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Utah State University DigitalCommons@USU The Utah Statesman Students 2-13-2012 The Utah Statesman, February 13, 2012 Utah State University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/newspapers Recommended Citation Utah State University, "The Utah Statesman, February 13, 2012" (2012). The Utah Statesman. 1726. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/newspapers/1726 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]. Monday, Feb. 13, 2012 Utllh "Campus Voice Since 1902" • Utah State University• Logan, Utah • www.utahstate! ASUSU leaders revisit platforms This is part one of a two-part series examining the platforms current ASUSU · officers ran wit~ and their progress since taking office ERIK MIKKELSEN KIRSTEN FRANK JASON RUSSELL RYAN BAYLIS ASUSU president Executive vice president Student Advocate vice president Athletics vice president Platform: Continue the positive Platform: To act as a dedicated Platform: Increase awareness Platform: Establish a collective things that are currently being voice of the USU student body in of the Student Advocate and website for all USU Club Sports. done and revitalize ASUSU. relevant governmental affairs. strengthen participation of the "It's already been done. We "We've kind oflooked at what "That's kind of an impending Ombudsman Program. worked on integrating a score ASUSU has done in the past, and we goal right now. I think, frankly, "We passed out 968 free (Chick ticker that teams can use to pull up wanted to make sure that things are just in my life, anytime I talk to a fil-A) sandwiches throughout the their ·scores, so people can know the most efficient that they can pos politician, or anything like that, I day on Day on the Quad. (Students) more about how club sports are sibly be. We've looked at the budget, make sure to make an Aggie joke or couldn't just get one, they had to doing." we've reallocated a lot of different ask them when they're coming up meet me and shake my hand." Get the decibel meter in the funds to make it more efficient and for Aggie Ice Cream, or something Take full advantage of the Spectrum working. better off for the students. like that. But I think the way we are Student Voice Committee. "We didn't get that done "You'll see some constitutional going to accomplish that idea the "I restructured the entire exactly. We found out that the changes coming up in the end of the most is through Aggie Ice Cream committee. In the past the Student infrastructure that runs it isn't up February vote ... we're going to be Day. It's a tradition that was started Voice.. _committee consisted of the there anymore. We could fake (the eliminating one of those positions on Capitol Hill a few years back. senators appointing people to be on decibel meter), but we wanted it to on ASUSU as well as (execute) a · "So, on Feb. 22, this year, we are the committee ... I made applica be real. In the future we could hav~ full (restructuring) of the Graduate going down ... and we are bringing tions and passed them out on Day someone to do it, but for the time Student Senate. That will really help over 600 tubs of Aggie Ice Cream to on the Quad ... We had a ton of being, it is kind of a dead thought.; us use our funds wisely and revital the Hill." applications come in." •)See ASUSU, Page 2 ize the operations in ASUSU." Students establish campus magazine BY BRACKEN ALLEN "The students in (the journalism) Aggie BluePrint will have section! staff writer department wanted to keep pace covering campus life, politics, fine n with the upward momentum and arts, culture and diversity, style, A group of USU students who saw the need for this medium to health, entertainment, science, hope to bring news to their peers in exist," Dahl said. "It gives room for sports, and opinion. DuHadway a meaningful, relateable way have deeper focus on the community as said occasionally the staff may add started a news magazine. well as the university level." sections such as outdoors for month§' Aggie BluePrint is the product of Rhett Wilkinson, Aggie BluePrint ata time. students across campus who realized assistant managing editor, conducted The staff will also compile a though USU has a newspaper and a w-vey of students across campus. calendar of USU and local events various college magazines, such as He said two-thirds of about 280 and it working to create an interac Liberalis, it didn't have a magazine KATE DUHADWAY respondents agreed that a student tive quote board on the website for specifically to express students' magazine could fill a void that nei humorous quotes people overhear thoughts, interests and opinions, side of journalism." ther The Utah Statesman nor college around campus, she said. said Kate Rouse DuHadway, Aggie Max Parker Dahl, Aggie magazines, like Liberalis, filled. Most students are not aware of : BluePrint editor in chie£ BluePrint campus life editor, said The monthly news magazine news events occurring across cam,: Aggie BluePrint is a result ofUSU's "I thought we needed a magazine, will publish its second issue online pus and mostly just focus on their : because a newspaper and a magazine growth. Feb. 13. Other articles will be added own colleges or their own groups,: have really different functions," "Utah State is a wonderful school, throughout the month as the Aggie DuHadway said, and she hopes DuHadway said. "A newspaper is but it is still developing into a world BluePri.nt staff sees fit. DuHadway Aggie BluePrint can bridge these • just to get the information out there, class university," Dahl said. "Every said Nathan Firth has been crucial gaps and bring USU together. but magazines can go in depth about year, new buildings and programs in handling graphic design for the DuHadway saio things and really have more oppor are built, athletics continue to magazine. •)See BLUEPRINT, Page 2 tunities for design and the artistic improve and reach new heights." Soul Food Dinner traces Black histo~ Roberts, a freshman studying vocal news editor performance, said she chose the song because it represented her people's Today: Check The Black Student Union cel struggle for freedom and equality. out our slide ebrated African-American culture "All the slavery, all the oppression, with Southern cuisine and a variety of all the segregation, all that stuff, we show of the performances at its Soul Food Dinner had to take it," Roberts said. "Now we Mardis Gras on Friday. live in a time where we have to make event. Great! USU students and community our own lives golden. We have to make members attended the nearly sold-out that shine, because we've already been event in the TSC Ballroom. through so much. So what's the sense One of the performers, Juenee of holding on to the grief and the Roberts, said the event was a chance heartache? It's time to live for us." for African-American students to teach Attendees paid $12 for entry, and a others about their culture. menu of fried chicken, catfish, maca "Mostly it's just a time for us to roni and cheese, collard greens, corn show everybody what we hold dear to bread and king cake was included with our hearts," Roberts said. the fee. Black Student Union President Tyson Stokes of Smithfield attended Ashley Miller said this year members the event with his wife, Amber, a So, you haven't heard about of the union wanted to tell the graduate student at USU. Stokes said or read the Blue Scallion? story of their people. The event he came primarily for the food, and he Geez, don't be the last. Eye it traditionally features the talents of wasn't disappointed. African-American students, but this at www.utahstatesman.com "It's a nice mix - not too much year's performances were organized in filler. All the good stuff," Stokes said. a timeline of cultural history, Miller Though he was raised in California, said. his family has roots in Arkansas and Seven performances, including Mississippi, Stokes said. dance, poetry and song, traced the his "I have a soft spot for soul food," tory of African-Americans from their Stokes said. "Generationally, they still roots in Africa, through slavery in cook this way at my house, so it's kind America and the industrial revolution, oflike going home - going to Mom's to today. house." The timeline culminated in a per Amber Stokes said she came to the THE ANNUAL SOUL FOOD DINNER brought students and formance of R&B singer-songwriter Jill event looking forward to the entertain- community members together for a night of food and entertainment Scott's song "Golden," by Roberts and Friday. Event organizers said they wanted to depict African-American fellow student Shalayna Guisao. • See UNION, Page 2 history through performances. DELAYNE LOCKE photo Page 2 Campus News Monday, Feb., 13 2012 From Page 1 Briefs Black Student Union nearly sells out annual event Campus & Community ment. Ifshe and her husband are still everybody- Africans, Mexicans, about African-American culture, food particularly popular among African- in Cache Valley next year, she said Asians - it was everybody, and I and entertainment. American university students in the they will definitely attend the event really appreciate that." Shanice Stevenson performed with South, but that's not where the style Business club again.