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What does that in loss to no. 13 San Diego State unmatched energy to each home football game? mean for you? see PAGE 4 see PAGE 3 see PAGE 2 Emissions reduction Gallons of Tradition plan released Exploring the history of Aggie Ice Cream PHOTO BY Associated Press In this July 1, 2013, file photo, gas emissions rises from a coal-burning power plant in Colstrip, Mont. One of the largest coal-fired power plants in the western U.S. will close two of its four units by Saturday, Jan. 4, 2020, as the Montana facility edges toward an eventual total shutdown. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File) be supportive of what we are By Karcin Harris proposing. But we will consid- NEWS STAFF WRITER er any concerns or opposing Two Utah State Universi- views based on their merit.” ty professors have explained Belmont has great hopes for the reason behind the recent the plan. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Re- “If implemented, I think this duction Draft Plan and their will be a huge benefit to USU,” hopes regarding feedback. he said. “The costs are actual- Patrick Belmont, an associ- ly very small and we believe ate professor from the water- it will be a huge step for USU PHOTO BY Samuel Woubshet towards a cleaner, healthier Aggie Creamery Manager Dave Irish shows some of the equipment used to create Aggie Ice Cream. shed sciences department, has served on the Steering Com- future. Beyond the environ- By Alek Nelson put on crops and other forms the war, the college invested The Creamery Today mittee for the Greenhouse Gas mental benefits of reducing MANAGING EDITOR of agriculture because there in new equipment to allow for After Aggie Ice Cream was Reduction Committee for nine our emissions, USU will begin to emerge as more of a leader Utah State University is a weren’t fridges to keep dairy a greater focus on dairy pro- sold in the Animal Science months. He, along with 24 in sustainability and that real- school built on traditions. products cold. As technology duction. Building on the Quad for many other faculty members, draft- ly matters to students. So I ex- From True Aggie Night to the advanced, however, the po- Wilster soon began to teach years, the Aggie Creamery and ed the plan. pect this will help us in recruit- annual Day on the Quad or tential for the dairy industry classes on ice cream produc- retail location were moved Belmont said there were ing and retaining students and from sledding down Old Main increased. tion and experiment with dif- in 1975 to the newly built daunting reasons behind cre- fundraising for future efforts. to singing “The Scotsman,” Aggie Ice Cream became a ferent flavors and recipes. In Nutrition and Food Sciences ating the plan. And in the long run, many of today’s USU students benefit staple of the Logan campus in the summer of 1922, the ice Building, where the creamery “In Oct. 2018, the Intergov- the recommendations save the from the Aggie Family that 1921, when the dairy depart- cream, milk and cheese pro- remains today. ernmental Panel on Climate University money. Once we came before them. ment of the UAC hired Gustav duced by Wilster and his stu- Dave Irish began working Change put out a daunting have demonstrated that we No tradition is more deli- Wilster, an Australian profes- dents were fed to about 2,500 as the creamery manager in report that summarized the have our own carbon pollution cious than a stop at the Aggie sor. When Wilster arrived on people who camped out on March 2017. He obtained his many, many problems that en- under control, USU can be a Creamery for a cup of famous campus, he envisioned mak- campus for an annual Farm- bachelor’s and master’s de- sue if we allow global warm- stronger voice advocating for Aggie Ice Cream. With 52,000 ing famous ice cream in Utah er’s Encampment. Flavors of grees from USU and had been ing to exceed 1.5 degrees accelerating emissions reduc- gallons of ice cream produced and teaching students how to ice cream included chocolate, working as a research scientist Celsius,” Belmont explained. tions at the national and glob- and sold every year, Aggie Ice make it, too. vanilla and raspberry. prior to his current position. “Many faculty and students al scale, and also improving Cream has become one of the While there had been a Wilster’s influence grew from As manager, he sees the effect were concerned and recog- air quality right here in Cache most iconic symbols of USU. creamery in the basement of there. Many of the students the Aggie Creamery has had nized that USU really needed Valley.” History Old Main prior to Wilster’s ar- who graduated from USU’s on the state. to accelerate our own efforts. Robert Davies, an associate When the Utah Agricultural rival, it had not been used for dairy program started success- “Everybody who makes ice Academic institutions have professor in the physics de- College, or UAC, was estab- ice cream and had not been a ful creameries throughout the cream in the state of Utah been leaders in understanding partment, has been working lished in 1888, emphasis was focus of the college with the state, including Casper’s Ice the causes, implications and see “Ice Cream” PAGE 6 onset of World War I. After Cream and Farr’s Ice Cream. solutions to climate change. on curriculum around climate We know how bad it could get change for many years and — and it could get really bad. was able to contribute to the USU loses OC to Minnesota So we have an obligation to draft plan effort. lead by example. That’s why Davies stated the direness be- we drafted the faculty senate hind the plan. Sanford gone after one year resolution and have worked so “It’s essentially impossible to hard on the report.” overstate the extreme risk we Minnesota’s football program ter Utah State’s record-break- a USU single-season record Belmont said the IPCC report now face, and the precarious to fill that same capacity in ing 2018 season under former 473 passes but threw far fewer was the “catalyzing factor,” but position we’re in as a society,” Minneapolis. The report first head coach Matt Wells and touchdowns than his previous “since that time an even more he said. “We are in a state of came via Yahoo Sports college then-OC David Yost that av- year (32 in 2018, only 20 in daunting report has come out planetary emergency and our football reporter Pete Thamel eraged 498.6 yards per game. 2019) and nearly tripled his from the US Army War Col- most powerful and impactful and corroborated minutes later Yost’s offense also contribut- 2018 interception total. Love’s lege.” institutions are nowhere close by Brett McMurphy of Stadium ed to setting a new Mountain completion percentage also Belmont said he and his co- to behaving like it. We’re out who made the same report. West record for points in a sea- dropped, falling from 64.0 to horts are asking for feedback of time for dithering. We know Sanford Jr. only coached one son, 618, an average of 47.5 61.9. “to raise awareness, help the what to do, we must do it right season in Logan, being brought per game. With Sanford Jr. out, Utah campus community under- now and this plan is the bare in alongside head coach Gary Though the 2019 Aggies State’s more veteran offensive stand the complexity of reduc- minimum we should be do- Andersen and defensive co- faced a considerably tougher players will have seen a third STATESMAN FILE PHOTO ing our emissions and their ing.” Mike Sanford, former USU OC ordinator Justin Ena. Before set of opponents than the 2018 offensive coordinator in three role in those efforts, and see if Davies said the plan was am- Utah State, Sanford Jr. spent team, along with the loss of seasons. Henry Colombi, the By Jason Walker there are other ideas that we bitious, but not complete with- two seasons as head coach at several key offensive contrib- man with the inside track to be SENIOR SPORTS WRITER have not yet considered.” out the support of others. the University of Western Ken- utors and most of the O-line, Love’s replacement at quarter- “We’re open to all kinds of “The draft plan is a good- In an early 2020 surprise, tucky. The former headed an regression among the offense back, will be one of said play- feedback,” he said.