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Utah State University DigitalCommons@USU The Utah Statesman Students 2-10-2015 The Utah Statesman, February 10, 2015 Utah State University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/newspapers Recommended Citation Utah State University, "The Utah Statesman, February 10, 2015" (2015). The Utah Statesman. 224. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/newspapers/224 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Students at DigitalCommons@USU. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Utah Statesman by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@USU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Sports/News the utah Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015 • www.usustatesman.com • (435)-797-1742 • Free single copy The Great One A look back at the impact Wayne Estes had on Utah State University 50 years after his death 4By Kalen Taylor high of 52 set earlier that season. A ago ended Estes’ life, his legacy and center on the 1965 team and the Estes’ junior season in 1963-64 sports editor downed power line grazed the top impact at the university continues first player to meet Estes in Logan. brought more of the same — only of the 6-foot-6-inch Estes’s head, to be felt to this day. “He was a great talent. As a player better. He shot the same percent- “Wayne Estes is dead, and sending electricity jolting through As a basketball player, they sim- he was never selfish. He was always age, upped his rebounds to 13 per Utah State will never be the his body. ply didn’t come any better. as interested in your success as he game and averaged 28 points. same because of it.” — The “This generation of Aggies will Originally recruited from was his own. He was the ideal team- “Wayne was a superstar,” said Utah Statesman, Feb. 10, never forget Wayne Estes,” said Anaconda, Montana to be a track mate. He was a leader by nature. If LeRoy Walker, a senior small for- 1965 Dr. Daryl Chase after his death. and field athlete, Estes asked the he had a good game, you usually ward on the 1965 team. “Everyone On Feb. 8, 1965, Utah State’s All- Chase was the 10th president of coaches if he would be allowed to won, and he didn’t have many bad loved him. He was never a selfish American basketball player Wayne Utah State University and held the try out for the basketball team. ones.” guy. He didn’t have an ego, and Estes tragically died 19 games into position from 1954 through 1969. When the coaches saw him play, After playing on the freshman he didn’t have an agenda when he his senior season. “He was the handsome youth he received a scholarship offer for squad his first season, as was played.” Estes was electrocuted in Logan in our midst who taught us all basketball and never looked back. required at the time, he averaged Saving the best for last, in the 19 while exploring the scene of a car dedication to our sciences, arts and The switch from track and field 20 points per game as a sophomore games he played as a senior Estes crash on the same night he scored our crafts. He taught us lessons in proved to be a great decision for while shooting 47 percent from the scored nearly 34 points per game 48 points in a game against Denver humility in times of victory,” he Estes. floor and 84 percent from the free — a record for points per game in — four points below his career- said. “He was outstanding from the throw line. He also grabbed nine While that fateful night 50 years beginning,” said Alan Parrish, a rebounds per game. jSee ESTES, Page 6 347 student social security ‘Traveling Shoes’ numbers shared by accident 4By Jeffrey Dahdah was just an unfortunate mistake that should news editor not have happened and that we are trying to aims to educate resolve as quickly as possible and mitigate 4By Mandy Morgan show. CEO and currently a profes- A list of 347 students names and social secu- any problems that might arise.” senior writer This show was not a per- sional storyteller, took on rity numbers were accidentally sent out via The university emailed the affected stu- formance merely meant to the role of eight different email to 1,033 people Friday. dents notifying them of the mishap and Eight stories, eight entertain. It was meant for historical African American The list was sent accidentally by a Utah apologizing. USU also offered to enroll the pairs of shoes lining the education. It was storytell- women in her show State University employee to the wrong list- students in a credit-monitoring program for edge of the stage, eight cos- ing. “Traveling Shoes,” which serve. Instead of the intended destination, the next year for free. tumes. One woman, one Janice Brooks, a former she performed Thursday at the email was received by student veterans, The mistake was described as “human Utah State University. whose emails were on the list-serve. The error.” The show was part of students whose social security numbers were “It was a personnel incident, meaning one the Provost’s Series on disclosed were also veterans. person disclosed wrong information inap- Instructional Excellence in “The short of it is it just hit the wrong list- propriately or accidentally,” Vitale said. “No celebration of Black History serve,” said Tim Vitale, executive director for Month. The show was spon- public relations and marketing at USU. “It jSee NAMES, Page 4 sored by Utah Public Radio and the Center for Women and Gender. Sojourner Truth, Barbara Jordan, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Shirley Chisholm, the Buffalo Soldier Cathay Williams and Utah pioneers Biddy Mason and Jane Manning came to life as Brooks shared their memories, his- tory and choices — as them. “The show — it’s educa- tional. It’s also a shared his- tory, not a white history or a black history but shared for us to remember,” said Brooks. This is one thing audi- ence-member Clara von Annie Hall photo Dohlen enjoyed about the Due to a clerical error, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences was excluded show. from the chart in “If USU was a village of 100” on Thursday. Here is an updated chart JANICE BROOKS PERFORMS as part of her ‘Traveling Shoes’ exhibit, which showcases eight stories of of the breakdown of colleges if USU’s student body was condensed into 100 people. influential African American women throughout history. jSee SHOES, Page 4 News Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015 Campus News Page 2 Brooks made sure every- “I have to reinforce I’m not American woman elected to one in the audience knew an actress. ... I am a storytell- serve in Congress who was Shoes about the strength each of er. I break the fourth wall,” “unbought and unbossed,” the eight women. Brooks said. “And some of the audience was invited to From Page 1 Brooks said she believed it is delivered very organic. tip their hats off to her. there are many details of ... I can get into a woman on “Storytelling — it’s “Right now there’s a lot each of these women’s lives stage, but sometimes I don’t almost like a stew pot. I have of ‘Black Live Matters’ and that people are unaware know how I’ll get out. ... I do menus, facts of life, and I’ve stuff in the news, and I think of. Part of what she want- it with the audience. I change got to make a soup. It won’t it’s interesting how little of ed from the show was for what I say. There are parts in ever taste the way that it did that is being focused on here people to walk away educat- the show that I have planned, before. This is what keeps and how it’s about all of us,” ed and empowered by the and others that are just open it on storytelling,” Brooks von Dohlen said. “Each of example of the women and to see where it goes. ... We’re said. us, women, everyone — (the finer points of their stories. in this together.” Brooks said she hopes show) is about us all.” Brooks personally Throughout the show, that the audience “will come Von Dohlen, the daughter researched, wrote and pre- Brooks engaged the audi- away inspired, take some- of a biology professor at USU pared the entire show over ence through song, snapping thing into their own life. I and a student at Macalester a number years, but it first and encouragement of the want it to return a spark or College in Minnesota, said debuted at Dixie State different characters. As Rosa reinforce an idea.” she believed this type of University in March. Soon Parks sat on the bus and As she shared segments show is what people need to after, word got out, and uni- sang “Amazing Grace,” the of Barbara Jordan’s famous help deal with everything in versities across the state were audience sang along. After 1976 Democratic Convention the news about Brown and asking Brooks to come and Brooks told about Shirley keynote address, Brooks Ferguson. do the show for them. Chrisholm, the first African hoped that the words, “The “I think she should go American idea, though it is national. ... This is exactly shared by all of us, it is real- the kind of peace-bring- ized by each of us,” would ing people need,” said von penetrate hearts in this day. Dohlen.