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For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1 Wednesday, March 23, 2011 UtahThe Campus Voice tatesman SUtah State University • Logan, Utah • www.utahstatesman.com since 1902 Japan relief reaches $6,000, fundraising continues By MEGAN BAINUM but it was going to be too expensive. assistant news editor Instead, Yanagisawa said the club decided to put up donation jars around What started out as a student-run campus and booths in the TSC and organization for families in Cache library. Valley has turned into a fundraiser “We can’t do anything from here, relief program called STEPS to help the but we felt very strongly about doing victims of the recent Japan earthquake, something, anything that we can do,” tsunami and nuclear power crisis. Yanagisawa said. As of Tuesday afternoon STEPS Each “step” in STEPS represents passed the $6,000 mark toward the something different, Nuehring said. $15,000 goal. The first step is relieving financial Wednesday and Thursday, from burdens, the second is educating 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Logan’s Maximum community and third is unifying the Style Tec Cosmetology School will have community. He said it is a great way to students ready to cut or braid steps raise awareness about what is going on. into students’ hair for $5 and hair cuts Nuehring said the group aims to will cost $10. Jennifer Lee, a student at meet their goal by April 9 with 100 Maximum Style, said she volunteered percent of the proceeds going to the her time because she has always loved Japanese Red Cross. He said members Japan and their culture. of the organization are planning to go Keenan Nuehring, one of the stu- KEENAN NUEHRING (LEFT) and Jason Russell (right) show steps that were shaved into their hair, Tuesday, which is around to businesses to ask for dona- dents who started STEPS but is now part of an initiative to raise money for victims of the Japan earthquake and tsunami. Nuehring and Russell are co-founders of tions. Group member Jason Russell working as an ASUSU liaison for the the non-profit USU group called STEPS. ANI AGHABABYAN photo said some businesses have already approached them and asked how they organization, said they have been disaster hit March 11, he said the be involved as much as possible. Japan Club can do to help directly, a can help. working on STEPS for more than a group felt it was appropriate to speed Chisato Yanagisawa, a sophomore fundraiser that will go to the Red Cross year but weren’t planning on launch- things up so something could be done and member of the Japan Club, said was the best option. She said at first ing it until the fall. When the Japan to help and have the USU Japan Club since there is nothing anyone from the they wanted to send food and blankets -See STEPS, page 3 Business students improve literacy through book drive By ALLEE EVENSEN classes. staff writer Katie Jensen, co-director of the center, said a book Ten students from the drive like this will effect hun- Huntsman School of Business dreds of families in the com- have teamed up with the munity. Many of the families Cache Valley Reading Council who use the center are new to promote literacy in the immigrants or refugees from community and created a war-torn countries, she said, goal to collect more than and want the ability to sup- 1,000 books in a 3-week port their families. period. “They arrive with nothing, The Books for Hope drive so we get books for them,” will run until the last day of she said. the month, with a door-to- Jensen said the center door collection on March serves around 1,000 people UTAH GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS visit USU’s Logan campus and observe teaching methods in the newly established Sound 26. On-campus drop sites each year. With a combi- Beginnings deaf education program. Congressman Rob Bishop said he was impressed by the quality of the program. CARL R. WILSON photo include the business and nation of people from 90 education buildings, the TSC, countries, the center requires the library entrance and the more than 250 volunteers Edith Bowen Lab School. A annually. This year the majority of the books will English Center’s biggest Congressman Bishop visits campus needs are dictionaries and be donated to the English Language Center of Cache children’s books. Valley, a non-profit organiza- “They teach some who tion that offers a variety of to experience deaf learning program English and basic life skills -See LOGAN, page 4 By DAN SMITH program. the group on a tour of the facilities. news senior writer Coward said the graduate emphasis “It’s truly state-of-the-art, it’s amaz- program attracts students from all over ing,” Bishop said. “It’s one of the few that U.S. Congressman Rob Bishop visited because of how cutting-edge does this type of sound Writing contest USU’s recently-constructed Emma Eccles the technology and research listening projects in the Jones Early Childhood Education and are. “It’s fitting that nation. It’s great that they Research Center on Monday to learn “These are young people we’re visiting an have been able to make about its highly unique Sound Beginnings that are being provided a early education the kinds of scientific chooses winners deaf education program. service that is unique to our program that is improvements over the USU Provost Raymond Coward said he state, which is unique to our years so these kids can was glad to have the opportunity to show nation, which is unique to literally chang- truly reach the kind of By LIS STEWART Bishop a program that USU administra- this world,” Coward said. ing the lives of potential that’s within staff writer tors are so proud of. Bishop has served for “Yet at the same time what them.” the participant The Utah State University English department announced the 16 years in the Utah Legislature as well as you’ll be observing is a very White said Sound children and winners of its annual creative writing contest last week. Charles 30 years in public education. active research program Beginnings provides Waugh, director of the contest, said one of the purposes of the “It’s fitting that we’re visiting an early which has brought in much their families.” teaching, care and contest is to encourage as many people as possible to write. education program that is literally chang- more than $1 million in – Raymond Coward, assessment facilities for He said the contest had 158 entries from 25 different disci- ing the lives of the participant children external funding.” children. He said it is USU Provost plines and encompassing four colleges. and their families,” Coward said. Karl White, director important to identify any The winning submissions will be published in the depart- Utah Sen. Lyle Hillyard, Utah Rep. Jack of the National Center for hearing loss early with ment’s literary magazine, “Scribendi” in mid-April, Waugh said. Draxler, Tami Pyfer of the Utah Board of Hearing Assessment and Management universal newborn hearing screening. The winning authors will also have a chance to read their work Education and Peggy Milligan from the (NCHAM) and USU psychology profes- Sound Beginnings director Kristina Utah State Office of Education were also sor, presented the high-profile group with in attendance to hear about the fledgling the vitals of Sound Beginnings and led -See SOUND, page 4 -See SCRIBENDI, page 3 Inside This Issue 3/23/11 Men’s ten- www.utahstatesman.com nis defeated The former Outdoor in-state rival Check out Big Blue’s Best Recreation Center, now Weber State, Calendar, the best master called the Outdoor 5-2. calendar on campus. Send Recration Program, Page 8 something in ... let people offers equipment rentals know what you’re up to. and classes. Page 5 Official Student Newspaper of Utah State University • “It’s All The News You Need!” Wednesday, March 23, 2011 Page 2 World&Nation Utah State University • Logan, Utah • www.utahstatesman.com ClarifyCorrect Evacuees return home despite wildfire The policy of The Utah Statesman is to correct any error made as soon as GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) – Air tank- Jacki Kelley said. possible. If you find something you ers and ground crews battled a wind- “I don’t care how many firefight- would like clarified or find unfair, whipped wildfire in the foothills west of ers they have, they can’t control a fire please contact the editor at 797-1762 Denver as officials warned that eastern that’s raging in wind like that,” said or TSC 105. Colorado’s worst drought in nearly a Keith Lowden, who was watching the decade makes that part of the state vul- flames with binoculars from a bedroom nerable to more burning. window in his nearby home. “That’s the Two helicopters, two aerial tankers scariest part.” and 200 firefighters kept the 2-square- The fire has been eating through Nat’lBriefs mile blaze from growing substantially grass, brush and trees in two rugged Tuesday, officials said.