tal-ented composers in America. “To me, he is one of the most prominent, talented and significant composers and arrangers in America,” Jessop said. Wilberg was appointed to the position of conductor for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in 2008, when Jessop accepted the posi-tion of dean of CSA. Prior to being the conductor for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, he was Jessop’s assistant, and directed and con-ducted the Temple Square Chorale in Salt Lake City. The concert will have music from various genres, such as American folk tunes, hymns and three of his Christmas songs, Jessop said. “He’s done so many arrangements of Christmas music for the Tabernacle it would be unthinkable not to include some of it,” Jessop said. The American Festival Chorus and Symphony is composed of mostly volunteer members of the community, USU faculty and even students, Jessop said. It is connected with CSA, and the students can use the participation as class credit. The group meets every Wednesday evening for two and a half hours of practice, and this week did a five hour rehearsal, Jessop said. Leslie Black, a member of the Chorus, said she is excited to do the performance, because the music is beautiful. “The music is really moving. We were doing a song, and my eyes teared up, and I couldn’t sing, I couldn’t even see the page,” she said. Jessop said the chorus and symphony is an important part of the cultural life here in Cache Valley, and said not only does the group sing classical choral music, but they include all types of music, including pop and musicals. “Last summer Peter Cetera, the lead singer from Chicago came and sang with us,” Jessop said. The concert finale will be what Jessop said is one of Wilberg’s most famous and most beloved songs, “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing,” which will be conducted by Wilberg. Jessop said while “Come Thou Fount” is one of the most beloved of the public, he couldn’t name his favorite song of Wilberg’s, since there is such a broad range of songs that will be sung on Saturday. “I have a strong personal tie with a lot of this music,” he said, since he asked Wilberg to create many of his pieces for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. “I can’t use enough superlatives (for Wilberg). He’s a world class musician, a father of four, and one of my closest friends. It’s an honor to have him come here,” he said. Tickets are available at the Caine Box Office, or online at arts.usu.edu

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a way that they can give them employment by making these crafts,” Barker said. “Then they negotiate a price that would be a fair wage for them to support their family and send their kids to school.” Barker said free trade enables the artisan to immediately provide for his or her family and community without having to wait on mer-chandise to ship to a destination thousands of miles away and hopefully make a meager profit. “We just hope we can sell it all,” she said. The nearly exclusive use of volunteers throughout the fair trade process holds its nonprofit standard and minimizes cost for the consumer. “It’s a great way to help women and their families provide a stable income,” said Rachel Rambay, fair trade volunteer and USU gradu-ate. Barker said through community involve-ment in service fairs, university activities and the annual Gallery Walk, Global Village Gifts

gains faithful customers who become faithful volunteers. Global Village Gifts is constantly seeking new volunteers and accepts online or in-store applications. She said volunteers are trained with a general knowledge of the handi-crafts and can therefore help educate new cus-tomers as well as help with requests for items from specific countries. Volunteer and USU freshman Vanessa Bertolio said she values the hands-on retail experience of volunteering, as well as the bridge of acclimation it forms between not working and a first job. Global Village Gifts is open Thursday and Friday from 12-6 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Extended holiday hours in mid-November will open the store every day but Sunday. Bertolio said she finds herself saying, over and over, as she sorts through new shipments, “This is new, I have to get this.”

– noelle.johansen@aggiemail.usu.edu

Weezer gets back to

basics with ‘Hurley’ I think I just wet my pants. Not because I drank too much water and am far away from the bath-room, not because I have a blad-der condition and not because my zipper is stuck. It’s because I just saw the cover of the new Weezer album. It is simple and intriguing, featuring noth-ing but a close-up photo of Jorge Garcia, known for playing the hairy yet lovable Hurley in the hit television series “Lost.” And to make it even better, the album is called “Hurley.” I must say, after I had changed my pants, the album cover alone made my weak. While many bands enjoy using com-plex artwork on their CD covers, Weezer has always been pretty conservative. They often just use a picture of themselves with different colored backgrounds, as with “Make Believe” and their three self-titled albums, better known as the Blue, Green and Red albums. “Simple yet intriguing” has always been their style – in album art as well as in music – and “Hurley” keeps with the norm. From just seeing the album cover, one has to wonder what Weezer is getting at. Granted, I love the album art, but does naming an album after a TV character have some sort of deeper meaning? Spoiler Alert: since everyone on “Lost” ended up being dead anyway, is this some kind of reference to the afterlife and that which awaits us? Or were they just trying to up their sales by getting all the “Lost” addicts to buy their album? On second thought, it’s usually a good policy to not try and explain why rock bands do things. You’ve just got to accept it at face value and move on. Right from the first track, you notice that after their not-so-acclaimed album “Ratitude,” Weezer has definitely gone back to their roots. The songs wouldn’t nec-essarily sound out of place on the Green

album, but they are definitely fresh and new. The band uses some new musical tech-niques that keep their music fresh while maintaining their trademark garage-band sound. For example, the song “Unspoken” employs the use of jazz flute and strings to back up the vocals and acoustic guitar in a wonderful way. An odd choice for a song about not forgiving and unspoken hate, but it works. As usual, Weezer uses some simple back-up vocals to accentuate the lead vocals. Also, frontman Rivers Cuomo has stepped up his performance from the early albums; his vocals are much more varied and animated than before. In one of the bonus tracks, they cover Coldpay’s “Viva la Vida,” and Cuomo actually sounds a bit different than usual. It could be that he isn’t used to singing any songs but his own. Cuomo doesn’t disappoint when it comes to writing witty, random lyrics, either. “Memories” gives a lot of one-lin-ers about the good old times as a young band, such as “... playing Hacky Sack back when Audioslave was still Rage.” Also, the song “All My Friends Are Insects” is reminis-cent of the randomness of They Might Be Giants, and thoroughly confused me – is a worm really considered an insect? One of the lyrical highlights of the album would have to be the song “Where’s My Sex?” It’s really confusing until you realize that they wrote a song about losing and looking for their socks, and then replaced the word “socks” with “sex” throughout the whole song. It just goes to show that no matter how old rock bands get – Weezer has been together for almost 20 years – they’re really just 15 years old at heart. Overall, it’s a good album. One that will probably not outdo the early releases such as the Blue or Green albums, but is definitely worth the $10 you’d pay for it on amazon.com. And besides, any CD that inspired Jorge Garcia, or “Hurley,” to per-form “Perfect Situation” with Weezer at a live concert is worth your time. The video is on YouTube. Just make sure your bladder’s empty before you watch it.

