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BY ADDISON M.T. HALL sub-zero temps staff writer

The student body presidency at USU said their show patterns goal was to make students better prepared for life after college. Education First, a branch of a group BY PAUL CHRISTIANSEN called Prosperity 2020, is working with USU for the staff writer upcoming legislative session to achieve that goal. Erik Mikkelsen, who represents students in Utah Biting, bleak, numbing and to the Utah Board frigid. of Regents, said All are words used by some In the Know Prosperity 2020 members of the USU student wants to secure a body to describe recent Cache ˆ8LIWXEXI better future for Valley weather conditions. PIKMWPEXYVI business in the “People are probably think- GSRZIRIW.ER state. ing, ‘Why was this winter so “Prosperity cold?’” said Dr. Robert Gillies, XLVSYKL 2020 is a group of state climatologist and direc- 1EVGL business leaders tor of the Utah Climate Center. who see educa- “Well yes, it was cold, but it’s tion as being very been a lot colder in the past important for the too.” future of Utah,” Mikkelsen said. “A lot of their Despite record-high tem- ideas and their goals come from a study that was peratures for Utah in 2012 and done that says that Utah needs to have 66 percent ever-progressing studies of of the adult population with postsecondary degrees global warming, students have by 2020 to be competitive in the nation and the been questioning why Logan world’s economies.” has been so cold since the Mikkelsen said Education First is the political semester’s start. Some repre- action group within Prosperity 2020 that deals with sentatives for the Utah Climate the Utah legislature directly and has been working Center have been willing to with USU and other public universities to get more address those questions. attention for public education. “It’s winter. The global “Last year they had a heavy focus on getting del- warming piece of climate egates who would be committed to voting for can- change doesn’t mean that the didates who would support education,” Mikkelsen seasons go away,” said Dr. said. “So they raised a bunch of money and did a Robert Davies, a research whole bunch of training on campuses but mostly associate for the Utah Climate in businesses throughout the state to encourage Center. “When you look at people who support education to go and become the variability in temperature delegates to vote for those candidates.” between seasons in any place Ben Wilson, executive vice president for ASUSU, on the planet, except maybe said one of the key things Education First is doing the tropics, it’s a big range, to further higher education is funding lobbying typically tens of degrees.” efforts made by USU and other institutions. CACHE VALLEY’S COLD WEATHER is nothing new. This file photo shows “They want to boost the percentage of Utahns the snow blanketing vegetation on the road to Tony’s Grove. Statesman file photo See COLD, Page 3 who are college educated,” Wilson said. “One of the ways they are doing that is funding, which of course is good for us. It’s a partnership between students, administration and business all to improve the higher education in Utah.” Wilson said the funding is necessary but over- French warplanes hit Mali shadowed by different kinds of support USU gets from Education First. BY EDWARD CODY AND “It’s more than them just funding this,” Wilson CRAIG WHITLOCK said. “Lending us their voices is a huge part of it Washington Post and is really important to us.” Wilson said Utah is one of the more popular PARIS — The new push brought places for businesses to foster growth in the U.S. the desert fighters to within 250 miles Without the help of lobbying efforts by the differ- northeast of Bamako, the capital. It ent universities and support from Education First, also dramatized the extent to which the Wilson said Utah would start to lose its popularity irregular Islamist forces, well-armed and economy. and mobile aboard speedy pickup “There’s a number of reasons that businesses trucks, remain a threat even after come to Utah,” Wilson said. “People talk about our four days of French bombing and the low taxes and things like that, but low taxes isn’t deployment of more than 500 French the whole picture. The fact that we have some great soldiers to bolster the overwhelmed institutions, Utah State first and foremost among Malian army. them, in the state is one of the big things that bring French President Francois Hollande’s businesses here.” government has vowed to pursue the He said if higher education isn’t a higher priority buildup of French ground and air in Utah, future business would be impossible. forces and remain in Mali as long as “It doesn’t matter if you have lower taxes if you necessary to hold off the Islamist mili- have no one to work for your company,” Wilson tias, introduce a pan-African force and said. train the disorganized Malian army to Mikkelsen said the focus of Education First was restore state authority across the vast to not only to attract more attention to higher edu- West African nation. cation across the state, but to all levels including The 15-nation Economic Community ing airlift and “limited logistical sup- conflict, but said one option under kindergarten and the first grade. of West African States (ECOWAS) port” to French troops fighting there, consideration would be to deploy trans- “To reach that goal of having 66 percent of pledged to contribute more than 3,000 Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said port aircraft to move French troops or the populace, we’re going to have to increase the troops for the force, which France has Monday. equipment. number of people who come to higher education,” been eager to get organized so it can U.S. defense officials said they were The Obama administration previ- Mikkelsen said. “We’re going to have to increase depict its intervention as a coopera- reviewing requests for assistance from ously ruled out placing “U.S. boots on the percentage of students who graduate from insti- tive effort. ECOWAS military chiefs France. Islamist fighters and Tuareg the ground” in Mali. Officials travel- tutions of higher education.” scheduled a meeting for Tuesday, but rebels have gained control of the north- ing with Panetta declined to comment Mikkelsen said the group has been working on the arrival of the first African soldiers, ern half of the country over the past when asked if U.S. transport aircraft a two-part project to show the government how promised since Saturday, has repeat- year, enabling al-Qaida’s affiliate in might land in Mali to help the French, many people support Education First and to call for edly been delayed. North Africa to function unimpeded in or if the territory remained off limits. more priority given to education. He said last year “The African forces are gather- a swath of territory the size of Texas. In Washington, State Department a petition was signed by 33,000 students to show ing,” said Gen. Shehu Abdulkadir, “We have a responsibility to go after spokeswoman Victoria Nuland gave no they wanted more focus on higher education. This a Nigerian who is to lead what will al-Qaida wherever they are,” Panetta timetable for a U.S. decision on assis- year students across the state are signing a pledge be called the International Support told reporters as he began a week-long tance, but some provision of commu- to graduate on time. Education First has a goal of Mission for Mali, or MISMA by its trip to Europe. “We’re going after nications gear or other help appeared 40,000 signatures on this new petition. French-language initials. them in Yemen and Somalia, and we likely. The United States is offering Both petitions will be presented before the state Britain offered to provide several have a responsibility to make sure that training for African forces to serve as legislature during session, which begins Jan. 28 and U.S.-made C-17 transport planes to al-Qaida does not establish a base for reinforcements and is urging a speedy lasts until March 14, and both petitions will be pre- ferry in the African troops and their operations in North Africa, in Mali.” deployment for the African-led force, sented before the state during the session. equipment. Panetta declined to provide details she said. about what kind of military assis- The Pentagon may become involved See MALI, Page 3 – [email protected] in the military operations by provid- tance the Pentagon might bring to the Page 2 CampusNews Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013 Pa. school increases child safety

BY ELI SASLOW on a $7 million deficit, but Washington Post some priorities demanded spending. BUTLER, Pa. — Four The school board worked hundred miles from out details with a solicitor, Sandy Hook Elementary, a who submitted a proposal Pennsylvania superinten- to a judge, who came into dent named Mike Strutt left work on a Sunday to sign a morning meeting on Dec. an emergency order. Before 14 and decided to place his the first funeral began in schools on “threat alert.” Newtown, Butler’s head of He was concerned about a school security began calling copycat attack on the day retired state troopers to ask of the Connecticut shoot- two questions with major ing. But, as he read reports implications for the future of the massacre, he started of public education: to worry more about some- Did they own a personal thing else. firearm? For 20 years he had spe- Would they be willing to cialized in school safety, carry it into an elementary filling three binders with school? security plans and lockdown Frank Cichra owned a drills — all of which felt gun that he was willing to suddenly inadequate. In the carry, so he arrived early last case of an attack, would a week at a shooting range “threat alert” do him any in the mountains outside good? Butler, hoping to qualify as He looked out his office an armed school policeman. window at the snow- He wore snow boots, a heavy covered trees of western jacket and earmuffs that Pennsylvania and imagined doubled as ear protection a gunman approaching from the cracking sound one of Butler County’s 14 of gunfire. He slipped on schools, allowing the attack gloves and cut the black fab- FRANK CICHRA PATROLS a hallway at Summit to unfold in his mind. In ric away from his right index Elementary School in Butler County, Pa., above. Left, came the gunman past the finger. Retired state trooper Al Vish fires a Glock handgun during unarmed guards Strutt a qualifying session for would-be school guards in Butler “Won’t hit the target County, Pa. Washington Post photos had hired after Columbine; unless I can feel the trigger,” past the metal detectors he he said. trooper operated like a traf- ers’ cardboard gingerbread had installed after Virginia He loaded the magazine fic light on yellow, always on men that decorated the Tech; past the intercom and of his .40-caliber Beretta edge, anticipating whatever walls. Summit Elementary surveillance system he had as a half-dozen