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Utah State University DigitalCommons@USU The Utah Statesman Students 11-15-2010 The Utah Statesman, November 15, 2010 Utah State University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/newspapers Recommended Citation Utah State University, "The Utah Statesman, November 15, 2010" (2010). The Utah Statesman. 191. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/newspapers/191 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]. 1 Monday, Nov. 15, 2010 UtahThe Campus Voice tatesman SUtah State University • Logan, Utah • www.utahstatesman.com since 1902 Construction projects total 13 The Five-Year Plan 1. Jon M. Huntsman School of Business Addition $ 60 million USU anticipates state funding will support needed buildings by 2016 2. Fine Arts Complex Addition $20.3 million By DAN SMITIH 3. HPER Addition staff writer $45 million As USU continues expansion over the next 4. Biology-Natural Resources Renovation few years, its campuses will take on new fea- $45 million tures. The most recent work-in-progress is the 5. Animal Science Renovation new College of Agriculture building located $12 million immediately west of the business building. 6. Ray B. West Renovation “We have a lot of different projects that are $12 million at different stages of completion,” said Vice 7. Wind Turbine Generator President for Business and Finance Dave Cowley. A portion of the southwest exterior wall of $4 million the College of Agriculture building has been 8. Utility Tunnel Extension erected. Cowley said the almost-$46 million, $5 million state-funded project should be completed 9. Tooele Regional Campus Utilities around January 2012. $5 million “The old building is actually scheduled for 10. Brigham City Campus Addition demolition,” Cowley said, “It’s part of the proj- $5 million ect.” The current college of agriculture building is just south of the biology and natural resources 11. Regional Campuses and Distance Education building. Building The journalism and communications depart- $10 million ment will be moved to the new building along 12. Art Barn Renovation with agriculture upon completion. $2.5 million Each year as USU leaders put together their 13. Thermal Storage Tank $3 million -See LIST, page 4 THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE building begins construction on the east side of the Quad and will be completed around January of 2012. ANI MIRZAKHANYAN photo New building to house USU scientists believe organisms UPR, broadcast lectures went extinct before dinosaurs for housing distance education. By KASEY VAN DYKE layers within the rocks, which es a “microbial world.” By By MIKE BURNHAM date back 750 million years, studying these fossil records, staff writer Berret said the building will be located staff writer where the old dome-shaped Quonset hut is pre-dating the evolution of Dehler and Hayes found a Plans are underway to build a new state- now, on the corner of 700 North and 1200 Before the dinosaurs, there animals by 185 million years. “biotic change.” of-the-art distance education facility on East, across from Aggie Ice Cream. The were microscopic organisms, Sedimentary rocks are Hayes said it was originally campus, a hub for professors to broadcast building will be 2-3 stories with 8-12 class- and USU doctoral student formed when sediments pile believed that glaciations from their classes to campuses throughout the rooms. Dawn Hayes, along with assis- on top of each other and are a significant period of climate state. “All of the classrooms will be set up for tant professor Carol Dehler, pressed together with incred- change, known as Snowball Ben Berrett, director of planning, design what is called an origination classroom,” he believes these single-celled ible pressure. Among the dif- Earth, wiped out the single- and construction, said initial plans for the said. “That means the professor will be in creatures saw a mass extinc- ferent types of sedimentary celled organisms. The team 38,700 square-foot building began about Logan and it will be broadcasted out across tion. rocks are limestone, sandstone found this may not be accu- five months ago and are progressing nicely. the state.” Dehler and Hayes, both and shale, or compacted mud. rate. “We plan on breaking ground early Berret also said the building will be in the geology department, This is the type of rock they “We found low-diversity, spring next year,” Berrett said. “Probably used to house Utah Public Radio and the are studying the sedimentary are focusing on, said Dehler, high populations of fossil around March or April, and there should be Utah Education Network, as well as facilities rocks of the Uinta Mountains who even keeps bags of the assemblage under rocks that about a year of