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‘The Social Network’ “The Social Network” was a great movie to watch. It tells the story of Mark Zuckerberg ( J e s s i e E i senberg ), the developer of the internet sensation that is Facebook. It keeps movie-goers entertained throughout and tells a great story. I first have to admit that when I first heard about this movie I was a bit skeptical. I thought it would be a lame movie about how amazing Facebook is. I was definitely wrong. As I looked into it more I realized how much potential it had. It was based on the non-fiction novel, The “Accidental Billionares,” written by Ben Mezrich: The same guy who wrote one of my favorite books, “Bringing Down the House,” which is the novel the movie “21” was based on. Also, the screenplay was written by Aaron Sorkin, the creator of the great NBC televi-sion show, “The West Wing.” Not to mention the director, David Fincher. Fincher directed “Se7en,” “Panic Room”, “ Zodiac,” and one of my favorite movies ever: “Fight Club.” I was very excited to see how this movie making team of Sorkin and Fincher would do. I was expecting something great, and I was definitely not disappointed. The film opens in a Boston bar where Harvard undergraduate Zuckerberg is dumped by his girlfriend Erica Albright. He is crushed, and in a drunken fury he goes home and hacks into Harvard’s online sites to create a co-ed rating site. The site gets 22,000 hits on the first night. Because he wrote about the entire thing on his blog, he is caught and given six months academic probation. This attracts the Winklevoss twins, Tyler and Cameron. The “Winklevi”, as Zuckerberg later calls them want him to help them program a dating website that would be exclusive to Harvard students. Zuckerberg instead decides to make a similar website on his own with funding from his best friend Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield). They call it, “thefacebook.” Little does he know that he would later be facing law suits from each of

these two parties. As thefacebook.com grows in popularity, so do Mark and Eduardo. Eduardo looks to make some money from advertisers, much to the disapproval of Mark. While looking for potential advertisers, the two meet with the creator of Napster, Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake). While Eduardo doesn’t approve of Sean and his rockstar antics, Mark loves everything about him, and in a way begins to idolize him. He takes Sean’s advice and changes the website from thefacebook to just facebook.com. Eventually Sean joins the Facebook team and helps them to become very successful. He also spices things up a bit with his drugs and partying antics. The tension continues to grow between Sean and Eduardo, and eventually ends with Eduardo being dumped from the company on the day Facebook got to one million members. “The Social Network” was a huge suc-cess. Sorkin provided some great dialogue that Fincher ran with beautifully. Many of the scenes reminded me much of the classic dialogue based scenes of “Fight Club,” with quick and clever delivery that Timberlake and Eisenberg had down to a tee. Their time together on screen were great. Sorkin also made this tale into somewhat of a thriller. The quick scene changes and rapid dialogue kept the movie moving at a fast and intense pace. It kept the audience on edge. Eisenberg was also a highlight of this film. His depiction of the youngest billionaire alive was fantastic. He nailed the arrogant “speak your mind” attitude of a Harvard student who is an amazing programmer and knows it. I think he should no longer be compared to his look-alike Micheal Cera. He showed that he has potential to be a very successful actor and make a name for himself. The acting of both Garfield and Timberlake were great too. I was particularly worried about Timberlake, but his first appearance on the screen quickly made all my fears van-ish. He did a fantastic job of playing the cool and charming Hollywood know-it-all. Overall this film was outstanding. It lived up to every expectation I had for it and exceeded others. I have to give it an A+.

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If you fancy “Nightmare on Elm Street” or “Scream,” then “My Soul to Take” might be your type of movie. That’s right, this is another one of Wes Craven’s horror movies that will keep you sit-ting on the edge of your seat. This is Craven’s first movie since “Red Eye.” This movie supposedly goes back to his better-made movies of the 1980s and is one that you suppos-edly wouldn’t want to miss. But as for me, I say let’s keep everybody’s soul to themselves. I usually don’t want to see anybody jumping out of somebody else’s body or looking in the mirror and seeing somebody else’s reflec-tion because they have been killed. In this movie, a serial killer decides to return to a small town called Riverton. The killer decides to stalk seven children who share the same birthday as the date he was allegedly put to rest. Yet just as killers never die, this murderer appears to keep you wondering what is going to happen next. To tell you the truth, the killer seems like anoth-er Freddy Kreuger or Jason from “Friday the 13th.” I say this because he seems mysterious. Even though he doesn’t seem to be wearing a mask you don’t get a good look at him during the trailer. The whole time, you are trying to figure out who he is. After watching the trailer I would have to say this movie is more for teenagers than for anybody else. I wouldn’t personally go see it but that’s because I saw enough people jumping out of closets on Halloween to keep me entertained. It seems like this thriller is packed with heart-stopping moments and will keep you glued to your seat. That is, after all, what a horror movie is supposed to do. I pre-emptively recommend this to the horror-movie lovers.

– ronald.wallace@aggiemail.usu.edu

Liverpool, England, 1955. Imagine the world with-out the Beatles. However, they are soon to be, and it all began with a young lad named John Lennon. “Nowhere Boy” is the never-before-seen portrayal of John Lennon’s youth. The movie centers around his dive into the world of rock ’n’ roll and the creation of his first band, “The Quarrymen”, that would later develop into none other than The Beatles. It’s the classic coming-of-age biopic – the tell-ing of a great man’s humble beginnings.There’s the tragic, dislocated boy that no one believes will go anywhere, trying to find his place in the world and proving the naysayers wrong. Certain tragedies that just about collapse his world, triumphs accompanied by tears and struggle and humorous happenstances all combine in perfect harmony to create the man who engineered one of the most revered bands of all time. This debut film from director Sam Taylor-Wood stars adorable British actors Aaron Johnson as Lennon and Thomas Brodie Sangster, who plays the cherubic Paul McCartney, complete with the heart-melting Liverpudlian accent – I’d go just to listen to them talk. “Nowhere Boy” was originally released in the UK back in December 2009, and did fairly well. We’ll see how the Americans take to it – after all, we loved, and still love, the Beatles too. The film beckons us to experience the evolution of the revolution, and I pre-emptively recommend it.

– shanelle.b@aggiemail.usu.edu

‘My Soul to Take’

‘Nowhere Boy’

Pre-Emptive

The

Critics “Life as We Know It,” rated PG-13, looks like every other romantic-comedy, with a baby in the mix. It seems pretty original in the sense I’ve never seen a movie where two total strangers (or rather, frenemies) are thrown together to live in the same house, with a baby they know nothing about. The basic plotline is this: jerk of a guy comes by an hour late for a date, then tells some other person (probably a girl) that he can come over at 10:30 p.m. rather than 11, and just all around has a horrible date. Turns out, these two have mutual friends – a couple that has a baby. They are named god-parents, which isn’t really a big deal, and they both go along with it. Well, life is just fine, which means something bad has to happen, because that’s life (and movies). The two main characters – played by Katherine Heigl, who I just love and think does a fabulous job (I mean, “Grey’s Anatomy”!) and Josh Duhamel, who is just a total babe as far as I’m concerned – don’t get along, but are pushed together to take care of the baby. Neither wants to do it, and they don’t exactly understand why. I think that these two would go really well together – their chemistry seems like it would work really well. Of course the two of them end up falling in love, and I’m sure one or the other messes it up, they somehow realize they are perfect for each other, and live happily ever after. As cheesy as it seems, it’s cute. The plot may be predictable, but I pre-emptively like this movie for its originality and humor.