other men might come. had been built when admin- updated after Aurora. arrived at the range. Like In came a boy, 8, tripping istrators feared a fire more Strutt stood from his desk Cichra, they all were retired over his untied shoelaces. than anything else, and it and called the president of Pennsylvania state troopers “You’re going to fall and had five sets of doors to the Butler County School who had been recruited as hurt yourself, son,” Cichra allow for easy exit. Now Board, Don Pringle. guards. said. those doors were possible “This could happen here,” Butler County had cut 75 In came a boy, 6, with entrances for an attack, and Strutt said. “Armed guards teaching and administra- crayons spilling out his Cichra double-checked the are the one thing that gives tive positions in the last five ages 5, 14 and 17, attending Seven yards. pocket. “Let me get those for locks and shook the handles. us a fighting chance. Don’t years because of a shrink- schools near Butler. “Kill shot.” you,” Cichra said, bending Every once in awhile, a we want that one thing?” ing budget, but now the “We might not like it, but Two yards. over to collect them. student approached him That question has preoc- district of 7,500 students the modern reality is our “He’s wearing a vest. Aim In came a girl, 10, carry- to ask a question. Did he cupied schools across the couldn’t hire armed guards kids are vulnerable, and for the head!” ing her backpack though the carry a gun? Did he have any country since 27 people died fast enough. It had added a they need our help,” he said. Cichra fired his last round metal detector, which set off secret weapons like Batman? in Newtown, Conn., last new insurance policy and “Nobody’s doing this job for and holstered his weapon. the alarm. “I’m sorry,” she Did he have an extra badge month, and the emerging $230,000 to the annual money.” The instructor studied the said. She handed Cichra her to give away? solutions reflect the nation’s security budget in order to In front of him on the mangled target and counted pink binder and her lunch One student, a fifth-grad- views on gun control. In a arm and employ at least 22 range was a trooper who his score. Cichra had been bag. He opened it and sifted er, wanted to know if Cichra divided America, guns are former state troopers — had retired four days ear- shooting guns for most of through the contents inside. had ever needed to pull his either the problem or the enough to station at least lier because he thought the his life: hunting rifles as a String cheese. Goldfish. weapon. He thought for a solution, with little consen- one guard at each school and school district needed him kid; an automatic M-16 in Chocolate milk. “Looks minute about his decade on sus in between. A dozen every after-school event. In and another who had just the Army; a revolver, a Glock good,” he said, handing the midnight patrol in the lonely states have proposed legisla- a town where hunting guns spent $600 to buy his first and the Beretta as a state bag back to the girl. “Looks outreaches of Butler County tion to put armed guards hung on the wall of the pros- personal weapon, a Glock, trooper. He put on a gun in tasty.” — the heroin addicts, the in schools; five others have ecutor’s office and the rifle so he would have a gun with the morning like he put on He had decided the best car crashes, the trips to drafted plans to officially team won championships, which to qualify. Smoke rose his glasses or his watch. He way to carry a gun in an notify families of dead, the disallow them. the decision to arm guards from the targets and the needed to score a 226 out of elementary school was to act drunk who had charged at Groups in Utah are had elicited a single protest. smell of burnt powder filled 300 on the test to qualify as nothing at all like a person him with a knife and forced training teachers to carry One family boycotted school the air. an armed school guard. The carrying a gun. A few of Cichra to pull his Beretta, their own guns, Tennessee for a day before returning The first group of shoot- instructor came back with a the other school guards in the closest he had ever come is hiring armed “security the next. ers rotated out, and Cichra score sheet. Butler wore old police vests to firing a weapon. None of specialists” for $11.50 an The district’s hiring holstered his Beretta and Sixty shots fired. Fifty- and displayed guns on their the stories felt appropriate hour and the National Rifle requirements for guards took his position on the nine to the chest and one to hips, but Cichra dressed here. Association is working on were at once simple and range. The instructor the head. in reading glasses, khaki “Nothing big,” he said. a plan to arm school vol- absolute: only retired state explained that the test was “A real marksman,” the pants, a collared shirt and “Just for some police work.” unteers even as teachers troopers with 20 years of meant to simulate a firefight instructor said. a sweater that covered up He went back to the desk gather in protest outside the experience who owned a gun — “a worst-case scenario,” He had scored a perfect his Beretta. He sat by the at the front of the school and group’s headquarters. and could pass a 60-round he said. Cichra would be 300. entrance, reading a newspa- watched the door for $14.71 At stake in the debate are shooting test. asked to shoot with one That qualified him to per and studying attendance an hour. He wondered: Was basic questions about the Cichra, 46, paced in the hand and then with two; carry his Beretta to work the lists so he could memorize he protecting kids’ environ- future of gun control in the snow to keep warm and while kneeling and while next morning at Summit students’ names. Whenever ment or changing it? United States. Do guns in watched the first few troop- standing; while walking Elementary, a single-story one walked by, Cichra “It’s a fine line,” he said. schools assuage fears or fuel ers begin the test. He had backward and while moving school of about 200 students stretched out his right hand He had brought along them? Do they keep students been retired for exactly toward the target. “Listen to located amid the shale mines to give a high-five. “Hit a book called “American safe or put them at risk? seven months on the day of me and focus on the threat,” and snowfields on the edge me,” he said, until his palm Sniper,” a soldier’s memoir Here in Butler, a shale- the shooting in Newtown the instructor said. “Imagine of town. Cichra arrived early turned red and a teacher that showed a picture of an mining town in the woodsy and that had felt like you are closing in on the and turned on a metal detec- stopped by to offer hand automatic rifle on the book’s hills north of Pittsburgh, long enough. He couldn’t shooter.” tor at the front entrance. sanitizer. cover. Now he removed the Strutt and the school board stand watching TV. Home Cichra took aim at a He loaded one bullet into “We usually think of cover and hid it inside the decided their reaction to improvement bored him. He silhouette target from 25 the chamber so he could germs as our number one drawer of his desk. “The Newtown could allow for had spent four years in the yards. fire instantaneously in case threat,” the teacher said. kids don’t need to be seeing neither hesitation nor ambi- Army and 21 more on patrol “Fire!” the instructor of an attack and 11 more Every few hours, Cichra that,” he said. guity. No local school had — a career built on the hard yelled, as gunshots echoed into a magazine. He sat at a made coffee in the faculty He sat by the door and ever experienced a gun-relat- reality of “good guys versus off the mountains. desk facing the glass doors, lounge and then patrolled read the book with its cover ed threat, but neither had bad,” he said, and Newtown Fifteen yards. his eyes scanning the park- the school’s two long hall- off, feeling now and again, Sandy Hook Elementary. offered him another mis- “Hit his chest,” the ing lot. A sergeant had told ways, stopping along the out of habit, for the Beretta The district was running sion. He had three kids, instructor shouted. him once that a good state way to admire the first-grad- on his hip.

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This is one mechanism that the challenges of college life while creates change in temperature, but it dif- they prepare for counseling. Open fers from global warming. to all students and staff, this work- “Global warming is caused principally shop surveys common concerns and by greenhouse gases building up in the presenting issues, as well as a model atmosphere and that is producing an for reviewing thoughts, feelings and effect,” Davies said. “On an absolute scale, needs. It also provides practice for it is much smaller. The temperature has value clarification and basic behav- gone up about two degrees Fahrenheit ior change to help students cope. globally in the last 150 years. Compare Participants will be encouraged to that two-degree-average rise in global read brief articles and keep a one- annual temperature to a 30 or 40 degree page journal of change. Please call seasonal spread and what you find is a to reserve your seat. 797-1012 small trend on a much larger amplitude oscillation.” AN OWL FLIES over a drainage ditch southwest of Smithfield. Many owls spend cold Davies likened climate change to waves winters in Cache Valley and have adapted to low temperatures. Statesman file photo Football team fueled by an ocean tide. “A tide might be six feet,” he said. “At finishes top 25 the end of the day they might go six feet decreasing. we don’t fully understand those mecha- further up the beach than they did before, “Because we have a lot of snow on the nisms. We’re doing a lot here to better For just the third time in school but the interval between any two given ground, we had a big ridge sit over us for understand these things.” history, Utah State football ended a waves might be 20 feet. The notion with nine days,” he said. “It allowed a lot of Gillies and Davies said they urge people season nationally ranked as it is listed climate change is this very long-term emission of energy from the surface, and to obtain a better understanding of the 16th in the final Associated Press (AP) trend. Embedded in that trend is this vari- then cold air pooled into the valley. If you differences between climate change and poll and 17th in the final ESPN/USA ability — in this case a seasonal variabil- were down in the valley, it was a lot colder year-to-year temperature variations. Today Coaches’ poll that were released ity — and that doesn’t go away because the than if you were up in the mountains.” “We’ve got global warming and yet it’s Jan. 8, 2013. mechanism is something totally different.” Although 2012 was the warmest year in still cold outside,” Davies said. “But global USU also finished the year ranked Davies said the general winter tem- recorded U.S. history, Gillies said people warming in the arctic is four times the 22nd