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Utah State University DigitalCommons@USU The Utah Statesman Students 1-12-2011 The Utah Statesman, January 12, 2011 Utah State University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/newspapers Recommended Citation Utah State University, "The Utah Statesman, January 12, 2011" (2011). The Utah Statesman. 159. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/newspapers/159 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Students at DigitalCommons@USU. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Utah Statesman by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@USU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011 UtahThe Campus Voice tatesman SUtah State University • Logan, Utah • www.utahstatesman.com since 1902 Retired Jazz player tells students of NBA career By DAN SMITH he’s clutch. He didn’t go around definitely going to make it, news senior writer talking like he was a big some- he’s going to play professional thing. He just did what he did sports,” Hornacek said. Former Utah Jazz player Jeff and was humble and, you know, Because his dad taught him Hornacek spoke to a packed got it done.” how to dribble and shoot a TSC ballroom last night about Hornacek said he feels “hard basketball, Hornacek said when helping others become better at work, setting goals, seizing he was old enough to play in what they do while climbing to opportunities and a little bit of middle school, opportunities success in his own life. luck” are elements of how he began to surface for him to Hornacek said he never got where he is now. excel at sports. thought he would play bas- “I’m sure a lot of you are In high school, the kids were ketball, let alone become an hitting that stage in your lives pretty big. He said he was just NBA star. His was a story of an where you’re starting to think happy to make the team and underdog finding triumph in about a career path and how eventually he got a lucky break the face of adversity. you’re going to be successful at and started scoring a lot of “I was determined to try to it,” Hornacek said, “I always set points and getting assists. prove people wrong,” he said. little goals and then step it up a “One of the coaches “They didn’t think that I could little bit.” from Iowa State asked my – I was too small, so I always Growing up as the son of a dad, ‘What’s Jeff doing?’” had it in the back of my mind baseball and basketball coach Hornacek said. He was origi- that I’m determined, that I can in the suburbs of Chicago, nally planning to go to Cornell show them this.” Hornacek said he always University, an Ivy League USU freshman Evan Folland thought he would be a baseball school in New York. was in attendance at the event player. His friends were all He said he took the risk and said that he grew up watch- hockey and baseball players of waiting for a scholarship ing Hornacek play basketball. and rarely ever played basket- at Iowa State and it paid off. He said he always looked up to ball. Hornacek said his family was Hornacek and was interested to “I’m not one of those guys JEFF HORNACEK ANSWERED students’ questions about his life experiences and mem- hear his advice to the students. that came through my whole -See HORNACEK, page 4 ories playing for the Utah Jazz during his visit to USU’s campus Tuesday night. TODD JONES “He’s one of the greatest … life going, ‘Okay that guy’s photo Layout saving Bookstore money By CATHERINE MEIDELL Parkinson said. “If you walk into the Bookstore there is a big red news editor stop sign that says, ‘Print your booklist.’” Steven Moss, a junior and English major, said he has multiple Now that campus is again bustling with students preparing books for a few of his classes, so instead of finding them all in one themselves for the dawning semester, USU’s Bookstore is highly con- location, it takes more time to find the individual books when they centrated with students rushing to find their textbooks, which have are spread apart. been reorganized by author’s last name. “I went into the Bookstore, went to the E’s, the books I needed The new system the Bookstore has implemented has created weren’t there and I didn’t know what to do, so I went home,” Moss confusion among students who are used to searching for their text- said. books by department. Without the book lists that are made available for students to “I knew going into this was going to be bumpy,” said David print out through seven kiosks located in the store, Cade Robinson, Parkinson, the Bookstore’s director. “A lot of schools have switched an international business major and junior, said the new system to this system. San Diego State told us it would be tough, but in the would be chaotic. end it’s about flow.” “The list saved me or else I would have been really confused,” CACHE VALLEY’S INVERSION is caused by a cold layer Parkinson said when students grow accustomed to this new Robinson said. “Since you have to go by the last name it takes a lot of air close to the earth which pushes the warm layer to the way of finding books, they will be in and out of the Bookstore more longer to find the books. For chemistry I have a lab class and recita- top and inhibits air pollution from dispersing. CARL R. WILSON quickly. One of the biggest issues is that students don’t know there tion, but they are in two different places now.” photo are kiosks available that allow them to log-in and print off their Kindsey Hansen, a freshman and sociology major said she was booklist, which is in alphabetical order by last name, he said. If stu- concerned that finding her books was going to take more time out dents knew this option was available, they may be more open to the of her schedule with the new organization. Cache Valley ranks new system, he said. “Truly, what it boils down to is – you can’t make people read,” -See TEXTBOOK, page 3 No. 1 in country for worst air quality By KAYLA HALL staff writer Logan was ranked No. 1 for the worst air in the nation on Jan. 8-9, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) website www.airnow.gov. Randy Martin, USU associate research professor for the department of civil and environmental engineering said, “We have the perfect storm of conditions in Cache Valley, almost without exemption. Logan’s particulate matter (PM) 2.5 issues are associated with inversions, but when you have an inversion, plus a lot of ammonium, automobiles and cold temperatures, it forms the PM 2.5.” By Jan. 9, Logan’s air quality tripled the EPA standard of PM 2.5 allowed in the air. “If impressions of precursor gasses increase, and if we have an inversion at the same time, we can see an increase in PM 2.5,” Martin said. “We have seen, when we look at traffic counter data, an increase in PM2.5, but remember, to get the bad level, we have to have them both mixed together.” STUDENTS BROWSE USU’S BOOKSTORE at the beginning of the new semester. Some students felt the bookstore’s new organization system made finding textbooks more complicated, while others saw the efficiency and appreciated the ability to print off a personal- -See INVERSION, page 3 ized book list before shopping. CARL R. WILSON photo Inside This Issue 1/12/11 USU’s histor- www.utahstatesman.com ic Quad has After transferring from seen signifi- Pick up a Big Blue Coupon UC Santa Barbara, cant changes Book, full of values at local Ashlee Brown shines for since the retailers, just outside the Aggies. university Statesman offices, TSC 105. Page 6 opened in They go fast! 1888. Page 8 Official Student Newspaper of Utah State University • “It’s All The News You Need!” Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011 Page 2 World&Nation Utah State University • Logan, Utah • www.utahstatesman.com ClarifyCorrect Gifford shows progress after shooting The policy of The Utah Statesman is to correct any error made as soon as TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) – One of She also can breathe on her own possible. If you find something you Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ doctors but still has a breathing tube in would like clarified or find unfair, declared Tuesday she has “a 101 place as a precaution, said her neu- please contact the editor at 797-1762 percent chance of surviving,” as she rosurgeon, Dr. Michael Lemole. or TSC 105. made more progress, moving both In their briefing Tuesday, doc- arms and breathing on her own for tors also reversed themselves in the first time – just three days after describing the path of the bullet. a bullet shot through her brain. They now believe she was shot in Doctors emphasize she is in for the forehead, with the bullet travel- Nat’lBriefs a long recovery, and her neuro- ing the length of the left side of the surgeon repeated his cautionary brain, exiting the back. Winter storm in South phrase of “she’s holding her own.” Doctors previously thought she reveals culture clash But there was no denying what had been shot in the back of the was clearly good news.

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