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For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1 Wednesday, March 31, 2010 UtahThe Campus Voice tatesman SUtah State University • Logan, Utah • www.aggietownsquare.com since 1902 Student meeting Too much pizza for two men to handle? planned to discuss A team made up Access Center of two well-known By CHELSEY GENSEL news senior writer Aggies will attempt A student-only meeting to discuss the Access Center, a combination of various student servic- to go where only two es making up a new division of the Department of Student Services, will be held Wednesday, March 31, at 6 p.m. in the Taggart Student teams in the nation Center’s Senate Chamber on the third floor. Diversity Vice President Krista Bustamante said she met with Vice President of Student have gone before Services James Morales to get answers to ques- tions she anticipates coming up at the town A team of two of campus’ prominent men, hall-style meeting, at which no administrators “Wild” Bill Sproat and ASUSU President Tyler will be present. Bustamante said students will Tolson, will attempt to go where only two have a chance to ask what the Access Center will other teams in the nation have gone before. look like, what will be included and how it will Together they will attempt to eat an entire 30- function, as well as any other questions they inch pizza from Fox’s Pizza Den. have. If they can stomach those 30 inches, Sproat Three bills allocating a total of $9,500 were and Tolson will each win a free pizza every passed by the ASUSU Executive Council at its week for a year. Tuesday meeting. The funding will furnish and The pizza-gorging event, sponsored by The supply the office for the new arts senator and Utah Statesman, will take place at 5:30 p.m. supplement money already raised for the E- Thursday, April 1, at Fox’s Pizza Den, 545 E. Club Rail Jam and the Intermountain Graduate 1400 North. Student Symposium. Aggie fans are welcome to come cheer on The council also passed a bill through its their ESPN-favorite Wild Bill and USU’s first- first reading that will authorize $1,000 to be ever re-elected ASUSU president. spent on the campus- and communitywide Earth Day celebration, at which USU President Stan Albrecht will give an address. The celebra- tion, which will be held on the Quad from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 22, is co-sponsored by the Sustainability Council as well as several clubs and campus organizations, and is USU’s third Earth Day celebration. Bustamante said she knows of at least 10 clubs that will have booths and activities at the event. Programming Vice President Erin Reeder urged the council to support both the fund- ing request and the event itself, saying that the Programming Board will help to plan and coordinate the event to “make it an event that is attractive to students and to the community.” The bill, along with any revisions made in “WILD” BILL SPROAT AND ASUSU PRESIDENT the meantime, will be voted upon by the council TYLER TOLSON will dig into a 30-inch pizza Thursday, April 1, at Fox’s Pizza Dean, 545 E. 1400 North. PATRICK ODEN -See COUNCIL, page 3 photos USU celebrates new Center for Women and Gender By KASEY VAN DYKE staff writer Provost Ray Coward said he felt USU is “standing on the shoulders of giants,” during his speech at the celebration of the newly created Center for Women and Gender. Tuesday, the three units being combined – Women’s Center, Women and Gender Studies (WGS) and Women and Gender Research Institute (WGRI) – met in the Taggart Student Center Ballroom, bringing pre- sentations, food and an all-girl band called Moxey. Ann Austin – vice provost for faculty development and diversity, and a professor in the department of family, consumer and human develop- ment – also spoke, saying the new center would be “vigorous and cut- ting-edge.” Austin was asked in the summer of 2009 to study the feasibility of combining the WGS, WGRI and Women’s Center. She described the women on the study committee as “true scholars” and commented on the work done by the committee. “As our students say, it was awesome,” she said. Though, USU “has long been enriched by the three centers,” she said, the “whole truly would be greater than the sum of its parts.” According to its mission statement, WGS “provides a broad base of study,” including analysis of issues, such as “gender, age, race, ethnicity, class, regionalism, nationalism and sexual identity as they affect women and men.” Recently, the WGS hosted its Women Rock the Runway, headed by Brenda Cooper dressed as Frida Kahlo, and emceed by Ted Pease dressed as Julia Child. The WGRI was formed in 1984 and, according its usu.edu page, aim to “foster research by women, to assist departments in recruiting and retaining women faculty and to encourage research on gender issues by USU STUDENT COLLEEN DARLEY performed with other members of the all-girl band Moxie during a celebration for the new Center for Women and Gender. The center combines the Women’s Center, Women and Gender Studies, and the Women and Gender Research Institute. CODY GOCHNOUR photo -See WOMEN, page 4 Inside This Issue 9/02/09 Visually- www.aggietownsquare.com impaired students Make sure you register to get Softball team loses share college regular e-mail news from the both games of the experiences. Statesman over the summer ... double-header against regardless of where you might UVU Tuesday. be. Page 8 Page 5 Official Student Newspaper of Utah State University • “It’s All The News You Need!” 2 Wednesday, March 31, 2010 Page 2 World&Utah State University • Logan, UtahNation • www.aggietownsquare.com ClarifyCorrect The policy of The Utah Atom smasher breaks collision records Statesman is to correct any error GENEVA (AP) – The world’s largest and nuance, tripped over themselves in made as soon as possible. If you atom smasher threw together minus- superlatives praising the importance find something you would like cule particles racing at unheard of of the Large Hadron Collider and the clarified or find unfair, please speeds in conditions simulating those significance of its generating regular contact the editor at states- just after the Big Bang – a success that science experiments. [email protected] kick-started a megabillion-dollar exper- “This is the Jurassic Park for par- iment that could one day explain how ticle physicists,” said Phil Schewe, a the universe began. spokesman for the American Institute Celebs&People Scientists cheered Tuesday’s historic of Physics. He called the collider a time NEW YORK (AP) – Patrick crash of two proton beams, which pro- machine. “Some of the particles they Stewart will star in David duced three times more energy than are making now or are about to make Mamet’s (MAM-eht) next researchers had created before and haven’t been around for 14 billion Broadway production, a revival marked a milestone for the $10 billion years.” of “A Life in the Theatre,” open- Large Hadron Collider. The first step in simulating the ing this fall. “This is a huge step toward unravel- moments after the Big Bang nearly 14 Producer ing Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1 – what billion years ago was to produce a tiny Jeffrey Richards happened in the beginning,” physicist bang. The most potent force on the tiny announced Michio Kaku told The Associated Press. atomic level that man has ever created Tuesday that “This is a Genesis machine. It’ll help came Tuesday. rehearsals will to recreate the most glorious event in Two beams of protons were sent hur- begin Aug. 23 the history of the universe.” tling in opposite directions toward each Tuesday’s smashup transforms the other in a 17-mile (27-kilometer) tunnel for the play, first STEWART SCIENTISTS OF THE European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, cel- seen in Chicago 15-year-old collider from an engineer- ebrate with champagne in the CMS experiment control room at their headquarter below the Swiss-French border – the in 1977 and then off-Broadway. ing project in test phase to the world’s outside Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, March 30. AP photo coldest place in the universe at slightly largest ongoing experiment, experts above absolute zero. “A Life in the Theatre” is a even more in the future as scientists at mysterious particles could “affect our backstage tale about the relation- say. The crash that occurred on a sub- CERN used powerful superconduct- atomic scale is more about shaping our the European Organization for Nuclear conception of who we are in the uni- ing magnets to force the two beams to ship between an older performer Research, or CERN, watch for elusive verse,” said Kaku, co-founder of string and a younger performer. The understanding of how the universe was cross; two of the protons collided, pro- created than immediate improvements particles that have been more theorized field theory and author of the book ducing 7 trillion electron volts.