in the final Bowl Championship perature trend is rising. The average rise often forget it wasn’t the warmest year for global average and it’s still plenty cold up Series (BCS) standings. in the winter temperature would also be every place in the country. For Utah and there. It’s not as cold as it once was, but In the AP poll, Utah State received different than the average rise in summer Salt Lake City it was the warmest year on within that average there’s a lot of fluctua- 456 votes, up from 379 votes in the temperature. record, but it wasn’t the warmest on record tion.” last poll released Dec. 2 when the “Often it comes to people’s memories of for Cache Valley. “Global warming doesn’t mean the sea- Aggies were ranked 18th nationally. In temperatures,” Gillies said. “Last year we “We’ve looked back at the last 50 years sons go away,” Davies said. “They’re two the coaches’ poll, USU garnered 444 had no significant temperature inversions of Utah temperatures and done studies different things entirely. Winter will still votes in the final poll after getting in the valley but we just had one this year.” that use climate diagnostics,” Gillies said. be cold.” 334 votes in its previous poll when the Gillies said the recent amount of snow “We can show the troposphere — the Aggies were ranked 20th. in Cache Valley hasn’t helped the tempera- surface up to about 12 kilometers — has – [email protected] Utah State ended the 2012 season ture inversion, an event in which air tem- warmed up in a long-term trend. When it Twitter: @PChristiansen86 appearing in the AP poll four-straight peratures increase with altitude instead of comes to this variability from year to year, weeks for the first time in school his- tory, bettering the 1960 team that was ranked 18th and 19th nation- ally in back-to-back weeks. Dating MALI: French forces provide air support in African conflict back to 1991, when the ESPN/USA Today Coaches’ poll began, the 2012 From page 1 military personnel. column was scattered by French Gazelle heli- season marked USU’s first-ever rank- The fighting, meantime, is driving tens copter gunships and Mirage 2000D fighter- ing in that poll. USU had also never Planning before last week’s emergency of thousands of Malians out of their vil- bombers over the weekend. Bombers pursued French intervention called for African forces appeared in the BCS standings prior lages. The United Nations said Monday that retreating fighters northeastward, hitting to this year. to deploy in the fall, and ECOWAS leaders an estimated 30,000 people may have been their rear headquarters in the city of Gao on were caught short by Hollande’s decision to For Utah State, it is the first displaced as a result of the latest fighting. Sunday and inflicting what residents said time it ended a season nationally telescope events, according to Tony Chafer, a Additionally, a U.N. spokesman said, some were dozens of casualties. specialist on French-African relations at the ranked since 1972 when that team reports indicate that even more civilians are A MUJAO leader, Omar Ould Hamaha, finished with an 8-3 record and University of Portsmouth in England. trying to flee the north but are being pre- vowed that despite the setback the group It will take some time to organize, train was ranked 19th in the final United vented from doing so by Islamist groups. would live to fight another day. He urged the Press International (UPI) poll. The and transport any pan-African force beyond Since last March, 230,000 people have French army to send ground troops into the a few symbolic units, he said, “and they will only other time USU ended a season been displaced by the fighting and insecurity, northern area and fight “like real men.” nationally ranked was in 1961 when need somebody to provide airlift capacity.” according to Eduardo Del Bey, a U.N. spokes- “We’ll welcome them with open arms,” The United States, France, the United that team posted a 9-1-1 record and man. he said in a telephone interview with French was ranked 10th in both the final AP Nations Security Council and several African French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le radio Europe 1. “France has opened the countries have been working for months on a and UPI polls. Drian said the Islamist offensive that began gates of hell. It has fallen into a trap much Prior to the 2012 season, the last joint plan to intervene militarily in Mali, one Wednesday comprised two columns head- more dangerous than Iraq, Afghanistan or of the poorest and most remote countries in time a Utah State team was nation- ing south from the vast redoubt in northern Somalia.” ally ranked was in 1978 when that the world. Mali, where Islamist groups have roamed The second column, dominated by AQIM The planning, however, has been under- Aggie team started the year with a 5-0 freely for the past eight months and set up a fighters, moved farther to the west, along the record and was 18th in the country in mined by strategic disagreements, a lack of “caliphate” under strict Islamic law. Mauritanian border. It stormed down Sunday firm commitments to send troops and Mali’s the UPI poll. As for the AP poll, it is One column attacked the town of Konna night and early Monday took over Diably, Le the first time USU has been nationally internal political dysfunctions. The country’s on Thursday and headed toward Mopti, 300 Drian said. But he said that the Malian army democratically elected president was toppled ranked since 1961. Overall, it is just miles northeast of Bamako. It was made up was putting up stiff resistance with backing the seventh time in school history, last March in a coup led by a rogue Army primarily of combatants from the Movement from French air power. captain who had received military training in including the fourth time this year for Unity and Jihad in West Africa, or MUJAO The U.S. military has been sharing intel- that USU has been nationally ranked the United States. Factionalism has worsened by its French-language initials. ligence about the Mali rebels with France, an since then as Islamist fighters tightened their in the weekly AP poll. MUJAO is a spinoff of the main North exchange that will continue, according to a Nationally, Utah State is one of just grip on the northern half of the country. African Islamist group Al-Qaida in the senior U.S. defense official who spoke on the Another complication is that the United 17 teams to finish the 2012 season Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, which includes condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive with 11 or more wins. States is prohibited by law from providing many battle-hardened Algerians who fought operations. The official said the Pentagon direct military assistance to the Malian gov- the government for years before migrating to was also considering whether to deploy air Preacher Moss to ernment because of the coup. The Pentagon Mali. tankers to Africa to provide mid-air refueling had to shut down training and aid programs Although it had seized Konna, the first for French warplanes. in Mali last year and remove virtually all speak Wednesday Preacher Moss, a talented speaker Contact USU Police at 797-1939 who is on tour with his act “The End for non-emergencies. of Racism,” will speak Wednesday in Anonymous reporting line: 797-5000 the TSC Ballroom. He is an engaging PoliceBlotter EMERGENCY NUMBER: 911 speaker with a great sense of humor as well as sentiment. Friday, Jan. 4 USU Police Department. This item was the female individual dropped off the The comedic lecture is free of charge found at the USU Spectrum after a bas- phone to the USU card office. and open to USU students, alumni, fac- ‡8683ROLFHUHVSRQGHGWRDXWLOLW\ ketball game. ulty, staff and the public. problem at the HPER. The pool fan in ‡8683ROLFHUHVSRQGHGWRDUHSRUW the mechanical room was leaking. A Sunday, Jan. 6 of a reckless driver who hit a parking report was filed with USU Police. gate at the Aggie Terrace. The driver of ClarifyCorrect ‡&RPSODLQWDQWUHSRUWHGWR868SROLFH the vehicle contacted USU Police. The ‡8683ROLFHUHVSRQGHGWRDVPRNLQJ that he had seen smoke in the USU cen- vehicle’s brakes had failed and had hit problem in the area of Mountain View tral energy plant. The smoke was due the parking gate. In the Jan. 10 issue, in an article Tower. A male student was arrested to a vehicle that had the engine run- titled “Spectrum will fear no beard,” for minor in possession of tobacco. A ning and had emitted a large amount Thursday, Jan. 10 Jeffery Hofheins was misquoted say- ing “With the whole ‘stand strong, report was filed with USU Police. of exhaust. stand together,’ that’s what I wasn’t ‡8683ROLFHUHVSRQGHGWRDVXVSL- thinking.” Saturday, Jan. 5 Monday, Jan. 7 cious activity incident at Aggie Terrace. 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Sarah Dallof’s colleagues, professors, and bosses would all agree on one thing, she can do it all. Whether behind the cam- era, putting together stories, editing, producing, and most of all reporting about the world we live in — she has taken her education and experience to places she never expected. Alumna Sarah Dallof gradu- ated with a degree in commu- nications with an emphasis in broadcasting. She is currently freelance reporting in Vietnam for Utah news channel KSL. “Reporting in Vietnam is exactly what I wanted and it has worked out perfect,” she said. “I have averaged about one story a month, and I have covered stories in Thailand, and Cambodia.” Dallof said she has always hoped to visit Southeast Asia again, and continue her career while traveling. “From the first time I visited this country I always had the thought in my head, ‘what if I was able to come over here and continue to do what I love and combine that with the adventure of living in southeast Asia,’” she said. “But if you would have told me five years ago that I would be living in Vietnam, no, I wouldn’t believe ers, are naturally curious and it.” can look at things a little bit Utah State retired broadcast differently, and are interested professor, Penny Byrne, said she in the world around them,” said had Sarah as a student in vari- Keri Wilcox, deputy managing ous classes. editor at KSL. “And it helps that “She was an excellent writer, she has a fun, outgoing, bub- and was prepared to do any bly, gregarious personality that task in terms of journalism,” came across on the TV really Byrne said. “Her commitment well.” was very broad in the journal- Dallof said she would love ism major. She was really eager to continue reporting abroad to do work in journalism, and I and learning new things in the was very pleased when she went future. into broadcast. Although she “I have learned while living 979%0912%7%6%, was also an excellent producer.” in Vietnam,” she said. “Shaking (%003* reported for Dallof had various options up the world really opens your Utah news channel KSL in eyes to all the possibilities and Southeast Asia. Dallof poses as far as directions to take with with children in