– april.ashland@aggiemail.usu.edu

‘Life as We Know It’

was too busy smiling to mind the odd glances my oversize load attracted as I hurried down the stairs. It was one of the last few warm weekends of the year and the weather was ideal for a pack trip across the Wellsvilles. Despite being the steepest mountain range in the world, the planned hike was only eight miles long. I jump in my buddy’s van at the bottom of Old Main Hill, and soon our group is at the trailhead to Deep Canyon, which we would follow to get up to the ridgeline. Shouldering our packs, we set off at a quick pace, hoping to reach the ridgeline by sundown. We hike amidst the changing colors of fall, breathing in the crisp fall air. As we reach the ridge the sun is sinking over the west end of Box Elder County. My legs are burning, as one would expect, from climbing such a steep grade. With the last remnants of the light, we roll out our sleeping bags and boil water to reconstitute our dinner. We will finish the other four miles, tomorrow. As I settle into my sleeping bag, the lights from the valley floor on either side of the range stretch out beneath me, with an expanse of stars above. A smile creases my face as I ponder upon sleeping here upon the steepest mountains in the world. So maybe they win by a technicality. I don’t care, as far as I am concerned, I am on top of both the Wellsvilles and the world.

– dustin.nash@aggiemail.usu.edu

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LOUISIANA TECH LINEBACKER ADRIAN COLE tackles Utah State running back Robert Turbin during last year’s 23-21 Aggie victory in Logan. The Bulldogs have started out 1-4 this year, and are currently on a four-game losing streak. Despite their record, Louisiana Tech has been competitive in game’s this year, with all four of its losses coming to teams with winning records. Utah State is looking to start the season 3-3 for the first time since 1983, and looking to win back-to-back games for the first time in the Gary Andersen era. Statesman file photo

Plenty at stake as USU travels to play Lousiana Tech Saturday

Aggies basketballon ESPN seventimes in 2010-2011

After providing viewers around the nation with a glimpse of one of the nation’s best kept secrets in the college basketball last season, Utah State will once again highlight ESPN’s cover-age of Western Athletic Conference men’s basketball, as it was announced that the Aggies will appear on the ESPN family of network at least seven times during the 2010-2011 season. ESPN 2 is currently slated to carry three USU basketball games this coming season, including a Feb. 2 matchup with Nevada that will be broadcast at 9 p.m. MST from the Glen Dee Smith Spectrum. The Spectrum will also welcome an ESPNU crew on Jan. 22 when New Mexico State comes to Logan. On Dec. 4 Utah State will play on ESPNU when the Aggies travel to play Big East powerhouse Georgetown on the out of conference slate. The Western Athletic Conference is currently guaranteed at least 22 regular season games on the ESPN family of networks this season, although that number is likely to increase. Not only will ESPN televise the WAC tournament quarterfinal games in March, but ESPN’s annual “BracketBuster” competition could feature a WAC team – including Utah State – in February. Last season Utah State defeated Witchita State in the Bracketbuster competition in a nationally televised game on ESPN. USU men’s basketball will begin the preseason on October 30 when the Aggies on the Universite Laval in an exhibition game from the Spectrum. The Aggie season will start in earnest when Weber State comes to Logan on Nov 13. The Aggies return four starters from last years regular season WAC championship team, and also return proven bench players Brian Green and Brady Jardine. The Aggies will play a challenging nonconference slate that will feature five games against in-state schools, and will also travel to play at Denver, Georgetwon and Troy. USU will officially begin conference play on Dec. 29 when Hawaii comes to town, and will finish WAC play during the WAC tournament in Las Vegas between March 9-12. Aggie head coach Stew Morrill, who has a 176-13 (.931) career record in the Spectrum, spoke to the challenges of playing the WAC teams, but said that the league’s competition should make the 2010-2011 season a special one for USU. “When we get to WAC play we will face the usual tough com-petition, and with the league ever-changing each team will want to make this season one to remember,” Morrill said.

– adamnettina@aggiemail.usu.edu

By ADAM NETTINAsports editor

Hard as it may be, Gary Andersen and his Utah State Aggies (2-3, 0-1 WAC) will look to move on from the program’s historic win over Brigham Young last Friday night, traveling to play the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs (1-4, 0-1 WAC) on Saturday in an early season conference clash that could make or break USU’s bowl game hopes. For the Aggies, the pros-pect of evening their record at 3-3 would not only rep-resent the best first half of a USU football season since the 1983 season, but it would be the first time since 2007 in which the team has put together consecutive wins. A victory in Ruston, which would bring the Aggies to within three wins of bowl eli-gibility, would also alleviate Andersen’s team from one of its perennial failings – win-ning on the road. “This is a WAC game, and a very important game,” Andersen said at his Monday press conference. “It is a home game for (Louisiana Tech), and we have to go on the road and play where we haven’t played well. We have won one road game since we have been here as a staff. The young men in this program have not had success on the road.” Utah State’s one win on the road during Andersen’s tenure came against Idaho in the season finale last sea-son, although after the first month of the 2010 season, the Aggies would appear to be the favorite heading

into Saturday’s tangle with the Bulldogs. Not only did USU defeat a bowl-bound Louisiana Tech team by a final score of 23-21 in Logan last season, but Andersen’s Aggies will be facing a strug-gling Tech team this season. After a promising start to the year with a win over Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) member Grambling, the Bulldogs have dropped four straight games, including a 41-21 loss at Hawaii last Saturday. The Bulldogs have had a tough time adjusting to first-year head coach Sonny Dykes’ spread offen-sive system, and continue to experience instability at the quarter-back position. Both sopho-more Colby Cameron and Tarik Hakmi have seen time at the posi-tion for Dykes, but both quarterbacks have thrown more interceptions than touchdowns so far this season. “We have tried to find the best combination of players at certain positions and the quarterback position is not any different,” Dykes said when asked about his quar-terbacks’ struggles. “I think that has probably slowed our growth a little bit.” Dykes has yet to name a starter for Saturday’s game, but the former Arizona offensive coordinator will likely turn to senior Ross

Jenkins for at least a period of Saturday’s game. Jenkins performed admirably when he came off the bench against Hawaii last week, hitting 19-of-26 passes for 215 yards and two scores. Despite the fact that the Bulldogs have lost four straight games and face con-tinued uncertainty at the quarterback position, Dykes said his team will not be lost for motivation when it comes to playing the Aggies. “Our kids are going to be excited to be home and I

think we’ll play well,” Dykes said. “We’re hungry and our guys feel like they haven’t played as well as they are capable of playing up to this point.” All of Tech’s four losses have come to teams which currently have winning records, a point not lost on Utah State’s head coach.