construction.” The comple- to educate faculty on campus technology and said their research sug- black shale on her desk. record the glaciation,” Dehler tion date in spring of 2012 is still tentative, and a testing center for students. gests an extinction of single- Dehler said they are inter- said. “This biotic change had though, due to weather conditions and Ronda Menlove, vice provost of regional celled organisms well before ested in this specific rock type already happened.” contractors, he said. There will also be addi- the evolution of animals. because it is organic-rich. She Dehler said they look at sedi- said that when looked at under tional time required once the building is -See RCDE, page 3 -See FOSSILS, page 3 completed to move in the electronics needed mentary rocks because of the a microscope, the shale expos- Council will strive to unify nationalities through week’s events By CATHERINE MEIDELL news editor International students compose seven percent of USU’s stu- dentbody and International Student Council President Christian Orr said he hopes this year’s International Education Week will help these students feel welcome in an unfamiliar culture. “The majority of this group is overlooked,” Orr said. “They have a rich, rich heritage, cultural traditions and personalities. They add not only so much to USU but to the community. If we overlook that, or undervalue that, they will stop coming here. They will not feel a part of us.” Varuna Ponnamperuma, International Student Council vice president and president of The HURD, said the week will give students from the U.S. a chance to experience culture that they nor- mally only view through the media. In addition, the international students will be given a chance to taste U.S. culture and “feel like they are not from another country,” Ponnamperuma said. THE MISS INTERNATIONAL PAGEANT will wrap up this year’s International Education Week. Miss International will be crowned, a Mr. International will also be chosen. They will perform talents representing their home countries. Photo courtesy International Student Council -See PAGEANT, page 4 Inside This Issue 11/15/10 Newcomer, www.utahstatesman.com Brockeith On-campus barber Pane, leads Check out The Joke’s On shop welcomes stu- USU in sec- You, a new feature on our dents to get a hair cut in ond-half win FunStuff page. Win a free between classes. over in-state lunch item just by being rival Weber funny. This is made for you! Page 5 State. Page 8 Official Student Newspaper of Utah State University • “It’s All The News You Need!” 2 Monday, Nov. 15, 2010 Page 2 World&Utah State University • Logan, UtahNation • www.utahstatesman.com ClarifyCorrect Arizona voters say yes to medical marijuana The policy of The Utah Statesman is to correct any error made as soon as PHOENIX (AP) – A measure that the proposed law. to buy more 2.5 ounces of marijuana every possible. If you find something you would legalize medical marijuana in “All of the political leaders came out two weeks or grow plants. would like clarified or find unfair, Arizona pulled ahead for the first time and warned Arizonans that this was going The patients must get a recommen- please contact the editor at 797-1762 Friday, with both supporters and oppo- to have very dire effects on a number of dation from their doctor and register or TSC 105. nents saying they believed the proposal levels,” said Carolyn Short, chairwoman of with the Arizona Department of Health that went before voters on Election Day Keep AZ Drug Free, the group that orga- Services. The law also allows for no more would pass. nized opposition to the initiative. “I don’t than 124 marijuana dispensaries in the Proposition 203 was ahead by 4,421 think that all Arizonans have heard those state. votes out of more than 1.63 million votes dire predictions. “Our law is written to be incredibly Nat’lBriefs counted. The measure started out losing “Election night and this entire week restrictive. We’re talking only about seri- by about 7,200 votes on Nov. 2 and the gap has been a very exciting time for us – we ously or terminally ill patients,” Myers Man once thought dead gradually narrowed in the following 10 just didn’t know we had actually lost,” said. “There are 14 medical marijuana days. Short said. “I am incredibly proud of our states, and for political reasons they arrested in kidnapping Only about 10,000 early and provi- small but dedicated army of volunteers decided to narrow in on (problems in) JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – The FBI sional ballots remain to be counted in the who worked very, very hard for months to California because they don’t believe that says a Mississippi man who was once state, and all are in Maricopa County.

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