Jibhi, India, her completed education, but careers. I would love to contin- above. Dallof sits with local said reporting is what she had ue reporting internationally.” schoolchildren in Thailand, always dreamed of doing. Wilcox said they were very right, where she traveled on “I think what drew me into lucky at KSL to have Dallof as a assignment three different reporting was the ability able reporter in Southeast Asia. times. Photos courtesy Sarah to do something different every “It was a pleasant surprise Dallof day, and to have insight on when she offered to do free- respectfully. many people lives and see what lance reporting for us as she to share a visit from her soror- State would probably any of the “It is completely different they do and how they live,” traveled to Vietnam due to ity sisters a short time ago. true aggie nights or homecom- from reporting somewhere Dallof said. reasons from her personal life,” “These are three friends I ing nights,” she said. “Going where I can call up nearly any- “While Sarah was a student Wilcox said. “We jumped all have had for years that came to to the ‘A’ with all of my friends one and receive the information in my newscast class I got to over it when she said she would visit me in Vietnam,” she said. and meeting so many people needed for my story,” she said. know her pretty well,” she said. love to report internationally. “They flew out for two weeks to there is a major highlight of “I have been fortunate enough “She took a law class and writ- I mean, what other Utah news stay with me, we stayed in Ho my college years. Utah State to have all my shoots go well ing class from me as well. I station can say they have a Chi Minh, went up the coast to is just such a close knit school out here, people are gracious, invited her back to Utah State Southeast Asia bureau.” beaches, and we had a blast.” that offers so many activities to and it has been a great experi- after she graduated for student Dallof said it is unique to Dallof said she enjoyed her meet new friends, I absolutely ence. Although my vietnamese career days and things like report in different countries time in Logan, and had many loved it in Logan.” isn’t the best, and isn’t fair to that.” due to the major changes in fond memories of her college anyone.” “At KSL we look to hire the press laws, and you might years. – [email protected] Dallof is a member of Kappa people who are good storytell- not be as welcome or treated “My favorite memory of Utah Delta, and said she was excited Student’s business booms nationwide #AggieLife BY HAILEE HOUSLEY from his father. staff writer “I have always been around business, so I felt like I had a A selection of tweets from the good grasp on it,” Dixon said. “I was always around my dad, USU community Entrepreneurship often isn’t on a student’s radar until after who is a big entrepreneur, and I learned a lot of things. You their college years, but for Chris Dixon, a student at Utah could say ‘street smarts.’” “RT if you are freezing!” @usuHURD State, running a nationwide insurance company is an everyday Despite the influence business has in Dixon’s life, he is thing. majoring in political science. “It’s been in the works since two thousand and ten,” said “The real life way is the way that I learned, not from a “Math 1050 < anything else” @tjpratt14 Chris Dixon, a junior majoring in political science and vice book, so I felt like I had that,” Dixon said. “I didn’t need to do president of Blackstone Insurance. “That’s when I started to business, but I wanted to make an impact and I felt like the “In Asia people develop ‘Yellow Fever.’ really do a lot of research on the things that would last through political arena is the best place to make the biggest impact on At USU people develop ‘Hipster Fever.’ the depression and the recession.” the national level.” He said he found through his research that insurance is Dixon said he plans on staying with Blackstone for many Just measured my temp... I got the fever. necessary for United States to function, and because it lasts years. He said the baby boomer generation will need insur- @bradensthompson through time, it can affect a lot of people. ance at the high rate of retirement in the next twenty years. “The main reason I started Blackstone was to help people “I am going to stick with this because insurance runs the “The only conclusion I can draw is that out, all the people that are unemployed, or even the people country, and everything depends upon it,” he said. “The Logan, UT has been overrun by demen- that are employed but feeling trapped or in the rat race,” Dixon product that I am doing caters to senior citizens. We know said. that for the next twenty years so many people at one time, the tors. #likeillneverbecheerfulagain” Dixon said seeing people work hard for other people’s baby boomers, are retiring.” @katietingey companies made him want to create a company where people Dixon said the longer he stays with the company, the more could be their own boss. the company can grow. “The USU bookstore playing Nickelback. “I wanted to create a company where people could realisti- “I want to stay with this and make it as large as I can and As if the cold wasn’t torture enough” cally work their own hours, depending on their own motiva- employ as many people as I can,” he said. “The ultimate goal tion and drive,” Dixon said. “What people are doing is they are is just to have everyone believe that they can do the same @ohboyitsannie building up somebody else's company, and for what? Why not, thing that I have done.” with all that effort, build your own company?” Dixon said he grew up around business and learned a lot See ENTREPRENEUR, Page 6 Page 6 AggieLife Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013 Campus club spawns local improv group BY ALLEE WILKINSON ing a game called Recast. interact with them for them features editor In the game, The Antics to like me and for me to get take scenes from popular along with them. I think The freestyle dance class’s movies and play the lead it makes me a more well music may reverberate off roles with different actors. rounded person.” the walls and the karate For example, instead of He’s a mechanical engi- group can get a little loud Harry Potter being played by neering major, which may with their yelling, but noth- Daniel Radcliffe, he might seem as far from the stage as ing quite fills the Whittier be recast as Jim Carrey. In possible, but he said every- Community Center with this particular show, the body uses improv in life, noise like The Antics on a movie was “Elf” and Mall even if they don’t realize it. Friday night. Drawing crowd Santa had been replaced “I’ve heard a lot of people of around 50 people during with Captain Jack Sparrow. say ‘I’m just not an improv an average performance, Jordan Fultz, an Antic, was person, it’s not for me,’” he it’s not a hard feat for the playing Sparrow. said. “If people don’t like to Logan-based improv troupe “He just went out into the perform, it’s fine but really to fill the gym with laughter. audience just acting like Jack believe anybody could do it Improv is a form of the- Sparrow,” Barry said. “He if they decide to. It’s just get- ater where most of what is had the swagger and every- ting up there and putting on performed is made up on the thing.” stage how you perceive the spot — no scripts, sets or In the middle of the game, world. There are people that rehearsals. Some people mix Fultz decided to mix things relate to the way you see it it up with stand-up comedy, up. and think it’s funny.” said Antics Manager Liz “We have another game Fultz said his own life Morley, but it’s an act all it’s called pieces of paper, where sometimes plays out like own. She said it’s not just you’ll be doing a scene on improv. He recently pro- about getting on stage on stage, and you’ll pull a piece posed to his girlfriend, and spouting one-liners: It’s a of paper out of your pocket while most of what he was spontaneous, but skill-filled, and do what it says,” Barry going to say was planned, version of theater. said. he wasn’t surprised when he “The Antics as a whole Fultz happened to have found himself going off the are definitely artistic,” said one of those pieces from a cuff. Morley. “We definitely value previous game, and thought “The way I like life is you the art of improv because it it would be funny to pull it have structure, and then you is live art. I love it.” out. can improvise within that The Antics, who are a “He comes back up on the structure,” he said. professional spin-off of stage, he sits down and pulls Fultz first found a love USU’s improv club, just fin- the paper out of his pocket. for theater after his return ished their second year as a He has no idea what it says,” from a two-year mission troupe. Morley said while Barry said. for the Church of Jesus the organization’s purpose is The paper said, “Why is Christ of Latter-day Saints. to entertain, she’s collected the rum gone?” He was driving his sister a barrage of life lessons “It was improv magic,” to a rehearsal for “A Mid- from performing, including Barry said. “It was hilari- summer’s Night Dream” teamwork, thinking on her ous.” when somebody convinced feet and learning to trust Besides getting a chance him to try out for fun. He complete strangers. to pretend to be Johnny ended up landing a big part, There are other perks too. THE ANTICS GROUP MEMBERS display their personalities and acrobatic skills. Depp, Fultz said being part which prompted him to The group consists of Spencer Barry, Liz Morley and Jordan Fultz. DELAYNE LOCKE photo “It makes you more popu- of The Antics helps him with join a drama club when he lar at parties,” said Spencer social, team building and enrolled at LDS Business Barry, Morley’s brother confidence skills. College. a play theory group at USU, “They’re more methodical more info, search “The who’s also an Antic. “It makes me do job inter- From drama, he found but until then he said The and really conscious of what Antics” on Facebook. Most improv is made up views better. I get along with play theory, a type of acting Antics help to fulfill his they’re doing and they really of short acts, often played people at my job better and that involved the depth of stage craving a little bit. He want to put on a good show,” with audience interaction. I’m better at making work stage theatre with the spon- said The Antics aren’t just he said. – allee.evensen@aggiemail. One of Barry’s favorite mem- fun,” he said. “It’s made me taneity of improv. He said he goofy, like some troupes, but The Antics perform usu.edu ories with The Antics was a more conscious of just how was instantly hooked. they really put time into the every Friday at the Whittier Christmas performance dur- other people need me to He intends to help start art and emotion of improv. Community Center. For ENTREPRENEUR: Student learns benefits of discipline and planning From page 5 Expectations are being met for people “If you try to start a company with the sole