“What I see is a team that is much better than their record in my opinion,” Andersen said. “They have played some tough teams, and have been hanging in there and playing extremely hard. I don’t see it being any different when we go in there to their place.” Andersen cautioned about putting too much into his team’s win over BYU and the Aggies’ improved record. With injuries continuing to pile up – including the announcement that senior running back Michael Smith

will not be returning this season – Andersen said talent alone will not guarantee vic-tory come Saturday. “We are not a team that can sit back and say ‘well, our athletic ability will get us through this game,’” Andersen said. “In no way, shape or form are we even close to that form. We need to get our best guys on the field, and be creative with our game plans as a coaching staff.” Aside from not having Smith in the lineup against the Bulldogs, Andersen also announced that USU will be without defensive line-man Daniel Gurrola. Injured starters or not, Andersen isn’t making excuses for any potential letdown the Aggies might have on Saturday, and maintains that as long as the players execute the game-plans on offense, defense and special teams, his team will be successful. “We keep getting those starters hit, and taken out of the starting lineup, but it is an opportunity for more young men to step up and play. It is not easy to deal with, but it is the way it is,” he said. Andersen continued, say-ing, “If the Aggies go out and take care of the Aggies, execute, and play as a team, we will have a chance to beat anyone on our schedule.” Saturday’s game will begin at 2 p.m. MST and can be seen locally on the Altitude television network, and also viewed online at ESPN3.com.

– adamnettina@aggiemail.usu.edu

By ADAM NETTINAsports editor

“This is a WAC

game, and a

very important

game. It is a

home game for

(Louisiana Tech),

and we have to

go on the road

and play where

we haven’t

played well”

Gary Andersen, USU head coach

Volleyball defeats Vandals

The Utah State Aggie golfers took to the course this week in Lake Tahoe, Nev. at the Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course. Edgewood Tahoe is considered one of the top golf courses in the United States by Golf Digest and has hosted the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship for the last 21 years. USU competed against 14 other schools, including a number of top-20 teams including Idaho, San Diego and Washington State. The event was hosted by the University of Nevada, which took second place overall with an even 576 (292-284). The event was planned to have three rounds, with the first two on Monday and the last round on Tuesday, but the last round was cancelled due to inclement weather. After playing in cold, windy and rainy weather, the Aggies took 13th place in the two rounds with a 20-over 596 (295-301). The team was eight holes into the third round when the weather

By JACE MILLERstaff writer

-See Golf, page 10

The Utah State Aggies picked up their first Western Athletic Conference road win of the season on Wednesday night in four sets over the Idaho Vandals (25-18, 25-22, 20-25, 25-17). Senior setter Chelsea Fowles recorded eight kills, five blocks, and hit .538, but her most impressive stat was 47 assists in the match that gave her 3,948 career assists, good for the school’s all-time record. Carrie Steverson previ-ously held the record with 3, 942 career assists; a record that remained untouched for 19 years. “We’re really proud of her,” Aggie head coach Grayson DuBose said. “She’s been a big part of our program. I think it’s a real tribute to her work ethic and to the teammates that have surrounded her over the years. She’s had some won-derful teammates around her

that have allowed her to get so many assists.” The Aggies (14-3, 2-2 WAC) broke a four-game road losing streak to the Vandals (8-9, 3-3 WAC) and DuBose notched his first career win at War Memorial Gymnasium. “That’s a tough place to play,” DuBose said. “They have a really nice home court advan-tage. So, to be able to go in and win on ESPNU is just a really great accomplishment for our team and testament to who they are as volleyball players.” Junior outside hitter Liz McArthur posted 20 kills, nine digs and three service aces, while sophomore opposite side hitter Shay Sorenson 13 kills and hit .478. Sophomore outside hitter Josselyn White added 11 kills, six digs, five blocks and two service aces while hitting .300, and senior middle blocker Shantell Durrant paced the Aggies with

By TYLER HUSKINSONweb editor

-See Volleyball, page 9

Golf finishes strong

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There is no way you should waste your days watching “America’s Pastime” this fall. For one, it shouldn’t be even considered our pastime any-more. The days of gathering some friends to play baseball have been replaced by gather-ing friends to go out to toss the ol’ pigskin. Next time you go to a park, take a look around. You might not see anyone since America sits in front of TVs and computers all day, so make sure it’s a Saturday. How many people are playing baseball? Consider how many watch the sport in the first place. The World Series final game last year had 22.3 mil-lion people watching it. In comparison, Super Bowl

XLIV had over 106 million people watching. That’s more than four times as many viewers. Also, the big-gest Major League Baseball stadium is Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California and it seats about 56,000 fans. Cowboy Stadium in Arlington, Texas is the biggest National Football League sta-dium, seating up to 110,000 fans – almost twice the capacity. This is not even add-ing in the audience of college football, which is arguably more popular than the NFL. Finally, think about the games. Baseball players get thrown a ball and they try to hit it. The best MLB hitter, at this moment, is Josh Hamilton on the Texas

Rangers. He has batting average of .359 so far this season. How is this fun to watch? If a quar-terback complet-ed 35.9 percent of their passes, they wouldn’t even be considered for a backup role in the NFL. That kind of percentage is pathetic! I mean no offense to baseball fans, but if you want to watch a sport where people can actually do their job more than 35.9 percent of the time, I recommend football.

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State your case: Statesman weekly sports debate

Are the baseballplayoffs worth

following this year?

UTAH STATE’S Joey DeMartino and the Aggies are reason

enough to tune out of the baseball playoffs. TODD JONES photo

PHILLIES pitcher Roy Halladay celebreates after throwing a no-

hitter against the Reds. AP Photo

Gotta celebrate October Football is where it’s at It’s October,

and for many people that only means one thing: it’s time for

some base-ball. The past few weeks have been crazy for

teams in MLB as they have scrambled to try to make that final push, and now the playoffs are here. October is baseball’s month and I think this year’s playoffs are definitely worth watching. Sure, the college and NFL football seasons are starting to heat up, but all their games

are either on the weekend or Monday night. That leaves Tuesday-Friday with nothing for the die-hard sports fans to watch except baseball playoffs. These playoffs will be exciting, and as any sports fanatic knows, intense playoff action is always worth watching, regardless of the sport. During the regular season all the talk was on the pitchers as we watched them dominate, throwing five no-hitters, two of which were perfect games. Now the question must be asked, will it continue in October? What will happen when Roy Halladay faces Joey Votto and the Reds (answer: a no-hitter in game one)? Cliff Lee dominated in the postseason several years ago,

but can he do the same with a new squad? It’s always exciting to see superstars go head-to-head, and this year’s playoffs will have plenty of that. These playoffs will also see some great storylines. This year we’ll be seeing some faces that we haven’t seen in a while. The San Francisco Giants haven’t been to the playoffs since 2003; the Texas Rangers haven’t made the postseason since 1999, and this year’s National League Central champion, the Cincinnati Reds, are playing in October for the first time since 1995. New teams provide new excitement, and that only leads to better competition and better baseball.