Dixon is the Western manager and vice within the company, even when they are purpose in mind of helping people out, you president of the company. not agents. know their backs are against the wall, they “We are able to reach both the West “I am not an agent. I currently am not in are unemployed, then God’s going to throw Coast and the East Coast,” Dixon said. “We a position to commit to the type of growth a lot of blessings your way because of that.” have headquarters in both Salt Lake City happening within the company,” Daniels Dixon said building his company as a and South Carolina. Right now we are in said. “It met my expectations with the full time student has made him more orga- thirty states. We have agents in just about amount of pay I would receive and for the nized when planning out his days. all of those states nationwide. We are going type of work.” “Going to USU makes me more disci- to expand maybe into a few more states.” A vision of Blackstone was for people plined,” Dixon said. “You have to plan out Other USU students are seeing potential to be successful depending on how much your day every half hour block so that I can in Chris’s company and recognize potential effort they put forward to it. get all of it done, all of my schoolwork and for the company to grow. “The sky's the limit, to be in a career business.” “I was looking for different companies where there actually is no ceiling,” Dixon Dixon said the atmosphere of the cam- to work for during school and potentially said. “Because in Blackstone you are your pus helps him to be disciplined and get after I graduate,” said Joshua Daniels, a very own boss, you will not rely on any- connected to other people in different sophomore majoring in business with one else to give you a raise. You can work departments. a minor in entrepreneurship. “I was harder to get more money.” “The school atmosphere also makes impressed with Blackstone because of their Although the company is a business me more disciplined,” Dixon said. “Also, options for growth both in the company adventure for Dixon, he said it is more there are a lot of connections through USU and the expansion from east to west now.” about helping people than financial gain. through the business department and Dixon said one reason Blackstone has “It’s not about the money,” Dixon said. political science.” been able to grow at such a fast rate is the “I always believe that if you are doing your Dixon said he feels USU is supportive of setup of their training. best to help other people out the financial entrepreneurs and wants them to succeed. “When you come on board as an agent, aspects will come.” “USU really does help young entrepre- you will get your own website where you Dixon said he keeps faith in God as part neurs out,” Dixon said. “They want to see can put your own info on there,” Dixon of his company and believes he is blessed your success.” said. “Through that website we provide you for trying to help other people out. USU STUDENT CHRIS DIXON is vice with the training and everything that you “God blesses you if you are trying to – [email protected] president of Blackstone Insurance and is currently really need to be successful.” help other people out sincerely,” he said. studying political science. Photo courtesy Chris Dixon 11:30am 01.16.13 usu performance hall free & open to the public

Anil, Lynn Johnson, 2011 presented by the Caine College of the Arts & the Journalism & Communication Department as a Morris Media and Society Lecture sponsored by Martin Peterson when journalism & activism meet Building Bridges featuring photojournalist Lynn Johnson & writer Jen Saffron Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013 AggieLife Page 7 ‘Far Cry 3’ lacks originality, but satisfies with gameplay gameplay, luscious graph- and the Rakyat people Sam McConkie ics, and an expansive restore safety and radio world map of entertain- control on the island. ing and challenging mis- Then it will only be a sions. Make no mistake: matter of revenge to get “Far Cry 3” this game is absolutely Vaas. huge and can easily pro- There is a vast arsenal Grade: B+ vide a 100-hour helping of weaponry and tools of spoils if you want it. available for the player You play the game as to unlock and create in Game Jason Brody, a rambunc- “Far Cry 3.” Weapons can tiously reckless young be purchased at liberated Review man who is on vacation pirate forts, or they can with his older brother be unlocked by activat- Did I ever tell you the Grant and their friends ing radio towers in desig- definition of insanity? on a tropical island some- nated areas. Turning on a Insanity is doing the exact where in the Pacific tower will illuminate that same thing over and over Ocean. Everything portion of the map where again expecting some- begins as a lighthearted it is located and facilitate thing to change. That is affair as the group flaunts safer travel conditions crazy. their youthful qualities and better strategizing. There is already an on the beaches and in The standard set of abundance of first-per- the bars, and a skydiving weapons you would son shooters on the mar- trip cements everything expect such as pistols, ket, and many of them in place as the best trip assault and sniper rifles of their lives. Or so they and SMGs are all present. ‘FAR CRY 3’ OFFERS GAMERS hours of entertainment through challenging mis- are mere clones of each sions and satisfying gameplay. Photo courtesy Ubisoft Entertainment other. Unfortunately, think. Weapons can be upgrad- this phenomenon has The group is then cap- ed with extended maga- simultaneously rewarding As for the graphics, tured by a large band of zines and silencers and for Ubisoft Montreal. The become even more exploration. The longer it looks and feels like a large number of missions pronounced since the pirates. Led by the indom- they are all fun to use. you play, the more deadly breathing tropical island. itable, foul-mouthed Gone are the rusting and and delicious amount of release of the “Modern and functional your char- The environments are weaponry will keep most Warfare” games. Even Vaas, the situation looks decaying weapons that acter can become. finely detailed with sway- utterly bleak. The vicious plagued “Far Cry 2.” The gamers entertained for the newest rendition of There are several types ing palm trees and crystal many nights. Even the less Bond a couple of years pirate lord intends to sell focus is on the fun factor, of missions available out- clear blue water — with these people into slav- a welcome change from inventive and routine ele- ago felt like little more side of the primary story: sharks swimming in them ments in the game don’t than “Call of Duty: 007 ery on the black market. the previous game. “supply drop,” “wanted- — which overall give a Jason and Grant man- Icons on the map des- bother much because it Edition.” As such, playing dead” and “path of the genuine sense of plea- feels refreshing. And in a legitimately great shoot- age to escape, but Vaas ignate key areas of inter- hunter.” These are excel- sure. Character models personally assassinates est, plants, missions, and today’s action game mar- er has become more of lent ways to shake up the are also finely detailed. ket, that’s enough. a crapshoot — pun very Grant and then haughtily vehicles. You can use the campaign with added Even small touches like much intended — than a taunts Jason telling him to plants and combine them variety and extra spend- tattoos and scars are vis- run. to create different serums surety. ing money. Plus, the addi- ible. The draw distance, – Sam McConkie is a It certainly didn’t stop After the escape, that can restore health tional experience you while solid overall, some- Jason is pulled ashore by or improve your hunting senior in the technical Ubisoft Montreal from gain for the main charac- times betrays the deep and professional writing trying to capture great- a man named Dennis, a capabilities. Also, vari- ter will unlock additional immersion the game Rakyat tribe native who ous animals can be killed program at USU. He is ness with “Far Cry 3,” skills, which of course provides, though. It’s a a keen writer and has though. While it’s some- seeks to wrestle control and skinned to make wal- helps add to the fun. bit weird watching entire of the island back from lets for holding money been a dedicated gamer what lacking in originality When you can reload fields of grass grow when for years. Sam can be and storytelling, it thank- the clutches of Vaas and and weapon holsters for while sprinting and drop you zoom in with Jason’s his gang. Knowing his inventory expansion. This reached at sambonemc- fully makes up for these down on enemies with a camera. [email protected] shortcomings in spades friends will likely perish helps give the game a knife, it adds to the real- “Far Cry 3” is no with incredibly satisfying without his help, Jason certain level of challenge ism. doubt another winner agrees to help Dennis when starting out while Sea-Monkeys grant life-giving powers and disappointment

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For those who fact that, no matter how will be as it should be.” Step 5. Tell yourself, creator of life. However, troupe Logan Out Loud. insist to turn their backs much you want them to Step 3. Read on the “It’s okay, they were fro- the experience of raising Find them on Facebook. on conventional science, be seafaring mammals, in internet the packet zen to begin with, they Sea-Monkeys strength- I offer a more contempo- the end they’re just brine labeled “Water Purifier” can handle it!” ens the notion that, yes, rary and harrowing trag- shrimp, and brine shrimp, edy of man wearing the for those fair readers who mask of creator. haven’t been to the Great I recently received Salt Lake, smell awful. means by which life might But rather than insult be molded to my liking — the noble brine shrimp, I’ll I got a Sea-Monkey kit for simply walk you through Christmas. Sea-Monkeys, the steps that lead to the a staple of American cul- creation of “Instant Life.” ture — as are freedom, Step 1. Forget you liberty and obesity — have some Sea-Monkey have been around since eggs in your car and the 1950s, having set leave them in overnight. the bar for novelty toys. This is most effective Any “mad scientist” kit is in the middle of winter. simply a poor attempt at Now while you might reproducing the miracle think this would kill the of Sea-Monkeys: life from fragile brine shrimp, nothingness. But at what keep in mind they exist cost have Sea-Monkeys in a cryptobiotic state, attained notoriety? At which is a fancy way of the cost of a man’s soul? saying everything has Perhaps a million souls? been taken from them In 1957, Harold Von and they are frozen until Braunhut created Sea- some merciful twelve- Monkeys. As though spit- year-old makes the mis- ting in the face of the take of buying them and scientific and religious dropping them in water, communities around but I’m getting ahead of him, Von Braunhut called myself. his product “Instant Life” Step 2. Put some water until his wife informed in the small tank provid- Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013 PagePage 88 Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012 Today’sToday’s Issue Issue TheUSUTheUSUBackBack BurnerBurner Argyle Sweaterˆ Universal TuesdayJan 15 FYI:FYI: Argyle Sweaterˆ Universal ThursdayAug 30 Art Reception to bring aware-  Traditions Week The Nashville Tribute Band is coming  LUX Exhibit, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. ness to mental health on Jan. 18 at Cafe  Instructors Signature Required to Add Class back to campus. Tickets are now on sale  USU Student Organic Farm stand, 10 a.m. on the Ibis. Music provided by The Three Suns.  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Singers: pre-  Traditions Week meet the team at the Eccles Ice Center on UtahUtah Statesman Statesman is  Football vs. Southern Utah, 6 p.m. in Romney pare two Broadway-style songs, one upbeat is published espe- Stadium Instructors Signature Required to Add Class Aug. 30 at 8:30 p.m. published especially  Sweatshirt Wait listing Swap email and notifications Scotsman Dogs, discontinued TSC HUB and A one free more workshop a ballad. is being Dancers, hosted bring for ciallyfor Becca Brittany Huber, a 2:30 p.m. tapthose shoes who if areyou dealinghave them. with All an dressunexpected in Brunner,junior majoring a fresh- in  Common Hour-The End of Racism Lecture with clothingloss due you to death, can dance divorce in. orNo separation. baggy attire or flip flops. Jan 19 10:30 a.m. at Thomas manhealth from education North Preacher Moss, TSC Ballroom 11:30-12:30 p.m. The workshop is Sept. 4 and Sept. 11 from  Taste test on Cheese, NDFS 209 10-5 p.m. Edison School 2600 North 200 East in Saltand Lake promotion major- from FridayAug 31 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. ing in Elementary  Effective Coping Workshop, TSC 1:30-2: 30 p.m. North USU Logan. is holding 435-753-1551. open auditions Info: www.for all St. Anthony, Idaho.  Blood Battle, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. TSC celebrateamericashow.com Education.  LUX Exhibit, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. students to be a part of the cast for “The MiracleLive Music Worker,” at Caffe “Legally Ibis featuring Blonde” and  USU Student Organic Farm Stand, 10 a.m. to 1 Iver Anchor. Mr. Anchor is a true encouraged to participate. But get your tickets Almanac Thursdayp.m. Jan 17 “Violet.” General auditions are Aug. 28 Association are holding a book sale on Aug. original. Come in to listen to his take on in advance at the ORP. Almanac  Traditions Soccer vs. Week Northern Colorado, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Aug. 29 at 6 p.m. in the Morgan 29-3, Sept. 4-11 and Sept. 10-12. All books Today in History: On Aug.  80’s Dance, 9 p.m. HPER Field rocknroll,Theatre. Dance psych-folk, auditions anti-folk, are Aug. & revival 29 at areDust $1. Theyout your range Dutch from ovens fiction and to warm poetry, up  Instructors Signature Required to Add Class on Jan. 20 12-2 p.m. at 52 Federal Ave in your slow cookers. It is time once again for Today30, 30 in B.C., History: Cleopatra, On Jan. queen  Last day to add classes without instructor’s signa- 6 p.m. in the dance studio. The play will history to art and many more.  Zions Bank and Zions Bancorporation Info Logan. the 6th annual USU College of Agriculture 15,of 1919, Egypt fiery and hotlover molasses of Julius Session,ture BUS 9th Floor 4-5 p.m. be performed Dec. 4-8 in the Caine Lyric USU’s Language and Literacy Clinic is A Carnival of Service will be held at Chili Cook-Off with entertainment provided floodedCaesar the and streets Mark ofAntony, Boston,  3rd Wait Annual listing Design discontinued Star Competition, TSC Theatre. For more information, please holding an after school tutoring program for killingtook her21 peoplelife following and injuring the International Lounge 6-9 p.m. Wilsoncontact Elementary Adrianne Moore (89 S. 500at 435-797-3023 E., Logan) bychildren Sagawich between Basin gradesBoys. The K-5. event The programwill take scoresdefeat of of others. her forces The againstmolas-  Women’s Basketball vs. New Mexico State, onor [email protected]. 21 from 1-7 p.m. Activities will placegoes fromat The Sept. Junction 8-Dec. 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We weren’t able .92-36+9%6(46)78321)(0-2looks toward the bench during the of the past seven games, AP Top 25 Aggies’ win over San Jose State. Medlin scored 25 points in the win. DELAYNE LOCKE had nine points in the See MEDLIN, Page 11 Basketball photo  /RXLVYLOOH      ,QGLDQD      MEN’S BASKETBALL  'XNH       .DQVDV       0LFKLJDQ       6\UDFXVH    Spectrum crowd traditions create tough environment for foes  $UL]RQD     *RQ]DJD     0LQQHVRWD    BY MARK HOPKINS  )ORULGD    staff writer Free Throw Coordination  2KLR6WDWH     &UHLJKWRQ     %XWOHU    Editor’s note: This is part two in Tyler Olsen, former ASUSU  1&6WDWH    a three-part series detailing the vice president of athletics and  6DQ'LHJR6W   Dee Glen Smith Spectrum. creator of the game day shirts,  .DQVDV6WDWH   was one of the key initiators  0LVVRXUL     0LFK6WDWH    Student creativity and sup- for creating a crazed atmo-  1HZ0H[LFR    port in the Dee Glen Smith sphere behind the basket in  1RWUH'DPH    Spectrum have created a Section F during games.  2UHJRQ    nationally-recognized atmo- “He’s the guy that really  9&8     ,OOLQRLV    sphere that has been named brought things to the next  8&/$    one of the top environments level in the early 2000s,” said  0DUTXHWWH    in the country during the past Matt Sonnenberg, the next 2WKHUV 5HFHLYLQJ 9RWHV &LQFLQ decade. Section F leader and founder QDWL &RQQHFWLFXW *HRUJH “The students set the tone of “The Refraction.” “I mostly WRZQ 0LVVLVVLSSL 81/9 and the season ticket holders just tried to keep the tradition :LVFRQVLQ%RLVH6WDWH0LDPL pay the bills,” said head coach going.” )/  :LFKLWD 6WDWH 7HPSOH 3LWWVEXUJK%D\ORU8WDK6WDWH Stew Morrill. Olsen helped direct the stu- :\RPLQJ Although there are many dent body behind the basket notable traditions, those list- during opponent free throws &-+&09)743687a custom-made beard and pumps up the crowd. Several hun- ed here are among the most dred beards were distributed to students for the “beard-out” game against San Jose Hockey famous. See MAGIC, Page 11 State. DELAYNE LOCKE photo skates to WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Williams’ career night not enough for Aggies two wins BY JASON BORBA ence play. Finkbeiner said. “It was all BY SEAN O’SULLIVAN staff writer Williams had a career-high second chance putbacks. Our staff writer five 3-pointers and led the post players were nonexistent Playing in its final game of a team in scoring with 19 points. defensively. She outscored, Utah State hockey returned three game road-trip, the Utah It was tough game for both of outplayed and outrebounded to action last Friday and State women’s basketball team the Aggies’ star seniors. Jenna our four bigs all by herself. She Saturday night at the George took on the San Jose Spartans Johnson finished with 14 was really a big surprise for our S. Eccles Ice Center in North on Saturday afternoon. The points but had an uncharac- scouting report because she Logan against the Cal State Aggies fell to the Spartans teristic nine turnovers. Devyn hasn’t done this against other Long Beach 49ers and the San 103-80 despite a great shoot- Christensen had a rough teams.” Diego State Aztecs. The Aggies ing performance by freshman shooting game for USU, chip- Things got off to rocky start swept the home stand. Makenlee Williams. ping in with 13 points on 4-25 for the USU right from tipoff. “It was a very confusing shooting including 0-11 from The Spartans made the open- Utah State 8, Cal State Long game and outcome of the beyond the arc. ing basket and never looked Beach 1 game,” said USU head coach The Spartans were led by back. SJSU led the entire way Jerry Finkbeiner. “It is a forward Emily Schill, who and were up by double-digits In the first game against Cal really hard one to explain. poured in a game-high 36 for most of the game. State Long Beach, the Aggies Everything seemed to be com- points to go along with 17 The Spartans opened the got off to a slow start and the ing together and yet just flat rebounds, six assists, four game on an 8-0 run and led 49ers jumped out to a lead 10 tonight. What we can do here steals and two blocks. Guard 24-10 halfway through the first minutes into the game by scor- is dust our saddles off and Ta’Rea Cunnigan also had a half. The Aggies were able to ing a power play goal. move on.” good game for SJSU with 26 cut the deficit to 21-30 at the “We took a bunch of penal- With the loss, USU falls to points and six assists. six minute mark after a jumper SENIOR GUARD DEVYN CHRISTENSEN four games below .500, 6-10 on ties that we shouldn’t have and drives against a UC Irvine defender Dec. 18. “Schill totally dominated us by Williams. That’s as close as Christensen scored 20 points in the loss. CURTIS the season and 3-2 in the WAC. and the thing was it had noth- RIPPLINGER photo SJSU improved their record to ing to do with low post plays,” See HOCKEY, Page 11 5-11 overall and 2-3 in confer- See AGGIES, Page 10 Page 10 StatesmanSports Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013 GYMNASTICS Jones second, but Aggies fall to BYU BY DANIELLE MANLEY go for your first meet.” “We’re playing it by staff writer Despite high expecta- ear,” Richards said. “I’m tions and hard work, not too sure. It’ll affect The Utah State injuries are still consis- our vault a little bit. Beam University gymnastics tently prevalent in gym- and bars we should do team started the season nastics. According to the well, depending on inju- against Brigham Young American Orthopaedic ries.” University in Provo on Society for Sports Upon returning to Saturday. Finishing with a Medicine, more than Logan on Jan. 19, the score of 189.425, USU fell 86,000 gymnastics-related team will host a free 4.65 points behind BYU’s injuries are treated in hos- youth clinic. Boys and winning score of 194.075. pitals every year. girls from ages 6 to 12 Junior Paige Jones fin- On Saturday, Michelle are welcome to sign up ished second with 38.8 Yasukochi injured her and the clinic will be held points and sophomore ankle. She won’t be able in the HPER building in Sarah Landes finished to compete during the room 211. third with 38.65. Both next meet. “It’s a great thing to of them closely followed “We’re hopeful that get the girls to interact the leading score of with a little bit of rest with some community 38.95 earned by Raquel she’ll be good to go,” kids,” Richards said. “We Willman, who finished Richards said. “She’s very had it last year and the first for BYU. crucial to our vault line- girls really loved it. We’re “I didn’t have super- up. She’s one of our most doing it again this year. high expectations