Don’t get me wrong, I loved playing baseball when I was a kid, and I still like co-ed soft-ball in the summertime, but baseball is boring to me now. I would much rather watch a football game instead. Baseball is too slow. The methodical ceremony that begins when the pitcher gets the ball, looks for the sign, shakes it off, looks again, checks the runner, sets, throws to the base, gets the ball back, looks for the sign, shakes it off, looks again, checks the runner, ignores him, sets, and ... well, you get the point. All of that for us to see just one pitch? Games take about three hours, and there’s a game almost

every day! Who’s got that kind of time? The baseball season is way too long. C’mon, 150 games in the regular season? This is fall; let’s get back to watching foot-ball already! Baseball needs to stay in the spring and summer, and stay to about 25 games. That would make a win a lot more meaningful. Baseball players don’t even need to be athletes to play the game. Can you imagine Babe Ruth in the 100-meter dash? All baseball players do is sit in the dugout for half the game, and the other half they stand around in a park. Seriously, football is a mil-lion times better. How many

Aggie fans would have traded see-ing BYU get thumped in Logan to watch a base-ball game on TV? That’s what I thought. Let’s get back to watching more brain-rat-tling tackles from some real athletes in a sport where one win or loss actually means something; like the difference between a bowl game and a mediocre season.

I’ll tell you this much, coming into this week I

didn’t have

the great-est of inter-

est in the MLB post-season. In all hon-

esty, the teams don’t look too exciting, we’re just getting into the thick of an insanely competitive NFL season, and I‘m not loving the idea of watching anything on TBS. All things considered, my expectations for the playoffs have been pretty low.

This was, until Tuesday, when I watched the most recent ESPN 30 for 30 docu-mentary “Four Nights in October,” reliving the 2004 Red Sox and their comeback from falling behind 3-0 against the Yankees in the ALCS. My heart gave a com-plete reformation. Suddenly my blood ran for baseball. Only one explanation is needed – it’s October, peo-ple! Never mind the fact that we’ll get to see beastly pitch-ers, with the likes of Tim Lincecum and Roy Halladay (who, by the way, already threw a no-hitter) take their shot at the postseason for the first time in their respective

careers. Never mind the fact the Cincinnati Reds have a shot at being the Cinderella-that-could, or that Yankee haters will be back in full swing. Take all that out of the picture, and it’s still October. We just got out of some exciting baseball in September, and something tells me this month will be even better. And if you need statistics, here’s a number for you: 10. It stands for the tenth month of the year - when cheers and tears bring cities together and rivals farther apart via baseball sta-diums across the nation.

Tavin Stucki (staff writer)

Jace Miller (staff writer)

Mark Israelson (staff writer)

Steve Schwartzman(staff writer)

The Statesman sports writers weigh in.

Do you have an opinion? Let us know in an e-

mail to sports@statesman.usu.edu.

eight block assists. Trailing 7-4 in the first set, USU got back even three times including at 12-12 before tak-ing control with runs of 5-1 and 8-3 to post the seven-point win. White, who spurred the 5-1 run with a kill, led USU with five kills in the opening set . The Vandals pulled within two points before committing four straight errors that started the Aggies’ 8-3 run. USU never trailed in the second set as it opened an early 13-5 lead and withstood a late rally by Idaho to notch the 25-22 win. McArthur

and Sorensen each had five kills for the Aggies in the second set as they hit .486 and the Vandals hit .419. USU jumped out to a quick 4-1 lead in the third set, but the Vandals recovered with a 7-1 run. With the set tied at 9-9, the Vandals scored six straight points and eventually built a 21-11 advantage en route to the five-point win. USU scored the first two points of the fourth set and never looked back, building an early 9-5 lead and coasting easily to the eight point win. McArthur and Sorensen each had six kills for

USU in the fourth set as the Aggies hit .484 and the Vandals hit .250. “For us it comes down to serve and serve-receive,” DuBose said. “If we can serve well and stay in-system then I think we can do some great things. That was real evident to me last night. We were in-system 70 percent of the time and that’s quite an accomplishment.” Coming into to the match, Idaho was 15th in the nation in blocks per match, but it was USU which out-blocked Idaho, 15-8. USU finished the match with a .347 hitting percentage and the Vandals hit .256. The Aggies also had six more service aces in the match, while the Vandals had three more digs and three fewer service errors.

USU will play game two of its three-game road trip against the Boise State Broncos (14-4, 2-2 WAC) on Saturday and they may have anoth-er test on their hands. “That’s a challenge for us,” DuBose said. “If we can go in and serve tough and make it so they (Boise State) can’t set to their middle block-ers in-system, then we’ll have a distinct advan-tage.” Game time against the Broncos is set for 3 p.m.

– ty.d.hus@aggiemail.usu.edu

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For all you die-hard NBA basketball fans, you know how the summer and early fall months can be some of the longest of the year. From June to October, basketball crazies can only wait and count the days until the next NBA season begins. This year, however, the summer was a little bit different. First of all, the FIBA World Championships, held once every four years were held in Turkey this summer and the United States won the gold medal for the first time since 1994. But even more noticeable than bringing home the gold was the media frenzy that surrounded the NBA offseason. The 2010 offseason will go down in history as being one of the busiest, most-hyped and most ridiculously media-saturated in NBA history. However, we can’t say that we didn’t see this coming. For several years people have speculated that 2010 would mark the “Summer of LeBron,” because of his free agent status, and if that didn’t give it away, I don’t know what would have. The sum-mer lived up to its billing, as the former Cleveland Cavaliers superstar reached the end of his contract during the summer and there was only one thing anybody could talk about – “where is LeBron going to play?” In July the long-awaited decision was finally made and we all hoped we might actually get a break from hearing about LeBron 24/7. No such luck. LeBron made sure to keep himself in the news when he opted to head to the Miami Heat to join Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh and create arguably the greatest trio in basketball his-tory. The decision to ditch leave infuriat-ed Cavaliers fans and people across the nation. LeBron went from being the most loved person ever to live in the city of Cleveland to one of the most hated in a matter of a few hours. Hey, I’m not going to lie, when I found out, I was disap-pointed as well. However, his decision as well as the bashing he received only gave the media more to talk about and set up everybody’s new favorite question – “how good will the Heat be?” Of course, nobody really knows the answer to that, but that hasn’t prevented anyone who has ever heard of basketball to have their own strong opinion about it.