because consistent. We’ll see how We limited the number it was our first meet and it goes. She’s a tough kid.” to 60 kids. Our gym can we had a lot of freshman, Despite Yasukochi’s accommodate about 60 but I expected our team injury and others from kids. We kept it limited to go out and do what we the preseason, the team so the kids can have fun. do in the gym,” Landes is confident in their abili- It’s packed and it filled up said. “I feel like for the ties for the next meet on really quick, we’re excited most part we did that. Jan. 18 against Boise State about that. Kids get in Bars, we did that. Vault, University. here and meet the girls. we did that. Floor, we had “We are looking to They’re good role models, a bit of an issue. We could get some girls back from good athletes.” do better on beam. We other injuries,” Jones This is the second year were all just shaky and said. “Some of the other the gymnastics team has wobbly. Overall, I thought girls will be able to step held a youth clinic. we did a good job for our it up. As a whole we’re “I’m really excited,” first meet.” trying to do what we did Landes said. “I love being Head coach Jeff at BYU without the low able to work with little Richards understands as score. We’re just looking kids. It’s my love of gym- much as his athletes how to slowly increase those nastics. It’s fun for me rough a first meet could scores from BYU, focus on and my team. I’m really turn out. the details.” looking forward to it.” “We were doing Coach Richards realizes what we needed to do,” Yasukochi’s injury will – daniellekmanley@gmail. Richards said. “We were affect the vault score, but com SENIOR AMELIA MONTOYA performs a routine on the uneven bars during a meet last on track. You just never hopes to be strong in the Twitter: @daniellekmanley season. DELAYNE LOCKE photo know how it’s going to other three areas. AGGIES: San Jose offense proves too much for Christensen and company From page 9 USU got in the half. “It’s not fun and it’s very challenging when you dig a hole every game and spend the next 36 minutes trying to get out of it,” Finkbeiner said. In the final six minutes of the half, both teams traded buckets but USU wasn’t able to cut any further into the lead. The Spartans took a 50-38 advantage into half- time. The second half brought more the same for SJSU as they continued to dominate the Aggies with offensive rebounding and second chance points. The Spartans lead ballooned to 18 points with 13:25 remaining in the game. JUNIOR GUARD JENNA JOHNSON puts up USU clawed their way a layup against UC Irvine Dec. 18, above. Junior guard back into the game and cut Jennifer Schlott drives past a UTSA defender during WAC the SJSU lead to single digits play, right. CURTIS RIPPLINGER photos after a Williams 3-pointer to The Spartans took advan- in their final season in the make it 65-56. Turnovers and tage of their opportunities conference. missed layups doomed the and took over the final 11 The team will try to get Aggies as they weren’t able to minutes of the game to han- back on track on Thursday, cut further into the lead. dly hand the Aggies their Jan. 17 at the Spectrum “We missed at least two, 10th loss of the season. where they will host New if not three fairly-open fast It has been a disappoint- Mexico State (9-7, 3-3) in the break layups,” Finkbeiner ing season so far for the Battle of the Aggies. Tip-off said. “We had a chance to cut preseason-No. 1 Aggies. The is scheduled for 7 p.m. it even closer than nine, but team came into the season our guards also had some with high expectations and – [email protected] turnovers.” were favored to win the WAC Twitter: JBorba12 Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013 StatesmanSports Page 11 MAGIC: Student antics recognized nationally by major networks From page 9 where it was perfected. “If it was at Navy, go armed forces,” with special symbols meaning specific actions, Sonnenberg said. “We rock student sections, such as swing right or sit up and down. they protect our freedom.” “I sat behind the basketball hoop and I decided we needed to coordinate,” Olsen said. Toilet Paper “We designed a whole bunch of plays like I would have as a football player.” Though largely forgotten, this tradition is a When Olsen graduated, Sonnenberg took favorite of old-timers and happened at every the reins in 2006 and kept enhancing the play Utah State home game for more than a decade. calling. “Sometime in the ‘90s, the kids started to “I just stood on my chair and started doing throw the toilet paper,” said Dr. Ross Peterson, the same things he did,” Sonnenberg said. long-time Utah State history professor and “We only added in a few, like ‘right-left’ and Aggie follower. “They’d all come in with a each row swaying.” roll and then when we made our first basket The ‘“you, you, you suck” chant for the they’d just unleash it onto the floor.” opposing team’s fouls and ‘stupid’ for their Peterson said at least half of the students, turnovers also began during Olsen’s time. starting with just a few and then growing, Sonnenberg said those two cheers were would bring a roll of toilet paper to the games the first ones to start getting noticed and get and throw it out as a streamer onto the court. people excited. “I mean, it was amazing,” Peterson said. “They’re both things that everybody CHARLIE RIDDLE reassures the Aggies of the students’ support during the “Beard- “You can imagine 2,000 rolls of toilet paper knows,” he said. “It’s coordinated. You know out” against San Jose State. DELAYNE LOCKE photo hitting the Spectrum floor.” when to do them, and I think it just brings an on it. It was one of those things where it was so Each game following the white barrage, the overall sense of unity.” ketball games. At the end they did ‘I believe Aggies would be charged with a team timeout Olsen added that it came from previous coordinated and such a fancy new toy of ours that we have won.’” that we were like ‘Well, got to keep rolling while the cheerleaders swept the floor. The cheers. After kicking around different ideas of tradition continued amidst complaints from “I’m not sure who exactly started that,” he with this.’” how to use it at the beginning of games, Bleacher Report has since labeled it as opposing coaches and NCAA regulators until said. “I think it was a derivative of the ‘Utah Sonnenberg said they finally landed on ‘I Stew Morrill became head coach. State, hey U, Utah’ cheer and then someone “extraordinarily obnoxious” and “a clever Believe That We Will Win.’ Though he was tradition that has to be despised greatly,” “The last time that I remember it happen- added ‘suck’ on to the end. ‘Stupid’ came with apprehensive in the beginning, Sonnenberg ing they gave a technical to Stew,” Peterson it. while an ESPN announcer stated it had “better said others finally pushed it through and they choreography than the Mormon Tabernacle said. “The referees made him get on the micro- gave it a shot. phone.” Winning Team, Losing Team Choir.” “The first time we did it was just like 20 The cheer is delivered in the waning Due to Morrill’s curt remarks to the crowd, of us, then the next time 200,” he said. “That the tradition stopped during the 2000-2001 The inspiration for this cheer came from moments of games that have already been one took off a little quicker. I ran around with iced. While the Aggies have yet to lose a game season and won’t be continued again, Peterson crowd research done on YouTube, Sonnenberg a laptop showing everyone the video, just ‘I said. said. after doing it, Morrill said he wants the stu- Believe That We Will Win’ at the start.” dents to be careful on their timing and not “The next Big Blue meeting I presented “We like checking out what other crowds The first attempt started with 60 seconds him with a 16 inch frozen cow pie as a memo- do,” he said. “The first we saw was Ohio jinx the team. until tipoff before the 30 second mark was “‘Winning Team, Losing Team’ makes me rial for his language in having the students University do ‘Winning Team, Losing Team.’ decided on for the next game. The new battle refrain,” Peterson said. “The students, it was nervous a lot of times,” Morrill said. “WeGet Backcry took off andto gained national attention at It was a small crowd of them doing it.” hard on them. Then they said to just throw it Sonnenberg said the first night they decid- break out in that one a little early sometimes.” the peak of the Spectrum years, Sonnenberg Varied claims for the true origin exist, from to each other, but that didn’t have the same ed to try the cheer in early 2009, only about 15 said. effect.” fans joined in. sometime in the 1970s to Ohio University,Square but “It’s everythingOne. a basketball chant should none have been proven absolute. Morrill said while a line has to be drawn, he “After the game we had a handful of people be,” Brennan wrote. “Organized, direct, sup- hopes the students will continue to forge more come up to us and say, ‘What was that? That “We didn’t exactly invent it,” Sonnenberg portive, intimidating and not the least bit said. “But we feel like we perfected it.” XYour Best creative means. was cool,’” he said. “They said they were going hokey.” “There’s been an occasion or two when to do it next game and see where it went from Morrill named “I Believe” as his favorite I Believe Choice for Wedding it’s probably gone a little bit over the edge,” there.” cheer of the Spectrum arsenal. Morrill said. “But for the most part, the cre- The instructions were then published in “I Believe We Will Win is great,” he said. Named the “coolest chant in the country” Invitations ativity and the help it gives our home team is “The Refraction” and passed around for the “Kind of sets the tone for the start of the just the best.” next game. by ESPN writer Eammon Brennan, this chant& papergame.” goods “That time around it was probably 2-300 has been a Spectrum staple since the 2009- While the true origins are once again people doing it,” Sonnenberg said. “Next 2010 season. unknown, recent reports have claimed the “I saw a video of a tiny, tiny crowd doing it,” – [email protected] game, probably half the crowd, and by the Naval6 3 0 Academy We s t as its birthplace. Sonnenberg Twitter:@legendarymhops fourth or fifth time doing it everyone was in Sonnenberg said. “The first crowd I remember said while he doesn’t know exactly where it was at Buffalo University for one of their bas- began,200 Northhe does feel Utah State is once again 753-8875 HOCKEY: Gibbons spurs Aggies to win Don’t Worry. 