Apart from the buzz surrounding LeBron and the Heat, there were plen-ty of other stories playing out through the offseason. There were big names being traded and re-signed all over the place, including Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosh, Amare

Stoudemire, Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, Joe Johnson, and Dirk Nowitzki. Another interesting storyline that is a little closer to home, literally and figuratively, involves the Utah Jazz. After a playoff run filled with ups and downs, The Jazz offseason started on a bad note. Utah lost their leading scorer and rebounder, Carlos Boozer, up-and-coming wingman Wesley Matthews and three-point specialist and Ashton Kutcher look-alike Kyle Korver. Utah was left reel-ing and the morale of Jazz fans – myself included – started to slip lower and lower as it looked like Utah’s season might be over before it even started. It was then that Jazz general manager Kevin O’Connor went to work and some-how pulled off a minor miracle, going from bad guy to hero in the process. In the space of about a week, O’Connor regained the trust of all Jazz fans by land-ing Minnesota’s Al Jefferson and former Jazz player Raja Bell. These two players filled huge gaps in Utah’s lineup and will give fans a reason to cheer once the season starts. Utah also signed center Francisco Elson and guard Earl Watson, both of whom will really help the Jazz’s depth. With the offseason behind us and the preseason upon us, it is finally time to stop talking and start walking. Now we’ll see if Miami can handle the pressure, if the Lakers can really pull-off a three-peat, if the Cavaliers can bounce back from a stinging betrayal, and if the Jazz can gel as a team and form a cohesive unit. It’s game time, and I don’t know about you, but I can hardly wait.

Mark Israelsen is a freshman majoring in

mechanical engineering. Mark is a Utah

Jazz fanatic and longtime NBA follower.

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AFTER A 2-0 START IN CONFERENCE PLAY, the Utah State women’s soccer team is set

to host Nevada today at 3 p.m. and Houston Baptist on Sunday at 1 p.m. For a full preview of the

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halted the play. At the time, the Aggies were golfing extremely well and were only seven shots out of seventh place, but since the round was cancelled, it did not count and the Aggies came home with 13th. Senior Benjamin Schilleman lead the Aggies with a three-over 147 (73-74), which tied for 28th place overall. USU head coach Dean Johansen, who is in his 11th season as coach, said he thought Schilleman played valiantly despite being sick with flu-like symptoms.“I think he played really well,” Johansen said. “He was a bit under the weather, but all things considered I think he played really well.” Senior Tyson McFarland of Rexburg, Idaho tied for 33rd with a four-over 148 (73-75). Junior Chanse Godderidge, out of Smithfield, Utah, tied for 55th place with a seven-over 151 (78-73), while fellow

junior Austin French, from Idaho Falls, Idaho, tied for 68th with a 10-over 154 (75-79). Freshman Beau Ehlers of Evanston, Wyo., who par-ticipated in his first event as an Aggie at the Classic, tied for 76th place with a 17-over 161(74-87). Ehlers is the first true freshman to travel with the team in seven years. Following the match, Johansen said that the fresh-man has adjusted well given the demands of the college game. “I think it was a good learning experience for him,” Johansen said. “College golf is so different than high school golf. I haven’t had a true fresh-man on the road with me in about seven years, and I forget what a shock it is for them to go out and play golf courses like that, in conditions like that ... it’s a little bit of a men-tal grind for them.” Alex Ching of San Diego

University won medalist honors with a seven-under 137 (67-70) while leading San Diego to first place for the event with a 12-under 564 (280-284). “Tim Mickelson (the head coach of San Diego)… does a real good job with the kids and they’ve got a strong team and have for a couple of years now,” Johansen said. While only five members are allowed for each event, all Aggie team members are working hard to gain a spot on the travel team for their next event, the Purple/Red Invitational, hosted by Weber State and the University of Utah on Oct. 11 in Layton, Utah. “The full roster is working hard to get out on the road and to help each other get bet-ter,” Johansen said.

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LONDON (AP) – She heard a terrible rumbling noise, then anguished cries for help as her rowboat pulled away from the sinking ocean liner Titanic that dreadful night in 1912. Now Laura Francatelli’s first-person account of the disaster, in the form of a signed affidavit that was given to a British board of inquiry, is set to be auctioned. It is a gripping firsthand account of how she and her two prominent employers – Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon and his socialite wife, Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon – managed to survive, f leeing in a rowboat with a capacity for 40 people even though they only had 12 people on board. “You see a lot of documents that talk briefly about the inci-dent, but this affidavit goes into strong details, it talks about Lady Duff being sick the whole time, about the lifeboat bobbing up and down, about the screams,” said Andrew Aldridge, an auc-tioneer at Henry Aldridge & Son, which plans to sell the affidavit and other Titanic memorabilia on Oct. 16. He said the letter will likely fetch between 10,000 pounds ($16,000) and 15,000 pounds in part because of the notoriety of Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff. “They were two of the most controversial survivors,” he said. “Sir Cosmo gave the crewmen who were in the lifeboat with him

5 pounds each, which was a tremendous amount of money at the time, and it was misconstrued at the time that he was paying blood money.” The implication is that the wealthy Sir Cosmo paid the crew-men to get him safely away from the sinking vessel without returning to help those who were drowning. But Aldridge said it is also possible that Sir Cosmo made the payments simply to express his gratitude. He said it is not surprising that Francatelli’s account is sympa-thetic to her employers and makes it sound as if Sir Cosmo paid the men “out of the goodness of his heart.” In her written statement, Francatelli, Lady Duff ’s personal sec-retary, described a scene of utter terror as they tried to get as far as possible from the Titanic. “We kept on rowing and stopping and rowing again,” she wrote. “I heard some talk going on all about the suction if the ship went down. I do not know who joined in the conversation. We were a long way off when we saw the Titanic go right up at the back and plunge down. There was an awful rumbling when she went. Then came the screams and cries. I do not know how long they lasted. We had hardly any talk. The men spoke about God and prayers and wives. We were all in the darkness.”

Rare Titanic survivor letter to be auctioned

TITANIC SURVIVORS Laura Francatelli, standing second right, and her employers Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon, standing 3rd left, and Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, standing directly behind Lady Lucy, standing on the rescue ship Carpathia. The photo was made available by auction-eers Henry Alderidge and Son on Oct. 7. AP photo

TUPELO, Miss. (AP) – When a Mississippi judge entered a courtroom and asked everyone to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, an attorney with a reputation for fighting free speech battles stayed silent as everyone else recited the patriotic oath. The lawyer was jailed. Attorney Danny Lampley spent about five hours behind bars Wednesday before Judge Talmadge Littlejohn set him free so that the lawyer could work on another case. Lampley told The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal

he respected the judge but wasn’t going to back down. “I don’t have to say it because I’m an American,” Lampley told the newspaper. The Supreme Court ruled nearly 70 years ago that schoolchildren couldn’t be forced to say the pledge, a decision widely interpreted to mean no one could be required to recite the pledge. On Thursday, the judge again asked those in the courtroom to pledge alle-giance to the f lag, which stands to the right of the bench.

Recite pledge or go to jail? Lawyer supports free speech

SEATTLE (AP) – A federal appeals court reversed course Thursday and upheld Washington state’s ban on voting by prison inmates in a case that challenged the dispropor-tionate effect it has on minority voters. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals caused a stir by ruling in January that Washington’s inmates should be allowed to vote. That decision was expected to give momentum to other efforts to expand vot-ing to inmates; only Maine and Vermont allow those behind bars to cast ballots. But an 11-judge panel reconsidered the case at a hearing in San Francisco last month and unanimously upheld Washington’s ban, which dates to 1866, before statehood. “This ruling affirms the rights of states to withhold the right to vote from those who’ve committed the most serious crimes against society,” Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna said. The judges said that to challenge the ban

under the Voting Rights Act, inmates would have to demonstrate intentional discrimination in the state’s criminal justice system – not just a disparity in the racial make-up of the prison population. The inmates suing in Washington made no such showing, they said. “Felon disenfranchisement laws have a long history in the United States,” the court said. “These laws predate the Jim Crow era and, with a few notable exceptions, have not been adopted based on racial considerations.” The suit against Washington’s law was filed by Muhammad Shabazz Farrakhan, formerly of Bellevue. He was serving a three-year sentence at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla for a series of felony-theft convictions when he sued the state in 1996. Five other inmates, all members of racial minority groups, later joined as plaintiffs. They argued the voting ban “results in a denial or abridgement of the right ... to vote on account of

race,” and thus violated the Voting Rights Act. The first milestone ruling in the case came in 2003, when a 9th Circuit panel ruled 2-1 that inmates could challenge the voting ban by presenting evidence of racial disparities in the prison population. The 9th Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to reconsider that ruling, but the 11-judge panel backed away from it, saying Thursday it was too sweeping and ran counter to opinions from other federal appeals courts. Instead, they adopted the rule that inmates must show intentional racial discrimination. McKenna and Secretary of State Sam Reed said they were pleased the court recognized there is no evidence of intentional discrimina-tion in the criminal justice system, but said they remain concerned about the disproportionate number of blacks in state prisons. Blacks make up about 4 percent of the Washington’s population, but 17 percent of the people under the Department of Corrections’

supervision. McKenna said that’s a dramatic improvement from a few decades ago, when the disparity was far more stark. He also said that some minorities – Hispanics, Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders – are actually underrepresented in the prison population. Last year, the Legislature passed a law that allows convicted felons to register to vote once they’re no longer on parole or probation. Previously, they couldn’t regain their voting rights until they paid all court-ordered fines and restitution – a hurdle that many found nearly impossible to overcome. Farrakhan was represented by a law clinic at Gonzaga University. The clinic did not imme-diately return a message seeking comment Thursday. Sarah Dunne, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington, which filed a friend-of-the-court brief, said she was disap-pointed by the ruling.

9th Circuit Court upholds ban on voting by inmates

ISLAMABAD (AP) – The video at first seems like many others filmed in Pakistan’s tribal areas: The bearded militant sits cross-legged on the floor, an AK-47 propped against the wall behind him. But as he applauds his three companions’ decision to join jihad, the words come out in fluent German: “Wir sind die Soldaten Allahs,” he says – “We are the soldiers of Allah.” Between 15 and 40 Germans and a smaller contingent of other Europeans are believed to be getting militant training in Pakistan’s lawless border region, intending to join the Taliban’s fight against NATO forces in neighbor-ing Afghanistan or return to Europe and strike at the soft underbelly of those countries.

Their presence has attracted fresh scrutiny after a European ter-ror warning based on information from a German-Afghan captured in Afghanistan, and a CIA drone strike Tuesday that allegedly killed eight German militants in North Waziristan – an al-Qaida and Taliban hub that the Pakistani army has so far left largely alone. The German speaker in the jihad video, Mounir Chouka, is one of two Bonn-born brothers with dual German-Moroccan citizenship well known for appearances in videos made by the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan apparently aimed at recruiting more militants from Germany. German federal prosecutors confirmed Thursday that the two are

under investigation on suspicion of membership in a terrorist organiza-tion. The clip appeared on a militant website earlier this summer, a nearly 40-minute video telling new recruits of the legitimacy of jihad, or holy war. “At every border crossing, at every airport and at every search, we pray to Allah ... to make these enemies blind,” he says. “Allah answered. The proof? We are here.” Germans are thought to be one of the largest European groups in Pakistan’s northwest, though informa-tion is scant. Most are believed to be immigrants from Muslim nations or their descendants. The Germans killed Tuesday were hit by a drone strike in Mir Ali, a town

about 20 miles from the border with Afghanistan. Reporters who have been to Mir Ali describe Internet cafes in the basement of shops where militants from all over the world watch extremist videos or send e-mails. The Pakistani army has a base nearby, but soldiers do not patrol the area. “For three or four months we have been hearing that there are people who say they are from Germany who have been trickling in one by one,” said retired Brig. Mahmood Shah, the for-mer chief of security of Pakistan’s trib-al regions. “Some people say that they are Turkish, or appear to be Turkish, or maybe Turkish from Germany.” Shah said the group is thought to include about 15 to 20 people but, he

conceded, “nothing much is known about them.” Many top al-Qaida Arab leaders are believed to be somewhere in the bor-der region, including Osama bin Laden and his Egyptian deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri. Of the Germans in the region, most recent attention has been on Ahmed Siddiqui, a German citizen of Afghan descent who had been in the Mir Ali area and was captured in Afghanistan in July. He is now being interrogated by U.S. forces at the Bagram Air Field, German and U.S. officials have said. American officials say Siddiqui pro-vided some details of an early-stage ter-rorist plot to attack targets in Britain, France and Germany, which led to the recent warnings in Europe.

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A. Richard NixonB. Barack ObamaC. Ronald ReaganD. Gerald Ford

2. What cabinet member in theBarack Obama administrationplayed on her college basketballteam?

A. Hilda SolisB. Kathleen SebeliusC. Janet NapolitanoD. Hillary Clinton

3. Name the track sprinter whocompeted in the 1936 Olympicsand later became a U.S. congress-man.

A. Marty GlickmanB. Ralph MetcalfeC. Jesse OwensD. Sam Stoller

4. Which influential U.S. sena-tor spent much of his spare timeas an amateur boxer before enter-ing the political stage?

A. Mitch McConnellB. Patrick LeahyC. Harry ReidD. Chuck Schumer

5. Name the former NBA bigman who won the Republicannomination for Oregon’s guberna-torial race in 2010.

A. Chris DudleyB. Bill WaltonC. Bill BradleyD. Arvydas Sabonis

6. What formerOklahoma quarterbackled a dynamic wish-bone offense beforebecoming thestate’s lieutenantgovernor?

A. Thomas LottB. Jack

MildrenC. J.C. WattsD. Cale Gundy

7. Which formerbaseball slugger playedthe role of a New Yorkstate senator adamantlyfighting to pass legislationagainst college hazing in amade-for-television movie fea-turing actress Linda Gray (of“Dallas” fame)? The movie’scentral theme focused on an anti-hazing message in relation to col-lege fraternities.

A. Mike SchmidtB. Harmon KillebrewC. Barry BondsD. Rusty Staub

8. Jack Kemp was MVP of theold American Football Leaguewith the Buffalo Bills beforebecoming a New York congress-man, vice presidential runningmate and secretary of Housingand Urban Development. Forwhich president did Kemp serveas HUD secretary?