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The editorial staff applauds efforts by Erik News Senior Writer Mikkelsen and Tmera Bradley Education First to Our View improve business Features Editor An Editorial Opinion in Utah by aiming Allee Wilkinson to provide two- Features Senior Writer thirds of the state’s Cale Patterson population some kind of post-high school education by 2020. Having such an educated Sports Editor population would improve Utah’s attractive- Curtis Lundstrom ness to business and economic growth. In general, people point to Utah’s low taxes Photo Editor Delayne Locke and conservative-dominated political scene ForumLetters as the main factors to move or start a busi- Senior Photographer ness here. However, dangling the carrot of Get educated up for air quality alerts at: walk; exercise indoors. Curtis Ripplinger low taxes is not enough. Utah’s competitive- http://www.airquality.utah. Educate yourself and your ness lies in its several high-quality colleges about inversion gov/logan.html friends. For more info Web Editor Red air days are bad on the long term health Cale Patterson and universities. effects and how to com- One of our editors is from Nevada, another To the editor: for everyone?s health and the effects are cumulative, bat the problem, check low-tax haven. There is no state income tax, Students: Welcome back like smoking cigarettes. We out Choose Clean Air: Editorial Staff: and most state revenue is from taxes on gam- to Cache Valley, famous for are slowing poisoning our- http://www.cleanair.utah. Steve Kent bling and mining, the state’s largest industries. having the worst winter air selves, with vehicle pollu- gov/ and Breathe Utah: Allee Wilkinson However, people don’t need degrees to work quality in the nation. On tion being the main culprit. http://breatheutah.org/. Delayne Locke the first day of classes Logan We all need to drive less and Be part of the solution, Tavin Stucki in these fields, which has led to only 22.2 not a cause of the prob- percent of Nevadans 25 years and older hold- had the worst air quality in avoid idle your vehicle; skip Eric Jungblut the nation behind Provo the drive through. Consider lem. Curtis Lundstrom ing a four-year degree or higher, according (AirNow.gov). Learn more your vehicle?s MPG while Cale Patterson to the U.S. Census Bureau. To contrast, 29.6 about the problem, check idling. Use the free LTD/ Jean M. Lown percent of Utahns 25 and above hold a bach- current conditions, and sign CVTD bus, car pool, or About letters elor’s degree or higher, 1.4 percent more ‡ /HWWHUVVKRXOGEHOLP than the national average of 28.2 percent. ited to 400 words. This lack of economic diversity hurt Nevada when the Great Recession hit. Because much Where is Huntsman? ‡ $OOOHWWHUVPD\EH of the state’s populace works for the gaming There are a few possibili- Huntsman was a man with- shortened, edited or industry, an industry where higher education 2EX P:MI[ ties worth exploring. out a political home in the rejected for reasons is relatively worthless, the economic decline First, let’s look at how 2012 primary field. of good taste, redun- led to an unemployment rate of around A look at what Huntsman got to this Looking ahead to 2016, dancy or volume of 14 percent at one time, the highest in the others are saying point. President Barack he still is, in many respects. similar letters. Obama tapped the former After the primary, nation: Nevada still leads the nation in unem- Utah governor to be his Huntsman had some tough ‡ /HWWHUVPXVWEH ployment at 10.8 percent as of November ambassador to China in talk for his party, lashing the Watch Jon Huntsman topic oriented. They 2012, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor over the past 18 months 2009, effectively remov- GOP over immigration and Statistics. Since Nevada has few other indus- and you are left with a sim- ing him from the political even taking on Romney’s may not be directed tries to fall back on, it must slowly limp its way ple question: What is he conversation. Before that, policies. He’s kept up his toward individuals. out of the hole its own educational deficien- doing? Huntsman, who had been tough love the past few Any letter directed to eyeing a White House months, telling the The cies created. The former Utah gover- a specific individual nor and GOP presidential bid, served as governor of Ripon Forum last month: may be edited or not Low taxes are not everything, as Nevada candidate, whose anti-par- Utah from 2005-2009. He “As long as compromise is printed. shows. What matters for a healthy state tisan group “No Labels” served in the George H.W. seen as something akin to economy is a diversity of industries, propped hosted its “Meeting to Bush administration as treason, it becomes impos- ambassador to Singapore sible for us to move the ‡ 1RDQRQ\PRXVOHW up by a populace of individuals trained to Make America Work!” ters will be published. work in these industries. Utah’s educated Monday in New York, is in the 1990s. policy ball forward.” occupying his highest-pro- But Huntsman — some- In the wake of Romney’s Writers must sign all population and wide variety of economic file place in the political what surprisingly — opted controversial “47 percent” letters and include activity helped it survive the worst of the conversation since the end to leave his post in 2011 comment and post-elec- a phone number or recession: In fact, Utah’s unemployment rate of his presidential cam- and run for president. What tion remark that Obama e-mail address as well of 5.1 percent puts it at number six for lowest paign. But “No Labels” is followed was a campaign won by bestowing “gifts” as a student identifi- unemployment rates in the nation. hardly an ideal launching that never found a sizable upon certain voters, cation number (none Utah’s economic success will lead to a pad for a Republican with GOP following. Written off Huntsman is not the only of which is pub- as too moderate by conser- one in the Republican designs on winning a GOP lished). Letters will bright future — but only if education follows primary. Which begs the vatives and crowded out Party calling for a new mes- close behind. question: What, exactly, is by Mitt Romney among not be printed with- Huntsman doing? centrist Republicans, See LABELS, Page 12 out this verification. ‡ /HWWHUVUHSUHVHQWLQJ groups — or more It’s time to revisit US firearm laws than one individual — must have a singular Debate about gun The recent shooting representative clearly 'EWI]7E\XSR laws in the United States 1MOI1G4LMI in Newtown, Connecticut stated, with all neces- is exploding following the AColumn was an unimaginable trag- sary identification From murder of 20 children and Divided From edy. The loss of 26 inno- information. the six adults at Sandy Hook the cent children and coura- Elementary School in 8[SWXYHIRXWXEOIX[S geous staff members was right left Newtown, Conn. last month. ERKPIWSRSRITSPMXMGEP a pain felt throughout the ‡ :ULWHUVPXVWZDLW Perhaps the reason the dis- issue world. While we shouldn’t days before submit- cussion has become so pub- politicize any disaster, it ting successive letters licized is the fact that the would be an injustice not — no exceptions. attack took place at an ele- to do all we can to prevent mentary school, with most such devastating acts from ‡ /HWWHUVFDQEHKDQG of the victims being children. happening again. delivered or mailed No one likes to hear news like this. The tragedy impacted The tragedy does not end with the 26 lives lost at to The Statesman in our entire country. Sandy Hook Elementary. Last year alone there were the TSC, Room 105, For roughly the last month since the Newtown massa- nearly 12,000 people whose lives were cut short by cre, political pundits and journalists have had their focus on guns in the United States. That’s four times the number or can be e-mailed to the gun laws in our country, with many of them calling for killed in the Sept. 11 attacks and more than double the statesman@aggiemail. much stricter gun control. The reasoning behind this is that Americans killed in the Iraq war. In the past five years, usu.edu, or click on guns are seen by many as the offender. I don’t agree with guns have killed more Utahns than car accidents. Frankly, www.utahstatesman. that assessment. I believe that offender is the person that the U.S. has a gun problem. com for more info. did the shooting. While there are extreme opinions on both sides of the I am a strong supporter of the rights given by the debate and disagreement about the end goal, there are Second Amendment in the United States Constitution, a number of responsible policies that need to be imme- which gives law-abiding Americans the right to “keep and diately enacted. bear Arms.” I do not and will not support future measures First, there need to be proper regulations and effec- taken by our government to take that right away from its tive enforcement of gun laws. A number of laws have Polls, submission law-abiding citizens. either expired or haven’t been carried out, including an It’s not realistic to assume that tragedies like this won’t assault weapons ban that existed until it was allowed to box, calendars, occur in the future, but there are a few things that might go expire in 2004. 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Perhaps, then, a future as sador to China for a while a post-partisan third-party longer, and then move – Sean Sullivan is a frequent contender might be what toward a White House bid contributor to The Fix, a Huntsman is aiming for, in 2016 or beyond. politics blog. LEFT: Right to life trumps gun rights From page 12 even prevent gun violence. Fortunately, the president lived and joined Republicans and weapons. Democrats in supporting an assault weap- Second, more extensive background ons ban. checks need to be conducted and gun Many cite the Second Amendment’s registration closely monitored, including provisions for “a well regulated militia,” closing the gun show loophole that allows but they forget the immortal words in many to circumvent the law. In effect, this is the Declaration of Independence, which a way to separate the responsible gun own- guarantee all the right to life, liberty and SET YOUR SIGHTS ers from those who may be unstable or the pursuit of happiness. Nobody’s guns prone to violence. The amount and means have been taken, but there are thousands ON LAW SCHOOL of acquiring ammunition also needs to be of people who have lost their inalienable more closely monitored. right to life as a result of gun violence. Finally, there needs to be a widespread Victims come from all ends of the political discussion on how to reduce violence in spectrum and the pain is felt by all. It is my our society, extending even beyond gun hope that responsible regulation and open- crime. We need to address the basic causes minded discussion will make it so we never of crime. For instance, countless studies experience the tragedy of Sandy Hook show low levels of poverty lead directly to again. low crime rates. Some argue arming more people would – Mike McPhie is a senior from Toole, Utah, lead to a safer society. In 1981, Ronald majoring in law and constitutional studies. Reagan, surrounded by armed secret ser- During the spring semester, he interned in vice agents, was shot at close range. The Washington, D.C. Send him comments at best-trained security in the world couldn’t [email protected].

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