A. George W. BushB. Ronald ReaganC. George H.W. BushD. Bill Clinton

9. On May 10, 2010, boxingsuperstar Manny Pacquiao waselected as a member of the Houseof Representatives in his nativePhilippines. Pacquiao also is thefirst Filipino athlete to:

A. Appear on “Dancing Withthe Stars”

B. Be named to PeopleMagazine’s “Most Beautiful” list

C. Win a gold medal in theSummer Olympics

D. Have his likeness on aPhilippine postage stamp

10. This former quarterbackfrom the Southeastern Conferencewas elected to the U.S. House ofRepresentatives from NorthCarolina’s 11th CongressionalDistrict in 2006. Name him.

A. Pat SullivanB. Bart StarrC. Tim CouchD. Heath Shuler

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1. C — Ronald Reagan played guard on thefootball team, led the swimming team and partici-pated in track and field for Eureka College inEureka, Ill., from 1928 to 1932. And, of course,he was an actor, too (remember him in the west-erns of the 1950s) and the 40th president.

2. B — Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of Healthand Human Services, graduated from TrinityCollege in Washington, D.C., in 1970. She playedon the basketball team there, as well as the tennisand field hockey squads. She still likes to playgolf and go jogging and scuba diving.Interestingly enough, her father John J. Gilliganwas the former governor of Ohio. When she waselected governor of Kansas in 2002, they becamethe nation’s first father-daughter governor team.

3. B — Ralph Metcalfe won the silver medalin the 100-meter dash (his friend Jesse Owenstook the gold) and a gold in the 400-meter relayin the 1936 Berlin Olympics, then was elected to

Congress from 1970 to 1978 in Illinois (1stCongressional District). Metcalfe, a co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus,also introduced the resolution that officiallyrecognized Black History Month.

4. C — Harry Reid, born inSearchlight, Nevada, was a mid-dleweight boxer in high school andjunior college. The title of Reid’smemoir: “The Good Fight: HardLessons from Searchlight toWashington.”

5. A — Chris Dudley, who played16 seasons in the NBA, including six

with the Portland Trail Blazers, won the guberna-torial primary in Oregon on May 18, 2010. The

6-foot-11 former center from Yale (with adegree in economics and politics) was mostknown for rebounding and missing an NBA-

record 13 consecutive free throws in onestretch. Dudley’s grandfather, Guilford

Dudley, served as ambassador toDenmark under Presidents Richard

Nixon and Gerald Ford. And, interestinglyenough, his wife also is named Chris.

6. B — Jack Mildren was elected lieutenantgovernor of Oklahoma in 1990, holding the posi-tion until 1994, when his bid to become governorfailed against Republican Frank Keating. Mildren,who was Oklahoma’s first wishbone quarterbackin 1971, led the Sooners to a school-record 567yards total offense per game that season, includ-ing 472 yards rushing, with 7.1 yard-per-carryaverage, also both school records.

7. C — Barry Bonds, who has 762 careerhome runs, played the role of Sen. Wilson in the1994 television movie, “Moment of Truth:Broken Pledges.” Bonds reportedly refused tojoin a fraternity when he attended Arizona StateUniversity because he did not want to participatein hazing.

8. C — Jack Kemp was secretary of Housingand Urban Development under President GeorgeH.W. Bush, being appointed on Feb. 13, 1989.Kemp, who was the AFL MVP in 1965, wasnamed as the vice presidential running mate forpresidential candidate Bob Dole in 1996 (BillClinton, of course, won the election).

9. D — Manny Pacquiao’s stamp, with thedesign handpicked by him, was issued as a limit-ed edition collectors’ item by the PhilippinePostal Corporation (PhilPost) in 2008. Pacquiao,who represents the southern province ofSarangani on the island of Mindanao, lost badlyin his previous attempt at the Filipino Congress in2007. Pacquiao is considered by many to be themost popular boxer in the world.

10. D — Heath Shuler, who was elected tothe U.S. House of Representatives from westernNorth Carolina in 2006, played quarterback forthe University of Tennessee from 1990-93.Shuler, who was the No. 3 overall pick in theNFL draft’s first round by the WashingtonRedskins in 1994, also is a member of the well-known Blue Dog Coalition, a caucus of moder-ate-to-conservative House Democrats.

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Who is the only U.S. Supreme Court justice tofinish as a runner-up in the voting for collegefootball’s prestigious Heisman Trophy?

That would be Byron “Whizzer” White, appoint-ed to the bench by President John F. Kennedy in1962. By the way, White, a star running back andRhodes Scholar from the University of Colorado(hence the “Whizzer”), finished second to Yale’sClinton Frank in the Heisman balloting in 1937.The next year, White led the NFL in rushing, andenjoyed a nice $15,000 salary, a hefty sum forthat era.

White’s is not the only tale ofathlete-turned-office holder. FromOrange Bowl MVP-turned-con-gressman J.C. Watts to BaseballHall of Famer-turned-senator JimBunning, the political bench offormer athletes is deep.

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Volleyball Tournament at Utah State. There will be men’s doubles, women’s doubles and coed 4’s divi-sions. Registration will be from 8 until 8:45 a.m. and play will start at 9 a.m. on Oct. 9 on the HPER field. Plan on a great tourney! The Chinese Students and Scholars Association is organizing a cook-out on Oct. 12 on the TSC Patio from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Come get a Lunch Box, which includes two entrees and rice/noodles. Stop by, you don’t want to miss this! Ed Prescott, who won the 2004 Novel Prize in Economics will speak on “Efficiently Financing Retirement.” The speech will be at 12:30 on Oct. 8 in the Christensen Auditorium. This is free and open to the public. Don’t miss the films you want to see by registering now to pur-chase Festival Passes and Ticket Packages. Discover priority Passes designed for locals. Registration ends Oct. 13. Visit www.sundance.org/festival/tickets/locals/. All are invited to attend a Peace Vigil Oct. 8 at 5:30 p.m. on the east side of Main Street between Center and 100 N. as we mark the milestone of the 9th anniversary of the beginning of the war in Afghanistan. Email info@loganpeace.org of you have ques-tions.Spencer Jensen will perform live at 6 p.m. on Oct. 8 at Pier 49 Pizza in Providence. He will be followed by Banjoman and Co. Timmy Pearce will perform live on Oct. 9 at 6 p.m. followed by Melody and Tyler. There is no cover charge! Upcoming dates for Cafe Ibis: Robert Linton on Oct. 8 from 6-8 p.m. Melody and Tyler On Oct. 10 from 12-2 p.m. Hilary Murray on Oct. 17 from 12-2 p.m. Opening Reception for Photographer Jessica Briggs and live music by Kris Krompel on Oct. 22 from 7-9 p.m. and Ryan and Bill on Oct. 24 from 12-2 p.m.